英语专业美国文学期末考试简答题课件.ppt
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1、1.In the bosom of one of the spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson,at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappaan Zee,and where they always prudently shortened sail,and implored the protection of St.Nicholas when they crossed,there
2、lies a small market town or rural port,which by some is called Greens burgh,but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town.This name was given,we are told in former days,by the good housewives of the adjacent country form the inveterate propensity of their husbands to linge
3、r about the village tavern on market days.Be that as it may,I do not vouch for the fact,but merely advert to it,for the sake of being precise and authentic.1)Identify the author and the title of work from which this part is taken?(Washington Irving;The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.)2)What is the setting
4、of this novel?(a quiet,dreamy and mysterious valley,full of superstitions or tales about the ghosts.)3)From the perspective of setting,what are the differences between traditional gothic fiction and early American fiction?(The settings of the traditional gothic fiction are often castles,basements,ch
5、urches,abbeys,forests,chambers,etc.while the setting of the early American fiction is frontier wilderness.)2.I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment,of looking down within the tarn,had been to deepen the first singular impression.There can e no doubt that the consciousnes
6、s of the rapid increase of my superstition for why should I not so term it?served mainly to accelerate the increase itself.Such,I have long known,is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis.And it might have been for upon my imagination as really to believe that around about th
7、e whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere peculiar to themselves and their immediate vicinity,an atmosphere which had no affinity with ht air of heaven but which had reeked up form the decayed trees,and the gray wall,and the silent tarn,in the form of an inelastic vapor of gas dull,sluggis
8、h,faintly discernible,and leaden-hued.1)This paragraph is excerpted from The Fall of the House of Usher.Please list out the main characters in it and briefly explain their relationship.(Roderick Usher,Madeline Usher,and the narrator.The first two are brother and sister,and the narrator was one of th
9、e brothers friend in their childhood.)2)What is the symbolic meaning of the“tarn”in this fiction?(a.Madeline as the twin of Roderick,reflecting his image and personality;b.the image of reality which Roderick and the narrator perceive;though the water of the tarn reflects details exactly,the image is
10、 upside down,leaving open the possibility that Roderick and the narrator see a false reality;c.the desire of the Ushers to isolate themselves from the outside world.)3.Nevertheless,so potent an influence did this thing have on those seamen in the Pequod who came to the full knowledge of it,and by su
11、ch a strange delicacy,to call it so,were they governed in this matter,that they kept the secret among themselves so that it never transpired abaft the Pequods main-mast.Interweaving in its proper place this darker thread with the story as publicly narrated on the ship,the whole of this strange affai
12、r I now proceed to put on lasting record.For my humors sake,I shall preserve the style in which I once narrated it at Lima,to a lounging circle of my Spanish friends,one saints eve,smoking upon the thick-gilt tiled piazza of the Golden Inn.Of those fine cavaliers,the young Dons,Pedro and Sebastian,w
13、ere on the closer terms with me;and hence the interluding questions they occasionally put,and which are duly answered at the time.1.Who is the narrator“I”?What kind of person is he?(Ishmael,a junior member of the crew of the Pequod and the only survivor of the Pequods voyage.Hes tolerant,jovial,nave
14、 and frank.)2.Whos the captain of the Pequod?Whats his personality?(Ahab.a)He is an egomaniacal,dictatorial but not unfair captain;b)He is single-minded in his pursuit of the whale,obsessed with killing the white whale,using a mixture of charisma and terror to persuade his crew to join him;c)At mome
15、nts he shows a compassionate side,caring for the insane Pip and musing on his wife and child back in Nantucket.)4.I taste a liquor never brewed From Tankards scooped in PearlNot all the Frankfort BerriesYield such an Alcohol!Inebriate of Air am I And Debauchee of Dew Reeling thro endless summer days
16、 From inns of Molten Blue 1)Who is the author of this poem and what is it theme?(Emily Dickson.This poem reveals the authors profound love for nature.)2)What are the figures of speech here?(Metaphor.The poet compares nature to liquor that has never been brewed and herself to a debauchee who loves wi
17、ne more than her life.)5.I heard a Fly buzz when I died The Stillness in the RoomWas like the Stillness in the Air Between the Heaves of StormThe Eyes around had wrung them dry And Breaths were gathering firmThere interposed a Fly With Blue uncertain stumbling Buzz Between the light and me And then
18、the Windows failed and thenI could not see to see1)Whats the rhythm of this poem?(trimeter and tetrameter iambic lines:four stresses in the first and third lines of each stanza,three in the second and fourth,a pattern Dickinson follows at her most formal)2)What scene does this poem describe?(This po
19、em is also remarkable for its detailed evocation of a deathbed scene.It strikingly describes the mental distraction posed by irrelevant details at even the most crucial moments-even at the moment of death;it transforms the tiny,normally disregarded fly into the figure of death itself.)6.During two l
20、ong weeks Tom lay a prisoner,dead to the world and its happenings.He was very ill,he was interested in nothing.When he got upon his feet at last and moved feebly downtown,a melancholy change had come over everything and every creature.There had been a“revival,”and everybody had“got religion,”not onl
21、y the adults,but even the boys and girls.Tom went about,hoping against hope for the sight of one blessed sinful face,but disappointment crossed him everywhere.He found Joe Harper studying a Testament,and turned sadly away from the depressing spectacle.He sought Ben Rogers,and found him visiting the
22、poor with a basket of tracts.He hunted up Jim Hollis,who called his attention to the precious blessing of his late measles as a warning.Every boy he encountered added another ton to his depression;and when,in desperation,he flew for refuge at last to the bosom of Huckleberry Finn and was received wi
23、th a Scriptural quotation,his heart broke and he crept home and to bed realizing that he alone of all the town was lost,forever and forever.1)Identify the author and the title of work from which this part is taken.(Mark Twain,The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)2)What is the authors writing style?(a.His st
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