英国文学问答练习题：
Part One
Old and Middle English Literature
I.Summarize Chaucer’s literary career and the representative works of each period.
His literary career is usually divided into three periods: the French period, the Italian period and the English period.
The French period refers to the period of French influence (1359-1372). During the period Chaucer wrote his earliest works: The Romaunt of the Rose, a free translation of a French poem and his first important original work: The Book of the Duchess.
The Italian period refers to the period of Italian Influence(1372-1386), especially of Dante and Bocaacio. During this period, he mainly wrote three longer poems using the heroic stanza of seven lines: The House of Fame, Troilus and Crisyede, The Legend of Good Women.
The English period is his mature period, during which time his masterpiece The Canterbury was produced in which the heroic couplet was used.
II.Answer the question according to the following passage
When April with its sweet-smelling showers
Has pierced the drought of March to the root,
And bathed every vein (of the plants) in such liquid
By which power the flower is created;
When the West Wind also with its sweet breath,
In every wood and field has breathed life into
The tender new leaves, and the young sun
Has run half its course in Aries,
And small fowls make melody,
Those that sleep all the night with open eyes
(So Nature incites them in their hearts),
Then folk long to go on pilgrimages,
And professional pilgrims to seek foreign shores,
To distant shrines, known in various lands;
And specially from every shire's end
Of England to Canterbury they travel,
To seek the holy blessed martyr,
Who helped them when they were sick.
Questions:
1.What is expressed in these opening lines of The Canterbury Tales?
2.How does the author emphasize the transition from nature to divinity?
https://www.doczj.com/doc/b211527073.html,ment on Chaucer’s contribution of rhymed stanzas.
Answers:
1. This part is a superb expression of a double view of the Canterbury pilgrimage. The first 11
lines are a chant of welcome to the spring with its harmonious marriage between heaven and earth which produces vegetations, pricks fouls and stirs the heart of man with e
renewing power of nature. Thus, the pilgrimage is an event in the calendar of nature, an aspect of springtime surge of human energy which wakens man’s love of nature. But spring is also the season of Easter and is allegorically regarded as the time of the Redemption through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ with its connotations of religious rebirth which wakens man’s love of God. Therefore, the pilgrimage is also an event in the calendar of divinity, an aspect of religious piety which draws pilgrims to holy places.
2. The transition from nature to divinity is emphasized by contrast between the physical
vitality which conditions the pilgrimage and the spiritual sickness which occasions the pilgrimage. As well as by parallelism between the renewal power of nature and the restorative power of supernature.
3. He introduced various rhymed stanzas to English poetry to replace the Old English
alliterative verse. He first introduced into English octasyllabic couplet and then the heroic couplet..
III.What is the function of the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales?
The General Prologue is usually regarded as the greatest portrait gallery in English literature. It is largely composed of a series of sketches differing widely in length and method, and blending the individual and the typical in varying degrees. The purpose of the General Prologue is not only to present a vivid collection of character sketches, but also to reveal the author’s intention in bringing together a great variety of people and narrative materials engaged in a common endeavor, to set the tone for the story telling--- one of jollity which accords with the tone of the whole work: that of grateful acceptance of life, to make clear the plan for the tales, to motivate the telling of tales and to introduce the pilgrims and the time and occasion of the pilgrimage. The pilgrims are people from various parts of England. They serve as the representatives of various sides of life and social groups. Each of the pilgrims or narrators is presented vividly in the prologue. Ranging in status from a knight to a humble plowman, the pilgrims are a microcosm of 14th century English society. On the other hand, there is also an intimate connection between the tales and the Prologue, both completing each other. The Prologue provides a framework for the tales.
Part Two
English Literature in the Renaissance Period
I.How many periods does Shakespeare’s dramatic career fall into?
Roughly four periods: (1) the early histories of the 1590s; (2)the romantic comedies around the turn of the century, roughly from 1594-1600; (3) the great tragedies of the early 1600s, from 1600 to 1608; (4) the romances of the 1610s.
II.What are the unique features of Shakespeare’s sonnets?
Two features: (1) the principle person addressed by the poet is not a woman but a young man and a mysterious dark lady. (2) the structure of three quatrains and a concluding couplet is typically Shakespearean.
III.In Hamlet’s soliloquy “ to be, or not to be”, there are these words: “and the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.”What does the “native hue of resolution” mean? What does the “pale cast of thought” stand for?
