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Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternatives。
Choose the one that would best complete the statement。
(60points in total， 2 points for each）1。
The Romantic Period in American literature stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of _________.A. the Revolutionary War B。
the Civil WarC。
the War for Independence D。
World War I2。
Washington Irving’s_________ became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic in the first half of the 19th century。
A. Charles the Second B。
Sketch BookC. The Scarlet LetterD. Moby Dick3。
The New England Transcendentalism was from the very beginning a local phenomenon restricted only to those people living in New England， who carried out the movement as a reaction against the cold, rigid rationalism of _______ in Boston。
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1.Captain John Smith became the first American writer.2.The puritans looked upon themselves as a chosen people.3.is an annual collection of proverbs written by Benjamin Franklin.4.Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet Common Sense boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”.5.Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston.6.has been called the “Father of American Poetry”.7.In Washington I rving’sappeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature.8.Cooper’s enduring fame rests on his frontier stories, especially the five novels that comprise the9.is perhaps the peak of William Cullen Bryant’s wok.is considered “father of American detective stories and American gothicstories”.10.Emerson believed above all inmind, and self-reliance.11.Hawthorne’s stories touch thedeepest roots of man’s12.Moby Dick is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.13.After his death, Longfellow became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.14.Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, had become an American institution and the most famous literary woman in the world.15.The naturalists emphasized that the world was amoral, that men and women had no free will, that their16.The poetic style Walt WhitmanHenry James is famous for his international theme of the traditionless American confronting the complexity of European life.17.Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a “Lost Generation,”devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization.18.With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein h ad called “a lost generation.”Terms1.TranscendentalismTranscendentalism refers to the religious and philosophical doctrines of Ralph Waldo Emerson andothers in New England in the middle 1800’s,which emphasized the importance of individual inspiration and intuition, the Oversoul, and Nature. New England Transcendentalism is the product of a combination of native American Puritanism and European Romanticism.2.NaturalismNaturalism, a more deliberate kind of realism, usually involves a view of human beings as passive victims of natural forces and social environment. As a literary movement,naturalism was initiated in France. Natural fiction aspired to a sociological objectivity, offering detailed and fully researched investigations into unexplored corners of modern society. The most significant work of naturalism in English being Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.The Lost GenerationThe term Lost Generation was coined by Gertrude Stein to refer to a group of American Literary notables who lived in Paris from the timeperiod which saw the end of World War I to the beginning of the Great Depression. Significant members included Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein herself. More generally, the term is being used for the young adults of Europe and America during World War I. They were “lost” because after the war many of them were disillusioned with the world in general and unwilling to more into a settled life5. ModernismModern writing is marked by a strong and conscious break with traditional forms and techniques of expression; it believes that we create the world in the act of perceiving it. Modernism implies historical discontinuity, a sense of alienation, of loss, and of despair. It elevates the individual and his inner being over social man and prefers the unconscious to the self-conscious.6. Romanticism7. PuritanismThe principles and practices of puritans were popularly known as Puritanism. Puritanism accepted the doctrines of Calvinism: the sovereignty of God; the supreme authority of the Bible; the irresistibility of God’s will for man in every act of life from cradle to grave. These doctrines led the Puritans to examine their souls to find whether they were of the elect and to search the Bible to determine Go d’s will.8.Hemingway Heroes / Code HeroSuch a hero usually is an average man of decidedly masculine tastes, sensitive and intelligent. And usually he is a man of action and of a few words. He is such an individualist, alone even when with other people, somewhat an outsider The Hemingway heroes stand for a whole generation. But Hemingway heroes possess a kind of “despairing courage” It is this courage that enables a man to behave like a man, to assert his dignity in face of adversity.Give brief answers to the followingquestions.1.What are the characteristics of the Colonial Literature?In a real sense, there were no literal works in the early colonial period. They were just personal literature in the form of diaries, travel books, letters, journals, sermons, histories and prose.(1) In content, they wrote about the voyage to the new land, about adopting themselves to unfamiliar climates and crops, about dealingwith Indian, and especially about religion.(2) In form, English traditions were imitated.ment briefly on Emily Dickinson’s themes?(1)By far the largest portion of Dickinson’s poetry concerns death and immortality, theme which lie at the centre of Dickinson’s world. (2)Dickinson’s nature poems are also great in number and rich in matter. Natural phenomena, changes of seasons, heavenly bodies, animals, birds and insects, flowers of variouskinds, and many other subjects related to nature find her way into her poetry.