【正确答案】正确答案：" Death of the Laird"s Jock" and "The Tapestried Chamber" are both short stories of Walter Scott. The former tells the story of the death of Armstrong, who is a Scottish chief of great size, strength and courage. His son is defeated in the duel with an English champion. His sword, emblematic of his might and his motherland"s dignity is deprived by the English man. Finally he is doomed to die. "The Tapestried Chamber" is a ghost story. In this story, the general spends a night in an old castle of his friend, the next day he is late for the breakfast and seems to be much shocked. Being asked by the owner of the castle, the general reluctantly tells the about the apparition of a woman in his room the night before. In these two stories, Scott is slow in the exposure of outcome of the main plot, and lingers in the subplots instead. In "Death of the Laird"s Jock" , he details the "bold and desperate" achievements of the Laird"s Jock in his youth, his unique weapon and his "warlike race". The outcome of the duel is summed up in two simple sentences " It is needless to describe the struggle: the Scottish champion fell". In " The Tapestried Chamber" , Scott doesn"t tell it"s a ghost story almost until the end of the story. The more eager his readers" quest is for the secret of the tapestried room, the more "irrelative" descriptions about the breakfast the readers have to endure. The lingering writing can better highlight the main plot and attract readers" attention, as the great history of Laird"s Jock against the sudden loss of his dignity can enhance the tragic shade of the story. The haggard countenance, messy clothes and abstracted manner of the general can heighten the horror of the female ghost.

【正确答案】正确答案：The Sick Rose is written in two quatrains rhymed abcb. A Red, Red Rose is the poem in four quatrains with end rhyme. In A Red, Red Rose, the speaker loves the young lady beyond measure. The only way he can express his love for her is through vivid similes and hyperbolic comparisons. The theme of The Sick Rose, however, is more confusing. First, the poem contains figure of speech especially symbols, such as the rose, the " sick" and the worm, the different interpretation of which would lead to various themes of this poem. The poem describes a sick rose and a worm that manage to locate the rose"s " bed of crimson joy". The worm destroying the rose with his " dark secret love" , could be a not so subtle reference; to some king of destructive sexuality. The theme of the poem can also be about mortality, or a strange king of death associated with "love" , so the tone of this poem is ominous, while the tone of A Red, Red Rose is very affectionate and joyful.

【正确答案】正确答案：Oliver Twist and Jane Eyre describe the childhood of their main characters. But the characterizations of children of these two novels don"t share many similarities. The main theme of Oliver Twist is the question about whether the terrible environments have the power " to blacken the soul and change its hue forever. " Oliver is of course above any corruption in spite of the miseries in the childhood. But from different angles, he is not a believable character, because his purity and virtue are absolute. Oliver does not present a complex picture of a person torn between good and evil—instead, he is goodness incarnate. So as the child hero of a melodramatic novel of social protest and concern, Oliver Twist appeals more to our sentiments than to our literary sensibilities. Jane Eyre focuses on the emotions and experiences that accompany growth to adulthood, and the child plays an important role in the developing of the character. At the beginning, Jane has possessed self-worth, dignity and a commitment to justice and principle, which further develops in the adult Jane. But as an orphan, Jane is afraid that she will never find a true sense of home, and she feels the need to belong to somewhere. This desire tempers her equally intense need for autonomy and freedom, and this conflicting desire then develops to the climax, as Jane has to choose between her love to Edward Rochester or to self-dignity. All in all, the characterization of young Jane paves a good way for the development of the story and its theme.

【正确答案】正确答案：While being two separate literary movements, Realism and Naturalism have at times found themselves to be interchangeable, sharing some similarities; First, they are both "basic" views of life and humanity, stripping away the layers of romanticism to present a "natural" or "real" outlook of the world. At the same time, both of them hold the pessimistic views that come to be in a time around the 19th century, a period known for its trials and turmoil. In addition, God is absent from most of the writings in either category, with writers opting for a focus on the real world. These similarities can be found in The Red Badge of Courage, a realistic novel, and Sister Carrie, the naturalist novel by Theodore Dreiser. The story of the former is about a young private Henry Fleming, who longs for a wound—a red badge of courage—to counteract his cowardice. Henry is not a typical valiant romantic hero. He encounters hard truths about the experience of war, confronting the universe"s indifference to his existence and the insignificance of his own life. Sister Carrie is about a young country girl who moves to a big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, later as a famous actress, a high achievement without the feeling of happiness. This novel is a movement away from the emphasis on morals of the Victorian era and focuses more on realism and the base instincts of humans.