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外国文学500题1. Who is the author of "Pride and Prejudice"?2. In which novel is the character Jay Gatsby featured?3. Which Shakespeare play follows the tragic events of Romeo and Juliet?4. Name the author of the novel "1984" which portrays a dystopian society.5. Who wrote the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird"?6. Which novel, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, explores the themes of wealth, love, and the American Dream?7. Name the Russian author of the novel "War and Peace".8. What is the name of the Danish author of "The Little Mermaid"?9. Which British author wrote the famous fantasy series "Harry Potter"?10. Name the author of the classic novel "Moby-Dick".11. In which play by Tennessee Williams does the character Blanche DuBois appear?12. Who is the author of the novel "The Catcher in the Rye"?13. Which American author wrote the novel "The Great Gatsby"?14. Name the author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude".15. In which novel does the character Holden Caulfield go on a journey of self-discovery in New York City?16. Who is the author of the book "Crime and Punishment"?17. Which French author wrote the novel "Les Misérables"?18. In which novel does the character Jane Eyre feature?19. Who is the author of the novel "Meditations"?20. Name the author of the novel "The Lord of the Rings".21. Which novel is set during the Russian Revolution and features the character of Dr. Zhivago?22. Who wrote the play "Hamlet"?23. In which novel does the character Scout Finch narrate her experiences growing up in a racially divided town in the 1930s?24. Name the author of the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray".25. Which American author wrote the novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"?26. Who is the author of "Don Quixote"?27. Name the author of the novel "Frankenstein".28. In which play does the character Othello appear?29. Who wrote the novel "The Brothers Karamazov"?30. Which author wrote the novel "Gulliver's Travels"?31. Name the author of "War and Peace".32. In which novel does the character Elizabeth Bennet navigate societal expectations and romantic entanglements?33. Who wrote the play "Romeo and Juliet"?34. Name the author of the novel "The Scarlet Letter".35. In which novel does the character Hester Prynne bear the consequences of her adultery?36. Who is the author of the novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"?37. Which British author wrote the novel "1984"?38. Name the author of the novel "Dracula".39. In which play does the character Macbeth appear?40. Who wrote the novel "The Grapes of Wrath"?41. Which author wrote the novel "Anna Karenina"?42. Name the author of the novel "Brave New World".43. In which novel does the character Jay Gatsby strive to win back his lost love Daisy Buchanan?44. Who is the author of the novel "The Old Man and the Sea"?45. Which American author wrote the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird"?46. Name the author of the novel "Jane Eyre".47. In which play does the character Hamlet contemplate the meaning of life and seek revenge for his father's murder?48. Who wrote the novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"?49. Which French author wrote the novel "The Count of Monte Cristo"?50. Name the author of the novel "The Odyssey".。

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Chapter One The Anglo-Saxon PeriodI. Fill in the blanks.1.After the fall of the Roman Empire and athe withdrawl of Roman troops fromAlbion, the aboriginal ＿＿population of the larger part of the island was soon conquerered and almost totally exterminated by the Teutonic tribes of ____, _____ , and _____ who came from the continent and settled in the island, naming its central part a, or England.2.For nearly ______ years prior to the coming of the English, British had been aRoman province. In _____, the Rome withdrew their legions from Britain to protect herself against swarms of Teutonic invaders.3.The literature of early period falls naturally into teo divisions, and ____.The former represents the poetry which ____the Anglso-Saxons probably brought with them in the form of _____ , the crude material out of which literature was slowly developed on English soil; the later represents the writings developed under the teaching of ______ .4._____can be justly termed England’s national epic and its hero _____---one of thenational heros of the English people.5.The Song of Beowulf reflects events which took place on the ______approximately at the beginning of the_____century, when the forefathers of the Jutes lived in the southern part of the _____ and maintained close relations with kindred tribes, e.g. with the ______ who lived on the other side of the straits.6.Among the early Anglo-Saxon poets we may mention______ who lived in thelatter half of the ______ century and who wrote a poetic Paraphase of the Blible.7.____ is the first known religious poets of England. He is known as the father ofEnglish song.8.The didactic poem “The Chris t” was produced by ________.II. Choose the best answer for each blank.1.The most important work of _______ is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, which isregarded as the best monument of the old English prose.a. Alfred the Greatb. Caedmonc. Cynewulfd. Venerable Bede2. Who is the monster half-huamn who had mingled thirty warriors in The Song of Beowulf?a. Hrothgat.b. Heorot.c. Grendel.d. Beowulf.3. _____ is the first important religious poet in English Literature.a. Cynewulfb. Caedmonc. Shakepeare.d. Adam Bede4. The epic, The Song of Beowulf, represents the spirit of ______.a. monksb. romanticistsc. sentimentalistd. paganIII. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets.1. ( ) The author of The Song of Beowulf is Cynewulf.2. ( ) The setting of The Song of Beowulf is in Scotland.3. ( ) Alfred the Great compiles The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles.4. ( ) Venerable Bede wrote The Ecclesiastical History of the English People.5. ( ) The author of Paraphase is Caedmon.IV. Define the liretary terms listed below.1.Alliteration2.Epic.V. Answer the following questions.1.What do you know about the Teutors.2.Please give a brief description of The Song of Boewulf.Chapter Two The Anglo-Norman PeriodI. Fill in the following blanks.1.In the year___, at the battle of ___, the ____ headed by William, Duke ofNormandy, defeated the Anglo-Saxons.2.The literature which Normans brought to England is remarkable for its bright,____ tales of _______ and _______, in marked contrast with the ___ and ______ of Anglo-Saxon poetry.3.English literature is also a combination of ____and _____ elements.4.In the 14th century, the two most important writers are ___ and Chaucer.5.In the 15th century, there is only one important prose writer whose name is _____.He wrote an important work called Morte d’ Arthur.II. Define the leterature terms listed below.1.Canto2.legend3.Arthurian Legend.III. Read the excerpt of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight carefully, and then make a brief comment on it.IV. Answer the following questions.1.What is the consequence of the Norman Conquest?2.Make a brief survey of the middle English literature.Chapter Three Geoffrey ChaucerI. Fill in the following blanks.1.Chaucer’s masterpiece is _____, one of the most famous works in all literature.2.Chaucer created in The Canterbury Tales a strikingly brilliant and picturesquepanorama of _______.3.There are various kinds of ballads _______, ______, ______, _____, and ______.4.Bishop ____ was among the first to take a literary interest in ballads.5.The name of the “jolly innkeeper” in The Canterbury Tales is ______, whoproposes that each pilgrim of the ____ should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two more on the way back.6.In contradistinction to the ______ verse of Anglo-Saxon poetry, Chaucer chose themetrical form which laid the foundation of the English _____ verse.II. Choose the best answer.1.Who is the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets ofEngland?a. Christopher Marlowb. Geoffrey Chaucerc. W. Shakespeared. Alfred the Great2. Chaucer’s earlist work of any length is his “______” a translation of the French “Roman de la Rose” by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throught Europe.a. Troilus and Criseydeb. A Red, Red Rosec. Romance of the Rosed. Piers the Plowman3. In his literary development, Chaucer was influenced by three literatures, which one is not true?a. French literature.b. Italian literaturec. English literatured. American literatureIII. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets.1. ( ) The 32 pilgrims, according to Chaucer’s plan, was to exceed that ofBaccoccio’s Decameron.2. ( ) The Prologue is a splendid masterpiece of Romantic portray, the first of itskind in the history of English literature.3. ( ) The Canterbury Tales is a vivid and brilliant reflection of 15th century inEngland.4. ( ) Chaucer’s poetry traces out a path to th e literature of English Renaissance. IV. Define the leterary terms listed below.1.Romance.2.Fable.3.BalladV. Anwer the following question.1.What is the social significance of The Canterbury Tales ?Chapter Four The RenaissanceI. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or phrase according to the textbook.1.Shakespeare’s first priginal play written in about 1590 was _________.2.Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and _______ are generally regar ded as Shakespeare’sfour great tragedies.3.The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is one of _______’s best known sonnets.4.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of ______.5.Bacon’s works may be divided into three classes, the ______, the _______, the_______ works.6.Together with the development of bourgeois relationships and formation of theEnglish national state this period is marked by a flourishing of national culture known as the _________.7.Edmund Spenser was the author of the greatest epic poem of _______.II. Find out the author and his works.⑴The author and their works1. ( ) Thomas More a. Gorge Green2. ( ) Enmund Spenser b. Eupheus3. ( ) John Lyly c.The Fairy Queen4. ( ) Marlowe d. Utopia5. ( ) Robert Greene e. The Jew of Malta⑵The characters in the play1. ( ) Desdemona a. The Merchant of Venice2. ( ) Cordelia b. As you like it3. ( ) Juliet c.Hamlet4. ( ) Ophelia d. King Lear5. ( ) Portia e. Othello6. ( ) Rosalind f. Romeo and JulietIII. Define the leterary terms listed below.1.Renaissance2.sonnet3.Spenserian Stanza4.Humanism5.dramatic irony6.tragedy7.allusionIV. Answer the following questions.1.Give a summary about the English literature during the Renaissance period.2.What is the main idea of Hamlet?3.Give a brief introduction to Thomas More’s Utopia.4.When were Shakespeare’s main tragedies written? what did he write about in histragedies?Chapter Five The Period of Revolution and RestorationI. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or phrase according to th etextbook.1.The 17th century was a period when ______ impeded the further development ofcapitalism in England and the ______ could no longer bear the sway of _______.2.England became a commomwealth under the leadership of _______.3.The Glorious Revolution in _____ meant three things the supremacy of ________,the beginning of _______, and the final truiumph of the principle of _______.4.Restoration created a literature of its own, that was often ______ and _______,but on the whole _______ and _______.5.The first thing to strike the reader is Donne’s extraordinary _____ and penetrating_______. The next is the ______ which marks certain of the lighter poems and which represents a conscious reation from the extreme _______ of woman encouraged by the Petrachan tradition.6.Paradise Lost presents the author’s view in an ______, _______ form. It is basedon the _______legend of the imaginary progenitors of the human race-______, and _______, and involves God and his eternal adversary _____in its plot.7.Bunyan’s most important work is _________, written in the old-fashioned,medieval form of ________ and _________.8.Christia has two objects, ---to get rid of his ______, which holds the sins and fearsof his life, and to make his way.II. Find out the work from column A and its content from column B.1. ( ) II Penseroso a. defense of the Revolution2. ( ) Lycidas b. Satan against God3. ( ) Comas c. about dear friend4. ( ) Areopagitica d. happiness5. ( ) Eikonolastes e. meditation6. ( ) Defense for the English People f. masque7. ( ) Paradise Lost g. attack on the censorship8. ( ) L’Allegro h. justifying the excutionIII.Define the leterature terms listed below.1.Blank Verse2.Three Unities3.Conceit4.Stanza5.Elegy6.Allegory7.Genre8.Literary CriticismIV. Answer the following questions.1.What are the different aspects between the literature of Elizabeth period and thatof the Revolution period?2.Give a brief analysis of Satan, the central figure in Paradise Lost.3.Why do people say Samson is Milton?4.In your opinion, why is “The Pilgrim’s P rogress” successful?Chapter Six The Age of Enlightenment EnglandI. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or phrase according to th etextbook.1.The Revolution of 1688, which banished the last of the _____ kings, marks theend of the long struggle for political freedom in England.2.Another feature of the age was the rapid development of _________.3.It is simply for convenience that we study 18th century writings in three maindivisions: the reign of so-called _____, the revival of _______ poetry, and the beginnings of the _______.4.The philosophy of the nlighteners, though ________ ________ and _________ inits essence, did not exclude senses, or sentiments, as a means of perception and learning.5.The most outstanding figure of English sentimentalism was ________.6.The Tarler and _______ _________ were Steele and Addison’s chief contributionto English literature.7.Robinson Crusoe is largely an ______ ________ ________ story, rather than thestudy of ______ _______ which Defoe probably intended it to be.8.Gulliver’s adventures begins with ______________, who are so small thatGulliver is a giant among them.9.The poem, which Addison named ______ _______, was hailed throughoutEngland as a great work.10.In the essays of the 16th century, French writer ____ set the model for morefamiliar, personal and discursive discussion.11.Fielding’s laternovels are _______________, was inspired by the success ofRichardson’s novel Pamela.12.As________, Goldsmith is among the best of the century.13.The greatest of _______ poets is Robert Burns.II. Match the theirs works in column A writers/genres with in column B.⑴1. ( ) The Deserted Village a. Thomas Gary2. ( ) The Village b. George Crabble3. ( ) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard c. Oliver Goldsmith4. ( ) The Seasons d. James Thomson5. ( ) The Rape of the Lock e. William Blake6. ( ) The Chimney Sweeper f. Alexander Pope7. ( ) A Red, Red Rose g. Robert Burns⑵1. ( )A Sentimental Journey a. Daniel Defoe2. ( ) The Vicar of Wakefield b. Jonathan Swift3. ( ) The School for Scandal c.John Bunyan4. ( ) The History of a Young Lady d. Horace Walpole5. ( ) Tom Jones e. Laurence Sterne6. ( ) The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle f. Oliver Goldsmith7. ( ) Robinson Crusoe g. Richard B. Sheridam8. ( ) Gulliver’s Travels h. Samuel Richardson9. ( ) The Castle of Otranto i. T. G. Smollet10.( ) The Pilgrim’s Progress j. Fielding.⑶1. ( ) The Vicar of Wakefield a. essay2. ( ) She Stoops to Conquer b. poem3. ( ) The Citizen of the world c. novel4. ( ) The Deserted Village d. comedyIII.Define the leterature terms listed below.1.Enlightenment Movement2.Realistic Novel3.Gothic novel4.Heroic Couplet5.Mock Epic6.Bildungsroman7.Epitaph8.Farce9.Imagism10.RhymeIV. Answer the following questions.1.What is Pope’s position in En glish literature?2.What are the features of Sterne’s novels?3.What are the narrative festures of Gulliver’s Travel?4.What is Dr. Johnson’s comment on Addison’s prose?5.What is Fielding’s style?6.Why is Burn’s poetry important?Chapter Seven The Romantic PeriodI. Fill in the following blanks.1.With the publication of William Wordworth’s _____ in Collaboration with S. T.Coleridge, ________ began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of English literature.2.The most important and decisive factor in the develoment of literature is _____,English Romanticism was greatly influenced by the _______ and _______.3.The greatest historical novelist _____ was produced in the Romantic Age.4.Byron is chiefly known for his two long poems, one is Child e Harold’sPilgrimage, the other is ________.5.Shelley’s poem _______ (1816), is vaguely autobiographical acount of a youngpoet’s unsuccessful attempt to recapture his envisional ideal.6.Ode to a Nightingale was written by _______.II. Decide whether the following statements are true or false.1. The Romantics emphasized the special qualities of each individual’smind.2.The brilliant literary criticiam Biographis literaria is written by Samuel Johnson. III. Write the author of the following literary works.1. Song of Innocence2. The Prelude3. Kubla Khan4. Don Juan5. Prometheus Unbound6. Ode to the West Wind7. Ode on a Greciam Urn 8. Pride and Prejudice9. Poor RelationsIV. Match the authors in column A with the works in column B.1. Dante a. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud2.Byron b. Ode to a Nightingale3. Wordsworth c. Gain4. Keats d. Prometheus Unbound5. Shelley e. Divine ComedyV. Define the following terms.1.Romanticismke poetsVI. Answer the following questions.1.How does Wordsworth define the poet?2.What kinds of stylistic devices are used in Ode to the West Wind?ment on Austen’s writing festures.Chapter Eight The Victorian AgeI. Fill in the following blanks.1.Victorian literature, as a product of its age, naturally took on its quality of _____and _______. It was many-sicked and complex, and reflected both _____ and ______ the great changes that were going on in people’s life and thought.2.The novel _____ makes a fierce attack on the bourgeoise system of education andthe bourgeois philosophy _______.3.George Eliot produced three remarkbale novels including Adam Bede, The Millon the Floss and __________________.4.________ by Tenneyson is made of 12 books of narrative poems.5.In Victorian poetry, the “Browning” refers to _________ and _______. II. Define the literary terms.1.Critical realism.III. Find the relevant match from column B for each item in column A.⑴ A B1. Transcendentalism a . Stephen Crane2. Neoclassicism b. Robert Louis Stevenson3. Preromanticism c. Percy Bysse Shelley4. Sentimentalism d. Henry Fielding5. Realism e. William Blake6. Romanticism f. Alezander Pope7. Criticial realism g. Rolph Waldo Emerson8. New romanticism h. Ezra Pound9. Naturalism i. Charles Dickens10. Imagism j. Lawrence Sterne⑵1. Charles Dickens a. Mary Barton2. William Makepeace Thackeray b. Jane Eyre3. Charlotte Bronte c. Vanity Fair4. Emily Bronte d. David Copperfield5. Mrs. Gaskell e. Wuthering Heights6. George Eliot f. The Mill on the Floss7. Thomas Hardy g. The Egoist8. George Meredith h. Tess of the D’Urbervilles9. Samuel Butler i. News From Nowhere10. William Morris j. The Way of All FlushIV. Answer the following questions.1.What is the majoe contribution made by critical realists in the 19th century.2.Give a brief analysis of the features of Dickens’ works.Chapter Nine 20TH Century LiteratureI. Fill in the following blanks.1.Those “novels of character and enviorement” by Thomas Hardy are the mostrepresentative of him as both a _______ and a critical realist writer.2.The trilogy “The Forsyte Saga” consists of The Man of Property, In Chancery and_________.wrence first novel, _________________, was received with respect.4.Virginia Woolf’s novel ________________, published in 1925, made herreputation as an important psychological writer.5._________is the m ost outstanding stream of consciousness novelist.II. Define the literary terms.1.Imagism2.ModernismIII. Find the relevant match from column B for each item in column A.1. James Joyce a. Neo-classicism2. Ezra Pound b. An active romantic3. William Wordsworth c. Humanism4. Oscar Wilde d. Transcendantalism5. Walter Scott e. A radical enlightenner6. Alezander Pope f. Imagism7. Johanthan Swift g. Aestheticism8. Percy Bysshe Shelley h. A lake Poet9. William Shakespeare i. Stream of consciousness10. Henry, David Thoreau j. A historical novelistIV. Give a brief comment on the characteristic of Hardy’s novels.。