(3)Dickinson also wrote some poems about love. Like her death and nature poems, her love poems were original.(4)Besides deaths and immortality, nature and love, Dickinson’s poems are concerned about ethics, with respect to which, she emphasizes free will and human responsibility.4 Henry James is a great realistic writer. Name two of his major works. Do you know anything about his narrative “point of view”? What isit for? How does James employ it in his works? Briefly discuss this question.(1) Henry James’s major works include Daisy Miller and The Portrait of A Lady, etc.(2) One of Henry James literary techniques is his narrative “point of view.” As the author, James avoids the authorial omniscience as much as possible and makes his characters reveal themselves with his minimal intervention. So it is often the case that in his novels we usually learn the main story byreading through one or several minds and share their perspectives. This narrative method proves to be successful in bringing out his themes.5. Tell the differences between Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman(1)Emily Dickinson expresses the inner life of individuals, while Walt Whitman keeps his eyes on the society at large.(2)Emily Dickinson is “regional”, while Walt Whitman is “national” in his outlook.(3)Formally, Emily Dickinson usesconcise, simple dictions and syntax, while Walt Whitman uses endless, all-inclusive catalogs.8. Briefly discuss the Jazz Age“The Jazz Age” describes the period the period of the 1920s and 1930s, the years between World War I and World War II, particularly in North America; with the rise of the Great Depression, the values of this age saw much decline. Perhaps the most representative literary work of the age is American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby,highlighting what some describe as the decadence and hedonism, as well as the growth of individualism. Fitzgerald is largely credited with coining the term “The Jazz Age”. It can also be known as “The Roaring Twenties” and “The Dollar Decade.”。
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考试课程：英国文学史及选读考核类型：A 卷考试方式：闭卷出卷教师: XXX考试专业：英语考试班级：英语xx班I.Multiple choice (30 points, 1 point for each) select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.1._____，a typical example of old English poetry ,is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A.The Canterbury TalesB.The Ballad of Robin HoodC.The Song of BeowulfD.Sir Gawain and the Green Kinght2._____is the most common foot in English poetry.A.The anapestB.The trocheeC.The iambD.The dactyl3.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 culture.B.England’s domestic restC.New discovery in geography and astrologyD.The religious reformation and the economic expansion4._____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.A.The Pilgrims ProgressB.Grace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersC.The Life and Death of Mr.BadmanD.The Holy War5.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is _____.A.scienceB.philosophyC.artsD.humanism6.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets18)What does“this”refer to ?A.Lover.B.Time.C.Summer.D.Poetry.7.“O prince, O chief of my throned powers, /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 passage quoted from Milton’s Paradise Los t, the phrase“thy conduct”refers to _____conduct.A.God’sB.Satan’sC.Adam’sD.Eve’s8. It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poems are in the form of ______.A.elegyB.odeC.epicD.sonnet9.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”The sentence is the beginning of Shakespeare’s_______.edyB.tragedyC.sonnetD.poem10. 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 property11. Francis Bacon is best known for his_____which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.A.essaysB.poemsC.worksD.plays12. Most of Thomas Hardy’s novels are set in Wessex____.A.a crude region in EnglandB.a fictional primitive regionC.a remote rural areaD.Hardy’s hometown13. In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true?A.Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen’s novels.B.Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as “First Impressions”.C.Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.D.In this novel, the author explores the relationship between great love and realistic benefits.14. Chronologically the Victorian Period refers to _____A.1798-1832B.1836-1901C.1798-1901D.the Neoclassical Period15. In the following figures, who is Dickens’s first child hero?A.Fagin.B.Mr.Brownlow.C.Olive Twist.D.Bill Sikes16. “And where are they? And where art thou,”My country? On thy voiceless shoreThe heroic lay is tuneless now-The heroic bosom beats no more! (George Gordon Byron, Don Juan)In the above stanza,“art thou”literally means_____.A.“art you ”B.“are though”C.“art though”D.“are you ”17. Of the following writers, which is not the representative of the Romantic period?A.William Blake.B.John Bunyan.C.Jane Auten.D.John Keats.18. In Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, what is the utmost concern of Blake?A.LoveB.ChildhoodC.DeathD.Human Experience19. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from____.A.the RenaissanceB.the Old TestamentC.Greek MythologyD.the New Testament20. Jane Austen’s first novel is _____.A.Pride and PrejudiceB.Sense and SensibilityC.EmmaD.Plan of a Noel21. Of the following poets, which is not regarded as “Lake Poets’”?A.Saumel Taylor Coleridge.B.Robert Southey.C.William Wordsworth.D.William Shakespeare.22.Daniel Defoe describes____as a typical English middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.A.Robinson CrusoeB.Moll FlandersC.GulliverD.Tom Jones23. The lines“Death, be not proud, though some have calld thee/Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;”are found in ______.A.William Wordsworth’s writingsB.John Keats’ writingsC.John Donne’s writingsD.Percy Bysshe Shelley’s writings24.The Pilgrim’s progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for_____.A.self-fulfillmentB.spiritual salvationC.material wealthD.universal truth25.With so many poems such as “The Sparrow’s Nest,”“To a Skylark,”“To the Cuckoo”and “To a Butterfly”,William Wordsworth is regarded as a “______”.A.poet of genius.B.royal poet.C.worshipper of nature.D.conservative poet.26.In the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver told this experience in ____.A.LilliputB.BrobdingnagC.HouyhnhnmD.England27.Which of the following can not describe“Byronic hero”?A.Proud.B.Mysterious.C.Noble origin.D.Progressive.28.The poetic form which Browning attached to maturity and perfection is ____.A.dramatic monologuee of symbole of ironic languagee of lyrics29.The term “metaphysical poetry”is commonly used to name the work of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of ____.A.John MiltonB.John DonneC.John KeatsD.John Bunyan30. Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth?A.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.B.She Dwelt Among the Untrodden WaysC.The Solitary Reaper.D.The Chimney Sweeper.II. Find the relevant match from colunm B for each item in Colomn A (10 points in all. 1 point for each)A B1.Geoffrey Chaucer A. A Red, Red Rose2.Francis Bacon B. Ode to a Nightingale3.Jonathan Swift C. Of Truth4.William Blake D.Northanger Abbey5.Robert Burns E.The Canterbury Tales6.John Keats F.A Modest Proposal7.Jane Austen G.The Tiger8.Charles Dickens H. Ulysses9.Tennyson I.David Copperfield10.Robert Browning J.My Last DuchessIII. Fill in the following blanks (10 points in all, 1 point for each)1. In the year____,at the battle of Hastings, the Normans headed by william, Duke of Normandy, defeated the Anglo-saxons.2. Since historical times, England, where the early inhabitants were celts, has been conquered three times. It was conquered by the Romans, the ____,and the Normans.3.____is regared as shakespeare’s successful romantic tragedy.4. No sooner were the people in control of the government than they divided into hostile parties: the liberal whigs and the conservative_____.5. The Glorious Revolution in ___meant three things the supremacy of parliament, the beginning of modern English, and the final triumph of the principle of political liberty.6. Romanticism as a literary movement come into being in England early in the latter half of the ___century.7. With the publication of william Wordsworth’s____in collaboration with S.T Coleridge, Romanticism began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of English literatare.8. Woman as ____ appeared in the Romantic age. It was during this period that women took, for the first time ,an important place in English literature.9. The most important poet of the victoria Age was____, Next to him, were Robert Browning and his wife.10. The ____movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th cenfury.IV. Questions and Answers (20 points in all ,10points for each) Give brief answers to each of following questions in English.(1) A selection from a poemWherefore feed and clothe and saveForm the cradle to the graveThose ungrateful drones who wouldDrain your sweat_nay, drink your blood?Whrefore, Bees of England, forgeMany a weepon, chain, and scourgeThat these stingless drones may spoilThe forced produce of your tail?Questions (10’)1. These lines are taken fr om a poem entitled___(1’)written by ___(1’).2. The rhyme scheme in the selection of the poem is ____.(1’)3.What idea does the quotation express?(7’)(2) A Selection from a workSome books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy and extracts made of them by others, but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books; else distilled bookd are like common distilled waters.Question(10’)1. This passage is taken from a well-known work entiled___,(2’) written by ____.(1’)2. What’s the main idea of the whole work. (7’)V. Topic Discussion (30 points in all,15 points for each). Write no less than 100 words on each of the following topics in English , in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. Based on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, discuss the theme of her works, the image of woman protagonists and what and how her novels truthfully present.(15’)2. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Aasten explored three kinds of motivations of marriage that the middle-class people had in the second half of the 18th century. Try to make a brief discussion about them with specific examples from the novel. Make comments on Austen’s attitude towards these motivations.(15’)200x－200x学年度第一学期期末考试试卷答案及评分标准考试课程：英国文学史及选读考核类型：A 卷考试方式：闭卷出卷教师: XXX考试专业：英语考试班级：英语xx班I. Multiple Choice (1’×30=30’)01-05 C C B A D 06-10 D B B C A11-15 A B C B C 16-20 D B D B B21-25 D A C B C 26-30 A D A B DII. Find the relevant match from column B for each item in colamn A (1’×10=10’)1-E 2-C 3-F 4-G 5-A6-B 7-D 8-I 9-H 10-JIII. Fill in the following blanks (1’×10=10’)1. 10662. Anglo-Saxons3. Romeo and Juliet4. Tories5. 16886.18th7.Lyrical Ballads 8.novelists 9.Tennyson 10.ChartistIV. Questions and Answers (20 points in all )(1) A PoemQues tions(10’)1. A Song: Men of England(1’) Shelley(1’)2. aabb ccdd (1’)3. This poem is a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, it points out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. The poet calls the exploiters “ungrateful drones”, Who drain the sweat and drink the blood of the labouring people, He illustrates with concrete examples the relationship of economic exploitation between the ruling class and the working people.(7’)(2) A Selection from a work1. Of Studies(1’) Bacon(1’)2. It analyzes the use and abuse of studies ,the different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies. And how studies exert influence over human character.V .Topic Discussion (30 points in all, 15 points for each)A. Charlotte’s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fiece longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.B. All ber heroines’ highest joy arises from some sacrifice of self or some human weakness overcome.C. The image of woman protagonists in her works are mostly the life of the middle-calss working women, particularly governesses.D. Her works present a vivid realistic picture of the English society by exposing the cruelty, hypocrisy and other evils of the upper calsses, and by showing the misery and suffering of the poor. Especially in Jane Eyre by her, she sharply criticises the existing society, e.g. religious hypocrisy of charity institutions.(2) In the novel ,three kinds of attitudes towards marriage are presented for manifestation: marriage merely for material wealth and social position; marriage just for beauty, attraction and passion regardless of economic condition or personal merits; and the ideal marriage for true love with a consideration of the partner’s personal merit as well as his economic and social status. What j ane Aasten tries to say is that it is wrong to marry just for money or for beauty, but it is also wrong to marny without consideration of economic conditions.。
