《英国文学史及作品选读》练习题.
英国文学史及选读练习题
英国文学史及选读练习题Part ⅠI．Fill in the following blanks .1. After the fall of the Roman Empire and the withdraw of Roman troops fromAlbion ,the aboriginal_____ population of the larger part of the island was soon conquered and almost totally exterminated by the Teutonic of _____ ,_____ ,and _____who came from the continent and settled in the island ,naming its central part _____ ,or England .2. For nearly _____ years prior to the coming of the English ,British had been aRoman province .In _____ ,the Rome withdrew their legions from Britain to protect herself against swarms of Teutonic invaders .3. The literature of early period falls naturally into two divisions, _____ and_____ .The former represents the poetry which the Anglo-Saxons probably brought with them in the form of _____ ,the crude material out of which literature was slowly developed on English soil ; the later represents the developed under the teaching of _____ .4. In reading the earliest poetry of English it is well to remember that all of it wascopied by _____ ,and seems to have been more or less altered to give it a _____ .5. _____ can be justly termed England’s national epic and its hero ______--one ofthe national heroes of the English people .6. The Song of Beowulf reflects events which took place on the _____ approximatelyat the beginning of the _____ century ,when the forefathers of the Jutes lived in the southern part of the _____ and maintained close relations with kindred tribes ,e.g. with the _______________ who lied on the other side of the straits . 7. Among the early Anglo-Saxon poets we may mention _____ who lived in the latterhalf of the _____ century and who wrote a poetic Paraphrase of the Bible .8. _____ is the first known religious poet of England .He is known as the father ofEnglish song .II．Choose the best answer for each blank.1. The most important work of _____ is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, which isregarded as the best monument of the old English prose .a. Alfred the Greatb. Caedmonc. Cynewulfd. Venerable Bede2. Who is the monster half-human who had mingled thirty warriors in The Song ofBeowulf ?a. Hrothgatb. Heorotc. Grendeld. Beowulf3. _____ is the first important religious poet in English literature .a. Cynewulfb. Caedmonc. Shakespeared. Adam Bede4. The epic ,The Song of Beowulf ,represents the spirit of _____ .a. monksb. romanticistsc. sentimentalistsd. paganPart ⅡI．Fill in the following blanks.1. In the year _____ ,at the battle of _____ ,the _____ headed by William ,Duke ofNormandy ,defeated the Anglo-Saxons .2. The literature which Normans brought to England is remarkable for itsbright ,_____ tales of _____ and _____ ,in marked contrast with the _____ and _____ of Anglo-Saxon poetry .3. English literature is also a combination of _____ and _____ elements .4. In the 14th century ,the two most important writers are _____ and Chaucer .5. In the 15th century ,there is only one important prose writer whose name is_____ .He wrote an important work called Morte d’ Arthur .Part ⅢI．Fill in the following blanks.1. Geoffrey Chaucer ,the “_____ ”and one of the greatest narrative poets ofEngland ,was born in London in about the year 1340 .2. Chaucer’s masterpiece is _____ ,one of the most famous works in all literature .3. The _____ provides a frame work for the tales in The Canterbury Tales ,and itcomprises a group of vivid pictures of various medieval figures .4. Chaucer created in The Canterbury Tales a strikingly brilliant and picturesquepanorama of ____ .5. The Canterbury Tales opens with a general ”Prologue ” where we are told of acompany of pilgrims that gathered at _____ Inn in South-wark ,suburb of London .6. Chaucer believes in the right of man to ______ happiness .7. The name of the “jolly innkeeper” in The Canterbury Tales is _____ ,who proposes that each pilgrim of the _____ should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two more on the way back .8. The pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales are on their way to the shrine of_____ at a place named Canterbury .9. Despite the enormous plan ,The Canterbury Tales in fact contains a general“ Prologue ” and only _____ tales , of which two are left unfinished .10. In contradistinction to the _____ verse of Anglo-Saxon poetry , Chaucer chose themetrical form which laid the foundation of the English _____ verse . II．Choose the best answer for each blank .1. Who is the “ father of English poetry ” and one of the greatest narrative poets ofEngland ?a. Christopher Marlowb. Geoffrey Chaucerc. W .Shakespeared. Alfred the Great2. When he died , Chaucer was buried in _____ the Poet’s Corner.a. Westminster Abbeyb. Normandyc. Canterburyd. Southwark3. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his “_____ ” a translation of the French“ Roman de la Rose ” by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung , which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only France but throughout Europe .a. Troilus and Criseydeb. A Red , Red Rosec. Romance of the Rosed. Piers the Plowman4. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named “ _____ ” based onBoccaccio’s poem “ Filostrato ” .a. The Legend of Good Womenb. Troilus and Gressiec. Sir Gawain and the Green Knightd. Beowulf5. In his literary development , Chaucer was influenced by three literatures , Whichone is not true ?a. French literatureb. Italian literaturec. English literatured. German literature。
英国文学史及作品选读练习题2
The first poem in The Lyrical Ballads is Coleridge’s masterpiece_______.所选答案： A.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner正确答案： A.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner反馈：The Rime of the Ancient MarinerOf the following four novels by Austen_______is the most popular and dramatic one.所选答案：Pride and Prejudice正确答案：Pride and Prejudice反馈：Pride and Prejudice. All the following about Romanticism are true EXCEPT .所选答案：C.Romanticism constitutes a change of direction from attention tothe inner world of human spirit to the outer world of socialcivilization.正确答案：C.Romanticism constitutes a change of direction from attention tothe inner world of human spirit to the outer world of socialcivilization.反馈：Romanticism constitutes a change of direction from attention tothe inner world of human spirit to the outer world of socialcivilization.The Romantic period is a great age of all literary genres EXCEPT .所选答案： A. drama正确答案： A. drama反馈：dramaJane Austen’s view of life is a totally one.所选答案： A.realistic正确答案： A.realistic反馈： realisticAll the following are novels written by Jane AustenEXCEPT_______.所选答案： A.Shirley正确答案： A.Shirley反馈：ShirleyIn_______, _______set forth his principles of poetry, “all goodpoetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.所选答案： B.In The Preface to Lyrical Ballads; Wordsworth正确答案： B.In The Preface to Lyrical Ballads; Wordsworth 反馈：In The Preface to Lyrical Ballads; WordsworthPrometheus Unbound is a(n) __________by________.所选答案： A. lyrical drama, Shelley正确答案： A. lyrical drama, Shelley反馈：lyrical drama, ShelleyAll the sonnets were written by Keats EXCEPT .所选答案： D.London 1802正确答案： D.London 1802反馈： London 1802_______is a poem that tells the glorious victory of the battle at Bannockburn led by the Scottish national hero Robert Bruce.所选答案： The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border正确答案：The Lord of the Isles_______is NOT among the representative essayists in the romantic times.所选答案： C.Walter Scott正确答案： C.Walter Scott反馈：Walter Scott_______is one of the first generation of English Romantic poets.所选答案：Wordsworth正确答案：Wordsworth反馈：WordsworthThe prevailing tone in Pride and Prejudice is .所选答案： B. mild satire正确答案： B. mild satire反馈：mild satire_______can be found among Shelley’s love lyrics.所选答案： A.One Word is Too Often Profaned正确答案： A.One Word is Too Often Profaned反馈：One Word is Too Often ProfanedPride and Prejudice is noted for its vividly depicted characters who are revealed through comparison and contrast with each other. Among the following pairs of characters are NOT in contrast.所选答案： B. Lady Catherine and Mr. Collins正确答案： B. Lady Catherine and Mr. Collins反馈：Lady Catherine and Mr. Collins_______is NOT a lyric written by Wordsworth.所选答案： B.Love’s Philosophy正确答案： B.Love’s Philosophy反馈：Love’s PhilosophyIn Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”, “A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice “_______.所选答案： C.Refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once lived正确答案： C.Refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once lived 反馈：Refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once livedWhich one of the following statements about Don Juan is true?.所选答案：B.It displayed Byron’s genius as a romanticist and arealist simultaneously正确答案： B.It displayed Byron’s genius as a romanticist and a realist simultaneously反馈：It displayed Byron’s genius as a romanticist and a realist simultaneouslyThe Romantic Movement expressed a attitude toward theexisting social and political conditions that came with industrializationand the growing importance of the bourgeoisie.所选答案： D. negative正确答案： D. negative反馈：negative问题20得2 分，满分2 分is Shelley’s well-known political lyric, which calls upon the working class to fight against their rulers and exploiters.所选答案： D.Song to the Men of England正确答案： D.Song to the Men of England反馈：Song to the Men of EnglandWhich one of the following does NOT describe the characteristics ofScott’s writing?所选答案： B.His plotting is often closely knitted.正确答案： B.His plotting is often closely knitted.反馈：His plotting is often closely knitted.In Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, the mariner suffers the horror of death, because _______.所选答案： B.He kills an albatross正确答案： B.He kills an albatross反馈：He kills an albatrossAll the poems were written by Byron EXCEPT_______.所选答案： C. The Masque of Anarchy正确答案： C. The Masque of Anarchy反馈：The Masque of AnarchyAfter the massacre in St. Peter’s Field near Manchester,______wrote_______.所选答案： D. Shelley, “Song to the Men of England”正确答案： D. Shelley, “Song to the Men of England”反馈：Shelley, “Song to the Men of England”The revolutionary Romantic poet went to Greece to help that country in its struggle for liberty and died of fever there.所选答案： D.Byron正确答案： D.Byron 反馈：ByronShelley was influenced by the Utopian ideal of ________.所选答案：William Godwin正确答案：William Godwin反馈：William GodwinAt the beginning of Pride and Prejudice , the attitude of Darcy andElizabeth toward each other is that of .所选答案： C. mutual repulsion正确答案： C. mutual repulsion反馈：mutual repulsion问题28得2 分，满分2 分T he following statements are about “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”. Among them which one is NOT true?所选答案： D.The first canto deals with Albania and Greece.正确答案： D.The first canto deals with Albania and Greece.反馈： The first canto deals with Albania and Greece.“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” is taken from _______.所选答案： D.Ode to the West Wind正确答案： D.Ode to the West Wind反馈：Ode to the West WindWhich of the following poems was written by Scott?所选答案： The Lady of the Lake正确答案： The Lady of the Lake反馈：The Lady of the Lake”You and the girls may go, or yo u may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the party.” The figure of speech used in the sentence is .所选答案： D. B. irony正确答案： D. B. irony反馈：ironyAmong the following, _______is an elegy.所选答案： C.Adonais正确答案： C.Adonais 反馈：AdonaisWordsworth does not emphasize the importance of ______in poetry composition.所选答案： C.the right poeticform正确答案： C.the right poeticform反馈：the right poetic formOf the following statements about Lyrical Ballads, which is NOT true?所选答案：B.The poems are noted for the uncompromising obscurity ofmuch of the language.正确答案：B.The poems are noted for the uncompromising obscurity ofmuch of the language.反馈：The poems are noted for the uncompromising obscurity of much of the language._______ is the poetic drama written by Byron.