Exercises for English literature （1）
I. Fill in the blanks.（25%）
1. The Old English poetry can be divided into two groups: the_________poetry and the_________poetry.
2. _________ is regarded as the "Father of English Song", the first known religious poet of England.
3. In the second half of the 7th century, the first English poet, _________ by name, began to sing.
4. The history of English literature begins in the__________ century.
5._________, the first English poem, still intact as a whole piece today, is the greatest epic ever left by the ancient Germanic tribes and the most ancient ever since the demise of the Greek and Roman literatures
6.It was __________ who decided that literature should be written in the vernacular or Old English.
7.__________ is the first English poet ever to sign his composition
8._________made the translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate Version into Middle English, the first
attempt ever to translate the Holy Scripture into English.
9.The most important work of Alfred the Great is _________, which is regarded as the best monument of the Old
English Prose.
10.__________ is the most prevailing literary form in the Middle Ages.
11.The most magnificent prose work of the 15th century is Morte d' Arthur concerning with _________legend.
12.Critics tend to divide Chaucer's literary career into three periods: the___________period, the__________period
and the_________period.
13.Among the Middle English poets, three are the greatest. One is the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
The other two are _________ and____________
14._________ was the first most significant poet in English history to write in Middle English.
15.The Canterbury Tales contains the________ and 24 tales, four of which are fragments.
16._________ is the author of Decameron, which has the similar way of telling stories to that of The Canterbury
Tales.
17.The framework in The Canterbury Tales is a__________
18.When Chaucer died in 1400, he was the first to be buried in Westminster Abbey and founded ________
19.________, the first English printer, brought the technique of printing from movable type into England from
Italy.
20.The Elizabethan age was one in which Renaissance transformed from Chaucer’s_____England into
Shakespeare’s _______ one.
21.The translation of the Homeric classics, Iliad and Odyssey, won _______ the title “a translator of the prince of
poets”
22.Thomas Wyatt, the first great Englsih sonneteer, introduced the ______ into England. He first used a couplet for
the conclusion of sonnets---a practice followed by Shakespeare.
23.Henry Howard, Earl of Surry, brought the _______ into English poetry in his translation of Virgils’ The Aenied,
and it became the standard meter for Elizabethan and later poetic drama.
24.Edmund Spenser is often referred to as "the poets' _______" because of his considerable influence on later
poets.
25.The word “euphemism” comes from John Lyly’s _________
26.As a sonnet sequence, Sidney’s sonnet cycle ______________ was probably the first of its kind ever to appear
in English literary history.
27.The drama had gone through a number of phases over the centuries including those of the ____, the _____, the
_______, the _______ and the _______drama.
28.________ is considered the first great English dramatist and the most important Elizabethan playwright before
Shakespeare.
29.Shakespeare's 154 sonnets fall into two series: one series are addressed to W. H, a young man, and the other
addressed to a________
30.A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three four-line quatrains and a concluding two-line________
31. The second period of English Renaissance is also called the________ period or the Age of________
32. Soon after the ________was introduced by the Earl of Surrey in his translation of Virgil's The Aeneid, and it became the standard meter for Elizabethan and later poetic drama.
33. Shakespeare's plays have been traditionally divided into four categories according to dramatic type: histories, _______ , tragedies and___________
34. Though written in the form of an________, the characters in The Pilgrim's Progress impress the readers like real persons. The places in it are English scenes, and the conversations which enliven his narratives vividly repeat the language of the writer's time.
35. The poems of John Donne belong to two categories: the _______ , and the___________ later.
36. John Donne is the founder of the school of ____________. His works are characterized by mysticism in content and fantasticality in form.
37. Because of the success of Paradise Lost, John Milton produced in 1671 another epic,________
38. John Milton's Paradise Lost opens with the description of a meeting among the fallen angels, and ends with the departure of _______ and___________from the Garden of Eden.
