Richard B. Sheridan
美国人文知识
美国人文知识1. Benjamin Franklin 本杰明·富兰克林，1706-1790，著有：A Modest Inquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Money;Poor Richard’s Almanack穷查理历书The Way to Wealth致富之道The Autobiography自传2. Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩 1737-1809，著有：The Case of the Officers of Excise税务员问题Common Sense常识American Crisis美国危机Rights of Man人的权利Downfall of Despotism专制体制的崩溃The Age of Reason理性时代3.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 亨利·沃兹沃思·朗费罗，1807-1882The Song of Hiawatha海华沙之歌----美国人写的第一部印第安人史诗Voices of the Night夜吟Ballads and Other Poens民谣及其他诗Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems布鲁茨的钟楼及其他诗Tales of a Wayside Inn路边客栈的故事---诗集An April Day四月的一天A Psalm of Life人生礼物Paul Revere's Ride保罗·里维尔的夜奔Evangeline伊凡吉琳The Courtship of Miles Standish迈尔斯·斯坦迪什的求婚----叙事长诗Poems on Slavery奴役篇---反蓄奴组诗4. Ambrose Bierce 安布罗斯·毕尔斯，1842-1914?【小品集】The Fiend's Deligh魔鬼的乐趣Nuggests and Dust Panned out in California在加利福尼亚淘出的金块和金粉Cobwebs from an Empty Skull来自空脑壳的蜘蛛网【短篇小说集】Tales of Soldiers and Civilians军民故事In the Midst of Life在人生中间Can Such Things Be?这种事情可能吗?The Devil's Dictionary魔鬼词典（The Applicant申请者）5. Villa Sibert Cather 维拉·凯塞，1873-1947O,Pioneers啊，先驱们My Antonia我的安东尼亚The Professor's House教授之家Death Comes for the Archibishop大主教之死6. Gertrude Stein 格特鲁德·斯坦因，1874-1946The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas爱丽丝·托克拉斯的自传Tender Button温柔的钮Hilda Doolittle 希尔达·杜丽特尔，1886-1961 Sea Garden海的花园Collected Poems（Dread山精;Pear Tree;Orchard）The Walls Do Not Fall墙没在倒塌（战争诗三部曲）Tribute to the Angels天使颂The Flowering of the Rod柳条葳蕤Tribute to Freud献给弗洛伊德Hellen in Egypt7. Michael Gold 迈克尔·戈尔德，1894-1967120 Million一亿二千万Change The World改变世界The Hollow Man空心人Jews Without Money没在钱的犹太人（自传体小说）【戏剧】Hoboken BluesFiesta节日Battle Hymn歌Prletarian Literature in the United States美国无产阶级文学选集（与人合编）1.The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by_____.A. Henry JamesB. O. HenryC. Harriet Beecher StowerD. Mark Twain2. The word holiday originally meant holy day; but now the word signifies any day on which we don’t have to work. This is an example of____. A. meaning shift B. widening of meaningC. narrowing of meaningD. loss of meaning3. Which of the following cities is NOT located in the Northeast, U.S.?A. HustonB. BaltimoreC. PhiladelphiaD. Boston4. Which of the following is NOT a Romantic Poet?A. William WordsworthB. Percy B. ShelleyC. George G. ByronD. George Eliot5. The study of ____ is Syntax.A. textual organizationB. sentence structuresC. word formationD. language functions6. The capital city of Canada is ____.A. MontrealB. OttawaC. VancouverD. York7. The longest river in Britain is ____.A. SevernB. TeesC. ThamesD. Clyde8. In ____ the Romans conquered Greece.A. 146B.C. B. 1200 B.C. C. 700 B.C.D. the 5th century9. In his inaugural speech, ____ said that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”.A. Woodrow WilsonB. Franklin D. RooseveltC. Harry TrumanD. Benjamin Franklin10. The Head of the Representatives is called ____.A. ChancellorB. SpeakerC. ChairmanD. Leader1.Which of the following are regarded as Shakespeare’s four great tragedies?A Romeo and Juliet, hamlet, Othello, King LearB Romeo and Juliet, hamlet, Othello, MacbethC hamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacbethD Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Timon of Athens2.Guiiliver’ travel was written by____.A Daniel DefoeB Charles dickensC Jonathan swiftD Joseph Addison3.The novel starts with “it is a truth universally acknowledged, thata single man in possession of a good fortune ,must be in want of a wife.”The novel is Jane Austen’____.A EmmaB persuasionC sense and sensibilityD pride and prejudice4.Which of the following is not one of the Bronte sisters?A Charlotte BronteB Anne BronteC Jenny BronteD Emily Bronte5.____is the world’s largest exporter of lamb and mutton.A. New ZealandB. AustraliaC. CanadaD. America6.British prime minister normally serves a ______ term.A. two-yearB. five-yearC. four-yearD. six-year7.Semantics is the study of _______.A. linguistic competenceB. language functionsC. meaningsD. social behavior8.Sense and Sensibility is a ___ by ___.A play… Jane AustenB novel… Jane AustenC play… Emily BronteD novel… Anne Bronte9.___is the home of golf.A EnglandB ScotlandC WalesD Ireland10.Reuters was founded in ____A 1715B 1751C 1851D 18151.The most important economic activity in Canada is ___.A miningB fishingC farmingD manufacturing2.In area, the United States is the ____ largest country in the world.A 2ndB 3rdC 4thD 5th3.______was NOT written by Charles Dickens.A. David CopperfieldB. Oliver Twist、C. Sons and LoversD. A Tale of Two Cities4.What is (are) the nickname(s) of the U.S.A.?A Uncle SamB Brother JonathanC YankeeD All of the above5.“He has a servant called Friday.”“he”in the quoted sentence isa character in______.A Henry fielding’s tom jonesB john Bunyan’ the pilgrim’s progressC Richard brinsley Sheridan’s the school for scandalD Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe6.“A Red, Red Rose” was written by ___.A Alexandra PopB Robert BurnsC William BlakeD John Keats7.What forms a natural boundary between Mexico and the United States?A The Rio Grande RiverB The southern Rocky MountainsC The Colorado RiverD The Gulf of California8.The US formally entered the Second World War in ____A 1937B 1939C 1941D 19439.The history of English is usually divided into ___ major periods.A threeB fourC fiveD two10.The emblem of the Democratic Party is ____.A elephantB donkeyC bearD bull1.The election of ____ made Margaret Thatcher to power and she became the first woman prime minister.A 1979B 1980C 1982D 19922.In which novel can "Yahoo" be found?A John Bunyan's Pilgrim's ProgressB Edmund Spencer's The Faerie QueenC Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's TravelsD Henry Fielding's Tom Jones3.According to the Official Language of Act of Canada, there are two official language in this country: they are____A English and SpanishB English and PortugueseC English and FrenchD English and Celtic4.In Britain, ___ has the ultimate authority of legislation.A the QueenB the House of CommonsC the House of LordsD the Prime Minister5.The morpheme “scope” in the common word “telescope” is a(n) ___.A bound morphemeB bound formC inflectional morphemeD free morpheme6.The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ____A Jack LondonB Charles DickensC Samuel ColeridgeD Ernest Hemingway7.The Presidents during the American Civil War was .A Andrew JacksonB Abraham LincolnC Thomas JeffersonD George Washington8.The three largest cities in Canada do NOT include.A TorontoB QuebecC OttawaD Vancouver9.Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 because of ____.A the Great DepressionB the Black Power MovementC the Watergate ScandalD the Isolation policy10.The following plays are comedies by Shakespeare EXCEPT ___.A A Midsummer Night’s DreamB As You Like ItC The Merchant of VeniceD Romeo and Juliet1.The United States has less than 6% of the world’s population; yet it produces about ____ of the total world output.A 20%B 25%C 30%D 35%2.What country is known as the Land of Maple Leaf？A United States of AmericaB United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandC New ZealandD Canada3.The study of language acquisition is generally known as ___.A theoretical linguisticsB psycholinguisticsC applied linguisticsD historical linguistics4.It is known that Irish landscape in featured by ___.A bogsB mountainsC grasslandD rivers5.The sentence “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s_____.A comediesB tragediesC sonnetsD histories6.All the following universities are located in New England EXCEPT____A YaleB HarvardC MITD Berkeley7.The highest peak in Canada is ____, which is the Yukon Territory of northwest Canada.A. Mount LawrenceB. Mount SuperiorC. Mount LoganD Mount Huron8.____ is sometimes called the birthplace of America.A. New EnglandB. the SouthC. the WestD. the Midwest9.The Tower of London, a historical sight, located in the center of London, was built by ____A King HaroldB Robin HoodC Oliver CromwellD William the Conqueror10.The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except____A friendshipB love and marriageC life and deathD war and peace1. It’s generally known that the “First book of American” is ___ by John Smith.A A True Relation of VirginiaB The True Travels of Captain John SmithC Map of the Bay and the RiversD A Description of New England2. The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America was written by ___.A John SmithB John EllisC Anne BradstreetD Nathaniel Morton3. A Funeral Elegy upon That Pattern and Patron of Virtue was written by John Norton in the memory of ___.A John SmithB Anne BradstreetC Nathaniel MortonD Benjamin Franklin4. Edward Taylor was a poet of ___.A Local ColorismB American RomanticismC New England TranscendentalismD Colonial American5. Poor Richard’s Almanac was written by ___ who also wrote ___.A Benjamin Franklin … AutobiographyB Washington Irving … AutobiographyC Washington Irving … History of New YorkD Benjamin Franklin … History of New York6. All the following but ___ are the works of John Woolman.A Journal of John WoolmanB Some considerations upon the keeping of NegroesC A plea for the PoorD Poor Richard’s Almanac7. The series of “poems of romantic fancy” are poems written by ___.A Washington IrvingB James Fenimore CooperC Edgar Allan PoeD Philip Freneau8. ___ was the first black woman who published her collection of poems.A Philis WheatleyB Ralph EllisonC James BaldwinD Alex Haley9. Escape: or A Leap for Freedom written by black author John Wells Brown was a(n) ___.A poemB novelC playD essay10. Charles Brockden Brown wrote all the following novels but ___.A WielandB OrmondC Edgar HuntleyD The Pioneers练习题：1 ._____is the largest city and the chief port of the United States.A .Washington D.CB .Los Angeles C. San Francisco D .New York City2. _____ enjoys the worst social and economic conditions.A. Blacks B .Hispanics C. Indians D. Asian Americans3 .Washington D.C. is named after___________.A. the U.S. President George WashingtonB .Christopher ColumbusC .both George Washington and Christopher ColumbusD .none of them4 .American and British English are two_____ of the English language.A. varietiesB. elementsC. partsD. form5. The first American president to be elected from the Republican Party was______.A .Thomas Jefferson B. James Monroe C. James Madison D .Abraham Lincoln6 .Of the fifty states, the smallest state in area is_____.A. Rhode Island B .Virginia C. Texas D .Montana7. The national flag of the United States is known as_____.A. the Star-Spangled Banner B .Uncle Sam C .Hot Dog D .Union Jack8. The number of the Representatives from each American state depends on the _____.A .contribution a state has made to the nationB. populationC. sizeD. none of the above9 .The tern “Father of Waters” is used to refer to _____.A. the Amazon RiverB. the Mississippi RiverC. the Nile RiverD. the Hudson River10 The statue of liberty was given to American people by_____ as a gift in 1884.A. FranceB. Spain C .Italy D .Britain练习题答案及题解:1 .D, 纽约是美国最大的城市同时也是最重要的经济中心和最主要的港口。
英美文学作家及其作品