What idea do the two lines express?
The “native hue of resolution”means the natural color of resolution; The “pale cast of
thought” stands for Hamlet’s anxiety and melancholy; In these lines, the ruddy color is associated with the sad temperament and the pale look of melancholy. They express hamlet’s anxiety and hesitation before he takes the firm resolution to revenge at the critical moment.
Part Three
English Literature in the 17th Century
I.Give supporting reasons for the statement: Samson in Samson Agonistes is John
Milton the author himself.
Samson Agonistes is a poetical drama modeled on the Greek tragedies. It deals with the story of Samson from the “Book of Judges”in the Old Testament. Samson is an athlete of the Israelites. He stands as the champion fighting for the freedom of his country. But he is betrayed by his wife Dalilah and blinded by his enemies the Philistines. Led into the temple to make them sport, he wreaks his vengeance upon his enemies by pulling down the temple upon them and upon himself in a common ruin.
There is much in common between Samson and John Milton. Like Samson, Milton had also been embittered by an unwise marriage, persecuted by his enemies, and suffered from blindness. And yet he was unconquerable.
Samson’s miserable blind servitude among his enemies, his agonizing longing for sight and freedom, and the last terrible triumph all strongly suggest Milton’s passionate longing that he too could bring destruction down upon the enemy at the cost of his own life.
Therefore Samson in the drama is Milton himself in life.
II.Analyze the character of Satan in John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
Satan, a conquered and banished giant, remains obeyed and admired by those who follow him down to hell. He is firmer than the rest of the angels. It is he, passing the guarded gates, makes man revolt against God.
Satan is the spirit of questioning the authority of God. When he gets to the Garden of Eden, he believes in no reason why Adam and Eve should not taste the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
Though defeated, Satan prevails, since he has won from God a third part of his angels.
Though wounded, he triumphs, for the thunder which hits upon his head leaves his heart invincible. Though feebler in force, he remains superior in nobility, since he prefers independence to happy servility. He welcomes his defeat and his torments as a glory, a liberty and a joy.
Part Four
18th Century Literature
https://www.doczj.com/doc/b211527073.html,ment on William Blake’s Songs of Innocenc e and Songs of Experience.
Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world, though not without its evils and sufferings. Using a language which even babies can learn by heart, Blake expresses his delight in the sun, the hills, the streams, the insects and the
flowers, in the innocence of the child and of the lamb. Here everything seems to be in harmony.
Songs of Experience pains a different world, a world of misery, poverty, disease, war, and repression with a melancholy tone. The poet’s eyes are opened to the evils and vices of the world. A number of poems are pervaded with the atmosphere of intense sorrow and sadness, especially for children.
A number of poems in Songs of Innocence are either rewritten or revised in Songs of
Experience, with the result that the joyful atmosphere or the harmonious ending is in each case changed into a bitter mood or a sad story. For example, the two “The Chimney Sweepers”.
II.What does Robert Burns’ poetry mainly deal with?
1.The themes of love and friendship.
2.Scottish life, especially the rural life of the Scottish peasants.(“My Heart’s in the
Highlands”)
3.Attitudes towards political liberty and social equality, especially those under the
influence of the French Revolution.( “For A’ That and A’ That”).
4.Satirical verse, exposing the hypocrisy of the rich, the bigotry of the church and other
evils.
III.Why is Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe regarded as one of the forerunners of the English realistic novel?
Crusoe’s stories are all real concerns of its author’s time: people in their struggle to overcome the natural or social environment. The novel has a very strong verisimilitude. To convince the reader of the truth of his story, Defoe adopts the autobiographical form and makes full use of his long trained journalistic skill by describing things in great detail and by using specific time and space.
IV.Analyze Gulliver’s Travels to illustrate the use of satire in it.
It is a satire on the whole English society of the early 18th century, touching upon the political, religious, legal, military, scientific, philosophical as well as literary institutions, about almost every aspect of the society. It brings to light the wickedness of the then English society, with its tyranny, its political intrigues and corruption, its aggressive wars and colonialism etc.
For example, in Chapter four, Gulliver is in a country where horses are possessed of reason, and are the governing class, while Yahoos, though in the shape of men, are brute beast with such vices as stealing and lying. This part involves the ruthless moral exposure of humanity and the bitter satire of the English society.
