篇一：英语短篇小说作业
The Chrysanthemums
After I learned < The Chrysanthemums >, I can find the contribution of the the setting to the development of the story. For example, the scenery and the weather of the first paragraph settle the setting of this story. 'The high grey-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley from the sky and from all the rest of the world. On every side it sat like a lid on the mountains and made of the great valley a closed pot. 'As far as I'm concerned, I think it's strange that the high grey-flannel fog on the mountains was described as a closed pot.
The two sentences reflect that the environment of Elisa's life is isolated from the outside world. 'The yellow stubble fields seemed to be bathed in cold sunshine, but there was no sunshine in the valley now in December. It reflects that Elisa is depressive. She was lonely and she wanted to be loved and accepted by others. I think the women want the equality and freedom. But from the first paragraph, it indicates the pursuit of Elisa was bound to be a failure. And the traditional mind made her lack of feminity. Her fate likes the chrysanthemums. The description reflects the society was cruel and ueasonable at that time.
Early Autumn
From the selected reading of < Early Autumn >, I think the characters of Mary and Bill were well described.
First of all, I want to talk about the character of Mary. First, she is impulsive. She married a man she thought she loved. Maybe she made a wrong decision. And she leaded a needy life later. Second, when she met and recognized Bill, she said'always wondered what happened to you. 'On the one hand, I think she is not reserved. As if she forgot that she have been married. In her age, she isn't elegant. On the other hand, she is enthusiastic. She is curious and careful about Bill's life. Third, 'the lights on the avenue blurred, twinkled, blurred. 'This sentence shows when she knew that Bill got married, her mood was from surprised and excited to totally disappointed. She has tears in her eyes. She still loved Bill. It reflects that she lived in memory. So she named her little son Bill.
Next, I want to talk about the character of Bill. He is wise. When Mary had married another man, he chose to go away. He didn't make himself unhappy all the time. Insdead he tried to develop himself. He worked to make himself perfect. After many years, he lead a happy and rich life. He is mature. He knew he should keep a distance with Mary. And when Marry lifted her face as though wanting a kiss, he just held out his hand. So I think he is a reserved man and he has a charm of the men.
A Clean,Well-lighted Place
The conflicts in this story are evident and intense. The conflicts are between young and old. The old man didn't want to go home and he always made himself drunk. 'He was deaf. 'It means he was isolated from the outside world. Because of loneliness, he didn't go home. But
the young waiter wanted the old man to go home early. He had his wife waiting in bed for him. The conflicts also reflected between religion idealism and nihilism, confidence and despair, everything and nothing, sympathy and lack of sympathy, understand and lack of
understanding, light and darkness, clean and dusty, youthful and aged, sleep and insomnia. We can find that the conflicts are in many ways. The two waiters are different from each other. One can understand the loneliness of the old man and show the sympathy to him. But the other waiter is lack of understanding and sympathy. He even said an old man is a nasty thing. He didn't want to look at the old man. And he wished the old man go home early.
The cafe is a clean, well-lighted place. In the daytime, the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late. The conflict is between clean and dust. Though the old man is lonely and nihilism, he still hoped to find a clean and bright place to make himself comfortable.
The last paragraph writes like this'many must have it. 'So I can learn that the people nowadays are lonely and nihilism. They need light and order.
篇二：英语短篇小说选读
宁波大学考核答题纸
（2014—2015学年第一 学期）
课号：063W22A09 课程名称：英语短片小说选读 改卷教师： 阿德尔 学号：116070035 姓 名： 石 佳得 分：
The Epiphany for Love
Dubliners is often considered as the reflection of ethnic history in Dublin which, is stuffed by the ubiquitous “paralysis”. The corruption in social life, in politics even in people’s spirit is said to have made great impression in reader’s mind. However, with the skinny experience for no more than twenty years, I dare not conclude the thesis or the main idea of this opus in haste, while I could also not just allow myself to follow those comments and opinions made by “they”.