39. The most distinguished literary figure of the Restoration Period was John Dryden, poet, _______ , and playwright.
40. Paradise Lost is a long epic. The stories are taken from___________ .
41. The Pilgrim's Progress tells of the spiritual pilgrimage of Christian, who flies form City of Destruction, and finally comes to the Delectable Mountains and the_____________
42. Pamela is written in the form of a __________novel.
43.____________ written by Sheridan is a clever satire on the sentimental and pseudo-romantic fancies of many young women of the upper classes of the 18th century.
44. The biography of Samuel Johnson entitled Life of Johnson is frequently considered the best in the English language. The author of the book is_________
45. The only important English dramatist produced in the 18th century is___________
46. Friday is a character in the novel___________.
47__________is called the Father of the English Novel.
48. Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, ______ was the first to introduce rationalism to England.
49. The 18th century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of_________
50. __________is Alexander Pope's best satirical poem. Its satire is directed at Dullness in general.
II. Choose the best answer.（23%）
1.Beowulf is a ________ poem, describing an all-round picture of the tribal society.
A. pagan
B. Christian
C. romantic
D. lyric
2.Caedmon's life story is vividly described in _______ 's Historic Ecclesiastica .
A. Grendel
B. Bede
C. Cynewulf
D. Beowulf
3.In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called_________
A. heroic couplet
B. quatrain
C. Spenserian stanza
D. terza rima
4.The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the
medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely________
A. William Langland's Piers the Plowman
B. Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
C. John Gower's Confessio Amantis
D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
5.In the English Renaissance period, scholars began to emphasize the capacities of the human mind and the
achievements of human culture. The most significant intellectual movement was______
A. the Reformation
B. geographical explorations
C. humanism
D. the Italian revival
6.Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia was a long _________ written in an elaborately artful prose.
A. pastoral eclogue
B. pastoral lyric
C. pastoral romance
D. pastoral drama
7.Sir Philip Sidney is known for the following three works EXCEPT__________
A. Arcadia
B. Astrophel and Stella
C. The Shepherd's Calendar
D. Apology for Poetry
8.The following playwrights belong to the "university wits", EXCEPT_________
A. John Lyly
B. Ben Jonson
C. Thomas Kyd
D. Christopher Marlowe
9.Which is NOT the works of Christopher Marlowe?
A. Lycidas
B. Tamburlaine the Great
C. The Jew of Malta
D.The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus
10.The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is one of Christopher Marlowe's best works in which Dr. Faustus seeks
________ no matter at what cost and finally meets his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.
A. money
B. immorality
C. knowledge
D. political power
11.Which of the following plays does NOT belong to Shakespeare's great tragedies?
A. Othelllo
B. Macbeth
C. Romeo and Juliet
D. Hamlet
12.Which of the following plays does NOT belong to Shakespeare's comedies?
A. Heary V
B. The Merchant of Venice
C. A Midsummer Night's Dream
D. The Winter's Tale
13.An important variety of ode in the 16th century was________ , a poem in praise of marriage, conventionally
following the course of the wedding day.
A. hymn
B. epithalamion
C. ode
D. ballad
14.Which of the following poetic forms is the principal form of Shakespeare's dramas?
A. lyric
B. sonnet
C. blank verse
D. quatrain
15.5. "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested" is found
in_________ A. Francis Bacon's "Of Studies" B. Thomas More's Utopia C. John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress D. Fielding's Tom Jones
16.6. In Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock
because__________
A. his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industry
B. his enterprise went bankrupt
C. Bassanio was able to pay his own debt
D. his ships had all been lost
17.The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the beginning line of one of
Shakespeare's____________
A. comedies
B. tragedies
C. sonnets
D. histories
18.8. John Dryden's tragedy All for Love deals with the same story as ___________ 's Antony and Cleopatra.
A. William Shakespeare
B. John Milton
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. John Bunyan
19.9. In John Milton's Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve are forbidden to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge
of___________
A. Love and Hate
B. Good and Evil
C. Faith and Betrayal
D. Sense and Sensibility
20.10. Which of the following novels by Henry Fielding satirizes the political
system of England and the then Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole?