所选答案： C.Cain正确答案： C.Cain反馈：Cain“Ode to the West Wind” is concluded with mood.所选答案： C.triumphant and hopeful正确答案： C.triumphant and hopeful反馈： triumphant and hopefulRomantic writers employ all the following EXCEPT as their poetic materials.所选答案： B. the abstract正确答案： B. the abstract反馈：the abstractIt is said that all Keats’s personality seems to be breathed into his odes, of which the more famous odes are “de to Autumn”, “Ode on Melancholy”, ”Ode on a Grecian Urn” and “Ode to Nightingale”, all with th e praise of _______ as their general theme.所选答案： C.beauty正确答案： C.beauty反馈：beauty_______is NOT a historical novel written by Scott.所选答案： A.Marmion正确答案： A.Marmion反馈：Marmionis Byron’s poetic drama with the material taken from Biblical story or stories.所选答案： A. Cain正确答案： A. Cain反馈：CainIn 1843, _______was made poet laureate.所选答案： B.Wordsworth正确答案： B.Wordsworth反馈：Wordsworth’s poetry is always sensuous, colorful and rich in imagery, which expresses the acuteness of his senses. In his poetry, sight, sound, scent,taste and feeling are all taken into give an entire understanding of an experience.所选答案： A. Keats正确答案： A. Keats反馈：Keats——is NOT the essay written by Charles Lamb所选答案： C. Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays正确答案： C. Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays反馈：Characters of Shakespeare’s PlaysAll the following statements about “Ode on a Grecian Urn” are true EXCEPT .所选答案：D.In this poem, the poet spoke as bitterly of human woes as hedid in “Ode to a Nightingale”.正确答案：D.In this poem, the poet spoke as bitterly of human woes as hedid in “Ode to a Nightingale”.反馈：In this poem, the poet spoke as bitterly of human woes as he did in “Ode to a Nightingale”.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by _______.所选答案： A.William Wordsworth正确答案： D.John KeatsWhen composing poems for Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge was given the task of writing about ________.所选答案： C. the supernatural and the romantic正确答案： C. the supernatural and the romantic反馈：the supernatural and the romantic问题47得2 分，满分2 分 King Richard the Lion Heart and Robin Hood both appear inScott’s novel_____.所选答案：Ivanhoe正确答案：Ivanhoe反馈：IvanhoeKeats wrote five long poems. _______ is NOT among them.所选答案： D.Isabella正确答案： A.Annabel LeeThe two poets who won the title of the poet laureate are ________.所选答案： C. Wordsworth and Southey正确答案： C. Wordsworth and Southey反馈：Wordsworth and SoutheyWilliam Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following EXCEPT _______.所选答案： C.Elegant wording and inflated figures of speech正确答案： C.Elegant wording and inflated figures of speech 反馈：Elegant wording and inflated figures of speech。
《英国文学史及选读》试题(二)
英国文学史及选读试卷Ⅰ.Multiple choice（40 points, 2 for each）1. ________ employed the heroic couplet with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English Literature.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. George Gordon ByronC. Edmund SpenderD. Robert Browning2. Which of the following is William Shakespeare's history play?A. MacbethB. Henry IVC. Romeo and JulietD. King Lear3. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ________ has been regarded as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. John BunyanD. James Joyce4. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough. “4. These two lines are quoted from ________'s poem?A. Emily DickinsonB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. William B. Yeats5. Jane Austen wrote within a very narrow sphere. The subject matter, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the provincial life of the ________.A. late 19th –centuryB. 17th -centuryC. 20th –centuryD. late 18th -century6. Usually basing on her own experiences, Emily Dickinson addresses issues that concern the whole human beings. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A. Life and DeathB. ReligionC. Love and NatureD. War and Peace7. Walden is a ________.A. Transcendentalist workB. epic in proseC. lyric poemD. short story8. Henry James' realism is different from others, because he pays more attention to ________.A. the traditional styleB. the common peopleC. the inner world of human beingsD. the class struggle9. ________ is considered Mark Twain's greatest achievement.A. The Gilded AgeB. Innocents AbroadC. The Adventures of Tom SawyerD. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn10. At the beginning of Faulkner's A Rose for Emily, there is a detailed description of Emily's old house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it ________.A. is a wealthy ladyB. is a conservative aristocratC. is a prisoner of the pastD. has good taste11. ________ is NOT a Nobel Prize winner.A. Eugene O'NeillB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner12. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain's language?A. VernacularB. ElegantC. ColloquialD. Humorous13. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dicken's works lies in his ________.A. social criticismB. optimismC. character－portrayalD. social setting14. As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce ________ to England.A. rationalismB. romanticismC. criticismD. realism15. Shelley's greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ________.A. AdonaisB. To a SkylarkC. A Song: Men of EnglandD. Prometheus Unbound16. The Victorian Age is most famous for its ________.A. playsB. novelsC.poemsD. essays17. Which of the following women does not belong to the famous Bronte Sisters?A. Mary BronteB. Charlotte BronteC. Emily BronteD. Anne Bronte18. “Histories make men wise;poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. ” This sentence appears in ________.A. The Advancement of LearningB. A Dictionary of the English LanguageC. An Essay on CriticismD. Of Studies19. In his novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the ________?A.aristocratic classB. enterprising landlordsC. rising bourgeoisieD. hard-working people20. Which of the following works does not belong to John Milton?A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. AdonaisD. LlycidasII Fill in the following blanks:( 20points, 2 for each )1.John Milton wrote "Paradise Lost"in the form of epic,which describes the fall of______in a grand style.2.Walter Scott has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of the ______ novel.3.Though ______ is not the first English novelist,he has generally been considered as "the father of English novel",for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.4.Richard Brinsley Sheridan is the only important English_______of the eighteenth century.In his plays,morality is the constant theme.5.The_______couplet is a pair of rhymed iambic pentameter lines,a verse form first used by the 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer.6.Oscar Wilde,who advocated the idea of "______",represented the literary school of decadence in the late 19th century.7."Pilgrim's Progress" is written as a book of religious instructions in the form of_______and dream.8.In England,the literary technique of "stream of consciousness" is best represented in the works of James Joyce and _______.9.In his novels,Arnold Bennett depicts life and society with a strong_______tendency influenced by the French writer Zola and Guy de Maupassant.10.Charles Dickens and William Thackeray were the two great representatives of the English critical realism in the _______century.Ⅲ. Match authors in Column A with their literary works in Column B. Please write your answer on the Answer Sheet. （20 points, 2 for each pair）1. John MiltonA.The Canterbury Tales2. Samuel JohnsonB. Mrs. Warren's Profession3. Geoffrey ChaucerC. Joseph Andrews4. Jane AustenD. She Stoops to Conquer5. Richard Brinsley SheridanE. A Dictionary of the English Language6. George Bernard ShawF.Song of Innocence7.William BlakeG. Samson Agonistes8. Robert BurnsH. Pride and Prejudice9.Thomas HardyI. My Heart’s in the Highlands10.Henry FieldingJ. Tess of the D’UrbervillesⅣ.Give a brief explanation to each of the following items. Please write your answer on the Answer Sheet.(10 points in total, 2 for each)1. Epic2. Popular ballad3. Romance4. Byronic hero5. English RenaissanceⅤ. Answer the following questions.(10 points) What is the theme of The Wasted Land?。
英国文学史及选读试题及答案
英国文学史及选读试题Ⅰ. Multiple Choice（1′×20=20分）1.______ was respected as “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England.A.William ShakespeareB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. John MiltonD.John Donne2.In terms of influence upon England, ____ brought French civilization and French language to England.A. Anglo-SaxonsB. RomansC. Anglo-NormansD. Teutons3. According to Thomas More, “it was a time when sheep devoured men”. It refers to____.A. IndustrializationB. Religious ReformationC. Commercial ExpansionD. Enclosure Movement4. It was ____who introduced sonnet into English literature.A. Thomas WyattB. William ShakespeareC. Edmund SpenserD. Philip Sidney5. Which of the following is NOT Shakespeare’s tragedies?A. HamletB. King LearC. The Merchant of VeniceD. Othello6. In 1649 ____ was beheaded. England became a commonwealth under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell.A.James IB. Henry VIIIC. Elizabeth ID. Charles I7. Which comment on John Donne is wrong?A. He is the leading figure of metaphysical poetry.B. His poetry is characterized by mysticism and peculiar conceit.C. John Donne usually employs traditional and regular poetic form.D. His attitudes toward love are both positive and negative.8. Friday in The Adventuous of Robinson Crosue can be termed as EXCEPT____.A. a kind-hearted personB. a person with colonial mindC. a smart personD. a friendly person9. Thomas Gray is the representative of _____.A. SentimentalismB. Pre-RomanticismC. RomanticismD. English Renaissance10. William Blake’s ____is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world,though not without its evils and sufferings.A.Poetical SketchesB. The Book of ThelC. Songs of ExperienceD. Songs of Innocence11. ____, the national peasant poet in Scotland, and his poem____ shows his passionate love for his Beloved.A.William Blake, LodonB. William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a CloudC. Robert Burns, A Red, Red RoseD. Robert Burns, Auld Lang Syne12. English Romanticism begins with____ and ends with____.A. the publication of Lyrical Ballads, John Keats’s deathB. French Revolution, Walter Scott’s deathC. the publication of Lyrical Ballads, Walter Scott’s deathD. Industrialization, John Keats’s death13. ____ are named as Lake Poets and Escapist Romanticists.A. Wordsworth, Shelley and KeatsB. Wordsworth, Byron and ShelleyC. Wordsworth, Coleridge and ShelleyD. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey14. Which of the following statement is NOT correct?A. Romantic literature is decidely an age of poetry.B. Dramma was fully developed during the Romantic period.C. The general feature is a dissatisfaction with the bourgeoise society.D. Romanticists paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man.Personified nature plays animportant role in the pages of their works.15. ____ was the founder of the novel which deals with unimportant middle class people and of which there are many fine examples in latter English fiction.A.Charlotte BronteB. Emily BronteC. Charles DickensD. Jane Austen16. King ____ broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeys in the country, which is knownas Religious Reformation.A. Henry VIIB. Henry VIIIC. Mary ID.Elizabetha I17. ____ was honored as Poet Laureate.A. ByronB. P. B ShelleyC. John KeatsD. William Wordsworth18. John Milton’s Paradise Lost is based on the story of ____.A. Greek MythologyB. Roman MythologyC. Old TestamentD. New Testament19. The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties_____A. the Whigs and the ToriesB. the Senate and the House of RepresentativesC. the upper House and lower HouseD. the House of Lords and the House of Representatives20.