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1. ____________________________________ The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is .A Robin HoodB Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC The Canterbury TalesD Beowulf2. __ w as the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written inalliterative verse.A The Canterbury TalesB Piers the PlowmanC Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD Beowulf3. __ w as famous for The Canterbury Tales.A Geoffrey ChaucerB John MiltonC William ShakespeareD Francis Bacon4. Most of the ballads of the 15th century focused on the legend about __ as a heroicfigure.A Green NightsB GawainC Robin HoodD Hamlet5.In the 16th century, Thomas More's work ______ became immediately popular after its publication.A Paradise LostB A Pleasant Satire of the Three EstatesC Of StudiesD Utopia6. __ was Edmund Spencer 's masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the great poems in the English language.A AmorettiB The Shepherd 's CalendarC The Faerie QueeneD Four Hymns7. __ is from Shakespeare 's sonnet No.18.A “Lemt e not to the marriage of true minds ”B “Tobe or not to be: that is the question ”C “ ShallI compare thee to a summer's day” D“ Nolonger 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 ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John Dryden9. The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and ___A. Antony and CleopatraB. Julius CaesarC Twelfth NightD King Lear10. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare 's romantic love comedies?A Twelfth NightB The TempestC As You Like ItD The Merchant of VeniceD C A C D C C A D B1. All of the following are the most eminent dramatists in theRenaissance England except __________ .a. William Shakespeareb. Ben Jonsonc. Christopher Marlowed. Francis Bacon2. The English Renaissance period was an age ofa. poetry and dramab. drama and novelc. novel and poetryd. romance and poetry3. Paradise Lost is the masterpiece of ______a. William Shakespeareb. Robert Burnsc. John Miltond. William Blake4. Which of the following plays written by Shakespeare is history play ?a. A Midsummer Night ' s Dreamb. The Merry Wives of Windsorc. H enry IVd. King Lear5. The first official version of Bible known asthe Great Bible , was revised in ______a. 16th centuryb. 17th centuryc. 18th centuryd. 19th century6. Francis Bacon ' s Essays first published in 1597 has beenconsidered as an important landmark in the development of English , and as the firstcollection of essays in the English language.a. poetryb. epicsc. fictiond. prose7. Daniel Defoe was famous for his novel ___ whichfirst established his reputation.a. Gulliver ' s Travelsb. The Adventure of Robinson Crusoec. The Pilgrim ' s Progressd. Oliver Twist8. The famous poem “ A Red Red Rose ” was written bya. William Wordsworthb. George Byronc. Robert Burnsd. William Blake9. Mary Shelley ' s nvoel Frankenstein belongs to thetype of ____ which is often set in gloomy castles wherehorrifying, supernatural events take place.a. Gothicb. Realismc. Romanticismd. Classicism10. The first complete English Bible was translated by , “the morning star of the Reformationand his followers.A. William LanglandB. James IC. John WycliffeD. Bishop Lancelot AndrewsD A C C B D B C A C1. The literature of the Anglo-Saxon period falls naturally into two divisions, ___________ and Christian.a. Paganb. Romanc. Frenchd. Danish2. “ Poetry is Spontaneous ” was put forward by _______________a. Robert Burnsb. William Blakec. William Wordsworthd. Charles Lamb3. Which of the following writings can be regarded as typical belonging to the school of Romantic literature?c. Jane Eyrea. Don Juanb. Ulyssesd. Sons and Lovers4. ____ is the first important English essayist and thefounder of modern science in England.a. Francis Baconb. Edmund Spenserc. Thomas Mored. Sidney5. What is flourished in Elizabethan age more than any other form of literature?a. novelb.dramac. essayd. poetry6. The publication of _____ marked the beginning of theRomantic Age.a. Don Juanb. The Rime of the Ancient Marinerc. The Lyrical Balladsd. Ode to the West Wind7. Which of the following did not belong to Romanticism?a. John Keatsb. Percy Shelleyc. William Wordsworthd. Alfred Tennyson8. Frankenstein was filmed many times. Who wrote the book?a. Edgar Allan Poeb. James Joycec. Mary Shelleyd. Walter Scott9. In the mid-18th century, a new literary movement called came to Europe and then to England.a. Romanticismb. Classicismc. Realismd. Restoration10. Which of the following poem was not written by John Keats?a. Ode to the West Windb. Ode to Autumnc. Ode on a Grecian Urnd. Ode to a NightingaleA C A ABCD C A A1. William Shakespeare is one of the giants of ______a. Romanticismb. Critical Realismc. Aestheticismd. the Renaissance2. ______ is the first important religious poet in Englishliterature.a. John Donneb. George Herbertc. Caedmond. Milton3. _______ was the first to introduce thesonnet into English literature.a. Thomas Wyattb. William Shakespearec. Philip Sidneyd. Thomas Gray4. The English poets _______ , WilliamWordsworth, and Robert Southey, were known as “ Lake Poets ”because they lived in the LakeDistrict Northwestern England at the beginning ofthe 19th century.a. George Byronb. John Keatsc. Percy Shelleyd. Samuel Coleridge5. The most gifted of the “University Wits ”was ___ .A. John LilyB. Thomas KydC. Thomas GreeneD. Christopher Marlowe6. __ is one of the forerunners of modern socialistthought.A. Phillip SidneyB. Edmund SpenserC. Thomas MoreD. Christopher Marlowe7. Morality plays appeared after ____ .A. miracle playsB. mystery playsC. interludeD. Classical plays8. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of characteristics of Renaissance?a. Exaltation of man 's pursuit of happiness in thislife.b. Cultivation of the genuine flavor of ancient culture.c. Tolerance of human weaknesses.d. Praise of man 's efforts in having his soul delivered.9. The most intellectual movement of the Renaissance was .A. the ReformationB. HumanismC. the Italian revivalD. Geographical exploration10. What is the relationship between Claudius and Hamlet?A. CousinsB. Uncle and nephewC. Father-in-lawD. Father and sonD C A D D C A D B B1. Which of the following is a typical feature of Swift's writings?A. Great wit.B. Bitter satire.C. Rich mythic allusions.D. Complicated sentence structures.2. __ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.A. John DonneB. George HerbertC. Andre MarvellD. Henry Vaughan3. The _______ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.A. RomanticismB. HumanismC. EnlightenmentD. Sentimentalism4. Who was the greatest dramatist in the 18th century?A. Oliver GoldsmithB. Richard SheridanC. Laurence SterneD. Henry Fielding5. In which of the following works can you find the proper names“ Lilliput ” , “ Brobdingnag ” , “ Houyhnhnm” and “ Yahoo ”? A.The Pilgrim ' s ProgressB. The Faerie QueeneC. Gulliver ' s TravelsD. The School for Scandal6. _ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthfullove lyrics and the later sacred verses.A. John MiltonB. John BunyanC. John DonneD. John Dryden7. In The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan describes The Vanity Fair in atone.A. delightfulB. solemnC. sentimentalD. satirical8. Defoe 'Rsobinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprisingEnglishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the _________century.A. 17thB. 19thC. 18thD. 20th9. ___ compiled the A Dictionary of the English Languagewhich became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.A. Ben JohnsonB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. John Dryden10. __ found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Edward Young and Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself chiefly in the novels of Lawrence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith. A. Pre-romanticism B. RomanticismC. SentimentalismD. NaturalismB AC B C CD C B C。