英国文学练习题

英国文学史及作品选读练习题Old and Middle English PeriodThe most important romance of the Middle English period is about . It was written in Latin.所选答案:［未给定]正确答案： B。

King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table问题2Today Chaucer is regarded as the father of English poetry. His masterpiece is .所选答案：[未给定]正确答案：The Canterbury Tales问题3captured the spirit of the medieval period just as it was ending。

所选答案:[未给定]正确答案： D。

Geoffrey Chaucer问题4In the 14th century，the two most famous are and Langland。

所选答案:［未给定]正确答案：Geoffrey ChaucerChaucer问题5得0 分，满分2 分Chaucer’s active career provided him not only with knowledge but also experiences, whichaccounted for the wide range of his writings。

The following are all his careerEXCEPT .所选答案:［未给定］正确答案： D。

businessman and churchman问题6得0 分，满分2 分Beowulf unfolds a picture of an early society, of its public life,its customs， rituals and cultural activities。

高二英语留学国家文化单选题40题(带答案)

高二英语留学国家文化单选题40题(带答案)1.In Britain, the traditional afternoon tea usually includes _____.A.coffee and biscuitsB.tea and sandwichesC.juice and cakesD.water and fruits答案：B。

解析：在英国，传统的下午茶通常包括茶和三明治等点心。

A 选项咖啡和饼干不是传统下午茶内容；C 选项果汁和蛋糕也不是传统下午茶常见搭配；D 选项水和水果一般不作为传统下午茶的组成部分。

2.The famous British writer William Shakespeare is known for his _____.A.novelsB.poemsC.dramasD.essays答案：C。

解析：英国著名作家威廉·莎士比亚以戏剧闻名。

A 选项小说不是莎士比亚主要成就；B 选项诗歌只是莎士比亚作品的一部分；D 选项散文不是莎士比亚的主要创作类型。

3.In Britain, people drive on the _____ side of the road.A.leftB.rightD.either left or right答案：A。

解析：在英国，人们靠道路左侧行驶。

B 选项右侧行驶不是英国的交通规则；C 选项道路中央行驶错误；D 选项说法错误。

4.The traditional British sport of cricket is played with a _____.A.ball and batB.racket and shuttlecockC.stick and ballD.disc and frisbee答案：A。

解析：传统的英国运动板球是用球和球棒进行的。

B 选项是羽毛球的装备；C 选项表述不准确；D 选项是飞盘运动的装备。

5.The British flag is also known as _____.A.the Stars and StripesB.the TricolorC.the Union JackD.the Maple Leaf答案：C。

(完整word版)英国文学选读练习题-含答案(word文档良心出品)

