自考英美文学题型及复习资料

”

is

the

greatest,

indeed

the

only

generally

acknowledged epic in English literature since

“

Beowulf

”

.

A. Paradise Lost

B. B. Paradise Regained

C. C. Samson Agonistes

D. D. Lycidas

39

、

The Advancement of Learning is a great tract on __D___.

A. A. history

B. B. literature

C. C. policy

D. D. education

40

、

Rousseau

published

two

books

that

electrified

Europe

—

Du

contrat

Social

and

__A__ in which he explored new ideas about nature, society and education.

A. A. Emile

B. B. Declaration of Rights of Man

C. C. Life of Napoleon

D. D. The Advancement of Learning

41

、

Modernism rejects rationalism, which is the theoretical base of ___D__.

A. A. classicism

B. B. neo-classicism

C. C. romanticism

D. D. realism

42

、

The most important characteristics in Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson is __C__.

A. A. mastering of language

B. B. excellent choice of words

C. C. use of the dramatic monologue

D. D. excellent metaphor

43

、

Nigger Jeff, Old Rogaum and His Theresa are all _D____ by Dreiser.

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1

分）< /p>

A. A. novels

B. B. novellas

C. C. plays

D. D. short stories

44

、

The statement

“

Beauty is truth, truth beauty

”

is quoted from _D____.

A. A. “Ode on Melancholy”

B. B. “To Autumn”

C. C. “Ode to Psyche”

D. D. “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

45

、

Which

of

the

following

masterpieces

doesn

’

t

belong

to

the

tragedies

of

Shakespeare?

B

A. A. Romeo and Juliet

B. B. The Merry Wives of Windsor

C. C. Julius Caesar

D. D. King Lear

46

、

In

1892,

Y

eats

wrote

his

first

play

,

__C__,

which

is

an

Irish

myth

about

a

noblewoman who sells her soul to the devil in order to save starving peasants.

A. A. The Land of Heart?s Desire

B. B. The Shadowy Waters

C. C. The Countess Cathleen

D. D. Purgatory

47

、

___A__, the pioneering woman who, according to D. H. Lawrence, was the first

novelist that

“

started putting all the actions inside

”

.

A. A. George Eliot

B. B. Jane Austen

C. C. Mrs. Gaskell

D. D. Charlotte Bronte

48

、

Jonathan Swift is one of the greatest masters of English prose, and his best prose

work is __A____.

A. A. “A Modest Proposal”

B. B. “Of Studies”

C. C. “Areopagitica”

D. D. “Tradition and Individual Talent”

49

、

The period of Old English literature refers to _A_____.

A. A. from the year of 450 to the year of 1066

B. B. from 14th to mid-17th

C. C. from 14th to mid-18th

D. D. from 16th to mid-18

50

、

Much

of

__D__

drama

is

constructed

around

the

inversion

of

a

conventional

theatrical situation.

A. A. Y

eats

B. B. Gregory?s

C. C. Galsworthy

D. D. Shaw?s

51

、

The only dramatist ever to win a Nobel Prize was _B__.

A. A. Bernard Shaw

B. B. Eugene O?Neill

C. C. Richard Brinsley

D. D. William Shakespeare

52

、

__A__ is the author of the play

“

The Hairy Ape

”

.

A. Eugene O?Neill

B. Henry James

C. Herman Melville

D. Charles Dickens

53

、

__B____

is

the

leading

figure

of

the

English

Romantic

poetry

,

the

focal

poetic

voice of the period.

A. William Blake

B. William Wordsworth

C. George Gordon Byron

D. Percy Bysshe Shelley

54

、

Daisy Miller is one of Henry James

’

early works that dealt with _A_.

A. the international theme

B. local colorism

C. psychological analysis

D. patriotism

55

、

Which of the following novels is not written by Henry Fielding?

B

A. Jonathan Wild

B. Moll Flanders

C. Joseph Andrews

D. Tom Jones

56

、

The

Rivals

and

___A__

are

generally

regarded

as

important

links

between

the

masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw.

