England
Review
Chapter 1
1、In Anglo-Saxon period, Beowulf represented the_______ poetry.
A. pagan
B. religious
C. romantic
D.sentimental
2、The Anglo-Saxons were Christianized in the _______ century.
A. 6th
B. 7th
C. 8th
D. 10th
3、Beowulf describes the exploits of a ______ hero, Beowulf, in fighting against the
monster Grendel, his revengeful mother, and a fire-breathing dragon.
A. Danish
B. Scandinavian
C. English
D. Norwegian
4、English literature began with the ______ settlement in England.
A. Anglo-Saxon
B. Roman
C. Norman
D. Britain
5、The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the _______.
A. novel
B. drama
C. romance
D. essay
6、The theme of ______ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.
A. loyalty
B. revolt
C. obedience
D. mockery
7、_______ was the first to be buried in the Poet?s Corner of Westminster Abbey.
A. Chaucer
B. Shakespeare
C. Marlowe
D. Spenser
Answers: ABBAC AA
Chapter 2
1、_______was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.
A. Thomas Wyatt
B. William Shakespeare
C. Philip Sidney
D. Thomas Campion
2、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 Marlowe
B. Thomas Loge
C. Edmund Spenser
D. Thomas More
3、In the conclusion of the prose_______ the author points out that the root of poverty is the private ownership of social wealth.
A. Advancement of Learning
B. Utopia
C. Tamburlaine
D. Henry IV
4、English Renaissance Period was an age of_______.
A. prose and novel
B. poetry and drama
C. essays and journals
D. ballads and songs
5、＂Liberty, Fraternity and Equality＂were first uttered in the book_______.
A. The Shepherd?s Calendar
B. Utopia
C. The Rights of Man
D. The Declaration of Independence
6、＂Denmark is a prison＂. In which play does the hero summarize his observation of his world into such a bitter sentence? _______
A. Charles I
B. Othello
C. Henry VIII
D. Hamlet
7、In which play does the hero show his profound reverence for man through the sentence：＂What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!＂_______
A. Romeo and Juliet
B. Hamlet
C. Othello
D. The Merchant of Venice
Answers: AABBB DB
How much do you know about America?
1、American Revolutionary War, also called American War of Independence, lasted from 1775 to 1783
2、The United States of America (also referred to as the America) is comprising fifty states and a federal district
3、The official motto of America is In God We Trust
4、The capital of America is Washington, D.C. or New York City?
5、What does the name Washington, D.C. signify?
Chapter 3
1、Which was not written by John Milton?________
A. Paradise Lost
B. Lycidas
C. L?Allegro
D. Song to Celia
2、John Milton wrote his best-know prose work, _______, in the form of a speech addressed to the Houses of Parliament, in which he appealed for the freedom of the press.
A. Areopagitica
B. Lycidas
C. L?Allegro
D. Of Reformation in England
3、In which famous pamphlet did Milton thus write: ”Our king made not us, but we him. Nature has given fathers to us all, but we ourselves appointed out own king; so that the people are not for the king, but the king for them”?_____
A. Second Defence of the English People 《未为英国人民再辩》
B. The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth
C. Of Reformation in English
D. Defence of the English People 《为英国人民申辩》
4、The finest thing in Paradise Lost is the description of hell, and ______is often regarded as the real hero of the poem.
A. God
B. Satan
C. Adam
D. Raphael
5、Another school of poetry prevailing in 17th century was that of ____,i.e. those verse-writers, often knights and squires, who sided with the King against the Parliament and Puritans.
A. Metaphysical Poets
B. Cavalier Poets
C. John Milton
D. John Dryden
6、Explain the” Puritanism” during the English Revolution.
Answers: DADB__
Chapter 4
1、____was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Westem Europe in the 18th century.
A. The Renaissance
B. The Enlightenment
C.The Religious Reformation
D. The Chartist Movement
2、Most of the English writers in the 18th century were enlighteners. They fell into two groups, one is______, and the other is______.
A. the moderate group; the radical group
B. the passive Romantic poets; the active Romantic poets
C. the Metaphysical poets; the Cavalier poets
D. the lakers; the sentimentalists
3、_______was the most important English poet in the first half of the 18th century.
