世新大學九十三學年度日間部三年級轉學生考試

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英語學系	英國文學（一）

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Part Ⅰ (30%)

Definition (Briefly explain the following terms and give an example for each of following)

1. Normal Conquest and its effect upon English literature

2. Medieval romance

3. English sonnet

4. Morality play

5. Allegory

6. Metaphysical poetry

7. Comedy of manners

8. Mock epic or mock heroic poem

9. Decorum

10. The Defence of Posey

Part Ⅱ

Identification: (Identify the author and title of the following quotations and explain their central meaning of the quoted work)

1. Our two souls therefore, which are one,

Though I must go, endure not yet

A breach, but an expansion,

Like gold to airy thinness beat.

If they be two, they are two so

AS stiff twin compasses are to;

Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show

To move, but doth, if th’ other do

2. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea

The plowman homeward plods his weary way

And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,

And all the air a solemn stillness holds;

Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,

And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds;

Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower

The moping owl does to the moon complain

Of such, as wandering near her secret bower,

Molest her ancient solitary reign.

3. Song made in lieu of many ornaments,

With which my love should duly have bene dect,

Which cutting off through hasty accidents,

Ye would not stay your dew time to expect,

But promist both to recompens,

Be unto her goodly ornament,

And for short time an endlesse monument.

4. Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments; love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O, no, it is an ever fixed mark,

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wand’ ring bark,

Whose worth’s unknown, although his highth be taken.

5. Was this the face that launched a thousand ships

And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.

Her lips suck forth my soul－see where it flies!

Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again.

Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips

And all is dross that is not Helena.

I will be Paris, and for love of thee

Instead of Troy shall Wittenberg be sacked….

Part Ⅲ (45%)

Essay Questions (Choose THREE out of the four questions and write a well-organized essay on each of the questions of your choice)

1. Discuss and explain the importance and special characteristics of Canterbury Tales.

2. Analyze William Shakespeare’s King Lear in terms of a tragedy.

3. In Paradise Lost, John Milton attempted to follow and revise the epic tradition established by his predecessors such as Homer and Virgil. To what extent and in what way did Milton revise the epic tradition in Paradise Lost? Your discussion should include at least three aspects of Melton’s revision.

4. Gulliver’s Travels is best known as a satire. What are Swift’s main targets in Part 4 of Gulliver’s Travels? How did Swift position mankind? What was his view of a human being? Why did he have such kind of view? What kinds of technique did he use to present his view to the readers? Explain and discuss.