A. The School for Scandal

B. The Duenna

C. Widower?s Houses

D. The Doctor?s Dilemma

57

、

As

he

is

a

leading

spokesman

of

the

“

Imagist

Movement

”

,

_C____

famous

one-image poem

“

In a Station of the Metro

”

would serve as a typical example of the

imagist ideas.

A. T. S. Eliot?s

B. Robert Frost?s

C. Ezra Pound?s

D. Wallace Stevens?

58

、

__B____

is

a

poem

based

on

a

traditional

Spanish

legend

of

a

great

lover

and

seducer of women.

A. Adonais

B. Don Juan

C. Prometheus Unbound

D. The Revolt of Islam

59

、

__B___ is the leading figure of the metaphysical school.

A. John Milton

B. John Donne

C. John Bunyan

D. John Keats

60

、

In Coleridge

’

s

“

The Rime of the

Ancient Mariner,

”

the

mariner suffers

the

horror of death, because __D_.

A. he experiences a shipwreck

B. he is tortured with starvation

C. he undergoes much suffering

D. he kills an albatross

61

、

Statement ___B___ is WRONG in describing Nathaniel Hawthorne.

A. One source of evil that Hawthorne is concerned most is over- reaching intellect

B. Hawthorne is a realistic writer

C. Hawthorne is also a great allegorist

D. Hawthorne is a master of symbolism

62

、

_B______ is the most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens

’

works.

A. Language

B. Character portrayal

C. Humor

D. Plot

63

、

___D___ shows the contrast between the performance of art and the transience of

human passion.

A. Ode to the West Wind

B. Ode to a Nightgale

C. Ode to Psyche

D. Ode on a Grecian Urn

64

、

The

literary

form

which

is

fully- developed and the

most

flourishing during

the

Romantic period is ____D_____.

A. prose

B. drama

C. novel

D. poetry

65

、

Christopher Marlowe

’

s second achievement

is

his creation of __B____

for

the

English drama. A. the Byronic hero

B. the Renaissance hero

C. the Realistic hero

D. the Romantic hero

66

、

____A___

is

indeed

the

only

generally

acknowledged

epic

in

English

literature

since Beowulf. A. Paradise Lost

B. Paradise Regained

C. Samson Agonistes

D. The Faerie Queene

67

、

In

1847,

the

Bronte

sisters

published

the

following

famous

novels

EXCEPT

“

____B__

”

.

A. Jane Eyre

B. Shirley

C. Wuthering Heights

D. The Tenant of Windfall Hall

68

、

In Coleridge

’

s

“

The Rime of the

Ancient Mariner,

”

the

mariner suffers

the

horror of death, because ____D_____.

A. he experiences a shipwreck

B. he is tortured with starvation

C. he undergoes much suffering

D. he kills an albatross

69

、

In William Blake

’

s later period, he wrote quite a few prophetic books including

the following writing EXCEPT ___D_.

A. The Book of Urizen

B. The Book of Los

C. Milton

D. Lyrical Ballads

70

、

Romance, a popular literary form in the medieval period reflects a ____A_ age.

A. chivalric

B. heroic

C. realistic

D. modern

71

、

Which writing

is a

typical example of Shakespeare

’

s pessimistic

view

towards

human life and society in his late years?

A

A. The Tempest

B. King Lear

C. Hamlet

D. Othello

72

、

Among

the

works

by

John

Milton,

which

is

indeed

the

only

generally

acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf

？

D

A. Paradise Regained

B. Samson Agonistes

C. Areopagitica

D. Paradise Lost

73

、

__B____ is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. F. Scott Fitzgerald

C. William Faulkner

D. Ezra Pound

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74

、

“

Man shall

find

grace.

”

But

he

must

lay

hold of

it by an act of

free will.

The

freedom of the will is the key stone of ___A____ creed.

A. Milton?s

B. Jonathan Swift

?s

C. Henry Fielding?s

D. Samual Johnson?s

75

、

“

Shall

I

compare

thee

to

a

summer

’

s

day?/Thou

art

more

lovely

and

more

temperate/ Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May/And summer

’

s lease hath

all too short a date,

”

the above beautiful sonnet was written by ___C___.

