英国文学作业
It’s Theme
In The Rivals, a comedy of manners, he is satirizing the traditional practice of the parents to arrange marriages for their children without considering the latter's opinion.
Samuel Johnson
His introduction Early life and education Early career His contribution His Works His Politics His Quotes
His introduction
Born September 18, 1709 (1709-09-18) (O.S. 7 September) Litchfield, Staffordshire, Great Britain Died December 13, 1784 (1784-12-14) (Aged 75) in London, Great Britain Occupation Essayist, lexicographer, biographer, poet Language English Nationality British Ethnicity English
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In 1780, he was elected M.P. for Stafford. Then he held various government offices under secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, secretary of the Treasury, Treasurer of the navy, etc. In 1809 his Drury Lane Theatre was burned down in a fire. In 1812 his political career came to a halt for lack of money. In the same year he was arrested for debt. Sheridan died in 1816 in poverty and neglect. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.
It's Theme
The school for Scandal is a sharp satire on the moral degeneracy of the aristocratic-bourgeois society in the 18th century England, on the vicious scandal-mongering among the idle rich, on the reckless life of extravagance & love intrigues in the high society, and above all, on the immorality & hypocrisy behind the mask of honorable living & high-sounding moral principles
His writing techniques
Sheridan‘s greatness also lies in his theatrical art. He seems to have inherited from his parents a natural ability &inborn knowledge about the theatre. His plays are the product of a dramatic genius as well as of a well-versed theatrical man. Though his dramatic techniques are largely conventional， They are exploited to the best advantage. His plots are well organized,
His characters, either major or minor are all sharply drawn. His manipulation of such devices as disguise, mistaken identity & dramatic irony is masterly. Witty dialogues & neat &decent language also make a characteristic of his plays.
His major works
The Rivals 《情敌》 The school for Scandal 《造谣学校》
The Rivals Plot The comedy evolves around the love affair of Lydia and Captain Absolute. Lydia is a girl full of romantic fantasies. She prefers a poor lover to a rich one. So Captain absolute disguises as a poor ensign (captain in the navy), and his courtship is accepted. Captain Absolute has a rival named Acres. Acres is a coward, but he was forced to have a duel (it is the ritual for the rivals to have a duel at that time).
On his way to the duel, Acres found that his courage was “oozing out at the palm of his hands”. To his great joy, he found that his rival was none other than his close friend Captain absolute. He gave up his pursuit for Lydia. When Lydia learned that Captain Absolute had deceived her in the disguise as a poor suitor, she had a quarrel with the captain. But they got reconciled to each other at last.
The school for Scandal
Plot
The play evolves around the story of two brothers: the hypocritical Joseph Surface and the good natured Charles Surface. Charles is in love with Maria, Sir Peter Teazle’s ward. Lady Sneerwell takes to Charles but Charles does not love her. As a revenge, Lady Sneerwell instigates Joseph to pursue Maria for her money. Joseph, while courting Maria, secretly tries to seduce Lady Teazle, the young and innocent girl who has just married to Sir Peter Teazle. Sir Peter Teazle, misled by Lady Sneerwell and Joseph, assumes that Charles is the person flirting with his young wife. One day, while Lady Teazle and Joseph are on the verge of committing adultery, Sir Peter returns home. Lady Teazle is forced to hide behind the screen. Then quite by accident, Charles shows up. Sir Peter hides himself with a view to catching the adulterer on the spot. Charles rushes in and he knocks down the screen. Everything comes to light.