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by __.A. William WordsworthB. P. B. ShelleyC. George ByronD. John KeatsⅡ. Translate the following literary terms (English into Chinese and Chinese into English) （1′×10=10分）1．iambic pentameter 2. heroic couplet 3. antagonist 4. soliloquy 5. sonnet6. 无韵体诗7. 民谣8. 伏笔, 铺垫9. 诗节10. 清教主义III. Identify the author and title of the literary work (2′×5=10分)1.So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.2.Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.3.All is not lost: the unconquerable will,And study of revenge, immortal hate,And courage never to submit or yield:And what is else not to be overcome?4. Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:I will love thee still, my dear,While the sands o’ life shall run.5. And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodilsIV. Define the following literary terms (Each term should include the time, the features and representative figures or significance) (5′×4=20分)1. English Renaissance2. English Enlightenment3. Pre-Romanticism4. Metaphysical PoetryV. Interpreting the following texts(20′×2=40分)Text 1The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me. (stanza 1)The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn,The swallow twittering from the straw-bulit shed,The cock’s shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. (stanza 5)Questions:1.Identify the author and the title of this poem (2分)2.Examine the poetic form (rhyme, foot and meter should be involved) (3分)3.Explain the underlined words (4分)4.What is the tone in stanza 1? How does the poet achieve it? (3分)5.Stanza 5 involoves rich imagery, please classify them and give examples. (6分)6.Point out the rhetorical devices in the above poem (2分)Text 2I wander through each chartered street,Near where the chartered Thames does flow,And mark in every face I meetMarks of weakness, marks of woe.In every cry of every man,In every infant's cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban,The mind-forged manacles I hear.How the chimney-sweeper's cryEvery blackening church appals;And the hapless soldier's sighRuns in blood down palace walls.Questions:1.Explain the underlined words. (5分)2.Identify the poetic form (3分)3.This poem is the mightiest brief poem, how does William Blake convey the mighty lines? (4分)4.Understand “chartered street and chartered Thames” and “Mind-forged manacles”? (4分)5.Please analyze the images of “Chimney-sweeper” and “soldier’s sigh”. (4分)英国文学史及作品选读（模拟试题一）参考答案Ⅰ. Multiple Choice1.__B__2.___C_3.__D__4.__A__5.__C___6.__D__7.__C__8.__B__9.__A__ 10.__D___11.__C__ 12.__C__ 13.__D__ 14.__B__ 15.__D__16.__B__ 17.__D__ 18.__C__ 19.__A__ 20.__B__Ⅱ. Translate the following literary terms (English into Chinese and Chineseinto English)1.抑扬格五音步2. 英雄双韵体3.反面人物4.独白5.十四行6.blank verse7.ballads8.foreshadowing9. stanza 10. PuritanismIII. Identify the author and title of the literary work1. William Shakespeare Sonnet 182. Francis Bacon Of Studies3. John Milton Paradise Lost4. Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose5.William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a CloudIV. Define the following literary terms (Each term should include the time, the features and representative figures or significance)1.English RenaissanceIt sprang first in Italy in the 14th century and gradually spread all over Europe. It made its appearance in England in the 16th and 17th centuries. It means the rebirth of Greek and Roman culture. Two features are striking of this movement. The one is a thirsting curiosity for the classical literature. Another one is the keen interest in the activities of humanity. Humanism is the key-note of Renaissance. Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English Reanaissance.2. English EnlightenmentThe 18th century marked the beginning of an intellectual movement in Europe, known as theEnlightenment, which was, on the whole, an expression of struggle of the bourgeoisie against feudalism. The enlighteners fought against class inequality, stagnation, prejudices and other survivals of feudalism. They attempt to place all branches of science at the service of mankind by connecting them with the actual needs and requirements of people. English enlighteners differed in some way from those of France “cleared the minds of men for the coming revolution,”the English enlighteners set no revolutionary aims before them.They stove to bring it to an end by clearing away the feudal ideas with the bourgeois ideology. The representatives are Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (essayists), Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift (novelists), and Alexander Pope (poet).3. Pre-RomanticismIn the latter half of the 18th century, a new literary movement arose in Europe, called the Romantic Revival.It was marked by a strong protest against the bondage of Classicism, by a recognition of the claims of passion and emotion, and by a renewed interest in medieval literature. In England, this movement showed itself in the trend of Pre-Romanticism in poetry. William Blake and Robert Burns are the representatives.4. Metaphysical PoetryMetaphysical Poetry is commonly used to name the work of the 17th century writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne. With a rebellious spirit, the metaphysical poets try to break away from the conventional fashion of the Elizabethan love poetry. They are characterized by mysticism in content and fantasticality in form. John Donne is the leading figure of the “metaphysical school.”V. Interpreting the following textsText 11.Thomas Gray Elergy Written in a Country Churchyard2. Examine the poetic form (rhyme, foot and meter should be involved)ˇThe `cur/ˇfew `tolls/ ˇthe `knell/ ˇof `par/ˇting `day,/ aThe lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea, bThe plowman homeward plods his weary way, aAnd leaves the world to darkness and to me. bIt is written in iambic pentameter, rhymed abab3. Explain the underlined wordsCurfew: evening bell lea: meadow plods: walks with heavy steps lowly bed: grave4.What is the tone in stanza 1? How does the poet achieve it?Tone: gloomy and melancony through imagery, long vowels and diphthongs5.Stanza 5 involoves rich imagery, please classify them and give examples.Visual image: strw-built shedAuditory image: cock’s clarion, echoing hornTactile image: breezy call6.Point out the rhetorical devices in the above poemTransferred epithet and EuphemismText 26.Explain the underlined words.Chartered: possessed as the private property marks; signs ban: ProhibitionAppals: shocks hapless: unfortunate7.Identify the poetic formIt is written in iambic tetrameter, rhymed abab.ˇI `wan/ˇder `through/ ˇeach `char/ˇtered `street,/ˇNear `where/ˇthe `char/ˇtered `Thames/ ˇdoes `flow/8.This poem is the mightiest brief poem, how does William Blake convey the mighty lines?Parallelism and repetition every is repeated five times in stanza 29.Understand “chartered street and chartered Thames” and “Mind-forged manacles”?chartered street and chartered Thames show the outlook of English bourgeoisie, their extreme greedMind-forged manacles mean that people under political white terror, they are bonded physically and mentally. They have no freedom in their mind.10.Please analyze the images of “Chimney-sweeper” and “soldier’s sigh”.Chimney-sweeper: to expose the hypocrisy of the churchSolider’s sigh: they are forced to fight for their country, but their blood runs along the palace wall.The war is full of cruelty. So they give the sigh。
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3 English Literature in the 17th CenturyⅠ. Essay questions.1. Give supporting reasons for the statement: Samson in Samson Agonistes is John Milton the author himself.2. Analyze the character of Satan in John Milton’s Paradise Lost.Ⅱ. Define the following terms.1. Elegy 9. Pastoral2. Pamphlet 10. Diction3. Assonance 11. Epithalamion4. Stanza 12. Dream vision (Dream allegory)5. Folktale 13. Metaphysical poetry6. Hyperbole 14. Fable7. Prose poems 15. Parable8. Conceit 16. Masques (Masks)Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks.1. One school of poetry prevailing in the 17th century is that of __________, who were sided with the King against the Parliament and Puritans.2. Though as __________, the characters in The Pilgrim’s Progress impress the readers like real persons. The places in it are English scenes, and the conversations which enliven his narratives vividly repeat the language of the writer’s time.3. The poems of John Donne belong to two categories: the _________, and the later________.4. John Donne is the founder of the school of __________. His works are characterized by mysticism in content and fantasticality in form.5. Because of the success of Paradise Lost, John Milton produced in 1671 another epic, _________.6. John Milton’s Paradise Lost opens with the description of a meeting among the fallen angels, and ends with the departure of _______and ________from the Garden of Eden.7. George Herbert, “the saint of the Metaphysical school,” sometimes resorts to tricks of typographical layout to express his religious piety, as shown by “_________”: “A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears…”8. The most distinguished literary figure of the Restoration Period was John Dryden, poet, ________, and playwright.9. Paradise Lost is a long epic. The stories are taken from __________.10. The Pilgrim’s Progress tells of the spiritual pilgrimage of Christian, who flies form City of Destruction, and finally comes to the Delectable Mountains and the __________.11. Sir Thomas Browne and Jeremy Taylor have been thought to be tworepresentative_________ prose writers in English literature for their elaborate and magnificent style.Ⅳ. Choose the best answer.1. John Dryden’s tragedy All for Love deals with the same story as ________’s Antonym and Cleopatra.A. William ShakespeareB. John MiltonC. Christopher MarloweD. John Bunyan2. In John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve are forbidden to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of _________.A. Love and HateB. Good and EvilC. Faith and BetrayalD. Scene and Sensibility3. ________ is shown in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress.A. UtopianismB. IdealismC. RealismD. Puritanism4. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for ________.A. Material wealthB. spiritual salvationC. Universal truthD. self-fulfillment5. “To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grad Foe.” (John Milton, Paradise Lost) By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God?A. By planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.B. By turning into poisonous snakes to threaten man’s life.C. By removing God from His throne.D. By corrupting man and woman created by God.6. By making the truth-seeking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of Vanity Fair, John Bunyan intends to show the prevalent political and religious _______of his time.A. PersecutionB. improvementC. prosperityD. disillusionment7. “Areopagitica” is John Milton’s best-known______.A. ProseB. epicC. novelD. drama8. ______ is one of the most remarkable passages in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress.A. Holy LivingB. Holy DyingC. Vanity FairD. Lycidas9. The only love poem of John Milton is “__________”.A. LycidasB. On His Deceased WifeC. On MarriageD. Areopagitica10. Metaphysical poets and Cavalier poets share a similar awareness of _________in their poetry.A. MortalityB. sensualityC. destinyD. joyⅤ. Short-answer questions.1. Analyze the relation between John Milton’s works and the English Revolutions.2. What are the contributions of John Dryden to the English neoclassical school of literature?3. List no less than five characters in The Pilgrim’s Progress.4. Illustrate with an example that John Milton is a great stylist.