英国文学试题及答案

英国文学试题及答案

英国文学试题及答案一、选择题(每题2分,共20分)1. 以下哪位作家被誉为“英国文学之父”?A. 乔治·奥威尔B. 威廉·莎士比亚C. 查尔斯·狄更斯D. 托马斯·哈代2. 英国浪漫主义文学运动的代表人物不包括以下哪一位?A. 威廉·华兹华斯B. 塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治C. 乔治·奥威尔D. 珀西·比希·雪莱3. 《傲慢与偏见》是哪位作家的作品?A. 简·奥斯汀B. 勃朗特三姐妹C. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫D. 乔治·艾略特4. 现代主义文学的代表作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的代表作是?A. 《到灯塔去》B. 《简·爱》C. 《呼啸山庄》D. 《雾都孤儿》5. 以下哪部作品被认为是英国现代主义文学的里程碑?A. 《乌托邦》C. 《百年孤独》D. 《追忆似水年华》二、填空题(每空2分,共20分)6. 威廉·莎士比亚的四大悲剧包括《哈姆雷特》、《奥赛罗》、《李尔王》和________。

7. 19世纪英国现实主义文学的代表作家之一是________,其代表作有《艰难时世》等。

8. 20世纪英国文学中,被称为“愤怒的青年”的作家是________,其作品反映了当时英国社会的不满和反抗。

9. 英国文学中,被称为“湖畔诗人”的是________,他们的作品强调自然美和个人情感。

10. 英国文学中的“哥特式小说”起源于18世纪末,其代表作品是________的《弗兰肯斯坦》。

三、简答题(每题15分,共30分)11. 简述威廉·莎士比亚的戏剧创作特点。

12. 描述19世纪英国现实主义文学的主要特征。

四、论述题(30分)13. 论述20世纪英国文学中的现代主义文学运动,并举例说明其对后世的影响。

英国文学试题答案一、选择题1. B. 威廉·莎士比亚2. C. 乔治·奥威尔3. A. 简·奥斯汀4. A. 《到灯塔去》二、填空题6. 《麦克白》7. 查尔斯·狄更斯8. 约翰·奥斯本9. 威廉·华兹华斯、塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治等10. 玛丽·雪莱三、简答题11. 威廉·莎士比亚的戏剧创作特点包括深刻的人性探讨、丰富的人物性格、复杂的情节构造、以及语言的韵律美和形象性。

英国文学练习题 附答案

英国文学练习题 附答案

英国文学练习题附答案1.The nal epic of the Anglo-Saxons XXX.2.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was the most XXX.3.XXX XXX.4.Most of the ballads of the 15th century focused on the legend about Robin Hood as a heroic figure.5.In the 16th century。

Thomas More's work XXX.6.XXX XXX which has been regarded as one of the great poems in the English language.7."Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is from XXX。

Revised:1.Beowulf is considered the nal epic of the Anglo-Saxons.2.The most remarkable single romance based on the Arthurian legend and XXX.3.XXX XXX。

XXX.4.During the 15th century。

most ballads focused on the XXX.5.XXX More's XXX XXX 16th century.6.Edmund XXX.7.The famous line "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is from XXX 18.1.Delete the problematic paragraph.2.XXX Chaucer。

(完整版)英国文学史习题3

(完整版)英国文学史习题3

I. Choose the best answer for each blank。

1. wrote under the influence of Scottish folk tradition and old Scottish poetry。

A。

Jonathan Swift B. Robert BurnsC. William Blake D。

Geoffrey Chaucer2。

A Red, Red Rose is a(n)______。

A. lyric B。

satirical poemC. epicD. ode3. In the 18th century English literature, the representative poet of pre—romanticism were______。

A。

Alexander Pope B. William BlakeC. Jonathan Swift D。

Daniel Defoe4. Protestants refers to all the religious sects except ________.A。

Church of England B. PuritanismC。

Calvinism D. Catholicism5。

In 1649, ______ was beheaded. English became a commonwealth.A. James IB. James IIC. Charles ID. Charles II6。

Which of the following is not correct about the Revolution of 1688?A。

the supremacy of Parliament B。

the beginning of modern EnglandC. the triumph of the principle of political liberty D。