Edmund SpenserThe faerie QueeneChristopher Marlowe 克利斯朵夫.马洛Tamburlaine/Dr.Faustus/The Jew of MaltaWilliam Shakespeare 威廉.莎士比亚Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth /Romeo and Juliet/Sonnet 18:shalli compare three to a summer's dayFrancis Bacon 弗兰西斯.培根The Advancement of Learning/Novum Organum /Of Studies John Donne 约翰.邓恩The Songs and SonnetsGeorge Herbertvirtue:sweet day, so cool,socalm,so brightBen John"Song-To Celia":drink to me only with thine eyesRobert Herrick"To the Virgins,to Make Much of Time":gather ye rosebuds while ye mayJohn Milton 约翰.弥尔顿Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained/Samson AgonistesJohn Bunyan 约翰.班扬The Pilgrim,s Progress《天路历程》Jonathan Swift 乔纳森.斯威夫特A Modest Proposal/Gulliver's Travels/A Tale of a Tub /The Battle of the BooksAlexander Pope 亚历山大.蒲伯An Essay on Criticism /The Rape of the LockDaniel Defoe丹尼尔.笛福Robinson Crusoe《鲁宾逊漂流记》Henry Fielding 亨利.费尔丁The History of Tom Jones,a Foundling/The History of Jonathan Wild the GreatSamuel Johnson 塞缪尔.约翰逊A Dictionary of the English LanguageRichard Brinsley Sheridan 理查.比.谢立丹The Rivals /The School for ScandalThomas Gray托马斯.格雷“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”《写在教堂墓地的挽歌》Robert Burns 罗伯特•彭斯A Red,RedRose:o,myluve's like a red,red roseWilliam Blake 威廉布莱恩Marriage of Heaven and Hel/songs of Experience/Songs of Innocence;when my mother die i was very youngWilliam Wordsworth威廉.华兹华斯Robert Southey and Coleridgeas the “Lake Poets”Lyrical Ballads.《抒情歌谣集》/The Prelude 序曲/ “i wondered londly as a CloudSamuel Taylor Coleridge塞.泰.科勒律治Kubla Khan/The NightingaleGeorge Gordon Byron乔治.戈登.拜伦Childe Harold ' s Pilgrimage《恰尔德.哈罗德游记》Don Juan/"She Walks in Beauty"/"Song for the Luddites":as the libery lads o'er the seaPercy Bysshe Shelley 柏.比.雪莱“Ode to the West Wind”/Prometheus Unbound/QueenMab/The Cenci/"A Song:'Men of England'"John Keats 约翰.济慈"Ode on Melancholy"/"Ode on a Grecian Urn”/“Ode to aNightingale”/“Ode a Psyche”/ “To Autumn”:season of mists and mellow fruitfulnessJane Austen 简.奥斯汀Sense and Sensibility/Pride and Prejudice/Emma/Persuasion / Mansfield ParkCharles Dickens 查尔斯.狄更斯The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club /liver Twist/A tale of two Cities/ Great ExpectationsCharlotte Bronte 夏洛蒂.布朗蒂Jane EyreEmily Bronte 艾米丽.布朗蒂Wuthering HeightsAnne Bronte 安妮.布朗蒂Agnes GreyAlfred Tennyson阿尔弗雷德.丁尼生Idylls of the King《国王诗歌集》Thomas Hardy 托马斯.哈代Jude the Obscure/Tess of the D，Urbervilles:her narrative ended George Bernard Shaw 乔治•萧伯纳Widowers House /Mrs. Warren,s Profession/Caesar and Cleopatra/St. Joan/Back to Methuselah/Pygmalion 卖花女John Galsworthy 约翰.高尔斯华绥The forsyte saga/The Man of Property/Form the Four windsWilliam Butler Yeats 威廉.巴特勒.叶芝The Lake Lsle of Innisfree/The Wind Among the Reeds T.S.Eliot埃略特The Waste Land/The Four Quartets / “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock James Joyce詹姆斯.乔伊斯Ulysses《尤利西斯》wrence 戴维.伯特.劳伦斯Sons and Lovers. /The Rainbow / Women in LoveWilliam Golding 威廉戈尔丁Lord of the Flies 蝇王Samuel Beckett赛缪尔•贝尔特Waiting for Godot等待戈多Dylan Thomas狄兰•托马斯Death and Entrances死亡与出场Ted Hughes 特德•休斯Hawk in the Rain 雨中鹰Seamus Heaney谢默斯•希尼Death of a Naturalist 一位自然主义者之死Washington Irving 华盛顿.欧文The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon/Rip van WinkleEdgar Allan Poe 埃德加•坡The Goldbug/Muders in the Rue MorgueRalph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫.华尔多.爱默生Nature/The America Scholar/Walden Nathaniel Hawthorne 纳萨尼尔。
英国文学史
英国文学史多选1. Romance, which uses verse or prose to describe the adventures and life of the knights, is the popular literary form in ___C _. A. Romanticism B. RenaissanceC. medieval periodD. Anglo-Saxon period2. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his producti on of___DA. Piers PlowmanB. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC. Confessio AmantisD. The Canterbury Tales3. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th cent uries, its essence is____D___.A. scienceB. philosophyC. artsD. humanism5. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare…s Sonn et 18? CA. The speaker eulogizes (praise) the power ofB. The speaker satirizes human vanityC. The speaker praises the power of artistic creationD. The speaker meditates on man …s salvation6. ―The Fairy Queen‖ is the masterpiece written by__C__. A. John Milton B. Geoffr ey Chaucer C. Edmund Spenser D.Alexander Pope7. Which of the following work did Bacon NOT write? DA. Advancement of LearningB. Novum OrganumC. De AugmentisD. Areopagitica8. The most distinguished literary figure of the 17th century was（B） who was a critic, poet, and playwright.A. Oliver GoldsmithB. John DrydenC. John MiltonD. S.T. Coleridge9. Which of the following has / have associations with John Donne…s poetry? BA. reason and sentimentB. conceits and witsC. the euphuismD. writing in the rhymed couplet10. Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as ―___B___‖, for his contribution to theestablishment of the form of the modern novel. A. Best writer of the English novel B. The father of English novelC. The most gifted writer of the English novelD. conventional writer of English nove l11. John Milton…s masterpiece—Paradise Lost was written in the poetic style of __ B _.A. rhymed stanzasB. blank verseC. alliterationD. sonnets12. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver…s Travels are ____A_.A. horses that are endowed with reasonB. pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC. giants that are superior in wis domD. hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only inappearance but also in some other ways 13. Gothic novels are mostly stories of___C_ ____, which take place in some haunted or dilapidated Middle Age castles. A. love an d marriage B. sea adventuresC. mystery and horrorD. saints and martyrs14. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT __D_A. the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of t he spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the use of humble and rustic life as s ubject matterD. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech15. Charles Dic kens… works are characterized by a mingling of ___A____ and pathos.A. humorB. satireC. passionD. metaphor16. In __B____ …s hands, ―dramatic monologue‖ reaches its maturity and perfection.A. Alfred TennysonB. Robert BrowningC. William ShakespeareD. George Eliot18. The bard of imperialism was（B）, who glorified the colonial expansion of Great Britain in hisworks.A. R. L. StevensonB. Rudyard KiplingC. H. G. WellsD. Daniel Defoe19. ―art for art…s sake‖ was put forth by ___A___.A. aestheticismB. naturalismC. realismD. neo-romanticism20. Which of the following is taken from John Keats…―Ode on a Grecian Urn‖? DA. ―I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!‖B. ―They are both gone up to the church to pray.‖C. ―Earth has not anything to sho w more fair.‖D. ―Beauty is truth, truth beauty.‖43. Gothic novels are mostly stories of__C___, which take place in some haunted or d ilapidatedMiddle Age castles. A. love and marriage B. sea adventuresC. mystery and horrorD. saints and martyrs44. ―The father of English novel‖ is ___A_______.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. Jonathan SwiftD. John Donne45. The greatest Scottish poet in the pre-romanticism is ____D____.A. William WordswothB. Oliver GoldsmithC. Thomas GrayD. Robert Burns46. ___A___ is written by William Blake, a great poet in the pre-romanticism.A. The Songs of InnocenceB. Reliques of Ancient English poetryC. Songs and SonnetsD. Kubla Khan47. The Rights of Man, a pamphlet, was written by __D____, in which he advocated t hat politicswas the business of the whole mass of common people and not only of a government oligarchy.A. John MiltonB. Jonathan SwiftC. Robert BurnsD. Thomas Paine48. William Wordsworth，a romantic poet，advocated all the following EXCEPT (D).A. the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of t he spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech49. Which of the following is taken from John Keats…―Ode on a Grecian Urn‖? DA. ―I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!‖B. ―They are both gone up to the church to pray.‖C. ―Earth has not anything to sho w more fair.‖D. ―Beauty is truth，truth beauty.‖ 50. ―If Winter comes，can Spring be far behind.‖ is an epigrammatic line by DA. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. P. B. Shelley51. ―Ode on a Grecian Urn‖ shows the contrast between the___B___ of art and the__ __ ofhuman passion.A. Glory, uglinessB. permanence, transienceC. transience, sordidnessD. glory, perm anence52. One of the great essay writers of the early 19th century is BA. Jane AustenB. Charles LambC. Walter ScottD. George Eliot53. Tales form Shakespeare was written by ___D__.A. Charles LambB. William HazlittC. Charles Lamb and Mary LambD. Wordsworth and Coleridge54. Charles Dickens… works are characterized by a mingling of ____A___ and pathos.A. humorB. satireC. passionD. metaphor55. In Chapter III of Oliver Twist, Oliver is punished for that ―impious and profane o ffence ofasking for more‖. What did Oliver ask for more? A. More time to play B. More food t o eat C. More books to read D. More money to spend56. In ___B___ …s hands, ―dramatic monologue‖ reaches its maturity and perfection.A. Alfred TennysonB. Robert BrowningC. William ShakespeareD. George Eliot57. The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the existing s ociety, butalso due to its introduction to the English novel the first __D____ heroine. A. explorer B. peasant C. workerD. governess 家庭女教师58. The three trilogies of __A___ …s Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realis m in the early20th century.A. John GalswortryB. Arnold BennettC. James JoyceD. H. G. Wells59. The Victorian Age was largely an age of___C___ eminentlyrepresented by Dicke ns andThackeray.A. poetryB. dramaC. novelD. prose61. The work __B___ written by Alfred Tennyson was about the question of higher ed ucation of women.A. Crossing the BarB. The PrincessC. Break, Break, BreakD. Ulysses65. A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of___A____,who never pays any attention to human feelings. A. propertyB. justiceC. moralityD. humor66. ____D__is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare，and hisrepresentative works are plays inspired by social criticism. A. Richard Sheridan B. Oli ver Goldsmith C. Oscar WildeD. George Bernard Shaw67. ―art for art…s sake‖ was put forth by _A_____.A. aestheticismB. naturalismC. realismD. neo-romanticism68. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT___B_____.A. DublinersB. Jude the ObscureC. A portrait of the Artist as a Young ManD. Ulysses1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating England.A. William the ConquerorB. Julius CaesarC. Alfred the GreatD. Claudius2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .A. LanglandB. WycliffeC. GowerD. Chaucer 3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.A. novelB. dramaC. romanceD. essay 4. The story of ___ is theculmination of the Arthurian romances.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB. BeowulfC. Piers the PlowmanD. The Canterbury Tales 5. William Langland?s ____ is written in the form of a dream vision.A. Kubla KhanB. Piers the PlowmanC. The Dream of John BullD. Morte d?Arthur6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. The N ormans spoke _____.A. FrenchB. EnglishC. LatinD. Swedish7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator of the Bible.A. LanglandB. GowerC. WycliffeD. Chaucer8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the author dreamed, thro ugh which, we can see a picture of the life in the ____ England. A. primitive B. feud al C. bourgeois D. modern9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.A. loyaltyB. revoltC. obedienceD. mockery10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendary outlaw called _____.A. Morte d?ArthurB. Robin HoodC. The Canterbury TalesD. Piers th e Plowman11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of thegreatest narrative poets of E ngland, was born in London in about 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John Dryden 12. Chauce r died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.A. FlandersB. FranceC. ItalyD. Westminster Abbey 13. Chaucer?s earlies t work of any length is his _____, a translation of the French Roman de la Rose by Ga illaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.A. The Romaunt of the RoseB. “A Red, Red Rose”C. The Legend of Good W omenD. The Book of the Duchess14. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of occupations that had impact on the wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career? ____. A. engineer B. c ourtier C. office holder D. soldier E. ambassador F. legislator (议员)15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccio?s poe m “Filostrato”.A. The Legend of Good WomenB. Troilus and CriseydeC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. BeowulfKey to the multiple choices： 1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15ADAAB简答题1.Metaphysical poetry: Metaphysical poetry is a kind of realistic, often ironic and wi tty, verse combining intellectual ingenuity and psychological insight written partly in r eaction to the conventions of Elizabethan love poetry by such seventeenth-century po ets as John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Thomas Traherne, and Andrew Marvell. One of its hallmarks is the metaphysical conceit, a particularly arresting and ingenious type of metaphor.2. In your opinion, why does Satan in Paradise Lost choose the Garden of Eden for his battlefield? (7 points)Answer: 1) Paradise Lost was written by John Milton. (1points)2) The Garden of Eden is the most perfect of spot ever created by God (2 points)3) There live in innocent bliss God…s masterpiece, the first man and woman, Adam and Eve, who are allowed by God to enjoy /revel in the supreme beauties of Paradise, provided they do not eat the fruit that grows on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; (3 point) 4) Satan desires to tear them away from the influence of God and to m ake them instrumental in his struggle against God…s authority. (1 point)4.Write a summery of Pride and Prejudice and make a short comment on the theme.the main plot（7分；主要情节表述不全或不连贯者酌情扣分）and result (1分)； (Unfortunately for the Bennets, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and se curity is dependant on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival in the neighborhood of the rich gentleman Mr. Bingley, who rents a large ho use so he can spend the summer in the country. Mr. Bingley brings with him his sister and the dashing (and richer) but proud Mr. Darcy. Love is soon in the air for one of th e Bennet sisters, while another may have jumped to a hasty prejudgment. For the Ben net sisters many trials and tribulations stand between them and their happiness, includ ing class, gossip and scandal.)Theme: exploration of the marriage, property and intrig ue between the main and minor characters; delicate probing of the values of gentry/ m arriage, class, money) 5) grammar and structure (3分).5. What are the characteristics of metaphysical玄学派poetry? (定义见1)答：①（用语）the diction is simple, the imagery is from the actual,② (形式)the form is frequently an argument with the poet…s beloved, with god, or with hims elf.③（主题：love, religious, thought）④Artistic features: conceits o r imagery奇思妙喻 and syllogism三段论6. What the theme of "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"?答：Theme:1.Nature embodies human beings in their diverse circumstance. It is n ature that give him ―streng th and knowledge fullof peace‖ 2.It is bliss to recolled the beau ty of nature in poet mind while he is in solitude.7. What does ―West Wind mean in Shelley…s Ode to the West Wind?The author express his eagerness to enjoy the boundless freedom from the reality. Co mpare the west wind to destroyer of the old who drives the last signs of life from the t rees, and preserver of the new who scatter the seads shich sill come to life in the sprin g. This is a poem about renewal, about the windblowing life back into dead things, i mplying not just an arc of life (which would end at death) but a cycle, which only start s again when something dies.术语Terms1. Popular ballads: a story hold in 4-line stanzas with second and fourth line rhymed. Ballads are anonymous narrative songs that have been preserved by oral transmission .2. Enlightenment: Enlightenment is an intellectual movement in Europe in 18th cent ury.It was an expression of the struggle of the bourgeoisie against feudalism. The enlighte ners fought against class inequality, stagnation, prejudices and other feudal survivals. It was so called because it considered the chief means for the betterment of the society was the ―enlightenment‖ or ―education‖ of the people.3. Sentimentalism: it came into being as a result of a bitter discontent on the part of certain enlighteners in social reality. (The representatives ofsentimentalism continued to struggle against feudalism but they vaguely sensed at thesame time the contradictions of bourgeois progress that brought with it enslavement and ruin to the people. ) The philosophy of the enlighteners, through rati onal and materialistic in its essence, did not exclude sences, or sentiments, as a means of perception and learning. Moreover, the cult of nature and , a cult of a "natural man" whose feelings display themselves in a most human and natural manner, contrary to t he artful and hypocritical aristocrats.4. Neo-classicism（古典主义）:It was initiated by Dryden, culminated in Pope and continuedby Johnson. Neo-classic ists modeled themselves on classical, ancient Greek and Latin authors. They wanted t o achieve perfect form in literature. They general tended to look at social and political life critically. They emphasize on intellect rather than imagination. They observed fix ed laws and rules in literary creation. Poets preferred heroic couplet. In drama, they ad hered to three unities, time, place and action. They emphasized on the didactic functio n of literature.5. Realism: Realism is a mode of writing that gives the impression of recording or ref lecting‖ faithfully an actual way of life. The term refers, sometimes confusingly, both t o a literary method based on detailed accuracy of description (i. e. verisimilitude) and to a more general attitude that rejects idealization, escapism, and other extravagant qu alities of romance in favor of recognizing soberly the actual problems of life.6. Gothic novel: (哥特式小说)Gothic novel, a type of romantic fiction that predominated in the late eighteenth centu ry, was one phase of the Romantic movement. It is futile to struggle against one's fate. The mysterious element plays an enormous role in the Gothic novel;it is so replete wit h bloodcurdling scenes and unatural feelings that it is justly called "a novel of horror". Its principal elements are violence, horror, and the supernatural.7. Lake poets:（湖畔诗人）refer to the first generation of romanticism including Wordsworth Coleridge and Sout hey. They once lived around the lake districts and traversed the similar attitude toward literature, politics and society, beginning as radicals and ending in conservatives.8. Romanticism is a movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music and art in Western culture during most of the nineteenth century, beginning as a revolt agains t classicism. There have been many varieties of Romanticism in many different times and places. Many of the ideas of English romanticism were first expressed by the poet s William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.9. Dramatic monologue is a type of poem writing style in which a character, at some specific and critical moment, addresses an identifiable but silent audience, thereby uni ntentionally revealing his or her essential temperament and personality.10. Aestheticism: 唯美主义The basic theory of the Aesthetic movement is ―art for art…s sake‖. Aestheticism plac es art above life, and holds that life should imitate art, not art imitate life. According t o the aesthetes, all artistic creation is absolutely subjective as opposed to objective. Ar t should be free from any influence of egoism. Only when art is for art…s sake, can it b e immortal. This was one of the reactions against the materialism and commercialism of the Victorian industrial era, as well as a reaction against the Victorian convention of art for morality…s sake, or art for money…s sake. The representatives are Oscar Wilde a nd Walter Pater.11. Stream of consciousness: a kind of style with a carefully modulated poetic flow a nd brought into prose fiction something of the rhythms and the imagery of lyric poetry.易考话题1.圣经创世神话与世俗创世神话的区别：1，《圣经》创世神话中，创造宇宙和人类的神是男性，而且完全像个家长。
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英国文学The middle ages中古英语文学449-1066 The Anglo-Saxon period(The Old English) 盎格鲁-撒克逊时期Northumbrain School&Wessex literature诺森伯兰和西撒克斯文学Anglo-Saxon poetry: Beowulf 贝奥武蒲1066-1350 The Norman period: Middle EnglishReligious literatureThe influence of French literature: Romance 骑士传奇Sir Gawain and the Green Knight高文爵士和绿衣骑士Sir Thomas Malory（马洛礼） e Mort d’Arthur(The death of Arthu r)Early English playsThe Renaissance period文艺复兴时期1485-1558 The beginning of the English Renaissance:Thomas More: UtopiaWyatt and Haward1558-1603 The Elizabethan Age(The Age of Shakespeare)Poetry: Edmund Spencer:The Faerie QueeneJohn LylySir Philip SidneyDrama: The “University Wits”&Christopher Marlowe:The Tragical History of Doctor FaustusThe passionate Shepherd to His LoveBen Jonson:Song to CeliaWilliam Shakespeare:Sonnets(18,29,66,116)Romeo&JulietThe Merchant of VeniceJulius CaesarHamletSongs from the plays(1)Under the greenwood Tree(2)Blow,Blow,Thou Winter WindProse:Francis Bacon:Of Great placeOf StudyThe 17th Century(1603-1688)Historical background:The King James Bible of 1611Metaphysical Poets & CavalierPoets:John Donne:SongThe CanonizationA Valediction:Forbidding mouringMeditationGeorge Herbert:VirtueBen Jonson:Song to CeliaRobert Herrick:To the Virgins,To Make Much of TimeJohn Milton:To Mr.Cyriack Skinner Upon his BlindnessParadise LostSamson AgonistesJohn Bunyan:The Pilgrim’s ProgressJohn Dryden:An Essay of Dramatic PoesyThe 18th Century & the Restoration(1660-1798)Neoclassicism:1600-1700: The Age of Dryden(restoration literature)John Dryden1700-1745: The Age of Pope (The Augustan Age)Alexander Pope: An Essay on ManAn Epistle to Dr.Arbuthnot Jonathan Swift:A Modest ProposalJoseph Addison&Richard Steel:The Royal ExchangeSir Roger at Church1745-1785: The Time of Johnson(The Neoclassical Decline)Samuel Johnson etter to LordChesterfieldThe Preface to Shakespeare The Rise of the Realistic NovelDaniel Defoe:Moll FlandersSamuel RichardsonHenry Fielding:The History of Tom Jones,A FoundlingJoseph AndrewsTobias Smollett & Laurence SternePre-RomanticismThomas Gray:Elegy written in a Country ChurchyardRichard Brinsey Sheridan:The School for ScandalRobert Burns:Is There for Honest Poverty Scots,Wha HaeAuld Lang SyneA Red,Red RoseWilliam Blake:Songs of Innocence:The LambHoly Thursday Songs of Experience:The Chimney SweeperHoly ThursdayThe TygerLondonThe Age of Romanticism(1798-1832)PoetryThe 1st Generation of Romatics:William Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical BalladsComposed upon Westerminster BridgeThe Solitary ReaperI Wandered Loney as a CloudLines Composed a Few Milesabove Tintern AbbeyLondon,1802Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla KhanThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerRobert Southey:The Younger Generation of Romatics: George Gordon Byron: Childe Harold’s PilgrimageDon Juan(The Isles of Greece)When We Two PartedShe Walks in Beauty Percy Bysshe Shelley:Song to the Man of EnglandOde to the West WindOzymandiasJohn Keats: On First Looking into Chapman’s HomerOde to a NightingaleTo AutumnNon-Poetic Literature of the Age:The Familiar Essay: Charles Lamb:Old ChinaThomas de Quincey:On the Knocking at the Gate in MacbethWilliam Hazlitt: On Familiar StyleLeigh HuntNovel: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice Sir Walter Scott: IvanhoeRob RoyHunting SongLochinvarThe Victorian Age(1832-1901)Novel:Charles Dickens ombey and SonBleak HouseDavid CopperfieldA Tale of Twe CitiesWilliam Makepeace Thackray: Vanity FairGeorge Eliot:Charlotte BronteEmily Bronte: Wuthering HeightsThomas Hardy:Tess of the D’UrbervillesIn Time of “The Breaking of Nations”AfterwardsPoetry ord AlfredTennyson:Break,Break,BreakUlyssesIn Memoriam A.H.H.Crossing the BarRobert Browing: My Last DuchessMeeting at NightParting at MorningMathew Arnold: Dover BeachGerard Manley Hopkins:Spring and FallThe Windhover:To Christ Our LordNon-Fictional Prose:Thomas Carlyle: Past and PresentJohn Ruskin:The Aestheticism:Oscar Wilde:The picture of Dorian GrayPreface to The picture of Dorian GrayAn Ideal Husband Drama:George Bernard Shaw: Major BarbaraMrs.Warren’s ProfessionThe 20th Century(1901- ) Modernism Poetry:Thomas Hardy:HapNeutral TonesThe Darkening ThrushThe Man He KilledA Plaint to ManThe V oiceIn Time of “The Breaking of Nations”A.E.Housman oveliest of Trees,the CherryNowTo an Athlete Dying YoungThe GeorgiansThe 1st World War Poets:Rupert BrookeWilfred Owen ulce etDecorum EstSiegfried Sassoon Modernist Poets(Technical Revolution in Poetry):William Butler Yeats:The Lake Isle of InnisfreeWhen You Are OldThe Second ComingSailing to ByzantiumThomas Sterns Eliot:The Love Song of J.Alfred PrufrockWystan Hugh Auden:Spain 1937Stephen Spender:The Landscape near an AerodromeDylan Thomas o Not Go Gentleinto That Good NightThe Postwar Poets: Philip Larkin(“The Movement” Poet):Church GoingTed Hughes: Hawk RoostingTheologyThe Group,Post-Movement,University Wits Fiction:Realistic Novel(at the beginning of the century):John GalsworthyArnold BennettH.G.WellsThe Emergence of Modernism:Henry James:Joseph Conrad reface to TheNigger of the “Narcissus”E.M.Forster:The Road from ColonusThe Psychological Penetration of wrence:Stream of Consciousness:James Joyce: UlyssesVirginia Woolf: Modern FictionSocial Satires:Evelyn Waugh:Aldous Huxley:George Orwell:Some Thoughts on theCommon ToadThe Angry Young Men: Kingsley Amis uckyJimJohn Wain:Hurry on Down*John Osborne ook Back inAngerWilliam Golding:Graham Greene:Short Stories:Katherian Mansfield:The Garden-PartyWilliam Somerset Maugham:The Ant and the GrasshopperWomen Writers:Iris Murdock:Muriel Spark:Doris Lessing:A Road to the Big CityElizabeth Bowen:Drama: George Bernard Shaw: Mrs.Warren’s ProfessionThe Irish Literary Theater: William Butler Yeats:The Countess CathleenLady GregoryGeorge MooreEdward MartynSean O’CaseyThe Revival of the Verse Drama:Theatre of the Absurd:Samuel Backett:Waiting for GodotDramatists of the Lower Classes: John Osborne & ArnoldWeskerSeamus Heaney eath of a NaturalistPunishmentMartin Amis:Money:a Suicide NoteV.S.Naipaul:In a Free State。
