英美文学作业题之英国文学作业题

《英美文学》作业题之〈英国文学〉作业题

第一章: 古代与中世纪英国文学

I.Choose one that best complete each of the statement.

1.The most prevailing of literature in the feudal English is________

a. Romance

b. Romanticism

c. Realism

d. Modernism

2._________ is considered the earliest national epic of the English people.

a. Beowulf

b. Piers the plowman

c. Hamlet

d. Canterbury Tale

II.Briefly introduce the significance of Canterbury Tale.

第二章: 文艺复兴时期

I. Choose one that best complete each of the statement.

1. ________is not Shakespeare’s work.

a. Hamlet

b. King Lear

c. Othello

d. The Faerie

2. The Four Greatest Tragedies of Shakespeare’s do not include_______.

a. Romeo and Juliet

b. Hamlet

c. Macbeth

d. Othello

3..“shall I comparee thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of Shakespeare’s _________.

a. Songs

b. tragedies

c. sonnets

d. comedies

4.________ is regarded as ________.

a. “Father of English Essays”

b. “Father of Essays”

c. “Father of English Literature”

d. “Father of English Novels”

5.The English Renaissance began in the _________.

a. 15th century

b. 16th century

c. 14th century

d. 17th century

6._______is the essence of Renaissance.

a. Realism

b. Romanticism

c. Romance

d. Humanism

III.Define the literature terms

1.Renaissance

2.Humanism

https://www.360docs.net/doc/992584487.html, the author of each of the following literature works

1.Hamlet

2.Essay

IV.For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literature work which it is taken and then brief

interpret it.

1. “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, //So long lives this, and this

gives life to thee14.”

2.“Reading maketh a full man29; conference30 a ready man31; and writing32

an exact man33”.

3. “For thy sweet love rememb’red such wealth brings,// That then I scorn

to change my state10 with kings.”

4. “Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring2; for ornament,

is in discourse3; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition of

business4.”

IV.Briefly analyze Hamlet in Shakespeare’s Hamlet

第三章: 十七世纪英国文学

I. Choose one that best complete each of the statement.

1. _______ is not written by John Milton.

a. Paradise lost

b. Paradise Regained

c. Samson Agonistes

d.. Beowulf

II.For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literature work which it is taken and then brief interpret it.

1.All is not lost(not all is lost): the unconquerable will,

And the study of revenge, immortal hate( undying hatred),

And courage never to submit or yield,

And what is else not to be overcome?

III.Briefly introduce the main idea of Samson Agonistes by Milton

IV.Briefly analyse the Significance and the theme of Paradise Lost .

1.Paraphrase the excerpt of Paradise Lost

2.第四章: 启蒙运动时期

I. Choose one that best complete each of the statement.

1.The Enlightenment Movement did not adocate______.

a.rationality, reason, order and rules

b.return to the ancient classical works

c.inner feelings of individuals

d.universal education

2._______ is written by Alexander Pope.

a.Essay on Criticism

b.The Essays

c.Of Study

d.Paradise Regained

3.In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the ______

a.aristocratic class

b.enterprising landlord

c.rising bourgeoisie

d.hard-working people

https://www.360docs.net/doc/992584487.html, the author of each of the following literature works.

1.Robinson Crusoe

2.Essay on Criticism

III.For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literature work which it is taken and then brief interpret it.

A little learning is a dang’ rous thing;

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring1

There shallow draughts intoxicate(widely excited) the brain,

And drinking largely sobers(make calm) us again2

IV.Give the definition of Sentimentalism

V.Briefly analyze the character: Robinson.

VI.Give the theme of “Essay on Criticism”.

第五章: 浪漫主义时期

I.Choose one that best complete each of the statement.

1.The Romanticism Period is first of all an age of ______.

a. novels

b. poetry

c. drama d .prose

2.Romanticism doesn’t emphasize ______.

a.the special qualities of each individual’s mind

b.the inner world of the human spirit

c.individuality

d.the features that men have in common

3._______ is not a Romantic poet.

a.Robert Burns

b.Sir Scott

c.P.B.Shelley

d.Lord Byron

3._______ Publish Lyrical Ballads in 1789 with Coleridge.

a. Byron

b. Wordsworth

c.Shelly

d. Keats

4.Don Juan is the masterpiece of _________.

a.Lord Byron’s

b.P.B.Shelley’s

c.John Keats’s

d.Samuel Coleridge’s

5.________ is rewarded “Poet Laureate of England”

a.Lord Byron

b.P.B.Shelley

c.John Keats

d.William Wordsworth

II.For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literature work which it is taken and then brief interpret it.

