2018年自考《英美文学选读》试题六

Ⅲ.Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)

Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

45.As a rule,an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning,and an implied meaning.List two works as examples of allegory.What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning?

46.Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought.Who are the two?And what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers?

47.The white whale,Moby Dick,is the most important symbol in Melville's novel.What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?

48.Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of the Qversoul.What is your understanding of Emersonian “Oversoul”?

Ⅳ.Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)

Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

49.How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism?Provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best.

50.Summerize the story of Mark twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100 words,and comment on the theme of the novel.