A. John Donne

B. John Milton

C. William Shakespeare

D. Francis Bacon

77

、

Here

is a sentence

from an essay

,

“

Read

not

to contradict and confuse,

nor to

believe

and

take

for

granted,

nor

to

find

talk

and

discourse,

but

to

weight

and

consider

”

. The essay must be __A__.

A. Of Studies by Francis Bacon

B. The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon

C. Novum Organum by Francis Bacon

D. Essays by Francis Bacon

78

、

___B__ explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation

and

unstable

values,

and

gives

its

name

to

the

get-rich-quick

years

of

the

post-Civil

War era.

A. Innocents Abroad

B. The Gilded Age

C. Roughing It

D. The Middle Y

ears

79

、

A

proud,

mysterious

rebel

figure

of

noble

origin

is

called

___D__

hero

in

Romantic Period of English literature.

A. Romantic

B. Realistic

C. Renaissance

D. Byronic

80

、

The protagonist of the poem

“

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

”

is a kind of

tragic figure caught in a sense of deafened idealism and tortured by unsatisfied desires.

Of the following descriptions of him, which isn

’

t suitable for him?

D

A. He is neurotic.

B. He is self-important.

C. He is illogical.

D. He is a man of action.

81

、

As a woman of exceptional intelligence and life experience, George Eliot shows a

particular concern for ____C_____.

A. the feminism

B. the education for women

C. the destiny of women

D. the low status of women

82

、

In the description of sun-rise, the poet unconsciously expresses his helplessness in

having

to

face

up

his

duty

as

a

man.

This

statement

is

about

Robert

Browning

’

s

___C____.

A. “My Last Duchess”

B. “Meeting at Night”

C. “Parting at Morning”

D. “Pippa Passes”

83

、

Most of the poems in __A___ sing of the

“

en- masse

”

and the self as well.

A. Leaves of Grass

B. Drum Taps

C. North of Boston

D. The Cantos

84

、

Two distinctive

features of demonic possession by Coleridge are

mysticism and

___C__.

A. conversation

B. religion

C. imagination

D. nature

85

、

In

which of

the

following

works,

Hemingway presents

his philosophy about

life

and

death

through

the

depiction

of

the

bull-fight

as

a

kind

of

microcosmic

tragedy?

C

A. The Green Hills of Africa

B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro

C. To Have and Have Not

D. Death in the Afternoon

A

B

C

D

86

、

__B____

,

which

bears

a

strong

resemblance

to

The

Waste

Land

is

generally

regarded as the darkest of T. S. Eliot

’

s poems.

A. “Gerontion”

B. The Hollow Men

C. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

D. The Cocktail Party

87

、

Who, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used

“

i

”

instead of

“

I

”

to refer to himself as a protest against self-importance?

A

A. Cummings

B. Wallance Stevens

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

D. Ernest Hemingway

88

、

Joyce

’

s masterpiece, ___C___ gives an account of man

’

s life during one day in

Dublin.

A. Dubliners

B. Finnegans Wake

C. Ulysses

D. A Portrait of the Artist

89

、

The following statement __D__ is WRONG in describing Transcendentalism.

A.

It

absorbed

some

ideological

concerns

of

American

Puritanism

and

European

Romanticism.

B. It advocates the importance of Individual and Nature.

C.

Trancendentalists

believed

that

there

should

be

an

emotional

communication

between an indi

D. It emphasizes that man is the measure of all things.

90

、

Symbolism appeared in the late 19th century in ___A__.

A. France

B. Germany

C. England

D. Italy

91

、

Most of Hardy

’

s novels are set in __C__, the fictional primitive and crude region

which is really the home place he both loves and hates.

A. London

B. Y

oknapatawpha

C. Wessex

D. Paris

92

、

The four great odes of John Keats are the following EXCEPT ___D____.

A. Ode on Melancholy

B. Ode on a Grecian Urn

C. Ode to a Nightingale

D. Ode to the West Wind

93

、

Which writing is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style

in

English?

A.