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英国文学史及选读试题考试科目: 英国文学史及选读考试时间：120分钟使用班级：考试形式:■闭卷□开卷1. _______________can be justly termed England’s national epic。
2.In the year of _____， at the battle of _________， the Normans headed by ______ ， Duke of _________, defeated the ___________ .3.________________，the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest ______________ poets of England。
The representative work of him is ____________________。
4. Renaissance means __________ and _________ .5. The key note of renaissance ： _________________。
6. The term Renaissance originally indicated a revival of ___________ （ _______ and _________ ) and_____________。
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Ⅰ. Author of each item 10’1. William Wordsworth (he ushered in the English romantic movement with the publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge)①She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways②I Travelled Among Unknown Men③I Wander Lonely as a Cloud④Sonnet: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge⑤Sonnet: London⑥The Solitary Reaper2. George Gordon, Lord Byron(great contribution is Byronic Hero)①When We Two Parted②She Walks in BEAUTY③Sonnet on Chillon④Childe Harold's Pilgrimage⑤Don Juan⑥Hours of Idleness (his first collection of poems)3. Percy Bysshe Shelley (the finest lyric poets in the English language)①Ozymandias②A Song:"Men of England"③Ode to the West Wind④The Cloud⑤To a Sky-Lark4. John Keats (remarkable master of lyrical poetry; a writer of "pure poetry"; a sort of "art for art's sake")①On First Looking into Chapman's Homer②Ode to a Nightingale③Ode on a Grecian Urn④To Autumn⑤Bright Star5. Walter Scott (historical novelist in England Romantic Period; Scott paves the way to realism and marks the transition from romanticism to realism )①Ivanhoe②Rob Roy6. Jane Austen (the feature of realism)①Pride and Prejudice (mainly tell us the love story between a rich, proud young man Darcy and the beautiful and intelligent Elizabeth Bennet.)7. Charles Lame①Poor Relations8. Charles Dickens (one of the greatest critical realists in the Victorian Age. His novels offer a most complete and realistic picture of the English bourgeois society of his age.)①The Pickwick Papers (first work make him popular)②Oliver Twist (inhumanity of city life under capitalism; powerful exposure of bourgeois society.)9. William Makepeace Thackeray (one of the greatest critical realists)①Vanity Fair (MP)10. George Eliot①Adam Bede11. Charlotte Bronte (introduced the first governess novel in the history of England literature; forerunner of the feminism and the feminism literary tradition.)①Jane Eyre (MP; Noted for its sharp criticism on the exciting society.)12. Emily Bronte①Wuthering Heights (criticize the bourgeois matrimonial system)13. Thomas Hood①The Song of the Shirt②The Bridge of Sighs14. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (The Big Three of Victorian age Browning, Arnold; Poet of the people)①Ulysses②Break, Break, Break③Crossing the Bar15. Robert Browning (most original poet of Victorian Age)①my last duchess (dramatic monologue)②home-thoughts, from abroad16. Elizabeth Barrett Browning①Sonnets from the PortugueseⅡ. Chose the best answer 15’Ⅲ. Appreciation 40’1. to a sky larkAuthor: Percy Bysshe Shelley(1)This stanza is quoted from Shelly‟s To a Skylark.(2)Shelly is an English romantic poet with revolutionary thought. He published the works which expressed the rebellious spirits against English politics and conservative values. His works produced a kind of connection with the politics. Most of his works reflected the revolutionary and optimistic belief for the future. Shelley is listed into the younger generation of English romantic poets including Byron and Keats while William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey were listed into the older generation. The older generation was labeled by simple ideas and a reverence for nature, while the poets of the younger generation came to be known for their sensuous aestheticism, their exploration of intense passions, their political radicalism, and their tragically short lives.(3)In this poem, the poet expresses his yearning for freedom. When the poet heard the beautiful song of the skylark, he also was moved by the song and s hared the same happy feeling with the bird. “Blithe spirit” symbolizes the skylark. Shelley considered the skylark as the “blithe spirit”. The song of the skylark was so beautiful that the poet believed that it was an immortal bird. The poet expressed his yearning for freedom and wanted to get rid of all human fetters.2. Pride and prejudiceAuthor: Jane AustenLiterary style: RealismStory about: It is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr.Bennet is an Englis h gentleman with his overbearing wife. The Bennets‟ five daughters: the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately for the Bennets, if Mr.Bennets dies, their house will be inherited by a dis tant cousion whom they have never met. The family‟s future, happiness and security is dependent on the daughter‟s making good marriages. The main plot is about the five daughters,especially the main character Elizabeth Bennet and Mr.Darcy as they deal with matters of upbringing, marriage, moral rightness and education in her aristocratic