A. Joseph Andrews
B. Jonathan Wild the Great
C. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
D. Amelia
21.11. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for_________
A. material wealth
B. spiritual salvation
C. universal truth
D. self-fulfillment
22.12. "To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grad Foe." (John Milton, Paradise Lost ) By
what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God?
A. By planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.
B. By turning into poisonous snakes to threaten man's life.
C. By removing God from His throne.
D. By corrupting man and woman created by God.
23.13. By making the truth-seeking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of Vanity Fair, John Bunyan intends
to show the prevalent political and religious__________of his time.
A. persecution
B. improvement
C. prosperity
D. disillusionment
24.14. Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in______________
A. alliteration
B. heroic couplet
C. sonnet
D. blank verse
25.15. Lives of the Poets consists of the biographies of 52 poets and affords some of the best-known pictures of the
early English poets. Its author is_____________
A. Samuel Richardson
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Joseph Addison
D. Samuel Johnson
26.16. Jonathan Swift's famous prose work _______ is a satirical dialogue between the Ancients and the Moderns
in the character of the Bee and the Spider.
A. A Modest Proposal
B. The Battle of the Books
C. The Drapier 's Letters
D. A Tale of a Tub
27.17. 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 modem novel its structure and style.
A. Daniel Defoe
B. Samuel Richardson
C. Henry Fielding
D. Oliver Goldsmith
28.Which of the following is NOT a character in the novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling?
A. Blifil
B. Sophia
C. Mr. Allworthy
D. Amelia
29._________ is the author of the first English dictionary by an Englishman--Dictionary of the English Language,
which has become the foundation of all subsequent English dictionaries.
A. Samuel Johnson
B. Laurence Sterne
C. Oliver Goldsmith
D. Samuel Richardson
30.In Sheridan's The School for Scandal, the man who wins the hand of his beloved as well as the inheritance of
his rich uncle is__________
A. Charles Surface
B. Joseph Surface
C. Sir Peter Teazle
D. Sir Benjamin Backbite
31.Modern English novel arose in the___________century.
A. 16th
B. 17th
C. 18th
D. 19th
32._________was a progressive intellectual movement going on throughout
Europe in the 18th century.
A. The Renaissance
B. Puritan Movement
C. Romantic Movement
D. The Enlightenment
33.Sheridan's ___________ is the best English comedy since the days of Shakespeare.
A. She Stoops to Conquer
B. The Rivals
C. The School for Scandal
D. The Conscious Lovers
34.Which of the following place does Gulliver visit first in Gulliver's Travels?
A. Lilliput
B. Brobdingnag
C. Laputa
D. Houyhnhnms
35.The rise and growth of ____________ is the most prominent achievement of the 18th century English literature,
which has given the world such writers as Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift and Henry Fielding.
A. nco-classical poetry
B. realistic novel
C. sentimentalist novel
D. Gothic novel
36. _________ is Poet Laureate in English Literary history?
A. John Dryden
B. Edmund Spenser
C. William Shakespeare
D. Christopher Marlowe
37. The most significant intellectual movement of the Renaissance was________
A. the Reformation
B. humanism
C. the Italian revival
D. geographical exploration
38. Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare's great tragedies?
A. Romeo and Juliet
B. King Lear
C. Hamlet
D. Macbeth
39. Which statement about the Elizabethan age is not true?
A.It is the age of translation.
