电大1062《文学英语赏析》在线形考任务7Continuous Assessment 7答案（课程号：02814）

题目1：_Hamlet_, _The Merchant _and _Macbeth, Othello _are 4 well-known tragedies by William Shakespeare.

题目2：The play _The Crucible _concerns a real historical incident, involving witchcraft and an attack of mass hysteriA.

题目3：Lady Bracknell is a comic character created by Oscar Wilde in his play _The Importance of Being Ernest._

题目4：“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a protest poem against racial discrimination.

题目5：Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are well-known American poets.

题目6：In the poem “Acquainted with the Night”, the speaker expressed his distress at the death of his lover and bewilderment of the meaning of life.

题目7：_The Old Man and the Sea _is one of Ernest Hemmingway’s best-known works.

题目8：Scrooge is a character created by Charles Dickens in his novel _A Christmas Carol_.

题目9：The novel _The Heart of Darkness _exposes the corruption, cruelty and greed of the colonial system in AfricA.

题目10：“I have a dream” is a famous speech made by President Lincoln during the American Civil War.

"题目11：Usually ______ works by starting a story at a point in the recent past, then switching the action back to an earlier time, farther back in the past.

: setting

; flashback

; climax

; coda"

"题目12：________ occurs when a writer repeats a particular grammatical or phonological pattern in close proximity.

: parallelism

; alliteration

; Coda

; pun"

"题目13：___________________ can be established by describing the place where the action takes place, or the situation at the start of the story.

: Point of view

; Flashback

; Climax

; Setting"

"题目14：_____ is the point in a play or novel where everything comes to a head, where the maximum emotional reaction of the reader is created.

: Alliteration

; Allusion

; Climax

; Flashback"

"题目15：A writer can show character by giving a physical description, through  _________ and through deeds.

: setting

; point of view

; climax

; dialogue"

"题目16：_____ is an example of simile.

: “She has a heart of stone.”

; “Her eyes twinkled like stars.”

; “ Her tongue is a sharp knife.”

; “ The windows waves violently in the wind.”"

"题目17：_____ is an example of parallelism.

: “He has a heart of stone.”

; “Childhood is like a swiftly passing dream.”

; “Government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth”

; “Soon night will steal hours from the day.”"

"题目18：_______ contains an example of alliteration.

: “He was secret, self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.”

; “United we stand, pided we fall.”

; Better late than never.

; “ Her tongue is like a sharp knife.”"

"题目19：_____ contains examples of metaphor

: “The Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.

;  “The street shone out, like a fire in the forest.”

; “ Her tongue is like a sharp knife.”

;  “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.” "

"题目20：_____ is an example of personification.

: “Childhood is like a swiftly passing dream.”

; “The years have silvered her hair.”

; “My face is an open book.”

; “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women are merely players.”"

"题目21：In this text, the writer depicts character through _________.

: what the characters say and how they say it

; what the characters say

; how the characters look"

"题目22：At the beginning of the text, Nick says to Marjorie “ _You know everything_.” This line can reveal that __________.

: Nick is proud of Marjorie’s wide range of knowledge

; Nick is accusing Marjorie of hiding her knowledge

; Nick is irritated that his relationship with Marjorie is not going on well"

"题目23：What does Nick’s line “ _Oh, go away, Bill! Go away for a while._” reveal about Nick’s true feelings?

: Nick is upset by Bill’s insistent question.

; Nick is confused by what Bill says.

; Nick is irritated by Bill’s friendship and intimacy with Marjorie."

"题目24：From the dialogue between Nick and Marjorie, we can be sure ________.

: Nick is making up for his past neglect of Marjorie

; there is tension between them

; Marjorie is madly in love with Nick"

"题目25：In the text, we get just the barebones of __________, we rarely get _________.

: the characters’ future intentions, how the characters are feeling

; the setting , the narrator’s attitude towards the characters

; what the character says, how the words are spoken"

"题目26：The text is taken from ______.

: _Lord of the Flies_

; _Heart of Darkness_

; _The Pearl_"

"题目27：It is obvious that the three dealers _________.

: conspired together to cheat Kino.

; were not interested in Kino’s pearl.

; didn’t know much about the shapes and sizes of pearls."

"题目28：Which of the following is true of the third dealers?

: He just went through the prearranged plot with other buyers.

; He wanted to pay Kino only after his clients had paid him

; He was not interested in Kino’s pearl."

"题目29：In context, the word "played” is closest in meaning to ______.

: conspired together to cheat

; behaved playfully

; bargain playfully"

"题目30：The sentences in the last paragraph suggest that _____.

: Kino was angry beyond words and was becoming violent in his anger

; the dealers and the crowd became angry and they pushed Kino out of the shop

; Kino’s wife had a violent temper and tended to get angry easily"