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Part Ⅰ

Choose Ten out of the following quotations and indicate the author and title of the work in which the quoted passage appears.

1. O god─all come true, all burst to light! O light─now let me look my last on you! I stand revealed at last─cursed in my birth, cursed in marriage, cursed in the lives I cut down with these hands!

2. Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit

Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste

Brought death into the world, and all our woe.

With loss of Eden, till one greater Man

Restore us, and regain the blissful seat…

3. Reversal of the situation is a change by which conditions in the play are transformed into their opposite, keeping always to our rule of probability or necessity.

4. For those children he had from me he will never

See alive again, nor will he on his new bride

Beget another child, for she is to be forced

To die a most terrible death by these my poisons.

5. Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray

From the straight road and woke to find myself

Alone in a dark wood. How shall I say

What wood that was! I never saw so drear,

So rank, so arduous a wilderness.

6. Father of Argos, turn for home before you act

And suffer for it. What we did was destiny.

If we could end the suffering, how we would rejoice.

The spirit’s brutal hoof has struck our heart.

And that is what a woman has to say.

Can you accept the truth?

7. I sing of warfare and a man at war.

From the sea-coast of Troy in early days

He came to Italy by destiny,

To our Lavinian western shore,

A fugitive, this captain, buffeted

Cruelly on land as on the sea

8. Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it?

Thinkst thou that I who saw the face of God

And tasted the eternal joys of heaven

Am not tormented with ten thousand hells

In being deprived of everlasting bliss?

9. And first Hephaestus makes a great and massive shield,

Blazoning well-wrought emblems all across its surface,

Raising a rim around it, glittering, triple-ply

With a silver shield-strip run from edge to edge…

The god creates a world of gorgeous immortal work.

10. How little you know about it! I would inform you, Sancho, that it is a point of honor with knights-errant to go for a month at a time without eating, and when they do eat, it is whatever may be at hand. You would certainly know that if you had read the histories as I have.

11. Aye, that incestuous, that adulterate beast

With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,---

O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power

So to seduce!─won to his shameful lust

The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen.

12. Come then, since all is fairly done, men of Sparta, kead away your wives, and you, Athenians, take yours. Let every man stand beside his wife, and every wife beside her man, and then, to celebrate our fortune, let’s dance. And in the future, let’s take care to avoid these misunderstandings.

Part Ⅱ（30%）

Write a short paragraph to explain and indicate the significance of FIVE of the following items:

1. The Decameron

2. dramatic irony

3. tragedy

4. Deus ex machina

5. Pygmalion

6. Gargantua and Pantagruel

7. Renaissance

Part Ⅲ（50%）

Essay Questions: Write a well-organized essay on each of the following questions:

1. Antigone and Medea deal with a continuing debate on the role of the feminine in human values. Compare the role of women in these two Greek tragedies.（20%）

2. To what extent and in what way can Faustus be considered as a tragic hero.（15%）

3. Discuss and explain at least three reasons why the Epic of Gilgamesh is an important literary work of art in western literature.（15%）