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1、2011级英美文学专题试题I.Definethefollowingtermswithexample1.Balladstanza2.Frame-workstory3.Humanism4.Eco-criticism5.Dramaticmonologue6.RealismII.Answerthefollowingquestionsbriefly1.Whatarethemajorfunctionsofliterature?Literatureisartisticrepresentationofhumanexperiencesthrough
2、language.Artisticrepresentation.ServedasamirrorandlampAmirror:mimeticfunction----imitationoftheworld,reflectionoftheuniverseALamp:instructivefunction-----teachingpeopletobebetterhumanbeingsMoralassessmentsandjudgmentsAestheticfunction:beautyandenjoyments.2.Howdoyouapp
3、reciateEnglishpoetry?3.Whatarethekeyelementsofanovel?场景（Setting）情节（Plot）人物（Character）叙事者（Narrator）主题（Theme）语言（Language）世界观WorldView4.WhatisthemajorclassificationofcharactersaccordingtoE.M.Forster?5.DoyouthinkHamlet’sdelayinactionisthematterofcowardice?Whyorwhynot?6.Wh
4、atarethemaindifferencesbetweenWilliamWordsworthandWangWeiintermofthethemeof“lifeanddeath”respectivelyin“SheDweltamongtheUn-troddenWays”and“XinyiWu”？1.BalladstanzaInpoetry,aBalladstanzaisthefour-linestanza,knownasaquatrain,mostoftenfoundinthefolkballad.Thisformconsists
5、ofalternatingfour-andthree-stresslines.Usuallyonlythesecondandfourthlinesrhyme(inana/b/c/bpattern).Assonanceinplaceofrhymeiscommon.SamuelTaylorColeridgeadoptedtheballadstanzainTheRimeoftheAncientMariner,alternatingeightandsixsyllablelines.Allinahotandcoppersky!Thebloo
6、dySun,atnoon,Rightupabovethemastdidstand,NobiggerthantheMoon.Coleridge,TheRimeoftheAncientMariner,lines111–114Thelongerfirstandthirdlinesarerarelyrhymed,althoughattimespoetsmayuseinternalrhymeintheselines.Inmistorcloud,onmastorshroud,Itperchedforvespersnine;Whilesallt
7、henight,throughfog-smokewhite,GlimmeredthewhiteMoon-shine.Coleridge,TheRimeoftheAncientMariner,lines75–782.frame-workstudyAframestory(alsoframetale,framenarrative,etc.)employsanarrativetechniquewherebyanintroductorymainstoryiscomposed,atleastinpart,forthepurposeofsett
8、ingthestageforafictivenarrativeororganizingasetofshorterstories,eachofwhichisastorywithinastory.Theframestoryleadsreadersfro
