英国文学选读复习重点-2011.doc

PAGE PAGE 5 英国文学选读复习 June, 2010 Part I 复习重点章节 William Shakespeare; Francis Bacon; John Donne; William Blake; Jane Austen; Charles Dickens; Thomas Hardy; Oscar Wilde; William Butler Yeats; James Joyce; D.H. Lawrence; Part II 考试题型 In this part you are going to explain the following literary terms briefly and to give examples from the stories you have learned from the course to illustrate the terms. (about 15 points) Examples character and characterization; symbol and allegory, theme, point of view, etc.) Analysis of short stories and novels (about 40 points) Example 1 Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character. Her mind was less difficult to develop. She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discontented, she fancied herself nervous. The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news. Questions What can we learn from this short passage about Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet? What was the tone of the passage? Does this passage illustrate the style of Jane Austen? Example 2 One evening I went into the back drawing-room in which the priest had died. It was a dark rainy evening and here was no sound in the house. Through one of the broken panes I heard the rain impinge upon the earth, the fine incessant needles of water paying in the sodden beds. Some distant lamp or lighted window gleamed below me. I was thankful that I could see so little. All my senses seemed to veil themselves and feeling that I was about to slip from them, I pressed the palms of my hands together until they trembled, murmuring: O Love! O Love! many times. Questions What can we learn about “I” from this short passage? What was the meaning of the sentence “I was thankful that I could see so little.” ? What rhetorical device was used in this passage? Example 3