Samson

Agonistes

A

B. Paradise Lost

C. Paradise Regained

D. Beowulf

94

、

English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication

of a joint volume of poetry

, Lyrical Ballads, written by Wordsworth and ____B___.

A. Keats

B. Coleridge

C. Southey

D. Byron

95

、

The

three

trilogies

of

__A____

’

s

Forsyte

novels

are

masterpieces

of

critical

realism in the early 20th century

.

A. John Galsworthy

B. Arnold Bennet

C. James Joyce

D. H. G

. Wells

96

、

Statement ___B_ is NOT true in describing Gothic novel.

A. Gothic novel is a type of romantic fiction

B. Gothic novel predominated in the early 18th century

C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and supernatural

D. The Mystery of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe is typical Gothic romance

97

、

Ge nerally

,

the

Renaissance

refers

to

the

period

between

____

and

___A__

centuries.

A. 14th; mid-17th

B. 16th; mid-17th

C. 14th; mid-18th

D. 16th; mid-19th

98

、

Which of the following writings is NOT completed by William Blake?

D

A. Songs of Experience

B. Songs of Innocence

C. Marriage of Heaven and Hell

D. Emma

99

、

As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce

__A___ to England.

A. rationalism

B. criticism

C. romanticism

D. realism

100

、

The most important and popular comedy written by Shakespeare is ___C____.

A. Romeo and Juliet

B. Twelfth Night

C. The Merchant of Venice

D. As Y

ou Like It

101

、

Jane Austen

’

s first novel __C__ tells a story about two sisters and their love

affairs.

A. Mansfield Park

B. Sense and Sensibility

C. Pride and Prejudice

D. Sons and Lovers

102

、

G

. B. Shaw

’

s play __A____ established his position as the leading playwright

of his time.

A. Mrs Warren's profession

B. Hamlet

C. Widowers' Houses

D. Candida

103

、

T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize of Literature in _D

A. 1948

B. 1952

C. 1942

D. 1958

104

、

Thomas Hardy

’

s pessimistic view of life predominates most of his later works

and earns him a reputation as a ____C__ writer.

A. naturalistic

B. romantic

C. modernist

D. optimistic

105

、

“

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and

heartless? ... And

if God

had

gifted

me with some beauty

, and

much wealth, I

should

have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.

”

The quo

A

A. Jane Eyre

B. Hamelet

C. Wuthring Heights

D. Bleak House

106

、

The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens

’

works is _____C___.

A. wit

B. satire

C. character-portrayal

D. plot

107

、

“

If Winter comes, can Spring be

far behind?

”

the quoted

line comes

from

____A___.

A. Shelley?s “Ode to the West Wind”

B. Walt Whitman? s Leaves of Grass

C. John Milton?s Paradise Lost

D. John Keats?“ Ode on a Grecian Urn”

108

、

All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature

EXCEPT

__D______.

A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

B. “An Evening Walk”

C. “Tinter Abbey”

D. “The Solitary Reaper”

109

、

Henry Fielding

’

s ____C____ brings him the name of

“

Prose Homer

”

.

A. The History of Jonathan Wild the Great

B. The History of Amelia

C. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

D. The History of Joseph Andrews

110

、

Among the three

major poetical

works by John Milton, ___A__

is the

most

perfect example of verse drama after the Greek style in English.

A. Samson Agonistes

B. Paradise Lost

C. Paradise Regained

D. Areopagitica

111

、

T.S. Eliot

’

s ____B____ not only presents a panorama of physical disorder

and spiritual desolation

in the

modern Western world, but also reflects

the prevalent

mood of disillusionment and despair of a whole post- war generation.

A. The Hollow Men

B. The Waste Land

C. Murder in the Cathedral

D. Ash Wednesday

112

、

In

____C____,

Shakespeare

has

not

only

made

a

profound

analysis

of

the

social

crisis

in

which

the

evils

can

be

seen

everywhere,

but

also

criticized

the

bourgeois egoism.

A. Hamlet

B. Othello

C. King lear

D. Macbeth

113

、

John

Milton

’

s

greatest

poetical

work

____B__

is

the

only

generally

acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.

