英美文学练习题

英美文学选择题(附答案版)1。

下列哪项陈述最能说明莎士比亚十四行诗第18 首的主题？演讲者颂扬了大自然的力量。

演讲者讽刺了人类的虚荣心。

C。

演讲者赞扬了艺术创作的力量。

演讲者思考人类的救赎。

2。

______ 用叙事诗或散文来歌颂骑士冒险或其他英雄事迹。

A。

十四行诗，浪漫，小说，戏剧，3。

浪漫的英雄通常是______ ，他开始了一段旅程来完成一些使命——保护教堂，打击不忠，拯救少女，迎接挑战，或服从骑士的命令。

a .士兵b .诗人c .骑士(knight)d . 歌手4。

红玫瑰c。

抒情歌谣(抒情歌谣集)d。

西风颂5。

”只要人类能呼吸或眼睛能看见”如果冬天来了，春天还会远吗？”伊桑的警句无比出自_ _。

a . she walks in beautyb . ode to the west wind(ode to the west wind)c . the solidary reasperd . on the seas and fa远r .离7。

______ 是盎格鲁-撒克逊人和英国人的民族史诗。

A。

《哈姆雷特》《贝奥武夫》《乌托邦》《抒情歌谣集》8。

以下哪一个不包括在威廉·莎士比亚最著名的四部悲剧中？A。

《哈姆雷特》《奥赛罗》《威尼斯商人》《李尔王》9。

________ 是英国现实主义小说的先驱，也是著名小说《鲁滨逊漂流记》的作者。

A。

亨利·菲尔丁·塞缪尔·理查逊C。

丹尼尔·笛福(Defo)乔纳森·斯威夫特10 .以下哪一篇不是拉尔夫·瓦尔多·爱默生写的？他被称为“美国文学之父”，他的故事有《瑞普·凡·温克尔》和《睡谷的传说》。

A。

华盛顿欧文(欧文)b 舍伍德安德森c马克吐温d欧内斯特海明威12。

一般来说，马克·吐温属于哪一个文学流派？浪漫主义，现实主义，自然主义，后现代主义。

19 世纪上半叶美国文学的主要趋势是浪漫主义、现实主义、感伤主义和自然主义。

《英美文学史》练习题I.Multiple Choices: Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.1.The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes _______ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.A.SocietyB. natureC. ocean animalsD. human being2.After the American Civil War, the literary interest in the so-called "reality" of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of ________ .A. Realism B . Reason and Revolution C . RomanticismD. Enlightenment3.The ______ A ge of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.A. Lost B . Jazz C . ReasonD . Gilded4.Eugene O'Neill is regarded as the founder of American _______ .A. poetryB. dramaC. fictionD. literature5.As a literary figure, Shylock appears in _______ .A. Jane EyreB. The Merchant of VeniceC. Withering HeightD. Middlemarch6.The ______ A ge of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.A. LostB. JazzC. Reason D . Gilded7.Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel gives a realistic presentation of life of _______ .A. the common English peopleB. the upper classC. nobility and the landed gentryD.the enterprising landlords8.In William Faulkner's writings, the modem _____ technique was frequently and skillfully used to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.A. archetypalB. deconstructionistC. stream-of-consciousnessD. structuralist9.Edgar Allan Poe put forward the following literary ideas EXCEPT _______ .A.Poems should be as long as Homer's epics.B.Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all the poetic tones.C.He stressed the principle of concenlration and thematic totality.D.Poems should be short enough so that it can be read at one sitting.10.Mark Twain wrote the following novels EXCEPT ______ .A. Jumping FrogB. Life on the MississippiC. The Wings of DoveD. The Adventures of Tom SawyerII. Match the writers and works under the two columns, and put the letter of the work in the bracket before the author's name. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the III. Explain the following terms. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.1. Alliteration2. Hemingway Code Hero3. American Drcam4. Black HumorIV. Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.1.ANSWER SHEET.( )1. James Joyce()2. Harriet Bccchcr Stowe( )3. Emily Dickinson()4. William FaulknerFoundling()5. Charles DickensHuckleberry Finn()6. Henry Fielding( )7. Ernest Hemingway()8. John Keats()9. Alfred, Lord Tennyson ()10. Mark Twaina. The Sound and the Furyb. The Old Mem and the Seac. Ode to a Nightingaled. The History of Tome Jones, ae. The Adventures off. Break, Break, Breakg. Uncle Tom 's Cabinh. Dublinersi. A Tale of Two Citiesj. Because I could not stop for Death()11. Percy Bysshe Shelley ()12.T. S. Eliot ()13. O. Henry ()14. Kale Chopin ()15. Robert Frost ()16. Jonathan Swift ()17. Virginia Woolf ()18. John Milton ()19. Charlotte Bronte ()20. D. H. Lawrencea. The Road Not Takenb. Gulliver s Travelsc. Paradise Lostd. Jane Eyree. Sons and Loversf Mrs Dallowayg. The Waste Landh. The Cop and the Anthemi. The A wakeningj. Ode to the West WindQuotation: "'My boy!' said the old gentleman, leaning over the desk. Oliver startled at the sound. He might be excused for doing so, for the words were kindly said, and strange sounds frighten one. He trembled violently and burst into tears.” (Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist) Questions: Explain why the boy (Oliver Twist) started first, then trembled violently and burst into tears when th e words were “kindly" said.2.T shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference."Questions:(1)Identify the poem and the poet.(2)What does the phrase "ages and ages hence,, mean?(3)What idea does the quoted passage express?V.Answer the following question: How should we learn literature, Or what shall we do whenwe learn? Write your answers in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.《英美文学史》练习题答题纸I.Multiple Choices: Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.Write your answers in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.1 -5: _________________ 6-10: __________________________II.Match the writers and works under the two columns, and put the letter of the work in the bracket before the author's name. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET. (2* x 10= 20')I.( ) 2, ( ) 3.( )4.( ) 5.( ) 6.( ) 7,( ) 8. ( ) 9. ( ) 10.()II.( ) 12.( ) 13,( ) 14,( ) 15.( ) 16.( ) 17.( ) 18.( ) 19.( ) 20.()III.Define the literary terms listed below. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.1. Alliteration2.Hemingway Code Hero3.American Dream4.Black HumorIV.Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.V.Answer the following question: How should we learn literature, Or what shall we do when we learn? Write your answers in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.《英美文学史》练习题答案I.Multiple Choices: Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.参考答案:1-5 ： BABB B 6-10: B AC ACII.Match the writers and works under the two columns, and put the letter of the work in the bracket before the author's name.参考答案：L(h) 2.(g)3.(j) 4.(a) 5・(i) 6.(d) 7.(b) 8.(c) 9.(f) 10.(e)11.(j) 12. (g) 13. (h) 14. (i) 15.(a) 16. (b) 17.(f) 18.(c) 19. (d) 20. ( e )III.Define the literary terms listed below.参考答案Alliteration: alliteration means a repetition of the initial sounds of several words in a line or group. Alliteration is a traditional poetic device in English literature. Robert Frost's "'Acquainted with the Night,, is a case in point: T have stood still and stopped the sound of feet".1.Hemingway Code Hero: Hemingway Code Hero, also called code hero, is one who, wounded but strong more sensitive, enjoys the pleasures of life (sex, alcohol, sport) in face of ruin and death, and maintains, through some notion of a code, an ideal of himself. Barnes in the Sun also Rises, Henry in a Farewell to Arms and Santiago in the Old Man and the Sea are typical of Hemingway Code Hero.2.American Dream: American dream means the belief that everyone can succeed as long ashe/she works hard enough. It usually implies a successful and satisfying life. It usually framed in.............................密...............封......................................... 线terms of American capitalism, its associated purported meritocracy, and the freedoms guaranteed bythe U.S. Bill of Rights.3.Black Humor: the use of morbid and the absurd for darkly comic purposes in modem fiction and drama. The term refers as much to the tone of anger and bitterness as it does to the grotesque andmorbid situations, which often deal with suffering, anxiety, and death. Black humor is a substantial element in the Anti-novel and the Theatre of Absurd. Joseph Heller's Catch-22 is an almostarchetypal example.IV.Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answersin the corresponding space on the answer sheet.参考答案:1. The boy startled at the words because kind words were not expected; it is (was, must be) thefirst time in all his life that the boy (Oliver Twist) had ever been "kindly" greeted; strange soundsmay predict another suffering/ misfortune/ torture/...) (At least one example from the text isexpected to back up the above statement)2.(1)Robert Frost: "The Road Not Taken”.(2)Many many years later.(3)The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads. But he is conscious ofthe fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life. He seems to be giving asuggestion to the reader. u make good choice of your life."V.Answer the following question: How should we learn literature, Or what aspects shall we learn about literature? Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.参考答案Learn about the the social and political context for each period;(1)Learn about the major literary schools and their distinguishing characteristics;(2)Representative authors of each period and their major works;(3)When wc study a specific literary text, pay attention to: Contcnt-thc idea the writer wants to express through the work; meaning; fonn-diction, figures of speech, as well as larger elements, such as plot, theme, lone, characterization, narrative technique etc;(4)Be an active reader; read , think and write sth. on an author or work you are interested in..............................密...............封 ......................................... 线(5)Some knowledge of history, philosophy, psychology, aesthetics and other disciplines can help learn literature better.。