1. Be through my lips to unwakened earth

The trumpet of a prophecy61! Oh, Wind,

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

2. For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood10,

They flash upon that inward eye1

Which is the bliss of solitude12

And then my heart with pleasure fills13,

And dances with the daffodils.

III.Give the General features of Romanticism.

IV.Analyze the characteristic of Robert Burns’ poems.

V.Analyze t he characteristic of Wordsworth’s poems.

第六章: 维多利亚时期和第七章: 现代时期I．Choose one that best complete each of the statement.

1._______ is not a Victorian novelist.

a.Charles Dickens

b.Geoge Eliot

c.William Makepeace Thackeray

d. https://www.360docs.net/doc/992584487.html,wrence

2.________ is not a work by Charles Dickens

a.Oliver Twist

b.David Copperfield

c.Middlemarch

d. A Tale of Two Cities

3.Wuthering Heights is a masterpiece written by _____.

a.Charlotte Bronte

b.Emily Bronte

c.Ann Bronte

d.Branwell Bronte

4._______ is not Thomas Hardy’s work.

a.The Mill on the Floss

b.Tess of the D’Urbervilles

c.Jude the Obscure

d.The Mayor of Casterbreidge

4._______ is not https://www.360docs.net/doc/992584487.html,wrance’s work.

a.Finnegans Wake

b.Sons and Lovers

https://www.360docs.net/doc/992584487.html,dy Chatterley’s Lover

d.The Rain Bow

II.Define the literature terms

1.modernism

2.stream-of-consciousness

III.Analyze the characteristics of Victorian Period.

IV.Analyze the character of Eyre in Jane Eyre

V.Analyze the theme of https://www.360docs.net/doc/992584487.html,wrance’s novels

综合练习(英国部分)

I.选择题参见前面的各章习题中的选择题

https://www.360docs.net/doc/992584487.html,plete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the text book.(20%)

1. Hamlet’s weakness which leads to his final tragic fall is __________.

2. “Read nor to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for

granted” is one of the epigrams found in Bacon’s

“__________________”.

3.Robert Burns collected, imitated Scottish songs: “My heart’s in the highlands”, “_________________________”.

4.Charles Dickens is one of the greatest _____________ writers of the Victorian Age.

5.Jane Eyre represents those _____________-class working women who are struggling for recognition of their basic rights and equality as a human being.

6.“ O, wind, / If Winter comes, can Spring be far behing?” is a famous line in Shelley’s ___________________.

7.William _______________ is known as “Lake poet”, because he lived in the English Lake District.

8.“ He has a servant called Friday.” “He” in the quoted sentence is a Character in Defoe’s ____________________.

9.“ And where are they? And where are thou, / My country? On thy voiceless shore / They heroic lay is tuneless now---/ The heroic bosom beats no more!” (Byron, Don Juan), her “art thou” means _______________.

10.I wandered lonely as a cloud//That floats on high2o’er vales and hills,// When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of3golden daffodils,” is quoted from William Wordsworth’s _________________________________.

III. Paraphrase the following sentences.(16%)

1.When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes,

I all alone beweep my outcast state,

And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,

And look upon myself and curse my fate…..

2.Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

IV. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then interpret it.(24%)

1.Crafty men contemn them; simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

2.Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall death drag thou wander’st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st.

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

3. I fall upon the thorn of life! I bleed!

A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed

One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.

V. Topic Discussion(18%)

1.What are the main themes in Shakespeare, and analysis the character- Hamlet.

2.Analysis the character- Robinson Crusoe.

3.Give a brief comment on John Milton’s Paradise Lost

《英美文学》作业题之《美国文学》作业题

第一章浪漫主义时期

I.Choose one that best complete each of the statement.