英国文学练习题及标准答案

英国文学练习题及标准答案

英国文学练习题及标准答案1.The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is ____.A Robin HoodB Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC The Canterbury TalesD Beowulf2. ____was the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written in alliterative verse.A The Canterbury TalesB Piers the PlowmanC Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD Beowulf3. ____was famous for The Canterbury Tales.A Geoffrey ChaucerB John MiltonC William ShakespeareD Francis Bacon4. Most of the ballads of the 15th century focused on the legend about ____ as a heroic figure.A Green NightsB GawainC Robin HoodD Hamlet5.In the 16th century, Thomas More’s work ____became immediately popular after its publication.A Paradise LostB A Pleasant Satire of the Three EstatesC Of StudiesD Utopia6. ____was Edmund Spencer’s masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the grea t poems in the English language.A AmorettiB The Shepherd’s CalendarC The Faerie QueeneD Four Hymns7. ____ 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 ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John Dryden9.The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and ___ _.A. Antony and CleopatraB. Julius CaesarC Twelfth NightD King Lear10. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare’s romantic love comedies?A Twelfth NightB The TempestC As You Like ItD The Merchant of VeniceD C A C D C C A D B1. All of the following are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England except______.a. William Shakespeareb. Ben Jonsonc. Christopher Marlowed. Francis Bacon2. The English Renaissance period was an age of _________.a. poetry and dramab. drama and novelc. novel and poetryd. romance and poetry3. Paradise Lost is the masterpiece of _____a. William Shakespeareb. Robert Burnsc. John Miltond. William Blake4. Which of the following plays written by Shakespeare is history play ?a. A Midsummer Night’s Dreamb. The Merry Wives of Windsorc. H enry IVd. King Lear5. The first official version of Bible known as the Great Bible, was revised in ______a. 16th centuryb. 17th centuryc. 18th centuryd. 19th century6. Francis Bacon’s Essays first published in 1597 has been considered as an important landmark in thedevelopment of English_______, and as the firstcollection of essays in the English language.a. poetryb. epicsc. fictiond. prose ?7. Daniel Defoe was famous for his novel ____ which first established his reputation.a.Gulliver’s Travelsb. The Adventure of Robinson Crusoec.The Pilgrim’s Progressd. Oliver Twist8. The famous poem “ A Red Red Rose” was written by_________a. William Wordsworthb. George Byronc. Robert Burnsd. William Blake9. Mary Shelley’s no vel Frankenstein belongs to the type of ____ which is often set in gloomy castles where horrifying, supernatural events take place.a. Gothicb. Realismc. Romanticismd. Classicism10. The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star of the Reformation”and his followers.A. William LanglandB. James IC. John WycliffeD. Bishop Lancelot AndrewsD A C C B D B C A C1. The literature of the Anglo-Saxon period falls naturally into two divisions, ______ and Christian.a. Paganb. Romanc. Frenchd. Danish2. “ Poetry is Spontaneous” was put forward by________? a.Robert Burns b. William Blakec. William Wordsworthd. Charles Lamb3. Which of the following writings can be regarded as typical belonging to the school of Romantic literature?a. Don Juanb. Ulyssesc. Jane Eyred. Sons and Lovers4. ______is the first important English essayist and the founder of modern science in England.a. Francis Baconb. Edmund Spenserc. Thomas Mored. Sidney5. What is flourished in Elizabethan age more than any other form of literature?a. novelb.dramac. essayd. poetry6. The publication of _______marked the beginning of the Romantic Age.a. Don Juanb. The Rime of the Ancient Marinerc. The Lyrical Balladsd. Ode to the West Wind7. Which of the following did not belong to Romanticism? ?a. John Keatsb. Percy Shelleyc. William Wordsworthd. Alfred Tennyson8. Frankenstein was filmed many times. Who wrote the book?a. Edgar Allan Poeb. James Joycec. Mary Shelleyd. Walter Scott9. In the mid-18th century, a new literary movement called _______came to Europe and then to England.a. Romanticismb. Classicismc. Realismd. Restoration10. Which of the following poem was not written by John Keats?a. Ode to the West Windb. Ode to Autumnc. Ode on a Grecian Urnd. Ode to a NightingaleA C A ABCD C A A1. William Shakespeare is one of the giants of________a. Romanticismb. Critical Realismc. Aestheticismd. the Renaissance2. ________is the first important religious poet in English literature.a. John Donneb. George Herbertc. Caedmond. Milton3. _________was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.a. Thomas Wyattb. William Shakespearec. Philip Sidneyd. Thomas Gray4. The English poets________, William Wordsworth, and Robert Southey, were known as “ Lake Poets” because theylived in the Lake District Northwestern England at the beginning of the 19th century.a. George Byronb. John Keatsc. Percy Shelleyd. Samuel Coleridge ? 5. The most gifted of the “University Wits” was ____.A. John LilyB. Thomas KydC. Thomas GreeneD. Christopher Marlowe6. _____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.A. Phillip SidneyB. Edmund SpenserC. Thomas MoreD. Christopher Marlowe7. Morality plays appeared after_____.A. miracle playsB. mystery playsC. interludeD. Classical plays8. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of characteristics of Renaissance?a. Exaltation of man’s pursuit of happiness in this life.b. Cultivation of the genuine flavor of ancient culture.c. Tolerance of human weaknesses.d. Praise of man’s efforts in having his soul delivered.9. The most intellectual movement of the Renaissance was ________.A. the ReformationB. HumanismC. the Italian revivalD. Geographical exploration10. What is the relationship between Claudius and Hamlet?A. CousinsB. Uncle and nephewC. Father-in-lawD. Father and son ?D C A D D C A D B B1. Which of the following is a typical feature of Swift’s writings?? A. Great wit. B. Bitter satire.C. Rich mythic allusions.D. Complicated sentence structures.2. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.A. John DonneB. George HerbertC. Andre MarvellD. Henry Vaughan3. The ______ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.A. RomanticismB. HumanismC. EnlightenmentD. Sentimentalism4. Who was the greatest dramatist in the 18th century?A. Oliver GoldsmithB. Richard SheridanC. Laurence SterneD. Henry Fielding5. In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput”, “Brobdingnag”, “Houyhnhnm” and “Yahoo”?A.The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. The Faerie QueeneC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. The School for Scandal6. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses.A. John MiltonB. John BunyanC. John DonneD. John Dryden7. In The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan describes The Vanity Fair in a _____ tone.A. delightfulB. solemnC. sentimentalD. satirical8. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the _____ century.A. 17thB. 19thC. 18thD. 20th。