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 inLondon about 1340.C.Geoffre.Chaucer B.Si.Gawain2.Franci.Bacon D.Joh.Dryden3.Chaucer died on the 25th October 1400, and was buried in ________.C.Flanders B.France3.Italy D.Westminste.Abbeymercia.expansio.abroad._______.encourage.exploratio.an.travel.wpatibl.wit.th.interes.o.th.Englis.merchants.C.Henr.V B.Henr.VII4.Henr.VIII D.Quee.Elizabeth5.Except being a victory of England over ________, the rout of the fleet “Armada” (Invincible) was also thetriumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.C.Spain B.France5.America D.Norway6.At the beginning of the 16th century the outstanding humanist ________ wrote his Utopia in which he gave aprofound and truthful picture of the people’s suffering and put forward his ideal of a future happ y society.C.Thoma.More B.Thoma.Marlowe6.Franci.Bacon D.Willia.Shakespear7.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen ________.C.Mary B.Elizabeth7.William D.Victoria8.English Renaissance Period was an age of ________.C.pros.an.novel B.poetr.an.drama8.essay.an.journals D.ballad.an.songs9.From the following, choose the one which is not Francis Bacon’s work: ________.C.Th.Advancemen.o.Learning B.Th.Ne.InstrumentE.Essays D.Th.Ne.AtlanticsF.Venus and Adonis9.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” This is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ________.C.songs B.playsedies D.sonnets11.The heroines of Shakespeare’s great comedies, ________ are the daughters of the Renaissance, whoseimages and stories will remain a legacy to readers and audiences of all time.C.Portia B.Roseland11.Viola D.Beatrice12.Choose the four great tragedies of Shakespeare from the following ________.C.Hamlet B.OthelloE.Macbeth D.Kin.LearF.Timon of Athens12.Which play is not a comedy? ________C..Midsumme.Night’.Dream B.Th.Merchan.o.VeniceE.Twelft.Night D.Rome.an.JulietF.As You Like ItA.“Denmar.i..prison”.I.whic.pla.doe.th.her.summaris.hi.observatio.o.hi.worl.int.suc..bitte.sentence.________C.Charle.I B.Othello14.Henr.VIII D.Hamlet15.The works of ________ and the Authorised Version of the English Bible are the two great treasuries of theEnglish language.C.Geoffre.Chaucer B.Edmun.Spenser15.Willia.Shakespeare D.Be.Johnson16.In which play does the hero show his prof ound reverence for man through the sentence: “What a piece ofwok is a man! How nobel in reason! How finite in faculty!” ________C.Rome.an.Juliet B.Hamlet16.Othello D.Th.Merchan.o.VeniceA.I.1649._______monwealth.C.Jame.I B.Jame.II17.Charle.I D.Charle.II18.The revolution of 1688 meant three of the following things: ________.A.the supremacy of ParliamentB.the beginning of modern EnglandC.the triumph of the principal libertyD.the triumph of the principle of political libertyE.the Restoration of monarchy18.Who of the following were the important metaphysical poets? ________C.Joh.Donne B.Georg.Herbertton D.Richar.Lovelace20.Which work was NOT written by John Milton? ________C.Paradis.Lost B.Paradis.Regained20.Samso.Agonistes D.Volpone21.Paradise Lost is ________.A.John Milton’s masterpieceB.a great epic in 12 booksC.written in blank verseD.about the heroic revolt of Satan against God’s authority21.John Milton is ________.A.a great revolutionary poet of the 17th centuryB.an outstanding political pamphleteerC.a great stylistD.a great master of blank verseto.too.hi.storie.o.Paradis.Lost.i.e.________.B.the creationC.the rebellion in Heaven of Satan and his fellow-angelsD.their defeat and expulsion from HeavenE.the creation of the death and of adam and EveF.the fallen angels in hell plotting against GodG.Satan’s temptation of EveH.the departure of Adam and Eve from Eden23.The finest thing in Paradise Lost is the description of hell, and ________ is often regarded as the real hero ofthe poem.A.GodB.Satan24. C.Adam D.Eve25.Who is the greatest of the Metaphysical school of poetry? ________C.Joh.Donne B.Georg.Herbert25.Andre.Marvell D.Henr.Vaugham26.________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.C.Th.Renaissance B.Th.Enlightenment26.Th.Religiou.Reformation D.Th.Chartis.MovementA.Th.mai.literar.strea.o.th.18t.centur.wa.________.Wha.th.writer.describe.i.thei.work.wer.mainl.socia.realities.C.naturalism B.romanticismE.classicism D.realismF.sentimentalismA.Th.eighteent.centur.wa.th.golde.ag.o.th.Englis.________.Th.nove.o.thi.perio.spok.th.trut.abou.lif.wit.a.uncompromisin.courage.C.drama B.poetry28.essay D.novel29.In 1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, ________ and ________, which made him well-known as a satirist.C..Tal.o..Tub B.Bickerstaf.Almanac29.Gulliver’.Travels D..Modes.Proposal30.“Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.” This sentence is said by ________, oneof the greatest masters of English prose.C.Alexande.Pope B.Henr.Fielding30.Danie.Defoe D.Jonatha.SwiftA.A..journalist._______.o.circumstantia.detail.Thi.powe.t.mak.hi.character.aliv.an.hi.storie.credibl.i.a.inimitabl.gift.C.Josep.Addison B.Danie.Defoe31.Samue.Richarson D.Tobia.Smollett32.Which of the following are NOT written by William Blake? ________C.Poetica.Sketches B.Song.o.InnocenceE.Song.o.Experience n.SyneG.Th.Marriag.o.Heave.an.Hell F.ProphecisH.Visions of the Daughters of Albion and America, a Prophecy32.In the 18th century English literature, the representative poets of pre-romanticism were ________.C.Willia.Wordsworth B.Willia.Blake33.Rober.Burns D.Jonatha.Swift34.The Romantic Age begab with the publication of The Lyrical Ballads which was written by ________.C.Willia.Wordsworth B.Samue.Johnson34.Samue.Taylo.Coleridge D.Wordswort.an.Coleridge35.The Romantic Age came to an end with the death of the last well-known romantic writer ________.C.Jan.Austen B.Walte.Scott35.Samue.Taylo.Coleridge D.Willia.Wordsworth36.The glory of the Romantic Age lies in the poetry of ________.C.Willia.Wordsworth B.Samue.Taylo.ColeridgeE.Georg.Gordo.Byron D.Perc.Byssh.ShelleyF.John KeatsA.Th.Englis.Romanti.Ag.produce.tw.majo.novelists.The.ar.________.B.George Gordon Byron and Percy Bysshe ShelleyC.William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD.Walter Scott and Jane AustenE.Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt37.Which poets belong to the Active Romantic group? ________C.Georg.Gordo.Byron B.Willia.WordsworthE.Perc.Byssh.Shelley D.Joh.KeatsF.John Milton38.Which poets belong to the Lakers? ________C.Willia.Wordsworth B.Samue.Taylo.ColeridgeE.Joh.Keats D.Rober.SoutheyF.Walter Scott39.Which of the folloeing were written by Wordsworth ONLY? ________C.T.th.Cuckoo B.Th.Lyrica.BalladsE.Luc.Poems D.Th.Solitar.ReaperF.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud40.The publication of ________ marked the break with the conventional poetical tradition of the 18th century,i.e., with classicism, and the beginning of the Romantic revival in England.C.Th.Lyrica.Ballads B.Th.Prelude41.Child.Harold’.Pilgrimage D.Do.Juan42.As contrasted with the classicists who made reason, order and the old, classical traditions the criteria in theirpoetical creations, ________ based his own poetical principle on the premise that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling.”C.Samue.Taylo.Coleridge B.Georg.Gordo.Byron42.Perc.Byssh.Shelley D.Willia.Wordsworth43.________ was the first critic of the Romantic School.C.Willia.Wordworth B.Samue.Johnson43.Samue.Taylo.Coleridge D.Wordwort.an.Coleridge44.Which of the following statements is (are) NOT true about George Gordon Byron? ________A.Byron’s early years had been far from happy for he was born with a clubfoot, in the frequent family scenes hismother called him “you lame brat.”B.Byron died in Italy annd was deeply mourned by the Italian people and by all progressive people throughoutthe world.C.The reactionary criticism of the 19th ce ntury tried to belittle Byron’s genius and his role in the development ofEnglish literature, but Byron remains one of the most popular English poets both at home and abroad.44.Sinc.th.Ma..Movemen.i.1919.mor.an.mor.o.Byron’.poem.hav.bee.translate.int.Chines.an.wel.receive.b.th.poet.an.youn.readers.Byro.ha.no.becom.on.o.th.best-know.Englis.poet.i.ou.country.45.In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled ________.C.Biographi.literaria B.Th.Prelude45.Luc.Poems D.Th.Lyrica.Ballads46.________ is regarded as the most wonderful lyricist England has ever produced mainly for his poems onnature, on love, and on politics.C.Willia.Wordsworth B.Joh.Keats46.Georg.Gordo.Byron D.Perc.Byssh.Shelley47.Which of the following statements is (are) 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 faggingsystem, according to which the younger school-boys were obliged to obey the older boys and bear a great deal of cruel treatment.C.George Gordon Byron alled Percy Bysshe Shelley “the best and least selfish man I ever knew.”D.Percy Bysshe Shelley loved the people and hated their oppressors and exploiters.A.________’.pursui.o.beaut.i.al.thing.bespok.a.aspiratio.afte..bette.lif.tha.th.sordi.realit.unde.capitalism.Hi.leadin.principl.is.“Beaut.i.truth.trut.beauty.”C.Perc.Byssh.Shelley B.Georg.Gordo.Byron48.Willia.Wordsworth D.Joh.KeatsA.Choos.th.fou.immorta.ode.writte.b.Joh.Keats.________C.Od.t.th.Wes.Wind B.Od.t..NightingaleE.T.Autumn D.Od.o.MelancholyF.Ode on a Grecian UrnA.Choos.th.work.writte.b.Jan.Austen.