Part Five
Romantic Literature
I.State briefly the artistic features of Jane Austen.
1.Her main concern is about human beings in their personal relations, especially the
relationship between men and women.
2.She writes within a narrow sphere. The subject matter, the character range, the settings
and plots are all restricted to the provincial or village life of the 19th century England.
3.Her novels are surprisingly realistic, with keen observation and penetrating analysis.
4.She uses dialogues to reveal the personalities of her characters.
5.Her language, which is of typical neoclassicism, is simple, easy, lucid and economical. II.Tell about the theme of Keats’“Ode on a Grecian Urn”.
The poet has absorbed himself into the timeless beautiful scenery on the antique Grecian urn: the loves, musicians and worshippers carved on the urn exist simultaneously and forever in their intensity of joy. They are unaffected by time, stilled in expectation. This is at once the glory and the limitation of the world conjured up by an object of art. The urn celebrates intuitions of ecstasy by denying our painful knowledge of transience and suffering.
Keats shows the contrast between the permanence of art and the transience of human passion.
https://www.doczj.com/doc/b211527073.html, five of Keats’ immortal odes.
“Ode to a nightingale”, To Autumn”, “Ode on Melancholy”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, “Ode on Indolence”.
IV.Tell the theme of “Ode to the West Wind”.
1.It expresses Shelley’s optimistic belief that old world must go, a new world must come
with the spring.
2.The poet asks the wind to work in him, restoring him to spiritual health and creative
vigor.
V.What is the symbolic meaning of “the west wind”?
1.It symbolizes regeneration which follows the destruction and death of winter.
2.Personally, Shelley sees it as a force that will reinvigorate him.
3.Socially and politically, the wind represents the destructive and revolutionary energies.
4.It is the spirit within nature, a driving force behind the turning wheel of the seasons and
the cycles of life and death.
VI.Tell about Coleridge’s artistic ideas.
1.His poetic themes range from the supernatural to the domestic.
2.Coleridge is one of the first critics to give close critical attention to language,
maintaining that the true end of poetry is to give pleasure “through the medium of beauty”.
3.He thinks that art is the medium between man and nature. Imagination is the means to
unite the thoughts and passions. Art is the only permanent revelation of the nature of reality.
VII.Tell about Wordsworth’s contribution to poetry.
1.He has started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self.
2.he has changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language
and by advocating a return of nature.
Part Six
19th century Literature
I.Tell about Robert Browning’s principle achievement in English poetry.
His principle achievement lies in his introducing to English poetry the dramatic monologue.
II.Why is Jane Eyre a successful novel?
1.The story opens with the titular heroine, Jane Eyre, a plain little orphan.
2.it sharply criticizes the existing society, e.g, the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions
such as Lowood School where poor girls are trained.
3.It introduced the first governess to English novel.
III.Tell about the theme of Hardy’s Wessex novels.
1.The agricultural region of the southern counties of England as the setting for his novels.
2.Depiction of the impoverishment and decay of small farmers.
3.Growing pessimistic to show that mankind is subjected to the rule of some hostile and
mysterious fate, which brings misfortune to human life.
IV.Talk briefly about the symbols and images in Great Expectations.
The notable images are the graveyard which symbolizes the underworld with its violence and threat and danger, the huge rotten wedding cake of Miss Havisham’s, which is the symbol of the corrupted and corrupting society, and the journeys Pip makes from the country to Miss Havisham’s and then London, and his return to the country and the ruined site of Satis House, and finally his meeting Estella there. The journeys indicate his way of growth and his inability to stay in the country gives the final touch to the realistic depiction of the author: innocence once lost is forever lost. Paradise lost is never to be regained.
The names are symbolic. The name of Estella suggests an ideal as well as something beautiful and always visible but never to be gotten. The name of Havisham gives am impression that what she wishes for or what she has is sham, false and illusory. The name of the criminal Magwich indicates a mysterious magician capable of witchcraft. The name of the hero Pip carries the implication of trivialness and humbleness of his origin and foretells his final disappointment in his great expectations.
https://www.doczj.com/doc/b211527073.html,ment briefly on the fate of Tess in Tess of the D’Urbervilles.
Tess is actually a victim of her society. Hardy created the heroine Tess just to criticize the society in his time. Tess is a tragic person simply because she is not accepted by the society in which agriculture is menaced by the forces of invading capitalism. So in a way, Tess’ fate is decided by her society.
