简答题What's true about Gabriel in “The Dead”? A、His character is shaped by frustration, rancor, and disappointment. B、He is obsessed with the past C、He finds no genuine joy or pleasure in life. D、He loves his country and is proud of its culture.简答题Since D. H. Lawrence’s “Tickets, Please” was written against the background of war, it centers on the horrific conflict in northern France and Belgium.简答题What has lead to Gabriel's final epiphany in "The Dead"? A、Gabriel's failure at his after-dinner speech B、Lily's refusal of a tip: Gabriel’s failure as a gentleman C、Gretta's withdrawal into the past and her revelation about her old lover D、Miss Ivors' use of the abusive term “West Briton”: Gabriel’s failure as a gentleman简答题What are the major conflicts in “A Father”? A、reason V.S. superstition B、western culture V.S. middle east culture C、modernism V.S. orthodoxy D、technology V.S. morality简答题Winter is a time for celebration and holiday, what is the symbolic meaning of “winter” in “The Dead”? A、isolation and destruction B、reunion and love C、eternal sleep and death D、inevitability and universality of mortality简答题What could be the possible themes of “Ticket, Please"? A、women’s inferiority to man B、dehumanizing mechanical civilization C、social progress D、conflict between the two sexes简答题What are the possible themes of the story? A、routine and paralysis B、intersection of life and death C、religion and politics D、betrayal and failure简答题Hemingway’s “In Another Country” is set in Milan during WWI about the relationships that develop among an American and five Italian soldiers. The story is told from the perspective of the American, who has received wounds and medals because of bravery in battle and is depicted as Hemingway “code hero”.简答题What’s NOT true about the narrative perspective of “In Another Country”? A、the story is told by an external narrator B、the story is told in an objective third person C、the young American soldier is the narrator of the story D、the story is told from the American’s point of view简答题The themes in literature are usually of universal significance.简答题In terms of complexity, characters be divided into...? A、static and dynamic characters B、minor and major characters C、flat and round characters D、protagonist and antagonist characters简答题Which of the following statements about characters is true? A、antagonists are minor characters, so they are often flat characters B、 major characters are often round characters C、Conventionally, characters in fiction can be classifies as major and minor. D、A flat character is two-dimensional and incapable of surprising the reader.简答题What could be the possible themes of Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path? A、power of love B、racial isolation C、regeneration of life D、oppression over African Americans简答题Style is concerned not with “what to say” but “how to say it”.简答题What is the climax of the short story Charlotte Perkins “The Yellow Wallpaper”? A、The narrator appeal to spend her time writing and socializing gets overruled by the husband B、The wallpaper freaks out the narrator, and she imagines a woman trapped within the paper. C、The narrator strips off all the wallpaper in her room. D、John attempts to find out what his wife is up to.简答题What are the three major variations of the External Narrator? A、Vision From Behind B、Vision From Without C、Vision From With D、Vision From Within简答题In a traditional structure of a plot, what occurs when events and complications begin to resolve? A、falling action B、rising action C、climax D、conflict简答题“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a feminist critique of the role of women in late nineteenth century society, what roles of women are explored in the fiction? A、women as children B、women as mother C、women as domestic slaves D、women as prisoner简答题What does the image of the narrator walking through the dark, empty streets suggest? A、fear of death B、isolation and despair C、bravery D、destruction简答题Phoenix walks carefully through the trail, gets her dress stuck in prickers and struggles to free herself, sees apparitions that aren't even there as she struggles step by step to get into town... All the hardships and struggles she encounters in her journey account for therising actionof the plot.