A. Richard Steele
B. Joseph Addison
C. Alexander Pope
D. Samuel Richardson
4、”Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.” This sentence is said by___, one of the greatest masters of English prose.
A. Alexander Pope
B. Henry Fielding
C. Daniel Defoe
D. Jonathan Swift
5、As a journalist, _____had learned how to make his reporting vivid and credible by
a skillful use of circumstantial detail. This power to make his characters alive and his stories credible is an inimitable gift.
A. Joseph Addison
B. Daniel Defoe
C. Samuel Richardson
D. Tobias Smollett
6、_____was the real founder of the realistic novel in England. His novels unfold a panorama of life in all sections of English society.
A. Alexander Pope
B. Henry Fielding
C. Daniel Defoe
D. Jonathan Swift
7、Henry Fielding?s first novel ______was written in connection with Pamela of Samuel Richardson.
A. Tom Jones
B. Joseph Andrews
C. Jonathan Wild
D. Amelia
8、_____,written in heroic couplet by Alexander Pope, was a manifesto of English neo-classicism as he put forward his aesthetic theories in it.
A. An Essay of Dramatic Peosy
B. An essay on Criticism
C. The Advance of Learning
D. An Essay on Man
9、____was Alexander Pope?s poem which satirized the idle and artificial life of the aristocracy.
A. The Rape of the Lock
B. The Rape of Lucrece
C. The School for Scandal
D. Every Man in His Humor
10、_______compiled The dictionary of the English Language which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.
A. Ben Johnson
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Alexander Pope
D. John Dryden
11、Which play is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?
A. She Stops to Conquer
B. The Rivals
C. The School for Scandal
D. The Conscious Lovers Answers: BB__DBBB__BC
Chapter 5
1、The Romantic Age began with the publication of The Lyrical Ballads which was
written by
A. William Wordsworth
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. Wordsworth and Coleridge
2、The English Romantic Age produced two major novelists. They are
A. George Gordon Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley
B. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. Walter Scott and Jane Austen
D. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
3、As contrasted with the classicists who made reason, order and the old, classical
traditions the criteria in their poetical creations, based his own poetical principle on the premise that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling.”
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B. George Gordon Byron
C. Percy Bysshe Shelley
D. William Wordsworth
4、Was made poet laureate in 1813 but most of his works, according or
modem critics, are “the product of literary industry, not of literary creation”
A. William Wordsworth
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. Robert Southey
D. George Gordon Byron
5、Which of the following statements is not true about Don Juan?
A. Don Juan was written in Italy during the years 181-1823.
B. The story describes Don Juan?s,an English youth of noble birth, life and adventures in many countries.
C. In a Greek island, Don Juan met his sweetheart, Haidee, and feel in love with her.
D. The last cantos are taken up with a satirical description of the English ruling classes, whose reactionary policy has aroused the hatred from the other nations.
E. In Don Juan Byron displayed his genius as a romanticist and a realist simultaneously.
6、Which of the following statement is not true about George Gordon Byron?
A. Byron?s early ears had been far from happy for he was born with a clubfoot, in the frequent family scenes his mother called him” you lame brat” .
B. Byron died in Italy and was deeply mourned by the Italian people and by all progressive people throughout the world.
C. The reactionary criticism of the 19th century trued to belittle Byron?s genius and his role in the development of English literature, but Byron remains one of the most popular English poets both at home and abroad.
D. Since the May 4 Movement in 1919, more and more of Byron?s poems have been translated into Chinese and well received by the poets and young readers. Byron has now become one of the best-known English poets in our country.
7、The first poem in The Lyrical Ballads is Coleridge?s masterpiece .
A. Kubla Khan
B. The Prelude
C. The Rime of Ancient Mariner
D. Tintern Abbey
8、In1805, Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled
A. William Wordsworth
B. The Prelude
C. Lucy Poems
D. The Lyrical Ballads
9、For his pamphlet .Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from Oxford and
disowned by his father.