英国文学试题及答案

英国文学试题及答案

英国文学试题及答案在英国文学领域有许多经典作品和重要的作家,这些作品和作家对于英国文学的发展产生了深远影响。

本篇文章将为您介绍一些英国文学的试题及答案,希望能够对您的学习有所帮助。

试题一:请简要介绍威廉·莎士比亚的作品和他在英国文学中的地位。

答案:威廉·莎士比亚(William Shakespeare)被认为是英国文学史上最伟大的戏剧作家之一。

他的作品包括戏剧、诗歌和史诗。

莎士比亚共创作了37个戏剧作品,包括悲剧、喜剧、历史剧和十四行诗。

他的作品以丰富的人物形象、深入的情感描写和复杂的剧情而闻名。

莎士比亚的作品深刻地揭示了人性的善恶、爱恨和欲望等诸多主题,对于英国文学及全球文学的发展都产生了巨大影响。

试题二:简要介绍查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》及其在英国文学中的地位。

答案:《雾都孤儿》是查尔斯·狄更斯(Charles Dickens)的一部重要小说作品。

这部小说于1859年首次出版,以伦敦的贫民窟为背景,通过讲述主人公奥利弗·特威斯特的成长历程,揭示了当时社会的不公和贫困问题。

《雾都孤儿》描写了贫富悬殊、社会阶级问题以及人性的善恶等主题,对于英国社会的改革起到了重要的推动作用。

该小说深受读者的喜爱,被誉为狄更斯最伟大的作品之一,也是英国文学中的经典之作。

试题三:请简要介绍简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》及其在英国文学中的地位。

答案:《傲慢与偏见》是简·奥斯汀(Jane Austen)的代表作之一,被视为英国文学史上最伟大的小说之一。

这部小说于1813年首次出版,以描写19世纪英国社会的阶级观念和婚姻观念为主题。

《傲慢与偏见》通过讲述女主人公伊丽莎白·本内特与达西先生之间的爱情故事,探讨了社会的偏见、男女间的相互误解以及人性的盲目等问题。

奥斯汀以幽默和讽刺的手法展现了社会的虚伪和愚昧,对当时英国社会的改革产生了积极的影响。

通过以上试题及答案,我们可以了解到威廉·莎士比亚、查尔斯·狄更斯和简·奥斯汀等作家对于英国文学的重要地位以及他们作品所揭示的社会问题和人性的思考。

英国文学史习题第二、三部分

英国文学史习题第二、三部分

Part II The RenaissanceI.Fill in the blanks.1.The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up of _____________relations andthe establishing of the foundations of _______________.2.____________ broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeys in thecountry, confiscated their lands and proclaimed himself head of ______________________.3.The old English aristocracy having been exterminated in the course of the War of ________,a new nobility, totally dependent on King’s power, come to the fore.4.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of __________.5._____________ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature. In Elizabethantime, the three greatest sonnet writers are William Shakespeare, __________________ and _________________.6.Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and ___________ are generally regarded as Shakespeare’s fourgreat tragedies.7.During the twenty-two years of his literary work, Shakespeare produced ______plays,_____narrative poems and ______ sonnets.8.The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is one of ______________’s best plays. And it is himwho made __________ the principal vehicle of expression in drama.9._____________ is often referred to as the poets’ poet.10.Pope described Francis Bacon as the ___________, ___________, _____________ ofmankind. Bacon’s works may be divided into three classes, the __________, the __________, the _________ works.II. Find out the match from column B for each item in column A.(I) Find out the author and his work.A B1. ( ) Thomas More a. Gorge Green2. ( ) Edmund Spenser b. Eupheus3. ( ) John Lyly c. The Fairy Queen4. ( ) Marlowe d. Utopia5. ( ) Robert Greene e. The Jew of Malta(II). The relationship with Hamlet.A B1. ( ) Ghost a. friend2. ( ) Claudius b. mother3. ( ) Queen Gertrude c. father4. ( ) Horatio d. girlfriend5. ( ) Polonius e. girlfriend’s father6. ( ) Ophelia f. uncle(III). The character in the play.A B1. ( ) The Merchant of Venice a. Desdemona2. ( ) As You Like It b. Cordelia3. ( ) Hamlet c. Juliet4. ( ) King Lear d. Ophelia5. ( ) Othello e. Portia6. ( ) Romeo and Juliet f. RosalindIII. Define the literary terms listed below.1.Renaissance:1)The word, meaning “rebirth”, is commonly applied to the movement or period whichmarks the transition from the medieval to the modern in Western Europe.2)In the usual sense of the word, Renaissance suggests especially the 14th, 15th, 16th, andearly 17th centuries, the dates differing for different countries.3)(It is best to regard the Renaissance as the result of a new emphasis upon and a newcombination of tendencies and attitudes already exiting, stimulated by a series of historical events. )The new humanistic learning resulted from the rediscovery of classical literature is frequently taken as the beginning of the Renaissance on its conscious, intellectual side, since it was to the treasures of classical culture and to the authority of classical writers that the people of the Renaissance turned for inspiration.2.sonnet:1)It is a lyric poem of 14 lines with formal rhyme scheme, expressing different aspects of asingle thought, mood, or feeling, sometimes resolved or summed up in the last lines of the poem.2)The form originated from medieval Italy in about 1230-1240, and reached its peak withthe Italian poet Petrarch. In the first half of the 16th century, Thomas Wyatt introduced the Italian sonnet into England and established English sonnet. The most famous English sonnet sequences appeared in Elizabethan times, including Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella (1591), Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti(1595) and Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1593-1598).3)The two main forms of the sonnet are the Patrarchan, or Italian, and the English, orShakespearean. The former consists of an octave, or eight-line stanza, and a sestet, or six-line stanza. The octave has two quatrains, rhyming abba, abba; the first quatrain presents the theme, the second develops it. The sestet is built on a few different rhymes, arranged cddcee, cdecde, cdccdc, or cdedce; the first three lines exemplify or reflect on the theme, and the last three lines bring the whole poem to a unified close. Philip Sidney’s sonnets are excellent examples of this style in the English language.4)The English sonnet consists of three quatrains, each rhymed differently, with a final,independently rhymed couplet that makes an effective, unifying climax to the whole.The rhyme scheme is abab, cdcd, efef, gg.3.humanism:1)Broadly, this term suggests any attitude which tends to exalt the human elements orstress the importance of human interests, as opposed to the supernatural, divine elements —or as opposed to the grosser, animal elements.2)In a more specific sense, humanism suggests a devotion to those studies supposed topromote human culture most effectively—in particular, those dealing with the life, thought, language, and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. In literary history the most important use of the term is to designate the revival of classical culture which accompanied the Renaissance.4.tragedy:1)Tragedy is concerned with the harshness and apparent injustice of life.2)It usually recounts an important and causally related series of events in the life of aperson of significance. The events would culminate in trials and catastrophes of a hero, who falls down from power and whose eventual death leads to the downfall of others.Often the hero’s fall from happiness is due to a weakness in his character, a weakness such as the excessive pride of Faustus, the overweening ambition of Macbeth, or the uncontrolled jealousy of Othello, which brings self-destruction.3)The tragic action aroused feelings of awe in the audience, who often leave the theatrewith a renewed sense of the seriousness and significance of human life. The word catharsis is often used to describe the audience’s feelings. It means the purging from the mind of the feelings of pity and fear the play has aroused.5.essay:1)The term refers to literary composition devoted to the presentation of the writer’s ownideas on a topic and generally addressing a particular aspect of the subject. Often brief in scope and informal in style, the essay differs from such formal expository forms as the thesis, dissertation, or treatise.2)The development of the form may be considered a result of the Renaissance emphasis onthe individual, which fostered exploration of one’s inner self in relation to the outside world.6.classicism: 1) As a critical term, classicism is a body of doctrine thought to be derivedfrom or to reflect the qualities of ancient Greek criticism. Classicism stands for certain definite ideas and attitudes, mainly drawn from the critical utterances of the Greeks and Romans or developed through an imitation of ancient art and literature. These include restraint, restricted scope, dominance of reason, sense of form, unity of design and aim, clarity, simplicity, balance, attention to structure and logical organization, chasteness in style, severity of outline, moderation, self-control, intellectualism, decorum, respect for tradition, imitation, conservation, and good sense.IV. Answer the following questions.1.Give a summary about the English literature during the Renaissance period.Answer:a)English literature in the Renaissance Period is usually regarded as the highlight in thehistory of English literature. In the second period of English Renaissance, that is, in Elizabethan Period, English literature developed with a great speed and made a magnificent achievement.b)The greatest and most distinctive achievement of Elizabethan literature is the drama.Thus appeared a group of excellent dramatists. They are John Lyly, Thomas Kyd, George Peele, Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Ben