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考试方式： 开卷 太原理工大学现代科技学院英国文学试卷(A)
Directions: 1. All the answers should be written within the proper spaces provided below. 2. All the questions should be answered in English except for special requirement. 3. You should write neatly, clearly and without consultation to anyone else ’s papers. 1=40) 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___ 6.___ 7.___ 8.___ 9.___ 10.___ 11.___12.___13.___14.___15.___16.___17.___18.___19.___20.__ 21.___22.___23.___24.___25.___26.___27.___28.___29.___30.__ 31.___32.___33.___34.___35.___36.___37.___38.___39.___40.__ 1. In the Songs and Sonnets, by which Donne is probably best known, ______ is the basic theme. A. love B. friendship C. parental relations D. citizenship 2. John Donne is the leading figure of ______. A. Lake poets B. Graveyard School C. Satanic poets D. Metaphysical poets 3. As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce ______ to England. A. rationalism B. criticism C. romanticism D. realism 4. In the first part of Gulliver ’s Travels . Gulliver told his experience in _______. A. Liliput B. Brobdingnag C. Houyhnhnm D. England
5. Jonathan Swift ’s Gulliver ’ s Travels is the greatest _______ work in English literature. A. realistic B. satiric C. romantic D. poetic
6. Thomas Gray has been regarded as the leader of the _____ of the day.
A. romantic poetry
B. sentimental poetry
C. religious poetry
D. modern poetry
7. The Dunciad is generally considered to be Pope ’s best ____ work.
A. praising B satiric C. fabulous D. allegorical
8. In his novel, Robinson Crusoe , Defoe eulogizes the hero of the ________.
A. aristocratic class
B. enterprising landlords
C. rising bourgeois
D. hard-working people
9. In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period, ______ was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.
A.William Blake
B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C. Ben Johnson
D. George Bernard Shaw
10. In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works. This tendency is known as ________.
A. Classicism
B. Neoclassicism
C.Romanticism
D. Pre-romanticism
11. The modern English novel came into being in ______.
A. the middle of the 17th century
B. the 17th century
C. the late 18th century
D. the middle of the 18th century
12. Samuel Richardson, one of the great 18th century novelists, is well known for his _______.
A. epistolary method
B. allegory
C. comic-epic in prose
D. symbolism
13._________ compiled the “Dictionary of the English Language”which became the foundations of all the subsequent English dictionaries.
A. Ben Johnson
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Alexander Pope
D. John Dryden
14. Which play is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?
A. She Stoops to Conquer
B. The Rivals
C. The school for Scandal
D. The Conscious Lovers
15. English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of a joint volume of poetry, Lyrical Ballads, written by Wordsworth and ________.
A. Keats
B. Coleridge
C. Southey
D. Byron
16. The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ________.
A. prose
B. drama
C. novel
D. poetry
17. William Wordsworth asserts that poetry originated from______.
A. form
B. thoughts
C. artistic devices
D. emotion
18. In Coleridge’s “The Rime of Ancient Mariner”, the mariner suffers the horror of death, because ________.
A. he experiences a shipwreck
B. he is tortured with starvation
C. he undergoes much sufferings
D. he kills an albatross
19. Which of the following writings is not written by William Wordsworth?
A. I wandered lonely as a cloud
B. the daffodils
C.The Solitary Reaper
D. The Chimney Sweeper
20._____ is the author of the writing “Ode to a Nightingale”.
A.Herman Melville
B. John Keats
C. William Wordsworth
D. Coleridge
21. A proud, mysterious rebel of noble origin is called _______ hero in Romantic period of English Literature.
A. Romantic
B. Realistic
C. Renaissance
D. Byronic
22. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner tells an adventurous story of _____.
A. a sailor
B. a knight
C. a king
D. a poet
23. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following except______.
A. the use of everyday language spoken by the common 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 speech
24. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” is an epigrammatic line by _______.
A. John Keats
B. William Blake
C. Wordsworth
D. Percy Bysshe Shelley
25. Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques, writers in the Victorian period shared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about ________.