英美文学知识问题版II、英美文学知识练习150题1.William Faulkner is the author ofA.Far From the Madding CrowdB.The Sound and FuryC.For Whom the Bell TollsD.The Scarlet Letter2.Robert Frost is a famousA.novelistB.playwrightC.poetD.literary critic3.The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works byA.Jack LondonB.Charles DickensC.Samuel ColeridgeD.Ernest Hemingway4.Which of the following poets is different from the others?A.John DonneB.John KeatsC.Lord ByronD.Percy Bysshe Shelley5.Which of the following is NOT written by William Shakespeare?A.OthelloB.The Tragical History of Dr. FaustusC.Romeo and JulietD.The Twelfth Night6.Beowulf narrates a story taking place inA.the MediterraneanB.Northern EuropeC.EnglandD.Scandinavia7.refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.A.AllegoryB.ConflictC.IronyD.Flashback8.William Wordsworth is an EnglishA.poetB.novelistC.playwrightD.critic9.The great Transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau isA.NatureB.WaldenC.ExperienceD.Essays10.James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPTA.DublinersB. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManC.Jude the ObscureD.Ulysses11.The Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPTA.The Tenant of Wildfell HallB.Jane EyreC.Wuthering HeightsD.Agnes Grey12.In which novel can “Yahoo” be found?A.John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s ProgressB.Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie QueenC.Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Trave lsD.Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones13.The Victorian Age was largely an age of , eminently represented by Dickens andThackeray.A.PessimismB.NaturalismC.ModernismD.Critical Realism14.Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination of andserious literature.A.American folk humorB.funny jokesC.English folkloreD.American values15.Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after theRevolutionary War?A.Fennimore CooperB.Nathaniel HawthornC.Walt WhitmanD.Washington Irving16.Paradise Lost is a masterpiece byA.Christopher MarlowB.John MiltonC.William ShakespeareD.Ben Johnson17.I Have a Dream is addressed byA.Abraham LincolnB.John F. KennedyC.Martin Luther KingD.Ralph Waldo Emerson18.Which of the following is a poem by Emily Dickinson?A.Song of MyselfB.The RavenC. A Red Red RoseD.Because I Could Not Stop for Death19.Eugene O’Neil is an AmericanA.novelistB.playwrightC.poetD.essayist20.The Romantic Age in England came to an end with the death ofA.Jane AustenB.Walter ScottC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD.William Wordsworth21.In the works of Aesthetism, the theory of “art for art’s sake” is advocated byA.Oscar WildeB.Mrs. GaskellC.Alexander PopeD.Charles Lamb22.Whose works are characterized by Stream-of-Consciousness?A.George EliotB.Jane AustenC.Emily BronteD.James Joyce23.The most famous work by Chaucer isA.BeowulfB.The Canterbury T aleC.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD.The Christ24.The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the in the literary history of theUnited States.A.Age of RealismB.Age of ClassicalismC.Age of RomanticismD.Age of Renaissance25.has been given 18 honorary degrees.A.Ezra PondB. E. E. CummingsC.Robert FrostD.William Cullen Bryant26.Which of the following is NOT Shakespeare’s tragedies?A.The Merchant of VeniceB.King LearC.HamletD.The Tempest27.Leaves of Grass is written byA.Walt WhitmanB.Carl Sandburg/doc/7c17225301.html,ngston HughesD.Allen Ginsberg28.Will iam Makepeace Thackeray’s most famous work isA.The School for ScandalB.Past and PresentC.Major BarbaraD.Vanity Fair29.Dover Beach is written byA.Robert BrowningB.Alfred TennysonC.Mathew ArnoldD.Dylan Thomas30.The period of Old English literature refers toA.449-1066B.14th century --- mid 17th centuryC.14th century --- mid 18th centuryD.16th century --- mid 18th century31.Moby Dick is the most important work byA.Jack LondonB.Herman MelvilleC.Sinclair LewisD.Ralph Ellison32.O. Henry earned his fame mainly for hisA.novelsB.poemsC.short storiesD.dramas33.Which of the following is NOT Francis Bacon’s essay?A.Of StudiesB.Of BeautyC.Of WisdomD.Of Love34.is the most famous novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald.A.Tender Is the NightB.This Side of ParadiseC.The Beautiful and DammedD.The Great Gatsby35.“Morte d’Arthur” is a famous work byA.John MiltonB.Venerable BedeC.Thomas MaloryD.Alfred the Great36.Which of the following novels does NOT belong to Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire?A.The TitanB.The FinancierC.The GeniusD.The Stoic37.The followings are all Dickens’ works EXCEPTA.Oliver TwistB.The Vicar of WakefieldC.Great ExpectationsD. A Tale of Two Cities38.It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poems are in the form ofA.odeB.elegyC.epicD.sonnet39.The 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded toA.William FaulknerB.John SteinbeckC.Saul BellowD.Ernest Hemingway40.Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of work.A.RomanticB.ClassicC.Neo-ClassicD.Naturalistic41.Who is “the father of English poetry”?A.ShakespeareB.Edmund SpencerC.John MiltonD.Geoffrey Chaucer42.The Red Badge of Courage is written byA.Frank NorrisB.Sherwood AndersonC.Willa CatherD.Stephen Crane43.The most distinctive achievement of Elizabethan literature isA.dramaB.proseC.novelD.poetry44.John Galsworthy won the 1932 Nobel Prize for his workA.UlyssesB.Hard TimesC.The Forsyte SagaD.Jude the Obscure45.Which of the following poems is NOT written by George Gordon Byron?A.She Walks in BeautyB.The Solitary ReaperC.When We Two PartedD.Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage46.wrote several novels with the name of “Rabbit”.A.Arthur MillerB.Thaomas PynchonC.John UpdikeD.Wallace Stevens47.The Road Not T aken is a poem written byA.Robert FrostB.LongfellowC.Ezra PondD.Carl Sandburg48.It is who first made blank verse the principle instrument of English drama.A.MarloweB.ShakespeareC.SpenserD.Henry Howard49.T.S. Eliot’s most famous long poem isA.I Wandered Lonely as a CloudB. A Boy’s WillC.The Waste LandD.The Golden Bough50.Who has been regarded as the discoverer of the modern novel?A.John BanyanB.Henry FieldingC.Samuel RichardsonD.Daniel Defoe51.The Portrait of a Lady is a great work byA.Henry JamesB.Mark TwainC.DreiserD.Stowe52.Hester is a character inA.Gone with the WindB.The Fall of the House of UsherC.BabbittD.The Scarlet Letter53.In Paradise Lost, the real hero created by Milton isA.GodB.AdamC.EveD.Satan54.The island of Lilliput can be found inA.Robinson CrusoeB.Gulliver’s TravelsC.Adventures of Tom SawyerD.Adventures of Huckleberry Finn55.“To be, or not to be” is quoted fromA.Kind LearB.HamletC.Julius CaesarD.Romeo and Juliet56.Mr. Allwrothy is a kind-hearted gentleman inA. A Tale of Two CitiesB.Great ExpectationsC.Sons and LoversD.The History of T om Jones, a Foundling57.The black man Jim is a character in Mark Twain’sA.The Adventures of Tom SawyerB.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC.Life on the MississippiD.The Prince and the Pauper58.The Catcher in the Rye is written byA.J.D. SalingerB.Jack LondonC.Flannery O’ConnorD.Saul Bellow59.Which of the following works is NOT written by D.H Lawrence?A.Women in LoveB.Sons and LoversC.The RainbowD.The French Lieutenant’s Woman60.Generally, the English Renaissance refers to the period between centuries.A.14th and mid-17thB.14th and mid-18thC.16th and mid-18thD.16th and mid-17th61.The Grapes of Wrath is the masterpiece ofA.John SteinbeckB.John CheeverC.John UpdikeD.John Dos Passos62.is NOT a play written by Tennessee Williams.A.Cat on a Hot Tin RoofB.The Glass MenagerieC.Light in AugustD. A Streetcar Named Desire63.Robert Burns is a poet fromA.EnglandB.New EnglandC.IrelandD.Scotland64.The Zoo Story is a play written byA.John OsborneB.Samuel BeckettC.Edward AlbeeD.Eugene O’Neil65.is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A.RomanceB.NovelC.SonnetD.Drama66.The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe inthe century.A.18thB.19thC.17thD.20th67.is the greatest songwriter in the world and the national poet of Scotland.A.William BlakeB.Robert BurnsC.ByronD.Keats68.William Blake’s The Tiger is collected inA.Songs of InnocenceB.Songs of ExperienceC.Marriage of Heaven and HellD.Poetical Sketches69.The image of the famous “henpecked husband” is created byA.Washington IrvingB.Fennimore CooperC.Edith WhartonD.William Dean Howells70.is known as “the poet’s poet”.A.ShakespeareB.MarloweC.SpenserD.Donne71.The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to beA.O’NeilB.PoundC.Robert FrostD.Scott Fitzgerald72.was the most important person of the Transcendental club.A.HawthornB.WhitmanC.EmersonD.Hemingway73.Shylock is a character inA.The Merchant of VeniceB.The Twelfth NightC.The Winter’s TaleD.Macbeth74.The complier of A Dictionary of the English Language isA.Joseph AddisonB.Richard SteeleC.Samuel Johnson/doc/7c17225301.html,urence Stern75.The main themes of Emily Dickinson’s works are the following EXCEPTA.friendshipB.love and marriageC.life and deathD.war and peace76.American fiction in the 1960s was referred to asA.ImagismB.Black HumorC.New FictionD.The Beat Generation77.James Joyce mostly wrote about his hometownA.LondonB.DublinC.New YorkD.Edinburgh78.This line “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” is quoted fromA.Don JuanB.Kubla KhanC.To AutumnD.Ode to the West Wind79.Stephen Crane is famous forA.An American TragedyB.The AmbassadorsC.Main StreetD.The Red Badge of Courage80.translated Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey in American literary history.A.William Cullen BryantB.Philip FreneauC.Edwin Arlington RobinsonD.Walt Whitman81.The emotional effect and social significance made the first well-known sociologicalnovel in American literature.A.The Sun Also RisesB.Uncle Tom’s CabinC.The Old Man and the SeaD.Sister Carrie82.has been entitled the “Father of American Poetry”.A.Philip FreneauB.Ralph Waldo EmersonC.William Cullen BryantD.Walt Whitman83.Which of the following poems is written by William Butler Yeats?A.Sailing to ByzantiumB.To an Athlete Dying YoungC.Musee des Beaux ArtsD.Church Going84.Mary Barton is a masterpiece ofA.George EliotB.Samuel ButlerC.Mrs. GaskellD.Flannery O’Connor85.Among the following poets, which is NOT a lake poet?A.William WordsworthB.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC.Robert SoutheyD.William Collins86.Henry Fielding is the author of the great 18th century English novelA.The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingB.PamelaC.Moll FlandersD.The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy87.Tess is a character created byA. D.H. LawrenceB.James JoyceC.Thomas HardyD.Dylan Thomas88.Which of the following is INCORRECT for Benjamin Franklin?A.He was a famous writer.B.He was a member to draft The Declaration of Independence.C.He was a great scientist.D.He was once elected American President.89.“Gold Rush” was vividly depicted in novels.A.Hemingway’sB.Mark Twain’sC.Henry James’sD.Faulkner’s90.is a nineteenth century European literary movement that sought to portray familiarcharacters, situations, and settings in a realistic manner.A.RealismB.ModernismC.NaturalismD.Romanticism91.Utopia is work.A.Thomas More’sB.Francis Bacon’sC.John D ryden’sD.George Herbert’s92.Mr. Rochester is a figure in .A.Wuthering HeightsB.Jane EyreC.Vanity FairD.Uncle T om’s Cabin93.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line byA.John BeatsB.William BlakeC.William WordsworthD.Percy Bysshe Shelley94.Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPTA. a strict poetic formB. a simple and conversational languageC. a free and natural rhythmic patternD.an easy flow of feelings95.Who initiated the name of the Lost Generation?A.HemingwayB.FitzgeraldC.Gertrude SteinD.William Faulkner96.My Last Duchess is a monologue poem written byA.William ShakespeareB.Robert BrowningC.Ben JohnsonD.Robert Herrick97.The high tide of Romanticism in American literature occurred aroundA.1820B.1850C.1880D.192098.The title of Alfred Tennyson’s poem Ulysses reminds the reader of the following EXCEPTA.the Trojan WarB.Homer’s OdysseyC.Adventures over the seaD.Religious quest99.As a literary figure, Heathcliff appears inA.Jane EyreB.Oliver TwistC.Wuthering HeightsD.Middlemarch100.The publication of established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of the New England Transcendentalism.A.NatureB.Self-RelianceC.The Over SoulD.The American Scholar101.is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.A.Richard SheridanB.Oliver GoldsmithC.Oscar WildeD.Bernard Shaw102.Lyrical Ballads is the joint work between Wordsworth and his friendA.ColeridgeB.BryonC.KeatsD.Shelly103.The success of Jane Eyre is partly due to its introduction to the English novel the first Heroine.A.explorerB.peasantC.worker/doc/7c17225301.html,erness104.is the representative work of the Jazz Age.A.The Great GatsbyB.On the RoadC.Look Back in AngerD.The Sun Also Rises105.Invisible Man is a famous work byA.Tennessee WilliamsB.Arthur MillerC.Ralph EllisonD.John Updike106.is commonly used to describe an original pattern or model from which all other things of the same kind are made.A.AllusionB.AlliterationC.AllegoryD.Archetype107.The title of Thackeray’s Vanity Fair is taken fromA.The Holy BibleB.The Faerie QueenC.The Pilgrim’s ProgressD.Paradise Lost108.was a southerner from Mississippi who produced 18 novels and 3 volumes of short stories in his life.A.William FaulknerB.Earnest HemingwayC.Mark TwainD.Robert Frost109.The theme of A Tale of Two Cities isA.revolutionB.warC.loveD.brotherhood110.Which of the following statements is INCORRECT for the Lost Generation?A.Those young people were cut off from old values.B.They wondered pointlessly and restlessly.C.They were aware that the world was crazy and meaningless.D.They boasted that people should return to nature.111.Who is considered the “Poet of the American Revolution”?A.Philip FreneauB.William Cullen BryantC.Henry Wadswroth LongfellowD.Henry David Thoreau112.In America, there is “a little woman started a great war”. Who is she?A.Anne BradstreetB.Harriet Beecher StoweC.Edith WhartonD.Catharine Anne Porter113.Waiting for Godot is aA.poemB.playC.short storyD.novel114.Which of the following writers has once won the Nobel Prize?A.William Butler YeatsB.Thomas HardyC.Wystan Hugh AudenD.Dylan Thomas115.is NOT written by Edgar Allan Poe.A.The RavenB.Annabel LeeC.The Fall of the House of UsherD.Song to Celia116.Arthur Miller is an AmericanA.novelistB.poetC.playwrightD.essayist117.Mr. Darcy is a character inA.Tess of the D’UrbervillesB.Pride and PrejudiceC.Happy PrinceD.The Mill on the Floss118.Besides The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald wrote another famous novel , which was his second masterpiece.A.AS I Lay DyingB. A Good Man Is Hard to FindC.Tender Is the NightD.The Dangling Man119.Among Shakespeare’s tragedies, is the most complex in plot and most painful.A.King LearB.HamletC.Romeo and JulietD.Othello120.created the style of euphuism.A.Sir Philip SidneyB.John LylyC.Henry HowardD.Thomas Wyatt121.A Voldielion: Forbiding Mouming is the masterpiece ofA.William ShakespeareB.Edmund SpenderC.John MiltonD.John Donne122.Which of the following is NOT Virginia Woolf’s novel?A.To the LighthouseB.Mrs. DallowayC.The WavesD.Modern Painters123.Theodore Dreiser was one of America’s greatest writers.A.NaturalisticB.RealisticC.ModernisticD.Romantic124.is the first American professional writer and the first writer of detective story in the world.A.Ezra PoundB.Washington IrvingC.Nathaniel HawthorneD.Edgar Allen Poe125.Pygmalion is a famous play written byA.William ShakespeareB.Tobias George SmollettC.Charles LambD.Bernard Shaw126.The Renaissance was a European phenomenon, which originated inA.FranceB.BritainC.ItalyD.Spain127.was the greatest poet between Milton and Pope and was poet laureate for 20 years.A.Edmund SpenserB.John DrydenC.John DonneD.George Herbert128.Which of the following is NOT Jane Austen’s works?A.Pride and PrejudiceB.Sense and SensibilityC.EmmaD.Sister Carrie129.Richard Brinsley Sheridan was a famousA.poetB.novelistC.dramatistD.essayist130.The major representatives of America’s Transcendentalist group areA.Emerson and Henry David ThoreauB.Washington Irving and EmersonC.Ralph Waldo Emerson and IrvingD.Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau131.Among the following novels, is Thomas Hardy’s best-known novel.A.The Return of the NativeB.Far From the Madding CrowdC.The Mayor of CasterbridgeD.Tess of the D’Urbervilles132.was recognized as the greatest poet of Victorian England.A.TennysonB.Robert BrowningC.Mrs. BrowningD.Robert Burns133.is D.H. Lawrence’s semi-autographical novel.A.Sons and LoversB.Women in LoveC.Rainbow/doc/7c17225301.html,dy Chatterley’s Lover134.was once in the same class with Franklin Pierce, America’s 14th President.A.Henry JamesB.Jack LondonC.Edwin Arlington RobinsonD.Nathaniel Hawthorne135.Richard Steele and Joseph Addison had the following contributions to English literature EXCEPT thatA.their writings provided a new code of social morality for the rising bourgeoisieB.they gave a true picture of social life of England in the 18th centuryC.the English essay completely established itself as a literary genre in their handsD.they were representatives of the realistic tradition in English literature136.is the representative among the writers of Aestheticism and Decadence.A.StevensonB.George GissingC.Oscar WildeD.Ralph Fox137.The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays is the work byA.William HazlittB.Charles LambC.Leigh HuntD.De Quincy。

