“To be, or not to be — that is the question; /Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer./The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/ Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,/And by opposing end them?” These words are from ______.

A Rose for Emily is one of Faulkner' s short stories. Discuss the character of Emily Grierson and how this character is depicted.

Briefly state Mark Twain' s magic power with language in his novels.

Why is Jane Eyre a successful novel? Give a brief analysis of the theme and charaterization of the novel.

Why does Sister Carrie best embody Dreiser' s naturalistic belief?

What are the features of George Bernard Shaw’s characterization in his plays?

Briefly introduce Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.

This is my letter to the World

That never wrote to Me —

The simple News that Nature told —

With tender Majesty

Questions.

A.Identify the poet.

B.What idea does the poem express?

C.Why does the poet use dashes and capital letters in the poem?

Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like a patient etherized upon a table;

Let us go, through certain half -deserted streets,

The muttering retreats

Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels

And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:

(The lines above are taken from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S Eliot. )

Questions:

A.What does the poem present?

B.What form is the poem composed in?

C.What does the poem suggest?

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree

Toward heaven still,

And there's a barrel that I didn't fill

Beside it, and there may be two or three

Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.

Questions.

A.Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the above lines are taken.

B.What experience does the poem describe?

C.What are the feelings of the speaker?

Generally considered to be Henry James’s masterpiece, ______ incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a Europe an cultural environment.