A. the love story between the rich and the poor
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B. the techniques in writing
C. the fate of the common people Array
D. the future of their own country
26. The author of the work Dombey and Son is
A. Charles Dickens
B. Henry James
C. Robert Browning
D. Thackeray
27. As a love story, Wuthering Heights is one of the most moving: the passion between ______ proves the most intense, the most beautiful and at the same time the most horrible.
A. Hareton and Catherine
B.Hareton and Cathy
C. Heathcliff and Catherine
D. Heathcliff and Cathy
28. Most of Thomas Hardy’s novels are set in Wessex ________.
A. a crude region in England
B. a fictional primitive region
C. a remote rural area
D. Hardy’s hometown
29. The poetic form which Browning attached to maturity and perfection is ______.
A. dramatic monologue
B. use of symbol
C. use of ironic language
D. use of lyric
30. Joyce’s masterpiece, ______ gives and accounts of man’s life during one day (16 June, 1904)
A. Dubliners
B. Finnegans Wake
C.Ulysses
D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
31. Which of the following writings is not the novel by James Joyce?
A. Ulysses
B. Jude the Obscure
C. Dubliners
D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
32. Which of the following writings is not the novel by D. H. Lawrence _______.
A. Sons and Lovers
B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
C. Women in Love
D. The Rainbow
33. _______ is a story about the three generations of the Brangwen family on the Marsh Farm.
A. The Rainbow
B. Women in Love
C. Sons and Lovers
D. The Plumed Serpent
34. James Joyce’s Ulysses could hardly be termed as a traditional novel, because ______.
A. it is an account of daily life
B. there is no story, no plot and no action inside
C. it is divided into episodes
D. there are only three characters
35. ________ is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist.
A. James Joyce
B. John Galsworthy
C. D. H. Lawrence D. George Bernard Shaw
36. Which of the following novels doesn’t belong to the stream-of-consciousness novel?
A. To the Lighthouse
B. Ulysses
C. Mrs. Dalloway
D. The Rainbow
37. ______ is an important figure in drama, who is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare.
A. Oscar Wilde
B. Samuel Bechett
C. Bernard Shaw
D. Yeats
38. The major concern of _______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development
of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist
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industrialization on human nature.
A. John Galsworthy’s
B. Thomas Hardy’s
C. D. H. Lawrence’s D. Charles’s Dickens
39. According to D. H. Lawrence, the ______ is most responsible for the alienation of the human relationship and the perversion of human personality.
A. Pride of the aristocratic class
B. vanity of the middle class
C. man’s desire for power and money
D. capitalist mechanic civilization
40. Writers like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf concentrated their efforts on digging into the human _______.
A. dignity
B. behavior
C. morality
D. consciousness
II. Find the relevant match from column B for each item in column A.(15×1=15)
( ) 1. John Donne a. Gulliver’s Travels
( ) 2. Alexander Pope b. Captain Singleton
( ) 3. Jonathan Swift c. Joseph Andrews
( ) 4. Samuel Richardson d. The Flea
( ) 5. Henry Fielding e. Pamela
( ) 6. Laurence Sterne f. A Sentimental Journey
( ) 7. Daniel Defoe g. The Rape of the Lock
( ) 1. Richard Brinsley Sheridan a. Ode on an ancient Urn
( ) 2. George Eliot b. Prometheus Unbound
( ) 3. Percy Bysshe Shelley c. Great Expectations
( ) 4. John Keats d. Rob Roy
( ) 5. Virginia Woolf e. Pride and prejudice
( ) 6. Walter Scott f. Adam Bede
( ) 7. Charles Dickens g.The School for Scandal
( ) 8. Jane Austen h. To the Lighthouse
III．Choose five out of the following literary terms or trends and give a brief account on them. (5×3=15)
Classicism
Sentimentalism
Naturalism
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Neo-Romanticism Dramatic monologue Aestheticism The realists Stream of consciousness IV . Identification of the following passages （15） Passage One (3) When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry “weep! Weep! Weep!”
So your chimney I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
1. Who is the author of this stanza?
2. What can we infer from this stanza?
Passage Two (4)
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;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
1. Identify the author.
2. Interpret the meaning of this stanza.
3.From the characters of this stanza, can you deduce which period it belongs to?
Passage Three （5）
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
1. Identify the author of the passage.
2. What is the message inferred from this poem?
3.What is your understanding of the line “the Child is father of the Man”?