英美文学选读试题Ⅰ.Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices [A],[B],[C],[D] of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter on the answer sheet.1.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.Christian2.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.A.Piers PlowmanB.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC.Confessio AmantisD.The Canterbury Tales3.Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance 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.4.Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.B.The speaker satirizes human vanity.C.The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.D.The speaker meditates on man's salvation.5.“And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious bird s sing madrigals.〞The above lines are probably taken from __.A.Spenser's The Faerie QueeneB.John Donne's “The Sun Rising〞C.Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18”D.Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love〞6.“Bassanio:Antonio,I am married to a wifeWhich is as dear to me as life itself;But life itself, My wife, and all the world.Are not with me esteem'd above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,Here to the devil, to deliver you.Portia:Your wife would give you little thanks for that,If she were by to hear you make the offer.〞The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice.The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate ____.A.dramatic irony7.The ture subjec t of John Donne's poem,“The Sun Rising,〞is to ___.A.attack the sun as an unruly servantB.give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC.criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private lifeD. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie8.Of all the 18thcentury novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specificall y a “___ in prose,〞the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A.tragic epic B ic epicC.romanceD.lyric epic9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___.A.horses that are endowed with reasonB.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC.giants that are superior in wisdomD.hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.10.Here are four lines from a literary work:“Others for language all their care express,/And value books,as women men, for dress.〞The work is ___.A.Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard〞B.John Milton's Paradise LostC.Alexander Pope's Essay on CriticismD.Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream11.The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines a nd to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils〞may well sum up the implied meaning of ___.A.Gulliver's TravelsB.The Rape of the LockC.Robinson CrusoeD.The pilgrim's Progress12.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.A.the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech13.Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn〞?A.“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!〞B.“They are both gone up to the church to pary.〞C.“Earth has not anything to show more fair.〞D.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty〞.14.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!〞is an epigrammatic line by __.A.J.KeatsB.W.BlakeC.W.Wordsworth15.“Ode o na Grecian Urn〞shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ of human passion.A.glory …uglinessB.permanence…transienceC.transience…sordidnessD.glory…permanence16.In the statement“—oh,God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?〞the term“soul〞apparently refers to ___.A.Heathcliff himselfC.one's spiritual lifeD.one's ghost17.The typical feature of Robet Browning's poetry is the ___.A.bitter satirerger-than-life caricaturetinized dictionD.dramatic monologue18.The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____,eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A.poetryB.drama D.epic prose19.___is the first important governess(家庭女教师) novel in the English literary history.A.Jane EyreHeights20.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 industrialization on human nature.wrence'sB.J.Galsworthy'sC.W.Thackeray’sD.T.Hardy’s21.___is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.A.Richard SheridanB.Oliver GoldsmithC.Oscar WildeD.Bernard Shaw22.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?A.To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.B.To put the stress on traditional values.C.To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.D.To advocate a conscious break with the past.23.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ___ in the American literary histrory.A.individual feelingsB.idea of survival of the fittestC.strong imaginationD.return to nature24.Henry David Thoreau's work,__,has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.B.The pioneersC.NatureD.Song of Myself25.The famous 20-years sleep in “Rip Van Winkle〞helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving's ___.A.concern with the passage of timeB.expression of transient beautyC.satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beingsD.idea about supernatural manipulation of man's life26.Walt whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of __,poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A.blank verseB.heroic coupletC.free verseD.iambic pentameter27.The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they ___.A.speak local dialectsB.are polite and elegant gentlemenC.are simple and crude farmersD.are noble savages( red and white) untainted by society28.Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale,Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in ___.A.The Scarlet LetterB.The House of the Seven GablestC.The Portrait of a LadyD.The pioneers29.“This is my letter to the World〞is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson's __ about her communication with the outside world.A.indifferenceB.anger30.With Howells,James,and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19thcentury.31.After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled ___.A.Life on the MississippiB.The Gilded AgeC.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court32.However,___,the keynote of Daisy Miller's character,turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.C.worldliness33.Generally speaking,all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be ___.A.transcendentalists34.Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life.Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A.Religion and immortality.B.Life and death.C.Love and marriage.D.War and peace.35.In “After Apple-Picking,〞Robert Frost wrote:“For I have had too much/Of applepi cking:I am overtired/Of the great harvestI myself desired.〞From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is ___.A.happy about the harvestB.still very much interested in apple-pickingC.expecting a greater harvestD.indifferent to what he once desired36.Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____.A.Ezra PoundB.Ralph Waldo EmersonC.Robert FrostD.Emily Dickinson37.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their __.A.indestructible spirtieB.pessimistic view of life38.IN The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape,O'Neill adopted the expressionist techniques to portray the ___ of human beings in a hostile universe.A.helpless situationC.profound religious faithD.courage and perseverance39.In Hemingway's “Indian Cmap〞,Nick's night trip to the Indian village and his experience inside the hut can be taken as ____.A.an essential lesson about Indian tribesB.a confrontation with evil and sinC.an initiation to the harshness of lifeD.a learning process in human relationship40.which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story “A Rose for Emily,〞is NOT true?A.She has a distorted personality.B.She is physically deformed and paralyzed.C.She is the symbol of the old values of the South.D.She is the victim of the past glory.PART TWOⅡ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.“Her eyes met his and he looked away.He neither believed nor disbelieved her,but he knew that he had made a mistake in asking;he never had known,never would know,what she was thinking.The sight of her inscrutable face,the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he had seen her sitting there like that,soft and passive,but so unreadable, unknown, enraged him beyond measure.〞Questions:A.Identify the writer and the work.B.What does the phrase “inscrutable face〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?42.“And when I am formulated,sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall.Then how should beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways.〞Questions:A.Identify the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “butt-ends〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?43.“God knows,…I'm not myself—I'm somebody else—…and I'm changed,and I can't tell what's my name,or who I am.〞Questions:A.Identify the work and the author.B.The speaker says he is changed.Do you think he is changed, or the social environment has changed?C.What idea does the quoted sentence express?44.“I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.〞Questions:A.Idenfity the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “ages and ages hence〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?Ⅲ.Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45.As a rule,an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning,and an implied meaning.List two works as examples of allegory.What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning?46.Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought.Who are the two?And what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers?47.The white whale,Moby Dick,is the most important symbol in Melville's novel.What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?48.Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of the Qversoul.What is your understanding of Emersonian “Oversoul〞?Ⅳ.Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49.How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism?Provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best.50.Summerize the story of Mark twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100 words,and comment on the theme of the novel.Ⅱ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)41.A.John Galasworthy:The Man of Property.B.A face does not show any emotion or reaction so that it is impossible to know how that person is feeling or what he is thinking about.C.it presents the inner mind of Soames in face of his wife's coldness.He can never know what is on his wife's mind because the makeup of his and her mentality is different. His wife Irene, whose mind is romantically inclined, is disgusted with her husband's possessiveness. Being unable to read his wife's mind is as good as saying that he really can't regard her as his property- this is the very reason why he is enraged beyond measure.42.A.T.S.Eliot:“The Love Song of J.Alfred Pruforck.〞B.The ends of cigarettes,meaning trivial things here.C.Here,Prufrock's inability to do anything against the society he is in is made strikingly clear by using a sharp comparison .Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock's current predicament.43.A.Washington Irving:“Rip Van Winkle〞.B.The social environment is changed.C.When Rip is back home after a period of 20 years,he finds thta everything has changed.All those old values are gone,and he can hardly feel at home in a changed society.One of the functions that Rip serves in the story is to provide a measuring stick for change. It is through him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change,improvement,and progress could subvert stable society.44.A.Robert Frost:“The Road Not Taken〞.B.Many many years later.C.The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads.But he is conscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.He seems to be giving a suggestion to the reader.“Make good choice of your life.〞Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)45.A.Buyan's pilgrim's Progress and Spenser's The Faerie Queene.B.It is usually concerned with moral ,religious,political,symbolic or mythical ideas.46.A.The French philosopher,Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe.B.It is Rousseau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit;his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.〞Goethe and his compatriots extolled the romantic spirit.47.A.To Ahab,the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe,or perhaps both.B.To Ishmale,the whale is an astonishing force,an immense power,which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful,but malignant at the same time. It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe,for it has a life force that surges onward irresistibly, impervious to the desires or wills of men.C.As to the reader, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that life imposes upon man. It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature, or an instrument of God's vengeance upon evil man. In general,the multiplicity and ambivalence of the symbolic meaning of the whale is such that it becomes a source of intense speculation, an object or profound curiosity for the reader.48.A.The Oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading power for goodness,omnipresent and omnipotent from which all things come and of which all are a part. It exists in nature and man alike and constitutes the chief element of the universe.B.According to Emerson,it is a supreme reality of mind, a spiritual unity of all beings, and a religion regarded as an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal Over-soul of which it is a part.C.He holds that intuition is a more certain way of knowing than reason and that the mind could intuitively perceive the existence of the Oversoul and of certain absolutes.Ⅳ.Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)49.a.Neoclassicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order,logic,restrained emoticon and accuracy,and that literature,should be judged in terms of its service to humanity,and thus,literary expressions should be of proportion,unity,harmony and grace.Pope's An Essay on Criticism advocates grace,wit (usually though satire/humour),and simplicity in language(and the poem itself is a demonstration of those ideals,too);Fielding's Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel;Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' displays elega nce in style,unified structure,serious tone and moral instructions.b.Romanticists tended to see the individual as the very center of all experience,including art,and thus,literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings,〞and no matter how fragmentary those experiences were (Wordsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,〞or “The Solitary Reaper,) or Coleridge's “Keble Khan〞),the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.c.In a word, Neoclassicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached great importance to the individual's mind (emotion, imagination, temporary experience…)50.A.Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a Sequa to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The Story takes place along the Mississippi River before the Civil War in the United States, around 1850.Along the river, floats a small raft, with two people on it; One is an ignorant,uneducated black slave named Jim and the other is little uneducated outcast white boy about the age of thirteen, called Huckleberry Finn or Huck Finn.The novel relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and ,more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with Jim and helping him as best he could, changes his mind ,his prejudice, about Black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friends as well.During their journey, they experience a series of adventures:coming across two frauds, the “Duke〞and the “King〞,witnessing the lynching and murder of a harmless drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally Tom's coming to rescue. B. The theme of the novel may be best summed in a word “freedom〞: Huck wants to escape from the bond of civilization and Jim wants to escape from the yoke of slavery. Mark Twain uses the raft's journey down the Mississippi River to express his thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilizati。