________C.Prid.an.Prejudice B.Sens.an.SensibilityE.Northange.Abbey C.Emma50.Mansfiel.Park F.PersuasionA.I.th.19t.centur.Englis.literature..ne.literar.tren.calle._______.appeared.An.i.flourishe.i.th.fortie.an.i.th.earl.fifties.C.romanticism B.naturalism51.realism D.critica.realismA.Englis.critica.realis.foun.it.expressio.chiefl.i.th.for.o.________.Th.critica.realists.mos.o.wh.wer.novelists.describe.wit.vividnes.an.artisti.skil.th.chie.trait.o.th.Englis.societ.an.criticise.th.capitalis.syste.fro..democrati.viewpo int.C.novel B.drama52.poetry D.essay53.The greatest English critical realist novelist was ________, who criticised the bourgeois civilisation andshowed the misery of the common people.C.Willia.Makepeac.Thackeray B.Charle.Dickens53.Charlott.Bronte D.Emil.Bronte54.Which of the following writers belong to critical realists? ________Charle.Dickens B.Charlott.Bronte54. C.Emil.Bronte D.Thoma.HardyA._______.wrot..numbe.o.littl.sketche.o.“cockne.characters”.H.signe.the.“Boz”.whic.wa.hi.nicknam.fo.hi.youn.brother.Hi.firs.book.Sketche.b.Bo.appeare.i.1836.C.Elizabet.Gaskell B.Willia.M.Thackeray55.Charle.Dickens D.Jan.Austen56.________ has been called “the supreme epic of English life.”C..Tal.o.Tw.Cities B.Davi.Copperfield56.Pickwic.Papers D.Olive.Twist57.The theme underlying ________ is the idea “Where there is oppression, there is revolution”.C..Tal.o.Tw.Cities B.Davi.Copperfield57.Pickwic.Papers D.Olive.TwistA.I.th.Victoria.Age.poetr.wa.no..majo.ar.intende.t.chang.th.world.Th.mai.poet.o.th.ag.wer.________.C.Alfre.Tennyson B.Rober.BrowningE.Mrs.Browning D.Rober.BurnsF.William BlakeA.Th._______.Movemen.appeare.i.th.thirtie.o.th.19t.century.I.showe.th.Englis.worker.wer.abl.t.appea.a.a.independen.politica.forc.an.wer.alread.realisin.th.fac.tha.th.industria.bourgeoisi.wa.thei.principa.enemy.C.Enlightenment B.Renaissance59.Chartist D.Romanticist60.Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to enter the higher societyregardless of the social reality? ________C..Tal.o.Tw.Cities B.Davi.Copperfield60.Grea.Expectation D.Dombe.an.Son61.Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel ________.C..Tal.o.Tw.Cities B.Grea.Expectation61.Har.Times D.Davi.Copperfield62.________ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of thehe ro is largely based on the author’s early life.C.To.Jones B.Davi.Copperfield62.Olive.Twist D.Grea.ExpectationA.Th.Bront.sister.ar.________.The.wer.al.talente.writer.an.al.o.the.die.young.C.Charlott.Bronte B.Emil.BronteE.Ann.Bronte D.Jan.AustenF.Catherine63.Charlotte Bronte produced four novels: ________.C.Professor B.Jan.EyreE.Shirley D.VilletteF.Agnes Grey64.Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled ________.C.Wutherin.Heights B.Jan.Eyre65.Emma D.Agne.Grey.appea.i.th.nove.Jan.Eyre.________C.Jan.Eyre B.Mr.Rochester66.Mar.Barton D.Sila.Marner67.Which characters appear in the novel Wuthering Heights? ________C.Heathcliff B.CatherineE.Hindley D.CathyF.Hareton67.In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte ________.A.pours a great deal of her own experienceB.criticises the bourgeois system of educationC.shows that true love is the foundation of marriageD.shows that women should have equal rights with men68.Women novelists began to appear in England during the second half of the ________ century.C.17th B.18th69.19th D.20th70.Anne Bronte also wrote two novels ________ and ________.C.Shirley B.Villette70.Th.Tenan.o.th.Wildfel.Hall D.Agne.Grey71.Which of the following statements are true about Jane Eyre? ________A.One of the central themes of the book is the criticism of the bourgeois system of education.B.Another problem raised in the novel is the position of women in society.C.This book is Charlottel Bronte’s best literary production.c.o.cultur.amon.th.bourgeoisi.an.sympathise.wit.th.suffering.o.th.poo.people.He.realis.wa.coloure.b.petty-bourgeoi.philanthropy.72.Most of Robert Browning’s important works, including ________, are written in the form of dramaticmonologue.Dramati.Lyrics B.Dramati.Romances72. C.Me.an.Women D.dramatic.Personae73.Thomas Hardy is one of the representatives of English ________ at the turn of the 19th century.C.critica.realism B.pre-romanticism73.neo-classicism D.ne.romanticism74.Which statement is true? ________A.Thomas Hardy is a famous novelist.B.Thomas Hardy is also a poet.C.Thomas Hardy is a critical realist.D.Fatalism is strongly reflected in Thomas Hardy’ novels.A.Accordin.t.Thoma.Hardy’.ow.classification.hi.novel.divide.themselve.int.thre.groups.The.ar.________.B.Novels of character and environmentC.Romances and FantasiesD.Novels of IngenuityE.Working class literatureA.Novel.o.characte.an.environmen.ar.als.calle.Wesse.novels.takin.th.southwes.countie.o.Englan.fo.thei.setting.The.include.________.C.Unde.th.Greenwoo.Tree B.Th.Retur.o.th.NativeE.Th.Mayo.o.Casterbridge D.Tes.o.th.D’UrbervillesF.Jude the Obscure76.The following statements are about Thomas Hardy’s novels, which are true? ________A.His Wessex novels are of great significance.B.The Southwest counties of England are the setting of his Wessex novels.C.There is pessimism in his novels.D.Mankind is subjected to hostile and mysterious fate.E.There are elements of naturalism in his works.edies.h.criticise.th.uppe.clas.o.th.Englis.bourgeedie.ar.________.dy Windermere’s FanC.A Woman of No ImportanceD.An Ideal HusbandE.The Importance of Being EarnestF.The Picture of Dorian Gray78.Oscar Wilde was the representative among the writers of ________.C.aestheticism B.decadence79.critica.realism D.pre-romanticismA.Alfre.Tennyson’.poeti.outpu.wa.vas.an.varied.Hi.mai.poem.ar.________.C.Th.Princess B.MaudE.I.Memoriam D.Idyll.o.th.KingF.Crossing the Bar80.Which of the following short poems was/were written by Alfred Tennyson? ________C.Break.Break.Break B.Crossin.th.BarE.Th.Eagle D.Swee.an.LowF.Tears, Idle Tears81.Which lament was written by Alfred Tennyson for the death of his friend Hallam? ________C.I.Memoriam B.Lycidas82.Adodais D.Eleg.writte.i..Countr.Churchyard83.My Last Duchess is ________.C..dramati.monologue B..shor.lyric83..novel D.a.essay84.________ are generally regarded as Joseph Conrad’s finest novels.C.Lor.Jim B.Nostromo84.Youth D.Th.Ol.Wives.Tale85.Who is regar ded as a forerunner of the “stream of consciousness” literature in the 20th century?C.Joh.Galsworthy B.Henr.James85.Thoma.Stearn.Eliot D.Jame.Joyce86.George Bernard Shaw’s essay ________, a commentary on Henrik Ibsen’s dramatic works, served also as theauthor’s own program of dramatic creation.C.Widower’.Houses B.Mrs.Warren’.Profession86.Majo.Barbara D.Th.Quintessenc.o.Ibsenism87.In English literature, ________ and ________ are the two best-known novelists of the “stream ofconsciousness” school.wrence B.Rober.Tressell87.Jame.Joyce D.Virgini.Woolf88.________’s admirers have praised him as “second only to Shakespeare in his mastery of English language.”wrence B.T.S.Eliot88.Jame.Joyce D.W.B.Yeats89.________ is the climax of Vir ginia Woolf’s experiments in novel form.C.Th.Window B.Tim.Passes89.T.th.Lighthouse D.Th.Waves90.Which of the following novels belong(s) to the “stream of consciousness” school of novel writing?C.Ulysses B.Finnegan.Wake90.T.th.Lighthouse D.Th.Waves91.________ was written by James Joyce.A.The Portrait of an Artist as a Young ManB.Portrait of a LadyC.The Picture of Dorian GrayD.To the Lighthousewrence’.representativ.wor._______.wa.positivel.take.a..typica.exampl.an.livel.manifestatio.o.th.Oediwrence’.long-rang.stud.o.th.psychologi.theorie.o.Sigmun.Freud.Son.an.Lovers B.Th.Rainbow92. d.Chatterley’.Lover D.Wome.i.Love93.Which of the characters are in the novel Sons and Lovers?93.Mrs.Morel B.Pau.. C.Miriam D.Clara94.Which of the following writers were from Ireland?C.Georg.Bernar.Shaw B.Jonatha.SwiftCI.James Joyce Oscar Wilde94.W.B.Yeats95.Which of the following play(s) was/were NOT written by George Bernard Shaw?C.Mrs.Warren’.Profession B.Widower’.HousesE.Majo.Barbara D.PygmalionF.The Man of Property95.Which of the following plays deals with the story that a linguist trains a flower girl to speak the so-calledhigh-civilised English?C.Majo.Barbara B.Pygmalion96.Mrs.Warren’.Profession D.Ma.an.Superman97.In 1923, ________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.C.Willia.Butle.Yeats B.Samue.Butler97.Thoma.Stearn.Eliot wrence98.William Butler Yeats was _______.98. a.Iris.poe. B..dramatis..C..criti.. D..senato.i.th.Iris.Fre.Stat.i.192199.Thomas Stearns Eliot defined his belief as ________.C.classicis.i.literature B.royalis.i.politics99.Anglo-Catholi.i.religion D.al.o.th.above100.Which of the following statement is NOT true?A.Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in America.B.Thomas Stearns Eliot became a British subject in 1927.C.Thomas Stearns Eliot was educated in Harvard University and Oxford University.D.Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, a critic and a playwright.E.Thomas Stearns Eliot was also a great novelist.100.In which poem are the sterility and chaos of the contemporary world after 1st World War expressed?C.Od.t.th.Wes.Wind B.Th.Solitar.ReaperLamia ndKeys:1-5: A, D, D, A, A 6-10: B, B, D, D, ABCD11-15:ABCD, D, D, C, B 16-20: C, ABC, AB, D, ABCD21-25: ABCD, ABCDEFG, B, A, B 26-30: D, D, AD, D, B31-35: D, BC, D, B, ABCDE 36-40: C, ACD, ABD, ACDE, A41-45: D, C, B, B, D 46-50: A, D, BCDE, ABCDEF, D51-55: A, B, ABCD, C, C 56-60: A, ABC, C, C, A61-65: B, ABC, ABCD, A, AB 66-70: ABCDE, ABCD, C, CD, ABCD71-75: ABCD, A, ABCD, ABC, ABCDE76-80: ABCDE, ABCD, AB, ABCED, ABCDE81-85.A.A.AB.B.D 86-90.CD.C.D.ABCD.A91-95: A, ABCE, ABCDE, E, B 96-100: A, ABCD, D, E, D。

