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"During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heav
"During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heav
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问题
"During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher." Thus Edgar Allan Poe opened his story of "The Fall of the House of Usher" in 1839. In this beautifully crafted sentence he captured so much that is essential to the horror story: darkness, ominous solitude, foreboding calm, apprehension and uncertainty, and a deep feeling of melancholy that could soon turn to fear.
Many kinds of fiction are self-explanatory: mysteries, Westerns, love stories, spy thrillers, and science fiction define themselves by the terms used to name them. The horror story is less easily defined, perhaps because other types of fiction so often use the trappings of terror to enhance their plots. Charles Dickens used the vehicle of an old-fashioned ghost story to tell "A Christmas Carol", but that book is not a horror story. Nor does a Grimm brothers fairy tale such as "Hansel and Gretel," with its child devouring witch, belong to the genre.
The nature of the horror story is best indicated by the title of the 1980s television series Tales from the Dark side. Human beings have always acknowledged that there is evil in the world and a dark side to human nature that cannot be explained except perhaps in religious terms. This evil may be imagined as having an almost unlimited power to inspire anxiety, fear, dread, and terror in addition to doing actual physical and mental harm.
In the tale of horror quite ordinary people are confronted by something unknown and fearful, which can be neither understood nor explained in reasonable terms. It is the emphasis on the unreasonable that lies at the heart of horror stories.
This kind of literature arose in the 18th century at the start of a movement called Romanticism. The movement was a reaction against a rational, orderly world in which humanity was basically good and everything could be explained scientifically. The literary type that inspired the horror story is Gothic fiction, tales of evil, often set in sinister medieval surroundings. This original kind of horror fiction has persisted to the present.
By saying that "many kinds of fiction are self-explanatory"(the first sentence of paragraph 2), the author means______.
选项
A、they are easy to understand
B、they are meant for ordinary readers
C、they often use horror to develop their plots
D、their categories show what they are about
答案
D
解析
这句话的意思为:它们的种类指明了它们的内容。第二段指出,许多小说的内容是不解自明的:(self-explanatory)神秘小说,西部小说,爱情小说,惊险小说,科幻小说等等,从这些归类上就可以知道小说的内容。但是,恐怖小说就不容易区分了,因为许多其他类别的小说用恐怖的情节来烘托气氛。
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