[考研类试卷]2012年南开大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷
一、名词解释
1 William the Conqueror and his achievements
2 the five-act structure of Shakespeare's plays
3 denotation and connotation
4 gothic novels
5 Ralph Waldo Emerson and his works
二、分析题
5 Questions 1 to 6 are based on the following poem by Edmund Spencer. Sonnet 75 from Amoretti
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. \A mortal thing so to immortalize, For I myself shall like to this decay,
And also my name be wiped out likewise. \\To die in dust, but you shall live in fame: My verses your virtues rare shall eternize, And in heavens write your glorious name.
Where whenas death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew. \
6 What happens to what the speaker has written in the first four lines? What is the young woman's response to what he has done?
7 In Lines 9-14, what does the speaker say his verses will do? What does the speaker say will live after death has \
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8 To what time is the speaker referring in the last two lines? With what belief is he associating his love?
9 What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
10 Spencer uses alliteration in this poem. Please give two examples of alliteration in the poem. Why does he use alliteration?
11 What is the theme of the poem?
11 Questions 7 to 10 are based on the several stanzas from Edgar Allen Poe's poem The Raven.
The Raven Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door— \— Only this and nothing more.
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; —vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore— For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore— Nameless here for evermore.
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating \— Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door— This it is, and nothing more. \
Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, \But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you\—here I opened wide the door— Darkness there, and nothing more.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, \
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This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, \Merely this and nothing more.
12 In Stanza 1 ,what is the speaker doing when he first hears the tapping? What does he seek \
13 What does the speaker say \see when he opens the door?
14 What does the speaker whisper?
15 Paraphrase the first five stanzas of the poem.
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