1._________was the most leading spirit of the Transcendentalism.

a.Hawthorne

b.Whiteman

c.Emerson

d.Thoreau

2. In his last years and for a generation after his death, __________ was more often referred to as “the father of his country” than was George Washington himself

a.Benjamin Franklin

b.Washington Irving

c.Palph Waldo Emerson

d.Nathaniel Hawthorne

3.______is the first American to achieve an international. literary reputation.

a.Benjamin Franklin

b.Washington Irving

c.Palph Waldo Emerson

d.Nathaniel Hawthorne

4._______has been always regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic

style that American Literature ever produced”.

a.Benjamin Franklin

b.Washington Irving

c.Palph Waldo Emerson

d.Nathaniel Hawthorne

5.______ is outstanding as a tradesman, citizen, scientist, statesman and political revolutionary.He aided Jefferson in the writing of the Declaration of the Independence.

a.Benjamin Franklin

b.Washington Irving

c.Palph Waldo Emerson

d.Nathaniel Hawthorne

6.The unafficial manifesto for the Transcendentalism was_________.

a.Walden

b.The author’s account of himself

c.The American Scholar

d.Nature

7.In Hawthorne’s The scatlet Letter , “A” may stands for ___.

a.Adultery

b.Angel

c.Able

d.All the above

8.Which work is not written by Emerson?

. a. Of Studies

b. Self-Reliance

c. The American Scholar

d. Nature

9.Choose the character which does not appear in the novel The scarlet letter.

a. Hester Prynne

b. Arthur Rochester

c. Roger Chillingworth

d. Pearl

10.Which is not Hawthorne’s long novel?

a. The scarlet letter

b. The Marble Faunt

c. The House of Seven Gables

d. Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment

I.For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the

author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and

then interpret it.

1.Even when a mere child I began my travels, and made many tours of

discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city , to the

frequent alarm of my parents, and the emolument of the town-crier.

2.I visited the neighbouring villages, and added greatly to my stock of knowledge,

by noting their habits and customs, and conversing with their sages and great men.

I even journeyed one long summer’s day to the summit of the most dist ant hill,

from whence I stretched my eye over many a mile of terra incognita, and was

astonished to find how vast a globe I inhabited.

3.This rambling propensity strengthened with my years. Books of voyages

and travels became my passion, and in devouring their contents, I

neglected the regular exercises of the school.

4. How wistfully would I wander about the pier(码头) heads in fine weather, and watch

the parting ships, bound to distant climes——with what longing eyes would I gaze after their lessening sails, and waft myself in imagination to the ends of the earth.

5.But Europe held forth all the charms of storied and poetical association. There

were to be seen the masterpieces of art, the refinements of highly cultivated

society, the quaint peculiarities of ancient and local custom. My native country

was full of youthful promise; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age.

6. I have mingled among them in my time, and been almost withered by the shade

into which they cast me; for there is nothing so baleful to small man as the shad of a great one, particularly the great man of a city.

7.It has been either my good or evil lot to have my roving passion gratified. I

have wandered through different countries, and witnessed many of the shifting

scenes of life. I cannot say that I have studied them with the eye of a philosopher,

but rather with the sauntering gaze with which humble lovers of the picturesque

stroll from the window of one print shop to another; caught sometimes by the

delineations of beauty, sometimes by the distortions of caricature, and

sometimes by the loveliness of landscape.

8. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.

9. If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe

and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God

which had been shown!

10.Hester Prynne’s term of confinement was nnnnow at an end. Her prison-dooe

was thrown open, and she came forth into the sunshine, which, fallong on all alike, seemed, to her sick and morbid heart, as if for no purpose than to reveal the scarlet

letter on her breast.

II.Topic Discussion

1.Introduce Transcendentalism.

2.Analyse Franklin’s significance and the theme of his works.

3.What is the characteristics of Hawthorne’s novels, and analyse the

symbolism in The Scarlet Letter.

第一章．现实主义时期

I.Choose one that best complete each of the statement.

1.The Age of Realism in the literature history of the United States refers to

the period from_________ to ________.

a.1861 (1914)

b.1862 (1918)

c.1865 (1914)

d.1865 (1918)

2._______ is not the representative writer ot the Age of Realism.

a.Emily Dickinson

b.Mark Twain

c.Theodore Dreiser

d.Nathaniel Hawthorne

3.The impact of ______ on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century french literaure on the American men of letters gave rise to Ameriacn naruralism.

a.Darwin’s evolutionary theory

b.Marxist theory

c.Trnscendentalism

d.Puritanism

4.________ is not the mork of Nark Twain.

a.Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

b.Adventures of Tom Sawyer

c.Life on the Mississippi

d.The Mill on the Floss

5.American Literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was ____________.