英国文学试题.1-7汇总

英国文学试题1。

Oscar Wilde was the representative among the writers of 。

A. aestheticism B。

naturalism C。

neo—romanticism D. sentimentalism 2。

List the following terms according to the time when they appeared。

A. romanticism, neoclassicism，humanism, critical realismB。

humanism，neoclassicism, romanticism, critical realismC。

romanticism，humanism，modernism, critical realismD。

modernism，critical realism，romanticism，humanism3。

Charles Dickens and William Thackeray were the two great representatives of the English critical realism in the _______century。

A。

17th B。

18th C。

19th D. 20th4。

Thomas Hardy wrote novels of _______。

A. character and environment B。

pure romance艺术 C. stream of consciousness D。

psychoanalysis5。

The typical f eature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the ________.A。

bitter satire B。

larger—than—life caricature C。

Latinized diction D. dramatic monologue6. The author of the novel The Return of the Native is _______。

高二英语历史流派单选题40题

高二英语历史流派单选题40题1.Which work is not written by William Shakespeare during the Renaissance?A.HamletB.MacbethC.Pride and PrejudiceD.Romeo and Juliet答案：C。

解析：《哈姆雷特》《麦克白》《罗密欧与朱丽叶》都是莎士比亚在文艺复兴时期的作品。

而《《傲慢与偏见》是简·奥斯汀的作品，创作于19世纪，不属于文艺复兴时期。

2.Who is known as the “father of English literature” in the Renaissance?A.Christopher MarloweB.Edmund SpenserC.Geoffrey ChaucerD.John Milton答案：C。

解析：杰弗里·乔叟被称为“英国文学之父”，他生活在文艺复兴前期。

克里斯托弗·马洛、埃德蒙·斯宾塞和约翰·弥尔顿虽然也是著名作家，但不是“英国文学之父”。

3.Which of the following is a characteristic of Renaissance literature?A.Pessimism and despairB.Focus on religious dogmaC.Emphasis on humanismD.Avoidance of worldly affairs答案：C。

解析：文艺复兴时期的文学强调人文主义，关注人的价值和尊严。

不是悲观绝望，也不是专注于宗教教条和回避世俗事务。

4.The play “Doctor Faustus” is written by ________.A.William ShakespeareB.Christopher MarloweC.Edmund SpenserD.Geoffrey Chaucer答案：B。

高考英语常考英美文化阅读专练：专题 26 英美文化阅读理解专项：爱丁堡艺术节+英国音乐(名师原创)

Edinburgh Festivals 爱丁堡艺术节养成良好的答题习惯，是决定高考英语成败的决定性因素之一。

做题前，要认真阅读题目要求、题干和选项，并对答案内容作出合理预测;答题时，切忌跟着感觉走，最好按照题目序号来做，不会的或存在疑问的，要做好标记，要善于发现，找到题目的题眼所在，规范答题，书写工整;答题完毕时，要认真检查，查漏补缺，纠正错误。

Summer in Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital city, is the time for festivals. Between the end of July and the beginning of September there are several different festivals which take place there.The original Edinburgh International Festival started in 1947,and offers visitors a rich programme of classical music, theatre,opera and dance. The same year that the official festival began, ahandful of theatrical companies gatecrashed the festival andorganised their own event, which grew into what is now called theFringe Festival.The term ‘fringe’ means something on the outside of the main event,but over the years, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival has become the largest ofall the festivals, and indeed the largest arts festival in the world!The Fringe features performers and acts which are less traditional andmore unconventional than those in the International Festival, and includes alot of stand-up comedy shows, music and children’s entertainment. TheEdinburgh Fringe is seen as an important place for up and coming stand-upcomedians to perform at.At the same time in Edinburgh there are various other festivals, such asthe Jazz and Blues festival, the Book Festival, the Film Festival, and even anInternet Festival! There is also a multicultural festival called Mela, whichcelebrates the diversity of people living in Edinburgh, in particular people with South Asian origins.Edinburgh Castle is the site of one of the most spectacular events – The Military Tattoo. A military tattoo has nothing to do with a tattoo on your skin! It means a performance of military music, for example, by marching bands. In Scotland the military tattoo traditionally includes bagpipes and drums. This year the display will also feature dancers, horses and motorbikes!Though you have to pay to attend most of the events at the various festivals, there are several groups who organise large numbers of free events as well. (310 words)◆Helper:a handful of 一把，少数的gatecrashed 不请自来unconventional 非传统的stand-up comedy即兴喜剧表演up and coming 有前途的multicultural 多元文化的diversity [dai'və:siti]多样性spectacular[spek'tækjulə]引人注目的military 军队的bagpipes苏格兰风笛tattoo[tə'tu:, tæ'tu]纹身marching bands 步操管乐队Military Tattoo军乐队分列式，军队夜间游行◆Brief Introduction:苏格兰首府爱丁堡的夏季是盛大节日的时候，从7月底到9月初，那里举行多样的节日庆祝活动。

高三英语历史进程单选题50题

高三英语历史进程单选题50题1. The first major written work in Old English was _____.A. BeowulfB. Canterbury TalesC. Paradise LostD. Romeo and Juliet答案：A。

本题考查早期英语的重要文学作品。

选项A《贝奥武夫》是古英语时期的重要作品。

选项B《坎特伯雷故事集》是中古英语时期的作品。

选项C 失乐园》是近代英语时期的作品。

选项D 罗密欧与朱丽叶》也是近代英语时期的作品。

2. Who was the king that influenced the development of English during the Anglo-Saxon period?A. Alfred the GreatB. Henry VIIIC. William the ConquerorD. Charles I答案：A。

在盎格鲁-撒克逊时期，阿尔弗雷德大帝对英语的发展产生了影响。

选项B 亨利八世是都铎王朝时期的国王。

选项C 征服者威廉是诺曼征服时期的人物。

选项D 查理一世是斯图亚特王朝时期的国王。

3. The introduction of Christianity to England had an impact on the English language. This happened in approximately _____.A. 597 ADB. 1066 ADC. 1485 ADD. 1660 AD答案：A。

基督教大约在公元597 年传入英格兰，对英语语言产生了影响。

选项B 1066 年是诺曼征服的时间。

选项C 1485 年是都铎王朝开始的时间。

选项D 1660 年是斯图亚特王朝复辟的时间。

4. Early English was mainly a combination of languages from _____.A. Germanic tribesB. Roman invadersC. Viking settlersD. French nobility答案：A。

高二英语历史流派单选题60题(答案解析)

高二英语历史流派单选题60题(答案解析)1.Who is the representative writer of Romanticism?A.Charles DickensB.Jane AustenC.William WordsworthD.George Eliot答案：C。

William Wordsworth 是浪漫主义时期的代表作家。

Charles Dickens 是批判现实主义作家。

Jane Austen 的作品风格较为细腻，常描写英国乡村生活，不属于浪漫主义代表作家。

George Eliot 也是现实主义作家。

2.Which writer is known for his Victorian novels?A.Oscar WildeB.Thomas HardyC.Percy Bysshe ShelleyD.John Keats答案：B。

Thomas Hardy 以其维多利亚时期的小说而闻名。

Oscar Wilde 主要是唯美主义作家。

Percy Bysshe Shelley 和John Keats 都是浪漫主义诗人。

3.The author of "Pride and Prejudice" is?A.Charlotte BronteB.Emily BronteC.Ann RadcliffeD.Jane Austen答案：D。

《傲慢与偏见》的作者是Jane Austen。

Charlotte Bronte 和Emily Bronte 分别著有《《简·爱》和《《呼啸山庄》。

Ann Radcliffe 是哥特小说作家。

4.Who is the representative figure of the Enlightenment literature?A.Daniel DefoeB.Alexander PopeC.Jonathan SwiftD.Henry Fielding答案：C。

大学英国文学知识提纲及试题

pagan poem)King Alfred —“英国散文之父father of English prose ”，作品：Anglo-Saxon Chronicle●Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance 人文主义是文艺复兴时期的核心。

(相信人有能力使自身完美，并强调个人价值的重要性、赞颂当前生活的美好。

) ●诗歌poetry ，诗歌式戏剧poetic drama ，散文prose (essay) 是主要的文学形式。

●戏剧drama 是英国文艺复兴最大的成就。

伊丽莎白时期（16世纪—17世纪初）是英国戏剧的高峰golden age 。

● 英国文化复兴的3个时期： The beginning period (1516—1578)The flowering period (1578—1625) ——伊丽莎白时期 “a nest of singing birds ”【莎士比亚】The epilogue period (1625—1660)世纪前半叶最有趣的诗人，第一个把sonnet 引进英国文学。

英国文学史上第一个创作无韵诗blank verse 的诗人。

“诗人中的诗人the poet ’s poet ”，“诗圣”，“桂冠诗人poet laureate ”，伊丽莎白时期最伟大的非戏剧诗人。

开创“斯宾塞诗体Spenserian stanza ”，作品：the Faerie Queene初始阶段伟大的人文主义者，著作：Utopia【of studies 】【of truth 】58篇散文，英国散文史上的一座里程碑。

)英国剧作家和小说家，作品：Euphues (euphuism 夸饰文体)人性对知识和幸福的渴求)【Marlowe 最好”28首献给黑女士，描写爱情】Twelfth Night ； Much Ado About Nothing钦定版圣经King James Bible （1611年）—英语及英国文学的一个里程碑monument 。

