《英美文学选读》期末考试A卷
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Answer the following questions in English. (20 points for each)
1. What is the theme expressed in Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”?
2. What does the image “lamb” stand for in William Blake’s poem “The Lamb”?
3. How to describe the characteristics of Mrs. Bennet in the novel Pride and Prejudice?
4. Who is the narrator in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado? What wrong does he want to redress?
5. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, do you think Gatsby deserves to be called “the great” person? Why/ Why not?
Answer:
1. The theme is: love conquers all. In this poem, Shakespeare compares his beloved to summer and considers his beloved to be better. He also notes that his beloved will live forever through this poem.
2. The “lamb” is the carrier of humanity and symbolizes the merciful God
3. a woman of mean understanding,little information,and uncertain temper
4. (1) Monttrie Montretho.
(2) Kill Fu Rothschild
5. I think he is a great person. He was born poor, but intoxicated by the fancy crush for Daisy, he struggled to become a millionaire. He even bought a luxury villa across the bay from the Buchanons at the east end.
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