A. Address to the Irish People
B. Vindication of the Rights of Women
C. Masque of Anarchy
D. The Necessity of Atheism
10、Which of the following poem is written by Percy Bysshe Shelley on the
death of John Keats?
A. Peter Bell the Third
B. Hellas
C. Adonais
D. The Cenci
11、is regarded as the most wonderful lyricist England has ever
produced mainly for his poems on nature ,on love, and on politice.
A. William Wordsworth
B. John Keats
C. George Gordon Byron
D. Percy Bysshe Shelley
12、Which of the following statement is not true about Percy Bysshe Shelley?
A. Prometheus Unbound is Percy Bysshe Shelley?s masterpiece, a long epic poem.
B. At Eton Percy Bysshe Shelley was known as “Mad Shelley”, for his obstinate opposition to the brutal fagging system, according to which the younger school-boys were obliged to obey the old boys and bear a great deal of cruel treatment.
C. George Gordon Byron called Percy Bysshe Shelley “the best and least selfish man I ever knew”.
D. Percy Bysshe Shelley loved the people and hated their oppressors and expoiters.
13、The unfinished long epic has been regarded as John Keats?s greatest
achievement in poetry.
A. Endymion
B. Isabella
C. Hyperion
D. When I Have Fear
14、…s pursuit of beauty in all things bespoke an aspiration after a better
life than the sordid reality under capitalism . His leading principle is. ”Beauty is truth , truth beauty”.
A. Percy Bysshe Shelley
B. George Gordon Byron
C. William Wordsworth
D. John Keats
15、Which is Percy Bysshe Shelley?s masterpiece?
A. Queen Mab
B. Prometheus Unbound
C. Prometheus Bound
D. The Revolt of Islam
16、Walter Scott?s first novel appeared anonymously in 1841 with
immediate success.
A. Great Unknown
B. Rob Roy
C. Guy Mannering
D. Waverley Answers: DCDCB BCBDC DACDB D
Chapter6、7
1. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend called _______ appeared. And it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.
a. romanticism
b. naturalism
c. realism
d. critical realism
2. _____ described the life of the laboring people and criticized the privileged classes, but the power of exposure became much weaker in her work. The significance of her work lies rather in the portrayal of the pettiness and stagnancy of English provincial life.
a. Emily Charlotte
b. Emily Bronte
c. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
d. George Eliot
3. _____ wrote a number of little sketches of “cockney characters”. He sighed them “Boz”, which was his nickname for his young brother. His first book, Sketches by Boz appeared in 1836.
a. Elizabeth Gaskell
b. William M. Thackeray
c. Charles Dickens
d. Jane Austen
4. _______ has been called “the supreme epic of English life”.
a. A Tale of Two Cities
b. David Copperfield
c. Pickwick Papers
d. Oliver Twist
5. _____, written in 1843-1844, is one of Charles Dickens?s masterpieces of social satire, famous for its criticism of both the British and American bourgeoisie.
a. Pickwick Papers
b. The Old Curiosity Shop
c. Great Expectations
d. Hard Times
6. The pride of wealth, or “purse-pride”, is the theme of the novel ________.
a. Dombey and Son
b. A Tale of Two Cities
c. Little Dorrit
d. Bleak House
7. “Of all my books,” wrote Dickens, “I like this the best.” Which work does it refer to? ______.
a. A Tale of Two Cities
b. David Copperfield
c. Pickwick Papers
d. Oliver Twist
8. The theme underlying ______ is the idea “Where there is oppression, there is revolution”.
a. a. A Tale of Two Cities
b. David Copperfield
c. Pickwick Papers
d. Oliver Twist
9. The _____ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century. It showed the English workers were able to appear as an independent political force and were already realizing the fact that the industrial bourgeoisie was their principal enemy.