society.3. Break, Break, BreakAuthor: Alfred TennysonThe “hand” and the “voice” refer to the hand and voice of the poet‟s dead friend Arthur Hallam.The poem is one of Alfred Tennyson‟s lyrics. The lyric is composed at the poet‟s best friend‟s sudden death. Here, the poet contrasts his own feeling of sadness over the loss of a dear friend, combining the nature and his inner world with the joys of the children and the unfeeling waves of the sea that break on the shore and the insensate ships that enter a harbor. The language is musical and rather beautiful.4. My last duchessAuthor: Robert browning(1) Comments:In this poem, Browning creates a character of chilling coldness and cruelty. The speaker is a Duke who is conducting negotiations for a bride, a new duchess. He is talking with the representatives of potential father in law. Almost casually, he shows them the picture of the …last‟ duchess whom he had killed bec ause he could not dominate her.●The poem provides a classic example of a dramatic monologue:●the speaker is clearly distinct from the poet;●an audience is suggested but never appears in the poem;●and the revelation of the Duke's character is the poem's primary aim.(2)Character analysis:. the duke: proud, possessive, cruel, despotic jealous, hypocritical, selfish, narrow-minded; a lover of the arts. the duchess: gentle, kind, beautiful, noble-minded, democratic;(3)Meter"My Last Duchess" is in iambic pentameter6. Rhyme: Heroic Couplets(4)Type of Work: Poem as Dramatic MonologueThe form of a dramatic monologue.During his discourse, the speaker makes comments that reveal information about his personality and psyche, knowingly or unknowingly. The main focus of a dramatic monologue is this personal information, not the topic which the speaker happens to be discussing.(5)ThemeThe theme is the arrogant, authoritarian mindset of a proud Renaissance duke. In this respect, the more important portrait in the poem is the one the duke "paints" of himself with his words.Ⅳ. Terms 15’1. The subtitle of Vanity FairThe subtitle may suggest:1) No heroic people in this novel;2) No predominantly unique character in the novel, i.e. lots of characters will appear as a gallery;3) No more prominent male character in the story-telling or in other words, this book will be a book of women instead of men.2.Critical realismThe critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties and in the beginning of the fifties the realists first and foremost set themselves the task of criticizing capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and delineated the crying contradictions of bourgeois reality. But they did not find a way to eradicate social evils. Charles Dickensis the most important critical realists.3. The Victorian lady noveliststhe Bronte sisters and Gorge Eliot.Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte and Anne Bronte had a great fondness for literature. Charlotte‟s first novel The Professor was rejected by the publisher, but her second one Jane Eyre won immediate success when it appeared in 1847; the same year, Emily‟s single and unique work Wuthering Heights and Anne‟s Agnes Grey were also published. Soon they were followed by Anne‟s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. After the death of Emily and Anne, Charlotte continued writing and published her next important novel Shirley. Another novel Villette appeared in 1853, her most autobiographical work, largely based on her experience on her experience in Brussels.George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, was born into an estate agent‟s family in England. Her most popular novels, Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss(1860), and Silas Marner (1861), all drawn from her knowledge of English country life and notable for their realistic details, pungent characterization and high moral toneⅤ. Comments 20’1. The gothic elements in Wuthering HeightsThe Gothic novel is a literary genre, in which he prominent features are mystery, doom, decay, old buildings with ghosts in them, madness, hereditary curses and so on.The setting is prominent in Gothic Literature. In this way, a Wuthering heights follows the convention of Gothic Literature. Wuthering heights is describes as a morbid place. ”Wuthering”, being the op erative word, is used to show the great winds that pass through this area. Also, the actual structure of the house was built, ”strong: the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall, and the corners defended with large jutting stones”. Thus, the architectural structure of the house has a gothic nature.Heathcliff, the main male protagonist in the novel, shows aspects of Byronic Hero, a figure that has become familiar to fans of Gothic. His past is shrouded in mystery; his parentage is never discovered, and the reader knows only that old Mr.Earnshaw found him wandering the streets of Liverpool as a young boy. His lack of surname stresses the mystery of his background, and even as he grows older he maintains this air of secrecy---for example, when he returns to Wuthering Heights he becomes a wealthy man after a long absence and no one is ever able to say where he made his money. When heathcliff grows older he is nothing more than a villain. For example, he take advantage of Isabella; He locks young Catherine up in Wuthering Heights forcing her to marry her cousin, while her father lies dying at Thrushcross Grange. His only motive is revenge.A mysterious and ghostly atmosphere does pervade the novel. Not only does Lockwood experience Catherine‟s ghostly presence via his dream, but he also make other references to spiritual creatures---at the end of the novel, the house is to be shut up “for the use of such ghosts as choose to inhabit it”, and despite the positive nature of the union between young Cathy and Hareton, the novel ends on a more somber note with a visit to graves of Catherine, Heathcliff and Edgar:” I lingered round them…and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unique slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.”2. The main achievements of Robert Browning(1)Robert B rowning‟s main contribution to the English literature is the introduction of a new form to poetrywriting-----Dramatic Monologue(2)Dramatic Monologue is a kind of poem in which a single fictional or historical character other than the poetsp eaks to a silent “audience” of one or more person. Such poem reveal not the poet‟s own thoughts but the mind of the impersonal character, whose personality is revealed while the implied presence of an auditor distinguishes it from a soliloquy.。
