文導 Exams

1. 文導Exams

7. 文導口試規則 教具: 攝影機, 麥克風, 馬錶 口試規則: 1. 按各組名單號碼口試 2. 口試時間為十分鐘 3. 第一組同學開始口試時, 第二組同學須待命. 如叫號三次未到, 請排至最後一組口試，各組同學成績均相同 4. 口試時, 請務必拿麥克風, 看鏡頭, 並先說出下列英文:

8. My Chinese name is ________. My English name is ________. My question is __________. My answer is _________. ……………………….. That’s all. Thank you very much.

9. Question 1. Talk about the story of Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” and comment on the plot and characters of this story.

10. Question 2. Talk about the story of Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever” and comment on the plot and characters of this story.

11. Question 3. Talk about the story of Eudora Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.” and comment on the plot and characters of this story.

12. Question 4. Talk about the story of Angela Carter’s “A Souvenir of Japan” and comment on the plot and characters of this story.

13. Question 5. Talk about the story of Doris Lessing’s “Our Friend Judith” and comment on the plot and characters of this story.

14. Question 6. Talk about the story of Flannery O’Connor’s “Everything That Rises Must Converge” and comment on the plot and characters of this story.

15. 英國文學史(I)口試規則 教具: 攝影機, 麥克風, 馬錶 口試規則: 1. 按名單號碼口試 2. 口試時間為三分鐘 3. 第一位同學開始口試時, 第二位同學須待命. 如叫號三次未到, 請排至最後一名口試 4. 口試時, 請務必拿麥克風, 看鏡頭, 並先說出下列英文:

16. My Chinese name is ________. My English name is ________. My question is __________. My answer is _________. ……………………….. That’s all. Thank you very much.

17. 1. Talk about the characteristics of William Shakespeare’s sonnets and plays. Take examples. (pp. 1027-28, 1043-45, 1106-09)

18. 2. Talk about the characteristics of John Donne’s elegies, satires, poems, meditations, and sermons. Take examples. (pp. 1233-35, pp. 1236-38, pp. 1248-49, pp. 1251-52)

19. 3. Talk about the characteristics of Ben Jonson’s “comedy of humors,” and his famous Works which produces a wide variety of plays, masques, and poems. Take examples. (pp. 1293-95, p. 1303--)

20. 4. Talk about the characteristics of Francis Bacon’s famous essays and his new experiment of induction. Take examples. (pp. 1529-33, pp. 1535--)

21. 5. Talk about Robert Herrick’s wide ranges of his poetic styles. Take examples. (pp. 1644-55)

22. 6. Talk about Andrew Marvell’s stylistic experiments of his poems as well as paradoxes and complexities of his tone. Take examples. (pp. 1684-1704)

23. 7. Talk about the summary and commentary of Francis Bacon’s “Of Marriage and Single Life”. (pp. 1532-33)

24. 8. Talk about the summary and commentary of William Shakespeare’s one of his seven famous plays.

25. 9. Talk about the summary and commentary of John Donne’s famous poems of “Death, be not proud,” and “The Flea.” (p. 1270, p. 1236)

26. 10. Talk about the characteristics of John Milton’s pastoral epic, sonnets, treatises, and poems. Take examples. (pp. 1771-1815)

27. 1. Talk about the characteristics and influences of Charlotte Smith’s sonnets, such as “Written at the Close of Spring,”“To Night,”“The Sea View,” and so on. (pp. 32-35)

28. 2. William Blake declares that “The Old & New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.” Take The Four Zoas as an example to interpret Blake’s full myth of humanity. (pp. 37-38)

29. 3. Talk about William Blake’s imaginative poems, such as “The Little Black Boy,”“The Chimney Sweeper,”“The Sick Rose,”“The Fly,”“The Garden of Love,”“A Poison Tree,” and “The Book of Thel.”

30. 4. Talk about William Blake’s visionary poems, such as “The Lamb,”“The Divine Image,”“The Tyger,”“London,”“Infant Sorrow,” and “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.”

31. 5. Talk about William Wordsworth’s The Fourteen-Book Prelude (1985) as a spiritual autobiography and a circular journey. (pp. 303-305)

32. 6. Talk about the main idea of Preface to Lyrical ballads (1802), such as the subject and language, the definition of a poet, and the nature of poetry. (pp. 238-251)

33. 7. Talk about William Wordsworth’s poems as the remembrance of things past, such as “We Are Seven,”“The Table Turned,”“The Thorn,”“Tintern Abbey,”“The Ruined Cottage,”“I wandered lonely as a cloud,”“My heart leaps up,” and “The Solitary Reaper.”

34. 8. Talk about Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s views of the mind as creative in perception, intuitive in discovery and imaginative in poetic re-creation, such as “This Lim-Tree Bower My Prison,”“Kubla Khan,”“Frost at Midnight,”“On Donne’s Poetry,” and “Work without Hope.”

35. 9. Talk about Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poems of mystery and demonism, such as “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” and “The Pains of Sleep.”

36. 10. Talk about Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria (1817), especially the definition and the nature of poetry in Chapter 13 and 14. (pp. 467-68, pp. 477-483)