简答题In the poem “I’m Nobody! Who are you?”, the speaker seems to ____. A、enjoy public attention B、dislike too much public attention C、enjoy belittling other people D、long for public recognition简答题What kind of inward and subjective ideas does the poet want to convey in the poem “In a Station of the Metro”? A、At a pessimistic level, beauty is transient. B、At an optimistic level, the poem may imply that even in such a gloomy underground railway station, beauty can still startle people with unusual force. C、At a pessimistic level the poet reflects the feelings of a heart-broken man who resides in a place far away from his hometown. D、At a pessimistic level, the alienation produced by industrial civilization and capitalism makes “these faces” which symbolize beauty very few.简答题What kind of themes do Emily Dickinson’s poems mostly deal with? A、Love B、Nature C、Religion D、Death简答题Why didn’t Alfred Tennyson put any unstressed syllable in the line “Break, break, break”? A、To show that the speaker is sobbing B、To make the line sound more powerful C、Mainly to shorten the line D、To render the repetition more obvious简答题The word “fly” is very cleverly used in the poem “I Heard a Fly Buzz —When I Died”. What are the connotative meanings of it? A、It refers to that insect. Before death, the “fly” was buzzing around, “I” hear it. B、It may indicate “free flying”. After death, it may lead “me” to go farther into the space of the forever: “I” am flying. C、It suggests that the bustle of life is followed by the silent journey of death. D、It implies that death is not that important. “I” take a peaceful attitude towards death.简答题Which of the following statements about tone in poetry is NOT True? A、 The speaker’s tone may indicate her attitude toward herself. B、The speaker’s tone may indicate her attitude toward her audience. C、The speaker’s tone has nothing to do with the author’s personality. D、——简答题Walt Whitman is the author of “I Heard a Fly Buzz —When I Died”.简答题Which type of irony is employed in William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130? A、verbal irony B、dramatic irony C、situational irony D、circumstantial irony简答题Dramatic irony occurs when a situation develops in a direction that is very different from what the reader may be expecting.简答题In Robert Frost’s “Mending Walls”, wall is very symbolic. What are the connotative meanings of it? A、Wall illustrates the nature of human relationships. B、Wall means the distances and tensions between people. C、Wall represents beauty that implicates the state of excitement deep inside your innermost heart. D、The wall functions as a symbol, indicating the need for friendship and separation between human beings.简答题Since it is the author who has given voice to the speaker in a poem, the tone of the speaker can always be taken as an indicator of the author’s personality.简答题“The jar” in Wallace Stevens’s “Anecdote of the Jar” is a symbol of art and imagination.简答题The speaker in a poem should always be identified with the author of the poem简答题What are Emily Dickinson’s views of nature in most of her poems about it? A、She feels strongly about nature’s inscrutability. B、She thinks humans are outsiders who can observe nature, experience nature, worship nature, but they can not understand the secrets and mysteries of nature. C、She believes that there is a mythical bond between man and nature. D、She considers that human beings can discover and control the mystery of nature by using science.简答题What should the speaker in “The Road Not Taken”sound like? A、A romantic adolescent B、An old man having lost all hope C、An emotional dreamer D、An adult recalling a past decision简答题In the poem “Anecdote of the Jar”,the word “slovenly” suggests the presence of a metaphor, because this word implies that the jar is just like a poorly-dressed unkempt person.简答题William Carlos Williams is the author of “The Red Wheelbarrow”.简答题Through metonymies, the poem “Disillusionment of Ten O’clock” constructs a ___ social scene. A、cohesive B、fragmented C、well-ordered D、united简答题Who defines that “poetry, therefore, is more philosophical and of higher value than history; for poetry tends to express the universe, history, the particular”? A、Samuel Johnson B、T. S. Eliot C、Aristotle D、 William Wordsworth简答题The word “apparition” carries complicated meanings in the poem “In a Station of the Metro”. What are the connotative meanings of it? A、“Apparition” reflects that the beauty is closely bound up with ugliness in real life. B、“Apparition” means something ghostly which cannot be clearly observed. C、“Apparition” means “appearance”, in the sense of something which appears, or shows up. D、“Apparition” implies both presence and absence—transience.