Early life and education
戏中有两条情节线索。一条线索写约瑟夫和查尔斯兄弟俩，他们 就像是菲尔丁《汤姆·琼斯》中汤姆与布立非一样构成对比关系。 约瑟夫是伪善者，极端利己却道貌岸然，查尔斯行为不检但心地 善良，他们都追求彼得·提泽尔爵士的保护人玛丽亚。他们的叔父 从国外归来，化装成高利贷者和穷亲戚，分别去试控兄弟俩，揭 露了约瑟夫，查尔斯以他的慷慨和善良得到了叔父的财产、赢得 心上人。另一条线索则是出身寒微、嫁给年老的爵土的提泽尔夫 人，在道德败坏的“文明”风气影响下，染上贵族女子的一些恶 习，险些失身给约瑟夫；在丈夫的感化下，她悔悟自己的行为， 夫妇和好。作者对上流社会造谣中伤、伪善和淫逸放荡风气进行 了揭露。以斯尼威尔夫人为首的社交界男女，搬弄是非，“一句 话就能毁了一个人的名誉”。关于某小姐养的羊生了双胞胎的闲 谈，次日就传成了某小姐生了一对私生婴儿，并被大肆渲染。提 泽尔夫人差点让这些闲极无聊、无事生非的人们给毁掉。在上流 社会高尚、雅致的表面背后是普遍的伪善和道德坠落。剧中没有 令人生厌的道德说教和粗秽语言，对话讽刺尖刻又诙谐机智，妙 趣横生。谢立丹还精心结构，两条线索协调统一，剧中充满出色 的喜剧场面，查尔斯拍卖家庭肖像的场面和约瑟夫暴露真相的屏 风场景最为有名。
《英国文学》题库及答案
《英国文学》题库及答案I.Choose the best to complete the following statements1.“O Wind/If winter comes,can spring be far behind?” The two lines are from _______.A. “To Autumn”B. “To a Nightingale”C. “Ode to the West Wind”D. “To a Skylark”2. “To be or not to be----that is the question” is taken from_______.A.HamletB.Romeo and JulietC.The Merchant of theVeniceD.Macbeth3. _______ is romantic love tragedy.A. Romeo and JulietB. MacbethC.The Merchant of the VeniceD. Hamlet4. Beowulf. is considered as _______.A. the best epic in English literatureB. the national epic of the Anglo-SaxonsC. the best narrative poem in English literatureD.the best romance5. In_____,Chaucer created a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society and a whole gallery of vivid characters.A.The Canterbury TalesB.The Romaunt of the RoseC.The Legend of Good WomenD.Troilus and Criseyde6. ___ marks a transition from the medieval to the modern world.A. Enlightenment MovementB. The Glorious RevolutionC. The RenaissanceD. Reformation7. _____is not a writer in the Renaissance.A .Francis BaconB .William Shakespeare C. John Milton D .Jonathan Swift8. __ is NOT the style of Bacon’s essays.A. brevityB. compactness C .powerfulness D .high-flowness9 ______ is generally accepted as an English epic besides Beowulf.A.Samson AgonistesB.Paradise LostC.Paradise RegainedD. “Lycidas”10.The Neo-classicism is markedly characterized by the emphisis of__________.A.realismB.didactic functionC.elegant styleD. lyricism11.____________ is not a picaresque novel.A. Great Expectations B Gulliver’s TravelsC. Robinson CrosueD. The Pilgrim’s Progress12. “Death, Be not Proud” is an Italian sonnet by____.A.ShakespeareB.John MiltonC.John DonneD. Drydon13. In Paradise Lost, Milton doesn’t refers God to____.A.KingB.FoeC.VictorD. Friend14._________ is not a Lake poet?A.SoutheyB.WordworthC.ShelleyD.Coleridge15. ____is a typical Byronic heroe.A.Don JuanB.ShelleyC. BeowulfD. Iliad16.He was the 1st important Romantic poet,showing a contempt for rationalism and bringingsomething fresh to British poetry.He is __.A .Wordsworth B.Blake C.Keats D.Coleridge17. “Did he smile his work to see? /Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”, the 2 lines are from___.A. “the Lamb”B. “The Tyger”C. “The Cheminey Sweeper”D. “The Sick Roes”18. In the above quoted lines, “the Lamb” refers to____.A .Nature B.Jesus Christ C.God D.Uncertain19. “The waves beside them danced; but they /Outdid the sparking waves in glee; ” here, “they ”refer to____.A. rosesB.voletsC.daffodilsD.girls20.The pleasure dome is described in ____.A. “Kubla Khan”B. “Christabel”C. “Frost at Midnight”D. “Dejection:An Ode”21.“Ode to the West Wind” is in____.A.abb bbcB.terza rimaC.aab bcbD.free verse22.In“Ode to the West Wind”, west wind is the biggest symbol; it symbolizes______.A. destroyer and preserverB.boundless freedomC.a lyreD.both A and B23. “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard /Are sweeter;therefore,ye soft pipes,play on;”the 2 lines are from“Ode on a Grecian Urn”by _____.A. John KeatsB.William WordsworthC.ByronD.Sheelley24.The striking characteristic of the Victorian fiction lies in___.A.critical realismB.a return to rationalismC.naturalismD.an overall negation of society25.____is not a character created by Charles Dickens.A.Oliver TwistB.David CopperfieldC.PipD. Ishmael26. Tess is sandwiched between and murdered by two so-called gentlemen: one is Alec, and the other is ______.A. Angel ClareB. Alec’s brotherC. LouisD. Babalou27.Linguist Higgins appears in____.A.Widower’s HousesB. Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionC. St. JoanD. Pygmalion28.In “Auld Lang Syne”, the poet is singing for ______.A.loveB.friendshipC.patriotismD.his mother29.In “The Rocking Horse Winner”, Lawrence attacks____.A.money-worshippingB.hypocricyC.industrialismmercialism30. “My Last Duchess” is a famous ______ by ______.A. love lyric; WordsworthB.dramatic monologue;TennysonC.dramatic monologue; BrowningD.tragedy; ShawII.Please explain the following terms briefly1. Neo-classicism:2.The Waste Land3. blank verse4.The Great Expectation 34.heroic couplet5. Shakespearean Sonnet6.Critical Realism7. dramatic monologueIII.Answer the following questions1.Why is Shakespeare great in the history of British literature?2.What does Wordsworth want to say in “I Wandered as A Lonely Cloud”?3.Please explain the theme of Tess of the D’Urbevilles.4. In what a way is Renaissance significant in the history of Europe?5. What does T.S. Eliot want to say in “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock”?6. What does Wordsworth describe in “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways”?7. What is the major theme of the novels of Lawrence?8. What does Byron want to say in “She Walks in Beauty”?《英国文学》作业参考答案I.1.C2.A3.A4.B5.A6.C7.D8.D9.B 10.B11.A 12.C 13.D 14.C 15.A 16.B 17.B 18.B 19.C 20.A21.B 22.D 23.A 24.A 25.D 26.A 27.D 28.B 29.A 30.CII.1. Neo-classicism is revival of interest in the old classical works.According to theneo-classicists,all forms of literature werw to be modeled after the classical works of Greek and Roman writers and those of the contemporary French ones.They believed that the artisical ideals should be judged in terms of its service to humanity.This belief led them to seek proption,unity,harmony and grace in literary expression.Thus a polite,urbane,witty and intellectual art developed.2. The Waste Land has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry,comparable to Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads. With bold technical innovations in versification and style,the poem not only presents a panorama of physical disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world, but also reflects the prevalent mood of disillusionment and despair of a whole post-war generation. The poem is about the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose. It is regarded as a reflection of the 20th century people’s disillusionment and frustration in a sterile and futile society.3. blank verse refers to unrhymed verse of iambic pentametre.4.Heroic couplet refers to two lines of iambic pentameter rhyming with each other.5. Sonnet is a lyric poem almost invariably of 14 lines and following one of several set rhyme-scheme There are 2 widely accepted rhyme-schemes:Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet and English (Shakespearean)sonnet.The former consists of a octave(abbaabba) and a sestet (cdecde,cdccdc or cdedce).The English is made up of 3 quatrains and an heroic couplet.It rhymes in ababcdcdefefgg.6. It is a literary movement in the 2nd half of the 19th century and the beginning decade of the 20th century as a reaction to Romanticism.The realists holds that literature should be faithful to and write about the possibilty of reality.They on one hand expose the social problems,on the other hand, try to find solutions to the problems.Most of them are democratic social reformers.7. Dramatic monologue refers to a lyrical poem which reveals “a soul in action” through the conversation of one character in a dramatic situation. The character is speaking to an identifiable but silent lis tener at the dramatic moment of the speaker’s life.III.1.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is one of the most remarkable playwrightsand poets the world has ever known.With his 38 plays,154 sonnets and 2 long poems,he has established his giant position in world literature.The influence of Shakespeare upon British literature is hard to measure and it is not exegerated to say that all the writers after him have been influenced by him directly or indirectly.A. As a humanist, Shakepeare enthuiastically eulogizes humanity and writes in the spirit of Renaissance.He was against feudal tyranny ,religious persecution,racial discrimination,social inequality and the corrupting influence of money and gold.B. Shakespeare holds that literature should be a combination of beauty, kindness and truth,and should reflect nature and reality;he believes that only this kind of literature can reach immortality.C.Shakespeare is a great master of the English language2. This poem is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature, and one that takes us to the core of Wordsworth’s poetic beliefs. In his eyes, nature is sublime and sacred and will exert a lasting influence upon a soul. The poem is a record of his sublime communion with nature .3. This novel is one of the best and most popular work by Hardy. It is a fierce attack on the hypocritical morality of the bourgeois society and the capitalist invasion into the country and destruction of the English peasantry towands the end of the century.Tess, as a pure woman, brought up with the traditional idea of womanly virtues, is abused