Johnson.c)Next to the drama is the lyrical poetry. Elizabethan poetry is remarkable for its variety,its freshness, its youthfulness, and its romantic feeling. A group of great poets appeared, such as Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Philip Sidney, and Edmund Spenser. In that time, writing poetry became a fashion, and Queen Elizabeth herself was also a poet.d)Besides drama and poetry, there were also some prose writings, though not so many,such as Thomas More’s Utopia, which may be thought as the first literary masterpiece of the English Renaissance, and Francis Bacon’s Essays, which makes the author one of the best essayists in English literature.2.Give a brief comment on The Merchant of Venice.Answer:a)Of Shakespeare’s earlier comedies, The Merchant of Venice is certainly the mostoutstanding one in which Shakespeare creates tension, ambiguity, a self-conscious and self-delighting artifice that is at once intellectually exciting and emotionally engaging.The sophistication derives in part from the play between high, outgoing romance and dark forces of negativity and hate.b)The traditional theme of the play is to praise the friendship between Antonio andBassano, to idealize Portia as a heroine of great beauty, wit and loyalty, and to expose the insatiable greed and brutality of the Jew, but later, especially after the holocaust committed by the Nazi Germany during the Second World War, it is very difficult to see Shylock as a conventional evil figure. And many people today tend to regard the play asa satire of the Christian hypocrisy and their false standard of friendship and love, theircunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against Jews.3.Read Bacon’s “Of Studies” carefully, and use it as an example to illustrate Bacon’s writingstyle.Answer:Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness, and powerfulness. Yet there is an obvious stylistic change in his Essays. The sentences in the first edition are charged and crowded with symmetries. They are composed in a rather affected way. However, the final edition not only enlarges the range of theme, but also brings forth the looser and more persuasive style. The essays are well arranged and enriched by biblical allusions, metaphors, and cadence.V. For each of the quotation listed below please give the title of the literary work from which it is taken, then give a brief analysis of them.1.To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep:……With this regard their currents turn awry,And lose the name of action.Answer: 1) This quotation is taken from Hamlet.2) Analysis:①Hamlet is urged by the ghost to seek revenge for his father’s foul and most unnaturalmurder. But Hamlet has none of the single-minded blood lust of the earlier revenges. It is not because he is incapable of action, but the cast of his mind is so speculative, so questioning, and so contemplative. That action, when it finally comes, seems almost like defeat, diminishing rather than adding to the stature of the hero.②Trapped in a nightmare world of spying, testing and plotting, and apparently bearingthe intolerable burden of the duty to revenge his father’s death, Hamlet is obliged to inhabit a shadow world, to live suspended between fact and fiction, language and action.His life is one of constant role-playing, examining the nature of action only to deny its possibility; for he is too sophisticated to degrade his nature to the conventional role of astage revenger.③For such a figure, soliloquy is a natural medium, a necessary release of his anguish,and some of his questioning monologues possess surpassing power and insight, which have survived centuries of being torn from their context.④But our interest is not only in Hamlet the tragic hero for this play but alsoShakespeare’s most detailed exposure of a corrupted court—“an unweeded garden” in which there is nothing but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. By revealing the power-seeking, the jostling for place, the hidden motive, the courteous superficialities that veil lust and guilt, Shakespeare condemns the hypocrisy and treachery and general corruption at the royal court.2.Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:……So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.Answer: 1) This poem is taken from Shakespeare’s Sonnets.2) Analysis: Though they are well with the general tradition of Elizabethan sonnet cycles,Shakespeare’s sonnets are in several ways unique.①The principal person addressed by the poet is not a woman but a young man; the darklady, when she appears, is vastly different from the Delias and Celias of Petrarchan convention. More importantly, the depths of moral and aesthetic contemplation in Shakespeare’s sonnets are far more profound than we find in other Elizabethan cycle.②With 3 exceptions (99, 126 and 154) Shakespeare uses the sonnet in the popularEnglish form, first fully developed by Shakespeare. The couplet usually ties the sonnet to one of the general themes of the series, leaving the quatrains free to develop the poetic intensity, which makes the separate sonnets so memorable.③Shakespeare’s sonnets constitute a vast landscape of metaphor, surprising oftenbecause it seems to anticipate the atmosphere of some of the later plays. In this landscape are some vividly recognizable figures—the poet, the friend, the Dark Lady, and, more indefinite, the rival poetPart III The Period of Revolution and RestorationI. Fill in the blanks.1.The 17th century was a period when _________________ impeded the further developmentof capitalism in England and the ____________ could no longer bear the sway of ______________.2.There were religious division and confusion and a long bitter struggle between the people’sParliament and the Throne—___________ fighting against the ____________ who helped the king.3.After _________’s death, monarchy was again restored (1660). It was called the period of the______________.4.The Glorious Revolution in _______ meant three things: the supremacy of __________, thebeginning of __________________, and the final triumph of the principle of _____________.5.The Puritans believed in ____________ of life. Under the powerful influence of them, thetheatres were closed in ________. And the Revolution Period is also called ______________, because the English Revolution was carried out under a religious cloak.6.Restoration created a literature of its own, that was often ______ and _______, but on thewhole __________ and _________. The most popular genre in the literature of the Restoration was that of ____________ whose chief aim was to entertain the licentious aristocrats.7.Donne entered the church in 1615, where he rose rapidly to be Dean of ______________.The first thing to strike the reader is Donne’s extraordinary ____________ and penetrating ___________. The next is the ___________ which marks certain of the lighter poems and which represents a conscious reaction from the extreme _____________ of woman encouraged by the Petrachan tradition.ton opposed the ____________ party and gave all his energies to the writing of_____________ dedicated to the people’s liberties.9.Paradise Lost, consisting of ______books, tells how ________ rebelled against God and how_______ and ________ were driven out of Eden. And it presents the author’s view in an_________, ___________ form.10.In Revolution Period _________ towers over his age as William Shakespeare towers over theElizabethan Age and as Chaucer towers over the Medieval Period.11.During the civil war and commonwealth, there were two leaders in England, Cromwell, theman of action, and __________, the man of thought.ton and Bunyan represented the extreme of English life in the 17th century. One gave usthe only epic since _____________, the other gave us the only great ___________.13.Bunyan’s most important work is ______________________________, written in theold-fashioned, medieval form of ___________ and dream. In the book, Bunyan gives a vivid and satirical description of ___________________, which is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration.14.The literature of the middle and later periods of the 17th century cultivated in the poetry of___________, in the prose writing of _________, and also in the plays and literary criticism of ___________.II. Define the literary terms listed below.1.three unities:Three rules or absolutes of 16th-17th-century Italian and French drama, broadly adapted from Aristotle’s Poetics: the unity of time, which limits a play to a single day, the unity of place, which limits a play’s setting to a single location, and the unity of action, which limits a play to a single story line.2.conceit:1)It comes from the Italian concetto, meaning “concept”or “idea”, and was uses inRenaissance poetry to mean a precise and detailed comparison of something more remote or abstract with something more present or concrete; and often detailed through a chain of metaphors or similes.2)Two types of conceit are often distinguished by specific names:①The Petrarchan conceit is a type of figure used in love poems that had been noveland effective in the Italian poet Petrarch, but became hackneyed in some of his imitators among the Elizabethan sonneteers.