A. Areopagitica

B. Paradise Lost

C. Lycidas

D. Samson Agonistes

114

、

The work ___A__ by William Blake is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a

happy world, though not without its evils and sufferings.

A. Songs of Innocence

A. Songs of Innocence

B. Songs of Experience

C. Poetical Sketches

D. Lyrical Ballads

115

、

The plays known as

“

the Lawrence trilogy

”

are all the following EXCEPT

__C______.

A. A Collier? s Friday Night

B. The Daughter - in - Law

C. Lady Chatterley? s Lover

D. The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyed

116

、

Greatly and permanently affected by the __C______ experiences, Hemingway

formed his own writing style, together with his theme and hero.

A. mining

A. mining

B. farming

C. war

D. sea

117

、

The dignity of

movement of an

iceberg

is due to only one -eighth of

it being

above

water.

”

This

“

iceberg

”

analogy

about

prose

style

was

put

forward

by

__D______.

A. William Faulkner

B. F?Scott Fitzgerald

C. Henry James

D. Ernest Hemingway

118

、

In Go Down, Moses, ___A___ illuminates the problem of black and white in

Southern society as a close- knit destiny of blood brotherhood.

A. William Faulkner

B. Jack London

C. Herman Melville

D. Nathaniel Hawthorne

119

、

In Death

in the

Afternoon ____C____ presents

his philosophy about

life and

death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy

.

A. William Faulkner

B. Jack London

C. Ernest Hemingway

D. Mark Twain

120

、

William Faulkner once said that __B______ is a story of

“

lost innocence,

”

which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.

A. The Great Gatsby

B. The Sound and the Fury

C. Absalom, Absalom!

D. Go Down, Moses

121

、

Walt Whitman believed, by means of

“

_____A___,

”

he has turned poetry

into

an

open

field,

an

area

of

vital

possibility

where

the

reader

can

allow

his

own

imagination to play

.

A. free verse

B. standardized rhyming

C. strict verse

D. regular rhyming

122

、

Herman

Melville

’

s

second

famous

work,

____D____,

was

not

published

until 1924, 33 years after his death.

A. Pierre

B. Redburn

C. Moby-Dick

D. Billy Budd

123

、

In 1920, ____A____ published his first novel This Side of Paradise which was,

to some extent, his own st

A. F?Scott Fitzgerald

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. William Faulkner

D. Emily Dickinson

124

、

Unlike his contemporaries in the early 20th century

, ____B____ did not break

up with the poetic tradition nor made any experiment on form.

A. Walt Whitman

B. Robert Frost

C. Ezra Pound

D. T. S. Eliot

125

、

While Mark Twain seemed to have paid more attention to the

“

life

”

of the

Americans, ____B____ had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the

“

inner world

”

of man.

A. William Howells

B. Henry James

C. Bret Harte

D. Hamlin Garland

126

、

At the age of eighty -seven, _____A___ read his poetry at the inauguration of

President John F. Kennedy in 1961.

A. Robert Frost

B. Walt Whitman

C. Ezra Pound

D. T. S. Eliot

127

、

Of all Herman Melville

’

s sea adventure stories, ____C____ proves to be the

best.

A. Typee

A. Typee

B. Reburn

C. Moby

–

Dick

D. Omoo

128

、

Man is a

“

victim of forces over which he has no control.

”

This is a notion

held strongly by ____B____.

A. Robert Frost

B. Theodore Dreiser

C. Henry James

D. Waltman

129

、

With the publication of ____A____, Theodore Dreiser was launching himself

upon

a

long

career

that

would

ultimately

make

him

one

of

the

most

significant

American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism.

A. Sister Carrie

B. The Titan

C. An American Tragedy

D. The Stoic

130

、

Nathaniel Hawthorne was affected by ____C____

’

s transcendentalist theory

and struck up a very intimate relationship with him.

A. H. W. Longfellow

B. Walt Whitman

C. R. W. Emerson

D. Washington Irving

131

、

Among

the

following

writers

___D_____

is

generally

regarded

as

the

forerunner of the 20th -century

“

stream - of - consciousness

”

novels and the founder

of psychological realism.