英美文学史试题
台州学院外国语学院学年第学期级英语本科专业《英国文学史及选读II》期末试卷（12）(闭卷) 姓名班级学号考试时间:120 分钟题号I II III IV V VI VII 总分分值10 10 10 15 20 10 25 100得分I. Multiple choice. Choose the best out of the four. (10%=1*10)1. The subject matters of Romanticism include the following But ____.A. orderB. mysticismC. exotic picturesD. interest in the past2. ____is one of the “Lakers”, or Lake school poets.A. John KeatsB. Percy Bysshe ShelleyC. Leigh HuntD. William Wordsworthautobiographical novel is ____.3. Dickens’ A. Hard TimesB. Bleak HouseC. Oliver TwistD. David CopperfieldThe Scian and the Teian muse ”are recalled in____.4. “A. My Last DuchessB. OzymandiasC. The Isles of GreeceD. She Walks in Beauty5. The followig novels are all written by Thomas Hardy except .A. The Forsyte SagaB. Jude the ObscureC. The Return of the NativeD. Far from the Madding Crowd6. Lawrence revealed Oedipus complex in his novel __________.A. Sons and LoversB. For Whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and the Sea7. ____historical novel paved the path for the development of the realistic novel of the 19thcentury.A. Jane Austen’sB. Walter Scott’sC. Henry Fielding’sD. Charles Lamb’sVanity Fair was borrowed from ____ by John Bunyan .8. The title of Thackeray’s novelA. The Roundabout PaperB. The Newcomerss Progress D. The Four GeorgesC. The Pilgrim’9. Anne , the youngest of the Brontes , was the writer of ____.A. Wuthering HeightsB. Jane EyreC. The ProfessorD. Agnes Grey10. In the Idylls of the King, ____ painted the character of the first English national hero, King Arthur, and gave a new meaning to the legends.A. Robert BrowningB. Thomas HardyC. Charles DickensD. Alfred TennysonII. True or False? Put a T before the statement if you think it is true and put an F if you think it is false.(10%=1*10)____1. Jane Austen is one of the naturalist novelists . She drew vivid and realistic pictures of everyday life of the country society in her novels .____2.The Satanic school is composed of Byron , Shelley and Keats .____3.Childe Harold Pilgrimage made Byron famous overnight .___4. In Tennyson’s Ulysses, Ulysses is the Greek name for the Roman hero Odysseus inHomer’s Odyssey.____ 5. The Romantic Age is emphatically an age of novel .____ 6. In his poems Byron aimed at simplicity and purity of the language, fighting against the conventional forms of the 18th century poetry.treacherous and unfaithful.____ 7. Tess’s character can be described as____ 8.Charles Lamb is remembered by the later generations as a great poet.____ 9. Jane Austen is chronologically a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge.____10.Ozymandias is Shelley’s sonnet on the transient nature of man and the futility of the dream of immortality.III. Blank Filling. (10%=1*10)1. Romanticism in England began in 1798, with the publication of ____.2. Don Juan, the greatest work by , was written in the prime of his creative power, in the year of 1818-1823.3. Ode to a Nightingale was written by _______.4. Ivanhoe is the masterpiece of the historical novelist_______.5. The greatest English realist of the Victorian Age was ____.6. The second half of the 19th century in England produced a number of outstanding poets suchas____ , Robert Browning, Charles Algernon Swinburne and so on.7. ____ is the last and one of the greatest of Victorian novelists .____is often taken to be largely biographical .8. D.H. Lawrence’s novel9. Thomas Hardy is a representative of the English , an extreme form of realism.10.was written by Alfred Tennyson on the question of the immortality of the soul, in memory of Arthur Hallam, the poet’s beloved friend.IV. Define or explain the following .(15%=5*3)1. Onomatopoeia2. Symbol3. Stream of consciousnessV. Identify (20%=10*2)Passage IIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.Questions1.Who is the author of the selection?2.Which novel is this passage taken from?3.List the other five novels written by the author.4.Translate the passage into Chinese.Passage IIThat’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,Looking as if she were alive. I callThat piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf’s handsWorked busily a day, and there she stands.Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said“Fra Pandolf” by design, for never readStrangers like you that pictured countenance,The depth and passion of its earnest glance,……Questions:1.The passage is taken from____.2.The poet is____ .3.This poem is regular in form . The poetic form used is called____.A. Blank VerseB. Free VerseC. Heroic CoupletD. Quatrain4.The poem is a dramatic monologue , who is the speaker in it ? Can you describe hispersonality?VI. Match the characters, works, writers in Boxes A , B and C respectively. Mark theletters in Box B and the numbers in Box C in front of the characters in Box A.The example is given. (10%=1*10)Box AH , 9 C1. Alec , C2. Mrs. Morel , C3. Rowena, C4. Basil Hallward , C5. Hetty Sorrel , C6. Blanche Ingram , C7. Don Juan l , C8.Amelia Sedley , C9. Fagin, C10. Darcy , C11. NellyBox BA. V anity FairB. Jane EyreC. Pride and PrejudiceD. Wuthering HeightsE. Sons and LoversF. Oliver TwistG. Adam Bede H. Tess of the D’Urbervilles I. The Picture of Dorian GrayJ . Ivanhoe K. Don JuanBox C1. George Eliot2. W. M. Thackeray3. Walter Scott4. Charles Dickens5. D. H. Laurence6. Jane Austen7. Charlotte Bronte 8. Emily Bronte 9. Thomas Hardy10. Oscar Wilde 11. George Gordon, Lord ByronVII. Answer the following questions(25%=10+15)1. What is “the Wessex Novels”? Refer to one of the Wessex Novels in explaining naturalism.2. What do you know about the English Romanticism? Comment on the literary current with the following poem.She Dwelt among the Untrodden WaysShe Dwelt among the Untrodden WaysBeside the spring of Dove.A Maid whom there were none to praiseAnd very few to love;A violet by a mossy stoneHalf hidden from the eye!Fair as a star, when only oneIs shining in the sky.She lived unknown, and few could knowWhen Lucy ceased to be;But she is in her grave, and, oh,The difference to me!。