English Literature Questions on The Canterbury Tales 1. Lines 1-18 are the introduction to the weather. Why did the author write so many words to describe it? To answer why so many pilgrim go to the Canterbury at the same time. 2. Summarize the main idea of lines 19-34. A group of pilgrims came across at the Canterbury and go together. 3. How many people are there in the group of pilgrims? Thirty 4. Based on Prioress 's portrait, can you give a possible reason why she is undertaking this pilgrimage? She wants to look for the worldly love. 5. What details does the narrator use in describing the Prioress, and in what order? 1, Facial expression2,voice 3,etiquette 4 ，sympathy and charity 5 ，appearance 6，dress 7 ，personal accessories.. 6. Why does the Wife of Bath go on pilgrimage?
浙江省2018年1月高等教育自学考试 英国文学选读试题 课程代码：10054 Part I. Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10%) Section A A B (1)Jonathan Swift（） A. The Rainbow (2)D.H. Lawrence （） B. Adam Bede (3)Emily Brontё（） C. Gulliver’s Travels (4)Thomas Hardy （） D. Wuthering Heights (5)George Eliot（） E. Far From the Madding Crowd Section B A B (1) Middlemarch（） A. Shylock (2) Jane Eyre（） B. Sir Peter Teazle (3) The Merchant of Venice（） C. Mr. Rochester (4) Mrs. Warren’s Profession（） D. Will Ladislas (5) The School for Scandal（） E. Vivie Part II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (5%) 1. In Paradise Lost, the author intended to expose the ways of Satan and to “justify the ways of _________ to men.” 2. As the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Charles Dickens set out a full map, and a large -scale criticism of the _________century. 3. In Jane Austen’s novels, stories of _________ and marriage provide the major themes. 4. In the novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles, the two men Alec and _________ are both agents of the destructive force of the society. 1
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Exercise for English Literature (2) Choose the best answer for each blank. 1.________, 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 2.Chaucer died on the 25th October 1400, and was buried in ________. A.Flanders B. France C.Italy D. Westminster Abbey 3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad. ________ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interest of the English merchants. A.Henry V B. Henry VII C.Henry VIII D. Queen Elizabeth 4.Except being a victory of England over ________, the rout of the fleet “Armada” (Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism. A.Spain B. France C.America D. Norway 5.At the beginning of the 16th century the outstanding humanist ________ wrote his Utopia in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s suffering and put forward his ideal of a future happy society. A.Thomas More B. Thomas Marlowe C.Francis Bacon D. William Shakespear 6.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen ________. A.Mary B. Elizabeth C.William D. Victoria 7.English Renaissance Period was an age of ________. A.prose and novel B. poetry and drama C.essays and journals D. ballads and songs 8.From the following, choose the one which is not Francis Bacon’s work: ________. A.The Advancement of Learning B. The New Instrument C.Essays D. The New Atlantics E.Venus and Adonis 9.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” This is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ________. A.songs B. plays https://www.doczj.com/doc/b211527073.html,edies D. sonnets 10.The heroines of Shakespeare’s great comedies, ________ are the daughters of the Renaissance, whose images and stories will remain a legacy to readers and audiences of all time.
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
浙江省2013年1月自学考试英国文学选读试题 课程代码：10054 请考生按规定用笔将所有试题的答案涂、写在答题纸上。 选择题部分 注意事项： 1. 答题前，考生务必将自己的考试课程名称、姓名、准考证号用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔填写在答题纸规定的位置上。 2. 每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在试题卷上。 I. Multiple choices. (30 points, 1.5 points for each) Directions: In this part of the test, there are twenty items. Choose the best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET. 1. The ________ , which means rebirth or revival, is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, such as the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture, the new discoveries in geography and astrology, the religious reformation and the economic expansion. A. renaissance B. neoclassicism C. romanticism D. modernism 2. The Romantic period is an age of poetry. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats are the major poets of ________. A. realism B. neoclassicism C. romanticism D. modernism 3. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is written by ________. A. Alfred Tennyson B. William Butler Y eats C. T. S. Eliot D. Ezra Pound 4. Don Juan, a great comic epic of the early 19th century, is the masterpiece of ________. 1 浙江省2013年1月自学考试英国文学选读试题
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______.