A. T. S. Eliot

A. T. S. Eliot

B. James Joyce

C. William Faulkner

D. Henry James

132

、

Walt Whitman wrote down a great many poems to air his sorrow for the death

of President ______, and one of the

famous

is

“

When

Lilacs

Last

in the Dooryard

Bloom

’

d.

”

B

A. Washington

A. Washington

B. Lincoln

C. Franklin

D. Kennedy

133

、

The

Marble

Faun

by

Nathaniel

Hawthorne,

a

romance

set

in

__D__,

is

concerned about the dark aberrations of the human spirit.

A. France

A. France

B. Spain

C. England

D. Italy

134

、

T. S. Eliot

’

s ______ bearing a strong thematic resemblance to The Waste Land

is generally regarded as the darkest of Eliot

’

s poems.

D

A. “Gerontion”

B. “Prufrock”

C. Murder in the Cathedral

D. The Hollow Men

135

、

Shelley

’

s

political

lyrics

______

is

not

only

a

war

cry

calling

upon

all

working

people

to

rise

up

against

their

political

oppressors,

but

an

address

to

them

pointing

out

the

intolerable

injustice

of

economic

exploitation.

D

A. “Ode to Liberty”

B. “Ode to Naples”

C. “Ode to the West Wind”

D. “Men of England”

136

、

Charlotte

’

s works are famous for the depiction of the life of ____A__ working

women, particularly governesses.

A. the middle - class

B. the lower class

C. the upper - middle - class

D. the upper - class

137

、

All of the following works are known as Hardy

’

s

“

novels of character and

environment

”

EXCEPT ____D__.

A. The Return of the Native

B. Tess of the D? Urbervilles

C. Jude the Obscure

D. Far from the Madding Crowd

二．

Reading comprehension

1.

thee to a summer's day?

And summer's

lease

hath all

too

short a

date.

Questions:

A: Who is the poet the quoted stanza, and what is the title of the poem?

A: Shakespeare,

Sonnet18

B: What figure of speech is employed in the poem?

B: personification

C: What is the theme of the poem?

C: permanence of poetry

2.

And water's

heaven with their tears ...Did

he who made the lamb make thee?

Questions

：

A

：

Who is the poet the quoted stanza, and what is the title of the poem?

B: Whom does he refer to?

C: What does the

lamb “symbolize

?

A: the tiger

, William Blake

B: God

C: peace and purity

3.

Questions:

A: Who is the poet the quoted stanza, and what is the title of the poem?

B: What do

C: What does the poet try to say in the above quoted lines?

A: Whitman, Song of Myself.

B: America, devotion

4.

, Nick. It all depends.

A: Who is the poet the quoted stanza, and what is the title of the poem?

B: What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question?

C: Why did the father add

A: Hemingway, Indian Camp

B: life and death

C: Death can be both easy and hard.

5.

A: Identify the author and the work.

A: Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights.

B: Upsad

6.

“

It

is

when

the

feet

weary

and

hope

seems

vain

that

the ....................shall

you

dream such happiness as you may never feel.

A: Identify the author and the work.

B: What does the rocking-chair symbolize?

A: Theodore Dreiser

, Carrie sister

B: The rocking-chair is a symbol of

female protagonist

Carrie's endless pursuit

of fantasy, also reflects the hero's heavy Hurst wood with despair

.

7.

I will live in speculation of this art. Till Mephistopheles.

A: Identify the author and the work is taken from which passage..

B: Based on the passage, write down in one or two sentences the theme of the play

.

A: Dr

. Faustus, a play by Christopher Marlowe

B: Man's aspiration, bounding achievements, and the inevitable failure.

8.

tools the knell of parting day ...And

leaves

the world

to darkness and to

me.

A: Scan the first line of the stanza.

B: Briefly explain the significance of this irregularity

.

A: Iambic pentameter with the rhyming scheme of Ababa.

B:

Two

accented

syllables

slow

down

the

pace

in

keeping

with

the

literary

meaning of the phrase

9.

A: Identify the author and the work.