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Introduction to English Literature(35576-01)
Midterm Exam
May 1, 2018
I. Identify the author and the title of the following passages(3).
1. Not a soul under the sound of their voices was hearing this song for the first time, not one of them had been rescued. Nor had they seen much in the way of rescue work being done around them. Neither did they especially believe in the holiness of the three sisters and the brother, they knew too much about them, knew where they lived, and how.
정답: James Baldwin, "Sonny's Blues"
2. So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. He then took his leave with a boyish exuberance of gayety, assuring her that her seclusion would endure but a little longer, and that the result was already certain.
정답: Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Birth-Mark"
3. The Negro met the first of the ladies at the front door and let them in, with their hushed, sibilant voices and their quick, curious glances, and then he disappeared. He walked right through the house and out the back and was not seen again.
정답:William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily"
II. Explain the meaning of the following terms briefly(12).
1. Iambic Pentameter: a line of five feet with an unstressed syllable followed by an stressed syllable.
2. in medias res: beginning the narrative in the midst of action.
3. Archetype: a motif or symbol recurring in the myths and literature of many different ages and cultures
4. "Fate is Character": character, the essence of the individual, determines his or her experience
III. Explain the significance of the following passage with reference to the given context in which they are located(20).
1. He was having a dialogue with Sonny. He wanted Sonny to leave the shoreline and strike out for the deep water. He was Sonny's witness that deep water and drowning were not the same thing-he had been there, and he knew. And he wanted Sonny to know. He was waiting for Sonny to do the things on the keys which would let Creole know that Sonny was in the water.
모범답안: This passage is from “Sonny's Blues” near the conclusion. The narrator, who had thought Sonny's enthusiasm for Jazz music was mere an excuse for his drug taking, came to listen to his performance seriously for the first time. Hearing the performance of the jazz band where he played the piano, the narrator came to know that the musicians were in fact having very intimate dialogues among themselves while playing in the band. Creol, the bandmaster, was patiently waiting for Sonny to come into playing without pressing him to do so, which prompted the narrator to think about a real mentorship he himself had to have in relation with his brother Sonny. Narrator thought that Creol was able to wait without anxiety until Sonny was prepared because because he himself had gone through the same thing in the past.
2. The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely settled--but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.
모범답안: This is from "The Cask of Amontillado." This is the opening paragraph in which the narrator explains the motivation of his revenge on Fortunato. The narrator are determined to take revenge on him because he thought he had been continuously insulted by Fortunato because of his inferior social position. To take revenge properly, he claims, two things are required. First, it should be a perfect crime in which the person taking revenge should be able to do it without being found and punished. Second, the person revenged upon should know that he is being done so. To meet such a requirement, the narrator makes a meticulous plan to carry out his evil plan, which in turn shows how evil his character is.
3. For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him. What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust. Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.
모범답안: This is from "A Rose for Emily." This is the very last passage of the fiction in which the secret with Miss Emily and her house is being finally revealed. The townspeople have long been wondering why Miss Emily had secluded herself for such a long time, and what was happening within her secluded house. The shocking thing discovered here is that Miss Emily had kept the corpse of Homer Baron in her bed and had slept with it ever since their wedding day on which Emily had killed her newly married husband with a poison. This shocking revelation about Emily clearly shows the tragic nature of Emily's life. Emily wanted to keep to herself both her artistocratic life style and her romantic love for Homer Baron, both of which, however, turned out to be impossible to sustain in reality.
4. "Cannot be helped," my mother said when I was fifteen and had vigorously denied that I had any Chinese whatsoever below my skin. I was a sophomore at Galileo High in San Francisco, and all my Caucasian friends agreed: I was about as Chinese as they were. But my mother had studied at a famous nursing school in Shanghai, and she said she knew all about genetics. So there was no doubt in her mind, whether I agreed or not: Once you are born Chinese, you cannot help but feel and think Chinese. "Someday you will see," said my mother. "It is in your blood, waiting to be let go."
모범답안: This is from "A Pair of Tickets." by Amy Tan. This passage explains the cultural difference between her mother and herself: her mother had managed to keep her cultural identity as a Chinese even though she had lived as an immigrant in US for such a long time whereas the narrator, her daughter, was born and brought up in America and felt herself as an American as thoroughly as any other Cocasian friends of hers. The main story of this fiction is to show how the narrator comes to fill this cultural gap through her journey back to China to meet her sisters her mother had to left in China long time ago. The narrator comes to understand better why her mother had to leave China without her two daughters, which allows her for the first time to feel herself a Chinese rather than simply an American with Chinese inheritance.
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