a.Jane Austen

b.Wett Whiteman

c.Emily Dickinson

d.Erza Pound

6.Dickinson’s poems include poems of ______.

a.nature

b.love

c.death

d.all the above

7.Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of _________writing.

a.naturalistic

b.romantic

c.classic

d.neo-classic

8.“The universe is composed of Nature and the soul…Spirit is present

everywhere”. This is the voice of the book Nature written by Emerson,

which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New

England_____.

a. Romanticism

b. Transcendentalism

c.Naturalism

d.Symbolism

9. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England

Transcendentalism?

a. Nature

b. Walden

c. On beauty

d. Self-reliance

10.Choose the work which is not written by Mark Twain.

a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

b. The scarlet Letter

c. Life on the Mississippi

d. J umping Frog

II.For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then interpret it.

1.The Eyes around — had wrung them dry —

And Breaths were gathering firm

For that last Onset —when the King

Be witnessed— in the Room —

2. We passed the School where Children strove

At Recess— in the Ring —

We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain —

We passed the Setting Sun Carriage —

3. Or rather — He passed Us —

The Dews drew quivering and chill —

For only Gossamer, my Gown —

My Tippet— only Tulle

III.Topic discussion

1.Analyze the characteristics of The Age of Realism.

2.Analyze The heroine – Carrie in Sister Carrier.

3.Give a brief analysis of Mark Twain’s works.

第二章．现实主义时期

I．Choose one that best complete each of the statement.

1.________ does not belong to the “Lost Generation”.

a.Ernest Hemingway

b.F.Scott Fitzgerald

c.Eugene O’Neill

d.Ezra Pound

2.In the Modern Period, many theories had great impact upon literature. They mainly include the theories of ________.

a.Darwin’s

b.Mark’s

c.Freud’s

d.All the above

3.________ is the spokesman of the Jazz Age.

a.F. Scott Fitzgerald

b.William Faulkner

c.Theodore Dreier

d.Robert Frost

4.William Faulkner’s works mainly concern the American ______.

a.New England

b.Mid-West

c.West

d.South

5.________ is Hemingway’s first true novel in which he depicts a vivd portait of “the Lost Generation”.

a.For Whom the Bell Tolls

b.In Our Time

c.The old man and the Sea

d.A Farewell to Arms

6. Choose the novel which is not writen written by Fitzgerald.

a. The Great Gatsby

b. Tender Is the Night

c. A Farewell to Arms

d. The Beautiful and the Damned

7.Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he

fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of

his novel ____.

a. The Old Man and the Sea

b. For Whom the Bell Tolls

c. The Sun Also Rises

d. A Farewell to Arms

III.Fill in the Blank

1. As a descentent of the southern aristocracy, Emily is typical of those in Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha stories who are the _______ of the Old South and also the _____ of the past.

2.“The River-Merchant’s Wife : A Letter1” by _______ is a ______ from the

Chinese poem of Li Po.

3.Ezra Pound’s earli er poetry is full of ______ characteristics. Later he is

more concerned about the problems of _______. Moreover, a large of his work consists of _______ in modern English of poems of earlier literatures, chiefly Greek, Latin, Italian and Chinese.

4.Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an______ and an _____of the _________with a double vision.

5.Fitzgerald has an intimate touch in his fiction to deal with the

bankcruptcy of the ______.

6.The title “A Farewell to Arm” is significant. Arm is a pun, on

one hand, it means _______ which is the representative of war; on

the other hand, it refers to _________.

7. Henery in“A Farewell to Arms” represents the experience of a

whole nation, who is wounded in _____ and _______ with the

insanity and futility of the universe.

8.Most of Faulkner’s works are set in the American South,

with his emphasis on the Southern subjects and ________.

III.Topic discussion

1.Analyse the characterstics of Modern Period.

2.What are the artistic characterstics of Hemingway,s novels?

3..What kind of people is Gatsby in Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby.

4.Chapter III of Fitzgerrald’s The Great Gatsby is a vivd description of one

of Gatsby’s fabulous parties, which are characteristic of the roaring twenties in the United States. Discuss the spirit of the Jazz Age with the example from the chapter.

5.Discuss the characterstics of Faulkner’s writing: the setting, the time, the

theme,the hero. Then anakyse the character of Emily in “A Rose for Emily”