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1、v1.0可编辑可修改Part III. The Literature of RomanticismPassage 4Once upon a midnight dreary, while i pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.Tis

2、some visitor, I muttered, tapping at my chamber doorOnly this, and nothing more.Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had tried to borrowFrom my books surcease of sorrow-sorrow for t

3、he lost.1. Who is the writer of these lines2. What is the title of this poem from which the selection is selected3. Recognize the sound devices inthe following lines. LI L4 L7L104. Describe the mood of this poem.An swers:1. Edgar Allan Poe2. The Raven3. LI Alliteratio n, L4 Ono matopoeia, L7I nter n

4、al rhyme, L10 Assonance4. A sense of melancholy over the death of a beloved beautiful you ng woman pervades the wholepoem, the portrayal of a you ng man griev ing for his lost Leno-re, his grief tur ned to madn essun der the steady on e-word repetiti on of the talk ing bird.Passage 5Lo! in you brill

5、iant window-nicheHow statue-like I see thee stand,The agate lamp within thy hand!Ah, Psyche, from the regions whichAre Holy-Land!1. This is the last stanza of a poem To Helen. Who wrote this poem To Heleni2. With whom is Helen associated in Line 4 of the present stanza3. Who is PsycheAn swers1. Edga

6、r Allan Poe2. Psyche3. Psyche is the goddess of the soul in Greek mythology.Passage 6To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The r

7、ays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars sho

8、uld appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of Godwhich had been shown! But every night come out these preachers of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.Questions:1. This paragraph is

9、taken from a famous essay. What is the name of the essay2. Who is the author3. What does the author say would happen if the stars appeared one night in a thousand years4. Give a peculiar term to cover the authors belief.An swers:1. Nature2. Ralph Waldo Emers on3. Then, the mencannot believe and ador

10、e the God, cannot preserve there membra nee of the city of God which had bee n show n.4. Tra nsce nden talismPassage 7Standing on the bare ground my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinitespace all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; thecu

11、rrents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.Questions:1. Which work is this selection taken from2. How do you understand the philosophical ideas in these wordsAn swers:1. Nature2. Ralph Waldo Emers on regards n ature as the purest, and the most san ctify ing mora

12、l in flue neeon man, and advocated a direct intuition of a spiritual and immanent God in nature. In thisconn ecti on, Emers on s emoti onal experie nces are exemplary in more ways tha n one.3. Nowthis is a momentf conversion whenone feels completely mergedwith the outside world, whenone has complete

13、ly sunk into nature and becomeone with it, and whenthe soul has gone beyond the physical limits of the body to share the omni scie nee of the Oversoul. I n a word, the soulhas completely transcended the limits of individuality and becomepart of the Oversoul. Emerson sees spirit pervad ing everywhere

14、, not only in the soul of man, but beh ind n ature, throughoutnature.Passage 8I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not

15、 wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to

16、 drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For

17、 most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God.1. This passage is taken from a famous work entitled.2. The author of the workis.3. List by yourself atleastfivereasons that the author gives for going to live in the woods.An swers:1. Walde n2.

18、Henry David Thoreau3. Find the an swer fromthepassage.Passage 10Tell me not, in mournful numbers.Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they seem.Life is real-life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goal.Dust thou art, to dust retumest,Was not spoken of

19、 the soul.1. Who is the writer of these lines2. What is the title of the whole poem from which the two sta nzas are take n3. Summarize the poet s advice on living.An swers:1. Henry Wadsworth Lon gfellow2. A Psalm of Ufe3. His optimism which has characterized muchof his poetry, also endeared manycrit

20、icsto him.He seemed to have persevered despite tragedy .In his poem, The Psalm of Life, he writes: Lifeis real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal. This is the cry of the heart, rallying from depression, ready to affirm life, to regroup from losses, to push on despite momentary defeat.Pa

21、ssage 11Forth into the sunshine which, falling on all alike, seemed, to her sick and morbid heart, as if meant for no other purpose than to reveal the scarlet letter on her breast. Perhaps there was a more real torture in her first unattended footsteps from the threshold of the prison, than even in

22、the procession and spectacle that have been described, where she was made the common infamy, at which all mankind was summoned to point its finger. Then, she was supported by an unnatural tension of the nerves, and by all the combative energy of her character,which enabledher to convert the scene in

23、to a kind of lurid triumph.1. Which novel is this selection taken from2. What is the name of the novelist3. What are the symbolic meanings of the scarlet letter on Hesters breastAn swers:1. The Scarlet LetterNatha niel Hawthor ne2. adultery, able, an gelPassage 12It was not very long after speaking