英美文学考试题英国文学习题与练习Week 2 Early and Medieval English LiteratureReference Questions:1. Who were the earliest settlers of Britton/England? What do you know about them (home, language, belief, life style)?2. What are the 3 conquests? What effects they had upon the nation?3. Ideologically what is the most significant change in people’s spiritual life?4. How was the nation developed politically or what changes were there in the form of the social structure?5. In terms of literature, what influence had the French upon England?6. How many languages were spoken during the French reign? How do you understand modern English as a language?7. What was the essence of Christian doctrine preached at the time? Was there any ignoble reason behind it?8. Why was the Middle Ages known as the Dark Ages?9. What was the form of literature at the time? What features does it have? 10. What are the 3 periods/stages of Chaucer’s literary career?11. In what way do we call Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales the first work of English literature?Text study: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (6-7)1. What is image of the nun?2. Is she favorably and admirably or satirically portrayed? How?3. What figures of speech are used? Week 3 Renaissance (1)Reference questions:1. What is Renaissance? How and why did it come about?2. What is the development of drama? What were the original forms and content and practice of drama?3. Why did drama flourish in Elizabethan age? Who are the major playwrights of the time?4. Who is Marlowe? What contributions did he make to English drama?5. Who is Shakespeare? What famous and great plays (history, comedy, tragedy)? What features?6. What did Ben Jonson write about? What representative work?7. Prepare the excerpt from Hamlet (31-32). What is it mainly about? What humanist idea can you find in the soliloquy?8. What was the most important translation of the time?Week 4 Renaissance (2)Reference questions on Shakespeare and Hamlet: 1. Why is Shakespeare an eternal subject of study? Where lies his greatness? 2. What are the themes of Hamlet?3. What is the significance of Hamlet as a character?4. What is blank verse?5. What is soliloquy?Text study Hamlet’s soliloquy “To be or not to be” (31-32)1. What is the main idea of Hamlet’s soliloquy? Summarize in one or two sentences the main idea of the soliloquy?2. How does the soliloquy reflect the spirit of the time or the idea of humanism?3. How do you analyze Hamlet’s argument in terms of structure?Week 5 Renaissance (3)Questions for Renaissance poetry and prose:1. Who was thought to be the greatest English poet since Chaucer? What is his representative work? What are the features of this poem?2. What new forms (rhyme—blank verse, stanza--sonnet) of poetry were introduced into England? By whom?3. Who were the famous sonneteers of the time?4. How do you tell an Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet from an English (a Shakespearean) one?5. How many sonnets did Shakespeare write? What are the major subjects?6. Who were the two major prose writers? What is Utopia? Where do you think More possibly got the idea or was it all his own invention? How do you interpret the title of the book?7. What contribution did Bacon make to the English system of thinking and learning?8. What’s the purpose of his Essays?9. Based on your reading of his work, give your personal impression of/comment onhis Essays?10. The English Renaissance period is known for its translations. What are the most important translations of this age?Text studyQuestions on Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare (58): 1. What is the English sonnet form? Study the metrical and rhyme scheme as well as the structure?2. What’s the main idea? Is it really about love? What is peculiar of this love poem?3. What figures of speech are used?Questions on “Of Studies” by F. Bacon (52-53):1. How do you define the style?2. Study the essay by comparing the English version with the translation of Mr Wang. How do you like the Chinese version?3. Paraphrase and comment on sentences 1-6, 10-12.Week 6 Revolution and RestorationReference questions:1. What was the most important social event during the mid-17th century?2. What were the two most popular forms of lyric?3. Why is Milton the greatest poet of the period? What is the significance of Paradise Lost?Text study: Paradise Lost by John Milton (67-68)1. What is the historical background of the work?2. As a transitional writer, how does Milton combine his humanistic ideas with his Puritan ideas?3. What is the image and the significance of Satanin the two extracts? 4. What philosophy can we get from the text?Week 7 18th century Enlightenment(1)Questions:1. What was the most important intellectual event of the time?2. The 18th century is called an age of the bourgeoisie. Why? And what effect it had on literature of the century?3. Why did English novel appear in this century?4. What are the major forms of literature?5. What have neo-classicism and realism got to do with the Enlightenment Movement?6. Why did literature of Sentimentality and Gothicism come into being in the latter part of thecentury?Text study: J. Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”(81-89) 1. How do you describe the narrator’s tone?2. What or who are the targets of Swift’s mockery?3. Is the proposal modest? Prove your point.Week 8 18th century Enlightenment(2)Text study:An Essay on Man by A. Pope (89-90) 1. What is heroic couplet? 2. What is the poetic pattern?3. What are the themes of the two extracts?4. Paraphrase the texts or tell in brief your interpretation.“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” by Thomas Gray (91-92) 1. What do you know of the Graveyard poetry? 2. What is the poetic pattern?3. What is the predominant mood?4. What is the theme ?5. Summarize each stanza in your own words.Week 9 19th-century Romanticism (1)Questions:1. How is the period defined in time?2. What was the historical background, politically,economically and ideologically? 3. What was the predominant genre of literature? Who were the important writers of the time?4. In what way was romanticist literature different from that of neoclassicism in the 18th century, such as in form, guiding principle, subject matter, purpose, style, etc.?Text study: “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by Wordsworth (103) 1. What is the theme?2. What is the predominant image?3. How does it reflect the poet’s idea of romantic poetry?4. What is the poetic pattern?5. Paraphrase each stanza in one sentence.Week 10 19th-century Romanticism (2)Text study:“The World Is Too Much with Us” by Wordsworth (116-7) 1. What is the theme, the meaning, of the first line? 2. What romantic ideas does it advocate? 3. What type of sonnet form it is?4. What romantic spirit does it represent?5. Paraphrase the poem in your own words.“Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats (109-110)1. What is the theme of the poem?2. What is the rhyme scheme?3. What romantic feature does the poem reflect?4. Summarize each stanza in one or two sentences. Week 11 Victorian Literature (1)Questions:1. What is the historical background politically, economically and ideologically?2. What is the predominant form of literature during this period?3. Who are the representative writers? And what was the literary tendency?4. What changes came about towards the end of the century?Week 12-13 Victorian Literature (2)(3)英国文学习题与练习Week 2 Early and Medieval English Literature Reference Questions:1. Who were the earliest settlers of Britton/England? What do you know about them (home, language, belief, life style)?2. What are the 3 conquests? What effects they hadupon the nation?3. Ideologically what is the most significant change in people’s spiritual life?4. How was the nation developed politically or what changes were there in the form of the social structure?5. In terms of literature, what influence had the French upon England?6. How many languages were spoken during the French reign? How do you understand modern English as a language?7. What was the essence of Christian doctrine preached at the time? Was there any ignoble reason behind it?8. Why was the Middle Ages known as the Dark Ages?9. What was the form of literature at the time? What features does it have? 10. What are the 3 periods/stages of Chaucer’s literary career?11. In what way do we call Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales the first work of English literature?Text study: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (6-7)1. What is image of the nun?2. Is she favorably and admirably or satiricallyportrayed? How? 3. What figures of speech are used? Week 3 Renaissance (1)Reference questions:1. What is Renaissance? How and why did it come about?2. What is the development of drama? What were the original forms and content and practice of drama?3. Why did drama flourish in Elizabethan age? Who are the major playwrights of the time?4. Who is Marlowe? What contributions did he make to English drama?5. Who is Shakespeare? What famous and great plays (history, comedy, tragedy)? What features?6. What did Ben Jonson write about? What representative work?7. Prepare the excerpt from Hamlet (31-32). What is it mainly about? What humanist idea can you find in the soliloquy?8. What was the most important translation of the time?Week 4 Renaissance (2)Reference questions on Shakespeare and Hamlet:1. Why is Shakespeare an eternal subject of study? Where lies his greatness?2. What are the themes of Hamlet?3. What is the significance of Hamlet as a character?4. What is blank verse?5. What is soliloquy?Text study Hamlet’s soliloquy “To be or not to be” (31-32)1. What is the main idea of Hamlet’s soliloquy? Summarize in one or two sentences the main idea of the soliloquy?2. How does the soliloquy reflect the spirit of the time or the idea of humanism?3. How do you analyze Hamlet’s argument in terms of structure?Week 5 Renaissance (3)Questions for Renaissance poetry and prose:1. Who was thought to be the greatest English poet since Chaucer? What is his representative work? What are the features of this poem?2. What new forms (rhyme—blank verse, stanza--sonnet) of poetry were introduced into England? By whom?3. Who were the famous sonneteers of the time?4. How do you tell an Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet from an English (a Shakespearean) one?5. How many sonnets did Shakespeare write? What are the major subjects?6. Who were the two major prose writers? What is Utopia? Where do you think More possibly got the idea or was it all his own invention? How do you interpret the title of the book?7. What contribution did Bacon make to the English system of thinking and learning?8. What’s the purpose of his Essays?9. Based on your reading of his work, give your personal impression of/comment onhis Essays?10. The English Renaissance period is known for its translations. What are the most important translations of this age?Text studyQuestions on Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare (58): 1. What is the English sonnet form? Study the metrical and rhyme scheme as well as the structure?2. What’s the main idea? Is it really about love?What is peculiar of this love poem? 3. What figures of speech are used?Questions on “Of Studies” by F. Bacon (52-53):1. How do you define the style?2. Study the essay by comparing the English version with the translation of Mr Wang. How do you like the Chinese version?3. Paraphrase and comment on sentences1-6, 10-12.Week 6 Revolution and RestorationReference questions:1. What was the most important social event during the mid-17th century?2. What were the two most popular forms of lyric?3. Why is Milton the greatest poet of the period? What is the significance of Paradise Lost?Text study: Paradise Lost by John Milton (67-68)1. What is the historical background of the work?2. As a transitional writer, how does Milton combine his humanistic ideas with his Puritan ideas?3. What is the image and the significance of Satanin the two extracts? 4. What philosophy can we get from the text?Week 7 18th century Enlightenment(1)Questions:1. What was the most important intellectual event of the time?2. The 18th century is called an age of the bourgeoisie. Why? And what effect it had on literature of the century?3. Why did English novel appear in this century?4. What are the major forms of literature?5. What have neo-classicism and realism got to do with the Enlightenment Movement?6. Why did literature of Sentimentality and Gothicism come into being in the latter part of the century?Text study: J. Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”(81-89) 1. How do you describe the narrator’s tone?2. What or who are the targets of Swift’s mockery?3. Is the proposal modest? Prove your point.Week 8 18th century Enlightenment(2)Text study:An Essay on Man by A. Pope (89-90) 1. What is heroic couplet? 2. What is the poetic pattern?3. What are the themes of the two extracts?4. Paraphrase the texts or tell in brief your interpretation.“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” by Thomas Gray (91-92) 1. What do you know of the Graveyard poetry? 2. What is the poetic pattern?3. What is the predominant mood?4. What is the theme ?5. Summarize each stanza in your own words. Week 9 19th-century Romanticism (1)Questions:1. How is the period defined in time?2. What was the historical background, politically, economically and ideologically?3. What was the predominant genre of literature? Who were the important writers of the time?4. In what way was romanticist literature different from that of neoclassicism in the 18th century, such as in form, guiding principle, subject matter, purpose, style, etc.?Text study: “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by Wordsworth (103) 1. What is the theme?2. What is the predominant image?3. How does it reflect the poet’s idea of romantic poetry?4. What is the poetic pattern?5. Paraphrase each stanza in one sentence.Week 10 19th-century Romanticism (2)Text study:“The World Is Too Much with Us” by Wordsworth (116-7) 1. What is the theme, the meaning, of the first line? 2. What romantic ideas does it advocate? 3. What type of sonnet form it is?4. What romantic spirit does it represent?5. Paraphrase the poem in your own words.“Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats (109-110) 1. What is the theme of the poem? 2. What is the rhyme scheme?3. What romantic feature does the poem reflect?4. Summarize each stanza in one or two sentences.Week 11 Victorian Literature (1)Questions:1. What is the historical background politically, economically and ideologically?2. What is the predominant form of literature during this period?3. Who are the representative writers? And what was the literary tendency?4. What changes came about towards the end of the century?Week 12-13 Victorian Literature (2)(3)。