英国文学史100题
100 Selected Questions on English Literature1.The most significant idea of the Renaissance is（）.A. humanismB. realismC. naturalismD. skepticism2.Shakespeare’s tragedies include all the following except（）.A. Hamlet and King LearB. Antony and Cleopatra and MacbethC. Julius Caesar and OthelloD. The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream3. The statement “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability”opens one of well-known essays byA. Francis BaconB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift4.In Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent（）touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. humorousC. romanticD. ironic5.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 Shaw6.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a“（）in prose,”th e first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. tragic epicB. comic epicC. romanceD. lyric epic7.In his poem “Tyger, Tyger,”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful symmetry”of the big cat. The phrase“fearful symmetry”sug gests（）.A. the tiger’s two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically setB. the poet’s fear of the predatorC. the analogy of the hammer and the anvilD. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God’s creation8. “What is his name?”“Bingley.”“Is he married or single?”“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousanda year. What a fine thing for our girls!”The above dialogue must be taken from（）.A. Jane Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceB. Em ily Bronte’s Wuthering HeightsC. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte SagaD. George Eliot’s Middlemarch9.The short story“Araby”is one of the stories in James Joyce’s collection（）.A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManB. UlyssesC. Finnegans WakeD. Dubliners10.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following except （）.A. the using of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the humble and rustic life as subject matterD. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech11. Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of Venice:“Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew/Thou mak’st thy knife keen.”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines? （）A. Simile.B. Metonymy.C. Pun.D. Synecdoche.12. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by （）.A. J. KeatsB. W. BlakeC. W. WordsworthD. P. B. Shelley13. The poems such as“The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience byA. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. John KeatsD. Lord Gordon Byron14.John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is often regarded as a typical example of （）.A. allegoryB. romanceC. epic in proseD. fable15.Alexander Pope strongly advocated neoclassicism, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by（）rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.A. classicalB. romanticC. sentimentalD. allegorical16.In his essay“Of Studies,”Bacon said:“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and（）.”A. skimmedB. perfectedC. imitatedD. digested17.“For I have known them all already, known them all—/Have known the evenings,mornin gs, afternoons,/I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”The above lines are taken from（）.A. Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”B. Eliot’s“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”C. Coleridge’s“Kubla Khan”D. Yeats’s“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”18.(The)（）was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.A. RomanticismB. HumanismC. EnlightenmentD. Sentimentalism19.A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of （）, who never pays any attention to human feelings.A. moralityB. justiceC. propertyD. humor20.The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the （）.A. bitter satireB. larger-than-life caricatureC. Latinized dictionD. dramatic monologue21. G eorge Bernard Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a grotesquely realistic exposure of the（）.A. slum landlordismB. political corruption in EnglandC. economic oppression of womenD. religious corruption in England22. The story starting with th e marriage of Paul’s parents Walter Morel and Mrs. Morel must beA. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’UrbervillesB. D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and LoversC. George Eliot’s MiddlemarchD. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre23. She smiled, no doubt, when’ver I passed her…/ …. This grew, I gave commands, Then all simles stopped together.’The above quoted lines imply that she________.A. obeyed his order and sopped smiling at everybody, including the dukeB. obeyed his order and stopped smiling at anybody except the dukeC. refused to obey and the order and never smiled againD. was murdered at the order of the duke24. The true subject of John Donne’s poem, “The sun Rising,” is to _________.A. attack the sun as an unruly servantB. give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC. criticicize the sun’s intrusion into the lover’s private lifeD. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie25. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s sonnet 18?A. The speaker meditates on man’s moralityB. The speaker satirizes human vanityC. The speaker eulogizes the power of artistic creationD. The speaker tells one of his dream visions.26. Among the great writers of the modern period, ____might be the greatest in radical experimentation of technical innovations in novel writing.A. Joseph ConradB. D.H, LawrenceC. E.M, ForsterD. James Joyce27. “For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room ...”(Dickens, Oliver Twist) What did Oliver ask for?A. More time to play.B. More food to eat.C. More book to read.D. More money to spend.28. Mrs. Warren’s Profession is one of George Bernard Shaw’s plays. What is Mrs. Warren’s profession then ?A. Real estate.B. Prostitution.C. House-keeping.D. Farming.29. The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and g ives all her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence′s .A. Lady Chatterley’s LoverB. Women in loveC. Sons and LoversD. The Plumed Serpent30. “Drive my dead thought over the universeLike withe red leaves to quicken a new birth.”(Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines?A. Synecdoche.B. Metaphor.C. Simile.D. Onomatopoeia.31. Crusoe is the hero in The life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Grusoe, of York, Mariner (also known as Robinson Crusoe)by .A. Jonathan SwiftB. Daniel DefoeC. George EliotD. D.H. Lawrence32.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by .A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe Shelley33. Christopher Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a (n) .A. pastoral lyricB. elegyC. eulogyD. epic34. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance humanism?A. Cultivation of the art of this world and this life.B. Tolerance of human foibles.C. Search for the genuine flavor of ancient culture.D. Glorification of religious faith.35.. “In dream vision Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awaking resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form .A. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie QueeneB. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and JulietC. Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His love”D. John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”36. Which of the following best describes t he nature of Thomas Hardy’s later works?A. Sentimentalism.B. Tragic sense.C. Surrealism.D. Comic sense.37.In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput,” “Brobdingnag,” “Houyhnhnm,” and “Yahoo”?A. James Joyce’s Ulsses.B. Charles Dickens’s Bleak House.C. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.D. D. H. Lawrence’s Women in love.38. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following except .A. normal contemporary speech patternsB. humble and rustic life as subject matterC. elegant wording and inflated figures of speechD. intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience39. In Samuel Taylor Coleridge′s “Kubla Khan,” “A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice” .A. refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once livedB. vividly describes a building of poor qualityC．is the gift given to a beautiful girl called AbyssinianD. symbolizes the reconciliation of the conscious and the unconscious40. The Glorious Revolution in ________ meant three things: the supremacy of parliament, the beginning of modern England, and the final triumph of the principle of political liberty.A. 1640B. 1688C. 1660D. 164941. After ________’s death, monarch was again restored (1660). It was called the period of Restoration.A. CromwellB. CharlesC. MiltonD. James42. The essays and stories of Addison and Steels devoted not only to social problems, but also to private life and ________.A. businessB. public clubsC. gossipsD. adventures43. The Puritans believed in _________ of life.A. extravaganceB. simplicityC. humblenessD. Arrogance44. Fielding’s work unfolds a spread _________ of life in a ll sections of English society.A. pictureB. imageC. panoramaD. painting45. No sooner were the people in control of the government than they divided into hostile parties: the liberal Whigs, and the conservative_________ .A. RepublicansB. DemocratsC. LaborersD. Tories46. Pope was a man of extraordinary wit, extensive ________, and his contemporaries considered him as the highest authority in matters of literary art.A. sightB. adventureC. learningD. thinking47. The philosophy of the enlighteners, though ________ and materialistic in its essence, did not exclude senses, or sentiments, as a means of perception and learning.A. RomanticB. rationalC. realisticD. metaphysical48. The mysterious element plays an enormous role in the Gothic novel; it is soreplete with bloodcurdling scenes and unnatural feelings that it is just called “a novel of ________”.A. happyB. loveC. SentimentalistD. Horror49. Along with the depiction of morals and manners and social mode of life the writers of the Enlightenment began to display an interest in the ________ life of an individual.A. exteriorB. urbanC. poorD. innermost50 Lyrical Ballads is composed by William Wordsworth in collaboration with _________ .A. ColeridgeB. SoutheyC. BlakeD. Byron51. After the Industrial revolution, __________ became the “workshop of the world”.A. BritainB. FranceC. GermanyD. Northern Europe52. The quotation “I wandered lonely as a cloud, / That floats on high o’er vales and hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd , / a host , of golden daffodils ;” is composed by __________.A. ShakespeareB. WordsworthC. SpenserD. Keats53. “If Winter comes , can __________ be far behind ?”