24、the Goney that another homeward-bound whaleman, theTown-Ho, was encountered. She was manned almost wholly by Polynesians. In the short game that ensued she gave us strong news of Moby Dick. To some the general interest in the White Whale was now wildly heightened by a circumstance of the Town-Hos st

25、ory, which seemed obscurely to involve with the whale a certain wondrous, inverted visitation of one of those so called judgments of God which at times are said to overtake some men. This latter circumstance, with its own particular accompaniments, forming what may be called the secret part of the t

26、ragedy about to be narrated, never reached the ears of Captain Ahab or his mates. For that secret part of the story was unknown to the captain of the Town-Ho himself. It was the private property of three confederate white seamen of that ship, one of whom, it seems, communicated it to Tashtego withRo

27、mish injunctions ofsecrecy, but the following night Tashtego rambled in his sleep, and revealed so muchof it in that way, that when he was wakened he could not well withhold the rest. Nevertheless, so potent an influence did this thing have on those seamen in the Pequod who came to the full knowledg

28、e of it, and by such a strange delicacy, to call it so, were they governed in this matter, that they kept the secret among themselves so that it never transpired abaft the Pequod s main-mast . Interweaving in its proper place this darker thread with the story as publicly narrated on the ship, the wh

29、ole of this strange affair I now proceed to put on lasting record.1. From which novel is this paragraph taken2. What is the name of the novelist3. Who is Ahab4. What is Pequod5. What is the theme of the novelAn swers:1. Moby Dick2. Herma n Melville3. The capta in of the whali ng ship4. The n ame of

30、the whali ng ship5. The rebellious struggle of Capta in Ahab aga inst the overwhel ming, mysterious vast ness ofthe uni verse and its awesome sometimes merciless forces.Part IV. The Literature of RealismPassage 1I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom be

31、longing to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul,I learn and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.1. These are the first two stanzas in the first section of a long poem entitled2. The name of the poet is.3. Who is the poet celebrating Whom do lines 2 3 also include in th

32、e celebration4. What is the verse, structure5. Take the fifth line as a hint, can you write out the name of the poet s completed collectionsof poemsAn swers:1. So ng of Myself2. Walt Whitmanyou ” , the readers4.free verse5.Leaves of Grass3. The poet is celebrat ing himself, his own life. Lines 2-3 a

33、lso in elude and their lives in the celebrati on.Passage 2Because I could not stop for DeathHe kindly stopped for meThe Carriage held but just OurselvesQuestions:1. Who is the writer of these lines2. In which category would you place this poemA. narrative B. dramatic C. lyric3. Emily Dickinson is no

34、ted for her use ofto achieve special effects.A. perfect rhyme B. exact rhyme C. slant rhymeAn swers:1. Emily Dick inson2. C 3. CPassage 3It is impossible to conceive of a human creature more wholly desolate and forlorn than Eliza, when she turned her footsteps from Uncle Tom s cabin.Questions:1. Thi

35、s is taken from a famous novel. What is the name of the novel2. What is the name of the writer3. Who is Uncle TomAn swers:1. Un cle Tom s Cab in2. Harriet Beecher Stowe3. He is the mai n character in the no vel, a sufferi ng slave, a victim of slavery.Passage 4Tom Sawyer stepped forward with conceit

36、ed confidence and soared into the unquenchable and indestructible Give meliberty or give medeath speech, with fine fury and frantic gesticulation, and broke down in the middle of it. A ghastly stage fright seized him, his legs quaked under him, and he was like to choke. True, he had the manifest sym

37、pathy of the housebut he hadthe house s silence, too, which was even worse than its sympathy. The master frowned, and this completed the disaster. Tom struggled awhile and then retired, defeated.1. Which novel is this passage taken from2. Who is the authorAn swers:1. The Adve ntures of Tom Sawyer2.

