课程名称︰文学作品读法上 课程性质︰必修 课程教师︰李欣颖 开课学院：文 开课系所︰外文 考试日期（年月日）︰99/1/11 考试时限（分钟）：180 是否需发放奖励金：是 （如未明确表示，则不予发放） 试题 : Identification and Explication Read the following passages, identify the author (full name) and the source (full title) and briefly answer (in about 150 words) the questions: 1. A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. ...As each slaty wall of water approached, it shut all else from the view of the men in the boat. ... There was a terrible grace in the move of the waves, and they came in silence, asve for the snarling of the crests. Author:_____; Title:_____ * What kind of narrator do we have here? How do the perspective and the voice contribute to the purpose of the story? 2. The bot resisted whatever he suspected was meant for his improvement and contrived when he was vieally interested in something to lieave the impression he was bored. Sheppard was not deceived. Secretly Johnson was learning what he wanted him to learn－that his benefactor was impervious to insult and that there were no cracks in his armor of kindness and patience where a successful shaft could be driven. Author:_____; Title:_____ * How does the author use irony in this passage? How does our perception (hindsight?) of the irony assist in out understanding of the meanning of the story? 3. ... For some time nobody said anything, then Laird said matter-of-factly, "She's crying." "Never mind," my father said. He spoke with resignation, even good humour, the words which absolved and dismissed me for good. "She's only a girl," he said. I didn't protest that, even in my heart. Maybe it was true. Author:_____; Title:_____ * What is the theme of the story? How does this passage contribute to the theme? 4. She could see in the open square before her house the top of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying hes wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the trees. There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window. Author:_____; Title:_____ * What kind of symbolic reading can one make of this passage? How is it related to the whole story? 5. Fujio! Even when you have become a young man, laugh with pleasure at a girl's delight when, told that it's a grasshopper, she is given a bell cricket; laugh with affection at a girl's chargin when, told that it's a bell crickets in this world. Probably you will find a girl like a grasshopper whom you think is a bell cricket. Author:_____; Title:_____ * How does this contemplation of the narrator add another dimension to the story? By imaging Fujio as a young man, how does the meaning of the incident in the story change? --

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