专八人文常识辅导材料(英国文学)

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British Literature: A Concise History

I. Review (P.162) 补充09

1. Ode to the West Wind was written by _____. (2009)

A. William Blake.

B. William Wordsworth.

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

D. Percy B. Shelley.

2. The novel Sons and Lovers was written by __. (2009)

A. Thomas Hardy.

B. John Galsworthy.

C. D.H. Lawrence.

D. James Joyce.

3. The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by ______. (2008)

A. William Langland

B. Geoffrey Chaucer

C. William Shakespeare

D. Alfred Tennyson

4. All of the following are well-known female writers in 20th-century Britain EXCEPT ______. (2008)

A. George Eliot

B. Iris Jean Murdoch

C. Dons Lessing

D. Muriel Spark

5. Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bronte? (2007)

A. Oliver Twist

B. Middlemarch

C. Jane Eyre

D. Wuthering Heights

6. William Butler Yeats was a(n) ____ poet and

playwright. (2007)

A. American

B. Canadian

C. Irish

D. Australian

7. Which of the following writers is a poet of the 20th century? (2006)

A. T.S. Eliot

B. D. H. Lawrence

C. Theodore Dreiser

D. James Joyce

8. _____is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into 14 lines. (2006)

A. Free verse

B. Sonnet

C. Ode

D. Epigram

9. The novel Emma is written by____. (2005)

A. Mary Shelly

B. Charlotte Bronte

C. Elizabeth Gaskell

D. Jane Austen

10. Which of the following is NOT a romantic poet? (2005)

A. William Wordsworth

B. George Eliot

C. George Byron

D. Percy Shelly

II. Historical Periods (P. 10)

1. Old and Medieval Times: 5th-15th

2. The Period of Renaissance: late 15th-early 17th

3. The Period of Revolution and Restoration: 17th

4. The Neo-classical Period: 18th (Enlightenment)

5. The Romantic Period: at the turn of the 18th and 19th

6. The Victorian Period: 19th

7. The Modern Period: 20th

III. Key Figures

1. Geoffrey Chaucer

2. William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe

3. John Milton, John Dryden

4. Richard Sheridan, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe

5. William Wordsworth, George Byron, P.B Shelly, John Keats, Jane Austen

6. Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, the Bronte sisters, George Eliot, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde

7. G.B. Shaw, Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, William Yeats, T.S. Eliot

IV. Sample

1. It is________alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.

A. William Langland

B. Geoffrey Chaucer

C. William Shakespeare

D. Charles Dickens

2. _______ is called “the poets’ poet” whose masterpiece is _________.

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