A Enlightenment b. Renaissance c. Chartist d. Romanticist
10. Which novel makes a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education and bourgeois utilitarianism? ________.
a. Oliver Twist
b. Hard Times
c. Great Expectations
d. A Tale of Two Cities
11. Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to enter the higher society regardless of the social reality? ___C___.
a. A Tale of Two Cities
b. David Copperfield
c. Great Expectations
d. Dombey and Son
12. In the novel __C__, Charles Dickens describes the Chartism Movement.
a. Great Expectations
b. A Tale of Two Cities
c. Hard Times
d. Oliver Twist
13. _B__ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the author?s early life.
a. Tom Jones
b. David Copperfield
c. Oliver Twist
d. Great Expectations
14. In 1864, Dickens published his last complete novel __C .
a. The Old Curiosity Shop
b. Pickwick Papers
c. Our Mutual Friend
d. Little Dorrit
15. The sub-title of Vanity Fair is _C .
a. A Pure Woman Faithfully Portrayed
b. The Spirit and the Flesh
c. A Novel Without a Hero
d. Sense and Sensibility
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16. George Eliot was the pseudonym of _____.
a. Mark Twin
b. Mary Ann Evans
c. Ellis Bell
d. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
17. ____ written by George Eliot is largely autobiographical in its early chapters.
a. Adam Bede
b. The Mill of the Floss
c. Felix Holt and Radical
d. Mary Barton
18. As a poet, ______ provides an example of “a sick individual in a sick society”. Many of his poetic works express a tone of regret, disillusion and melancholy.
a. John Ruskin
b. Thomas Carlyle
c. Matthew Arnold
d. Thomas Babington Macaulay
19. ______ has been praised as a “gallant, courageous and high-hearted figure,” well-known for buoyant optimism.
a. Robert Louis Stevenson
b. Laurence Sterne
c. Robert Browning
d. Percy Bysshe Shelley
20. The theory of “art for art?s sake” was first put forward by the poet ____.
a. Oscar Wilde
b. Walter Pater
c. Robert Louis Stevenson
d. Theophile Gautier
21. Which lament was written by Alfred Tennyson for the death of his friend Hallam? ____.
a. In Memoriam
b. Lycidas
c.Adodais
d. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard
22. My last Duchess is ______.
a. a dramatic monologue
b. a short lyric
c. a novel
d. an essay
23. _____ tells the tale of a young Englishman who serves as mate on the steam ship “Patna”.
a. Lord Jim
b. Nostromo
c. Youth
d. The Old Wives? Tale
24. ____ was born in New York and educated in America. He never married, never took part in public affairs, and lived a life of an observer of his limited world of Americans in Europe.
a. John Galsworthy
b. Henry James
c. Thomas Stearns Eliot
d. James Joyce
25. Who is regarded as a forerunner of the “stream of consciousness” literature in the 20th century? ___
a. John Galsworthy
b. Henry James
c. Thomas Stearns Eliot
d. James Joyce
26. ______?s admirers have praised him as “second only to Shakespeare in his mastery of English language.”
a. David Herbert Lawrence
b. Thomas Stearns Eliot
c. James Joyce
d. William Butler Yeats
27. _____ was the biographer, critic and editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.
a. Virginia Woolf
b. Thomas Stearns Eliot
c. James Joyce
d. William Butler Yeats
28. ____ is the climax of Virginia Woolf?s experiments in novel form.
a. The Window
b. Time Passes
c. The Lighthouse
d. The Waves
29. David Herbert Lawrence?s representative work ____ was positively taken as a typical example and lively manifestation of the Oedipus Complex in fiction, as the result of Lawrence?s long-range study of the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud.
a. Sons and Lovers
b. The Waste Land
c. Lady Chatterley?s Lover
d. Women in L ove
30. Which of the following plays deals with the story that a linguist trains a flower girl to speak the so-called high-civilized English? _____