and destroyed by both Alec and Angel, agents of the destructive force of the society. And the misery, the poverty and the heartfelt pain she suffers and her final tragedy give rise to a most bitter cry of protest and denunciation of the society.4. The Renaissance marks a transition from the medieval to the modern world.Generally ,it refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries.It first started in Italy,with the flowering of painting,sculpture and literature.From Italy the movement went to embrace the rest of Europe.The Renaissance ,which means rebirth or revival,is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events,such as the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture,the new discovery in geography and astrology,the religious reformation and the economic expansion.The Renaissance,therefore,in essence ,is a historical period in which the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to get rid of those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe,to introduce new ideas that expressed the interest of the rising bourgeeoisie,and to recover the purity of early church from the corruption of Roman Catholic Church.5. The poem is Eliot’s most striking early achievement. It presents the meditation of an aging young man over the business of proposing marriage.The poem is in a form of dramatic monologue, suggesting an ironic contrast between a pretended “love song” and a confession of the speaker’s incapability facing up to love and to life in a sterile upper-class world. Prufrock, the protagonist of poem, is neurotic, self-important, illogical and incapable of action. He is a kind of tragic figure caught in asense of defeated idealism and tortured by unsatisfied desires. The poem is intensely anti-romantic with visual images of hard, gritty objects and evasive hellish atmosphere.6. (main points)He reveals his sympathy for the poor woman in rural area.7. In his novels he writes about the dehumanization brought about by the industrial civilization and he believes that individual’s psychological development lies in the sexual impulse—Life Force. Consequently, he frequently touches upon the sexual relationship between man and woman in most of hios novels.8. see textbook.。
22春“英语”专业《英国文学史及选读》离线作业-满分答案3
22春“英语”专业《英国文学史及选读》离线作业-满分答案1. Irvings Rip Van Winkle is famous for ____.A.Rips seeking for happinessB.Rips escape into the mountainC.Rips 20 year sleep参考答案：C2. ____ the success of the product depends on its good quality.A.ObjectivelyB.UltimatelyC.AbsolutelyD.Relatively参考答案：B3. Claims：If within 60 days after the arrival of the goods at the destination,the specification,qualityClaims：If within 60 days after the arrival of the goods at the destination,the specification,quality or quantity be found not in conformity with the stipulations of the contract except those claims for which the insurance company or the shipping company are responsible,the Buyers shall,on the basis of the Inspection Certificate issued by the Chinese Commodity Inspection Bureau,have the right to claim for replacement or compensation.In case of claim,all the relevant expenses shall be borne by the Seller.索赔：在货到目的港60天内如发现货物规格、品质或数量与合同规定不符时，除属于保险公司或运输方责任外，买方有权凭中国商品检验局出具的检验证书向卖方索赔换货或赔款，因此而发生之一切费用由卖方负责。
英国文学史及选读第一册课后作业
英国⽂学史及选读第⼀册课后作业英国⽂学史及选读第⼀册课后作业1.What are the main characteristics of Anglo-Saxon literature?2.Read Beowulf and comment on its position in the history of English literature.3.It is said Chinese people have no epic, what do you think of it ?4.Literature can be read for pleasure or examination. What about your view?Terms: Old English, Middle English, Epic…1. Discussion: characteristics of medieval romance.2. Brief Comment on the theme of test in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.3. Brief Comment on Chaucer’s hi storical position in British Literature.4. Choose one ballad from the textbook and make a brief comment on the style of it.Terms: Romance, Ballads, Heroic couplet…1.Brief comment on the Renaissance in England.2.What’s the theme of Hamlet? Read Hamle t Act III and Act V, and analyze the tragic flaws of Hamlet.3.Brief comment on the historical development and change of sonnets.4.Analyze Sonnet 29, 106.Terms: Renaissance, the Church of England, blank verse, tragedy, sonnet…1.What are the different aspects between the literature of Elizabethan period and the literature of the Revolution period?2.Briefly comment on the influence of KJV Bible on English literature.3.Discuss the theme of Paradise Lost.4.To some extent, we can say, Samson is Milton, Why?5.Analyze Christian Allegory in The Pilgrim's Progress.Terms: Puritan, the KJV Bible, allegory…1.What is the Enlightenment?2.What is Gothic Novel?3.Identify the themes of Robinson Crusoe.4.Brief comment on the theme of Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard.5.Brief comment on the theme of London.6.What are the features of Burns’poetry?Terms: Enlightenment, Gothic Novel, elegy, sentimentalism…。