38、Mark Twai nPassage 5I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid, and shoved t, he vinesand branches apart and put it in; then I done the same with the side of bacon; then the whisky-jug. I took all the coffee and suga, r there was, and all the ammunition; I took the wadding;

39、I tookthe bucket and gourd; took a dipper and a tin cup, and my old saw and two blankets,and the skilletand the coffee-pot. I took fish-lines and matches and other things everything that was wortha cent. I cleaned out the place. I wanted an ax, but there wasnt any, only the one out at the woodpile,

40、and 1 knew why I was going to leave that. I fetched out the gun, and now I was done.Questions:1. Which novel is this passage taken from2. Analyze the language style of this passage.An swers1. The Adve ntures of Huckleberry Finn2. The words used here are, except perhaps ammunition which is etymologic

41、ally French, mostly An glo-Sax on in orig in, and are short, con crete and direct in effect. Sentence structures aremost of them simple or compound, with a series of thens and ands and semi-coIons serving as connectives. The repetition of the word took and the stringing together of things leave the

42、impression that Mark Twain depended solely on the concrete object and action for the body and move ment of his prose. And what is more, there is an un grammatical eleme nt which gives the final finish to his style. The whole book does approximate the actual speech habit of anun educated boy from the

43、 America n South of the mid-nin etee nth cen tury.Passage 6On his bench in Madison Square, Soapy moved uneasily. When wild geese honk high of nights,and when womenwithout sealskin coats grow kind to their husbands, and when Soapy moves uneasily on his bench in the park, you may know that winter is n

44、ear at hand.Questions:1. This passage is taken from a short story entitled.2. The authors name is William Sidney Porter. What is his pen nameAn swers:1. Vie Cop and the An them2. O. He nryPassage 9When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls intosaving hands

45、and becomes better, or she rapidly assumesthe cosmopolitan standard of virtueandbecomes worse. Of an intermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility.The city has its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter. There are large forces which allure

46、with all the soulfulness of expression possible in the most cultured human. The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye. Half the undoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind is accomplished by forces wholly superhuman. A blare of s

47、ound, a roar of life, a vast array of humanhives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms. Without a counsellor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear! Unrecognised for what they are, their beauty, like music, too o

48、ften relaxes, then weakens then perverts the simpler human perceptions.1. From which novel is this paragraph taken2. Who is the author of this novel3. How do you understand the cosmopolitan standard of virtue4. Is there any naturalist tendency in this passageAn swers:1. Sister Carrie2. Theodore Drei

49、ser3. The cosmopolitan standard of virtue is something that makesa person become low in virtue and value and become worse.Part V. Twen tieth Cen tury Literature Before WWIIPassage 1:In a Station of the MetroThe apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.Questions:1. Who is t

50、he author of this short poem2. What two images are juxtaposed, or placed next to each other in this poem3. How do you appreciate this poemAn swers:1. Ezra Pou nd2. The writer uses the image of petals on ano ther image, that is, wet, black bough.3. In In a Stati on of the Metro Pou nd attempts to pro

51、duce the emoti on he felt whe n he walkeddown into a Paris subway station and suddenly saw a number of faces in the dim light. To capturethe emoti on, Pou nd uses the image of petals on a wet, black bough. The image is not decorati on;It is central to the poems mean ? ing. In fact, it is the poems m

52、eaning.Passage 2:And he was richyes, richer than a kingAnd went without the meat, and cursed thebread;And admirably schooled in every grace:In fine, we thought that he was everythingAnd Richard Cory, one calm summer night,To make us wish that we were in his place.Went home and put a bullet through h

53、is head.So on we worked, and waited for the light,Questions:1. What is the title of the poem2. Who wrote this poem3. How are the we of the poem different from Richard Cory4. Do you think the use of the adjective calm in the next-to-hist line is an example of verbal irony What is verbal irony5. There

54、 is an element of dark humor in the mistaken ideas that the townspeople have of Richard Cory, do you think soAn swers:1. Richard Cory2. Edw in Arlington Robinson3. The we in the poem refers to the poor townspeople who live a hard life and admire the rich. But Richard Cory is the rich person who is a

55、dmired by the poor, and appears to be calm and smart, but with a heart of suicidal despairing.4. Yes, it is an example of verbal irony. Verbal irony occurs when words that appear to besay ing one thing are really say ing someth ing quite differe nt.Passage 3:The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I

56、 have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before 1 sleep.1. Who wrote this poem2. What is the title of this poem3. What kind of feeling does this stanza show4 What do you think of this poemAn swers:1. Robert Frost2. Stopp ing by Woods on a Snowy Eve ning3. It shows a kind

57、 of sad, sen time ntal but also str ong and resp on sible feeli ng.mea nings4. It is one of the most quietly moving of Frost s lyrics. On the surface, it seems to be simple, descriptive verses, records of close observati on, graphic and homely pictures. It uses the simplest terms and com mon estwords. But it is deeply meditative, add ing far-reachi ng to the homely music. It uses its superbcraftsma nship to come to a climax of resp on sibility: the promises to be kept, the obligati onto be fulfilled. F