a. Major Barbara
b. Pygmalion
c. Mrs. Warren?s Profession
d. Man and Superman
31. Saint Joan was written by George Bernard Shaw. It is a _____.
a. historical play
b. novel
c. poem
d. ballad
32. In 1923, ____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
a. William Butler Yeats
b. Samuel Butler
c. Thomas Stearns Eliot
d. David Herbert Lawrence
33. Thomas Stearns Eliot defined his belief as ____.
a. classicist in literature
b. royalist in politics
c. Anglo-Catholic in religion
d. all of the above
34. In which poem are the sterility and chaos of the contemporary world after WWI expressed? ____.
a. Ode to the West Wind
b. The Solitary Reaper
c. Lamia
d. The Waste Land
35. Which poem concerns Thomas Stearns Eliot?s faith and emotional satisfaction in the church? ____.
a. Murder in the Cathedral
b. The Solitary Reaper
c. Ash Wednesday
d. The Waste Land
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考试课程：英国文学史及选读考核类型：A 卷 考试方式：闭卷出卷教师: XXX 考试专业：英语考试班级：英语xx班 I.Multiple choice (30 points, 1 point for each) select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. 1._____，a typical example of old English poetry ,is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons. A.The Canterbury Tales B.The Ballad of Robin Hood C.The Song of Beowulf D.Sir Gawain and the Green Kinght 2._____is the most common foot in English poetry. A.The anapest B.The trochee C.The iamb D.The dactyl 3.The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event? A.The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture. B.England’s domestic rest C.New discovery in geography and astrology D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion 4._____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language. A.The Pilgrims Progress B.Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners C.The Life and Death of Mr.Badman D.The Holy War 5.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is _____. A.science B.philosophy C.arts D.humanism 6.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets18)What does“this”refer to ? A.Lover. B.Time. C.Summer. D.Poetry. 7.“O prince, O chief of my throned powers, /That led th’ embattled seraphim to war/Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds/Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual king”In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton’s Paradise Los t, the phrase“thy conduct”refers to _____conduct. A.God’s B.Satan’s C.Adam’s D.Eve’s
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Exercise for English Literature (2) Choose the best answer for each blank. 1.________, the “father of English poetry”and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London about 1340. A.Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C.Francis Bacon D. John Dryden 2.Chaucer died on the 25th October 1400, and was buried in ________. A.Flanders B. France C.Italy D. Westminster Abbey 3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad. ________ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interest of the English merchants. A.Henry V B. Henry VII C.Henry VIII D. Queen Elizabeth 4.Except being a victory of England over ________, the rout of the fleet “Armada” (Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism. A.Spain B. France C.America D. Norway 5.At the beginning of the 16th century the outstanding humanist ________ wrote his Utopia in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s suffering and put forward his ideal of a future happy society. A.Thomas More B. Thomas Marlowe C.Francis Bacon D. William Shakespear 6.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen ________. A.Mary B. Elizabeth C.William D. Victoria 7.English Renaissance Period was an age of ________. A.prose and novel B. poetry and drama C.essays and journals D. ballads and songs 8.From the following, choose the one which is not Francis Bacon’s work: ________. A.The Advancement of Learning B. The New Instrument C.Essays D. The New Atlantics E.Venus and Adonis 9.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” This is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ________. A.songs B. plays https://www.doczj.com/doc/4c5510570.html,edies D. sonnets 10.The heroines of Shakespeare’s great comedies, ________ are the daughters of the Renaissance, whose images and stories will remain a legacy to readers and audiences of all time.
