专八文学常识真题

General Knowledge for Literature in TEM8（2014—1998）

(2014）

35. “Grace under pressure”is an outstanding virtue of_____ heroes.

A. Scott Fitzgerald's

B. William Faulkner's

C. Ernest Hemingway's

D. Eugene O'Neill's

36. Widowers' House was written by_____.

A. John Galsworthy

B. George Bernard Shaw

C. William Butler Yeats

D. T. S. Eliot

37. Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. William Shakespeare

C. John Donne

D. William Blake

(2013）

35. Which of the following clusters of words is an example of alliteration?

A. A weak seat.

B. Safe and sound.

C. Knock and kick.

D. Coat and boat.

36. Who wrote Mrs. Warren's Profession?

A. John Galsworhty.

B.William Butler Yeats.

C. T.S.Eliot

D. George Bernard Shaw.

37. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser is a(n) .

A. novel

B. short story

C. poem

D. autobiography

(2012）

35. Who is the author of The Waste Land?

A. George Bernard Shaw

B. W. B.Yeats

C. Dylan Thomas

D. T.S.Eliot

36. Which of the following novelists wrote The Sound and the Fury?

A.William Faulkner

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. Scott Fitzgerald

D. John Steinbeck

37. “The lettuce was lonely without tomatoes and cucumbers for company”is an example of .

A. exaggeration

B. understatement

C. personification

D.synecdoche

(2011）

th-century England. in the 20 35. Virginia Woolf was an important female

A. poet

B. biographer

C. playwright

D. novelist

36. refers to a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero in a nation's

history .

A. Ballad

B. Romance

C. Epic

D. Elegy

th century?

37. Which of the following best explores American myth in the 20A. The Great Gatsby B. The Sun Also Rises

C. The Sound and the Fury

D. Beyond the Horizon

(2010）

35. is best known for the technique of dramatic monologue in his poems.

A. William Blake

B. W. B. Yeats

C. Robert Browning

D. William Wordsworth

36. The Financier is written by .

A. Mark Twain

B. Henry James

C. William Faulkner

D. Theodore Dreiser

37. In literature a story in verse or prose with a double meaning is defined as .

A. allegory

B. sonnet

C. blank verse

D. rhyme

(2009)

was written by Ode to the West Wind 35.

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A. William Blake.

B. William Wordsworth.

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

D. Percy B. Shelley.

36. Who among the following is a poet of free verse?

A. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

B. Walt Whitman

C. Herman Melville

D. Theodore Dreiser

37. The novel Sons and Lovers was written by

A. Thomas Hardy

B. John Galsworthy

C. D. H. Lawrence D. James Joyce

(2008)

35. The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury is an important poetic work by

A. William Langland

B. Geoffrey Chaucer

C. William Shakespeare

D. Alfred Tennyson

36. Who wrote The American?

A. Herman Melville

B. Nathaniel Hawthorne

C. Henry James

D. Theodore Dreiser

37. Which of the following are well-known female writers in 20th-century Britain Except

A. George Eliot

B. Iris Jean Murdoch

C. Doris Lessing

D. Muriel Spark

(2007)

35. Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bronte?

A. Oliver Twist

B. Middlemarch

C. Jane Eyre

D. Wuthering Heights

36. William Butler Yeats was a(n) poet and playwright.

A. American

B. Canadian

C. Irish

D. Australian

37. Death of a Salesman was written by

A. Arthur Miller

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. Ralph Ellison

D. James Baldwin

(2006)

35. Which of the following writers is a poet of the 20th century?

A. T.S. Eliot

B. D.H. Lawrence

C. Theodore Dreiser

D. James Joyce

36. The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is written by ______.

A. Scott Fitzgerald

B. William Faulkner

C. Eugene O'Neill

D. Ernest Hemingway

37. ______ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into 14 lines.

A. Free Verse

B. Sonnet

C. ode

D. Epigram