最新英美文学选读练习题English LiteratureQuestions on The Canterbury Tales1.Lines 1-18 are the introduction to the weather. Why did the author write so manywords 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?Thirty4.Based on Prioress’s portrait,can you give a possible reason why she isundertaking 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?For husband.7.What is the “framing device” that Chaucer uses for his collection of stories? Framework:a narrative which was composed for the purpose of introducing and connecting a series of tales8.The General Prologue was written in heroic couplet, analyze some of the lines.9.Please name and define five specific methods ofcharacterization Chaucer uses inthe “General Prologue”.Appearance description：her nose was elegant, her eyes glass-gray; her mouth was very small，but soft and red. Facial description：her way of smiling was simple and coy . behavior description：Color description 夸张Questions on Sonnet 181.What are the themes of the sonnet 18?2.What images does Shakespeare use in order to strengthen the theme? And whatkinds of figures of speech are used in the sonnet?3.Analyze the meter and rhyme of the poem.Questions on Paradise Lost1.The poem opens with a long sentence. Analyze the first sentence and identify thewriter’s conception about the poem.2.Who first seduced the mother of mankind to the revolt?3.How long does Satan and his peers suffer the penal fire?4.How does Satan feel about being in Hell according to the poem?5.Describe the condition of the Hell in your own words according to the poem.6.Write an essay about the image of Satan.Questions on The Pilgrim’s Progress1.Why is the market called “Vanity Fair”?2.What is the original of the fair?3.What did people in the fair do to Christian and his friend?4.What does this episode symbolize?Questions on William Wordsworth’s poems1.Identify the meter of the first poem.2.What mood does the opening simile suggest, and what change in mood occurslater on?3.At what time of day is London being described in the second poem?4.Which descriptive elements are presented objectively and which subjectively?5.What are the themes of the third poem?6.There are two images in the third poem. Identify them and analyze them. Questions on Great Expectations1.In what details does Pip describe Miss Havisham and her room?2.What is Pip’s impr ession about Estella?3.How does Estella treat Pip? And why?4.Analyze the characters of Miss Havisham and Estella.5.Does Pip fall in love with Estella after the first meeting? And why?6.There is an image in Chapter 8. Identify it and analyze it.Questions on Tess of the d’Urbervilles1.What effect does Tess’s confession have on Angel?2.Why is Angel unable to forgive Tess when she just bestowed the gift offorgiveness on him?3.Why does Tess submit to Angel’s anger and take no action to win him back?4.What moral differences between men and women in the Victorian period, doesthis chapter reflect?5.In Hardy’s works the strong element of naturalism are combined with a tendencytowards symbolism. Identify and analyze the symbols in this chapter.Questions on The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock1.What social class does Prufrock belong to? How could you tell?2.When Prufrock starts talking about the “bald spot” in the middle of his head, whatdo you think he is worrying about?3.What types of images show that people are dehumanized in modern life, andsuggest that inanimate objects are alive?4.What is the effect of the Biblical allusion in the poem?5.Irony is everywhere in the poem. Identify them.Questions on Araby1.How does the boy describe his feelings for Mangan’s sister?2.Why does the boy want to go to the bazaar?3.Why does he arrive so late?4.What is the role of the boy’s uncle in the story? What value and attitude does herepresent?5.What kind of conflict does the boy experience in the story between him andenvironment, or between him and the adults?American LiteratureQuestions on Rip V an Winkle1.What historical events did Rip Van Winkle sleep through?2.Why was Rip Van Winkle so surprised when he returned to the village?3.What comparison is Irving implying when he states at theend of the story thatDame Van Winkle’s death has released Rip from “petticoat government”?4.How much effect did American Revolution have on daily life of the commonpeople?5.Analyze the humorous elements in Rip Van Winkle?Questions on The Scarlet Letter1.Who empowers Dimmesdale to stand on the scaffold?2.Why does Dimmesdale want to reveal?3.Why does Chillingworth try desperately to stop Dimmesdale from confessing hissins on the scaffold?4.This novel makes extensive use of symbols. How do they help develop the themesand characters in the novel?5.What is the narrative point of the novel? And what is the effect of the narrativepoint of view?Questions on Sister Carrie1.How many scenes did the writer describe in this chapter? Name them.2.Why does Carrie still suffer from unsatisfied desires after she became successful?3.How do you see Draiser’s naturalism influencing his works in Sister Carrie?4.Discuss the character of Carrie and her relationships with Drouet and Hurswood. Questions on Indian Camp1.What kind of relationship between Nick and his father does the story describe?Has the relationship changed? Why and how does it change?2.Why did the husband kill himself?3.What does the last sentence mean?4.What did Nick learn from his witnessing both birth and death over one night? Questions on The Great Gatsby1.What kind of parties does Gatsby give on Saturdays according to the narrator?2.What kind of people would attend the parties according to the narrator?3.What is your impression on Gatsby after reading the text?4.What is the theme of the novel?5.Analyze the symbols in this chapter.。

Part Five Romanticism in EnglandⅠ。

Choose the right answer。

1.Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______。

A。

realism B。

Renaissance C. Enlightenment D。

feudalism2.The main literary stream is ____.A. poetryB. novels C。

prose D. periodicals3.____ has a another name called “The Daffodils”。

A。

“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” B. “Tintern Abbey”C。

“Revolution” D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"4.Coleridge’s _____ is a “conversation” poem。

A. Frost at Midnight B。

“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”C。

Christabel D. Biographia Literaria5.Byron’s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.A. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage B。

Hours of IdlenessC。

Lara D. Don Juan6.Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.A。

Wordsworth's B. Byron's C。

Shelley’s D。

Keats’7.____ lived the longest life。

A。

Wordsworth B. Byron C. Shelley D. Keats8.Keats’ first poem is ____.A. O Solitude B。