《英美文学史和选读》期末试卷（2）
《英美⽂学史和选读》期末试卷（2）试卷纸第1页台州学院外国语学院学年第学期级专业《英国⽂学史及选读I》期末试卷(2)（闭卷) 班级姓名学号I. Multiple choice. Choose the best out of the four . (10%=1*10)1. The Song of Beowulf can be termed a(n) praising England’s national hero Beowulf .A. epicB. sonnetC. romanceD. novel2. Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A. ChristianB. knightlyC. GreekD. primitive3. An iambic pentameter couplet is called____.A. heroic coupletB. blank verseC. tercetD. sestet4. Sonnets originated from Italy , and in the 16th century, ____ introduced it to England .A. Thomas MoreB. John MiltonC. Thomas WyattD. Petrarch5. In the poetic line “bathes each bud and shoot”, “bathes” and “bud” makea sound effect called .A. alliterationB. assonanceC. consonanceD. internal rhyme6. The supreme master in the 1st half of the 18th century is ____.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Richard SteeleC. Daniel DefoeD. Henry fielding7. Romanticism in England began in 1798, with the publication of ____.A. Lyrical BalladsB.EndymionC. The Rime of the Ancient MarinerD. To Autumn8. “Eternal summer gilds them yet, / But all, except their sun, is set.” is from____ .A. OzymandiasB. Ode to the West WindC. She Walks in BeautyD. The Isles of Greece9. , the author of Ivanhoe, is the creator and a great master of thehistorical novel.A. Henry fieldingB. Walter ScottC. Daniel DefoeD. Jonathan Swift试卷纸第2页10. ___ _is one of the “Lakers”, or Lake school poets .A. John KeatsB. Percy Bysshe ShelleyC. Leigh HuntD. S. T. ColeridgeII. True or False? Write T for true and F for false . (10%=1*10)____ 1. John Donne is the most outstanding representative of the 17th century dramas.____ 2. A Modest Proposal by Swift shows the writer’s irony towards the projectors.____ 3. In a poetic line, a foot with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable is trochic.____ 4. The turn of the 18th century and the 19th century in England saw the appearance of a new literary current—Preromanticism.____ 5. The Tiger by William Blake is a poem in The Songs of Innocence.____ 6. The glory of the Romantic Age lies in the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron,Shelley and Keats etc..____ 7. The Satanic School includes Byron, Shelley and William Wordsworth.____ 8. Don Juan made John Keats famous overnight.____ 9.The first poem in The Lyrical Ballads is Wordsworth’s masterpiece The Rime of Ancient Mariner.____10. In his poems Byron aimed at simplicity and purity of the language, fighting against the conventional forms of the 18th century poetry.III. Blank Filling. (10%=1*10)1. The line “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is taken from byWilliam Shakespeare.2. The 18th century was distinctively an age of .3. The later enlighteners of England in the 18th century found the power of reasonto be insufficient and therefore appealed to sentiments as a means of achievingsocial justice, which led to the appearance of the new literarycurrent— .4. She Stoops to Conquer is a rollicking comedy by .5. is the most independent and the most original of all the romantic poets ofthe 18th century.6.The image of an enterprising Englishman of the 18th century was created by in his famous novel Robinson Crusoe.7.While the political tempests led to a confusion in English literature in the 17thcentury, thepeaceful development of the 18th century made a prevailing literary current.8.The two representatives of Pre-Romanticism are William Blake and .9. The most outstanding figure of English Sentimentalism is .10. Romanticism in England ended in 1832, with the death of .试卷纸第3页IV. Define or explain the following. (15%=5*3)1. Blank Verse2. Conceit3. The Graveyard SchoolV. Identify.(20%=10*2)Passage IThe curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd wind slowly over the lea,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me.……Questions1. Who is the writer of these lines?2. What is the title of the whole poem from which the lines are taken?3. In the 2nd line, “/l/” sound is repeated in “lowing” and “lea” to make for linking both sound and meaning.4. What is the theme of the poem?Passage III lay down on the grass, which was very short and soft, where I slept sounderthan ever I remember to have done in my life, and as I reckoned, above nine hours; for when I awaked, it was just daylight. I attempted to rise, but was not able to stir…Questions1.Who is the writer of this passage?2.What’s the title of the novel from which the passage was taken?3.Who is the narrator in the novel?4.Explain how the artistic ideals of Classicism are displayed in the passage withan example.VI. Answer the following questions.(20%=10*2)1. What do you know about Sentimentalism?2. List at least five novels written by Jane Austen.VII. Literary essay writing. (15%)Refer to the following poem in explaining the literary movement——Romanticism. She Dwelt among the Untrodden WaysShe Dwelt among the Untrodden WaysBeside the spring of Dove.A Maid whom there were none to praiseAnd very few to love;A violet by a mossy stoneHalf hidden from the eye!Fair as a star, when only oneIs shining in the sky.She lived unknown, and few could knowWhen Lucy ceased to be;But she is in her grave, and, oh,The difference to me!台州学院外国语学院学年第学期级专业《英国⽂学史及选读I 》期末试卷答卷(2)(闭)班级姓名学号考试时间:120 分钟I. Multiple choice. Choose the best out of the four. (10%=1*10)II . True or False? Write T for true and F for false. (10%=1*10)1.____2.____3.____4.____5.____6.____7.____8.____9.____ 10.____III. Blank Filling. (10%=1*10)1. 6.2. 7.3. 8.装订线4. 9.5. 10.IV. Define or explain the following. (15%=5*3)1.2.3.V. Identify.(20%=10*2)Passage I1.2.3.4..Passage II1.2.3.4.VI. Answer the following questions.(20%=10*2) 1.2. VII. Literary essay writing. (15%)。
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The Canterbury Tales B.The Ballad of Robin HoodC。