《英国文学史及选读》第一册复习要点 1. Beowulf: national epic of the English people; Denmark story; alliteration, metaphors and understatements （此处可能会有填空，选择等小题） 2. Romance （名词解释） 3. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”: a famous roman about King Arthur’s story 4. Ballad（名词解释） 5. Character of Robin Hood 6. Geoffrey Chaucer: founder of English poetry; The Canterbury Tales (main contents; 124 stories planned, only 24 finished; written in Middle English; significance; form: heroic couplet) 7. Heroic couplet (名词解释)8. Renaissance（名词解释）9.Thomas More——Utopia 10. Sonnet（名词解释）11. Blank verse（名词解释）12. Edmund Spenser “The Faerie Queene” 13. Francis Bacon “essays” esp. “Of Studies”（推荐阅读，学习写正式语体的英文文章的好参照，本文用词正式优雅，多排比句和长句，语言造诣非常高，里面很多话都可以引用做格言警句，非常值得一读） 14. William Shakespeare四大悲剧比较重要，此外就是罗密欧与朱立叶了，这些剧的主题，背景，情节，人物形象都要熟悉，当然他最重要的是Hamlet这是肯定的。他的sonnet也很重要，最重要属sonnet18。（其戏剧中著名对白和几首有名的十四行诗可能会出选读） 15. John Milton 三大史诗非常重要，特别是Paradise Lost和Samson Agonistes。对于Paradise Lost需要知道它是blank verse写成的，故事情节来自Old Testament，另外要知道此书theme和Satan的形象。 16. John Bunyan——The Pilgrim’s Progress 17. Founder of the Metaphysical school——John Donne; features of the school: philosophical poems, complex rhythms and strange images. 18. Enlightenment（名词解释） 19. Neoclassicism（名词解释） 20. Richard Steele——“The Tatler” 21. Joseph Addison——“The Spectator”这个比上面那个要重要，注意这个报纸和我们今天的报纸不一样，它虚构了一系列的人物，以这些人物的口气来写报纸上刊登的散文，这一部分要仔细读。 22. Steel’s and Addison’s styles and their contributions 23. Alexander Pope: “Essay on Criticism”, “Essay on Man”, “The Rape of Lock”, “The Dunciad”; his workmanship (features) and limitations 24. Jonathan Swift: “Gulliver’s Travels”此书非常重要，要知道具体内容，就是Gulliver游历过的四个地方的英文名称，和每个部分具体的讽刺对象; （我们主要讲了三个地方）“A Modest Proposal”比较重要，要注意作者用的irony 也就是反讽手法。 25. The rise and growth of the realistic novel is the most prominent achievement of 18th century English literature. 26. Daniel Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe”, “Moll Flanders”, 当然是Robinson Crusoe比较重要，剧情要清楚，Robinson Crusoe的形象和故事中蕴涵的早期黑奴的原形，以及殖民主义的萌芽。另外注意Defoe的style和feature，另外Defoe是forerunner of English realistic novel。 27. Samuel Richardson——“Pamela” (first epistolary novel), “Clarissa Harlowe”, “Sir Charles Grandison” 28. Henry Fielding: “Joseph Andrews”, “Jonathan Wild”, “Tom Jones”第一个和第三个比较重要，需要仔细看。他是一个比较重要的作家，另外Fielding也被称为father of the English novel. 29. Laurence Sterne——“Tristram Shandy”项狄传 30. Richard Sheridan——“The School for Scandal” 31. Oliver Goldsmith——“The Traveller”(poem), “The Deserted V illage” (poem) (both two poems were written by heroic couplet), “The Vicar of Wakefield” (novel), “The Good-Natured Man” (comedy), “She stoops to Conquer” (comedy),
做试题,没答案?上自考365,网校名师为你详细解答! 浙江省2007年10月高等教育自学考试 英国文学选读试题 课程代码：10054 Ⅰ.Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.(10%) Section A A B (1)Daniel Defoe ( ) A. The Pilgrim’s Progress (2)Charles Dickens ( ) B. The Silver Box (3)John Bunyan ( ) C. Robinson Crusoe (4)Richard Sheridan ( ) D. A Tale of Two Cities (5)John Galsworthy ( ) E. The School for Scandal Section B A B (1) Jane Eyre( ) A. Irene (2) The Man of Property( ) B. Mr. Rochester (3) The Merchant of Venice( ) C. Satan (4) Paradise Lost( ) D. Sophia Western (5) The History of Tom Jones ( ) E. Portia Ⅱ.Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook.(5%) 1. In the era of the Renaissance, the humanists made attempts to get rid of those old ______ ideas in medieval Europe. 2. The ______ century was an age of prose. A group of excellent writers, such as Swift, Fielding were produced. 3. English ______ is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads. 4. In the V ictorian period, the______ as a literary genre became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought. 5. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern 1