4. The Victorian PeriodMultiple-choice questions1.In Hard Times, Dickens attacks ______ that rules over the English educationalsystem and destroys young hearts and minds.A.bourgeois commercialismB.religious hypocrisyC.the utilitarian principleD.political corruptness2.______ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.A. Jane EyreB. EmmaC. Wuthering HeightD. Middlemarch3.Which of the following best describe the nature of Hardy‟s later novels?A. SentimentalismB. SurrealismC. Comic senseD. Tragic sense4.______ is the most representative Victorian poet whose poetry voices the doubtand the faith, the grief and the joy of English people in an age of fast change.A. Robert BrowningB. Alfred TennysonC. George G. ByronD. Thomas Hardy5.Which of the following statements is not a typical feature of Charles Dickens?A.He sets out a large-scale criticism of the inhuman social institutions and thedecaying social morality.B.His works are characterized by a mingling of humor and pathos.C.The characters portrayed by Dickens are often larger than life.D.He shows a human being not at moments of crisis, but in the most trivialincidents of everyday life.6.“As for society, he was carried every other day into the hall where the boys dined,and there socially flogged as a public warning and example.”What figure of speech is used in the above sentence?A. SimileB. MetaphorC. IronyD. Overstatement7.“I will drink/ life to the lees.” In the quoted line Ulysses is saying that he ______till the end of his life.A.will keep travelling and exploringB.will go on drinking and being happyC.would like to toast to his glorious lifeD.would like t drink the cup of wine8.“She smiled, no doubt,/ Whene‟er I passed her…/ … This grew; I gave commands;/ Then all smiles stopped together.” The quoted lines imply that she ______.A.obeyed his order and stopped smiling at everyday, including the duke.B.obeyed his order and stopped smiling at anybody except the duke.C.Refused to obey the order and never smiled againD.was murdered at the order of duke9. A contemporary of Alfred Tennyson, ______ is acknowledged by many as themost original and experimental poet of the time.A. Thomas CarlyleB. Thomas B. MacaulayC. Robert BrowningD. T. S. Eliot10.Most of Hardy‟s novels are set in ______, the fictional primitive and crude ruralregion that is really the home place he both loves and hates.A. YorkshireB. WessexC. LondonD. Manchester11.“The floating pollen seemed to be his notes made visible, and the dampness of thegarden the weeping of the garden‟s sensibility.” The quoted sentence is suggestive of ______.A.the richness of the music in the gardenB.the beauty of the scenery in the gardenC.the great power of the music in affecting the environmentD.the harmony and oneness of the music, the garden and the heroine Tess.12.In the statement “---Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in thegrave?” the term “soul” apparently refers to ______.A. Heathcliff himselfB. CatherineC. one‟s spiritual lifeD. one‟s ghost13.“I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence; with what I delight in --- withan original, a vigorous, an expanded mind.” Here in the quoted passage, Jane isreally saying that she has talked face to face with ______.A.God who appears in her dreamsB.The reverent priestC.Mr. RochesterD.Miss Ingram14.In the clause “As Mr. Gamfield did happen to labor under the slight imputation ofhaving bruised three or four boys to death already…” , the word “slight” is used as a(n) ______.A. simileB. metaphorC. ironyD. overstatement15.Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel ______.A. Great ExpectationsB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Bleak HouseD. Oliver Twist16.The Victorian Age was largely an age of _____, eminently represented by Dickensand Thackeray.A. poetryB. dramaC. proseD. epic prose17.The title of Alfred Tennyson‟s poem “Ulysses”reminds the reader of thefollowing except ______.A. the Trojan WarB. HomerC. questD. Chirst18.The character Rochester in Jane Eyre can be well termed as a ______.A. conventional heroB. Byronic heroC. chivalrous aristocratD. Homeric hero19.Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Pape r are perhapsthe best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.A. comicalB. tragicC. roundD. sophisticated20.The typical feature of Robert Browning‟s poetry is the ______.A. bitter satireB. larger-than-life caricatureC. Latinized dictionD. dramatic monologue21.In Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy resolutely makes a seduced girl hisheroine, which clearly demonstrates the author‟s ______ of the Victorian moral standards.A. blind fondnessB. total acceptanceC. deep understandingD. mounting defiance22.In Hardy‟s Tess of the D’urberville s, the heroine‟s tragic ending is due to ______.A. her weak characterB. her ambitionC. Angel Clare‟s selfishnessD. a hostile society23.“The dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life” arethe right words to sum up the main theme of _____.A. David CopperfieldB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Oliver TwistD. Bleak House24.“For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of askingfor more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room to which he had been consigned by the wisdom and mercy of the board.”In the above passage quoted from Oliver Twist, Dickens uses the words “wisdom”and “mercy” ______.A. ironicall yB. carelesslyC. nonchalantlyD. impartially25.“…and then how they met I hardly saw, but Catherine made a spring, and hecaught her, and they were locked in an embrace…” In the quoted passage, Emily Bronte tells the story in ______ point of view.A. first personB. second personC. third person limitedD. third person omniscientBlank filling1.Dickens‟best-depicted characters are those innocent, virtuous, helpless_child__characters, those horrible and grotesque characters and those broadly humorous or __comical___ ones.2.Charlotte Bronte‟s works are famous for the depiction of the life of themiddle-class working women, particularly __governess____.3.Wuthering Heights is the ___only___ novel written by Emily Bronte.4. A contemporary of Alfred Tennyson, __Robert Browning__ is acknowledged bymany as the most original and experimental poet of the time.5.__In Memorian____, Tennyson‟s greatest work, is presumably an elegy on thedeath of a dear friend.6.In her study of human life, George Eliot paid particular attention to therelationship between the individual personality and the social environment_. 7.Thomas Hardy is often regarded as a __transitional___ writer, in whose works wesee the influence from both the past and the present, both the traditional and the modern.8.The major novelists of the Victorian period made bitter and strong criticism_ ofthe inhuman social institutions and the decaying social morality.9.The Victorian Age in English literature was largely an age of prose, especially othe __novel____.10.The typical feature of Robert Browning‟s poetry is the __dramatic monologue_.Reading comprehension(for each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.)1.“Let it not be supposed by the enemies of …the system‟, that during the period ofhis solitary incarceration, Oliver was denied the benefit of exercise, the pleasure of society, or the advantages of religious consolation.”Reference：The sentence is taken from Charles Dicken s‟ early novel, Oliver Twist. It is a typical example of irony. The word “benefit”, “pleasure”, and “advantage” actually mean the opposite. For the “benefit” of exercise, Oliver was whipped every morning in a stone yard; for the “pleasure” of society, he was carried every other day into the dinning hall and flogged as a public warning and example to the boys; and as for the “advantages” of religious consolation, he was kicked into the same apartment every evening at prayer time and listen to the boy‟s prayer to be guarded against his sins and vices. The ironic statement is, in fact, a bitter denunciation and fierce attack at the brutal, inhuman treatment of the poor orphan by the workhouse authority.2.“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless andheartless? --- You think wrong!--- I have as much soul as you--- and full as muchheart…I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, or even of mortal flesh;---it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God‟s feet, equal--- as we are!”Reference: The statement is taken from Charlotte Bronte‟s masterpiece Jane Eyre. In this famous declaration, Jane proves herself a new, unconventional woman, a woman who believes in the basic human rights, in the independence and equality of people of all social classes. She is courageous enough to defy the social conventions that discriminate against the poor and the unfortunate and deprive them of their right to equality. It is not just a personal protest and declaration a governess makes to her master, but a declaration made on behalf of all the unfortunate middle-class working women, and of all the poor people in the world.3.“He flung himself into the nearest seat, and on my approaching hurriedly toascertain if she had fainted, he gnashed at me, and foamed like a mad dog, and gathered her to him with greedy jealousy. I did not feel as if I were in the company of a cr eature of my own species…”Reference: The sentences are taken from Emily Bronte‟s Wuthering Heights. It is a description of the mad, desperate love between Catherine and Heathcliff in her death scene. Heathcliff, seeing his love on the verge of death, was heart-broken. Though they two tortured each other with many a false charge, they were eager to cling to each other at this last moment. Heathcliff, in his eagerness to have her all to himself, now behaved like an animal greedily and jealously guarding his dear one or treasured prey. The terms “gnashed” and “foamed”, simple action words, vividly presents the image of a man desperate in his desire to take possession of his beloved and in his anxiety that someone would come and take her away from him.4.“Tho‟/ We are not now that strength which in old days/ Moved earth and heaven;that which we are, we are;/ One equal temper of heroic hearts,/ Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will/ To strive, to speak, to find, and not to yield.”Reference: These lines are taken from Alfred Tennyson‟s “Ulysses”. In this poem, the old Ulysses is trying to persuade his old followers into setting upon further adventurewith him again. in these lines, he argues that great strength they used to have in their past glorious days, they still have the same strong will and the same heroic spirit to go on struggling and seeking new knowledge until the end of their life. his undying heroic spirit is admirable, indeed.5.“I repeat,/ The Count your master‟s known munificence/ Is ample warrant that nojust pretense/ Of mine for dowry will be disallowed; / Though his fair daughter‟s self, as I avowed/ As starting, is my object.”Reference: These lines are taken from Robert Browning‟s “My Last Duchess”. The main idea is that even though, as I said at the very beginning, my real interest in the marriage is his beautiful daughter (it should be his niece) herself, my claim of the money and property that must come with the bride can‟t be refused by your master, the Count, because he is such a rich man. The statement reveals the Duke‟s unashamed greediness for wealth. From his word, the reader can easily come to the conclusion that his real purpose of the second marriage is not for love, but for money. The marriage is conditioned by his demand for profit. The sacred marriage between people has been commercialized by him.。

