課程名稱：文學作品讀法上
課程性質︰必修
課程教師︰朱偉誠
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外文系
考試日期（年月日）︰2010/11/22
考試時限（分鐘）：150分鐘(9:10-11:30)
是否需發放獎勵金：是
1. What do you think is the theme of Linda Brewer's "20/20"? Support your
statement by identifying the conflict and resolution of the story, as well as
the significance of the title.(5%)
2. Describe, according to their proportionate significance, the characters in
Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" as well as their relationship and interaction in
the story.(10%)
3. Do you think the plot structure of Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever" fit well
with the "five parts" system? Answer this question by dividing the story
accordingly or revising the system based on what you see as the story's real
plot structure.(5%)
4. Explain what is "foreshadowing" by referring to details that you have
noticed on reading "Roman Fever" after the first time.
5. Explain the following passage from "Roman Fever" by identifying (1) the
scene(s) in which the action is happening, (2) the speakers of the
conversation, and (3) the meaning of their conversation.(5%)
As they leaned there a girlish voice echoed up gaily from the stairs
leading to the court below. "Well, cin along, then," it cried, not to
them but to an invisible companion, "and let's leave the young things
to their knitting"; and a voice as fresh laughed back:"Oh, look here,
Babs, not actually knitting-""Well, I mean figuratively," rejoined the
first. "After all, we haven't left our poor parents much else to do..."
and at that point the turn of the stairs engulfed the dialogue.
6. Describe the two main characters as well as their relationship in "Roman
Fever" and explain how this characterization is related to the theme of
the story.(10%)
7. Identify the genre of(i.e. what kind of fiction is) Edgar Allan Poe's
"The Cask of Amontillado" and its main characteristic in plot (be sure to
refer to action of the story).
8. Explain why the two characters in Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White
Elephants" have such different attitudes toward the matter of their
quarrel, the male one's strategy of persuasion as well as the female one's
response to it.(5%)
9. Group the stories we have covered in class according to their point of view
and then describe the general characteristics of each point of view (as
well as any deviations from them) by citing those stories as illustrations.
(15%)
10.Explain the title of Lorrie Moore's "How" and relate it to its unique style
of story-telling as well as the theme of the story.(5%)
11.Analyze Anton Chekhov's "The Lady with the Dog" in terms of its
characterization (flat or round, static of dynamic) and setting (both space
and time).(10%)
12.Explain why Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birth-Mark" calls for an allegorical
reading, do such a reading of the story and be sure to include all its
significant components.(5%)
13.Respond to the following statement--"In many stories like Hemingway's 'Hills
Like White Elephants,' the plot coule be happening anywhere, and it would
not matter"-- as well as explain the significance of setting in "Roman
Fever."(5%)
14.Do a feminist reading of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
by first identifying the psychological and social condition of the narrator,
then describe in how the above two should be taken by the reader.(15%)
15.Explain the following terms:
(1) pace (in terms of plot;1%)
(2) protagonist and antagonist (1%)
(3) showing and telling (be sure to gice some examples;2%)
(4) denouement (1%)
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