英国文学试题及答案2 (1)(1)(1)
I、Multiple Choice. (40%)
There are 15 questions in this part. Choose A,B,C, or D on your answer sheet.
A 1. Beowulf is a ___ poem, describing an all-round picture of the tribal society.
A. pagan
B. Christain
C. romantic
D. lyric
B 2.The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a
comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely___.
A. William Langland’s Piers the Plowman
B. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
C. John Gower’s Confessio Amantis
D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C 3. In “ Sonnet 18 ” ，Shakespeare has a profound meditation on the
destructive power of __C___ and the eternal __________ brought forth by poetry to the one he loves .
A. death/ life
B. time / beauty
C. death/ love
D. hate / love
C. 4. Which of the following poetic forms is the principle form of Shakespeare’s
drama?
A. lyric
B. sonnet
C. blank verse
D. quatrain
C 5. Which of the following statements best illustrate the theme of Shakespeare’s
Sonnet 18?
A. The speaker eulogizes the power of nature.
B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.
C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.
D. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation.
A 6. Which of the following place does Gulliver visit first in Gulliver’s Travels?
A. Lilliput
B. Brobdingnag
C. Laputa
D. Houyhnhnms
B 7. Which of the following is NOT true about Robinson Crusoe?
A.It is written in the autobiographical form.
B.It is a record of Defoe’s own experiences.
C.Robinson spends 28 years of isolated life on the island.
D.It is set in the middle of the 17th century.
B.8.Many of Burn s’ songs deal with friendship.____ has long become a universal
parting-song of all the English speaking countries.
A. A Red, Red Rose
B. Auld Lang Syne
C. My Heart’s in the Highlands
D. John Anderson, My Jo
A 9.The Tiger was written by___.
A. William Blake
B. John Keats
C. William Wordsworth
D. Percy Shelley
B 10.“One short sleep past, we wake eternally” is taken from___
A. The Solitary Reaper
B. Death be not proud
C. To Autumn
D. Song to the Man of England
A 11. _____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.
A. Thomas North
B. Thomas Wyatt
C. George Chapman
D. John Florio
C 12. _____is considered to be the summit of Shakespeare’s art.
A.Romeo and Juliet
B. The Comedy of Errors
C. Hamlet
D. The Tempest
C 13. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses.
A.John Milton
B. John Bunyan
C. John Donne
D. John Dryden
D 14. The main literary stream of the 18th century was ____ .
What the writers described in their works were mainly social realities.
A. romanticism
B. classicism
C. realism
D. Sentimentalism
D 15. Which of the following works are not written by Oliver Goldsmith? ____.
A. The Traveller
B. The Deserted Village
C. The Vicar of Wakefield
D. The School for Scandal
A 16.In the 18th century English literature ，the representative writer of neo-classicism is _A___ .
A. Pope
B. Swift
C. Defoe
D. Milton
B 17.The __B_ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century .
A. Renaissance
B. Enlightenment
C. Religious Reformation
D. Chartist Movement
B18. Blake ，Wordsworth ，__B__ ，Byron ，Shelley and _________ are the major Romantic poets .
A. Coleridage / Southey
B. Coleridge / Keats
C. Keats / Scott
D. Scott / Coleridge
B 19. The Canterbury Tales was written in_____
A. Old English
B. Middle English
C. Modern English
D. Current Modern English
A 20. “The father of English poetry” is _____.
A. Geoffrey Chaocer
B. Edmund Spenser
C. Francis Bacon D Henry Fielding
II. Fill in the Blanks in the following summary statement according
to what you have learnt of British history and literature. (20%)
1. Chaucer employed the_ Heroic _couplet in writing his greatest work The Canterbury tales.
2.Shakespeare’s plays have been traditionally divided into four categories
according to dramatic type: histories, _ comedies _, tragedies and romances.
3. A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three quatrains and a concluding_
couplet .
4.John Donne is the founder of the school of_ metaphysical poetry _. His works are
characterized by mysticism in content and fantasticality in form.
5. John Milton’s Paradise Lost opens with the description of a meeting among the
fallen angels, and ends with the departure of Adam and _ Eve _from the Garden of Eden.
6.Othello,__Hamlet _, Kinglear, and Macbeth are the four greatest tragedies of
William Shakespeare.
7.Literature can be divided into poetry, fiction/novel and_ Drama ______.
8. Joseph Addison and Richard Steele jointly created _ The Spectator __.
9. _ Odes __are generally regarded as Keats ’ most important and mature works.
10. The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is written by
A narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be
sung.
2．Tragedy : A literary work in which the protagonist meets an unhappy or disastrous end.