英美文学史及作品选读(207023261) > 课程作业> 复查测验：英国文学史及作品选读练习题（THE 18TH CENTURY)复查测验：英国文学史及作品选读练习题（The 18th Century)名称英国文学史及作品选读练习题（The 18th Century)状态已完成分数得120 分，满分120 分说明问题 1得 2 分，满分 2 分In the last twenty years of the 18th century, England produced two well-known romantic poets. They are William Blakeand .所选答案：Burns正确答案：Robert BurnsBurns问题 2得 2 分，满分 2 分Jonathan Swift’s famous prose work ________ is a satirical dialogue between the Ancients and the Moderns in thecharacter of the Bee and the Spider.所选答案： C. The Battle of the Books正确答案： C. The Battle of the Books反馈：The Battle of the Books问题 3得 2 分，满分 2 分The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared twopolitical parties, _____.所选答案： A. the Whigs and the Tories正确答案： A. the Whigs and the Tories反馈：the Whigs and the Tories问题 4得 2 分，满分 2 分Blake’s Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a world of .所选答案： D. happiness and innocence正确答案： D. happiness and innocence反馈：happiness and innocence问题 5得 2 分，满分 2 分Jonathan Swift held the opinion that human nature , thus human nature and human institutions both neededconstant reform and improvement.所选答案： C. was a mixture of the angelic and the satanic正确答案： C. was a mixture of the angelic and the satanic反馈：was a mixture of the angelic and the satanic问题 6得 2 分，满分 2 分According to the neoclassicists, which of the following istrue?所选答案： D. All the above.正确答案： D. All the above.反馈：All the above.问题 7得 2 分，满分 2 分The social significance of Gulliver’s Travels lies in _____.所选答案：A. the devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life正确答案：A. the devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life反馈：the devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life问题 8得 2 分，满分 2 分Which of the following cannot correctly describe Enlightenment Movement?所选答案： C. It advocated individual education.正确答案： C. It advocated individual education.反馈：It advocated individual education.问题 9得 2 分，满分 2 分In , Jonathan Swift suggests that children of the poor Irish people be sold at one year old as food for the Englishnobles. It shows his indignation toward the terribleoppression and exploitation of the Irish people by theEnglish ruling class.所选答案： A Modest Proposal正确答案： A Modest Proposal反馈： A Modest Proposal问题 10得 2 分，满分 2 分Sir Walter Scott called the father of Englishfiction.所选答案：Fielding正确答案：Henry FieldingFielding反馈：Henry Fielding; Fielding问题 11得 2 分，满分 2 分In his novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the .所选答案： B. rising bourgeoisie正确答案： B. rising bourgeoisie反馈：rising bourgeoisie问题 12得 2 分，满分 2 分The literary form of neoclassicism is of the strict symmetry.The prevailing genre of neo-classical literature is thewhich consists of two riming lines of iambic pentameter, andthe second line completes the thoughts expressed by thecouplet.所选答案：heroic couplet正确答案：heroic couplet反馈：heroic couplet问题 13得 2 分，满分 2 分In the first part of Robinson Crusoe, the hero saved a savage and named him .所选答案：Friday正确答案：Friday反馈：Friday问题 14得 2 分，满分 2 分Thomas Gray has been regarded as the leader of the of the day.所选答案： D.sentimental poetry正确答案： D.sentimental poetry反馈：sentimental poetry问题 15得 2 分，满分 2 分Which of the following is NOT a character in the novel TheHistory of Tom Jones, a Foundling?所选答案： d.Amelia正确答案： d.Amelia反馈：Amelia问题 16得 2 分，满分 2 分is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.所选答案：Bitter Satire正确答案：Bitter Satire反馈：Bitter Satire问题 17得 2 分，满分 2 分Daniel Defoe describes as a typical Englishmiddle-class man of the 18th century, the very prototype of theempire builder or the pioneer colonist.所选答案：Robinson Crusoe正确答案：Robinson CrusoeCrusoe反馈：Robinson Crusoe; Crusoe问题 18得 2 分，满分 2 分In the Houyhnhnm land, Gulliver found that ______ were hairy, wild, low and despicable brutes while ______ are endowedwith reason and all good and admirable qualities.所选答案： B. the Yahoos ... the horses正确答案： B. the Yahoos ... the horses反馈：the Yahoos ... the horses问题 19得 2 分，满分 2 分In the middle decades of the 18th century became the leader of the classic school in English poetry and prose.所选答案：Samuel Johnson正确答案：Samuel JohnsonJohnson反馈：Samuel Johnson; Johnson问题 20得 2 分，满分 2 分ranks among the greatest satirist of England, and of the world. “A Modest Proposal” is one of his satiricalworks.所选答案：Jonathan Swift正确答案：Jonathan SwiftSwift反馈：Jonathan Swift; Swift问题 21得 2 分，满分 2 分_________came into being as a result of a bitter discontent on the part of certain enlighteners in society reality.所选答案： D. Sentimentalism正确答案： D. Sentimentalism反馈：Sentimentalism问题 22得 2 分，满分 2 分The following on Daniel Defoe are true except .所选答案： B. He was a member of the upper class正确答案： B. He was a member of the upper class反馈：He was a member of the upper class问题 23得 2 分，满分 2 分Which of the following place does Gulliver visit first inGulliver’s Travels?所选答案： D. Lilliput正确答案： D. Lilliput反馈：Lilliput问题 24得 2 分，满分 2 分The only novel of Oliver Goldsmith is _________, which givesa detailed account of the numerous misfortunes befalling thecentral character and his family.所选答案： C. The Vicar of Wakefield正确答案： C. The Vicar of Wakefield反馈：The Vicar of Wakefield问题 25得 2 分，满分 2 分In the following writings by Henry Fielding, which brings him the name of the “Prose Homer”?所选答案： D.The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling正确答案： D.The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling反馈：The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling问题 26得 2 分，满分 2 分Of all the 18the 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 modernnovel its structure and style.所选答案： A.HenryFielding正确答案： A.HenryFielding反馈：HenryFielding问题 27得 2 分，满分 2 分The Rivals written by is a clever satire on the sentimental and pseudo-romantic fancies of many young womenof the upper classes of the 18th century.所选答案：Sheridan正确答案：Richard Brinsley SheridanBrinsley SheridanSheridan反馈：Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Brinsley Sheridan; Sheridan问题 28得 2 分，满分 2 分Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that ofRomanticism in that ________.所选答案： C.the former celebrates reason, rationality, order andinstruction while the latter sees literature as an expression on an individual’s feelings and experiences正确答案： C.the former celebrates reason, rationality, order andinstruction while the latter sees literature as an expression on an individual’s feelings and experiences反馈：the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression on an individual’s feelings and experiences问题 29得 2 分，满分 2 分In Gulliver’s Travels, Yahoos are the creatures living on ________.所选答案：Houyhnhnms 正确答案：Houyhnhnms 反馈：Houyhnhnms问题 30得 2 分，满分 2 分The greatest novelist of the 18th century, and also one of the greatest that England ever produced is , who isconsidered as the founder of the English realistic novel.所选答案：Henry Fielding正确答案：Henry FieldingFielding问题 31得 2 分，满分 2 分1. The principal elements of the ________Novel are mystery,horror and suspense.所选答案：Gothic正确答案：Gothic反馈：Gothic问题 32得 2 分，满分 2 分 Friday is a character in the novel__________.所选答案：Robinson Crusoe正确答案：The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson CrusoeRobinson Crusoe反馈：The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of RobinsonCrusoe; Robinson Crusoe问题 33得 2 分，满分 2 分_________is William Blake’s most important prose work, which is the manifesto of his spiritual independence.所选答案： A. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell正确答案： A. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell反馈：The Marriage of Heaven and Hell问题 34得 2 分，满分 2 分“Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:I will luve thee still, my dear,While the sands o’ life shall run.”The above verse lines are taken from the famous poem“________”.所选答案： A Red, Red Rose正确答案： A Red, Red Rose反馈： A Red, Red Rose问题 35得 2 分，满分 2 分Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels is the greatest work in English literature.所选答案： A. satiric正确答案： A. satiric反馈：satiric问题 36得 2 分，满分 2 分The best part of Robinson Crusoe is the realistic account of his against the hostile nature.所选答案：struggle正确答案：strugglefight反馈：struggle; fight问题 37得 2 分，满分 2 分Which of the following is not true about Robinson Crusoe?所选答案： D. It is a record of Defoe’s own expe rience.正确答案： D. It is a record of Defoe’s own experience.反馈：It is a record of Defoe’s own experience.问题 38得 2 分，满分 2 分The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling has been praised for its excellent plot construction. The three big divisions of theadventures of the hero and the heroine are marked by thechange of scenes: in the country, on the road and in__________.所选答案：London正确答案：London反馈：London问题 39得 2 分，满分 2 分’s poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is taken as a model of sentimentalist poetry,esp. the Graveyard school.所选答案：Gray正确答案：Thomas GrayGray反馈：Thomas Gray; Gray问题 40得 2 分，满分 2 分Which of the following is not true about Samuel Richardson?所选答案： D. He is the first novelist of realist tradition.正确答案： D. He is the first novelist of realist tradition.反馈：He is the first novelist of realist tradition.问题 41得 2 分，满分 2 分_______is of the author of the first dictionary by anEnglishman—Dictionary of the English Language, which hasbecome the foundation of all subsequent Englishdictionaries.所选答案： A. Samuel Johnson正确答案： A. Samuel Johnson反馈：Samuel Johnson问题 42得 2 分，满分 2 分Sheridan’s _____is the best English comedy sin ce the days of Shakespeare.所选答案： C. The School for Scandal正确答案： C. The School for Scandal反馈：The School for Scandal问题 43得 2 分，满分 2 分The 18th century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of ________.所选答案：Reason正确答案：Reason反馈：Reason问题 44得 2 分，满分 2 分Joseph Andrew is Fielding’s first novel. He wrote the novel with the intention of ridiculing Richard’snovel .所选答案：Pamela正确答案：Pamela反馈：Pamela问题 45得 2 分，满分 2 分In Robinson Crusoe, the writer glorifies .所选答案： A. human labor and the Puritan fortitude正确答案： A. human labor and the Puritan fortitude反馈：human labor and the Puritan fortitude问题 46得 2 分，满分 2 分Many of Burns’ songs deal with friendship, ______has long become a universal parting-song of all the English-speakingcountries.所选答案： D. Auld Lang Syne正确答案： D. Auld Lang Syne反馈：Auld Lang Syne问题 47得 2 分，满分 2 分In the William Blake’s poetry, the father (and any other in whom he saw the image of the father such as God, Priest andKing) was usually a figure of_______.所选答案：tyranny正确答案：tyranny反馈：tyranny问题 48得 2 分，满分 2 分Gothic novels are mostly stories of ____, which take place in some haunted or dilapidated Middle Age castles.所选答案： D. mystery and horror正确答案： D. mystery and horror反馈：mystery and horror问题 49得 2 分，满分 2 分The only important English dramatist produced in the 18thcentury is ________.所选答案：Sheridan正确答案：Richard Brinsley SheridanBrinsley SheridanSheridan反馈：Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Brinsley Sheridan; Sheridan问题 50得 2 分，满分 2 分Of the eighteenth-century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to _____.所选答案： D. give the modern novel its structure and style正确答案： D. give the modern novel its structure and style反馈：give the modern novel its structure and style问题 51得 2 分，满分 2 分Blake’s Songs of Experience paints a world of _____ with a melancholy tone.所选答案： A. misery, poverty, disease, war and repression正确答案： A. misery, poverty, disease, war and repression反馈：misery, poverty, disease, war and repression问题 52得 2 分，满分 2 分In the 18th century, _______found its expression chiefly in poetry, especially that of William Blake and Robert burns.所选答案： D. pre-romanticism正确答案： D. pre-romanticism反馈：pre-romanticism问题 53得 2 分，满分 2 分_______was a progressive intellectual movement going on throughout Europe in the 18th century.所选答案： C. The Enlightenment正确答案： C. The Enlightenment反馈：The Enlightenment问题 54得 2 分，满分 2 分The main literary stream of the 18th century was .What the writers described were mainly social realities.所选答案：Realism正确答案：realism反馈： realism问题 55得 2 分，满分 2 分The rise and growth of __________is the most prominentachievement of the 18th century English literature, which hasgiven the world such writers as Daniel Defoe, Jonathan swiftand Henry fielding.所选答案： B.realisticnovel正确答案： B.realisticnovel反馈：realisticnovel问题 56得 2 分，满分 2 分is undoubtedly the greatest poet Scotland has ever produced. His “Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect” isof great importance.所选答案：Robert Burns正确答案：Robert BurnsBurns反馈：Robert Burns; Burns问题 57得 2 分，满分 2 分Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, _______ was the first to introduce rationalism to England.所选答案：pope正确答案：Alexander PopePope反馈：Alexander Pope; Pope问题 58得 2 分，满分 2 分Modern English novel arose in the ________century.所选答案： C. 18th正确答案： C. 18th反馈：18th问题 59得 2 分，满分 2 分Pamela is written in the form of a ______novel.所选答案：epistolary正确答案：epistolary反馈：epistolary问题 60得 2 分，满分 2 分Which of the following novels by Henry Fielding satirizes thepolitical system of England and the then PrimeMinister Sir Robert Walpole?所选答案： C.Jonathan Wild theGreat正确答案： C.Jonathan Wild theGreat反馈：Jonathan Wild theGreat（注：可编辑下载，若有不当之处，请指正，谢谢!）。