The Song of Beowulf D.Sir Gawain and the Green Kinght2。
_____is the most common foot in English poetry.A.The anapest B。
The trocheeC.The iambD.The dactyl3.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 culture.B.England’s domestic restC.New discovery in geography and astrologyD.The religious reformation and the economic expansion4._____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language。
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试卷纸第1页台州学院外国语学院学年第学期级专业《英国文学史及选读I》期末试卷(2)（闭卷) 班级姓名学号I. Multiple choice. Choose the best out of the four . (10%=1*10)1. The Song of Beowulf can be termed a(n) praising England’s national hero Beowulf .A. epicB. sonnetC. romanceD. novel2. Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A. ChristianB. knightlyC. GreekD. primitive3. An iambic pentameter couplet is called____.A. heroic coupletB. blank verseC. tercetD. sestet4. Sonnets originated from Italy , and in the 16th century, ____ introduced it to England .A. Thomas MoreB. John MiltonC. Thomas WyattD. Petrarch5. In the poetic line “bathes each bud and shoot”, “bathes” and “bud” makea sound effect called .A. alliterationB. assonanceC. consonanceD. internal rhyme6. The supreme master in the 1st half of the 18th century is ____.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Richard SteeleC. Daniel DefoeD. Henry fielding7. Romanticism in England began in 1798, with the publication of ____.A. Lyrical BalladsB.EndymionC. The Rime of the Ancient MarinerD. To Autumn8. “Eternal summer gilds them yet, / But all, except their sun, is set.” is from____ .A. OzymandiasB. Ode to the West WindC. She Walks in BeautyD. The Isles of Greece9. , the author of Ivanhoe, is the creator and a great master of thehistorical novel.A. Henry fieldingB. Walter ScottC. Daniel DefoeD. Jonathan Swift试卷纸第2页10. ___ _is one of the “Lakers”, or Lake school poets .A. John KeatsB. Percy Bysshe ShelleyC. Leigh HuntD. S. T. ColeridgeII. True or False? Write T for true and F for false . (10%=1*10)____ 1. John Donne is the most outstanding representative of the 17th century dramas.____ 2. A Modest Proposal by Swift shows the writer’s irony towards the projectors.____ 3. In a poetic line, a foot with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable is trochic.____ 4. The turn of the 18th century and the 19th century in England saw the appearance of a new literary current—Preromanticism.____ 5. The Tiger by William Blake is a poem in The Songs of Innocence.____ 6. The glory of the Romantic Age lies in the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron,Shelley and Keats etc..____ 7. The Satanic School includes Byron, Shelley and William Wordsworth.____ 8. Don Juan made John Keats famous overnight.____ 9.The first poem in The Lyrical Ballads is Wordsworth’s masterpiece The Rime of Ancient Mariner.____10. In his poems Byron aimed at simplicity and purity of the language, fighting against the conventional forms of the 18th century poetry.III. Blank Filling. (10%=1*10)1. The line “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is taken from byWilliam Shakespeare.2. The 18th century was distinctively an age of .3. The later enlighteners of England in the 18th century found the power of reasonto be insufficient and therefore appealed to sentiments as a means of achievingsocial justice, which led to the appearance of the new literarycurrent— .4. She Stoops to Conquer is a rollicking comedy by .5. is the most independent and the most original of all the romantic poets ofthe 18th century.6.The image of an enterprising Englishman of the 18th century was created by in his famous novel Robinson Crusoe.7.While the political tempests led to a confusion in English literature in the 17thcentury, thepeaceful development of the 18th century made a prevailing literary current.8.The two representatives of Pre-Romanticism are William Blake and .9. The most outstanding figure of English Sentimentalism is .10. Romanticism in England ended in 1832, with the death of .试卷纸第3页IV. Define or explain the following. (15%=5*3)1. Blank Verse2. Conceit3. The Graveyard SchoolV. Identify.(20%=10*2)Passage IThe curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd wind slowly over the lea,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me.……Questions1. Who is the writer of these lines?2. What is the title of the whole poem from which the lines are taken?3. In the 2nd line, “/l/” sound is repeated in “lowing” and “lea” to make for linking both sound and meaning.4. What is the theme of the poem?Passage III lay down on the grass, which was very short and soft, where I slept sounderthan ever I remember to have done in my life, and as I reckoned, above nine hours;for when I awaked, it was just daylight. I attempted to rise, but was not able to stir…Questions1.Who is the writer of this passage?2.What’s the title of the novel from which the passage was taken?3.Who is the narrator in the novel?4.Explain how the artistic ideals of Classicism are displayed in the passage withan example.VI. Answer the following questions.(20%=10*2)1. What do you know about Sentimentalism?2. List at least five novels written by Jane Austen.VII. Literary essay writing. (15%)Refer to the following poem in explaining the literary movement——Romanticism.She Dwelt among the Untrodden WaysShe Dwelt among the Untrodden WaysBeside the spring of Dove.A Maid whom there were none to praiseAnd very few to love;A violet by a mossy stoneHalf hidden from the eye!Fair as a star, when only oneIs shining in the sky.She lived unknown, and few could knowWhen Lucy ceased to be;But she is in her grave, and, oh,The difference to me!台州学院外国语学院 学年第 学期 级 专业《英国文学史及选读I 》期末试卷答卷(2)(闭)班级 姓名 学号考试时间:120 分钟I. Multiple choice. Choose the best out of the four. (10%=1*10)II . True or False? Write T for true and F for false. (10%=1*10)1.____2.____3.____4.____5.____6.____7.____8.____9.____ 10.____III. Blank Filling. (10%=1*10)1. 6.2. 7.3. 8.装订线4. 9.5. 10.IV. Define or explain the following. (15%=5*3)1.2.3.V. Identify.(20%=10*2)Passage I1.2.3.4..Passage II1.2.3.4.VI. Answer the following questions.(20%=10*2)1.2. VII. Literary essay writing. (15%)。