Among the chapters I have read, Araby seems to appeal to me most, because I have once had the same feeling of that little boy. This kind of feeling, literally, the epiphany for love, is the sweetest emotion and the most endurable torture I’ve ever experienced. There seems to be three periods of time during the process of the epiphany for love but to summarize with suitable words is undoubtedly a knotty issue. What comes first must be the admiration for the one who possesses neat skin, delicate facial features or slim figure, or even just a special nice odor. Since an occasion even you yourself cannot remember for sure, a figure has inserted into your little world and driven you to do crazy things. The shadow turned to the base to watch her; the hall witnessed numerous bumping into each other and in that corner the light from the lamp opposite the door caught the white curve of her neck, lit up her hair that rested there and, falling, lit up the hand upon the railing. What a magic feeling! But as you gradually sank in this dramatic journey, the inexplicable confusion and loneliness began to kidnap you.
You found that you were not only the idle but also the weirdo nobody understands including yourself. Her name was like a summons to all your foolish body and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. With this confused adoration, sometimes even an unnoticeable movement or sentence would annihilate the sunshine and the hesitation between “do” or “do not” always brought heavy rain. Asking help seems to be of no sense because adults were going to acting lightly even sometimes with contempt. So the only way is to lie on the floor in a dark evening murmuring her name.
I believe that sex or the thoughts about sex must accompany though there is no such description between the lines. And this kind of confusion and loneliness cannot be removed until she refuses which is sure to leave the unbearable pain for you to learn from, or luckily, accepts, which means you are going to exploring the sealed world together. Then the epiphany for love seems to be accomplished.
No one can bypass the enlightenment of love to achieve the epiphany. And only by experiencing the sweetest emotion and the most endurable torture at the same time can people really get to know the original taste of love.
篇三：英语短篇小说
short story:a short story is relatively a brief fictional narrative in prose.
fiction: a narrative told in prose.
openending: in contrast to closed ending which close the story with a real end, open-ended stories can provide excellent creative writing motivation, leaving room and space for readers to imagine and create.
point of view: it is the vantage point (有利位置) from which events are presented.
Setting:it refers to the geographic location and the historical period in which a literary work is set.setting>background theme>subject
character:character means the features and trait that form the individual nature of a person, and by extension, refers to one who typifies some definite quality.
flatcharacter:it is constructed around a single idea or quality.
methods of characterization:Directly; Indirectly; The presentation of character’s mind. Story: it is a narrative following a series of happening in time order.
Plot: it is a narrative with an emphasis on falling on causality.
Flashback(倒叙):The writer may not present the story’s event in strict time sequence.He may plunge readers into back into the middle of the things, or choose to begin from the ending part and then move back into the past to reconstruct the events that lead up to the final outcome. Style: It is the typical way a writer presents his language, the individual personality in the work. Tone: The notion of speaking voice in which we express attitude.
Romanticism: A source of illumination of the world；Heart over Head；Imagination/emotion over logic and reason.
Irony(反讽):Irony is created by what is said and what readers believe to be true.
Is “setting” the same as “background”? No. “Background” just refers to the time and the place. “setting” can mean more than “background”.
Can we readers trust the narrator all the time ? Why or why not? No. Because a narrator of a story may be reliable or ueliable, objective or subjective, fair or partial, sympathetic or detached(超脱的）, simple or sophisticated（老练的）, ignorant or insightful（富有洞察力的）.
The Gilded Age: 镀金时代In American history, the Gilded Age refers to the era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century. But to open lands west of the Mississippi River to white settlers, the Plains Indians were pushed in a series of Indian wars onto restricted
reservations.
The Victorian Age:it is of the United Kingdom was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of prosperity for the British people. the characteristics of the Victorian Age is Rural Decline; Railway Mania(狂热); Time Is Money.The events :The Industrial Revolution, The development of Science and Technology,Charles Darwin’s the theory of evolution.
THE EARLY AUTMN:
? This story is mostly told through
A. flashback ( 倒叙）
B. foreshadowing (预示）
C. D. description
? The tone of the story revealed by the characters’ conversations, which is
A. humorous
B. C. relaxed
D. angry
1) What was probably the untrue of Mary?
A. She missed the days of the past.
B. She still loved Bill
C. She worked to keep a family of three children.
D. 2) Which of the following adjectives can probably best describe Bill’s attitude?
A. Emotional.
B. C. Puzzled.
D. Hopeful.
3) Mary didn’t say anything when she got on the bus. Why ?