②The metaphysical conceit is a characteristic figure in John Donne and othermetaphysical poets of the 17th century. The metaphysical poets exploited all knowledge for the vehicle of these figures; and their comparisons, whether succinct or expanded, were often novel and witty, and at their best startlingly effective.3) The metaphysical conceit fell out of favor in the 18th century, when it came to beregarded as strained and unnatural. But with the great revival of interest in the metaphysical poets during the early decades of the 20th century, a number of modern poets exploited this type of figure. At the beginning of “The Love of J. Alfred Prufrock”, for example, T. S. Eliot compares the evening to “ a patient etherized upon a table”.3.masque:An elaborate form of court entertainment——a mixture of drama, music, song, and dance ——developed in the Renaissance Italy and transported to England during Elizabethan times. The speaking characters, who were often courtiers, wore masks. Comus (1634) by John Milton is probably the most important masque in English literature.4.pastoral:A literary work dealing with, and often celebrating, a rural world and a way of life livedclose to nature. Pastoral denotes subject matter rather than form; hence, the terms pastoral lyric, pastoral ode, pastoral elegy, pastoral drama, pastoral epic, and pastoral novel. A poetic example of English pastoral poetic conventions occurs in Christopher Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.5.allegory:1)It is a fictional literary narrative or artistic expression that conveys a symbolic meaningparallel to but distinct from, and more important than the literal meaning. Allegory has also been defined as an extended metaphor. The symbolic meaning is usually expressed through personifications and other symbols. Related forms are the fable and the parable, which are didactic, comparatively short, and simple allegories.2)The art of allegory reached its height during the Middle Ages, especially in the works ofthe Italian poet Dante and the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, and during the Renaissance.3)Two early example of allegory are Le Roman de la Rose (《玫瑰传奇》, by French writerDaniel Poirion and was translated into English by Chaucer.) and Piers the Plowman. The former is an allegory of human love, the latter an allegorical protest against the clergy. In The Faerie Queen the English poet Edmund Spenser conceals, beneath a surface of chivalric romance, a commentary on religious and ethical doctrines and on social conditions in 16th century England. One of the greatest of all allegories is Pilgrim’s Progress by the English writer John Bunyan, a prose narrative symbolically concerning the search for spiritual salvation. Although modern authors generally favor less abstract, more personal symbolism, allegories are still written. One extremely popular example is Animal Farm (1945) by the English writer George Orwell.6.genre:A form, class, or type of literary work, e.g. , the short story, novel, poem play, or essay; oftenused to denote such literary subclassifications as the detective story, the Gothic novel, the pastoral elegy, or the revenge tragedy.III. Find out the work from column A and its content from column B.1. ( ) Il Penseroso a. defense of the Revolution2. ( ) Lycidas b. Satan against God3. ( ) Comus c. about dear friend4. ( ) Areopagitica d. happiness5. ( ) Eikonolastes e. meditation6. ( ) Defense for the English People f. masque7. ( ) Paradise Lost g. attack on the censorship8. ( ) L’Allegro h. justifying the executionIV. Answer the following questions.1.What are the different aspects between the literature of Elizabethan Period and that of theRevolution Period?Answer:The Revolution Period was of confusion in literature. English literature of the Period witnessed a decline and degeneration. We can see that it is different from the literature ofElizabethan Period in three aspects.1)Elizabethan literature had a marked unity and the feeling of patriotism and devotion tothe Queen, but in the Revolution Period, all this was changed, the king became the open enemies of the people, and the country was divided by the struggle for political and religious liberty. So literature was as divided in spirit as were the struggling parties.2)Elizabethan literature was generally inspiring. It throbbed with youth, hope, and vitality.Literature in the Puritan Age expressed age and sadness. Even its brightness hours were followed by gloom and pessimism.3)Elizabethan literature was intensely romantic. The romance sprang from the heart ofyouth. People believed all things, even the impossible. But in literature of the Puritan Period, we can not find romantic ardor.2.Make a brief introduction to Paradise Lost.Answer:Paradise Lost is Milton’s masterpiece, and the greatest English epic. Before its actual writing, he had the subject in his mind for a quarter of a century, and made drafts about the characters and plot. It is a long epic in 12 books, done in blank verse. The stories were taken from the Old Testament: The creation; the rebellion in Heaven of Satan and his fellow-angels; their defeat and expulsion from Heaven; the creation of the earth and of Adam and Eve; the fallen angels in hell plotting against God; Satan’s temptation of Eve; and the departure of Adam and Eve from Eden.3.Why do people say Samson is Milton?1)Samson Agonistes is a poetical drama modeled on the Greek tragedies. The story wastaken from the Old Testament. Samson was an athlete of the Israelites. He stood as their champion fighting for the freedom of their country. But he was betrayed by his wife and blinded by his enemies, the Philistines. One day he was summoned to provide amusement for his enemies by feats of strength in a temple. There he wreaked his vengeance upon his enemies by pulling down the temple upon himself in a common ruin.2)In this poetic drama, Milton is telling us his own story. Like Samson, he has beenbetrayed by his wife. He has suffered from blindness and been scorned by his enemies,and yet he has struggled heroically against his enemies. Samson’s miserable blind servitude among his enemies, his agonizing longing for sight and freedom, and the last terrible triumph are all allusions to the poet’s own story. So the whole poem strongly suggests Milton’s passionate longing that he too could bring destruction down upon the enemy at the cost of his own life. Samson is Milton.V. Read Donne’s “The Flea” carefully, then give a brief analysis of it.The FleaMark but this flea, and mark in this,How little that which thou deniest me is;Me it sucked first, and now sucks thee,And in this flea our two bloods mingled be;Thou know’st that this cannot be saidA sin, or shame, or loss of maidenhead,Yet this enjoys before it woo,And pampered swells with one blood made of two,And this, alas, is more than we would doOh stay, three lives in one flea spare,Where we almost, nay more than married are.This flea is you and I, and thisOur marriage bed and marriage temple is;Though parents grudge, and you, we are met,And cloistered in these living walls of jet.Though use make you apt to kill meLet not to that, self-murder added be,And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.Cruel and sudden, hast thou sincePurpled thy nail in blood of innocence?Wherein could this flea guilty be,Except in that drop which it sucked from thee?Yet thou triumph’st, and say’st that thouFind’st not thy self nor me the weaker now;’Tis true; then learn how false fears be;Just so much honour, when thou yield’st to me,Will waste, as this flea’s death look life from thee.Analysis:1) At the heart of Donne’s poetic practice is the conceit, on which Donne’s strong argumentation or persuasion is built. His conceits are seldom simple or plain, on the contrary, they are complex, crafty, and sometimes systematic, for his ingenuity enables him to combine things unlike in his poetry.2) A poem may be composed of a group of conceits based on a central one. For instance, in “The Flea”, conceits on different levels are employed in the forceful persuasion. The flea’s sucking both the man’s and the lady’s blood is compared to be a worldly marriage; the flea then unifies them; when the lady angrily kills the flea, she commits suicide as well as murder. The central conceit ——is reinforced through different levels. Thus, the image is made more round and vivid.3) Donne is undoubtedly the master of conceits. And from these far-fetched conceits, he has got his fame as the great writer of conceited verse.。