Part One Early and Medieval English Literature Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks. 1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating England. A. William the Conqueror B. Julius Caesar C. Alfred the Great D. Claudius 2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ . A. Langland B. Wycliffe C. Gower D. Chaucer 3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____. A. novel B. drama C. romance D. essay 4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances. A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight B.Beowulf C. Piers the Plowman D. The Canterbury Tales 6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. The Normans spoke _____. A. French B. English C. Latin D. Swedish 9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances. A. loyalty B. revolt C. obedience D. mockery 11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in about 1340. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden 12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____. A. Flanders B. France C. Italy D. Westminster Abbey 15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccio’s poem “Filostrato”. A. The Legend of Good Women B. Troilus and Criseyde C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D. Beowulf Key to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAAB Ⅱ. Questions 1.What are the features of Beowulf? https://www.doczj.com/doc/4c5510570.html,ment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales. Part Two The English Renaissance Ⅰ. Match the writer and his works. 1.Thomas More 2.Holinshed 3.Hakluyt 4.Richard Tottel 5.Philip Sidney 6.Walter Raleigh 3
华南农业大学xx文学史期末考试题 (下)注:本文档主要用作题型参考,非100%原题。 考试范围:启蒙运动时期,浪漫主义时期。 一选择题。(共50题,每题1分) 类型1:作品来源。(约10-15道题) 1.” Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast. The littletyrant of hisfields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here mayrest. SomeCromwell,guiltless of his country's blood.” is from ( )A.I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud B. The Cloud C. Bright Star D. Elegy 2. “But now your brow is beld, John. Your locks are lik e the snaw;But bless ingson your frosty pow…” is from ( ) A. John Anderson, My Jo B.A Red, Red Rose C. Tintern Abbey D. When We two parted 3.” I am assured by our merchants, that a boy or a girl beforetwelve years old isno saleable commodity, and even when they come tothis age, they will not yieldabove three pounds, or three pounds andhalf a crown at most, on the exchange.” isfrom ( ) A. Gulliver’s Travel B. Robinson Crusoe
1.The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is ____. A Robin Hood B Sir Gawain and the Green Knight C The Canterbury Tales D Beowulf 2. ____was the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written in alliterative verse. A The Canterbury Tales B Piers the Plowman C Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D Beowulf 3. ____was famous for The Canterbury Tales. A Geoffrey Chaucer B John Milton C William Shakespeare D Francis Bacon 4. Most of the ballads of the 15th century focused on the legend about ____ as a heroic figure. A Green Nights B Gawain C Robin Hood D Hamlet 5.In the 16th century, Thomas More’s work ____became immediately popular after its publication. A Paradise Lost B A Pleasant Satire of the Three Estates C Of Studies D Utopia 6. ____was Edmund Spencer’s masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the grea t poems in the English language. A Amoretti B The Shepherd’s Calendar C The Faerie Queene D Four Hymns 7. ____ is from Shakespeare’s sonnet No.18. A “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” B “To be or not to be: that is the question” C “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” D “No longer mourn for me when I am dead” 8. _____, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London about 1340. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden 9.The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and ___ _. A. Antony and Cleopatra B. Julius Caesar C Twelfth Night D King Lear 10. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare’s romantic love comedies? A Twelfth Night B The Tempest C As You Like It D The Merchant of Venice D C A C D C C A D B ? 1. All of the following are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England except______.
