Apart from school education, Dreiser read voraciously by himself. His true literary influences were from_______, Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer.

Ernest Hemingway's style, the particular type of hero in his novels. and his life attitudes have been widely recognized and imitated all over the world Discuss Hemingway Code heroes briefly.

Briefly discuss Jane Austen' s notion about human beings in their personal relationships.

Due to her deliberate seclusion, Emily Dickinson' s poems tend to be very personal and meditative. What is the style of her poetry?

According to Theodore Dreiser, what is the core of American values? And what is their effect on people's life?

Why can Bernard Shaw's plays be termed as problem plays?

In what way is Swift regarded as one of the greatest masters of English prose?

And I keep hearing from the cellar bin

The rumbling sound

Of load on load of apples coming in.

For l have had too much

Of apple-picking I am overtired

Of the great harvest I myself desired.

Questions:

A.What is the tide of the poem from which the stanza is taken?Who is the author?

B.What does -The rumbling sound" in the second line refer to?

C.What does the poet want to tell the readers through this poem?

Shall I compare the to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

......

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;

(From Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18”)

Questions:

A.What does "thee" refer to in the first line of the stanza?

B.What figure of speech is used in the fifth line?

C.What is the theme of this poem?

"Are you in earnest? -Do you truly love me? Do you sincerely wish me to be your wife?”

"I do; and if an oath is necessary to satisfy you, I swear it."

"Then, sit, I will marry you."

"Edward -my little wife!"

“Dear Edward!"

"Come to me -come to me entirety now," said he;and added, in his deepest tone, speaking in my ear as his cheek was laid on mine, "Make my happiness -l will make yours."

Questions:

A.What is the title of the novel from which the excerpt is taken?Who is the author?

B.Who are the two speakers?

C.What does this excerpt tell us about the speakers?

He knew the tune, it was a familiar one in the choir of the ill meting house. The verse died heavily away, and was lengthened by a chorus, not of human voice, but of all the sounds of the benighted wildness, pealing in awful harmony together. Goodman Brown cried out, and his cry was lost to his own ear, by its unison with the cry of the desert.

Questions:

A.What is the title of the story from which the excerpt is taken?Who is the author?

B.Where is the protagonist now? And why did he go there?

C.What is the author's major concern in this story?