Ⅵ. Answer the questions according to the following passage.Passage 1Judge: thou runagate, heretic, and traitor, hast thou heard what these honest gentlemen have witnessed against thee?Faithful: May I speak a few words in my own defense?Judge: Sirrah, sirrah! Thou deservest to live no longer but to be slain immediately upon the place: yet, that all men may see our gentleness towards thee, let us hear what thou, vile runagate, hast to say.Questions:1. Which work is the passage quoted from?2. Who is the author of the work?3. Summarize the story of the passage.Passage 2“…Knowledge forbidden?Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their LordEnvy them that? Can do they only standBy ignorance, is that their happy state,The proof of their obedience and their faith?…Hence I will excite their mindsWith more desire to know, and to rejectEnvious commands, invented with designTo keep them low whose knowledge might exaltEqual with gods…Questions:4. Which epic are these two stanzas quoted from?5. Who is the author of the epic?6. Who is the image, “I”?7. What is the possible theme of the epic?KeysⅠ. Essay questions.1. (1) Samson Agonistes is a poetical drama modeled on the Greek tragedies. It dealswith the story of Samson from the “Book of Judges” in the Old Testament.Samson is an athlete of the Israelites. He stands as the champion fighting for the freedom of his country. But he is betrayed by his wife Dalilah and blinded by his enemies the Philistines. Led into the temple to make them sport, he wreaks his vengeance upon his enemies by pulling down the temple them and upon himself in a common ruin.(2) There is much in common between Samson and John Milton. Like Samson,Milton had also been embittered by an unwise marriage, persecuted by his enemies, and suffered from blindness. And yet he was unconquerable.(3) Samson’s miserable blind servitude among his enemies, his agonizing longingfor sight and freedom, and the last terrible triumph all strongly suggest Milton’s passionate longing that he too could bring destruction down upon the enemy at the cost of his own life. There fore, Samson in the drama is Milton himself in life.2. (1) In John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Satan, like a conquered and banished giant,remains obeyed and admired by those who follow him down to hell. He is firmer than the rest of angels. It is he who, passing the guarded gates obstacle, makes man revolt against God.(2) Satan is the spirit of questioning the authority of God. When he gets to theGarden of Eden, he believes in no reason why Adam and Even should not taste the fruit of tree of Knowledge.(3) Though defeated, Satan prevails, since he has won from God a third part of hisangels, and almost all the son of Adam. Though wounded, he triumphs, for the thunder which hits upon his head leaves his heart invincible. Though feebler in force, he remains superior in nobility, since he prefers independence to happy servility, and welcomes his defeat and his torments as a glory, a liberty, and a joy. In conclusion, the finest thing in Paradise Lost is the description of hell.And Satan is the real hero of the poem.Ⅱ. Define the following terms.1. Elegy: In Greek and Roman times, the term elegy was used to refer to any poem composed in elegiac meter. Since the 17th century, elegy has typically been used to refer to reflective poems that lament the loss of something or someone, or loss or death more generally, although in Elizabethan times it was also use to refer to certain love poems. Elegies written in English frequently take the form of the pastoral elegy.2. Pamphlet:Originally a pamphlet was a sort of treatise or tract. It then came to mean a short work written on a topical subject on which an author feels strongly. Many outstanding writers have used the pamphlet to express vigorous political or religious views.3. Assonance: Assonance is the repetition of identical or similar vowels-especially in stressed syllables-in a sequence of nearby words.4. Stanza: A stanza is a grouping of the verse lines in a poem, often set off by a space in the printed text. Usually the stanzas of a given poem are marked by a recurrent pattern of rhyme and are also uniform in the number and length of the componentlines.5. Folktale: Folktale, strictly defined, is a short narrative in prose of unknown authorship which has been transmitted orally; many of these tales eventually achieve written form. The term, however, is often extended to include stories invented by a known author which have been picked up and repeatedly narrated by word of mouth as well as in written form.6. Hyperbole:It is bold overstatement, or the extravagant exaggeration of fact or possibility.7. Prose poems: Prose poems are densely compact, pronouncedly rhythmic, and highly sonorous compositions which are written as a continuous sequence of sentences without line break.8. Conceit: From the Italian concetto(meaning idea or concept), it refers to an unusually far-fetched or elaborate metaphor or simile presenting a surprisingly apt parallel between two apparently dissimilar things or feeling. Poetic conceits are prominent in Elizabethan love sonnets and metaphysical poetry. Conceits often employ the devices of hyperbole, paradox and oxymoron.9. Pastoral: the originator of the pastoral was the Greek poet Theocritus, who in the third century B.C. wrote poems representing the life of Sicilian shepherds. (Pastor is Latin for “shepherd.”) It is a deliberately conventional poem expressing an urban poet’s nostalgic image of the peace and simplicity of the life of shepherds and other rural folk in an idealized natural setting.10. Diction: The term diction signifies the types of words, phrases, and sentence structures, and sometimes also of figurative language, that constitute any work of literature. A writer’s diction can be analyzed under a great variety of categories, such as the degree to which the vocabulary and phrasing is abstract or concrete, Latin or Anglo-Saxon in origin, colloquial of formal, technical or common.11. Epithalamion:Epithalamion, or in the Latin form epithalamium, is a poem written to celebrate a marriage. The term in Greek means” at the bridal chamber,” since the verses were originally written to be sung outside the bedroom of a newly married couple. The form flourished among the Neo-Latin poets of the Renaissance, who established the model that was followed by writers in the European vernacular languages.12. Dream vision (Dream allegory): It is a mode of narrative widely employed by medieval poets: the narrator falls asleep, usually in a spring landscape, and dreams the events he goes on to relate; often he is led by a guide, human or animal, and the events which he dreams are at least in part an allegory.13. Metaphysical poetry: A term that can be applied to any poetry that deals with philosophical or spiritual matters but that is generally limited to works written by a specific group of 17th century poets are linked by style and modes of poetic organization. Common elements include the following: (1) an analytical approach to subject matter; (2) colloquial language ;( 3) rhythmic patterns that are often rough or irregular, and (4) the metaphysical conceit, a figurative device used to capture though and emotion as accurately as possible.14. Fable: A fable is also called an apologue. It is short narrative, in prose or verse,which exemplifies an abstract moral thesis or principle of human behavior; usually, at its conclusion, either the narrator or one of the characters states the moral in the form of an epigram.15. Parable: A parable is a very short narrative about human beings presented so as to stress the tacit analogy, or parallel, with a general thesis or lesson that the narrator is trying to bring home to his audience. The parable was one of Jesus’ favorite devices as a teacher.16. Masques (or Masks):The masque was inaugurated in Renaissance Italy andflourished in England during the reigns of Elizabeth Ⅰ. It was an elaborate form of court entertainment that combined poetic drama, music, song, dance, splendid costuming, and stage spectacle. A plot—often slight, and mainly mythological and allegorical—served to hold together these diverse elements. The speaking characters, who wore masks (hence the title), were often played by amateurs who belonged to courtly society. The play concluded with a dance in which the players doffed their masks and were joined by the audience.Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks.1. Cavalier poets2. Allegory3. Youthful love lyrics, sacred verses4. Metaphysical poetry5. Paradise Regained6. Adam; Eve7. The Altar8. Critic9. The Old Testament10. Celestial City11. BaroqueⅣ. Choose the best answer.1. A2. B3. B4. B5. D6. A7. A8. C9. B 10. AⅤ. Short-answer questions.1. John Milton defended the English Commonwealth with his pen. His epic Paradise Lost and his pamphlets played an active part in pushing on the revolutionary cause. For example, the image of Satan embodies the political passions of the persecuted Republicans after Restoration.2. Following the standards of Classicism, John Dryden established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse form, clarified the English prose and made it precise, concise and flexible, and raise English literary criticism to a new level. He was the forerunner of the English neoclassical school of literature in the 18th century.3. Christian, Faithful, Envy, Mr. Badman and Judge Hate-good.4. John Milton is famous for his grand style, which is the result of his life-long classical and biblical study. It is an art attained by definite and conscientious rhetorical devices. For example, he likes to use Latinisms proper names of resonance and color to create an elevated and dignified effect.Ⅳ. Answer the questions according to the following passages.Passage 11. It is quoted form The Pilgrim’s Progress.2. The author is John Bunyan.3. The passage is entitled Vanity Fair. Christian and Faithful come to Vanity Fair. As they refuse to buy anything but Truth, they are beaten and put in a cage, and then taken out and led in chains up and down the fair, and at length brought before a court. Judge Hate-good summons three witnesses: Envy, Superstition and Pick thank, who testify against him. The case is given to the jury, composed of Mr. Badman, Mr. No-good, Mr. Malice, etc. each gives verdict against Faithful, who is presently condemned. Here Bunyan intends to satirize the estate trials in the reactionary reigns of Charles Ⅱ and James Ⅱ, which are merely forms preliminaryto hanging, drawing and quartering.Passage 24. They are quoted from Paradise Lost.5. It is an epic written by John Milton.6. “I” in the two stanzas refers to Satan.7. On appearance, the epic is to justify the ways of God to man, i.e., to advocate submission to the Almighty. But actually the theme of the epic is a revolt against God’s authority because in the poem God is no better than a selfish despot, seated upon a throne with a chorus of angels about him eternally singing his praises. He is cruel and unjust in his struggle against Satan. What Milton actually intends to appraise is Satan, who in the author’s eyes is a real hero. He amid so many dangers makes man revolt against God.。