Passage Four (3)
H e sells arms “to all men who offer an honest pr ice for them, without respect of persons or principles: to Royalist and Republican, to Communist and Capitalist, to Protestant and Catholic, to burglar and to policeman, to black man and white man and yellow man, to all sorts and conditions, all nationalit ies, all faiths, all follies, all causes and all crimes.”
What are your comments on the above lines?
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V. Choose two of the following questions for answering. Try your best to give a comprehensive and overall comment. Unique understandings based on facts will be appreciated. (7+8=15)
1. Give a summary of the historical and cultural background of the English Romanticism.
2. Give a summary of the historical and cultural background of English critical realism.
3. Give a summary of the historical and cultural background of modernism.
4. Compare two women writers in English literature.
5. Compare two novelists/poets in English literature.
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.. ;.. 一．中古英语时期 Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language, and the most important specimen (范例、典范)of Anglo-Saxon literature, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language. The romance is a popular literary form in the medieval period（中世纪）. It uses verse or prose to sing knightly a dventures or other heroic deeds. Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the greatest English poets, whose masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales（《坎特伯雷故事集》）,was one of the most important influences on the development of English literature. Chaucer is considered as the father of English poetry and the founder of English realism. 二．文艺复兴Renaissance Renaissance r efers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It marks a transition(过渡) from the medieval to the modern world. It started in Italy with the flowering of painting, sculpture（雕塑）and literature, and then spread to the rest of Europe. Humanism is the essence of Renaissance -----Man is the measure of all things. This was England’s Golden Age in literature. Queen Elizabeth r eigned over the country in this period. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance i s the Elizabethan drama. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance E ngland are Christopher Marlowe and W illiam Shakespeare. The greatest of the pioneers of English drama was Christopher Marlowe. Francis Bacon was the best known essayist of this period. “Of Studies” is the most popular of Bacon’s 58 essays. Thomas More ——Utopia Edmund Spenser——The Faerie Queene 相关练习 1. Which is the oldest poem in the English language? A. Utopia B. Faerie Queene C. Beowulf D. Hamlet 2. _____ is the father of English poetry. A. Edmund Spenser B. William Shakespeare C. Francis Bacon D. Geoffrey Chaucer 3. ____ is not a playwright during the Renaissance period on England. A. William Shakespeare B. Geoffrey Chaucer C. Christopher Marlowe D. Ben Johnson 三．莎士比亚William Shakespeare “All t he world 's a stage, a nd all the men and women merely p layers.”——William Shakespeare William Shakespeare is considered the greatest playwright in the world and the finest poet who has written in the English language. Shakespeare understood people more than any other writers. He could create characters that have
考试课程：英国文学史及选读考核类型：A 卷 考试方式：闭卷出卷教师: XXX 考试专业：英语考试班级：英语xx班 I.Multiple choice (30 points, 1 point for each) select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. 1._____，a typical example of old English poetry ,is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons. A.The Canterbury Tales B.The Ballad of Robin Hood C.The Song of Beowulf D.Sir Gawain and the Green Kinght 2._____is the most common foot in English poetry. A.The anapest B.The trochee C.The iamb D.The dactyl 3.The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event? A.The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture. B.England’s domestic rest C.New discovery in geography and astrology D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion 4._____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language. A.The Pilgrims Progress B.Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners C.The Life and Death of Mr.Badman D.The Holy War 5.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is _____. A.science B.philosophy C.arts D.humanism 6.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets18)What does“this”refer to ? A.Lover. B.Time. C.Summer. D.Poetry. 7.“O prince, O chief of my throned powers, /That led th’ embattled seraphim to war/Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds/Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual king”In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton’s Paradise Los t, the phrase“thy conduct”refers to _____conduct. A.God’s B.Satan’s C.Adam’s D.Eve’s