《英国文学史及选读》第一册复习要点 1. Beowulf: national epic of the English people; Denmark story; alliteration, metaphors and understatements （此处可能会有填空，选择等小题） 2. Romance （名词解释） 3. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”: a famous roman about King Arthur’s story 4. Ballad（名词解释） 5. Character of Robin Hood 6. Geoffrey Chaucer: founder of English poetry; The Canterbury Tales (main contents; 124 stories planned, only 24 finished; written in Middle English; significance; form: heroic couplet) 7. Heroic couplet (名词解释)8. Renaissance（名词解释）9.Thomas More——Utopia 10. Sonnet（名词解释）11. Blank verse（名词解释）12. Edmund Spenser “The Faerie Queene” 13. Francis Bacon “essays” esp. “Of Studies”（推荐阅读，学习写正式语体的英文文章的好参照，本文用词正式优雅，多排比句和长句，语言造诣非常高，里面很多话都可以引用做格言警句，非常值得一读） 14. William Shakespeare四大悲剧比较重要，此外就是罗密欧与朱立叶了，这些剧的主题，背景，情节，人物形象都要熟悉，当然他最重要的是Hamlet这是肯定的。他的sonnet也很重要，最重要属sonnet18。（其戏剧中著名对白和几首有名的十四行诗可能会出选读） 15. John Milton 三大史诗非常重要，特别是Paradise Lost和Samson Agonistes。对于Paradise Lost需要知道它是blank verse写成的，故事情节来自Old Testament，另外要知道此书theme和Satan的形象。 16. John Bunyan——The Pilgrim’s Progress 17. Founder of the Metaphysical school——John Donne; features of the school: philosophical poems, complex rhythms and strange images. 18. Enlightenment（名词解释） 19. Neoclassicism（名词解释） 20. Richard Steele——“The Tatler” 21. Joseph Addison——“The Spectator”这个比上面那个要重要，注意这个报纸和我们今天的报纸不一样，它虚构了一系列的人物，以这些人物的口气来写报纸上刊登的散文，这一部分要仔细读。 22. Steel’s and Addison’s styles and their contributions 23. Alexander Pope: “Essay on Criticism”, “Essay on Man”, “The Rape of Lock”, “The Dunciad”; his workmanship (features) and limitations 24. Jonathan Swift: “Gulliver’s Travels”此书非常重要，要知道具体内容，就是Gulliver游历过的四个地方的英文名称，和每个部分具体的讽刺对象; （我们主要讲了三个地方）“A Modest Proposal”比较重要，要注意作者用的irony 也就是反讽手法。 25. The rise and growth of the realistic novel is the most prominent achievement of 18th century English literature. 26. Daniel Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe”, “Moll Flanders”, 当然是Robinson Crusoe比较重要，剧情要清楚，Robinson Crusoe的形象和故事中蕴涵的早期黑奴的原形，以及殖民主义的萌芽。另外注意Defoe的style和feature，另外Defoe是forerunner of English realistic novel。 27. Samuel Richardson——“Pamela” (first epistolary novel), “Clarissa Harlowe”, “Sir Charles Grandison” 28. Henry Fielding: “Joseph Andrews”, “Jonathan Wild”, “Tom Jones”第一个和第三个比较重要，需要仔细看。他是一个比较重要的作家，另外Fielding也被称为father of the English novel. 29. Laurence Sterne——“Tristram Shandy”项狄传 30. Richard Sheridan——“The School for Scandal” 31. Oliver Goldsmith——“The Traveller”(poem), “The Deserted V illage” (poem) (both two poems were written by heroic couplet), “The Vicar of Wakefield” (novel), “The Good-Natured Man” (comedy), “She stoops to Conquer” (comedy),
1. ____________________________________ The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is . A Robin Hood B Sir Gawain and the Green Knight C The Canterbury Tales D Beowulf 2. __ w as the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written in alliterative verse. A The Canterbury Tales B Piers the Plowman C Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D Beowulf 3. __ w as famous for The Canterbury Tales. A Geoffrey Chaucer B John Milton C William Shakespeare D Francis Bacon 4. Most of the ballads of the 15th century focused on the legend about __ as a heroic figure. A Green Nights B Gawain C Robin Hood D Hamlet 5.In the 16th century, Thomas More's work ______ became immediately popular after its publication. A Paradise Lost B A Pleasant Satire of the Three Estates C Of Studies D Utopia 6. __ was Edmund Spencer 's masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the grea t poems in the English language. A Amoretti B The Shepherd 's Calendar C The Faerie Queene D Four Hymns 7. __ is from Shakespeare 's sonnet No.18. A “Lemt e not to the marriage of true minds ” B “Tobe or not to be: that is the question ” C “ ShallI compare thee to a summer's day” D “ Nolonger mourn for me when I am dead” 8. ___ , the “father of English poetry ”and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London about 1340. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden 9. The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and ___ A. Antony and Cleopatra B. Julius Caesar C Twelfth Night D King Lear 10. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare 's romantic love comedies? A Twelfth Night B The Tempest C As You Like It D The Merchant of Venice D C A C D C C A D B 1. All of the following are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England except __________ .