英国文学作业
1．第1题________ is not a character in the novel Ivanhoe.D.Joseph Addison2．第2题The Canterbury Tales contains in fact a general prologue and only ___tales.A.243．第3题Historic events in the period of _______ won’t have appeared in Scott’s novels.D.Victorian age4．第4题The Victorian Age ________.C.saw the surge of the Chartist movement.5．第5题The greatest among the peots living in the second half of the 19th century in England was ______.A.Robert Browning6．第6题_____ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.A.Thomas Wyatt7．第7题In the late nineteenth century, modernism flourished in English literature. Unlike modern poets and novelists, modem dramatists____B.did not make innovations in techniques and forms at all.8．第8题In Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence presented Paul as a(n) man and artist.D.sensitive9．第9题Many critics called ________the greatest of Victorian novels.B.Middle March10．第10题The sentence "three or four families in a country village are the very thing to work on" can best reflect the writer' s personal knowledge and range of writing. This writer is _________.D.Jane Austen11．第11题____ is an earnest attack on the vulgarity and materialism of the rising middle class industrialists.A.Hard Times12．第12题After Wordsworth and Southey had died, _____ succeeded to the title of poet-laureate.B.Lord Tennyson13．第13题_______ by Bernard Shaw belonged to what he called “Plays Unpleasant.”D.Mrs. Warren’s Profession14．第14题_____ tells a fantastic story of how a youth sold his soul to pursue beauty and fulfillment of thesenses by having his portrait age instead of his very person, but his vainness finally driven him into evil.A.The Picture of Dorian Gray15．第15题The first completely successful novel in Virginia Woolf’s own style is __D.Mrs. Dalloway16．第16题. James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man did not _______.B.deal with the relation between the artist and society in modern world.17．第17题Chaucer died in 1400 and was buried in _______.D.Westminster Abbey18．第18题The Canterbury Tales was written for the greater part in ____couplets.C.heroic19．第19题It was ____ who made blank verse the principle vehicle o expression in drama.A.Christopher Marlowe20．第20题Thomas More gave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s sufferings and put forward his ideal of a future happy society in his ___.B.Utopia21．第21题_____ is considered to be the summit of Shakespeare’s art.C.Hamlet22．第22题“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”This is the beginning line of ____.B.Sonnet 1623．第23题牋？Though living in a tempestuous age, ____ did not have a prison experience.B.John Bunyan24．第24题____cannot be deemed as an enlightener among the following men of letters.C.Robert Burns25．第25题___ cannot be a sentimentalist among the following writers.A.Jonathan Swift26．第26题____ was the most distinguished literary figure of the restoration period.C.John Dryden27．第27题The indomitable Puritan spirit finds its noblest expression in ____.D.John Milton28．第28题The first realistic writer in English literature was _______.B.Chaucer29．第29题Daniel Defoe did not write ______D.Joseph Andrews30．第30题English Renaissance period was an age of ____.B.poetry and drama31．第31题“The curfew tolls the knell of parting day/ The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea”These lines are taken from ________.C.Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard32．第32题Romanticism did not _________.D.deny that poetry should be free from all rules.33．第33题The chapter about Yahoos and horses of wisdom is in the story of ____.D.Houyhnm34．第34题The Age of Wordsworth---like the Age of Shakespeare---was decidedly an age of _____.C.Poetry35．第35题Many of Wordsworth’s poems in his Lyrical Ballads were devoted to ____.ndless peasants36．第36题‘Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,/ Thou foster-child of silece and slow time,”This bride refers to ______.B.a Grecian urn37．第37题The poem Ozymandias written by _____ is essentially about the transience of the powers and glory once enjoyed by the king.A.Shelley38．第38题The best-known of all Shelley’s lyrics is ______.A.Ode to a Skylark39．第39题The last and one of the greatest of Victorian novelist was______.C.Thomas Hardy40．第40题____ is not a novel written by Thomas hardyD.Little Dorrit41．第41题Irene and Jolyon are characters from _________.A.The Forsyte Saga42．