一．中古英语时期 ?Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language, and the most important specimen (范例、典范)of Anglo-Saxon literature, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language. ?The romance is a popular literary form in the medieval period（中世纪）. It uses verse or prose to sing knightly adventures or other heroic deeds. ?Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the greatest English poets, whose masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales（《坎特伯雷故事集》）,was one of the most important influences on the development of English literature. ?Chaucer is considered as the father of English poetry and the founder of English realism. 二．文艺复兴Renaissance ?Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It marks a transition(过渡) from the medieval to the modern world. ?It started in Italy with the flowering of painting, sculpture（雕塑）and literature, and then spread to the rest of Europe. ?Humanism is the essence of Renaissance -----Man is the measure of all things. ?This was England’s Golden Age in literature. Queen Elizabeth reigned over the country in this period. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is the Elizabethan drama. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England ? ?“Of Studies” is the most popular of Bacon’s 58 essays. ?Thomas More ——Utopia ?Edmund Spenser——The Faerie Queene 相关练习 ? 1. Which is the oldest poem in the English language? ? A. Utopia B. Faerie Queene ? C. Beowulf D. Hamlet ? 2. _____ is the father of English poetry. ? A. Edmund Spenser B. William Shakespeare ? C. Francis Bacon D. Geoffrey Chaucer ? 3. ____ is not a playwright during the Renaissance period on England. ? A. William Shakespeare B. Geoffrey Chaucer ? C. Christopher Marlowe D. Ben Johnson 三．莎士比亚William Shakespeare ?“All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”——William Shakespeare ?William Shakespeare is considered the greatest playwright in the world and the finest poet who has written in the English language. Shakespeare understood people more than any other writers. He could create characters that have
I. Each of the following below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would bet complete the statement. 1. The long poem ______ in Anglo-Saxon period was termed England’s national epic. A. The Canterbury Tales B. Paradise Lost C. The Song of Beowulf D. The Fairy Queen 2. Romance, which uses verse or prose to describe the adventures and life of the knights, is the popular literary form in ______. A. Romanticism B. Renaissance C. medieval period D. Anglo-Saxon period 3. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of____. A. Piers Plowman B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight C. Confessio Amantis D. The Canterbury Tales 4. _______ is regarded as the father of English poetry. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Edmund Spenser C. John Milton D. W. Wordsworth 5. It is _____ alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Martin Luther C. William Shakespeare D. John Gower 6. One of Chaucer’s main contributions to English poetry is ______. A. he introduced the rhymed stanzas from France to English poetry B. he created striking brilliant panorama of his time and his country C. he wrote in blank verse D. he was the first to write sonnet 7. During the Renaissance, _______ was the first one to introduce the sonnet into English poetry. A. Chaucer B. John Donne C. Thomas Wyatt D. Earl of Surrey 8. During the Renaissance, _______ wrote the first English blank verse. A. Chaucer B. Edmund Spencer C. Thomas Wyatt D. Earl of Surrey 9. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement？ A. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture B. The new discoveries in geography and astrology C. The Glorious revolution D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion 10. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events. Which one of the following is NOT such an event? A. The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture. B. England’s domestic rest C. New discovery in geography and astrology. D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion. 11. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ______ and ______ centuries. A. 14th...mid-17th B. 14th...mid-18th C. 16th...mid-18th D. 16th...mid-17th 12. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is_______. A. science B. philosophy C. arts D. humanism 13. _______ frequently applied conceits in his poems. A. Edmund Spenser B. John Donne C. William Blake D. Thomas Gray 14. _______ is known as “the poet’s poet”. A. William Shakespeare B. Christopher Marlowe C. Edmund Spenser D. John Donne 15. Romance，which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of____ adventures or other heroic deeds，is a popular literary form in the medieval period. A. Christian B. knightly C. pilgrims D. primitive 16. ________ and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanism. A. Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe B. Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe
2018年自学《英国文学选读》试题及答案 1. What are Shakespeare ’s achievements? a. Shakespeare represented the trend of history in giving voice to de desires and aspirations of the people. b. Shakespeare’s humanism: more important than his historical sense of his time, Shakespeare in his plays reflects the spirit of his age. c. Shakespeare’s characterization: Shakespeare was most successful in his characterization. In his plays he described a great number of characters. d. Shakespeare’s originality: Shakespeare drew most of his materials from sources that were known to his audienc e. But his plays are original because he instilled into the old materials a new spirit that gives new life to his plays. e. Shakespeare as a great poet: Shakespeare was not only a great dramatist, but also a great poet. Apart from his sonnets and long poems, his dramas are poetry. f. Shakespeare as master of the English language. 2. What are the basic characteristics of ballads? a. The beginning is often abrupt. b. There are strong dramatic elements. c. The story is often told through dialogue and action. d. The theme is often tragic, though there are a number of comic