英国文学问答题

英国文学问答题Chapter I Renaissance Period1.What are the common characteristics shared by the characters created by Marlowe? In whatway is Marlowe a humanist writer? (p.21)Marlowe reveals man’s pursue of happiness, knowledge and power. In this way, Marlowe a humanist writer2.What kind of character is Faustus?Dr. Faustus is the hero created by Marlowe. He is one of the Renaissance heroes in Marlowe’s plays. He is individualistic and full of ambition, facing bravely the challenge from God. He shows Marlow’s human istic idea of human dignity and capacity. In portraying Faustus, an introspective and philosophical figure, Marlowe praises his soaring aspiration of knowledge while warning against the sin of pride since Faustus’s downfall was caused by his despair in God and trust in Devil.3.Please analyze briefly Hamlet’s character features. What devices does Shakespeare use todepict this sophisticated character? (P. 34)4.What are the common characteristics shared by Shakespeare’s four tragedies? ( P.33)5.Give a brief a nalysis of Hamlet, the titular character in Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. (P. 34)6.William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights and poets the world has everknown. Briefly discuss his artistic achievements in characterization.His major characters are neither merely individual ones nor type ones: they are individuals representing certain types. Each character has his or her own personalities; meanwhile, they may share features with others.7. William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights the world has ever known.(1) Name his four greatest tragedies.(2) What are the characteristics of the four tragedies in common?(3) Briefly summarize each hero' s weakness of nature.A. Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear,and Macbeth.B. Each portrays somke noble hero, who faces the injustice of human life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation.C. Each hero has his weakness of nature: Hamlet, the melancholic scholar; Othello' s inner weakness is made use of by the outside evil force; the old king Lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power; and Macbeth' s lust for power stirs up his ambition and leads him to incessant crimes.8. "For herein Fortune shows herself more kindThan in her custom; it is still her useTo let the wretched man outlive his wealth,To view with hollow eye and wrinkled browAn age of poverty; from which ling’ring penanceOf such misery doth she cut me off."T he above lines are taken from a speech made by Antonio, a major character in Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice. Why does Antonio say that Fortune is more kind to him than in her custom?This sentence means she, Lady Fortune, is more kind to him because she is taking away both his wealth and life. The speaker is Antonio, it’s said that his ship have all been lost, and he ispenniless, and will have to pay the pound of flesh. (Because Shylock has made a strange bond that requires Antonio to pay him a pound of flesh if he can’t repay him, the money that he borrowed for his friend in due time.) (P38)9.What are the themes expressed through the play The Merchant of Venice? (p.32)10. William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights the world has ever known. ( 1) Name his four greatest tragedies.(2) What are the characteristics of the four tragedies in common?(3) Briefly summarize each hero' s weakness of nature.A. Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear,and Macbeth.B. Each portrays somke noble hero, who faces the injustice of human life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation.C. Each hero has his weakness of nature: Hamlet, the melancholic scholar; Othello' s inner weak¬ness is made use of by the outside evil force; the old king Lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power; and Macbeth' s lust for power stirs up his ambition and leads him to incessant crimes.11. List three distinctive features of English Renaissance movement in literature and then illustrate each with proofs from either the concerned chapter in your textbook or your own reading.1) The first period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimilation. Petrarch was regarded as the fountainhead of literature by the English writers. Wyatt introduced the Petrachan sonnet into England and Surrey brought in blank verse.2) The Elizabethan drama, in its totality, is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance. The Greek and Roman Drams had a great influence on the Elizabeth Drama, especially on Shakespeare’s tragedies. E.g. Hamlet, the first of the great tragedies, is regarded as Shakespeare’s most popular play on the stage.3) Francis Bacon, the first important English essayist, is best known for his essays which greatly influenced the development of his literary form. He was the founder of modern science in England. (P10---12)12. Novum Organum, along with other works, won the author the honor "Father of modern science."What is the name of the author?What is the main concern of this work?Why is the work so important for the development of modern science?Answers:A. Francis Bacon. "Novum Organum" is a treatise on methodology.B. The argument is for the use of inductive method of reasoning in scientific study.C. Bacon expounds the four great false conceivings that beset men's mind and prevent them from seeking the truth.D. He advocates the inductive reasoning in place of the deductive reasoning.E. By putting forward this theory, Bacon shows the new empirical attitudes toward truth about nature.F. He bravely challenges the medieval scholasticists.13. . What are the characteristics of “ Metaphysical poetry”? (P.63)Chapter II The Neoclassical Period1. Please sum up briefly Fielding’s contribution to the modern English novel.(121)2.How would you define the character Robinson Crusoe?Daniel Defoe’s no vel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.3. "The first shot I made among these creatures, I killed a she-goat which had a little kid by her which she gave suck to, which grieved me heartily; but when the old one fell, the kid stood stock still by her till I came and took her up, and not only so, but when I carried the old one with me upon my shoulders, the kid followed me quite to my enclosure, upon which I laid down the dam, and took the kid in my arms, and carried it over my pale, in hopes to have it bred up tame, but it would not eat, so I was forced to kill it and eat it myself; these two supplied me with flesh a great while, for I ate sparingly; and saved my provisions (my bread especially) as much as possibly I could."This is a very significant sentence with great details that reveals the character of Robin son Crusoe. What aspects of Crusoe’s character are revealed then?1) In most of his works, Defoe gave his praise to the hard-working, sturdy middle class and showed his sympathy for the lower-class people. Robinson Crusoe was such a character.2) Robison goes out to sea, gets shipwrecked and marooned/landed on a lonely island, struggles to live for 24 years there and finally is saved by a ship and returns to England. During the period Robinson leads a harsh and lonely life and survives by growing corps, taming animals, etc. growing from a naive young man into a hardened man.3) With a great capacity for work, inexhaustible energy (精力充沛), courage and persistence in overcoming difficulties（在克服困难方面持之以恒）, in struggling against nature, Crusoe becomes the prototype / representative of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist. （他是大英帝国缔造者的完美典范，同时也是殖民者的先驱）．4) In the novel, Defoe glorified human labor and the puritan fortitude which the middle class praised highly, so he can be regarded as a spokesman of the bourgeois. (P98-100)As a rule, and allegory is a 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 the implied meaning an allegory is usually concerned with?4.Gulliver’s Travels is a great masterpiece. Who is the author? What is the novel mainly about?What is the social significance of Gulliver’s Travels? (108)Chapter III The Romantic Period1. Under the influence of the leading romantic thinkers like Kant and the Post-Kantians, Romoanticists demonstrated a strong reaction against the dominant modes of thinking of the 18th century's Neo-classicists. Discuss, in relation to the works you know, the difference between Romanticism and Neo-classicism.A. Neo-classicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion 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 through 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 elegance in style, unified structure, serious tone and moral instruction.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 mentary those experiences were (Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," or "The Solitary Reaper,") or Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"), the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.C. In a word, Neo-classcism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached great importance to the indevidual's mind (emotion, imagination, temporary experience...)2．How is Neoclassicism different from Romanticism? Provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best.1)Neoclassicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy and that literature, should be judged in terms of its service to humanity, and thus, literary expressions 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, and simplicity in language; Fielding’s Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel; Gray’s “Elegy Written in a CountryChurchyard” displays eleganc e in style, unified structure, serous tone and moral instructions,2) 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.3)In a word, Neoclassicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached greatimportance to the individual’s mind.3. English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads.Why is Lyrical Ballads considered the milestone to mark the beginning of English Romanticism?A. In this book, Wordsworth and Coleridge explored new theories and innovated new techniques in poetry writing.B. The preface to the Lyrical Ballads acts as a manifesto for the new school. In the preface, Wordsworth defines poetry and poets.C. Wordsworth's poems in this book differ in marked ways from his early poetry; simplicity of the language, sympathy for the poor, and expressions of inward states of mind.4. Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought. Who arethe two? And what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers?The French philosopher, Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe. 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.5. How do you understand English Romanticism?English Romanticism , as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads and to have ended in 1832.(P.161-P.162)6．What makes William Blake’s two books Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience different?The Songs of Innocence (1809) is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world, though not without its evils and sufferings. His Songs of Experience (1794) paints a different world, a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy tone. Childhood is central to Blake's concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. 7．What characteristics do Byron’s poems have that classify them as Romantic poems?Byron’s poems showed the author’s persistent attacks on “cant political, religious and moral” and his romantic character of the Byronic hero. His hatred of tyranny, love of nature, preoccupation with the remote and savage are the features of Romantic poetry.8．What are the character features of “Byronic hero”? In what way is Byron a romantic poet?(P.195-196)9. What does “the west wind” symbolize in Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”? In what tone does the poet end the poem? (见阅读理解)10. Here is the last stanza of Byron’s "The Isles of Greece":Place me on sunium’s mardle steep,Where nothing, save the waves and I,There, swan-like, let me sing and die:May hear our marbled murmurs sweep;A land of slaves shall ne’er be min e ---Dash down you cup of Samian wine!Determine the speaker first and then discuss BRIEFLY the main idea of the stanza or of the whole excerpt. You may want to consider the possible implications of the last two lines.A. The speaker is a Greek singer (or Byron in a Greek Singer’s disguise or Byron speaks through a Greek singer).B. The excerpt presents a strong resentment for the Turk’s conquest of Greece and calls on the Greek people to rise and fight for freedom.C. Thus, the last line may suggest resolution to take immediate action to free Greece from enslavement.11. Analyze the character of Jane Eyre based on the selection taken from Chapter X X Ⅲ of Jane Eyre.A. Jane Eyre, an orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing to love and be loved, a poor, plain, little governess who dares to love her master.B. In Chapter X X Ⅲ, Jane finds herself hopelessly in love with Mr. Rochester but she is aware that her love is out of the question. When forced to confront Mr. Rochester, she desperately and openly declares her equality with him and her love for him.12. Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine in Pride and Prejudice, is often regarded as the most successful character created by Jane Austen. Make a brief comment on Elizabeth' s character.Elizabeth is clever, alert, observant. She is more observant and less charitable than Jane in recognizing the characters of Bingley' s sisters. She recognizes Mr. Collins' character in his letter and after meeting him turns down firmly and with dignity his patronizing proposal. She is able to match wits with Darcy several times and with Colonel Fitzwilliam, earning their respect and admiration.B. Fearless and frank, not' rattled by the attack of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, she wins a notablevictory, sending her Ladyship away completely routed. She is independent but not infallible in her judgment--taken in by the charm of the worthless Wickham. She cannot be blamed for misjudging Darcy.C. She shows flexibility, discernment, and honesty of mind when she reads Darcy's defense inhis letter and admits the justice of much of what he says. Thus beginning to lose her prejudice against him. She recognizes and values true worth when she encounters it in Jane, the Gardiners, and,near the end of the novel,in Darcy. She sees more clearly than her father the danger of sending Lydia to Brighton.D. She is able to control her emotions at times of stress--when she first encounters Darcy atPemberley ;when she realizes that she loves Darcy and has good reason to fear that she has lost him,she waits without repining for time to bring a solution. She is witty,fun-loving,recognizes humor in herself and in others, but ridiculing only folly, nonsense, and inconsistencies. She recognizes the follies of her own family and their shortcomings as well as their virtues.E. She is considerate of others but quite capable of asserting herself when occasion demands. Shehas a playful and unaffected manner, sunny disposition, natural animation, sense of fun, and sweet reasonableness. She is ready to laugh at herself and everything save "what is wise and good. "She shows a sense of humor by telling what Darcy has said about her at the Mery. ton ball.13. Please discuss Jane Austen’s major concern, and make a comment on her masterpiece Pride and Prejudice(P. 225)14. Why do we still classify Jane Austen as a writer of the 18th-century, though she lived mainly in the nineteenth century?（P.223）Chapter IV The Victorian Period1.What do Victorian novelists concern about? (P.236)2.Charles Dickens is a famous realistic writer of Britain. Name two of his major works. Where are most of his novels set? Briefly analyze the social criticism in his works.(P. 241)3. Discussion: In what way is Charles Dickens a master story-teller? (P.241)4. "Let it not be supposed by the enemies of ' the system, ' that during the period of his solitary incarceration, Oliver was denied the benefit of exercise, the pleasure of society, or the advantages of religious consolation. "What do you think Charles Dickens intends to say in the above ironic statement taken from Oliver Twist?A. The sentence is a typical example of irony. What Dickens intends to say is just the opposite ofthe sentence's literal meaning.B. 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 dining hall and flogged as apublic 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 listened to the boys'prayer to be guarded against his sins and vices.C. The ironic statement is,in fact, a bitter denunciation and fierce attack at the brutal,inhumantreatment of the poor orphan by the workhouse authority.5. My boy!’ said the old gentleman, leaning over the desk. Oliver started 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)Explain why the boy [Oliver Twist] started first, then trembled violently and burst into tears when the words were "kindly" said.The boy started at the words because kind words were not expected; it is (was, must be) the first time in all his life that the boy [Oliver Twist] had ever been "kindly" greeted; strange sounds may predict another suffering/misfortune/torture/...) (At least one example from the text is expected to back up the above statement)6. Emily Bronte used a very complicated narrative technique in writing her novel Wuthering Heights. Try to tell Bronte's way of narration briefly.There are complicated narrative levels in Wuthering Heights The main narrative is told by Nely ,Catherine's old nurse. to Mr. Lockwood,a temporary tenant at Grange. The latter gives an account of what he see at Wuthering Heights.In the main narrative by Nelly inserts the sub——narrative told through Isabella's letters a Nelly.While the central intrest is maintained,the sequence of its development is constantly disordered by flashbacks,This marks the story all the more enticing and genuine.7. It is said that B. Shaw's play, Mrs. Warren's Profession, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist's Fabianist idea. Try to summarize this theme briefly.The play deals with the themes of prostiution as a big bussiness in the bourgeois society . The play launches possibly the sharpest and the bitterest attack ever made by Shaw upon the very foundation of the "civilized" capitalist world.The play hits the very heart of capitalism as a social system according to which economic exploitation is not only considered the legitimate thing adopted everywhere but is pursued shamelessly by "dignified"members of the society through the lowest and the dirtiest means.8.Why is the name of Browning often associated with the term: “dramatic monologue”? How effectively does he use this poetic form? p.2839.In what way is the novel Jane Eyre a moral fable? What specific moral do the main characters of the novel learn from their experiences?In Jane Eyre, Jane, like Mr . Rochester, has to undergo a series of physical and moral tests to grow up and achieve the final happiness. So it is a moral fable.These morals are the following: man’s life is composed o f perpetual battle between sin and virtue, good and evil. Women’s happiness arises from the sacrifice of self or some human weaknessovercome.10.In what way is Jane Eyre different from other women of her time?(P.259)11. Analyze the character of Jane Eyre based on the selection taken from Chapter X X Ⅲof Jane Eyre.A. Jane Eyre, an orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing to love and be loved, a poor, plain, little governess who dares to love her master.B. In Chapter X X Ⅲ, Jane finds herself hopelessly in love with Mr. Rochester but she is aware that her love is out of the question. When forced to confront Mr. Rochester, she desperately and open¬ly declares her equality with him and her love for him.12. Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?Please discuss the above question in relation to the basic principles of literary naturalism.A. They accept the negative implication of Darwin’s theory of evolution, and believe that society is a "jungle" where survival struggles go on.B. They believe that man’s instinct, the envir onment and other social and economic forces play an overwhelming role and man’s fate is "determined" by such forces beyond his control.13.What is Naturalism? Please name two naturalist writers and their representative works.Under the deep influence of Darwinism and the French naturalism, American naturalism sticks to the principle of “ the survival of the fittest” and attributes human life or conditions to the determinants of inherited instincts and social environment. Being victims of society and nature, those heroes battle on towards their natural desires down the life stream, but they are doomed to fail in control of their own fate without any freedom of choice.Hardy Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Dreiser Sister Carrie14..Sum up the general theme of the novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles. In what way is the novel a naturalistic work?/ What are the causes that lead to Tess’ s tragedy?The theme of the novel is that human are impotent before fate, however he tries and he seldom escapes his ordained destiny.In this novel, Naturalism play an important part. Tess is a pure woman brought up with the traditional idea of womanly virtues. In a way, Tess seems to be led to her final destruction step by step by Fate. Coincidence adds one “wrong” to another until she is caught up in a dead-end. It reflects naturalists idea that Being victims of society and nature, they are doomed to fail in control of their own fate without any freedom of choice.Chapter V The Modern Period1. Discussion: How do you understand t he term “Modernism”? And in what way is it different from the realism? (P.313 第2段)2. What general mood of the modern Western world is profoundly expressed in the single poem The Waste Land? P.3603.Please describe the psychological development of Paul, the hero of Sons and Lovers.(P.376)4. Discuss the possible theme in W.B. Yeats's “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and how that theme is presented in the poem.The major themes in Yeats's peoms are usually Celtic legends ,local folktales,or stories of the heroic in Irish history. Many of his early poems have a dream quality,expressingmelancholy,passive and self-indulgent feelings.But ina number of poems, Yeats has achieved suggestive pattern of meaning by a careful countpointing of contrasting indeas or images like human and fairy, natural and artifical,domestic and wild ,and ephermral and permanent. "Innisfree" is just a popula representative fo such peomss; around a "fairlyland" background,the peom is imagery give the peom a haunting quality. The charity and control of the peotry is very delicate with natural imagery,dream-like atmospher and musical beauty. The possible theme is that tired of the life of his day, Yeats sought to escape into an ideal "fairlyland" where he could live calmy as a herimit and enjoy the beauty of nature. The peam consists of three quatrains of iambic pentameter ,with each stanza rhymed abab.Innisfree is an inlet in the lake in Irish lengends. Here the author is referring to a place for hermitage.5. " Though his fair daughter' s self, as I avowedAt starting, is my object. Nay, we' 11 goTogether down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,Taming a sea horse, though a rarity,Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!"The lines above are taken from Robert Browning' s "My Last Duchess. "Taking the whole poem into consideration, what kind of person do you think the duke is?A. His apparent intelligence, excellent taste for art superiority and aristocratic manners are paradoxical.B. hispride，jealousy and brutality.7. It is said that B. Shaw's play, Mrs. Warren's Profession, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist's Fabianist idea. Try to summarize this theme briefly.The play deals with the themes of prostiution as a big bussiness in the bourgeois society . The play launches possibly the sharpest and the bitterest attack ever made by Shaw upon the very foundation of the "civilized" capitalist world.The play hits the very heart of capitalism as a social system according to which economic exploitation is not only considered the legitimate thing adopted everywhere but is pursued shamelessly by "dignified"members of the society through the lowest and the dirtiest means.50. A. Rose, as a symbol of love, may refer to the love between Emily and the Northerner, yet used rath¬er ironically, in the way it is associated with decay and death in the story.B. Rose could also stand for the pity, sympathy, or the lament" we "shows for Emily.C. The pity and lament goes not only to Emily but all those who are imprisoned in the past and fail to adapt to the change.D. Discuss in relation to the story.。