A. She had nothing to say.
B. She was disappointed in Bill.
C. D. She knew the situation was hopeless.
4) The last sentence of the story “ she forgotten…to tell him that her youngest boy was named Bill, too.” shows that
A. Mary knew she would meet Bill again some day.
B. “Bill” is a very common name.
C. D. Mary was proud of her youngest son.
5) The title of the short story “Early Autumn” may suggest to the reader that
A. the bitterness of an emotional long winter was ahead.
B. it was still the bright time of one’s life, like early autumn.
C. both Mary and Bill were now middle-aged people.
D.
THE DISCUS THROWER:
1).What does the man look like? 2).What is the best word to describe the patient? 3).What are the abnormal behavior for this blind and legless patient ? B. having his breakfast every morning D. asking the nurse to feed him
4).According to the short conversation between the aide and the patient, what is the best word to describe the aide? THE STORY OF AN HOUR:
Mrs. Mallard, the heroine in the short story is B. flat character
In the short story, Mrs. Mallard’s sister Joseph, her husband friend Richard, and her husband Mr. Mallard are C. antagonistsD. protagonists
What is the best word to describe Mrs. Mallard?
A. luckyB. happy
Kate Chopin focuses on Mrs. Mallard’s presentation of ______
A. appearanceB. character THE PRESENT:
? The old lady got up early to wait for her _____ from her daughter
C.moneyD.Phone call
? How many times did her daughter Myra see her mother in these two years?
A. Two
B. C. Four
D. Five
? In the short story, the old lady lived _____ in these two year?
A. With her daughter Myra
B. With her daughter Enid
C. With Mrs. Morrison
D. ? The old lady’sneighbors are very_____ to her?
A. Cold
B. Indifferent
C. D. unfriendly
? What is the birthday present from the daughter for her old mother?
A. A pair of slippers
B. A new cardigan
C. A table lamp
D. ARABY:
1).Which adjective is NOT proper to describe the style of the short story? 2).Why does the boy want to go to the bazaar, or the “Araby”, so desperately?
A. He wants to find some romantic fufillment.
B. He wants to see exotic (奇异的) and exciting things.
C. He wants to have new experience.
D.
3).Why do you think can be the theme of the story?
A. Real beauty is illusory and unattainable. C. True love can not survive in the cruel world
D. Disillusion always accompanies romanticism.
4).Which is probably true about Mangan’s sister?
A. She is a young girl of rare beauty.
B. She has all the elegance because of her family and religious background.
C. She is angle-like both in appearance and in nature.
5).The short story ends with the sentence: “Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.” What possibly has the boy sudden realized? B. The girl does not deserve so much of his affection.
C. His uncle and aunt are heartless people.
D. True beauty cannot be obtained at any cost.
THE LADY ,OR THE TIGER:
1. According to the short story, what is the best word to describe the king? 2. Why did the king build the king’s arena?
A. To give the people an opportunity of watching the fights between the gladiators.(角斗士)
B. To enable the people to view the conflicts between religious opinions and hungry jaws(无聊的空话). D. To make his kingdom more beautiful.
3. In the short story, the writer gives us many clues(线索) about the princess’s character. What does her personality seem to be?
A. Sweet and lovely.
B. Shy and timid.(胆小的)
C. Generous and kind-hearted. 4. What is the king’s attitude toward his daughter’s love affaire? 5. In the end, to drop a hint (暗示) to her lover, to which direction did the princess point ? THE ACORN—GATHERER:
? The Acorn-Gatherer describes _________?
A. B. The country in America.
C. The city life in Britain.
D. The city life in America
? In the short story, the Granny seemed to be very “cruel” to the boy. The real reason for
this is that _________
A. The boy was not her grandson.
B.
C.
D.
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A.
B. C.
D.
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A.
B.
C.
D. ?
A.
B.
C. D.
The boy was very wicked （坏的）. The boy was mischievous(调皮的）. What was the final end for the boy? He escaped from the village. He was taken away by his father. He left his Granny. In the end, who found the boy’s body? His granny A dealer A steerwoman According to the short story, how did people respond to the boy’s death? Sadly Happily Broken-heartedlyThe Acorn-Gatherer
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