Instructions： This examination consists of 5 parts， and the total time for the examination is 2 hours. All the answers should be entered onto the Answer Sheet. Part I：Multiple Choices （10%） Choose the best answer to the following sentences. 1.Which of the following is NOT a feature of Beowulf？ A. Alliteration B. Anglo-Saxons’ early life in England C. Germanic language D. The national epic of Anglo-Saxon people 2.English Renaissance Period was an age of. A. prose and novel B. poetry and drama C. essays and journals D. ballads and songs 3.The main literary form of the early 17th century was poetry. John Milton was acknowledged as the greatest. Besides him， there were two groups of poets. They were the Cavalier poets and. A. the lake poets B. the university wits C. the Metaphysical poets D. the Romantic poets 4. Pamela is widely considered to be the first novel and was written by ___________. A. Thomas Hardy B. James Joyce C. Samuel Richardson D. Henry Fielding 5.The publication of， which was the joint work of William Wordsworth and Samuel T. Coleridge， marked the beginning of the Romantic Age in England. A. Don Juan B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner C. Lyrical Ballads D. Queen Mab 6.Among the most famous realistic novelists of the Victorian age are， W. M. Thackeray， Bronte sisters， etc. A. Joseph Conrad B. Henry Fielding C. Charles Dickens D. D. H. Lawrence 7.In James Joyce’s ____________ the story “Eveline” paints a portrait of a young woman from Dublin deciding whether or not to leave her hometown. A. Ulysses B. Orlando C. Dubliners D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 8.In the 18th century England， satire was much used in writing. Literature of this age produced some excellent satirists， such as Jonathan Swift， Henry Fielding and.
英国文学选读样题答案 一、选择题（本大题共15小题，每小题1分，总计15分） 1---5 ABCCC 6---10 ABBAB 11---15 BBAAC 二、填空（本大题共10小题，每小题2分，总计20分） 1．Heroic 2 comedies 3. couplet 4. metaphysical poetry 5. Eve 6. My Luve’s Like a Red, Red, Rose 7.Houyhnynms 8. Coleridge 9. Odes 10. Emily Bronte 三、诗歌分析（本大题共4个小题，每小题分值见各小题，共20分） 1．William Wordsworth; I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 2．Iambic tetrameter; ababcc ababcc 3. The waves beside them danced; but they _ / _ / _ / - / Out-did | the spark|ling waves | in glee: _ / _ / _ _ _ / A po|et could |not but |be gay, _ / _/ _ / _ _ In such | a jo|cund com|pany: _ / _ / _ / _ / I gazed--|and gazed-|-but lit|tle thought _ / _ / _ / _ / What wealth |the show |to me |had brought: 4. 水波在边上欢舞，但水仙 比闪亮的水波舞得更乐； 有这样快活的朋友做伴， 诗人的心儿被欢愉充塞； 我看了又看，却没领悟 这景象给了我什么财富。（黄杲炘） 四、小说分析（本大题共5个小题，每小题分值见每小题，共20分） 1.Jane Eyre; Sharlotte Bronte 2.He had a mad wife who set the building on fire and climbed to the roof of the building. He tried to save her. But the staircase broke and he fell down He was wounded and became blind. 3.When Jane knew that Mr. Rochester had a wife. She was surprised and fled from Thornfield. Mr. Rochester was very sad at it.
1.The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is ____. A Robin Hood B Sir Gawain and the Green Knight C The Canterbury Tales D Beowulf 2. ____was the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written in alliterative verse. A The Canterbury Tales B Piers the Plowman C Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D Beowulf 3. ____was famous for The Canterbury Tales. A Geoffrey Chaucer B John Milton C William Shakespeare D Francis Bacon 4. Most of the ballads of the 15th century focused on the legend about ____ as a heroic figure. A Green Nights B Gawain C Robin Hood D Hamlet 5.In the 16th century, Thomas More’s work ____became immediately popular after its publication. A Paradise Lost B A Pleasant Satire of the Three Estates C Of Studies D Utopia 6. ____was Edmund Spencer’s masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the grea t poems in the English language. A Amoretti B The Shepherd’s Calendar C The Faerie Queene D Four Hymns 7. ____ is from Shakespeare’s sonnet No.18. A “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” B “To be or not to be: that is the question” C “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” D “No longer mourn for me when I am dead” 8. _____, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London about 1340. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden 9.The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and ___ _. A. Antony and Cleopatra B. Julius Caesar C Twelfth Night D King Lear 10. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare’s romantic love comedies? A Twelfth Night B The Tempest C As You Like It D The Merchant of Venice D C A C D C C A D B 1. All of the following are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England except______.