《英美文学史》练习题库

《英美文学史》练习题库华中师范大学网络教育学院《英美文学史》练习题库1. Write the names of the authors of the following literary works.1)Pamela2)Joseph Andrews3)The School for Scandal4)Dictionary5)Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard6)Songs of Innocence7) A Red, Red Rose8)Lyrical Ballads9)Kubla Khan10)Poems11)Ivanhoe12)Vanity Fair13)Jane Eyre14)Wuthering Heights15)Middlemarch16)Treasure Island17)Salome18)The Forsyte Saga19)The Return of the Native20)Mrs. Warren?s Profession21)Sailing to Byzantium22)The Rainbow23)To the Lighthouse24)Dombey and Son25)Queen Mab: A philosophical Poem26)The Jew of Malta27)Gulliver?s Travels28)Sense and Sensibility29)Jonathan Wild30)T ess of D?Urbervilles31)King Lear32)Don Juan33)The Rime of the Ancient Mariner34)The Shepherd?s Calendar35)The Rape of the Lock36)The Rivals37)The Mill on the Floss38)A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man39)An Essay of Dramatic Poesy40)A Sentimental Journey41)Ode to the West Wind42) The Declaration of Independence43) The Pathfinder44) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow45) Nature46) Walden47) Young Goodman Brown48) Moby Dick49) The Black Cat50) Song of Myself51) Captain, My Captain52) Because I could stop for Death53) The Road Not Taken54) The Fall of the House of Usher55) Uncle Tom?s Cabin56) The Rise of Silas Lapham57) The Portrait of a Lady58) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer59) The Cop and the Anthem60) The Sea Wolf61) The Red Badge of Courage62) The Pit63) Sister Carrie64) In a Station of the Metro65) The River-Merchant?s Wife: A Letter66) Anecdote of the Jar67) Chicago68) The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock69) The Grapes of Wrath70) The Great Gatsby71) The Sound and the Fury72) The Old Man and the Sea73) The Hairy Ape74) Death of a Salesman75) A Rose for Emily76) The Hollow Men77) The Song of Hiawatha78) Of Mice and Men79) The Gilded Age80) U.S.A2. Choose the right answer.1. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance?A. Rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.B. Attempt to remove the old feudalist ideas in Medieval Europe.C. Exaltation of man?s pursuit of happiness in his life, and tolerance of man?s foibles.D. Praise of man?s efforts in soul delivery and personal salvation.2. It is ___ alone who, for the first time in English literature presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.A. Edmund SpenserB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. William ShakespeareD. John Donne3.The following belong to the characteristics of ?metaphysical poetry? represented by ?John Donne? except___.A. ConceitsB. Actual imagery and simple dictionC. Argumentative formD. Elegant style4. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from____.A. Greek MythologyB. Roman legendC. The Old TestamentD. The New Testament5. _____, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare?s most popular play on the stage, for it has the qualities of a “blood-and-thunder” thri ller and a …philosophical exploration? of life and death.A. The Merchant of VeniceB. HamletC. King LearD.The Winter?s Tale6. It was ___and ___ the two conquests that provided the source for the rise and growth of English literature.A. Anglos/ SaxonsB. Normans/ Anglo-SaxonsC. Romans/ NormansD. Greeks/ Romans7. Marlow?s greatest achievement is that he perfected the ?blank verse?, and he is regarded as ?the pioneer of English drama?, which of the following is not written by him?A. TamburlaineB. The Jew of MaltaC. The Passionate to His LoveD. The Sun Rising8. ____Essays is the first example of that genre in English literature, which has been recognized as an important landmark in the development of English prose.A. John Milton?sB. Francis Bacon?sC. Montaigne?sD. Thomas Gray?s9. _____Was known as “the poets? poet”.A. William ShakespeareB. Edmund SpenserC. John DonneD. John Milton10. Alexander Pope worked painstakingly on his poems and finally brought to its last perfection ______Dryden hadsuccessfully used in his plays.A. the heroic coupletB. the free verseC. the blank verseD. the Spenserian stanza11. ____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.A. Genesis AB. The Holy WarC. The Pilgrims progressD. Exodus12.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Samuel Johnson?s language style?A. His sentences are long and well structured.B. His sentences are interwoven with parallel words.C. He tends to use informal and colloquial words.D. His sentences are complicated, but his thoughts are clearly expressed.13. ____has been regarded by some as "Father of the English novel" for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A. John BunyanB. Henry FieldingC. Daniel DefoeD. Jonathan Swift14. ____was the only important dramatist of the 18th century, in his plays, morality is the constant theme.A. Alexander PopeB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Samuel JohnsonD. George Bernard Shaw15. The two major novelists of the English Romantic Period are _____and Walter Scott.A. Washington IrvingB. Jane AustenC. Herman MelvilleD. Charles Dickens16. _____defines the poet as "man speaking to men," and poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility."A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. John Keats17. For the Romantics, ____is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.A. loveB. manC. natureD. death18. In the Romantic period, ____is the most prosperous literary form.A. proseB. poetryC. fictionD. play19. The author of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is __________.A. WordsworthB. AustenC. Byron20. In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true?A. Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen?s novels.B. Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as "First Impressions".C. Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.D. In this novel, the author explores the relationship between great love and realistic benefits.21. Romanticism is a period of British literature roughly dated from _________.A.1660-----1798B.1798----1832C.1483-----1546D.1836-----190122. Which of the following is the Gothic novel?A. Shelly?s Prometheus UnboundB. Keats? LamiaC. Mary Shelly?s FrankensteinD. Jane Austen?s Pride and Prejudice23. Chronologically the Victorian refers to__________.A.1798---1832B.1836---1901C. the Romantic periodD. the Neoclassical Period24. ____ believes that man?s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of …nature”, both inside and outside.A. Charles DickensB. Thomas hardyC. Bernard Shaw25. “Self-conceited”, “cruel” and “tyrannical” are most likely the names of the character in______.A. Robert Browning?s …My Last Duchess?B. Christopher Marlowe?s …Dr. Faustus?C. Shakespeare?s Love?s …Labor?s lost?D. Sheridan?s …The School for Scandal?26. Robert Browning?s style is_______.A. identical with that of the other VictorianB. similar to that of TennysonC. perfectly artisticD. rough and disproportionate in appearance27.According to D.H. Lawrence, _____was the first novelist that “started putting all the actions inside”.A. George EliotB. Thomas HardyC. Charles DickensD.T.S. Eliot28. Which of the following description of Thomas Hardy is wrong?A. Most of his novels are set in Wessex.B. Tess of the D?Urbervilles is one of the most representative of him as both a naturalistic and a critical realist writer.C. Among Hardy?s major works, Under the Greenwood Tree is the most cheerful and idyllic.D. From The Mayor of Casterbridge on, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of his novels.29. Charlotte?s works are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle-class working women, particularly________.A. governessesB. clerks C .baby-sitters D. managers30. The three trilogies of _____ Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.A. D. H. Lawrence?sB. John Galsworthy?sC. James Joyce?sD. Thomas Hardy?s31. ____ is the most outstanding stream-consciousness novelist.A. T.S. EliotB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. James JoyceD. Oscar Wilder32. In his famous poem_____, Yeats explores the problems of death, love, old age andart.A. "Leda and the Swan"B. "No Second Troy"C. "September 1913"D. "Sailing to Byzantium"33. ____is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose. A. Ulysses B. The Waste Land C. The Confidential Clerk D. Dubliners34. In ____, James Joyce intends to present a microcosm of the whole human life by providing an instance of how a single event contains all the events of its kind, and how history is recapitulated in the happenings of one day.A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManB. DublinersD. Finnegans Wake35. Of the following poems by T.S. Eliot, which is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th Century English Poetry?A. Poems 1909----1925B. The Hollow MenC. Prufrock and Other ObservationsD. The Waste Land36. Which of the following best describes the speaker of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?A. He is a man of an action.B. He is a man of apathy.C. He is a man of inactivity.D. All the above are wrong.37. Of the following works by D.H. Lawrence, _______established his position as novelist.A. The White PeacockB. The TrespasserC. Women in LoveD. Sons and Lovers38. Which of the following writi ngs is not the novel of D.H. Lawrence?s?A. Sons and LoversB. A Portrait of the Artist as a Yong ManC. The White Peacock.D. The Rainbow39. Of the following writings by James Joyce, which is a prime example of modernism in literature?A. UlyssesB. A Portrait of the Artist as a Yong ManD. Finnegans Wake40. Of all the following issues, _____is definitely NOT the focus of the Romantic writers in the American literary history.A. Puritan moralityB. Human bestialityC. Noble savagesD. Divinity of man41. Henry David Thoreau?s work, ________, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of the New England Transcendental Movement.A. WaldenB. The PioneersC. NatureD. "Song of Myself"42. “Leaves of Grass” commands great attention bec ause of its uniquely poetic embodiment of________, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War.A. the democratic idealsB. the romantic idealsC. the self-reliance spiritsD. the religious ideals43. According to Whitman, the genuine participation of a poet in a common cultural effort was to behave as a supreme_________.A. democratB. individualistC. romanticistD. leader44. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as ___________.A. The Naturalist PeriodB. The Modern PeriodC. The Romantic PeriodD. The Realistic Period45. In the following works, which sign the beginning of the American literature?A. The Sketch BookB. Leaves of GrassC. Leather Stocking TalesD. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn46. Washington Irving?s “Rip Van Winkle” is famous for_________.A. Rip?s escape into a mysteriousB. The story?s German legendary source materialC. Rip?s seeking for happinessD. Rip?s 20-years sleep47. Which of the following statement is not true about Washington Irving?A. Washington Irving is regarded as Father of the American short stories.B. Irving?s relationship with the Old World in terms of his literary imagination can hardly be ignored considering his success both abroad and at home.C. Irving?s taste was essentially progressive or radical.D. Washington Irving has always been regarded as a writer who "perfected the best classic style that American literature ever produced."48. The Publication of ______established Emerson as the mosteloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.A. NatureB. Self-RelianceC. The American ScholarD. The Over-Soul49. "There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity", which author of the following authors does the mention belong to________.A. Washington IrvingB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Walt Whitman50. "Moby Dick" is regarded as the first American_________.A. Prose epicB. Comic epicC. Dramatic fictionD. Poetic fiction51. The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT________.A. mystery of the universeB. sin of the whaleC. power of the great NatureD. evil of the world52. Theodore Dreiser belonged to the school of literary ______which emphasized heredity and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances.A. naturalismB. realismC. determinismD. humanism53. Emily Dickinson?s verse is most aptly characterized as ___________.A. exposing the evils of the societyB. paving the way for the following generation of free verse poetsC. sharing the same poetic conventions as Walt WhitmanD. exhibiting sensitiveness to the symbolic implications of experience, such as love, death, immortality and etc.54. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as _____________.A. the Age of RealismB. the Age of ModernismC. the Age of RomanticismD. the Age of Colonialism55. Who exerts the simple most important influence on literary naturalism?A. EmersonB. Jack LondonC. Theodore DreiserD. Darwin56. ______is considered by H.L. Mencken as "the true father of our national literature."A. HemingwayB. PoeC. IrvingD. Twain57. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a _______language.A. grandB. pompousC. simpleD. vernacular58. Henry James?s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with________.A. international themeB. national themeC. European themeD. Regional theme59. In the following writers, who is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century "Stream-of-consciousness" novels and the founder of psychological realism______________.A. Henry JamesB. Mark TwainC. Emily DickensonD. Theodore Dreiser60. The following titles are all related to the subject that escapes from the society and returns to nature except__________.A. Dreiser?s Sister CarrieB. Copper?s Leather-Stocking TalesC. Thoreau?s WaldenD. Mark T wain?s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn61. Closely related to Emily Dickinson?s religious poetry are her poems concerning ___________.A. ChildhoodB. Youth and happinessC. LonelinessD. Death and immortality62. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, _________became the major trend in Americanliterature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism63. Ezra Pound is a leading spokesman of the_________.A. Imagist MovementB. Chartist MovementC. Modernist MovementD. Romantic Movement64. Strong affinity of the Chinese and Oriental literature can be found in the works of_________.A. Mark TwainB. Ezra PoundC. Emily DickinsonD. Arthur Miller65. Of the following American poets, whose work was first recognized in England and then in America?A. Robert FrostB. Walt WhitmanC. Emily DickinsonD. Wallace Stevens66. In these lines "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough", Ezra Pound uses the figure of speech of ________.A. metaphorB. simileC. hyperboleD. contrast67. O?Neill?s inventiveness seemingly knew no limits. He wasconstantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his plays, especially during the twenties when ______was in full swing.A. SymbolismB. ExpressionismC. RomanticismD. Realism68. In a class which discusses the Imagist Movement in the United States, we will definitely NOT include________.A. William Carlos WilliamsB. Ezra PoundC. Gary SnyderD. Wallace Stevens69. In which of the following poems by Ezra Pound did you find the allusion to Wi-shang? ____________A. In a Station of the MetroB. The River-Merchant?s Wife: A LetterC. A PactD. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley70. In 1915, Ezra Pound began writing his great work_______, which spanned from 1917 to 1959.A. CantosB. Collected Early Poems of Ezra PoundC. PersonaeD. Hygh Selwyn Mauberley71. The founder of the American drama is _______.A. Arthur MillerB. Clifford OdetsC. Tennessee Willia msD. Eugene O?Neill72. The first full-length play written by Eugene O?Neill is______.A. The StrawB. Beyond the HorizonC. Bound East for CardiffD. The Hairy Ape73. Eugene O?Neill?s “The Hairy Ape” explores the problem of________.A. human disillusionmentB. the corruption of human desireC. human responsibilityD. the loss of human identity74. Fitzgerald?s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of_______.A. the Jazz ageB. the Romantic PeriodC. the Renaissance PeriodD. the Neoclassical Period75. Fitzgerald wrote the following except_________.A. The Great GatsbyB. In Our TimeC. Tender is the NightD. This Side of Paradise76. "There was music from my neighbor?s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the chamoagne and the stars...", the two sentences are taken from________.A. ?The Great Gatsby? by FitzgeraldB. ?Sister Carrie? by Theodore DreiserC. ?Moby-Dick? by Herman MelvilleD. ?Daisy Miller? by Henry James77. Which of the following comments on the novel “The Great Gatsby” is not true?A. The Great Gatsby is a novel that is a set against the ending of the war.B. Gatsby is a mystical figure whose intensity of dream partakes of a state of mind that embodies American itself.C. Gatsby is the last of the romantic heroes.D. Gatsby is wealthy but unintelligent and brutal.78. _____is Hemingway?s masterpiece.A. Farewell to ArmsB. For Whom the bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and the Sea79. Which of the following best describes the protagonist of William Faulkner?s "A Rose for Emily"?A. She is a conservative aristocrat.B. She is a wealth lady.C. She is a prisoner of the past.D. She has good taste.80 Who, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used "i" instead of "I" to refer to himself as a protest against self-importance?A. CummingsB. Wallace StevensC. FitzgeraldD. Ernest Hemingway3. Answer the following questions briefly.1)What is Chaucer's contribution to English language?2)What was the English Renaissance?3)What are the themes of "Robinson Crusoe"?4)Summarize Shelley's significance in the English literature.5) What are the periods of Shakespeare’s dramatic composition? And what are their respective features?6) What are the principles of classicists? Tell three representative classicists in the English literature and their representative works.7)Summarize Eliot's influence briefly.8)Why is Hamlet a representative of humanism?9) What are the characteristics of the American writings in the Romantic Period?10) How does “Rip Van Winkle” reveal Washington Irving’s conservative attitude?11) What is Hawthorne’s writing style?12) Comment on the language of Whitm an’s poems13) What is Dreiser’s wri ting style?14) What is the Imagist Movement?15) What is the basic concern of The Hairy Ape?16) What is the theme of The Old Man and the Sea?17) Sea adventures are Melville’s favorite subject; "Moby-Dick" is a great novel in the theme, which is also noted for its symbolism, please analyze it in detail.18) Why Modernism is different from Realism?4. Answer the following questions in detail.1)What are the general features of Shakespeare's plays?2) Summarize Byron's chief contribution and significance in the English literature.3) What are the three periods of Yeats’s literary career? Enumerate some representative works at each period.4) What are the characteristics of Romanticism in English literature? Give examples to illustrate them.5) Comment on the similarities and differences of the three dominant figures—William Dean Howells,Henry James and Mark Twain of the Realistic period.6) The background of American Modernism7) What is Hawthorne’s “black” vision of life and human beings?8) Analyze the theory of Theodore Dreiser’naturalism with example.9) Take examples to analyze the style and theme of Mark Twain.。