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Test Paper OneⅠ. Identification.1. Identify each on the left column with its related information on the right column.(1) Ernest Jones A. euphuism(2) Oscar Wilde B. Lake poet(3) John Lyly C. Chartist poetry(4) Robert Louis Stevenson D. tragedy(5) Robert Southey E. sentimentalism(6) George Eliot F. critical realism(7) Laurence Sterne G. art for art’s sake(8) Pamela H. Kunstlerroman(9) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man I. epistolary novel(10) Macbeth J. neo-romanticism2. Identify the author with his or her work.(1) Charles Dickens A. A Passage to India(2) E. M. Foster B. Paradise Regained(3) Virginia Woolf C. The Garden Party(4) John Milton D. Of Studies(5) Shelley E. Jonathan Wild the Great(6) Francis Bacon F. Jude the Obscure(7) Katherine Mansfield G. The Waste Land(8) Henry Fielding H. Hard Times(9) T. S. Eliot I. To the Lighthouse(10) Thomas Hardy J. Prometheus UnboundⅡ. Fill in the blanks.1. was one of the most prominent of the 20th century English realistic writers. The Man of Property is one of his works.2. As a literary figure, Stephen Dedalus appears in two novels written by .3. Of Human Bondage is a naturalistic novel by , dealing with the story ofa deformed orphan trying vainly to be an artist.4. , T. S. Eliot’s most important single poem, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry, comparable to Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads.5. Henry James’ most famous short story is , a ghost story in which the question of childhood corruption obsesses governess.6. The pessimistic view of life that p redominates most of Hardy’s later works earns him a reputation as a writer.7. is regarded as the oldest poem in English literature.8. The most famous English ballads of the 15th century is the Ballads of ,a legendary outlaw.9. The greatest and most distinctive achievement of Elizabethan literature is ________.10. and were two schools of poetry prevailing in the 17th century.11. wrote his famous prose composite on “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy” i n1668, which established his position as the leading critic of the day. 12. , one of Graham Green’s best novels, tells a story of the wandering of a whisky priest, an outlaw in Mexico, who is seedy and alcoholic as an ordinary man, but fulfills his function as priest.13. is Byron’s masterpiece, written in the prime of his creative power. He called it an “epic satire”, “a satire on abuses of the present state of society.”14. Romanticism was in effect a revolt of the English against the neoclassical , which prevailed from the days of Pope to those of Johnson.15. All such works of Coleridge as “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, “Christable” and “Kubla Khan” revealed his keen interest in.16. The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into English literature: the struggle of the for its rights.17. The Rape of the Lock takes the form of a , which describes the triviality of high society in a grand style.18. In , Jonathan Swift suggests that children of the poor Irish people be sold at one year old as food for the English nobles. It shows his indignation toward the terrible oppression and exploitation of the Irish people by the English ruling class.19. Horace Walpole’s novel began the tradition of Gothic romance in English literature.20. The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the .Ⅲ. Choose the best answer.1. Life of Charlotte Bronte is written by .A. Emily BronteB. Anne BronteC. Mrs. GaskellD. George Eliot2. was appointed poet laureate in succession to Wordsworth in1850.A. Alfred TennysonB. Robert BrowningC. Mrs. BrowningD. Dante Rossetti3. Most of Hardy’s novels are set in , the fictional primitive andcrude region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.A. LondonB. YoknapatawphaC. WessexD. Paris4. Which of the following novels doe s NOT belong to the “stream-of- consciousness” school of novel writing?A. UlyssesB. Finnegan’s WakeC. The RainbowD. The Waves5. is a story about the three generations of the Brangwen family on the Marsh farm.A. Sons and LoversB. Women in LoveC. The RainbowD. Man and Superman6. William Butler Yeats was .A. an Irish poetB. a dramatistC. a criticD. all of the above7. The hero in the romance is usually the .A. kingB. knightC. ChristD. churchman8. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the Elizabethan age?A. It is the age of intellectual liberty.B. It is the age of protestant reformation.C. It is the age of social contentment.D. It is the age of bourgeois revolution.9. The Pilgrim’s Progress is .A. a religious allegoryB. a dramatic sonnetC. a historical novelD. a long epic10. In his early volumes of poetry, mainly writes about animals which are emblems and analogues intended as comments on human life.A. Philip LarkinB. W. H. AudenC. Dylan ThomasD. Ted Hughes11. In The French Lieutenant’s Woman, is an existentially independent woman, as she said in the novel, “No limit, no blame, can touch me.”A. SarahB. ErnestinaC. MirandaD. Mantissa12. is distinctive in English literature because he makes thriller a serious form, and thus he bridges the gap between popular and serious writers.A. Graham GreeneB. George OrwellC. Evelyn WaughD. William Golding13. In , William Wordsworth set forth his prin ciples of poetry, “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.A. The Preface to Lyrical BalladsB. The Rime of the Ancient MarinerC. A Defence of PoetryD. Lectures on the English Poets14. The following statements are about “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”. Which statement is NOT true?A. It is about a young aristocrat whose “world-weariness” bespeaks his loathing forEnglish high society.B. Besides Harold’s impressions of the countries he visits, the poem is interspersedwith lyrical outbursts which give utterance to the poet’s own philosophical and political views.C. The first canto deals with Albania and Greece.D. The last canto sings of Italy and the Italian people who have given the worldgreat writers and thinkers like Dante.15. ’s poetry is always sensuous, colorful and rich in imagery, which expresses the acuteness of his senses. In his poetry, sight, sound, scent taste andfeeling are all taken into give an entire understanding of an experience.A. KeatsB. ShelleyC. WordsworthD. Byron16. Modern English novel, as a product of the 18th century Enlightenment and industrialization, really came with the rising of the class.A. workingB. aristocraticC. bourgeoisD. capitalist17. T. B. Smollett used the form of the novel in his books. This was later followed by Charles Dickens in The Pick wick Papers.A. epistolaryB. picaresqueC. GothicD. psychological18. wrote under the influence of Scottish folk tradition and old Scottish poetry.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Robert BurnsC. William BlakeD. Thomas Gray19. Which of the following is NOT from Ireland?A. Jonathan SwiftB. Alexander PopeC. Oliver GoldsmithD. Richard Brinsley Sheridan20. Which one is correct according to the time when they appeared?A. romanticism, neoclassicism, humanism, critical realismB. humanism, neoclassicism, romanticism, critical realismC. romanticism, humanism, realism, naturalismD. realism, critical realism, romanticism, humanismⅣ. Define the following terms.1. Parody2. Anti-novel3. Heroic couplet4. Blank verse5. Point of view6. Byronic hero7. Epistolarynovel edyofmannersⅤ. Short-answer questions.1. Please analyze Adam Bede to illustrate George Eliot’s moral view.2. What are the main features of the romance in the Middle Ages?3. Analyze the image of God in Paradise Lost.4. State briefly the artistic features of Jane Austen.5. What are the characteristics of William Blake’s poetry? Take “The Sick Rose” as an example.Ⅵ. Answer the questions according to the following passages.Passage 1I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,And live alone in the bee-loud glade.And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,Dropping from the veils of the mourning to where the cricket sings;There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,And evening full of the linnet’s wings.I will arise and go now, for always night and dayI hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,I hear it in the deep heart’s core.Questions:1.Identify the author and the title of the poem.2.Why does the poet want to “arise and go”?3. Analyze the structure of this poem briefly.4. What is the theme of this poem?5. What are stylistic features of this poem?Passage2The spectral, half-compounded, aqueous light which pervaded the open mead impressed them with the feeling of isolation, as if they were Adam and Eve... It was then, as has been said, that she impressed him most deeply. She was no longer the milk maid, but a visionary essence of woman-a whole sex condensed into one typical form....Then it would grow lighter, and her features would becomes imply feminine; they had changed from those of a divinity who could confer bliss to those of a being who craved it.Questions:6. This is from Tess of the D’ Urbervilles, the section titled “The Rally” and Chapter XX. Who is “she” in this passage?7. What does this phrase “as if they were Adam and Eve” symbolize?8. How does the paragraph summarize the way that the man feels about the woman and how does this view of her influence the plot?Ⅶ. Essay question.Comment on D. H. Lawrence with reference to Sons and Lovers.KeysⅠ. Identification.1. Identify each on the left column with the related information on the right column. (1) C (2) G (3) A (4) J (5) B(6) F (7) E (8) I (9) H (10) D2. Identify the author with his or her work.(1) H (2) A (3) I (4) B (5) J(6) D (7) C (8) E (9) G (10) FⅡ. Fill in the blanks.1. John Galswathy2. James Joyce3. William Somerset Maugham4. The Waste Land5. The Turn of the Screw6. naturalistic7. Beowulf 8. Robin Hood9. drama 10. Metaphysical Poetry; Cavalier Poetry 11. John Dryden 12. The Power and the Glory13. Don Juan14. Imagination; reason15. mysticism 16. proletariat17. mock epic 18. A Modest Proposal19. The Castle of Otranto20. dramatic monologueⅢ. Choose the best answer.1. C2. A3. C4. C5. C6. D7. B8. D9. A 10. D11. A 12. A 13. A 14. C 15. A16. C 17. B 18. B 19. B 20. BⅣ. Define the following terms.1. Parody: A parody is a high burlesque. It imitates the serious manner and characteristic features of a particular literary work, or the distinctive style of a particular author, or the typical stylistic and other features of a serious literary genre, and deflates the original by applying the imitation to a lowly or comically inappropriate subject. Henry Fielding in Joseph Andrews parodied Samuel Richardson’s Pamela by putting a hearty male heroin place of Richardson’s heroine.2. Anti-novel: A form of experimental fiction that dispenses with certain traditional elements of novel-writing like the analysis of characters’ states of mind or the unfolding of a sequential plot. Antecedents of the anti-novel can be found in the blank pages and comically self-defeating digressions of Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1759~1767) and in some of the innovations of modernism, like the absence of narration in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931).3. Heroic couplet: Iambic pentameter lines rhyming in pairs are called decasyllabic (ten-syllable) couplets or heroic couplets.4. Blank verse:Blank verse was first introduced by the Earl of Surrey in his translations of Books 2 and 4of Virgil’s The Aeneid. It consists of lines of iambic pentameter (five-stress iambic verse) which are unrhymed—hence the term “blank”. Of all English metrical forms it is closest to the natural rhythms of English speech, and at the same time flexible and adaptive to diverse levels of discourse; as a result it has been more frequently and variously used than any other type of versification. It became the standard meter for Elizabethan and later poetic drama; a free form of blank verse is still the medium in twentieth-century verse plays.5. Point of view: The vantage point from which a narrative is told. There are two basic points of view: first-person and third-person.(1) In the first-person point of view, the story is told by one of the characters in hisor her own word. The first-person point of view is limited, since the reader is told only what this character knows and observes.