1. The Canterbury Tales was written in ________. A. Old English B. Middle English C. Modern English D. Current Modern English 2. Pilgrims travel to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury in ________. A. March B. April C. May D. June 3.The story of Hamlet takes place in ________. A. England B. Denmark C. Italy D. Germany 4. Shakespeare’s four great tragedies are _________ A. Anthony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, King Lear, Timon of Athens B. Twelfth Night, Cynbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest C. Hamlet, Othello, King John, and Macbeth D. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth 5.A sonnet is a poem of ________ lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to a certain definite patterns. A. 8 B. 6 C. 14 D. 24 6.Francis Bacon was ________ contemporary A. Geoffrey Chaucer’s B. Thomas More’s C. William Shakespeare’s D. John Milton’s 7.John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet 10” expresses ________. A. the fear of death B. the admiration of death C. the triumph over death D. the pleasure from death 8.The Metaphysical Poetry is characterized by its extensive use of ________. A. the impersonal voice B. conceits C. traditional symbols D. literary allusions
1．{The Isles of Greece} QUESTIONS: 1. Who is the writer of these lines? Byron 2. It is taken from the writer's masterpiece entitled ___ "Don Juan"_________. 3. Who is "Sappho" in line 2? Sappho is an ancient Greek poetess , known for her passionate love lyrics. 4. Who is "Phoebus" in line 4? It's Apollo, the Greek Sun-god. 5. Whom does the "Scian muse" refer to? Homer, because Scio claimed to be the birthplace of Homer. 6. What does the whole section "The Isles of Greece" write about? The section "The Isles of Greece" is among Byron's most effective poetical utterances on national freedom. All the 16 stanzas are supposed to have been sung by a Greek singer at the wedding feast of Don Juan and Haidee on the isle of Greece. In the song, by contrasting the freedom enjoyed by the Greek ancient people with the enslavement of the early 19th century Greeks under the Turkish rule, the poet calls on the Greeks to struggle for their national freedom and liberation. 7. This selection consists of two six-lined stanzas of iambic tetrameter, with a rime scheme of ___ Ababcc__________ What does the poem mainly write about? This poem is about the beauty of nature. There is a vivid picture of the daffodils, mixed with the poet’s philosophical and somewhat mystical thoughts. What is the rime scheme in each stanza? ababcc 2．I wandered lonely as a cloud 1.What does the poem mainly write about? This poem is about the beauty of nature. There is a vivid picture of the daffodils, mixed with the po et’s philosophical and somewhat mystical thoughts. 2.What is the rime scheme in each stanza? ababcc 3. What is the poet’s view on nature? And how is that view shown in this poem? Wordsworth’s conception of nature is that nature has a lot to do with man, it can not only refresh one’s soul and fill one with happiness, but it can also be reduced into a beautiful memory which will comfort one’s heart when in solitude. In the narrative poem, the poet successfully compared his loneliness with the happy daffodils. The daffodils, the symbol of the nature, bring great joy and relief to the speaker. The diction of this poem is, in general, simple, direct, and clear. The image of the daffodils conveys qualities of movement and radiance through carefully chosen words. At first sight, the flowers are seen as “fluttering and dancing”; then the poet compares the flowers to the “stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way”, and then to the “sparkling waves” of a nearby lake. The daffodils are described as “golden”, not yellow, because “golden” suggests more than a color; it connotes light. These words of movement and radiance create a picture of nature as vital, animated, and glowing. Words for joy (glee, sprightly, gay, jocund, bliss) are used in a crescendo that suggests the intensity of the speaker’s happiness.