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英国文学史 Part one: Early and Medieval English Literature Chapter 1 The Making of England 1. The early inhabitants in the island now we call England were Britons, a tribe of Gelts. 2. In 55 B.C., Britain was invaded by Julius Caesar. The Roman occupation lasted for about 400 years. It was also during the Roman role that Christianity was introduced to Britain. And in 410 A.D., all the Roman troops went back to the continent and never returned. 3. The English Conquest At the same time Britain was invaded by swarms of pirates（海盗）. They were three tribes from Northern Europe: the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. And by the 7th century these small kingdoms were combined into a United Kingdom called England, or, the land of Angles. And the three dialects spoken by them naturally grew into a single language called Anglo -Saxon, or Old English. 4. The Social Condition of the Anglo -Saxon Therefore, the Anglo -Saxon period witnessed a transition from tribal society to feudalism. 5. Anglo -Saxon Religious Belief and Its Influence The Anglo -Saxons were Christianized in the seventh century. Chapter 2 Beowulf 1. Anglo -Saxon Poetry But there is one long poem of over 3,000 lines. It is Beowulf, the national epic of the English people. Grendel is a monster described in Beowulf. 3. Analysis of Its Content Beowulf is a folk lengend brought to England by Anglo -Saxons from their continental homes. It had been passed from mouth to mouth for hundreds of years before it was written down in the tenth century. 4. Features of Beowulf The most striking feature in its poetical form is the use of alliteration, metaphors and understatements. Chapter 3 Feudal England 1）T he Norman Conquest 2. The Norman Conquest The French -speaking Normans under Duke William came in 1066. After defeating the English at Hastings, William was crowned as King of England. The Norman Conquest marks the establishment of feudalism in England.
Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois Revolution I.Choose the right answer. 1.The r hyme scheme of Milton’s L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is _____. A. aabbccbbc B. abbacdccd C. abacdeec D. ababcdcdd 2. _____ , as a declar ation of people’s freedom of the press, has been a weapon in the later democratic revolutionary struggles. A. On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity B. Comus C. Of Reformation in England D. Areopagitica 3. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses. A. John Milton B. John Bunyan C. John Donne D. John Dryden 4. _____ expressed Donne’s own way of describing love. A. Holy Sonnets B. Witchcraft by a Picture C. The Sun Rising D. Death, Be Not Proud 5. George Herbert’s ______ is a well-known shaped poem. A. The Altar B. To His Coy Mistress C. To Daffodils D. Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May 6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry. A. John Donne B. George Herbert C. Andre Marvell D. Henry Vaughan 7. Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet? A. Richard Crashaw B. Henry Vaughan C. Andrew Marvell D. Robert Burton 8. ____is a prose poem on death and immortality. A. The Anatomy of Melancholy B. Religio Mecici C. Holy Dying D. Urn-Burial 9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightful description of the English countryside and the simple and kind people. A. The Compleat Angler B. Holy Living C. To His Coy Mistress D. To Daffadils 10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry? A. John Suckling B. Richard Lovelace C. Robert Herrick D. John Dryden 11. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19th century. A. John Dryden B. Richard Steele C. Joseph Addison D. Alexander Pope Key to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAAD
英国文学史 1.The statement “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability”open well-known essays by_________. Francis Bacon Samuel Johnson Alexander Pope Jonathan Swift [参考答案] Francis Bacon 2.When he died, Chaucer was buried in __________ the Poet's Corner. Westminster Abbey Normandy Canterbury Southwark [参考答案] Westminster Abbey 3.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of . Piers Plowman Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Confessio Amantis The Canterbury Tales [参考答案] The Canterbury Tales 4.The first mention of Robin Hood in literature is in Langland's _________. The Legend of Good Woman The Vison of Piers the Plowman Boewulf Fables [参考答案] The Vison of Piers the Plowman 5.Which literary genra does Sir Gawain and the Green Knight belong to? epic romance novel prose [参考答案] romance 6.English literature at the Anglo-Norman Period was also a combination of ____ and Saxon elements. Latin Greek English French [参考答案] French 7.In the 14th century, the two most important writers are_____ and Chaucer Caedmon Cynewulf Langland Shakespeare [参考答案] Langland 8.Who is the monster half-human who had mingled thirty warriors in The Song of Beowulf? Hrothgat Heorot Grendel Beowulf [参考答案] Grendel 9.The most important work of_____is The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles,which is regarded as the best monument of the old English prose. Alfred the Great Caedmon Cynewulf Venerable Bede [参考答案] Alfred the Great 10.The epic, The Song of Beowulf, represents the spirit of_____. monks romanticists sentimentalists pagan [参考答案] pagan ing line of 11.The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day ?” is the beginn one of Shakespeare’ｓ. comedies tragedies histories sonnets [参考答案] sonnets