I. Multiple choicesA 1.In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating England.A. William the ConquerorB. Julius CaesarC. Alfred the GreatD. Claudius D 2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .A. LanglandB. WycliffeC. GowerD. ChaucerC 3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.A. novelB. dramaC. romanceD. EssayC 4. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator of the Bible.A. LanglandB. GowerC. WycliffeD. ChaucerA 5. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in about 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John DrydenA 6. _____ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.a. Thomas Wyattb. William Shakespearec. Phillip Sidneyd. Thomas CampionA 7. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English Drama. It was _______ who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.a. Christopher Marloweb. Thomas Logec. Edmund Spenserd. Thomas MoreB 8. At the beginning 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. Christopher Marloweb. Thomas Morec. Phillip Sidneyd. Edmund SpencerB 9. Renaissance Period was an age of ____ .a. prose and novelb. poetry and dramac. essays and journalsd. ballads and songsA 10.“Shall I compare thee to a summer‟s day?” This line is taken from one of Shakespeare‟s____________.a. Sonnet 18b. the tragedy King Learc. a long poem Venus and Adonisd. the comedy As You Like ItD 11. From the following choose the one______ that is not by Francis Bacon.a. The Advancement of Learningb. The New Instrumentc. Of Studiesd. The rape of the LockA 12. Elizabethan poetry is remarkable. England then became “a nest of singing birds”. The famous poet of that period was_______.a. Edmund Spenserb. Thomas Kydc. Earl of Surryd. Thomas MoreA 13. Which play is not a comedy?a. The Jew of Malt ab. Every One in His Humorc.A Midsummer Night’s Dreamd. Much Ado about NothingD 14. The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus is one of ______ …s best play s.a. Shakespeareb. Thomas Kydc. Ben Jonsond. Christopher MarloweD 15. The name “the father of English poetry” was given to the greatest poet born in London about 1340 and the one who did much in making the dialect of London (Midland dialect the language of the court, the learned and the well-to do) the foundation for modern English language.a. Shakespeareb. Spenserc. C. Philip Sidneyd. Chaucer A 16. The basic note of Chaucer‟s style i s_______.a. the fusion of humor and genial satireb. the fusion of irony with sarcasmc. the fusion of humor with epigramsd. the fusion of humor with ironyD 17. _____was the first buried in the Poet‟s Corner of Westminster Abby.a. Southyb. Francis Baconc. Shakespeared. ChaucerA 18. Macbeth by Shakespeare is a ______.a. tragedyb. comedyc. tragicomedyd. historical play19. “To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether …tis nobler in t he mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortuneOr to take arms against a sea of trouble,D And by opposing end them...” are the famous lines in Hamlet which expresses the Hamlet‟s ______ character.a.. resoluteb. resolute and hesitantc. stubbond. indecisive and hesitant D 20. Protestants refers to all the religious sects except ________.a.Church of Englandb. Puritanismc.Calvinismd. CatholicismB 21. Though Beowulf was introduced by Angles, the events and _____ are Scandinavian.a.beliefb. charactersc. idead. GodA 22. In 1066, ___ led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.a. William the conquerorb. Julius Caesarc. Alfred the Greatd. ClaudiusC 23. Of many contemporaries and successors of Shakespeare, the most important and well known was ______who became the Poet Laureate in 1616.a. John Drydenb. Samuel Johnsonc. Ben Jonsond. Robert SouthyA 24. The main literary form of seventeenth century was poetry. Among the poets, _______was the greatest.a. Miltonb. Bunyanc. the Metaphysical poetsd. the Cavalier poets25. Choose the poets who belong to the Cavalier group.a. Sir John Sucklingb. Richard Lovelacec. Thomas Carewd. George HerbertD 26.The title of “Poet‟s poet” is given to the writer of the following work __ _____.a. Death Be Not Proudb. Venus and Adonisc. Romeo and Julietd. The Faerie QueenA 27. The Merchant of Venice belongs to Shakespearian plays of_______.a. comedyb. sequence of sonnetsc. tragedyd. historical playC 28.Chaucer was the first important poet of a royal court to write in______ after the Norman conquest.a. Frenchb. Latinc. Englishd. CeltA 29. “He was not of an age, but for all the time”. “He” here refers to _____.a. S hakespeareb. Chaucerc. C.John Miltond. Ben JonsonC 30. The father of the school of Metaphysical poets is _______.a.Thomas Moreb. Spenserc.John Donned. WyattD 31.The most important prose writer of Elizabethan Age was _______, who was also the founder of the English materialistic philosophy.a. Thomas Moreb. Spenserc. John Donned. Francis Bacon A 32. The culmination of all Renaissance translation is ________.a. K ing James Bibleb. New Instrumentc. O f Studyd. The Reason of Church GovernmentA 33. Donne‟s poetry is full of metaphors, original images, wit and______, except ingenuity, dexterous use of colloquial speech, considerable flexibility of rhythm and meter, complex themes and caustic humor.a.conceitsb. Petrarchen imagesc.rhetoricsd. brevityB 34. The Cavaliers mostly dealt in short songs on the flitting joys of the day, but underneath their light-heartedness lies some foreboding of _____ to enjoy the present day. This is typical of pessimism and cynicism.a. philosophical thoughtb. impending doomc. intellectual idead. expecting happiness.C 35. Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes were the poems written by _______.a. Miltonb. William Shakespearec. Ben Jonsond. MarloweC 36. In Paradise Lost the author eulogizes the spirit of ______ that is though lost, but the ______cannot be conquered, and the pursuit of revenge, immortal hate towards god will never be overcome.a. pessimism, knowledgeb. optimism, idealc. rebellion, willd. cynicism, conceptB 37. Blank verse was first used by ______ as the principle instrument of English drama.a. the Earl of Surryb. Christopher Marlowec. Samuel Johnsond. ShakespeareC 38.The theme of the sonnet Death Be Not Proud is that ________.a. death is predestinedb. death is the most dreadful thingc. d eath you are nothing to be fearedd. death is gentle towards meC 39. _____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.A. Christopher MarlowB. Francis BaconC. W. ShakespeareD. Ben JohnsonB 40. Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. classicismA 41.Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good at) with the _______.A. dramatic blank verseB. songC. sonnetD. coupletA 42._____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.A. Phillip SidneyB. Edmund SpenserC. Thomas MoreD. Walter RaleighD 43.____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.A. Ben JohnsonB. William ShakespeareC. Thomas MoreD. Christopher MarloweD 44.The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.A. LylyB. PeeleC. GreeneD. MarloweD 45. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19thcentury.A. John DrydenB. Richard SteeleC. Joseph AddisonD. Alexander PopeB 46. _____is the first philosopher of industrial science.A. Christopher MarlowB. Francis BaconC. W. ShakespeareD. Ben JohnsonA 48. ____has six knights representing 6 virtues: holiness, Temperance, Chastity, Friendship, Justice and Courtesy.a. The Faerie Queenb. The Pilgrim’s Progressc. Paradise Lost D. EssaysII. Literary terms1. Blank verseUnrhymed iambic pentameter. See also Meter. In Gorboduc (1561), Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton introduced blank verse into the drama, whence it soared with Marlowe and Shakespeare in the 1590s. Milton forged it anew for the epic in Paradise Lost (1667).2. EpicA long narrative poem, typically a recounting of history or legend or of the deeds of a national hero and of reflecting the values of the society from which it originated. Many epics were drawn from an oral tradition and were transmitted by song and recitation before they were written down. Later on this literary genre was written down by the poets, such as Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained. Two of the greatest epics are Homer‟s Iliad and Odyssey. While in British literary history, the national epic is Beowulf.3. Metaphysical PoetryT he poetry of John Donne and other seventeenth-century poets who wrote in a similar style. Metaphysical poetry is characterized by verbal wit and excess, ingenious structure, irregular meter, colloquial language, elaborate imagery, and a drawing together of dissimilar ideas. 4. SentimentalismSentimentalism originated in the 18th century, and was a direct reaction against the cold, hard commercialism and rationalism that had dominated pe ople‟s life since the last decades of the 17th century. Besides, it seemed to have appeared hand in hand with the rise of realistic English novel. Sentimentalism often relates to sentimentality and sensibility in some literary works such as Richardson‟s Pamela; Goldsmith‟s The Vicar of Wakefield; Sterne‟s A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. In Poetry, we have Thomas Gray‟s “An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, Goldsmith‟s “The Deserted Village”, and Cowper‟s “Task”, not mention the various odes of sensibility which flourished in the later half of the century.5. HumanismHumanism refers to the main literary trend and is the keynote of English Renaissance. Humanists took interest in human life and human activities and gave expression to the new feeling of admiration for human beauty, human achievement.6. PuritanismThe term is used in a narrow sense of religious practice and attitudes, and in a broad sense of an ethical outlook, which is much less easy to define.1). In its strict sense, “Puritan” was applied to those Protestant reformers who rejected Queen Elizabeth‟s religious settlement of 1560. This settlement sought a middle way between Roman Catholicism and the extreme spirit of reform of Geneva. The Puritans, influenced by Geneva, Zurich, and other continental centers, objected to the retention of bishops and to any appearance of what they regarded as superstition in church worship---the wearing of vestments by the priests, and any kind of religious image. Apart from their united opposition to Roman Catholicism and their insistence on simplicity in religious forms, Puritans disagreed among themselves on questions of doctrine and church organization. Puritans were very strong in the first half of 17th century and reached its peak of power after the Civil War of 1642-6, a war, which was ostensibly religious, although it was also political.2). In the broad sense of a whole way of life, Puritanism has always represented strict obedience to the dictates of conscience and strong emphasis on the virtue of self-denial. The word “Puritan” is often thought to imply hostility to arts, but this is not necessarily true.7.RenaissanceIt is a cultural movement of the rising bourgeoisie. The key word for it is humanism, which emphasizes the belief in human beings, his environment and doings and his brave fight for the emancipation of man from the tyranny of the church and religious dogmas. It originally indicates a revival of classical arts and learning after the dark ages of medieval obscurantism. Its aim is to get rid of those old feudalist ideas in medieval time and introduce new ideas that express the interests of the rising bourgeoisie. Shakespeare, Spenser, and Marlowe are all famous literary figures in this period.。