暨南大学英语专业考研真题2011.doc

2011年招收攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题 ************************************************************************* 学科、专业名称：外国语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学 研究方向：各研究方向 考试科目名称：外国语言文学综合考试 考试科目代码：808 考生注意：所有答案必须写在答题纸（卷）上，写在本试题上一律不给分。 SECTION A Ⅰ. Fill the blanks with proper answers（10%） The English sonnet, also known as ________________________ sonnet, usually has a regular rhyme scheme a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g. It was in 1798, with the publication of William Wordsworth’s ___________, in collaboration with S.T. Coleridge, that romanticism began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of English literature. The typical feature of Robert Brownings poetry is the ____________________. The Graveyard Poets were a number of pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century characterized by their gloomy meditations on mortality in the context of the graveyard. A contemplative and mellow mood is achieved in the celebrated opening verse of Grays _____________________. As one of the great innovators of the modern novel, Virginia Woolf developed the technique of __________________________ in her writing, which focuses on the complex lives of characters’ inner minds instead of outward actions. It was ___________________ , as the primary author who wrote “the Declaration of Independence”, together with other four men including Benjamin Franklin. ____________________’s “The Raven” is a dark reflection on lost love, death, and loss of hope. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter is a story about a woman named _________________ living in seventeenth - century Boston, then a puritan settlement. Early in the 1920s the most prominent of the new American playwrights, ______________, established an international reputation with such plays as The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape. Hemingway’s stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of his novel _________ in 1929, which portrayed a farewell both to war and to love. Ⅱ. Define the terms listed below according to your knowledge of