英国文学试题.1-7汇总

英国文学试题.1-7汇总

英国⽂学试题.1-7汇总英国⽂学试题1. Oscar Wilde was the representative among the writers of .A. aestheticismB. naturalismC. neo-romanticismD. sentimentalism2. List the following terms according to the time when they appeared.A. romanticism, neoclassicism, humanism, critical realismB. humanism, neoclassicism, romanticism, critical realismC. romanticism, humanism, modernism, critical realismD. modernism, critical realism, romanticism, humanism3. Charles Dickens and William Thackeray were the two great representatives of the English critical realism in the _______century.A. 17thB. 18thC. 19thD. 20th4. Thomas Hardy wrote novels of _______.A. character and environmentB. pure romance艺术C. stream of consciousnessD. psychoanalysis5. The typical f eature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the ________.A. bitter satireB. larger-than-life caricatureC. Latinized dictionD. dramatic monologue6. The author of the novel The Return of the Native is _______.A. Thomas HardyB. D. H. LawrenceC. Robert BrowningD. Alfred Tennyson7. Most of Hardy’s novels are set in _______.A. LondonB. YoknapatawphaC. WessexD. Paris8. ______ works are known as “novels of characters and environment.”A. Charles Dicken s’B. Thomas Hardy’sC. Jane Austen’sD. George Eliot’s9. ______ believes that man’s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside.A. Charles DickensB. Thomas HardyC. Jane AustenD. George Eliot10. In Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles, the heroine’s tragic ending is due to ______.A. her weak characterB. her ambitionC. Angel’s selfishnessD. a hostile society2.Identify the author with his work.b1) Samuel Taylor Coleridge a. Utopiad2) John Galsworthy b. The Rhyme of the Ancient Marinerg3) R. L. Stevenson c. Far from the Madding Crowdh4) William Wordsworth d. The Man of Propertyf5) Jane Austen e. Robinson Crusoei6) P. B. Shelley f. Sense And Sensibilitye7) Daniel Defoe g. Treasure Islandj8) John Milton h. I Wandered Lonely as a Clouda9) Thomas More i. Prometheus Unboundc10) Thomas Hardy j. Paradise Regained3. Identify the author with his or her work.1) William Langland D A. V anity Fair2) William Makepeace Thackeray A B. Tom Jones3) Jonathan Swift J C. Of Studies4) Francis Bacon C D. Piers, the Plowman5) Henry Fielding B E. The Faerie Queen6) George Gordon Byron G F. Wuthering Heights7) Emily Bronte F G .Don Juan8) Edmund Spencer E H. The Canterbury Tales9) John Bunyan T I. The Pilgrim’s Progress10) Geoffrey Chaucer H J. Gulliver’s TravelsI. Choose the best answer for each blank.1. wrote under the influence of Scottish folk tradition and old Scottish poetry.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Robert BurnsC. William BlakeD. Geoffrey Chaucer2. A Red, Red Rose is a(n)______.A. lyricB. satirical poemC. epicD. ode3. In the 18th century English literature, the representative poet of pre-romanticism were______.A. Alexander PopeB. William BlakeC. Jonathan SwiftD. Daniel Defoe4. Protestants refers to all the religious sects except ________.A. Church of EnglandB. PuritanismC. CalvinismD. Catholicism5. In 1649, ______ was beheaded. English became a commonwealth.A. James IB. James IIC. Charles ID. Charles II6. Which of the following is not correct about the Revolution of 1688?A. the supremacy of ParliamentB. the beginning of modern EnglandC. the triumph of the principle of political libertyD. the Restoration of monarchy7. In the last twenty years of the 18th century, England produced two great romantic poets. They are _____.A. Johnson and BlakeB. Gray and Y oungC. Pope and GoldsmithD. Blake and Burns8. The object of ______ novels was to present a faithful picture of life, with sound teaching woven into their texture.A. John Bunyan’sB. Alexander Pope’sC. Jonathan Swift’sD. Henry Fielding’s9. ______ brings Henry Fielding the name of the “prose Homer.”A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. T om JonesC. Robinson CrusoeD. Colonel Jack10. ________ was the only important dramatist of the 18th century..A. Alexander PopeB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Samuel JohnsonD. George Bernard Shaw11. The poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is regarded as the most representative work of _________.A. the Metaphysical SchoolB. the Graveyard SchoolC. the Gothic SchoolD. the Romantic School12. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, __________ best and most representative work has been ranked among the best of the 18th century English poetry.A. Alexander Pope’sB. Thomas Gray’sC. Robert Burns’D. William Blake’s13. In his novel Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the _______.A. aristocratic classB. enterprising landlordsC. rising bourgeoisieD. hard-working people14. As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce _____ to England.A. rationalismB. criticismC. romanticismD. realism15. Along with the fast economic development in the 18th century in England, the British _______ also grew very rapidly.A. bourgeoisB. proletariansC. aristocratic classD. royal family16. An Essay on Man is a didactic poem written in _______.A. heroic coupletsB. English sonnetC. blank verseD. Italian sonnet17. _______ by Pope is a comprehensive study of the theories of literary criticism, exerting great influence upon his contemporary writers in advocating the classical rules and popularizing the neoclassicist tradition in England.A. An Essay on ManB. The DunciadC. The EssaysD. An Essay on Criticism18. During the reign of reason the enlightenment meant education of people to free them from all the unreasonable fetters which include______.A. theologyB. conventional ideologyC. feudal governmentD. all the above19. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the ______century.A. 17thB. 18thC. 19thD. 20th20. The 18th century England is known as the _______ in the history.A. RomanticismB. EnlightenmentC. ClassicismD. Renaissance21. Fielding has been termed by some as _______, for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A. best writer of the English novelB. Father of English novelC. conventional writer of the English proseD. the most talented writer of the English novel22. Which of the following writings is NOT completed by William Blake?A. Songs of ExperienceB. Songs of ExperienceC. The TygerD. Emma23. The tone of literature in Songs of Experience by Eilliam Blake is _______.A. positiveB. livelyC. plainD. doleful1.As a poet, Blake’s fame has been chiefly resting upon two volumes of poems, ______songs of innocense_________ and Songs of Experience .2. Friday is a character in the novel ___Robinson Crusoe_______________.3. “And I will luve thee still, my dear./ Till a’ the seas gang dry.” is taken from the famous poem ______Ared ,red rose__._______.I. Identify the author with his work.1) William Langland ( c) a. Utopia2) Edmund Spenser ( d ) b. Romeo and Juliet3)William Shakespeare ( b) c. Piers, the Plowman4) Francis Bacon ( g ) d. The Faerie Queene5) Thomas More ( a) e. Doctor Faustus6) Geoffrey Chaucer ( f ) f. The Canterbury Tales7) Christopher Marlowe ( e) g. Advancement of LearningII. Choose the best answer for each blank.1. English Renaissance Period was an age of .A. prose and novelB. poetry and dramaC. romance and balladD. essay and drama2. “ Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” is the opening line of one of Shakespeare’s .A. songsB. playsC. sonnetsD. tragedies3. was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature .A. Thomas WyattB. William ShakespeareC. Henry HowardD. John Lyly4. first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama in the Renaissance period.A. William ShakespeareB. Thomas WyattC. Christopher MarlowD. Henry Howard5. The essence of humanism is to ________A. restore a medieval reverence for the churchB. avoid the circumstances of earthly lifeC. explore the next world in which men could live after deathD. emphasize human qualities6. Although _____ was essentially a medieval writer, he bore marks of humanism and anticipated a new era of literature to come.A. Thomas MoreB. William LanglandC. Edmund SpenserD. William Shakespeare7. Which of the following historical events does NOT directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement?A. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.B. The new discoveries in geography and astronomy.C. The Glorious Revolution.D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.8. In 1066, _________led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.A. William the ConquerorB. Julius CaesarC. Alfred the GreatD. Claudius9. Chaucer died on the 25th of October 1400, and was buried in _______.A. FlandersB. FranceC. ItalyD. Westminster Abbey10. In Anglo-Saxon period, Beowulf represented the _________ poetry.A. paganB. religiousC. romanticD. sentimental11. A ___ is a story told in song, usually in 4-line stanzas, with the second and the fourth rhymed.A. balladB. romanceC. sonnetD. lyric12. Among the following plays which is NOT written by Christopher Marlowe?A. Dr. FaustusB. The Jew of MaltaC. TamburlaineD. New Instrument13. ______ is NOT written by Francis Bacon.A. Of StudiesB. New InstrumentC. Advancement of LearningD. Edward IIIII. Fill in the blanks.1. A ___Morality___ play presents the conflicts between good and evil with allegorical personages such as Mercy, Peace and Hate.2. A Miracle SS play is chiefly based on the biblical stories or the stories of the saints.I. Choose the best answer for each blank.1. wrote under the influence of Scottish folk tradition and old Scottish poetry.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Robert BurnsC. William BlakeD. Geoffrey Chaucer2. A Red, Red Rose is a(n)______.A. lyricB. satirical poemC. epicD. ode3. In the 18th century English literature, the representative poet of pre-romanticism were______.A. Alexander PopeB. William BlakeC. Jonathan SwiftD. Daniel Defoe4. Protestants refers to all the religious sects except ________.A. Church of EnglandB. PuritanismC. CalvinismD. Catholicism5. In 1649, ______ was beheaded. English became a commonwealth.A. James IB. James IIC. Charles ID. Charles II6. Which of the following is not correct about the Revolution of 1688?A. the supremacy of ParliamentB. the beginning of modern EnglandC. the triumph of the principle of political libertyD. the Restoration of monarchy7. In the last twenty years of the 18th century, England produced two great romantic poets. They are _____.A. Johnson and BlakeB. Gray and Y oungC. Pope and GoldsmithD. Blake and Burns8. The object of ______ novels was to present a faithful picture of life, with sound teaching woven into their texture.A. John Bunyan’sB. Alexander Pope’sC. Jonathan Swift’sD. Henry Fielding’s9. ______ brings Henry Fielding the name of the “prose Homer.”A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. T om JonesC. Robinson CrusoeD. Colonel Jack10. ________ was the only important dramatist of the 18th century..A. Alexander PopeB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Samuel JohnsonD. George Bernard Shaw11. The poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is regarded as the most representative work of _________.A. the Metaphysical SchoolB. the Graveyard SchoolC. the Gothic SchoolD. the Romantic School12. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, __________ best and most representative work has been ranked among the best of the 18th century English poetry.A. Alexander Pope’sB. Thomas Gray’sC. Robert Burns’D. William Blake’s13. In his novel Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the _______.A. aristocratic classB. enterprising landlordsC. rising bourgeoisieD. hard-working people14. As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce _____ to England.A. rationalismB. criticismC. romanticismD. realism15. Along with the fast economic development in the 18th century in England, the British _______ also grew very rapidly.A. bourgeoisB. proletariansC. aristocratic classD. royal family16. An Essay on Man is a didactic poem written in _______.A. heroic coupletsB. English sonnetC. blank verseD. Italian sonnet17. _______ by Pope is a comprehensive study of the theories of literary criticism, exerting great influence upon his contemporary writers in advocating the classical rules and popularizing the neoclassicist tradition in England.A. An Essay on ManB. The DunciadC. The EssaysD. An Essay on Criticism18. During the reign of reason the enlightenment meant education of people to free them from all the unreasonable fetters which include______.A. theologyB. conventional ideologyC. feudal governmentD. all the above19. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the______century.A. 17thB. 18thC. 19thD. 20th20. The 18th century England is known as the _______ in the history.A. RomanticismB. EnlightenmentC. ClassicismD. Renaissance21. Fielding has been termed by some as _______, for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A. best writer of the English novelB. Father of English novelC. conventional writer of the English proseD. the most talented writer of the English novel22. Which of the following writings is NOT completed by William Blake?A. Songs of ExperienceB. Songs of ExperienceC. The TygerD. Emma23. The tone of literature in Songs of Experience by Eilliam Blake is _______.A. positiveB. livelyC. plainD. doleful1.As a poet, Blake’s fame has been chiefly resting upon two volumes of poems, ______songs of innocense_________ and Songs of Experience .2. Friday is a character in the novel ___Robinson Crusoe_______________.3. “And I will luve thee still, my dear./ Till a’ the seas gang dry.” is taken from the famous poem ______Ared ,red rose__._______.。

