广东商学院英美文学2008年考研试题.docVIP

2008年广东商学院英美文学考研试题概念解释：从 7个概念中任选5个解释（5题，每题5分，共25分） 1. plot 2. symbol 3. Alliteration 4. Romance 5. Heroic couplet 6. Spenserian stanza 7. point of view二、 填空（ 20题，每题1分，共20分） 1. The old English literature is almost a verse literature in ______ form.2. The literature of the Middle English Period was a combination of ________and Anglo—Saxon elements. 3. Renaissance was a great ______ and intellectual movement against feudalism and hierarchy that swept the whole Europe in the 14th century. 4. It was Henry VIII who started the Protestant ________, thus Protestantism came into being. 5. Plot, _________, dialogue, staging and theme are the basic elements of drama. 6. King James _______ is also called the Authorized Version (1611), whose simple and dignified language had a great influence on English language, literature, life. 7. In English history, the reestablishment of the monarchy on the accession of Charles II from 1660 to 1688 is called the _______. 8. The general tendency of neoclassical literature was to look at social and political life critically, to emphasize intellectual rather than imagination, the ______ rather than the content of a sentence. 9. The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement which was an expression of the bourgeoisie against ________. 10. The rise and growth of the ______ novel is the most significant development of the 18th century English literature. 11. Washington Irving’s important work, The Sketch Book (1819), contains two of the best-loved stories from American literature: __________and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. 12. The Pioneers (1823) was the first novel of Cooper’s famous ___________ series, set in the exciting period of America’s movement westward. 13. ____________is a philosophic and literary movement that flourish in New England, as a reaction against rationalism and Calvinism. It stressed intuitive understanding of god without the help of the church, and advocated independence of the mind. 14. Just as Paine ’