英国文学史 Part one: Early and Medieval English Literature Chapter 1 The Making of England 1. The early inhabitants in the island now we call England were Britons, a tribe of Gelts. 2. In 55 B.C., Britain was invaded by Julius Caesar. The Roman occupation lasted for about 400 years. It was also during the Roman role that Christianity was introduced to Britain. And in 410 A.D., all the Roman troops went back to the continent and never returned. 3. The English Conquest At the same time Britain was invaded by swarms of pirates（海盗）. They were three tribes from Northern Europe: the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. And by the 7th century these small kingdoms were combined into a United Kingdom called England, or, the land of Angles. And the three dialects spoken by them naturally grew into a single language called Anglo -Saxon, or Old English. 4. The Social Condition of the Anglo -Saxon Therefore, the Anglo -Saxon period witnessed a transition from tribal society to feudalism. 5. Anglo -Saxon Religious Belief and Its Influence The Anglo -Saxons were Christianized in the seventh century. Chapter 2 Beowulf 1. Anglo -Saxon Poetry But there is one long poem of over 3,000 lines. It is Beowulf, the national epic of the English people. Grendel is a monster described in Beowulf. 3. Analysis of Its Content Beowulf is a folk lengend brought to England by Anglo -Saxons from their continental homes. It had been passed from mouth to mouth for hundreds of years before it was written down in the tenth century. 4. Features of Beowulf The most striking feature in its poetical form is the use of alliteration, metaphors and understatements. Chapter 3 Feudal England 1）T he Norman Conquest 2. The Norman Conquest The French -speaking Normans under Duke William came in 1066. After defeating the English at Hastings, William was crowned as King of England. The Norman Conquest marks the establishment of feudalism in England.
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
Part Four 18th Century Literature I.Define the following terms. Three unities:The unity of action (all the action of the work must occur within one continuance plot without extraneous subplot), the unity of time(all the action of the work must occur within 24 hours, or one whole day), and the unity of place( all the action of the work must occur in one place or city) Satire: A literary art of diminishing a subject by making it ridiculous and evoking towards it attitudes of amusement, contempt, scorn or indignation.(Gulliver’s Travel s is a typical example of showing satire towards the entire human race) Picaresque novel:A basically realistic and often satiric work of fiction chronicling the career of an engaging, lower-class rogue-hero, who takes to the road for a series of loose, episodic adventures, sometimes in the company of a sidekick. (Tom Jones, Don Quixote, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) Gothic novel: Also Gothic novel. Story of terror and suspense, usually et in a gloomy old castle or monastery. Graveyard school of poetry:A group of 18th century English poet who emphasized subjectivity, mystery, and melancholy. Death, mortality(immortality)and gloom were frequent subjects or elements of their meditative poems, which ere set in graveyards.( Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyards”) Neoclassicism: A style of literature, whose members looked to the great classical writers for inspiration and guidance. They believed that literature should both instruct and delight, and the proper subject of art was humanity. Neoclassicism stressed rules, reason, harmony, balance, restraint, decorum, order, serenity, realism and form, an appeal to the intellect rather than emotion.(John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson) II.Fill in the blanks 1.Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyards”is taken as a model of sentimental poetry, esp. the graveyard school. 2.In Jerusalem, William Blake expounded his theory of imagination, asserting that the world of imagination is the world of eternity. 3.“ Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, And the roacks melt wi’ the sun: I will luve thee still, my dear, While the sands of life shall run” The above lines are taken from the famous poem “My Luve’s Like a Red, Red, Rose”. 4.Friday is a character in the novel Robinson Crusoe. 5.Henry Fielding is called the Father of the English Novels. 6.The 18th century is known as the age of enlightenment or the age of reason. 7.In Gulliver’s Travels, Yahoos are the creatures living in Houyhnynms. III.Choose the best answer. 1.Of all the 18th century novelists, ___ was the first to set out in theory and practice, to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, and the first to give the modern novel its