.A. AutumnB. West windC. SummerD. Spring54. “Beauty is _________ , truth beauty ”.A. realityB. loveC. truthD. ability55. Romanticism as a literary movement came into being in England in the later half of the _________ century.A. 10B. 16C. 18D. 1956. The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer __________ died .A. Jane AustenB. Walter ScottC. William WordsworthD. De Quincy57. Which poet belongs to the Lakers ? ___________A. ColeridgeB. KeatsC. ByronD. Shelley58. Choose the one from the four immortal odes which is not written by Keats . __________A. Ode to the West WindB. Ode to a NightingaleC. Ode to AutumnD. Ode on a Grecian Urn59. Which work is based on ancient Greek mythology ? __________A. Paradise LostB. Jane EyreC. IvanhoeD. Prometheus Unbound60. In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______.A. getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB. getting control of the parliament and governmentC. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church2. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.A. SurreyB. WyattC. SidneyD. Shakespeare61. As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.A. The TempestB. The Winter's TaleC. CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucrece62. John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literarure since Beowulf.A. AreopagiticaB. Paradise LostC. LycidasD. Samson Agonistes63. The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT ______.A. self - esteemB. self - relianceC. self - restraintD. hard work64. “Graveyard School”writers are the following senti mentalists EXCEPT ______.A. James ThomsonB. William CollinsC. William CowperD. Thomas Jackson65. The best model of satire in English literary history is Jonathan Swift's ______.A. A Modest ProposalB. A Tale of a TubC. Gulliver's TravelsD. The Battle of the Books66. As a representative of the Enlightenment,¬¬¬______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift67. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,______ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Daniel DefoeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Samuel Richardson68. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct?A. It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.69. “Byronic hero”is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.A.being proudB. being of humble originC.being rebelliousD. being mysterious70. Robert Browning created ______ by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.A. the verse novelB. the blank verseC. the heroic coupletD. the dramatic poetry71. Charles Dickens' novel ______ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the nineteenth- century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby72. Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards ______, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.A. self - relianceB. self - realizationC. self - esteemD. self - consciousness73. The symbolic meaning of “Book” in Robert Browning's long poem The Ring and the Book is ______.A. the common senseB. the hard truthC. the comprehensive knowledgeD. the dead truth74. Thomas Hardy's pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a ______ writer.A. realisticB. naturalisticC. romanticD. stylistic75. After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends of modernism EXCEPT ______.A. expressionismB. surrealismC. stream of consciousnessD. black humor76. The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are the three trilogies of ______.A. Galsworthy's Forsyte novelsB. Hardy' s Wessex novelsC. Greene's Catholic novelsD. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels77. In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared “______” who demonstrated a particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest. against the outmoded social and political values in their society.A. The Beat GenerationB. The Lost GenerationC. The Angry Young MenD. Black Mountain Poets78. The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels EXCEPT ______.A.PilgrimageB. UlyssesC.Mrs.DallowayD. A Passage to Inida79. The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th centurywas ______.A. W.B.Yeats B. Lady GregoryC. J.M.SyngeD. John Galworthy80. T.S.Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.A. Murder in the CathedralB. The Cocktail PartyC. The Family ReunionD. The Waste Land81._______ is regarded as “worshipper of nature.”A. ColeridgeB. WordsworthC. T.S.EliotD. Robert Browning82.Marlowe’s play Dr.Faustus is based on _______ of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the devil.A. the ScandinavianB. the GermanC. the ancient EnglishD. the French83.Who defined a good style as “proper words in proper places?”A. Jonathan SwiftB. Charles DickensC. Edmund SpencerD. George Bernard Shaw84._______ is central to Blake’s concern in the Sogns of Innocence and Songs of Experience?A. innocence and experienceB. the poorC. societyD. childhood85. As a novelist _______ wrote within a very narrow sphere, the provincial life of the late 1818-century England.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Jane AustenC. Thomas HardyD. Henry Fielding86. ________ employed the heroic couplet with true ease and charm for the first time in thehistory of English Literature.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. George Gordon ByronC. Edmund SpenderD. Robert Browning87. Which of the following is William Shakespeare’s history play?A. MacbethB. Henry IVC. Romeo and JulietD. King Lear88. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ________ has beenregarded as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. John BunyanD. James Joyce89. 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 –century90.The most significant idea of the Renaissance is（）.A. humanismB. realismC. naturalismD. skepticism91.Shakespeare’s tragedies include all the following except（）.A. Hamlet and King LearB. Antony and Cleopatra and MacbethC. Julius Caesar and OthelloD. The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream92.The statement “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability”opens one of well-known essays by（）.A. Francis BaconB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift93. In Hardy’s Wessex novels, t here is an apparent（）touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. humorousC. romanticD. ironic94. 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 Shaw95.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a“（）in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. tragic epicB. comic epicC. romanceD. lyric epic96. In his poem “Tyger, Tyger,”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful symmetry”of the big cat. The phrase“fearful symmetry”suggests（）.A. the tiger’s two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically setB. the poet’s fear of the predatorC. the analogy of the hammer and the anvilD. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God’s creation97. Hawthorne’s view of man and human history originates, to a great extent in _______.A. PuritanismB. TranscendentalismC. his childhoodD. his unhappy marriage98. As _______ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.A. EmersonB. HawthorneC. WhitmanD. Emily Dickinson99. 1．The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical eventsEXCEPT_________.A．the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek cultureB．the vast expansion of British colonies in North AmericaC．the new discoveries in geography and astrologyD．the religious reformation and the economic expansion100. All of the following works are known as Hardy’s “novels of character and environment”EXCETP_______.A．The Return of the Native B．Tess of the D’UrbervillesC．Jude the Obscure D．Far from the Madding CrowdTrue or false1. Donne is mostly famous for his popular use of conceit.( )2. Paradise Lost tells how Adam rebelled against God and how Satan and Eve were driven out of Eden.( )3. Bunyan’s most important work is The Pilgrim’s Progress, written in the old-fashioned, medieval form of allegory and dream.( )4. The story of Robinson Crusoe is real enough to have come straight from a sailor’s logbook.( )5. Gulliver’s Adventures begins with Lilliputians, who are so small that Gulliver is a pigmy among them.( )6. The Spectator and The Tatler by Steele and Addison are the first important recognitions by literature of the special interests of women readers.( )7. Fielding’s first novel, Joseph Andrews, war inspired by the success of Defoe’s novel Pamela.( )8. The author of the famous Elegy is the most scholarly and well-balanced of all the early romantic poets.( )9. Of all the romantic poets of the 18th century, Blake is the most independent and the most original.( )10. The Tiger as an excellent short poem is not composed by Blake .( )。
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英美文学选读试卷-英美文学选读试卷A. Each of the following below is followed by four alternative answer. Choose the one that would bet complete the statement and put the letter in the blank.(每小题1分，共30分)1. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ______ and _______ centuries.A. 14th...mid-17thB. 14th...mid-18thC. 16th...mid-18thD. 16th...mid-17th2. _______ frequently applied conceits in his poems.A. SpenserB. DonneC. BlakeD. Thomas Gray3. _______ is known as "the poet's poet".A. ShakespeareB. MarloweC. SpenserD. Donne4. The 18th century England is known as the ______ in the history.A. RenaissanceB. ClassicismC. EnlightenmentD. Romanticism5. ________ and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanism.A. Edmund Spenser, Christoper MarloweB. Thomas More, Christoper MarloweC. John Donne, Edmund SpenserD. John Milton, Thomas More6. The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form, that is the modern English ______, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.A. proseB. short storyC. novelD. tragicomedy7. _______ is the central concern to Blake's concern in the Song of Innocence and Song of Experience.A. childhoodB. womanC. poetryD. happiness8. Among the following plays which is not written by Marlowe? _____A. Dr. FaustusB. The Jew of MaltaC. Edward IID. School for scandal9. Shakespeare's greatest tragedies are _______.A. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and MacbethB. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Romeo and JulietC. Hamlet, Coriolanus, King Lear and MacbethD. Hamlet, Julius caesar, Othello and Macbeth10. Among the pioneers of the 18th century novelists wereDaniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry fielding and _______.A. Laurance SterneB. John DrydenC. Charles DickensD. Alexander Pope11. Which of the following Gothic novels was not written in the 18th century? ______A. The Castle of OtrantoB. The ItalianC. The MonkD. The Fall of the House of Usher12. In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period, _______ was the leadingfigure among the host of playwrights.A. William BlakeB. Richard SheridanC. Ben JohnsonD. Bernard Shaw13. Dickens' works are characterized by a mingling of _______ and pathos.A. humorB. satireC. passionD. metaphor14. The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the existing society, but also due to its introduction to the English novel the first ______ heroine.A. explorerB. peasantC. workerD. governess15. In ______ Tennyson dealt with the theme of women's rights and position.A. PoemB. The PrincessC. In MemorianD. Idylls of the King16. "The Custom-House" is an introductory note to ______.A. Moby-DickB. The Scarlet LetterC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithedale Romance17. The publication of _______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of the New England Transcendentalism.A. NatureB. Self-RelianceC. The Over-SoulD. The American Scholar18. "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed" is most probably a poem ______.A. that celebrates the burgeoning life of citiesB. that sings highly freedom and democracyC. that condemns violence and bloodshedD. that mourns for the death of Lincoln19. _______ is not a dominant figure of the Realistic Period.A. William Dean HowellsB. Mark TwainC. Henry JamesD. James F. Cooper20. The book from which "all modern American literature comes" refers to _______.A. Moby-DickB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Great Gatsby21. Strong affinity to the Chinese and Oriental literature can be found in the works of _______.A. Mark TwainB. Ezra PoundC. Emily DikinsonD. Arthur Miller22. "In a Station of the Metro" is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of _______.A. the absurd poetryB. the transcendental poetryC. the romantic poetryD. the imagist poetry23. The founder of the American drama is _______.A. Arthur MillerB. Eugene O'NeillC. Tennesee WilliamsD. Clifford Odets24. F. Scott Fitzgerald is not the author of _______.A. This Side of ParadiseB. Tender is the NightC. The Great GatsbyD. In Our Time25. _______ is not a fictional character in the Scarlet Letter.A. HesterB. Arthur DimmersdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Ishmael26. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as _____.A. the Age of ColonicalismB. the Age of RomanticismC. the Age of RealismD. the Age of Modernism27. Statement _______ is NOT true in describing American naturalists.A. They were deeply influenced by Darwinism.B. They were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile Zola.C. They chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society.D. They used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists.28. ______ is considered by H.L.Mencken as "the true father of our national literature."A. HemingwayB. PoeC. IrvingD. Twain29. they all shared the same thematic concern except ______.A. Robert Penn WarrenB. Flannery O'ConnerC. William FaulknerD. Norman Mailer30. _________ draws on the Jewish experience and tradition and examines subtly the dismantling of the self by an intolerablemodern history.A. Allen GinsbergB. John UpdikeC. Saul BellowD. J.D. SalingerB. Give the author and genre of each of the following literary works.(每小题2分，共20分)1. The Shepheardes Calender2. Farewell to love3. Much Ado About Nothing4. Childe Harold's Pilgrmage5. Dombey and the Son6. The Iceman Cometh7. The Road Not Taken8. The Cantos9. The Grapes of Wrath10. BabbitC. Define the literary terms listed below. （每小题5分，共10分）1. Utilitarianism2. Free VerseD. 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.(每小题5分，共15分）1. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou are more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the daring buds of May,And summer's least hath all too short a date:Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shinesAnd often is his gold complexion dimmed;2. I heard a Flay buzz--when I died-The Stillness in the RoomWas like the Stillness in the Air-Between the Heaves of Storm-3. There is music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before...E. Give brief answers to the following questions.（每小题5分，共10分）1. What is Bernard Shaw's viewpoint on literature?2. What does the night journey young Goodman Brown makes symbolize?F. Short Essay Questions(共15分）1. What is the striking feature of Paul, the main character in Sons and lovers?(7分）2. Give a brief analysis of Emily Grierson In "A Rose for Emily".(8分)。
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英美文学选读自考题-8(总分100,考试时间90分钟)Ⅰ.Multiple ChoiceSelect from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blacking the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. But it was not until the reign of ______ that the Renaissance really began to show its effect in England.A. Richard Ⅲ B. Henry Ⅷ C. Henry Ⅶ D. Elizabeth Ⅰ2. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is ______.A. the Elizabethan drama B. the Elizabethan prose C. ancient poem D. romantic novel3. Twelfth Night by Shakespeare is a ______.A. history play B. tragedy C. poem D. comedy4. Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare's great tragedies?______A. Romeo and Juliet. B. King Lear. C. Hamlet. D. Macbeth.5. The Merchant of V enice takes a step forward in its realistic presentation of human nature and human conflict. All the following characters except ______ are from the play.A. Antonio B. Bassanio C. Jack Cade D. Portia6. ______ is probably Milton's most memorable prose work.A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained C. Samson Agonistes D. Areopagitica7. ______ shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained C. Samson Agonistes D. Beowulf8. In the following great figures, ______ is not the pioneers of the modern English novel.A. Daniel Defoe B. Laurence Sterne C. Samuel Richardson D. William Shakespeare9. In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period, ______ was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.A. William Blake B. Richard Sheridan C. Ben Johnson D. Bernard Shaw10. In Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe glorifies all the following qualities of the middle-class men except ______.A. the indignity of labour B. religious devotion C. loyalty to the king D. pioneering spirit11. Tom Jones, the full title being The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, is generally considered the masterpiece of ______.A. John Bunyan B. Daniel Defoe C. Jonathan Swift D. Henry Fielding12. For the Romantics, ______ is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.A. love B. man C. nature D. death13. The poems such as the "Chimney Sweeper" are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by ______.A. William Wordsworth B. William Blake C. John Keats D. Lord Gordon Byron14. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following except ______.A. the use of everyday language spoken by **mon people B. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings C. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter D. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech15. Shelley's greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ______.A. Men of England B. Prometheus Unbound C. Ode to the West Wind D. The Revolt of Islam16. Through the character of Elizabeth' Jane Austen emphasizes the importance of ______ for women.A. marriage B. physical attractiveness C. independence and self-confidence D. submissive character17. Which of the **ments on Charles Dickens is wrong?______A. Dickens is one of the greatest critical realistic writers of the Modern period. B. His serious intention is to expose and criticize all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy and corruptness he sees all around him. C. The later works show the development of Dickens towards a highly conscious artist of the modern type. D. A Tale of Two Cities is one of his later works.18. Charles Dickens' works are characterized by a mingling of ______. He seems to believe that life is itself a mixture of joy and grief.A. love and hate B. friendship and loneliness C. humor and pathos D. satire and criticism19. Thomas Hardy's novels are all Victorian in date. Most of them are set in ______, the fictional primitive and crude rural region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.A. Sussex B. Wessex C. Casterbridge D. Oxford20. Thomas Hardy wrote novels of ______.A. character and environmentB. pure romance C. stream of consciousness D. psychoanalysis21. In the mid-1950s and early 1960s, there appeared "______" who demonstrated a particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest against the outmoded social and political values in their society.A. The Beat Generation B. The Lost Generation C. The Angry Young Men D. Black Mountain Poets22. In the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Wilde, the upper-class people are described as the following except ______.A. corrupt B. snobbish C. hypocritical D. ambitious23. Which of the following plays explored Bernard Shaw's idea of "Life Force"?______A. Man and Superman. B. The Apple Cart. C. Pygmalion. D. Too True to Be Good.24. "The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes,/The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the windowpanes/Linked its tongue into the corners of the evening,/Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains." The stanza is taken from ______.A. T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock B. Emily Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop for Death C. Alfred Tennyson's Break, Break, Break D. William Wordsworth's I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud25. In Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence presented Paul as a(n) ______ man and artist.A. independent B. ambitious C. strong-willed D. sensitive26. Which of the following statements is not true of American Transcendentalism?______A. It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement. B. It can be defined philosophically as "the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively". C. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement. D. It sprang from South America in the late 19th century.27. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except ______.A. The House of the Seven Gables B. White Jacket C. The Marble Faun D. The Blithedale Romance28. Which one of the following statements about Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is true?______A. Hawthorne intended to tell a love story in this novel. B. Hawthorne intended to tell a story of sin in this novel. C. Hawthorne intended to reveal the human psyche after they sinned, so as to show people the tension between society and individuals. D. Hawthorne focused his attention on consequences of the sin on the people in general, so as to call the readers back to the conventional Puritan way of living.29. Whitman's There Was a Child Went Forth is a poem about ______.A. a soldier going to the battlefield B. the birth of a new life C. a tragic boyhood experience D. the growth of a child30. Moby-Dick is regarded as the first American ______.A. prose epic B. comic epic C. dramatic fiction D. poetic fiction31. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism?______A. Emerson. B. Jack London. C. Theodore Dreiser. D. Darwin.32. The raft on which Huck and Jim float along the river in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn may symbolize all the following except ______.A. spiritual freedom B. escape from different sorts of social oppression C. mobility and instability D. a small society where people of different colors can live like brothers33. Linguistically, compared with the writings of Mark Twain, Henry James's fiction is noted for his ______.A. frontier vernacular B. rich colloquialism C. vulgarly descriptive wordsD. refined elegant language34. Most of Emily Dickinson's poems were published ______.A. when she was young B. after her failed love affair C. in her old age D. after her death35. The poem "I like to see it lap the Miles—" is an interesting poem written by Emily Dickinson. What does "it" in the poem stand for? ______A. The hound. B. The star. C. The horse. D. The train.36. By the end of Sister Carrie, Dreiser writes, "It was forever to be the pursuit of that radiance of delight which tints the distant hilltops of the world." Dreiser implies that ______.A. there is a bright future lying ahead B. there is no end to man's desire C. one should always be forward-looking D. happiness is found in the end37. The subject matter of Robert Frost's poems focus on ______.A. ordinary country people and scenes B. battle scenes of ancient Greek and Roman legends C. struggling masses and crowded urban quarters D. fantasies and mythical happenings38. In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is to show ______.A. emptiness of life B. the corruption of the upper class C. contrast of the rich and the poor D. the happy days of the Jazz Age39. Hemingway's "Indian Camp" is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of ______. This title is very ironic because there is no peace at all in the stories.A. Three Stories and Ten Poems B. Across the River and into the Trees C. The Green Hills of Africa D. In Our Time40. Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story A Rose for Emily, can be regarded as a symbol for all the following qualities except ______.A. old values B. rigid ideas of social status C. bigotry and eccentricity D. harmony and integrityⅡ.Reading ComprehensionRead the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. The following lines are from The Merchant of Venice: "For herein Fortune shows herself morekind/Than is her custom. It is still her use/To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,/To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow/An age of poverty; from which ling'ring penance/Of such misery doth she cut me off."Questions:A. Who is the author of the play?B. What does "she" refer to?C. What does the statement mean?2. "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."Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the poem from which this passage is taken.B. What does the word "thee" in the third line refer to?C. What does the author eulogize in this poem?3. "Whether fagged by the three days' running chase, and the resistance to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was some latent deceitfulness and malice in him..."Questions:A. Where is it taken from?B. Who is the author?C. What does "he, his, him" refer to?4. "Don't mention it," he enjoined me eagerly. "Don't give it another thought, old sport." The familiar expression held no more familiarity than the hand which reassuringly brushed my shoulder. "And don't forget we're going up in the hydroplane tomorrow morning, at nine o'clock."Questions:A. Which novel is this passage taken from?B. Who is the author of this novel?C. Say something about the writing style?Ⅲ.Questions and AnswersGive a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. Why has Fielding been regarded as Father of the English Novel?2. Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age. Why is Jane Eyre such a successful novel?3. "Young Goodman Brown" is regarded as one of Hawthorne's most profound tales. What is the theme of the story? Give examples from the story to show Hawthorne's masterful use of symbolism.4. Henry James's literary criticism is an indispensable part of his contribution to literature. What's his outlook in literary criticism?Ⅳ.Topic DiscussionWrite no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the correspondingspace on the answer sheet.1. What does Wordsworth mean when he said: "All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility"?2. Comment on Whitman's style' and language.。
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湖南工业大学英美文学赏析题库I. Multiple ChoiceSelect 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 most significant idea of the Renaissance is （）.A. humanismB. realismC. naturalismD. skepticism2.Shakespeare’s tragedies include all the following except（）.A. Hamlet and King LearB. Antony and Cleopatra and MacbethC. Julius Caesar and OthelloD. The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream3.The statement “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability”opens one of well-known essays byA. Francis BaconB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift4.In Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent （）touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. humorousC. romanticD. ironic5.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 Shaw6.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a“（）in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. tragic epicB. comic epicC. romanceD. lyric epic7.In his poem “Tyger, Tyger,”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful symmetry”of the big cat. The phrase“fearful symmetry”suggests （）.A. the tiger’s two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically setB. the poet’s fear of the predatorC. the analogy of the hammer and the anvilD. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God’s creation8.“What is his name?”“Bingley.”“Is he married or single?”“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”The above dialogue must be taken from（）.A. Jane Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceB. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering HeightsC. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte SagaD. George Eliot’s Middlemarch9.The short story“Araby”is one of the stories in James Joyce’s collection（）.A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManB. UlyssesC. Finnegans WakeD. Dubliners10.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following except（）.A. the using of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the humble and rustic life as subject matterD. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech11.Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of Venice:“Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew/Thou mak’st thy knife keen.”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines?（） A. Simile. B. Metonymy. C. Pun. D. Synecdoche.12.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by（）.A. J. KeatsB. W. BlakeC. W. WordsworthD. P. B. Shelley13.The poems such as“The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience byA. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. John KeatsD. Lord Gordon Byron14.John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is often regarded as a typical example of（）.A. allegoryB. romanceC. epic in proseD. fable15.Alexander Pope strongly advocated neoclassicism, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by（）rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.A. classicalB. romanticC. sentimentalD. allegorical16.In his essay“Of Studies,”Bacon said:“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and（）.”A. skimmedB. perfectedC. imitatedD. digested17.“For I have known them all already, known them all—/Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,/I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”The above lines are taken from（）.A. Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”B. Eliot’s“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”C. Coleridge’s“Kubla Khan”D. Yeats’s“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”18.(The)（）was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.A. RomanticismB. HumanismC. EnlightenmentD. Sentimentalism 19.A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of（）, who never pays any attention to human feelings.A. moralityB. justiceC. propertyD. humor20.The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the （）.A. bitter satireB. larger-than-life caricatureC. Latinized dictionD. dramatic monologue21.George Bernard Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a grotesquely realistic exposure of the （）.A. slum landlordismB. political corruption in EnglandC. economic oppression of womenD. religious corruption in England22.The story starting with the marriage of Paul’s parents Walter Morel and Mrs. Morel must beA. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’UrbervillesB. D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and LoversC. George Eliot’s MiddlemarchD. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre23.In American literature the first important writer who earned an international fame on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean is（）. A. Washington Irving B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Walt Whitman24.The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his“black vision.”The term“black vision”refers toA. Hawthorne’s observation that every man faces a black wallB. Hawthorne’s belief that all men are by nature evilC. that Hawthorne employed a dream vision to tell his storyD. that Puritans of Hawthorne’s time usually wore black clothes25.Theodore Dreiser was once criticized for his（）in style, but as a true artist his strength just lies in that his style is very serious and well calculated to achieve the thematic ends he sought.A. crudenessB. eleganceC. concisenessD. subtlety26.“He is the last of the romantic heroes, whose energy and sense of commitment take him in search of his personal Grail; his failure magnifies to a great extent the end of the American Dream.”The character referred to in the passage is most likely the protagonist of（）.A. Fitzgerald’s The Great GatsbyB. Dreiser’s An American TragedyC. Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell TollsD. Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn27.Almost all Faulkner’s heroes turned out to be tragic because（）.A. all enjoyed living in the declining American SouthB. none of them was conditioned by the civilization and social institutionsC. most of them were prisoners of the pastD. none were successful in their attempt to explain the inexplicable28.Yank, the protagonist of Eugene O’Neill’s play The Hairy Ape, talked to the gorilla and set it free becauseA. he was mad, mistaking a beast for a humanB. he was told by the white young lady that he was like a beast and he wanted to see how closely he resembled the gorillaC. he was caged with the gorilla after he insulted an aristocratic strollerD. he could feel the kinship only with the beast29.In（）, Robert Frost compares life to a journey, and he is doubtful whether he will regret his choice or not when he is old, because the choice has made all the difference.A. “After Apple-Picking”B. “The Road Not Taken”C. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”D. “Fire and Ice”30.Though Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were romantic poets in theme and technique, they differ from each other in a variety of ways. For one thing, whereas Whitman likes to keep his eye on human society at large, Dickinson often addresses such issues as（）, immortality, religion, love and nature.A. progressB. freedomC. beautyD. death31.The Romantic Writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the（）in the Americanliterary history. A. individual feeling B. survival of the fittest C. strong imagination D. return to nature32.Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be（）.A. transcendentalistsB. optimistsC. pessimistsD. idealists33.With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene,（）became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.A. SentimentalismB. RomanticismC. RealismD. Naturalism34.American writers after World War I self-consciously acknowledged that they were(a)“（）,”devoid of faith and alienated from the Western civilization.A. Lost GenerationB. Beat GenerationC. Sons of LibertyD. Angry Young Men35.In（）, Washington Irving agrees with the protagonist on his preference of the past to the present, and of a dream-like world to the real world.A. “Young Goodman Brown”B.“Rip Van Winkle”C. “Rappaccini’s Daughter”D.“Bartleby, the Scrivener”36.Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely characters in（）.A. The House of the Seven GablesB. The Scarlet LetterC. The Portrait of a LadyD. The Pioneers37.Like Nathaniel Hawthorne,（）also manages to achieve the effect of ambiguity through symbolism and allegory in his narratives.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. R. W. EmersonD. Herman Melville38.In his realistic fiction, Henry James’s primary concern is to present the（）.A. inner life of human beingsB. American Civil War and its effectsC. life on the Mississippi RiverD. Calvinistic view of original sin39.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain’s writing style?（）A. Simple vernacular.B. Local color.C. Lengthy psychological analyses.D. Richness of irony and humor.40.Which of the following statements about E. Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story“A Rose for Emily,”is NOT true?（）A. She has a distorted personality.B. She is physically deformed and paralyzed.C. She is the symbol of the old values of the South.D. She is the victim of the past glory.PART TWO (60 POINTS)Ⅱ. 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.“Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What idea do the two lines express?42.“To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.”Questions:A. Identify the work and the author.B. What is the tone of author?43.