英国文学复习

A. Please point out the author of the following works
1. The Canterbury Tales ______Geoffrey chaucer___________________
2.. Macbeth _______William Shakespeare__________________
3. The Pilgrim’s Progress ___ (John Bunyan) ______________________
4.New instrument Francis bacon
5. Gulliver’s Travels __Jonathan swift_______________________
6 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud _______William
wordsworth__________________
7. Samson Agonistes john milton
8. The Review Daniel Defoe
9.A Modest Proposal jonathan swift_
10. Northanger Abbey
B. Multiple Choice（one point for each）
1. The only complete piece of epic in old English is ________.
A. The Geste of Robin Hood
B. Beowulf
C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
D. Mort d’Arthur
2. ________ is the main literary trend in the first period of the English Enlightenment.
A. Realism
B. Romanticism
C. Neo-classicism
D. Sentimentalism
3. The rise and growth of the ________ is the most prominent achievement of the 18th century English literature.
A. romantic poetry
B. realistic novel
C. neo-classical poetry
D. sentimental novel
4. Most of Shakespeare’s best plays were written in the ________ period of his dramatic
career.
A. first
B. second
C. third
D. fourth
5. John Milton is a great poet in the period of English ________.
A. feudalism
B. Renaissance
C. Bourgeois Revolution
D. Enlightenment
6. ________ is regarded as“Father of English Prose”, who was the first to write essays in the English language.
A. Bede
B. Alfred
C. Francis Bacon
D. Samuel Johnson
7. The well-known soliloquy by Hamlet“To be or not to be…”shows his ________.
A. hatred for his uncle
B. love for life
C. resolution of revenge
D. inner strife
8. _____ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is
condensed into fourteen lines (2006年真题第37题)
A. Free verse
B. Sonnet
C. Ode
D. Epigram
9. The novel Emma is written by________.（2005年真题第35题）
A. Mary Shelley
B. Charlotte Bronte
C. Gaskell
D. Jane Austen
10.“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” The quoted part is taken from . .
A Jane Eyre
B Wuthering Heights
C Pride and Prejudice
D Sense
and Sensibility
11. Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.
A. Charlotte Bronte
B. Jane Austen
C. Emily Bronte
D. Ann Radcliffe
12.Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are.
A. Romeo and Juliet King Lear Othello Hamlet.
B. Othello Hamlet. Macbeth The Merchant of Vice
C. Hamlet Macbeth King Lear Othello
D. Romeo and Juliet The Merchant of Vice Othello Hamlet.
13. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.
A. Surrey
B. Wyatt
C. Sidney
D. Shakespeare
14. “To be, or not to be - that is the question;/Whether’ tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles ,/And by opposing end then?” These lines are taken from ______.
A. King Lear
B. Romeo and Juliet
C. Othello
D. Hamlet
15. Daniel Defoe’s ______ is universally considered as his masterpiece.
A. Colonel Jack
B. Robinson Crusoe
C. Captain Singleton
D. A Journal of the Plague Year
16. The Renaissance marks a transition from ______ to the modern world.
A. the old English
B. the medieval
C. the feudalist
D. the capitalist
17. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am
soulless and heartless? ... And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. ” The quoted lines are most probably taken from ________.
A. Great Expectations
B. Wuthering Heights
C. Jane Eyre
D. Pride and Prejudice
18. John Milton’s greatest poetical work ________ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.
A. Areopagitica
B. Paradise Lost
C. Lycidas
D. Samson Agonistes
C. Blank Filling.
1. The story in“Hamlet”comes from an old ___Danish_____________ legend.
2. Sir Thomas Wyatt first brought the sonnet to England from ______Petrarchan__________.
3. Paradise Lost is a long ______poem__________ divided into 12 books.
4 Geoffrey Chaucer is the founder of English poetry, his masterpiece is the Canterbury Tales , written in the form of Heroic couplet , contains 24 tales.
5. Daniel Defoe is the forerunner of English realistic novel.
6. John Donne is the representative of Metaphysical poets.
7.Shakespeare produces38 plays, 154 sonnets.
8.Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, was buried in Westminster Abbey .
9.In describing Robinson’s life on the island, Defoe glorifies human Labor .
10 In Jane Austin’s masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice, Darcy stands for pride, and Elizabeth stands for prejudice.
E．Reading Comprehension
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
Questions:
A.Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are
taken. Sonnet 18 William shakespeare
the figure of speech employed in the poem.
C.Alliteration 头韵personification 拟人inversion 倒装
D.What is the theme of the poem.
E.In this world no beauty (in Nature) can stay except in
poetry or art (your beauty can last only if I put it down in my poetry).
F.
D. Questions.
1. Make a comment on one of the following writers.(at least 150words)
Francis Bacon, Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen.
2 .Make a comment on Shakespeare’s artistic achievement.
38play 154 sonnent
A. shakespeare’s major characters are neither merely individu
al ones nor type ones; they represent certain types; they are individ uals representing certain types. By employing a psychoanalytical a pproach, Shakespeare succeeds in exploring the characters’ inn er world. Shakespeare also portrays his characters in pairs. Contras ts are frequently used to bring vividness to his characters.
B. Shakespeare seldom invents his own plot; instead, he borro ws them from old plays or storybook, fron ancient Greek or Roman sources. In order to make the play more lively and compact, he wo uld shorten the time and intensify the story. There are usually sever al clues running through the play, thus providing the story with the suspense and apprehension.
C. Shakespeare can write skillfully in different poetic forms, such a s the sonnet, the blank verse and the rhymed couplet. He has an am azing wealth of vocabulary and idiom. His coinage of new words a nd distortion of the meaning of the old words also creates striking e ffects on the readers.
3. Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age. Why is Jane Eyre such a successful novel?
A. it is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing socity.
B. it is an intense moral fable.
C. the success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine
4. “Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age,
and old men’s nurses, so as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will.” Do you agree with the statement? Talk about your reason.
5. Daniel Defoe’s novel 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. Talk about your reason.
A. Social background: The Eighteenth Century England witnessed the growing importance of the
bourgeois or middle class.
a. The Industrial Revolution
b. The expansion of international markets;
c. Values/virtues/moral standards/...different from those of the feudal aristocratic class -courageous,
full of energy, hard working, practical, resourceful, self-reliant, etc; thus
d. Literature should give/provide a realistic presentation of the life of the common people; it should
meet the demand/interest of the middle class people.
B. Robinson Crusoe embodies the virtue of the middle class people.
a. Crusoe as an adventurous/courageous man full of energy and courage: (example from the text):
b. Crusoe as a practical man: (example from the text);
c. Crusoe as a resourceful/self-reliant man: (example from the text);
d. Crusoe as a patient/persistent man: (example from the text);
e. And others.
Reference：
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b The expansion of international markets
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d working, practical, resourceful, self-reliant, etc.
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f the life of the common people; it should meet the demand/interest of the middle class people.
Robinson Crusoe embodies the virtues of the middle class people.
a Crusoe as an adventurous/courageous man full of energy and courage(example from the text);
b Crusoe as a practical man(example from the text)
c Crusoe as a resourceful/self-reliant man(example from the text)
d Cruso
e as a patient/persistent man(example from the text)
e And others.。