課程名稱︰美國文學1865以後
課程性質︰
課程教師︰李欣穎
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外文系
考試日期（年月日）︰2009/4/28
考試時限（分鐘）：
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試題 :
Identification and explication:
Identify the author (full name) and the source (full title) of the following
passages and answer the questions:
1. But when this old Adam of resentment rose in me and tempted me concerning
Bartleby, I grappled him and threw him. How? Why, simply by recalling the
divine injunction: "A new commandment give I unto you, that ye love one
another." Yes, this it was that saved me. Aside from higher considerations,
charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle - a great
safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy's sake, and
anger's sake, and hatred's sake, and selfishness' sake, and spiritual pride's
sake; but no man that ever I heard of, ever committed a diabolical murder for
sweet charity's sake. Mere self-interest, then, if no better motive can be
enlisted, should, especially with high-tempered men, prompt all beings to
charity and philanthropy.
Author:_____ Title:_____
Who is speaking? What does this passage tell us about the speaker?
2. I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,
Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,
Stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine,
One of the Nation of many nations, the smallest the same and the largest the
same,
A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable down by
the Oconee I live,
A Yankee bound my own way ready for trade, my joints the limberest joints on
earth and the sternest joints on earth,
A Kentuckian walking the vale of the Elkhorn in my deer-skin leggings, a
Louisianian or Georgian,
...
Author:_____ Title:_____
What kind of poetic techniques do you detect in this passage? How do the
techniques support the poet's writing purpose?
3. "Faith" is a fine invention
When gentlemen can see -
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.
Author:_____ Title:_____
What is this poem about?
4. ... it was evident that their journey in that direction had reached a
decided finale. "Wan't dat ar what I telled Mas'r?" said Sam, with an air of
injured innocence. "How does strange gentleman spect to know more about a
country dan de natives born and raised?"
"You rascal!" said Haley, "you knew all about this."
"Didn't I tell yer I know'd, and yer wouldn't believe me? I telled Mas'r 't
was all shet up, and fenced up, and I didn't spect we could get through, --
Andy heard me."
Author:_____ Title:_____
What is this argument about? What does it contribute in terms of
characterization?
5. "Now you're talking!" I says; "your head gets leveler and leveler all the
time, Tom Sawyer," I says. "Pick is the thing, moral or no moral; and as for
me, I don't care shucks for the morality of it, nohow. When I start in to steal
a nigger, or a watermelon, or a Sunday-school book, I ain't no ways particular
how it's done so it's done. What I want is my nigger; or what I want is my
watermelon; or what I want is my Sunday-school book; and if a pick's the
handiest thing, that's the thing I'm going to dig that nigger or that
watermelon or that Sunday-school book out with; and I don't give a rate what
the authorities thinks about it nuther."
Author:_____ Title:_____
Who is the speaker here and what is happening? What is the significance of this
passage in terms of characterization?
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