B.It is the age of poetry
C. It is the age of exploration.
D. It is the age of the protestant reformation.
40. _________ first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama
A. Shakespeare
B. Wyatt
C. Sidney
D. Marlowe
IV. Definitions: (37%)
1.alliteration
2.assonance
3.understatement
4.blank verse
5.heroic couplet
6.iambic pentameter
7.eclogue
8.university wits
9.renaissance hero
10. Spenserian stanza
Part One Early and Medieval English Literature Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks. 1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating England. A. William the Conqueror B. Julius Caesar C. Alfred the Great D. Claudius 2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ . A. Langland B. Wycliffe C. Gower D. Chaucer 3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____. A. novel B. drama C. romance D. essay 4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances. A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight B.Beowulf C. Piers the Plowman D. The Canterbury Tales 6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. The Normans spoke _____. A. French B. English C. Latin D. Swedish 9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances. A. loyalty B. revolt C. obedience D. mockery 11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in about 1340. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden 12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____. A. Flanders B. France C. Italy D. Westminster Abbey 15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccio’s poem “Filostrato”. A. The Legend of Good Women B. Troilus and Criseyde C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D. Beowulf Key to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAAB Ⅱ. Questions 1.What are the features of Beowulf? https://www.doczj.com/doc/c48504693.html,ment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales. Part Two The English Renaissance Ⅰ. Match the writer and his works. 1.Thomas More 2.Holinshed 3.Hakluyt 4.Richard Tottel 5.Philip Sidney 6.Walter Raleigh 3
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
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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/c48504693.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.
华南农业大学xx文学史期末考试题 (下)注:本文档主要用作题型参考,非100%原题。 考试范围:启蒙运动时期,浪漫主义时期。 一选择题。(共50题,每题1分) 类型1:作品来源。(约10-15道题) 1.” Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast. The littletyrant of hisfields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here mayrest. SomeCromwell,guiltless of his country's blood.” is from ( )A.I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud B. The Cloud C. Bright Star D. Elegy 2. “But now your brow is beld, John. Your locks are lik e the snaw;But bless ingson your frosty pow…” is from ( ) A. John Anderson, My Jo B.A Red, Red Rose C. Tintern Abbey D. When We two parted 3.” I am assured by our merchants, that a boy or a girl beforetwelve years old isno saleable commodity, and even when they come tothis age, they will not yieldabove three pounds, or three pounds andhalf a crown at most, on the exchange.” isfrom ( ) A. Gulliver’s Travel B. Robinson Crusoe
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),
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.
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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.
英国文学史 1.The statement “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability”open well-known essays by_________. Francis Bacon Samuel Johnson Alexander Pope Jonathan Swift [参考答案] Francis Bacon 2.When he died, Chaucer was buried in __________ the Poet's Corner. Westminster Abbey Normandy Canterbury Southwark [参考答案] Westminster Abbey 3.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of . Piers Plowman Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Confessio Amantis The Canterbury Tales [参考答案] The Canterbury Tales 4.The first mention of Robin Hood in literature is in Langland's _________. The Legend of Good Woman The Vison of Piers the Plowman Boewulf Fables [参考答案] The Vison of Piers the Plowman 5.Which literary genra does Sir Gawain and the Green Knight belong to? epic romance novel prose [参考答案] romance 6.English literature at the Anglo-Norman Period was also a combination of ____ and Saxon elements. Latin Greek English French [参考答案] French 7.In the 14th century, the two most important writers are_____ and Chaucer Caedmon Cynewulf Langland Shakespeare [参考答案] Langland 8.Who is the monster half-human who had mingled thirty warriors in The Song of Beowulf? Hrothgat Heorot Grendel Beowulf [参考答案] Grendel 9.The most important work of_____is The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles,which is regarded as the best monument of the old English prose. Alfred the Great Caedmon Cynewulf Venerable Bede [参考答案] Alfred the Great 10.The epic, The Song of Beowulf, represents the spirit of_____. monks romanticists sentimentalists pagan [参考答案] pagan ing line of 11.The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day ?” is the beginn one of Shakespeare’ｓ. comedies tragedies histories sonnets [参考答案] sonnets
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