英国文学Exercise 3

Exercise 3
I.Fill in the following blanks.
1.I n 1642, the civil war broke out in England. The royalists were defeated by the parliament army led by _____. In 1649, _____ was beheaded and England was declared to be a commonwealth.
2.T he Revolution Period is also called _____, because the English Revolution was carried out under a religious cloak.
3.T he _____Revolution in 1688 was so called because it was bloodless and there was no revival of the revolutionary demands.
4.I n Revolution Period _John Milton____ towers over his age as William Shakespeare towers over the Elizabethan Age and as Chaucer towers over the Medieval period.
5.I n Milton’s works, “_Paradise Lost_____”is the greatest, indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since “Beowulf”.
6.T he finest thing in “Paradise Lost” is the
description of hell, and _Satan ____ is the real hero of the poem.
7.J ohn Bunyan’s masterpiece “_The Pilgrim’s Progress
____”is a religious allegory, a narrative in which general concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are represented as people or as aspects of the natural world.
8.A bout the beginning of the 17th century appeared a school of poets called _____, among whom John Donne was the leading one.
9._John Dryden ___ wrote many works on literary criticism, and has been regarded as the earliest literary critic of real important in the history of English literature.
10.The main literary achievements of the 17th century lies in the poetry of _____, in the prose writing of _____, and in the plays and literary criticism of _____.
II.Choose one or more answers for the
following.
1.T he revolution of 1688 meant three of the following things EXCEPT _____.
A. the supremacy of Parliament
B. the beginning of modern England
C. the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in the country
D. the Restoration of monarchy
2.J ohn Milton was _____.
A. one of the giants of English literature in the 17th century
B. blind in his later life
C. a distinguished Revolutionary writer
D. the greatest poet and pamphleteer in his age
3.“Paradise Lost” is _____.
A. a great epic of 12 books
B. based on Bible story
C. written in blank verse
D. about the heroic revolt of Satan against God’s authority
4.W hich work was not written by John Milton?
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes
D. V olphone
5.A mong the poets of the seventeenth century, Milton was the greatest. Besides him, there were two groups of poets. They were _____.
A. the lake poets
B. the university wits
C. the Metaphysical poets
D. the Cavalier poets.
III.Decide whether the following statements are true or false
1.E nglish literature of the 17th century witnesses a flourish on the whole.
2.T he Revolution period produced one of the most important poets in English literature, William Shakespeare.
3.T he main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama.
4.“The Pilgrim’s Progress” is one of the most
popular pieces of Christian writing produced during the 17th century.
5.J ohn Dryden is the most excellent representative of English classicism in the Restoration period.
IV.Answer the following questions
1.W hat are the different aspects between the literature of Elizabethan period and the literature of the Revolution period?
2.W hat is the story of “Paradise Lost”?
3.M ake a comment on the image of Satan in “Paradise Lost”.
4.D iscuss the theme and characterization of “Paradise Lost”.
5.W hat are the features of Milton’s poetry?。