英国文学习题
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I 名词解释 (请用5-10个句子解释下列名词)
. epic
Romance
Sentimentalism
Byronic Hero
Classicism
sonnet
The Enlightenment
The Aesthetic Movement
Byronic Hero
Romanticism
classicism
humanism
II 请从生平、主要作品、历史地位三个方面介绍下列作家
1. Charles Dickens
2. William Shakespear
3. John Milton
4. William Wordsworth
5. Jane Austen
6. George Bernard Shaw
7. Alexander Pope
8. John Donne
9 Daniel Defoe
10 William Butler Yeats
11. James Joyce
III 填空
1. The most popular literary form in the Anglo-Norman period was romance, in
which the central character was Knight _.
2. In 1066, The Norman Conquest marked the beginning of Feudalism in England.
3. A ballad _ is written in 4-line stanzas with the second and fourth lines rhymes. 4. English Renaissance period was an age of _ poetry _ and drama.
5. Samuel Richardson’s Pamela_ was regarded the first English psychological
(analysis) novel
6. In Paradise Lost, Satan tempts Eve to eat an apple from the forbidden tree.
7. Metaphysical Poetry is characterized by fantastic metaphors and extravagant
hyperboles.
8. Walter Scott’s chief contribution to English literature lies in his novels of _
history _
9. The main literary stream of the 18th century was _ realism _.
10. Joyce is the founder and one of the most prominent writers of stream of
consciousness _ school of novel writing.
11. The Talter and The Spectator published by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
in the early 18th century, was a moralistic journal.
12. Robert Burns is famous for his poetry written in Scottish dialect.
13. The watchwords of the French Revolution are Liberty, equality and Fraternity.
14. Romanticism extended from 1798 when Lyrical Ballads was published and in
1832 when Scott died.
16. Walter Scott’s literary career marked the transition from romanticism to
realism which followed it.
17. The subtitle of Vanity Fair—“A Novel without a Hero” emphasizes the fact
that the writer’s intention was not to portray individuals but the the society as a
whole.
18. Piers the Plowman is written in the form of a dream vision
19. The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities written by Charles Dickens are London
and Paris
20. “Dubliners” is a collection of short stories written by James Joyce in the
writing style of stream of consciousness
21. The long poem Beowulf in Anglo-Saxon period was termed England’s national
epic.
22. “Conceit” is a term applied in particular to the metaphysical school.
23. The appearance and development of sentimentalism marked the midway in the transition from classicism to its opposite, romanticism.
24. The two great dramatists in the 18th century were Oliver Goldsmith and
Richard Brinsley Sheridan whose most famous play was The School for
Scandal.
25. William Blake is often regarded as a symbolist and mystic.
26. The impetus of the Romantic Movement includes the French Revolution and
the Industrial Revolution.
27. William Wordsworth’s poetry is distinguished by the simplicity as well as the
purity of his language.
28. Jane Austen was the first woman writer to touch the theme of the predicament
of women
29. Both Hardy’ s poems and novels are transition from realism to modernism
30. Perhaps the greatest odes of the 19th century were Keats's Five Great Odes of
1819 which included Ode to a Nightingale Ode on Melancholy, Ode on a
Grecian Urn, Ode to Psyche and To Autumn
IV．请从诗歌的形式（格律，押韵，句式等）和内容及意义上分析诗歌
1. William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
2. John Donne Tiger
3. Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind
4. Robert Burns A Red Red Rose
V 选择
1. _______ is the greatest song writer in the world. He is the national poet of
Scotland
A. Robert Burns C. Jonathan Swift
B. William Blake D. Oliver Goldsmith
2. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th
centuries, its essence is______.
A. science C. arts
B. philosophy D. humanism
2. Which of the following works is not written by John Galsworthy? A. The Forsyte Saga C. The End of the Chapter
B. A Modern Comedy D. The Time Machine
3. Rudyard Kipling is best known for his ________.
A. The Jungle Books C. The White Man’s Burden
B. The Old Wive’s Tale D. Anna of the Five Towns
3. __________ is regarded as “the father of English Criticism”.
A. John Bunyan C. John Milton
B. John Dryden D. John Newman
4. Thomas Gray turned out to be a poet of transition from the neoclassic to the
________ period
A. Romantic C. Realistic
B. Humanism D. classicism