“‘Faith! Faith!’cried the husband. ‘Look up to Heaven, and resist the Wicked One.’”Questions:A. Identify the work and the author.B. What idea does the quoted sentence express?44.“We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recess—in the Ring—We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain—We passed the Setting Sun—”Questions: A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What do“the School,”“the Fields”and“the Setting Sun”stand for respectively?Ⅲ. Questions and AnswersGive brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45.As a rule, and allegory is a story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning, and an implied meaning. List two works as examples ofallegory. What is the implied meaning an allegory is usually concerned with?46.“Let it not be supposed by the enemies of‘the system,’that during the period of his solitary incarceration, Oliver was denied the benefit of exercise, the pleasure of society, or the advantages of religious consolation.”What do you think Charles Dickens intends to say in the above ironic statement taken from Oliver Twist?47.Whitman has made radical changes in the form of poetry by choosing free verse as his medium of expression. What are the characteristics of Whitman’s free verse?48.Some of Hemingway’s heroes are regarded as the Hemingway code heroes. Whatever the differences in experience and age, they all have something in common which Hemingway values. What are the characteristics of the Hemingway code hero?Ⅳ. Topics for Discussion.Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49.Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine in Pride and Prejudice, is often regarded as the most successful character created by Jane Austen. Make a brief comment on Elizabeth’s character.50.Take Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as an example to illustrate the statement that Mark Twain was a unique writer in American literature.。
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自己助记用的，觉得好记一些。
觉得有用的可以分享下。
作家助记诗赛马士赔灯谜搬铺笛夫废约写歌布滑可拜雪季袄狄伯丁伯爱戴小高也爱老桥欧默货惠卖土沾金的胖佛凹非海福作品助记诗仙后/情人浮博士哈姆雷特威尼斯十四行诗/论学习太阳死神/乐园失/ 3天路历程/论评批/ 2宾逊漂流记/游记/ 2琼斯/致尔菲吉士/ 2造谣学校/墓挽诗/ 2天真经验虎烟囱/ 4丁登寺旁歌抒情/ 2汉/唐德/人风/古瓮/ 5傲慢偏见奥斯汀/ 1孤儿/爱啸艾米莉/ 3冲激沙洲尤利西/ 3夜会晨别夫人逝/ 3米德马契/的苔丝/ 2华伦夫人业/有产/ 2茵尼弗利阔叶园/ 2普鲁弗洛歌荒原/ 2儿子情人/都柏林/ 2美国文学里普凡温/论自然/ 2德曼布朗/有从前 2自我之歌涉水兵/ 2麦尔维尔写白鲸1费恩历险/戴西米/ 2我给世界写的信1等死苍蝇喜拍击/ 3德莱塞写妹嘉丽1地铁/苹果路没有3雪夜林边做逗留/ 1毛猿/盖茨/印第安/ 3一朵玫瑰的纪念/ 1结合作家助记诗可以知道哪篇作品是谁写的。
上面的是没句的作品数，提醒自己用的，因为不太准确，所以没有注释，但是因为也有一定的参考价值，所以直接拷上来了，没有删掉。
这还有自己助记的一些词汇。
Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene仙后赛半仙Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus浮士德博士...The Passionate Shepherd to His Love多情的牧羊人致情人牧马悲剧William Shakespeare: Sonnet 18十四行诗 ...The Merchant of Venice威尼斯商人...Hamlet 哈姆雷特示威十雷Francis Bacon: Of Studies论学习陪学John Donne: The Sun Rising太阳升起...Death, Be Not Proud死神莫骄横瞪太阳神John Milton: Paradise Lost失乐园迷失乐园John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress天路历程搬天路Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism论批评仆批评Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe鲁宾逊漂流记芦笛Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels格列佛游记列夫Henry Fielding: Tom Jones汤姆琼斯费汤Samuel Johnson: To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield致可敬的吉士菲尔伯爵书约伯Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The School for Scandal造谣学校写谣言Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard墓园挽歌挽歌William Blake: The Chimney Sweeper(from Songs of Innocence)扫烟囱的孩子(天真之歌)...The Chimney Sweeper(经验之歌) 扫烟囱的孩子...The Tyger老虎布老虎扫烟囱，并不天真有经验William Wordsworth: I wandered Lonely as a Cloud我如行云独自游posed upon Westminster Bridge威斯敏斯特桥上有感...She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways她住在人迹罕至的小路间...The Solitary Reaper孤独的收割者...(Tintern Abbey)丁登寺旁抒情歌谣集（诗里没有概括书里的）叔滑寺旁Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan忽必烈汉可汗George Gordon Byron: Song for the Luddites为卢得派歌唱... The Isles of Greece(from Don Juan)... （希腊岛）唐璜拜炉膛Percy Besshe Shelly: Men of England英国人民之歌...Ode to the West Wind西风颂英国风雪John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn希腊古瓮颂希腊季Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice傲慢与偏见嗷嗷Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist雾都孤儿狄儿The Bronte Sisters: Jane Eyre简爱...Wuthering Heights呼啸山庄伯爱山Alfred Tennyson: Break, Break, Break冲激冲激冲激...Crossing the Bar过沙洲...Ulysses尤利西斯丁尤冲过Robert Browning: My last Duchess我逝去的公爵夫人...Meeting at Night夜会...Parting at Morning晨别伯爵公爵,夜会晨别George Eliot: Middle March, a Study of Provincial Life米德尔马契外省生活研究爱米Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles德伯家的苔丝（感恩）戴德George Bernard Shaw: Mrs. Warrent’s Profession华伦夫人的职业消化John Galsworthy: The Man of Property有产者高产William Butler Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree茵尼斯弗利岛...Down by the Salley Gardens 在阔叶花园旁边阔叶岛T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock普鲁弗洛克的情歌（荒原，书中无例）爱情歌D. H. Lawrence: Songs and Lovers儿子与情人劳尔James Joyce: Dubliners都柏林人桥都Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle里普凡温克尔纹理Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature论自然默然Nathaniel Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown年轻小伙子古德曼布朗货古Walt Whitman: There Was a Child Went Forth从前有个出门的孩子...Cavalry Crossing a Ford涉水过河的骑兵队...Song of Myself自我之歌惠自水出Herman Melville: Moby-Dick白鲸卖鲸Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn哈克贝利费恩历险记吐芬Henry James: Daisy Miller苔瑟米勒沾米Emily Dickinson: This is my letter to the World这是我给世界写的信...I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-我死时听到苍蝇的嗡嗡声...I like to see it lap the Miles我喜欢看见它拍击许多英里...Because I could not stop for Death因为我不能停下来等待死神金信停下拍击苍蝇Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie嘉丽妹妹的妹Ezra Pound: In a Station of the Metro在地铁站胖地Robert Lee Frost: After Apple-Picking摘了苹果之后...The Road Not Taken没有走的路...Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening雪夜林边逗留佛没路停留摘果Eugene O’Neill: The Hairy Ape毛猿凹毛猴F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby了不起的盖茨比非比Ernest Hemingway: Indian Camp印第安营寨印度海William Faulkner: A Rose for Emily纪念艾米丽的一朵玫瑰花玫瑰福这个是把作家的助记诗中的每个字(也就是每个作家）和他的作品（从题目中选字）凑成的。
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葬礼哀歌,诗歌篇一：专八人文知识模拟题专八人文知识模拟题（1）1. It’s generally known that the ‚First book of American‛ is ___ by John Smith.A A True Relation of VirginiaB The True Travels of Captain John SmithC Map of the Bay and the RiversD A Description of New England2. The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America was written by ___.A John SmithB John EllisC Anne BradstreetD Nathaniel Morton3. A Funeral Elegy upon That Pattern and Patron of Virtue was written by John Norton in the memory of ___.A John SmithB Anne BradstreetC Nathaniel MortonD Benjamin Franklin4. Edward Taylor was a poet of ___.A Local ColorismB American RomanticismC New England TranscendentalismD Colonial American5. Poor Richard’s Almanac was written by ___ who also wrote ___.A Benjamin Franklin … AutobiographyB Washington Irving … AutobiographyC Washington Irving … History of New YorkD Benjamin Franklin … History of New York6. All the following but ___ are the works of John Woolman.A Journal of John WoolmanB Some considerations upon the keeping of NegroesC A plea for the PoorD Poor Richard’s Almanac7. The series of ‚poems of romantic fancy‛ are poems written by ___.A Washington IrvingB James Fenimore CooperC Edgar Allan PoeD Philip Freneau8. ___ was the first black woman who published her collection of poems.A Philis WheatleyB Ralph EllisonC James BaldwinD Alex Haley9. Escape: or A Leap for Freedom written by blackauthor John Wells Brown was a(n) ___.A poemB novelC playD essay10. Charles Brockden Brown wrote all the following novels but ___.A WielandB OrmondC Edgar HuntleyD The Pioneers答案1. 选A一般认为，约翰.史密斯 John Smith 是美国文学的第一位作者，他的《关于弗吉尼亚的真实叙述》（A True Relation of Virginia）则是美国文学的‚第一书‛，其实也是整个美国历史的‚第一书‛。
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The Critic
• The Critic, an afterpiece designed to be presented after a full-length未经删节的 play, is the work of a writer thoroughly familiar with the theater world; it is a broad satire on contemporary playwrights and their critics. Sheridan's two major trademarks are his incisively 激烈地 exaggerated characters and amusing twists 曲折 of plot. From the name of Mrs. Malaprop用词错误可笑的, a humorous character in the early play The Rivals, derives the widely used term malapropism词语误用, meaning the absurd misapplication of a long word.
Works:
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan is chiefly known as a playwright.
• Two plays: • The Rivals(情敌) • The School of Scandal.（造谣学校）
The Rivals (1774)
• The heroine Lydia莉迪亚 comes from an upper-class family. Lydia is a sentimental girl. She often dreams to elope私奔 with a poor young man. Captain Absolute loves Lydia. He is a Baron男爵. He pretends to be a poor young man to win the heart of Lydia. However, Lydia’s aunt is a rich woman. She refuses the proposal made by Captain Absolute. Captain Absolute’s father makes a proposal to Lydia’s aunt. The father reveals the real identity身份 of his son so the aunt accepts the proposal. When Lydia knows the identity of Captain Absolute, she is disillusioned醒悟. She finally realized that romance is not realistic.
Writing style of Sheridan
• 1. His dramatic techniques are largely conventional. They are exploited to the best advantage.
• 2. His plots are well organized, his characters, either major or minor, are all sharply drawn, and his manipulation处理of such devices as disguise, mistaken identity认错人and dramatic irony is masterly巧妙的.
The School for Scandal
• It is a great success on the stage and regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare, a brilliant portrayal and a biting satire of English high society.
• 3. Witty dialogues and neat and decent得体的 language also make a characteristic of his plays.
significBiblioteka nce of his plays.
• a. The Rivals and The School for Scandal are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw, and as true classics in English comedy.
• d. His plots are well-organized, his characters, either major or minor, are all sharply drawn, and his manipulation of such devices as disguise, mistaken identity and dramatic irony is masterly. Witty dialogues and neat and decent language also make a characteristic of his plays.
Life:
• 1751 Sheridan was born in Dublin, Ireland. His father was an actor and theater manager.
• He was educated at Harrow (Eton, 2 public schools). • His works are mainly plays. In fact, Dublin is the
• The school of scandal refers to the living room of Lady Sneerwell.
• Lady Sneerwell: She often laughs at people, esp. underdogs失败者.
• Mrs. Candour: Candour means justice, but here it’s an irony. She is a scandal monger专事...的人.
• Sir Backbite: Backbite means bite people from behind. He is a two-blade man.
• Joseph Surface and Charles Surface: Surface means superficial浅薄的. You can’t judge the brothers by their appearance.
• 1776 He became a part owner and manager of the Drury Lane Theater, so it’s easy for him to stage his plays.
• 1777 The appearance of his masterpiece The School for Scandal.
• c. Sheridan’s greatness also lies in his theatrical art. He seems to have inherited from his parents a natural ability and inborn knowledge about the theatre. His plays are the product of a dramatic genius as well as of a well-versed theatrical man.
• In the play, the author contrasts two brothers, Charles Surface and Joseph Surface. Charles seems to be a reckless鲁莽的 prodigal浪子 from all outward appearances, but he is frank, honest and goodhearted. Joseph seems to be pious虔诚的, always declaring noble feelings, uttering moral speeches and appearing to be a man of honour. But behind his mask he is a hypocrite伪君子, 伪善者, a backbiter背后诽 谤者 and a seducer, 玩弄女性的色情骗子 of his friend's wife.
• 1780 His play-writing career ended. He was elected M.P. of the Parliament and became an orator演说者.
• 1809 The Drury Lane Theater was burn in a fire. His financial support was cut off.
cradle of many famous writers, like Jonathan Swift. • 1770 Sheridan moved to Bath, the most fashionable
place in 18c’s England. • 1772 He was in love with a beautiful lady who is a
• 1812 His political career ended. He had no money to afford the election.