英美文学课堂练习(2018)珍藏版

英美文学课堂练习（2018）珍藏版1.(Beowulf), a typical example of Old English poetry, is regard as the national epic of theAnglo-Saxons.2.(The Canterbury Tales) is Chaucer’s masterpiece which first presented to us a comprehensiverealistic picture of the English society.3.Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Merchant of Venice).4.Among the three major works by Join Milton, (Paradise Lost) is indeed the only generallyacknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.5.The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The tragic History of Dr.Faustus, is the very fact that (man is confined to time.6.Spenser’s masterpiece (The Faerie Queen) is a great poem of its time.7.(Humanism) is the essence of the Renaissance.8.The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, WilliamShakespeare and (Ben Johnson).9.The English Renaissance period was an age of (poetry and drama).10.(Spenser) is known as “the poet’s poet).11.Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to ( both A and C).12.It is generally believed that the most important play among Shakespeare’s comedies is (Asyou Like it)13.(Soliloquy) is a natural medium for Hamlet to release his anguish.14.The period before the American Civil War is commonly referred to as the (Romantic) period.15.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues except the (survival of the fittest)in the American literary history.16.The desire for an escape from society and a return to (nature) became a permanentconvention of American literature.17.The American (Puritanism) as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over Americanmoral values and literature.18.One of the manifestations of Puritan influence over American literature is the fact thatAmerican romantic writers (tend more to moralize) than their English and European counterparts.19.The Romantic period in English literature began with the publication of (Austen’s Pride andPrejudice).20.The 18th-century England s also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of (Reason).21.(The Battle of the Books) by Swift is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not onlyof the 18th century but also in the whole English literary history.22.Pope made his name as a great poet with the publication of (The Dunciad ).23.You may have met the term “Yahoo”on internet, but you may also have met it in Englishliterature. It is found in (Johnson’s “The Vanity of Human Wishes”)24.Of all the 18th century novelists, (Henry Fielding) was the first to set out to write a “comicepic in prose”, and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.25.Samuel Johnson distinguished himself as the author of (A Dictionary of the EnglishLanguage).26.Sheridan’s important plays are The School for Scandal and ( The Rivals).27.(Ode on the Spring) made Thomas Gray the leader of the (The graveyard School”.28.Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that (the formercelebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the later sees literature as an expression of an individual’s feeling and experiences.29.English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in1832 with (Sir Walter Scott’s death and the passage of the first Reform Bill in the parliament).30.The literary form which is fully-developed and the most flourishing during the RomanticPeriod is (poetry).31.The poems such as “The Chimney Sweeper” are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songsof Experience by (John Keats).32.Of the following poets, which is not regarded as “Lake Poets”? (George Gordon Byron)33.With so many poems such as “ The Sparrow’s Nest”, “To a Skylark”, “To the Cuckoo” and “Toa Butterfly”, William Wordsworth is regarded as a “(royal poet)”.34.Which of the following writings can be regarded as typically belonging to the school ofRomantic literary?(Don Juan)35.In his lyrics such as “Ode to Liberty”, “Ode to Naples”, Percy Bysshe Shelley expressed his lovefor (freedom) and his hatred toward tyranny.36.“Ode on a Grecian Urn”shows the contrast between the (transience) of art and the(sordidness) of human passion.37.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is epigrammatic line by (John Keats).38.William Blake’s central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is(childhood) , which gives the two books a strong social and historical reference.39.Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, (Jane Austen) has broughtthe English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.40.Through the character of Elizabeth, Jane Austen emphasizes the importance of (physicalattractiveness) for woman.41.Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?(Lyrical Ballads)42.(Thomas Hardy)not only continued to expose and criticize all sorts of social iniquities, butfinally came to question and attack the Victorian conventions and morals.43.Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques, writers in theVictorian Period shared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about (the fate of the common people).44.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of (novel).45.The Victorian Age was largely an age of (novel), eminently represented by Dickens andThackeray.46.Among the works by Charles Dickens (Hard Times) presents his criticism of the Utilitarianprinciple that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.47.The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works is his (bitter and sharp criticism).48.“My last Duchess” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning’s (use of the dramaticmonologue).49.In Thomas Hardy’s works, the conflict between the old and the modern is very pervasive. Hisattitude toward those traditional characters is (sympathetic).50.Which of the Robert Browning’s works established his position as one of the greatest Englishpoets? (Pauline)51.The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the (dramatic Romances and Lyrics).52.All of the following works are known as Hardy’s “novels of character and environment”EXCEPT ( Far from the Madding Crowd).53.Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Hardy’s best known novels, portrays man as (having nocontrol over his own fate).54.Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel gives a realisticpresentation of life of (the common English people).55.The major concern of (D.H. Lawrence) fiction lies in the tracing of the psychologicaldevelopment of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.56.(James Joyce, Ulysses ) is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist, with(Ulysses ) as his encyclopedia-like masterpiece.57.In (Dubliners), James Joyce intended to record the four aspects of the moral history of hiscountry, namely childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life.58.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?( To put the stress ontraditional values)59.In Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece (The Importance of Being Earnest), he expressed a satirical andbitter attitude towards the upper-class people by revealing their corruption, snobbery, hypocrisy.60.The short story “Araby” is one of the stories in Joyce’s collection (Dubliners).。