Key to Chapter 2,British Literature

Key to Chapter 2, British LiteratureAnswers to Chapter 2Al.C 2. A 3.D 4.B 5. A 6. B 7. A 8. B 9.A 10.B 11.D 12. B 13.B 14. C15.AB.I. satiric 2. didactic, the heroic couplet3. four, misfortune4. prose, ridiculous5. human nature6. amuse, instruct7. third-person 8. 18th, 409. highway, London 10. dictionary11. conservative 12. defiance, anger13. fame-fishing 14. moral15. comedy 16. sentimental17. lamentation18. distortedC.l.T 2.F 3.T 4.F 5. F 6. T 7. T 8. T 9.F 10. T 11. F 12. F 13. F 14. T 15. T16. T 17. T 18. F 19. F 20. TD.I. John Bunyan 2. Alexander Pope3. Alexander Pope4. Alexander Pope5. Daniel Defoe6. Jonathan Swift7. Jonathan Swift8. Henry Fielding 9. Henry Fielding 10. Samuel Johnson 11. Richard Brinsley Sheridan12. Richard Brinsley Sheridan13. Thomas GrayE.1. The Enlightenment Movement:The eighteenth-century England is known as the Age of En?lightenment or the Age of Reason. The Enlightenment Move?ment was a progressive intellectual movement which flour?ished in France and swept through the whole Western Europe at the time. The movement was a furtherance of the Renais?sance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Its purpose wasto enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philo?sophical and artistic ideas. The enlighteners celebrated reason or rationality, equality and science. They called for a refer?ence to order, reason and rules and advocated universal edu?cation. Famous among the great enlighteners in England were those great writers like John Dryden, Alexander Pope and so on.2. Neoclassicism:In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works. This tendency is known as neoclassicism. According to the neoclassicists, all forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek and Roman writers (Homer, Virgil, and so on) and those of the contemporary French ones. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy, and that liter?ature should by judged in terms of its service to humanity. This belief led them to seek proportion, unity, harmony and 150grace in literary expressions, in an effort to delight, instruct and correct human beings, primarily as social animals. Thus, a polite, urbane, witty, and intellectual art developed.3. The Graveyard School:It refers to a school of poets of the 18th century whose poems are mostly devoted to a sentimental lamentation or meditation on life, past and present, with death and graveyard as themes. Thomas Gray is considered to be the leading figure of this school and his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is its most representative work.4. The heroic couplet:It means a pair of lines of a type once common in English po?etry, which rhyme and are written with five beats each.5. Gothic Novel:It is a school of novel that appeared in the 18th century. Such a novel is often of mystery and horror which takes place in some haunted or dilapidated Middle Age Castles.F.A)1. From Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism. This part com?pares words to leaves and warns that a writer should not use too much artificial, pompous words and pay too much atten?tion to the external beauty of language.2. From Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism. It compares anill-formed idea expressed in pompous words to a clown wearing a luxurious robe. Pope is saying that a writer should adopt plain and appropriate styles when expressing his thoughts.3. From Thomas Gray's " Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard". It describes a country scene before night falls and reveals the poet's melancholy feeling.4. From Thomas Gray's " Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard". It means that all the noble birth, beauty, wealth or political power are transcient and will lead a person to death, which is unavoidable.B)1.A. From John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.B. The Vanity fair.C. All kinds of evils are being sold and bought at the fair.2.A. From Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.B. Robinson Crusoe.C. Robinson Crusoe is hoping to find a ship which can take him back to England.3.A. From Jonathan Swift's Gulliver''s Travels.B. The Man-Mountain.C. The Emperor is going to enjoy himself by ordering his troops to cross under the Man-Mountain's legs when he stands with his legs far asunder.4.A. From Henry Fielding's Tom Jones.B. It is describing a fight between two women.C. One of them is Molly, the other Goody Brown.5.A. From Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal.B. Charles Surface.C. Charles Surface's brother, Joseph Surface.G.1. The Pilgrim's Progress is the most successful religious allego?ry in the English language. Its purpose is to urge people to comply with Christian doctrines and seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weakness and all kinds of social evils. It is not only about something spiritual but also bears much relevance to the time. Its predominant metaphor—life as a journey—is simple and familiar.2. As a representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England. He was the greatest poet of his time. He strongly advocated neoclassicism, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum. According to Pope, almost every genre of literature should have some fixed laws and rules. Prose should be precise, direct, smooth and flexible. Poetry should be lyrical, epical, didactic, satiric or dramatic, and each class should be guided by its own principles. Drama should be written in the Heroic Couplets (iambic pentameter rhymed in two lines) ; the three unities of time, space and ac?tion should be strictly observed; regularity in construction should be adhered to, and type characters rather than individ?uals should be represented.3. As a representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England. The Publication of An Essay on Criticism established his position as a great po?et. The poem, as acomprehensive study of the theories of lit?erary criticism, had great influence upon Pope's contempo?rary writers in advocating the classical rules and spreading the neoclassicist tradition in England. His The Rape of the Lock, a finest mock epic, ridicules the foolish, meaningless life of the lords and ladies in the aristocratic bourgeois society of the 18th century England. The Dunciad is generally considered Pope's best satiric work. In this book, dullness as reflected in the corruptness of government, social morals, education and even religion, is best exposed and satirized. Pope, as the greatest poet of his time, strongly advocated neoclassicism. He worked painstakingly on his poems, developed a satiric, concise, smooth, graceful and well-balanced style and finally brought the heroic couplet to its last perfection .4. Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in heroic couplets. It consists of 744 lines and is di?vided into three parts. It sums up the art of poetry as upheld and practised by the ancients such as Aristotle, and the eigh?teenth century European classicists. Pope first laments the death of true taste in poetic criticism of his time and calls on people to turn to the old Greek and Roman writers for guid?ance. The poem, as a comprehensive study of the theories of literary criticism, exerted great influence upon Pope's con?temporary writers in advocating the classical rules and spreading the neoclassicist tradition in England.5. In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a naive and simple youth into a mature and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life. The realistic presentation of the successful struggle of Robinson single-handedly against the hostile nature proves the best part of the novel. Robinson is here a real hero: a typical eighteenth-cen?tury English middle-class man, with a great capacity for work, inexhaustible energy, courage, patience and persis?tence in overcoming obstacles, in struggling against the hos?tile natural environment. He is the very prototype of the em?pire builder, the pioneer colonist. In describing Robinson's life on the island, Defoe glorifies human labor and the Puritan fortitude, which save Robinson from despair and are a source of pride and happiness. He toils for the sake of subsistence, and gets his reward.6. Tom Junes is Henry Fielding's masterpiece on the subject of human nature. It brings its author the name of the "Prose Homer. " The panoramic view it provides of the 18th century English country and city life with different places and about 40 characters is unsurpassed. The language is one of clarity and suppleness. And last of all, the plot construction is ex?cellent. Its eighteen books of epic form are divided into three sections, 6 books each, clearly marked out by the change of scenes; in the country, on the highway and in London. By this, Fielding has indeed achieved his goal of writing a "comic epic in prose."7. Samuel Johnson was the last great neoclassicist enlightener in the late eighteenth century. He was very much concerned with the theme of the vanity of human wishes: almost all of his major writings bear this theme. He tried to warn men against this folly and hoped to cure them of it through his writ?ings. In literary creation and criticism, he was rather conser?vative, openly showing his dislike for some newly rising form of literature and his appreciation for those writings which car?ried a lot of moralizing and philosophizing. He held that a writer must adhere to universal truth and experience, i. e. Nature; he must please, but he must also instruct; he must not offend against religion or promote immorality; and he must let himself be guided by old principles. Like Pope, he was particularly fond of moralizing and didacticism.8. Samuel Johnson's language is characteristically general, often Latinate and polysyllabic. His sentences are long and well structured with parallel words and phrases. However, no matter how complex his sentences are, his idea is always clearly expressed; and though he tends to use "learned words," they are always accurately used. Reading his works gives the reader the impression that he is talking with a very learned man.9. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is recognized as Thomas Gray's best and most representative work. In this poem, Gray reflects on death, the sorrows of life, and the mysteries of human life with a touch ofhis personal melan?choly. The poet compares the ordinary people with the great ones, wondering what the commons could have achieved if they had had the chance. Here he reveals his sympathy for the poor and the unknown, but scorns the great ones who de?spise the poor and bring miseries on them.H.1. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift's best fictional work, con?tains four parts, each about one particular voyage during which Gulliver has extraordinary adventures on some remote island after he has met with shipwreck or piracy or some oth?er misfortune. As a whole, the book is one of the most effec?tive and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life—socially, politically, reli?giously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally. Its so?cial significance is great and its exploration into human nature profound. Gulliver's Travels is also an artistic masterpiece. Here we find its author at his best as a master of prose. In structure, the four parts make an organic whole, with each contrived upon an independent structure, and yet complementing the others and contributing to the central concern of study of human na?ture and life. The first two parts are generally considered the best paired-up work. The exaggerated smallness in Part 1 works just as effectively as the exaggerated largeness in Part2. Thesimilarities between human beings and the Lilliputians and the contrast between the Brobdingnagians and human be?ings both bear reference to the possibilities of human state. Part 3 furthers the criticism of the western civilization and deals with different malpractices and false illusions about sci?ence, philosophy, history and even immortality. The last part, where comparison is made through both similarities and differences, leads the reader to a basic question: What on earth is a human being?2. Henry Fielding is one of the greatest writers of the Neoclassi?cal period. His major works include The History of Jonathan Wild the Great, The History of Torn Jones, a Foundling, The History of Amelia, etc. Of these, Tom Jones, generally con?sidered Fielding's masterpiece, brings its author the name of the "Prose Homer. " The panoramic view it provides of the 18th century English country and city life with different places and about 40 characters is superb. By this, Fielding has indeed achieved his goal of writing a "comic epic in prose. "In his writings, Fielding is very sympathetic toward the poor and unfortunate, and protests strongly against social injustice and political corruption. He firmly believes in the educational function of literature. He holds that the purpose of the novel is not just to amuse, but to instruct. The object of his novel is to present a faithful picture of life with soundteaching so as to teach men to know themselves, their proper positions and appropriate manners.Fielding's language is easy, natural and familiar, but ex?tremely vivid and vigorous. His sentences are always distin?guished by logic and rhythm, and his structure carefully planned towards an inevitable ending. His works are also fa?mous for lively, dramatic dialogues and other theatrical de?vices such as suspense, coincidence and unexpectedness.3. Sheridan was the only important English dramatist of the eighteenth century. In his plays, morality is the constant theme. He is much concerned with the current moral issues and lashes harshly at the social vices of the day. His great?ness also lies in his theatrical art. In his plays, the plots are well organized, the characters, either major or minor, are all sharply depicted, and his manipulation of such devices as dis?guise, mistaken identity and dramatic irony is superb. Witty dialogues and neat and decent language also make a charac?teristic of his plays.His plays, especially The Rivals and The School for Scandal, are generally regarded as important links between the master?pieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw, and as true classics in English comedy. In The Rivals, a comedy of man?ners , he is satirizing the traditional practice of the parents to arrange marriages for their children without considering the latter's opinion. The School for Scandal is a sharpsatire on the moral degeneracy of the aristocratic-bourgeois society in the eighteenth century England, on the vicious scandal-mongering among the idle rich, on the reckless life of extrava?gance and love intrigues in the high society and, above all, on the immorality and hypocrisy behind the mask of honorable living and high-sounding moral principles. And in terms of the artistic art, it shows the playwright at his best. No won?der, the play has been regarded as the best comedy since Shakespeare.。

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William Makepeace Thakeray (1811-1863)
Vanity Fair*《名利场》
Charlotte Brontë*(1816-1855)
Jane Eyre*《简·爱》
Emily Brontë*(1818-1848)
Wuthering Heights*《呼啸山庄》，《咆哮山庄》（台湾译）
Lyrical Ballads(The Preludeof the second edition)*
We Are Seven*
Lines Written on Early Spring
The Tables Turned*
An Evening Walk
Lucy Poems(She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways)
Oriental Tales《东方叙事诗》
She Walks in Beauty*
When We Two Parted*
Maid ofAthens, Ere We Part
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Prometheus Unbound
A Song: Men ofEngland
Ode to the West Wind*
To a Skylark*
A Defense of Poetry
John Keats (1795-1821)
Isabella(long poem)
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer*
Ode on a Grecian Urn《希腊古瓮颂》*
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Thomas De Quincey (1758-1859)
On the Knocking at the gate in Macbeth*
Novelists
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Pride and Prejudice*
Sense and Sensibility
Emma*
MansfieldPark
I Wander Lonely as a Cloud*
To the Cuckoo
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey*
I Traveled Among Unknown Men
London, 1802
The Solitary Reaper*
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
Macbeth
Sonnets*(154 poems with the themes of love, beauty and motality)
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
The Alchemist《炼金术士》
Song: To Celia《致西丽娅》
Revolution and Restoration Period (17thCentury)
The Rape of the Lock《夺发记》
Sentimentalism
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard*《墓园挽歌》
Oliver Goldsmith (1730?-1774)
The Deserted Village《荒村》
(noted mainly for his criticism)
London
Irene
A Dictionary of English Language
Romanticism
Writer/Poet
Major Works
LakePoets(Old Generation)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
The Essays《散文集》
Meditations;《沉思》
Advancement of Learning;《论பைடு நூலகம்术的进步》
New Instrument《新工具》
Dramas
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Tamburlaine《帖木儿大帝》
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus《浮士德博士的悲剧》
Cousin Phyllis
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Adam Bede《亚当·比德》
The Mill on the Floss*《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》
Silas Marner《职工马南》
Middlemarch《米德尔马契》
Daniel Deronda《丹尼尔·德龙达》
Prose Writers and Poets
Writer/Poet
Major Works
Revolutionary Period
John Milton (1608-1674)
Defense of the English People《为英国人民辩护》
The second Defense of the English People《再为英国人民辩护》
Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Ivanhoe《艾凡赫》《撒克逊劫后英雄略》（林纾译）
Victorian Age
Writer/Poet
Major Works
Critical Realism Novelists
Charles Dickens* (1812-1870)
Oliver Twist*《雾都孤儿》
Writer/Poet
Major Works
Poetry, romance
Thomas More (1478-1535)
Utopia
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
The Faerie Queene《仙后》
The Shepherd Calendar《牧羊人日记》
Essays
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
To Autumn《秋赋》*
Ode to a Nightingale《夜莺颂》*
Romantic Prose Writers
Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays
Lectures on The English Poets
Anne Brontë(1820-1849)
Agnes Grey《艾格尼斯·格雷》
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865)
Mary Barton*
Cranford
Ruth
North and South*
Life of Charlotte Brontë
Sylvia’s lovers
To aHighlandGirl
The Excursion《远游》
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Kubla Khan*
Biographia Literaria《文学传记》
Robert Southey (1774-1843)
Joan of Arc《圣女贞德》
Active Romantic Poets (Younger Generation)
George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
Don Juan《唐璜》The Isles of Greece*
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage《恰尔德·哈罗德游记》*
Drama
Richard B. Sheridan (1751-1816)
The School for Scandals《造谣学校》
Pre-romanticism
William Black (1757-1827)
Song of Innocence*（The Lamb; The Tyger）
Song of Experience*(The Sick Rose)
American Notes《美国札记》
Dombey and Son*《董贝父子》
David Copperfield*
Bleak House《荒凉山庄》
Hard Times《艰难时世》
Little Dorrit《小杜丽》
A Tale of Two Cities*
Great Expressions《远大前程》
Gulliver’s Travels
A Modest Proposal*
Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
Tom Jones(comic epic in prose)
Classicism
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
An Essay on Criticism
Pastorals《田园组诗》
The Anglo-Norman Period
Sir Thomas Marlory
Le Morte D’Arthur (The Death of King Arthur)
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
TheCanterburyTales
Renaissance Literature
List of British Writers and Their Major Works