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Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois RevolutionI.Choose the right answer.1.The r hyme scheme of Milton’s L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is _____.A. aabbccbbcB. abbacdccdC. abacdeecD. ababcdcdd2. _____ , as a declar ation of people’s freedom of the press, has been a weapon inthe later democratic revolutionary struggles.A. On the Morning of Christ’s NativityB. ComusC. Of Reformation in EnglandD. Areopagitica3. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and thelater sacred verses.A. John MiltonB. John BunyanC. John DonneD. John Dryden4. _____ expressed Donne’s own way of describing love.A. Holy SonnetsB. Witchcraft by a PictureC. The Sun RisingD. Death, Be Not Proud5. George Herbert’s ______ is a well-known shaped poem.A. The AltarB. To His Coy MistressC. To DaffodilsD. Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.A. John DonneB. George HerbertC. Andre MarvellD. Henry Vaughan7. Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet?A. Richard CrashawB. Henry VaughanC. Andrew MarvellD. Robert Burton8. ____is a prose poem on death and immortality.A. The Anatomy of MelancholyB. Religio MeciciC. Holy DyingD. Urn-Burial9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightful description of the English countryside and thesimple and kind people.A. The Compleat AnglerB. Holy LivingC. To His Coy MistressD. To Daffadils10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry?A. John SucklingB. Richard LovelaceC. Robert HerrickD. John Dryden11. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19thcentury.A. John DrydenB. Richard SteeleC. Joseph AddisonD. Alexander PopeKey to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAADII.Fill in the blanks.1.In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, _______ occupies the mostimportant place.2.The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writingproduced during the _____ Age.3.______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol ofLondon at the time of Restoration.4._____masterpiece, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegory, a narrative in whichgeneral concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are represented as people or as aspects of the natural world.5._____ is the most excellent representative of English classicism in the Restorationperiod.6.In English literature, the Restoration period is traditionally called “Age of _____.7.In political affairs, ____ was quite changeable in attitude.8.In his “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, ____ showed his famous appreciation ofShakespeare.9.Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is _______, a tragedy dealing withthe same story as Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.10.The main literary achievements of the 17th century lies in the poetry of JohnMilton, in the prose writing of John Bunyan, and in the plays and literary criticism of ______.11.Paradise Lost is one of Milton’s ______.12.Satan is the hero in Milton’s masterpiece __________.13.Paradise Lost took its material from ______.14.The works of the Metaphysical poets are characterized, generally speaking, by_____in content and fantasticality in form.15._______ was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 18thcentury.16.Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost embody Milton’s belief in the powers of _____.17.The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory and _____ is another writing feature.18.In the second half of the 17th century we may hear the voices of the privatecitizens by letters and _____.Key to the blanks:1.(John Bunyan)2.(Puritan)3.(The Pil grim’s Progress)4.(John Bunyan’s)5.(John Dryden)6.(Dryden)7.(John Dryden)8.(John Dryden)9.(All for Love)10.(John Dryden) 11.(epics)12.(Paradise Lost)13.(mysticism)14.(the Bible)15.(Dryden)16.(man)17.(symbolism)18.(diaries)III.Say true or false.1.The major parliamentary clashes of the early 17th century were over landownership.2.After the victory of the English Revolution, the movement of the Diggers brokeout. The leader of this revolt is Wat Tyler.3.With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship, Charles II became theProtector of the English Commonwealth.4.The spirit of unity and the feeling of patriotism ended with the reign of James I,and England was then convulsed (shook, quivered) with the conflict between the two antagonistic camps, the Royalists and the Puritans.5.In 1644, James I was sentenced to death and Cromwell became the leader of thecountry.6.English literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish on the whole.7.The Revolution Period produced one of the most important poets in Englishliterature, William Shakespeare.8.The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it produced a greatpoet whole name is William Milton.9.The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama.10.Among the English poets during the Revolution Period, John Donne was thegreatest one.11.John Milton towers over his age as Byron towers over the Elizabethan Age, and asChaucer towers over the Medieval Period.12.On his first wife’s death, Milton wrote his only love poem, a sonnet, on HisDeceased Wife.13.The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lose, is written in heroic couplets.14.The poem of Samson Agonistes was “to justify the ways of God to man”, i.e. toadvocate submission to the Almighty.15.It has been noticed by many critics that the picture of Satan surrounded by hisangels who never think of expressing any opinions of their own, resembles the court of an absolute monarch.16.Izaak Wa lton’s The Compleat Angler becomes a “Piscatorial classic”.17.Thomas Browne’s Religia Medici is a collection of opinions on a vast number ofsubjects more or less connected with religion.Key to True/False statements:1. F (ownership: monopolies)2. F (Wat Tyler: Gerald Winstanley)3. F (Charles II: Oliver Cromwell)4. F (Donne: Milton)5. F (James I: Charles I)6. F (flourish: decline)7.T (William Shakespeare)8. F (William: John)9. F (drama: poetry) 10.F (James I: Elizabeth I)11.F (Byron: Shakespeare)12.F (first: second)13.F (heroic couplets: blank verse)14.F (Satan: God)15.F (Samson Agonistes: Paradise Lost)16.T17.TIV. Questions1.What are the writing features of The Pilgrim’s Progress?ment on the image of Satan.ment on Samson.。

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