第42题The most controversial novel by D. H. Lawrence is ______.dy Chatterlay’s Lover43．第43题Virginia Woolf did notC.appreciate such novelist such as Arnold Bennett and John Galsworthy.44．第44题James Joyce’s masterpiece_____was banned in both Britain and Americaon its first appearance in 1922.D.Ulysses45．第45题牋_____, the father of English poetry was born in London about 1340.C.Geoffrey Chaucer46．第46题______ tells of the love, estrangement and eventual reconciliation of the daughter and son of a country miller.C.The Mill on the Floss47．第47题Virginia Wolf wrote the following except_______A.Women in Love48．第48题Much of Charles Dickens‘s youth is infused into his novel____, making it highly autobiographical.B.David Copperfield49．第49题Among the following writers, ______ was known for his/her psychological insight into the development of character and falir for country scenes and speech.D.George Eliot50．第50题In Thomas Hardy's works, the conflict between the old and the modern is very pervasive. His attitude toward those, traditional characters is__.B.sympathetic。
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22春“英语”专业《英国文学史及选读》离线作业-满分答案1. It may be necessary to stop ______ in the learning process and go back to the difficult points in the lessons.A.at caseB.at lengthC.at intervalsD.at a distance参考答案：C2. Backbite，Sneerwell，and Lady Teazle are characters in the play the School for Scandal by ____.A.Christopher MarloweB.Ben JonsonC.Richard Brinsley SheridanD.George Bernard Shaw参考答案：C3. An optimist is someone who expects the best to happen.( )A.错误B.正确参考答案：B4. These overseas students show great ______ for learning a new language.A.faithB.authorityC.enthusiasmD.convention参考答案：C5. American schools increased homework loads to improve education after 1957 because of the Soviets’ Sputnik la unch.( )A.错误B.正确参考答案：B6. I have______the building instinct of beavers.A．spoken ofB．speakedI have______the building instinct of beavers.A．spoken ofB．speaked ofC．spokeD．spoke about正确答案：A7. The duty of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is ( ).A.curing the pain under apartheidB.reconciling the survivals with the killersC.all aboveD.none of them参考答案：C8. Mr.Smith asked his secretary to ______ a new paragraph in the annual report she was typing.A.invadeB.installC.insertD.inject参考答案：C9. 易卜生最初是以( )创作登上文坛的。
英国文学与文化学期作业第8版
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Recite the selected parts fromOf Studiesby Francis Bacon
英国文学史作业 名词解释
III .Explain the following literary terms:1. epic :a long poem about the actions of great men and women orabout a nation’s history2. alliteration : the use of the same letter or sound at the beginningof words that are close together3. iambic pentameter : a poetic meter consisting of lines with five"feet" (groups of syllables) in each, and having an "iamb" foot (unstressed then stressed syllable) dominant in each4. romance : a story of excitement and adventure5. ballad : a song or poem that tells a story ,a slow popular songabout loveIV. Choose one from each of the following two groups of questions and write a short essay of about 300 words to the first and about 500 for the secondGroup two :1. Analyse the themes and artistic features of Beowulf .Themes : The main theme of Beowulf is heroism. This involves far more than physical courage. It also means that the warrior must fulfil his obligations to the group of which he is a key member. Although Beowulf is in some respects a Christian poem, its social code emphasizes justice rather than mercy. There are manyreferences in the poem to the Christian belief in one almighty God who takes a personal interest in human affairs.artistic features : The most outstanding of all is perhaps alliteration. Alliteration is the repetition of initial sounds, usually consonants, or consonant clusters. It usually occurs on stressed syllables. A famous example of alliteration is this line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”: “Five miles meandering with a mazy m otion.” Alli teration is used off and on in modern poetry but it is an important device in Anglo-Saxon poetry. In fact, most of Anglo-Saxon poetry is alliterative verse which is not only the repetition of initial sounds, but repetition in each poetic line. Another characteristic of Beowulf is the picturesque usage called kenning, compound-words served as indirect metaphors. Some kennings in Beowulf are almost poetic clichés which recur throughout Anglo-Saxon poetry.。
英国文学作业shakespeare
Influence
European and American culture English language
William Shakespeare's influence extends from theatre and literature to present-day movies and the English language itself.