3．
Sonnet: A 14-line verse form usually written in iambic pentameter.
4．Sentimentalism: A sentimental expression or idea.
四. Short Answers Read the materials first ， and then answer the questions according
to the requirements .Remember you should write your answers correctly ，completely and briefly (20%)
“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep, moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”
Questions:
1） What kind of rhetorical devices does the sentence used?
Analogy (类比)
2） Please translate this sentence.
读史使人明智，读诗使人灵秀，数学使人周密，科学使人深刻，伦理学使人庄重，逻辑修辞使人善变。
3） From which essay does the above sentence come, what is the essay mainly about?
The sentences are from “Of Studies” (Francis Bacon). It is the most popular of bacon’s essays. It analyzes what studies chiefly serve for, the different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies, and how studies exert influence over human character
4） Through reading the sentences, can you infer the writing style of the author,
and what it is?
Bacon ’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and powerfulness. Yet there is an obvious stylistic change in the essay. The sentences in the first edition are charged and crowed with symmetries. They are composed in a rather affected way. However, the final edition, not only enlarge the theme , but also brings forth the looser and more persuasive style. The essays are well-arranged and enriched by biblical allusions, metaphors and cadence.
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(完整word版)吴伟仁--英国文学史及选读--名词解释
①Beowulf: The national heroic epic of the English people. It has over 3,000 lines. It describes the battles between the two monsters and Beowulf, who won the battle finally and dead for the fatal wound. The poem ends with the funeral of the hero. The most striking feature in its poetical form is the use if alliteration. Other features of it are the use of metaphors(暗喻) and of understatements(含蓄). ②Alliteration: In alliterative verse, certain accented(重音) words in a line begin with the same consonant sound(辅音). There are generally 4accents in a line, 3 of which show alliteration, as can be seen from the above quotation. ③Romance: The most prevailing(流行的) kind of literature in feudal England was the Romance. It was a long composition, sometimes in verse(诗篇), sometimes in prose(散文), describing the life and adventures of a noble hero, usually a knight, as riding forth to seek adventures, taking part in tournament(竞赛), or fighting for his lord in battle and the swearing of oaths. ④Epic: An epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significantly to a culture or nation. The first epics are known as primacy, or original epics. ⑤Ballad: The most important department of English folk literature is the ballad which is a story told in song, usually in 4-line stanzas(诗节), with the second and fourth lines rhymed. The subjects of ballads are various in kind, as the struggle of young lovers against their feudal-minded families, the conflict between love and wealth, the cruelty of jealousy, the criticism of the civil war, and the matters and class struggle. The paramount(卓越的) important ballad is Robin Hood(《绿林好汉》). ⑥Geoffrey Chaucer杰弗里.乔叟: He was an English author, poet, philosopher and diplomat. He is the founder of English poetry. He obtained a good knowledge of Latin, French and Italian. His best remembered narrative is the Canterbury Tales(《坎特伯雷故事集》), which the Prologue(序言) supplies a miniature(缩影) of the English society of Chaucer’s time. That is why Chaucer has been called “the founder of English realism”. Chaucer affirms men and women’s right to pursue their happiness on earth and opposes(反对) the dogma of asceticism(禁欲主义) preached(鼓吹) by the church. As a forerunner of humanism, he praises man’s energy, intellect, quick wit and love of life. Chaucer’s contribution to English poetry lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic(抑扬格) meter(the “heroic couplet”) to English poetry, instead of the old Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. ⑦【William Langland威廉.朗兰: Piers the Plowman《农夫皮尔斯》】
英国文学史
英国文学史: ?Old and Medieval English Liteature(449-1485) : 1.William Langland威廉·兰格伦 : Piers the Plowman耕者皮尔斯 2.Geoffrey Chaucer杰佛利?乔叟 The Canterbury Tales: 《坎特伯雷故事集》----英国文学史上现实主义第一部杰作 ?The Renaissance Period (1485-1660) : Literary Genres : ?Prose :Thomas More (Utopia), Francis Bacon ?Poetry : Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser (The Faerie Queene) ?Drama : William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, ?The 17th Century (1660-1700) : John Milton约翰?弥尔顿: Paradise Lost失乐园; Paradise Regained 复乐园; Samson Agonistes 力士参孙 John Bunyan班扬: The Pilgrim’s Progress天路历程 John Donne : The founder of the Metaphysical school of poetry John Dryden: All for Love ?The 18th Century (1700-1798) : Joseph Addison艾迪生Cato 加图 Daniel Defoe丹尼尔?笛福 Henry Fielding亨利?菲尔丁 Jonathan Swift斯威夫特 Alexander Pope蒲柏-poet ?Pre-Romantic Period: William Blake布莱克: Songs of Innocence天真之歌; Songs of Experience经验之歌Robert Burns彭斯: A Red,Red Rose一朵红红的玫瑰; Auld Lang Syne 友谊地久天长 ?The Romantic Movement (1798-1832) : William Wordsworth—poet George Gordon, Lord Byron—poet Percy Bysshe Shelly—poet John Keats—poet Walter Scott—novelist Jane Austen—novelist William Wordsworth威廉?华兹华斯: Lyrical Ballads抒情歌谣集 Lucy Poems露西组诗 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud The Solitary Reaper孤寂的刈麦人 George Gordon Byron乔治?拜伦:
英国文学练习题及答案
1.The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is ____. A Robin Hood B Sir Gawain and the Green Knight C The Canterbury Tales D Beowulf 2. ____was the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written in alliterative verse. A The Canterbury Tales B Piers the Plowman C Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D Beowulf 3. ____was famous for The Canterbury Tales. A Geoffrey Chaucer B John Milton C William Shakespeare D Francis Bacon 4. Most of the ballads of the 15th century focused on the legend about ____ as a heroic figure. A Green Nights B Gawain C Robin Hood D Hamlet 5.In the 16th century, Thomas More’s work ____became immediately popular after its publication. A Paradise Lost B A Pleasant Satire of the Three Estates C Of Studies D Utopia 6. ____was Edmund Spencer’s masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the grea t poems in the English language. A Amoretti B The Shepherd’s Calendar C The Faerie Queene D Four Hymns 7. ____ is from Shakespeare’s sonnet No.18. A “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” B “To be or not to be: that is the question” C “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” D “No longer mourn for me when I am dead” 8. _____, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London about 1340. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden 9.The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and ___ _. A. Antony and Cleopatra B. Julius Caesar C Twelfth Night D King Lear 10. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare’s romantic love comedies? A Twelfth Night B The Tempest C As You Like It D The Merchant of Venice D C A C D C C A D B 1. All of the following are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England except______.
英国文学史-名词解释
名词解释 1．Romance: a long composition, in verse or in prose, describing the life and adventures of a noble hero, especially for the knight. The most popular theme employed was the legend of King Arthur and the round table knight. 2．Ballad: a story told in song, usually in four-line stanzas, with the second and fourth lines rhymed. 3．Heroic Couplet: a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter, and written in an elevated style. 4．Renaissance: a revival or rebirth of the artistic and scientific revival which originated in Italy in the 14th century and gradually spread all over Europe. It has two features: a thirsting curiosity for the classical literature and keen interest in activities of humanity. 5．Sonnet: 14-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. 6．Blank verse: poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. 7．Enlightenment: a revival of interest in the old classical works, logic, order, restrained emotion and accuracy. 8．Neoclassicism: the Enlightenment brought about a revival of interest in Greek and Roman works. This tendency is known as Neoclassicism. 9．Sentimentalism:it was one of the important trends in English literature of the later decades of the 18th century. It concentrated on the free expression of thoughts and emotions, and presented a new view of human nature which prized feeling over thinking, passion over reason. 10．Romanticism: imagination, emotion and freedom are certainly the focal points of romanticism. The particular characteristics of the literature of romanticism include: subjectivity and an emphasis on individualism; freedom from rules; solitary life rather then life in society; the beliefs that imagination is superior to reason; and love of and worship of nature. 11．Lake Poets: the English poets who lived in and drew inspiration from the Lake District at the beginning of the 19th century. 12．Byronic Heroes: a variant of the Romantic heroes as a type of character( enthusiasm, persistence, pursuing freedom), named after the English Romantic Poet Gordon Byron. 13．Realism: seeks to portray familiar characters, situations, and settings in a realistic manner. This is done primarily by using an objective narrative point of view and through the buildup of accurate detail. 14．Aestheticism: an art movement supporting the emphasis of aesthetic values more than socio-political themes for literature, fine art, music and other arts. 15．Stream-of-Consciousness: it is a literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur without any clarification by the author. It is a narrative mode. 16．Dramatic Monologue: a kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to one or more listeners whose replies are not given in the poem. 17．Iambic Pentameter: a poetic line consisting of five verse feet, with each foot an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, that is, with each foot an iamb. 18．Epic: a long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflecting the values of the society from which it originated. 19．Elegy: a poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual; may also be a lament over the passing of life and beauty or a meditation of the nature of death; a type of lyric poem. 20．Canto: a section of a long poem. The cantos can be a great poem