5.What is the major theme discussed in Faulkner’s“Barn Burning”?
答：This is a very excellent short story. It is about a 10-year-old child's psychological struggle and choice in the face of his father's habit of using violence to vent his dissatisfaction and solve all the contradictions in life. On the basis of reading the text carefully, the author analyzes it from three aspects, and believes that this short story, which seems to be full of conflict and anger, actually embodies Faulkner's humanitarian feelings.
3.What are the writing techniques used in Mark Twain’s short story“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”?
答：The use of suspense and sudden turn: the author uses the theory of defamiliarization, suspense and sudden turn to describe the life of gamblers engaged in cock fighting and dog fighting. The description perspective is unique, the conception is novel, the aestheti aesthetic effect is enhanced. The defamiliarization theory is cleverly used in the novel, which makes the uglyappearance of gamblers show the original shape. The author reveals people's gambling mentality, gambling's inside story, gambling's organ skill and gambling's bad result incisively and vividly.
Even the would is dark would we still can't give upconviction.If we try to do.We will discover fine thing still exist of the would.
2.What are the topics discussed in Bacon's essayOf studies?
福建师范大学网络与继续教育学院
《英美文学选读》期末考试A卷
姓名：张倩
专业：英语
学号： 182201807653109
学习中心：东北大学无锡研究院奥鹏学习中心[2017]
成绩：
Answer the following questions briefly. (20 points for each)
1.“To be, or not to be?”is uttered by whom? How to understand this famous saying?
答：To be,or not to be.This is the question."
This sentence is Shakespeare's famous saying.The meaning of the sentence is comprehension difficulty to us.But we can guess.
答：A person's words and deeds, and the way he treats others and things will reflect his quality, as well as his thoughtfulness. As the saying goes, "a person's temperament contains the road you have gone through before, the books you have read and the people you have loved" is also applicable here. Bacon has written many essays in his life. We can study and read the essays he has written The ideological nature of bacon
4.Whatarethe symbolic meaningsof a clean, well-lighted place in Earnest Hemingway's short story“A clean, well-lighted place”?
答：Hemingway through the story of the old man and two waiters to clarify that nothingness is universal. Nothingness is the experience of being. Human beings can resist nothingness only by keeping a clean and bright place in their hearts.
I think the sentence's meaning is we should insist ours conviction.
We shouldn't give up conviction.We should not only have thought.We still want have act.