“details about influence”
influence
Shakespear e's plays helped contribute to the standardiza tion of the English language
- English
language was rapidly absorbing words from other languages
of his materials from sources that were known to his audience
from :
the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
roman dramas other writers’ plays
4、Shakespeare as a great poet:
Shakespeare’s wife
London and theatrical career
• Successful actor and playwright
shareholder of his acting company (1594)
• called the King's Men and wrote many
English change
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Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois RevolutionI.Choose the right answer.1.The r hyme scheme of Milton's L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is _____。
A. aabbccbbcB. abbacdccdC. abacdeec D。
ababcdcdd2. _____ , as a declaration of people's freedom of the press， has been a weapon inthe later democratic revolutionary struggles。
A. On the Morning of Christ’s NativityB. ComusC。
Of Reformation in England D. Areopagitica3。
____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses。
A。
John Milton B. John Bunyan C. John Donne D。
John Dryden4。
_____ expressed Donne's own way of describing love.A. Holy Sonnets B。
Witchcraft by a PictureC. The Sun RisingD. Death, Be Not Proud5. George Herbert's ______ is a well—known shaped poem.A。
The Altar B. To His Coy MistressC. To DaffodilsD. Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May6。
英国浪漫主义文学选段作业题
英国浪漫主义文学选段作业题1. "A little black thing among the snowCrying "’weep! ’weep! In notes of woe"where are thy father & mother? Say? ""They are both gone up to the church to prey."(1)Identify the poem and poet.(2)Explain "notes of woe".(3)What does the sentence mean "they ate both gone up to the church to prey.".2. "The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!Where burning Sappho loved and sung,Where grew the arts of war and peace,Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!Eternal summer gilds them all,But all, except their sun, is set."(1)Identify the poem and its author;(2)What does it mean "But all, except their sun, is set."(3)What does the passage imply?3. "With plough and spade and hoe and loomTrace your grave and build your tombAnd weave your winding-sheet---till fairEngland be your Sepulcher"(1)Identify the poem and its author;(2)Explain "sepulcher"(3)What was the deep implication of the poem?4. "Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,Sylvan historian, who canst thus expressA flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:"(1)Who is the poet? The name?(2)Explain the sentence.(3)What was the theme of the poem?5. "Place me on Sunium’s marbles steep,Where nothing, save the waves and I,May her 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!"(1)Identify the poem and its author.(2)Explain "swan like, let me sing and die" Interpret the passage and spot its implication.6. "For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dance with the daffodils."(1) What is the "bliss of the solitude"?(2) Interpret the passage.(3) Why did the poet write the poem, what did he want to express?7. "Then naked & white, all their bags left behind,They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind,And the angle told Tom, if he’d be a good bye,He’d have God for h is father, and never want joy."(1)Identify the poem and its poet;(2)What does the poem implies?8. "As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.Oh! Lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowedOne too like thee: tameless, and swift and proud."(1)Explain "I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed"(2)Can you comprehend the deep emotion contained in the poem? What’s that?(3)The poet was called the "the heart of all hearts", he trumpeted the radical prophecy of hope and rebirth. Please write out his classic words.9. "O Attic shape! Fair attitude! With brede …………As doth eternity: cold pastoral!"(1)How do you understand "cold pastoral"(2)What device is used in the poem?(3)Explain the implication of the poem.At the end of the poem, the poet gave a famous saying, and it is also the theme of the poem, what is that?11. "Wild spirit, which art moving everywhere;Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!"(1)What does the "wild spirit "refer to?(2)Why called it "Destroyer and Preserver" at the same time?(3)Identify the poet and the poem.。