(2) In the third person point of view, the narrator is not a character in the story .Thenarrator may be an “omniscient” or “all-knowing” observer who can describe and comment on all the characters and actions in the story. On the other hand, the third-person narrator might tell a story from the point of view of only one character in the story.6. Byronic hero:A stereotyped character created by Byron. This kind of hero is usually a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin. With immense superiority in his passions and powers, he would carry on his shoulders the burden of right in gall the wrongs in a corrupt society. He would rise single-handedly against any kind of tyrannical rules either in government, in religion, or in moral principles with unconquerable wills and inexhaustible energies. The conflict is usually one of rebellious individuals against outworn social systems and conventions.7. Epistolary novel: A type of novel in which the narrative is carried on by means of series of letters. The genre was extremely popular during the 18th century. Samuel Richardson’s Pamela is among the best-known epistolary novels.8. Comedy of manners: A kind of comedy representing the complex and sophisticated code of behavior current in fashionable circles of society, where appearances count for more than true moral character. Its humor relies chiefly on elegant verbal wit and repartee. In England, the comedy of manners flourished as the dominant form of Restoration comedy in the works of Etheredge, Wycherley and Congreve. It was revived in a more subdued form in the 1770s by Goldsmith and Sheridan, and later by Oscar Wilde.Ⅴ. Short-answer questions.1. As a philosopher turned novelist, Eliot wrote her novels with the aim o f propagating her moral views. Adam Bede is a novel of moral conflicts, showing the contest of personal desires, passion, temperament, human weaknesses and the claims of moral duty. The theme of social in equality is blended in the book with a moralization typical of the author. In the novel, the two pairs, Arthur and Hetty on the one hand, and Adam and Dinah on the other, are described in contrast to each other. The former couple are shown to be always thinking of their own interests without any consideration of others, while the latter pair are endowed with high moral principles which guide their conduct for the good of others and of themselves. The novelist takes her side with the latter party. According to Eliot, the moral principles of man are closely c onnected with the “religion of heart”. This shows theinfluence of the bourgeois positivist philosophy which seeks to reconcile science with religion and to prove the possibility of social harmony and concord in a capitalist society.2. The romance was the prevailing form of literature in the Middle Ages. Its essential features are:(1) It lacks general resemblance to truth or reality.(2) It exaggerates the vices of human nature and idealizes the virtues.(3) It contains perilous adventures more or less remote from ordinary life.(4) It lays emphasis on supreme devotion to a fair lady.(5) The central character of the romance is the knight, a man of noble birth skilledin the use of weapons. He is commonly described as riding forth to seek adventures, taking part in tournaments, or fighting for his lord in battle. He is devoted to the church and the king.3. In the poem God is no better than a selfish despot, seated upon a throne with a chorus of angels about him eternally singing his praises. His long speeches are never pleasing. He is cruel and unjust in his struggle against Satan.4. (1) Jane Austen’s main concern is about human beings in their personal relations,human beings with their families and neighbors. She is particularly preoccupied with the relationship between men and women in love.(2) She writes with in a narrow sphere. The subject matter, the character range, themoral setting, physical setting and social setting, and plots are all restricted to the provincial or village life of the 19th-century England, all concerning three or four landed gentry families with the trivial incidents of their everyday life. (3) Her novels are surprisingly realistic, with keen observation and penetratinganalysis. She keeps the balance between fact and form as no other English novelist has ever done.(4) Austen uses dialogues to reveal the personalities of her characters. The plots ofher novels appear natural and unforced. Her characters are vividly portrayed and everyone comes alive.(5) Her language, which is of typical neoclassicism, is simple, easy, naturally lucidand very economical.5. Blake writes his poems in plain and direct language. His poems often carry the lyric beauty with immense compression of meaning. He distrusts the abstractness and tends to present his view with visual images instead of abstract terms. Symbolism in wide range is also a distinctive feature of his poetry.In “The Sick Rose”, the poet is looking at a blighted rose. He is moved to reflect on some kind of curious relationship between love and death. The poem is brief and on the surface the language is simple and lucid. Beneath the poem is a profound vision of good and evil, of life-bringing and death-bringing love, of brightness and darkness, of forces we can know little about, of motives that are hard to fathom.Ⅵ. Answer the questions according to the following passages.Passage 11. William Butler Yeats’ “The Lake Isle Of Innisfree”.2. “While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray”, which is a typical image of city dwe lling, the poet finds that he doesn’t feel good in urban surroundings and is tired of the life of his day, and he hears in his heart “lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore”, so he wants to “arise and go” to escape into an ideal “fairyland” where he could live calmly as a hermit and enjoy the beauty of the nature.3. The poem consists of three quatrains of iambic pentameter, with each stanza rhymed abab.4. The poem is one of the poet’s best-known lyrics and a popular representative of the poems which get meaning by contrasting ideas or images like human and fairy, natural and artificial, domestic and wild, and ephemeral and permanent. Tired of the life of his day, the poets ought to escape into an ideal “fairyland” where he could live calmly as a hermit and enjoy the beauty of the nature. From his viewpoint, the best remedy for the blankness of his life seems to be a return to simple and serene life of the past.5. The poem is closely woven, easy, subtle and musical. The clarity and control of the imagery give the poem a hunting quality.Passage 26. Tess of the D’s Urbervilles, or “Tess” is an acceptable answer.7. It symbolizes their innocence or perhaps the idea that they see each other, especially Angel sees Tess, as perfect.8. Angel basically sees Tess as a pure, innocent representative of the whole race, not as a real person. He idealizes her too much and does not allow for her to be an actual human with weaknesses. Later, he deserts her when he realizes that she has been with another man already—she is not the perfect person he had imagined so he leaves her. Grading notes: to get all the points the student must mention the fact that Angel sees Tess as more perfect than she is, that he is disappointed in some way by this, and that he leaves h er later when he realizes that she isn’t perfect/innocent.Ⅶ. Essay question.D. H. Lawrence is one of the greatest English novelists of the 20th century. He makes a strong protest against the mechanical civilization. It is this agonized concern about the dehumanizing effect of mechanical civilization on the sensual tenderness of human nature that haunts Lawrence’s writing. He holds that the only remedy to the decaying civilization is through are arrangement of personal relationships and are turn to nature .In his writings, he is chiefly concerned with human relationships, especially with the relation of self to other selves. From his viewpoint, the most important relationship is the one between man and woman, which should develop freely and healthily. Lawrence is one of the first novelists to introduce themes of ps ychology into his works. Lawrence’s artistic tendency is mainly realism, which combines dramatic scenes with an authoritative commentary. Through a combination of traditional realism and the innovating elements of symbolism and poetic imagination, Lawrence has managed to depict the subtle ebb and flow of his characters’ subconscious life.All these features of D. H. Lawrence are reflected in his autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers thematically, sociologically and psychologically. Lawrence was from a working-class family. His father was a miner with little education, thus his mother, a school teacher, thought she had married beneath her and was eager to raise the level of her sons. His mother’s claims on him kept frustrating his relationships with girls, and personal problems and conflicts that resulted are vividly presented in this novel.Sons and Lovers displays Lawrence’s characteristic themes: the dehumanizing effect of the bourgeois industrialization; the complexity of human relationship; the emotional possession; and the spiritual liberation of the protagonist in search for identity and fulfillment as an artist. The psychic conflict in human relationships is the central theme. Sociologically, Sons and Lovers is a novel about the “sickness of a whole ci vilization” that causes the destruction of human nature. Psychologically, the novel depicts a triangle of father, mother and son, which embodies Freud’s remarkable psychosexual theory.。
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《英国文学史及选读》第二册练习题I. 浪漫主义时期I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.1. English Romanticism is generally said to have begun with_____in 1798.(A)A. the publication of Lyrical BalladsB. the death of Sir ScottC. the birth of William WordsworthD. the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament2. The Romantic Period is first of all an age of_____.(B)A. NovelB. poetryC. dramaD. prose3. Romanticism does not emphasize_____.(D)A. the special qualities of each individual’s mindB. the inner world of the human spiritC. individualityD. the features that men have in common4._____ is not a Romantic poet.(B)A. William BlakeB. Sir ScottC. P. B. ShelleyD. Lord Byron5. _____ is a Romantic novelist but is impressed with neo-classic strains.(C)A. Walter ScottB. Mary ShelleyC. Jane AustenD. Ann Radcliff6. _____ is not characte ristic of William Blake’s writing.(C)A. plain and direct languageB. compression of meaningC. supernatural qualityD. symbolism7. Wordsworth published Lyrical Ballads in 1789 with _____.(B)A. ByronB. ColeridgeC. ShelleyD. Keats8. Wordsworth thinks that _____ is the only subject of literary interest.(D)A. the life of rising bourgeoisieB. aristocratic lifeC. the life of the royal familyD. common life9. Don Juan is the masterpiece of_____.(A)A. Lord Byron’sB. P. B. Shelley’sC. John Keats’sD. Samuel Coleridge’s10. _____ is not a novel written by Jane Austen.(A)A. Jane EyreB. Sense and SensibilityC. Pride and PrejudiceD. EmmaII.维多利亚时期I. Each of the statement below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets1. The Victorian period roughly began at the enthronement of Queen Victoria in_____.(B)A. 1835B. 1836C. 1837D. 18382. The critical realists like Charles Dickens in the Victorian period wrote novels_____.(D)A. representing the 18th century realist novelB. criticizing the societyC. defending the massE. all the above3. _____is not a Victoria novelist.(D)A. Charles DickensB. George EliotC. William Makepeace ThackerayD. D. H. Lawrence4. _____ is not a work by Charles Dickens.(C)A. Oliver TwistB. David CopperfieldC. MiddlemarchD. A Tale of Two Cities5. Wuthering Heights is a masterpiece written by_____.(B)A. Charlotte BronteB. Emily BronteC. Anne BronteD. Branwell Bronte6. _____ is not Thomas Hardy’s work.(A)A. The Mill on the FlossB. Tess of the D’UrbervillesC. Jude the ObscureD. The Mayor of Casterbridge7. “My Last Duchess” is _____.(A)A. a dramatic monologueB. a short lyricC. a novelD. an essay8. Tennyson’s “Ulysses” gets its inspiration from the following works or writers except_____.(B)A. Homer’s OdesseyB. Joyce’s UlyssesC. DanteD. Greek Mythology9. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend _____ appeared. And it flourished in the 1840s and in the early 1950s.(D)A. romanticismB. naturalismC. realismD. critical realism10. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from_____.(A)A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Childe Harold’s PilgrimageC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. The Canterbury TalesIV. Name the author of each of the following literary works.1. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Charles Dickens)2. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Bronte)3. In Memoriam (Alfred Tennyson)4. The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)5. The Return of the Native (Thomas Hardy)VI. 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 briefly interpret it.1. That same evening the gentleman in the white waistcoat most positively and decidedly affirmed, not only that Oliver would be hung, but that he would be drawn and quartered into the bargain. Mr.Bumble shoot his head with gloomy mystery, and said he wished he might come to good; where—unto Mr. Gamfield replied, that he wished he might come to him---which, although he agreed with the beadle in most matters, would seem to be a wish of a totally opposite description. The next morning, the public were once more informed that Oliver Twist was again To Let, and that five pounds would be paid to anybody who would take possession of him.( It is taken from Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist. This part describes how Oliver is punished for asking for more to eat and how he is therefore sold at three pound ten to a notorious chimney-sweeper. It reveals that the pitiable state of the orphan boy and the cruelty and hypocrisy of the workhouse board.)2. Thus, neither having the clue to the other’s secret, they were respectively puzzled at what each revealed, and awaited new knowledge of each other’s character and moods without attempting to pry into each o ther’s history.Every day, every hour, brought to him one more little stroke of her nature, and to her one more of his. Tess was trying to lead a repressed life, but she little divined the strength of her own vitality.( It is taken from Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles. This part describes how Tess forgets about her past misfortune in the beautiful, pastoral dairy farm and unconsciously gives herself up to the attraction of Angel Clare.)III. 现代时期I. Each of the statement below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets1. Modernism takes_____as its theoretical base.（C)A. the irrational philosophyB. the theory of psycho-analysisC. both A and BD. neither A nor B2. Modernism rose out of_____.(D)A. skepticismB. disillusion of capitalismC. irrational philosophyD. al the above3. Modernism is, in many aspects, a reaction against_____.(B)A .romanticism B. realismC. post-modernismD. all the above4. _____is not a movement in the modern period.(C)A. “the Angry Young Men”B. “the Beat Generation”C. “the Lost Generation”D. “the Theater of the Absurd”5. _____ is not a representative figure i n applying the technique of “the stream of consciousness” in his/her writing.(A)A. D. H. LawrenceB. James JoyceC. Virginia WoolfD. Dorothy Richardson6. Waiting for Godot is regarded as the most famous and influential play of the Theater of Absurd. It is written by_____.(B)A. George Bernard ShawB. Samuel BeckettC. John GalsworthyD. Eugene O’ Neill7. The Waste Land is_____’s most important single poem.(D)A. Ezra PoundB. William Butler YeatsC. Alfred TennysonD. T. S. Eliot8. _____ is not D. H. Lawrence’s work.(A)A. Finnegans WakeB. Sons and LoversC. Lady Chatterley’s LoverD. The Rain Bow9. _____ is not James Joyce’s novel.(C)A. UlyssesB. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManC. DublinersD. Finnegans Wake10. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is written by_____.(D)A. W. H. AudenB. D. H. LawrenceC. W. B. YeatsD. T. S. EliotIV. Name the author of each of the following literary works.1. Pygmalion (Bernard Shaw )2. “Sailing to Byzantium” (W. B. Yeats)3. Woman in Love (D. H. Lawrence)4. Ulysses (James Joyce)5. The Man of Property (John Galsworthy)VI. 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 briefly interpret it.1. I will arise and go now, for always night and dayI hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,I hear it in the deep heart’s core.(It is taken from Yeats’s “The lake Isle of Innisfree.” In this poem, Yeats expresses his longing to escape from the city life and to live a secluded life by describing the peaceful, tranquil scene of the lake Isle of Innisfree, a legendary place for hermitage.)2. Now she began to combat in his restless fretting. He still kept up his connexion with Miriam, could neither break free nor go the whole length of engagement. And this indecision seemed to bleed him of his energy. Moreover. His mother suspected him of an unrecognized leaning towards Clara, and, since the latter was a married woman, she wished he would fall in love with one of the girls in a better station of life. But he was stupid, and would refuse to love or even to admire a girl much, just because she was his social superior.(It is taken from D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers. Paul has love affairs with two girls, Miriam and Clara. But he is so dependent on his mother’s love and help that he fails to achieve a fulfilling relationship with either girl.) English Literature ( Book II)2.William Wordsworth要知道他的“Lyrical Ballads”前言是英国浪漫主义时期开始的标志，也是宣言。
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英国⽂学史及选读试卷英国⽂学史及选读试卷Part OneI. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your choice on the answer sheet.1. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”is thebeginning line of one of Shakespeare’s____. ( )A. comediesB. tragediesC. historiesD. sonnets2. _____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language. ( )A. The Pilgrim’s processB. Grace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersC. The Life and Death of Mr. BadmanD. The Holy War3. Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was one ofthe first to introduce rationalism to England? ( )A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander PopeD.Jonathan Swift4. Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, who was the first to set out,both in theory and practice, to write a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style? ( )A. Thomas GrayB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Jonathan SwiftD. Henry Fielding5. Generally, the renaissance refers to the period between the 14thand mid-17th centuries, its essence is ____( )A. scienceB. philosophyC. artsD. humanism6. Which of the following is not true about Renaissance? ( )A. Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance.B. Attitudes and feelings which had been characteristic of the14th and 15thcenturies persisted well into the era of humanism and Reformation.C. It was Chaucer, who initiated the Reformation.D. The Elizabethan drama, in its totality, is the real main streamof the English Renaissance.7. “ So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ”What does “this ” refer to? ( )A. loverB. timeC. summerD. poetry8. Fielding has been regarded by some as “____”, for hiscontribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. ( )A. Best Writer of the English NovelB. Father of the English NovelC. the most gifted writer of the English novelD. conventional writer of the English novel9. 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. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Matin LutherC. William LanglandD. John Gower10. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is Not such an event? ( )A.the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek cultureB.England’s domestic restC.new discovery in geography and astrologythe religious reformation and the economic expansion11. ____ was the first person who introduced printing into England?( )A. William CaxtonB. VirgilC. HomerD. Plutarch12. Which of the following statements is not the reason for thatEdmund Spenser is famous for “the poet’s poet”? ( )A. Spenser’s idealismB. his struggle for criteriaC. his love of beautyD. his exquisite melody13. In Shelley’s “To a Skylark ”,the bird, suspended between realityand poetic image, pours forth an exultant song which suggests to the poet____. ( )A. both celestial rapture and human limitationB. both image creation and profound meaningC. both music wordsD. both inspiration and skill of writing14. Marlowe gave new vigor to ____ with his “mighty lines” ( )A. the Petrarchan sonnetB. sestinaC. terza rimaD. blank verse15. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I amsoulless and heartless? … And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave.”The above quoted passage is most probably taken from ____. ( )A. Great ExpectationsB. Wuthering HeightsC. Jane EyreD. Pride and Prejudice16. The sentence “And now he stared at her so earnestly that Ithought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes”but they burned with anguish, they did not melt”are found in ____. ( )A. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront?B. Jane Eyre byCharlotte Bront?C. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftD. Paradise Lost byJohn Milton17. All the following four except ____ are the most famous dramatistin the Renaissance England. ( )A. Francis BaconB. Christopher MarloweC. William ShakespeareD. Ben Johnson18. The First two Lines of Alfred Tennyson’s well-Known poem“Break, Break, Break” read “Break, break, break, /On thy cold grey stones, O Sea! ” The repeated word “break” suggests____.( )A. joyB. fearC. fondnessD. hatred19. In the following descriptions of the Neoclassical Period, which iswrong? ( )A. The Neoclassical Period is prior to the Romantic Period.B. Henry Fielding is one of the representatives of theNeoclassical Period.C. The Modern English Novel came into being in theNeoclassical PeriodD. The Neoclassical Period is also known as the Age ofEnlightenment.20. “O prince, O chief of many thronèd power, /That led th’embattled seraphim to war /Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds /fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual King”In the third line of the above quoted from Milton’s Paradise Lost, the phrase “thy conduct” refers to ____ conduct. ( )A. God’sB. Satan’sC. Adam’sD. Eve’s21. In the long poem “The Ring and the Book”, the “Book”iscompared to ____. ( )A. loveB. comprehensive knowledgeC. the hard truthD. the method of study22. In the following descriptions of Gothic novel, which is not true? ( )A. Gothic novel was one phase of the Romantic movement.B. Gothic novel predominated in the eighteenth century.C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliff and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley are typical Gothic romance.23. Which of the following comments on William Blake is not true? ( )A. childhood is central to Blake’s concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.B. Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell marks his entry into maturity.C. The Book of Loss is his Masterpiece.D. Symbolism in wide range is a distinctive feature of his poetry.24. It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poem are in the form of ____. ( )A. elegyB. odeC. EpicD. sonnet25. Daniel Defoe’s novels mainly focus on ____. ( )A. the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existenceB. the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for securityC. the struggle of the pirates for wealthD. the desire of the criminals for property26. In The Shepherd’s Calendar, Edmund Spenser tried to express ____. ( )A. He met Sir Philip Sidney and started a friendship with him.B. He met Leicester.C. his laments over the loss of RosalindD. his laments over the loss of Elizabeth27. In Beowulf, ____ fought against the monster Grendel and a firebreathing dragon.A. the Anglo-SaxonsB. BeowulfC. the ScandinaviansD. the Winter Dragon28. “So much the worse for me, that I am strong. Do I want to live?What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?” In the above passage quoted from Emily Bront?’s Wuthering Heights, the word “soul”apparently refers to ____. ( )A. HeathcliffB. ghostC. one’s spiritual liftD.Catherine29. In terms of Elegy written in a Country Churchyard, which iswrong? ( )A. The author employs metaphor in this poem.B. The author excessively expresses his personal melancholy.C. Here he reveals his sympathy for the poor and unknown.D. He mocks the great ones who despise the poor and bringhavoc.30. In Spenser’s masterpiece The Faerie Queene, he speaks of ____virtues of the private gentleman. ( )A. 10B. 11C. 12D. 13statement about Emily Bront? is not true? ( )A. She was famousfor her Wuthering Heights.B. She wrote 193 poemsC. She lived a very short life.D. Her masterpiece is noted for its optimistic tone.32. Francis Bacon is best known for his __ which greatly influencedthe development of this literary form. ( )A. essaysB. poemsC. worksD. plays33. The literary form of The Faerie Queene is ____. ( )A. allegorical poemB. lyrical poemC. ironical poemD. narrative poem34. The author of the work “Men of England” is ___. ( )A. T. S. EliotB. Thomas GrayC. ShelleyD. Walt Whitman35. Of the following descriptions, which doesn’t belong to thecharacteristics of Spenser’s poetry? ( )A. a perfect melodyB. a rare sense of beautyC. a splendid imaginationD. realism36. We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley’s poem “Odeto the West Wind” with all the following terms except __.A. swiftB. proudC. tamedD. wild37. Which of the following cannot correctly describe EnlightenmentMovement? ( )A. Enlightenment Movement flourished in France.B. Enlightenment Movement was a furtherance of theRenaissance.C. The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the wholeworld.D. It advocated individual education.38. “Place me on Sunium’s marbled steep, /Where nothing, save thewave and I, /May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; /There, swan-like, let me sing and die; /A land of slaves shall ne’er be mine─ /Dash down you cup of Samian wine!” These lines are taken from ____. ( )A. The Isle of Greece by ByronB. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas GrayC. The Solitary Reaper by William WordsworthD. Song of the Luddites by Byron39. “Blindness”, “partiality”, “prejudice”and “absurdity”in thenovel Pride and Prejudice most likely the characteristics of ____. ( )A. ElizabethB. DarcyC. Mr. BennetD. Mrs. Bennet40. Which of writings by John Milton is the most influentialdramatic poem after the Greek style in English? ( )A. Samson AgonistesB. Paradise LostC. Paradise RegainedD. AreopagiticaII. Reading Comprehension ( 16 points, 4 for each )Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. “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----”Questions:A.Identify the play and the playwright.B.What is the meaning of “To be, or not to be”?C.Based on the lines, discuss the characteristic of theprotagonist.42. “ ‘Yes, so, sir,’ I rejoined: ‘and yet not so; for you are a marriedman─or as good as a married man, and wed to one inferior to you─to with whom you have no sympathy─whom I do not believe you truly love; for I have seen and heard you sneer at her.I would scorn such a union; therefore I am better than you─letme go!’”Questions:A.What does “I” represent? Who is “I” in text?B.Identify the writer and the title of the novel from which thispassage is taken.C.What idea do the passage expresses?43. “If he be not apt to beat over matters, let him study the lawyer’scases. So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.”Questions:A.What does “beat over matters”mean? What does “receipt”refer to? From which essay do the above sentences come, what is the essay mainly about?44. “When my mother died I was very young, / And my father soldme while yet my tongue / Could scarcely cry “’weep! weep!weep!”/So your chimney I sweep, ﹠in soot I sleep”Questions:A.Who is the author of this stanza, and what is the title of thepoem from which this stanza is taken? What does the “weep”mean? Based on this stanza, discuss the characteristics of his poems in his early years.Part TwoIII. Questions and Answers ( 24 points in all, 6 for each) Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. How do you understand that Dickens is the greatest criticalrealist writer of the Victorian Age?46. The following quotation is the ending of a poem by Robert Browning:Nay, we’ll goTogether down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,Taming a seahorse, though a rarity,Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me.Questions:A.Who is the speaker? What is the importance of the allusion“Neptune… / Taming a seahorse” in the whole poem?B.What is the title of the poem?47. What is neoclassicism?48. Robinson Crusoe is universally considered as Daniel Defoe’smasterpiece. Discuss why it became so successful when it was published?IV. Topics for Discussion ( 20 points in all, 10 for each) Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49. According to the setting of the poem Paradise Lost, discuss thetheme, the author’s intention to create it and the implication that the poem expresses.50. Generally speaking, Jane Austen was a writer of the 18th century,though she lived mainly in the nineteenth century. Based on her writing, discuss Jane Austen’s greatest contribution to English literature.。
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《英国文学史及作品选读》练习题All the sonnets were written by Keats EXCEPT .正确答案: A. London 1802In_______, _______set forth his principles of poetry, “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.正确答案: A. In The Preface to Lyrical Ballads; Wordsworth华兹华斯The revolutionary Romantic poet went to Greece to help that country in its struggle for liberty and died of fever there.正确答案: D. ByronIn Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s (塞缪尔·泰勒·柯尔律治“Kubla Khan”, “A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice “_______.正确答案: D. Refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once livedis Byron’s poetic drama with the material taken from Biblical story or stories.正确答案: B. CainWordsworth does not emphasize the importance of ______in poetry composition.正确答案: C. the right poetic formT he following statements are about “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”. Among them which one is NOT true?正确答案: B. The first canto deals with Albania and Greece.Pride and Prejudice is noted for its vividly depicted characters who are revealed through comparison and contrast with each other. Among the following pairs of characters are NOT in contrast.正确答案: C. Lady Catherine and Mr. CollinsShelley was influenced by the Utopian ideal of ________.正确答案:William Godwin 威廉·戈德温It is said that all Keats’s personality se ems to be breathed into his odes, of which the more famous odes are “de to Autumn”, “Ode on Melancholy”, ”Ode on a Grecian Urn” and “Ode to Nightingale”, all with the praise of _______ as their general theme.正确答案: B. beauty_______is a poem that tells the glorious victory of the battle at Bannockburn led by the Scottish national hero Robert Bruce.正确答案:The Lord of the Isles_______can be found among Shelley’s love lyrics.正确答案: D. One Word is Too Often ProfanedThe first poem in The Lyrical Ballads 《抒情歌谣集》is Coleridge’s (柯立基masterpiece_______. 正确答案: A. The Rime of the Ancient MarinerAll the following statements about “Ode on a Grecian Urn” are true EXCEPT.正确答案: B. In this poem, the poet spoke as bitterly of human woes as he did in “Ode to a Nightingale”.At the beginning of Pride and Prejudice, the attitude of Darcy and Elizabeth toward each other is that of .正确答案: B. mutual repulsionAmong the following, _______is an elegy.正确答案: C. AdonaisWhich one of the following does NOT describe the characteristic s of Scott’s writing?正确答案: B. His plotting is often closely knitted.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following EXCEPT_______.正确答案: C. Elegant wording and inflated figures of speechKing Richard the Lion Heart and Robin Hood bot h appear in Scott’s novel_____.正确答案:Ivanhoe 《劫后英雄传》_______is NOT a historical novel written by Scott.正确答案: B. Marmion_______is NOT among the representative essayists in the romantic times.正确答案: B. Walter ScottThe Romantic period is a great age of all literary genres EXCEPT.正确答案: D. dramaAll the following are novels written by Jane Austen EXCEPT_______.正确答案: C. Shirley 雪莱All the following about Romanticism are true EXCEPT.正确答案: B. Romanticism constitutes a change of direction from attention to the inner world of human spirit to the outer world of social civilization.Of the following four novels by Austen_______is the most popular and dramatic one.正确答案:Pride and PrejudiceOf the following statements about Lyrical Ballads, which is NOT true?正确答案: C. The poems are noted for the uncompromising obscurity of much of the language.The two poets who won the title of the poet laureate are ________.正确答案: C. Wordsworth and Southey_______is one of the first generation of English Romantic poets.正确答案:WordsworthThe prevailing tone in Pride and Prejudice is .正确答案: C. mild satireKeats wrote five long poems. _______ is NOT among them.正确答案: A. Annabel Lee 安娜贝尔·李”You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the party.” The figure of speech used in the sentence is .正确答案: B. B. irony_______is NOT a lyric written by Wordsworth.正确答案: D. Love’s Philosophy《爱的哲学》’s p oetry is alwa ys sensuous, colorful and rich in imagery, which expresses the acuteness of his senses. In his poetry, sight, sound, scent, taste and feeling are all taken into give an entire understanding of an experience.正确答案: B. KeatsWhen composing poems for Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge was given the task of writing about ________. 正确答案: A. the supernatural and the romanticIn 1843, _______was made poet laureate.正确答案: C. Wordsworthis Shelley’s well-known political lyric, which calls upon the working class to fight against their rulers and exploiters.正确答案: D. Song to the Men of England 《致英格兰人之歌》All the poems were written by Byron EXCEPT_______.正确答案: C. The Masque of Anarchy“Ode to the West Wind” is concluded with mood.正确答案: B. triumphant and hopefulis NOT the essay written by Charles Lamb正确答案: C. Characters of Shakespeare’s PlaysWhich one of the following statements about Don Juan is true?正确答案: C. It displayed Byron’s genius as a romanticist and a realist simultaneously Romantic writers employ all the following EXCEPT as their poetic materials.正确答案: A. the abstractThe Romantic Movement expressed a attitude toward the existing social and political conditions that came with industrialization and the growing importance of the bourgeoisie.正确答案: B. negativeAfter t he massacre in St. Peter’s Field near Manchester, ______wrote_______.正确答案: D. Shelle y, “Song to the Men of England”Which of the following poems was written by Scott?正确答案:The Lady of the LakePrometheus Unbound is a(n __________by________.正确答案: B. lyrical drama, Shelley“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” is taken from _______.正确答案: D. Ode to the West Wind 西风颂Jane Austen’s view of life is a totally one.正确答案: B. realisticIn Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, the mariner suffers t he horror of death, because _______.正确答案: A. He kills an albatross“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by _______.正确答案: D. John Keats 约翰·济慈_______ is the poetic drama written by Byron.正确答案: D. Cain。