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英美文学史练习题和复习资料44. The Victorian PeriodMultiple-choice questions1.In Hard Times, Dickens attacks ______ that rules over the English educationalsystem and destroys young hearts and minds.A.bourgeois commercialismB.religious hypocrisyC.the utilitarian principleD.political corruptness2.______ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.A. Jane EyreB. EmmaC. Wuthering HeightD. Middlemarch3.Which of the following best describe the nature of Hardy?s later novels?A. SentimentalismB. SurrealismC. Comic senseD. Tragic sense4.______ is the most representative Victorian poet whose poetry voices the doubtand the faith, the grief and the joy of English people in an age of fast change.A. Robert BrowningB. Alfred TennysonC. George G. ByronD. Thomas Hardy5.Which of the following statements is not a typical feature of Charles Dickens?A.He sets out a large-scale criticism of the inhuman social institutions and thedecaying social morality.B.His works are characterized by a mingling of humor and pathos.C.The characters portrayed by Dickens are often larger than life.D.He shows a human being not at moments of crisis, but in the most trivialincidents of everyday life.6.“As for society, he was carried every other day into the hall where the boys dined,and there socially flogged as a public warning and example.”What figure of speech is used in the above sentence?A. SimileB. MetaphorC. IronyD. Overstatement7.“I will drink/ life to the lees.” In the quoted line Ulysses is saying that he ______till the end of his life.A.will keep travelling and exploringB.will go on drinking and being happyC.would like to toast to his glorious lifeD.would like t drink the cup of wine8.“She smiled, no doubt,/ Whene?er I passed her…/ … This grew; I gave commands;/ Then all smiles stopped together.” The quoted lines imply that she ______.A.obeyed his order and stopped smiling at everyday, including the duke.B.obeyed his order and stopped smiling at anybody except the duke.C.Refused to obey the order and never smiled againD.was murdered at the order of duke9. A contemporary of Alfred Tennyson, ______ is acknowledged by many as themost original and experimental poet of the time.A. Thomas CarlyleB. Thomas B. MacaulayC. Robert BrowningD. T. S. Eliot10.Most of Hardy?s novels are set in ______, the fictional primitive and crude ruralregion that is really the home place he both loves and hates.A. YorkshireB. WessexC. LondonD. Manchester11.“The floating pollen seemed to be his notes made visible, and the dampness of thegarden the weeping of the garden?s sensibility.” The quoted sentence is suggestive of ______.A.the richness of the music in the gardenB.the beauty of the scenery in the gardenC.the great power of the music in affecting the environmentD.the harmony and oneness of the music, the garden and theheroine Tess.12.In the statement “---Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in thegra ve?” the term “soul” apparently refers to ______.A. Heathcliff himselfB. CatherineC. one?s spiritual lifeD. one?s ghost13.“I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence; with what I delight in --- withan original, a vigorous, an expanded mind.” Here in the quoted passage, Jane isreally saying that she has talked face to face with ______.A.God who appears in her dreamsB.The reverent priestC.Mr. RochesterD.Miss Ingram14.In the clause “As Mr. Gamfield did happen to labor under the slight imputation ofhaving bruised three or four boys to death already…” , the word “slight” is used as a(n) ______.A. simileB. metaphorC. ironyD. overstatement15.Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel ______.A. Great ExpectationsB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Bleak HouseD. Oliver Twist16.The Victorian Age was largely an age of _____, eminently represented by Dickensand Thackeray.A. poetryB. dramaC. proseD. epic prose17.The title of Alfred Tennyson?s poem “Ulysses”reminds the reader of thefollowing except ______.A. the Trojan WarB. HomerC. questD. Chirst18.The character Rochester in Jane Eyre can be well termed as a ______.A. conventional heroB. Byronic heroC. chivalrous aristocratD. Homeric hero19.Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Pape r are perhapsthe best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.A. comicalB. tragicC. roundD. sophisticated20.The typical feature of Robert Browning?s poetry is the ______.A. bitter satireB. larger-than-life caricatureC. Latinized dictionD. dramatic monologue21.In Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy resolutely makes a seduced girl hisheroine, which clearly demonstrates the author?s ______ of the Victorian moral standards.A. blind fondnessB. total acceptanceC. deep understandingD. mounting defiance22.In Hardy?s Tess of the D’urberville s, the heroine?s tragic ending is due to ______.A. her weak characterB. her ambitionC. Angel Clare?s selfishnessD. a hostile society23.“The dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life” arethe right words to sum up the main theme of _____.A. David CopperfieldB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Oliver TwistD. Bleak House24.“For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of askingfor more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room to which he had been consigned by the wisdom and mercy of the board.”In the above passage quoted from Oliver Twist, Dickens uses the words “wisdom”and “mercy” ______.A. ironicall yB. carelesslyC. nonchalantlyD. impartially25.“…and then how they met I hardly saw, but Catherine made a spring, and hecaught her, and they were locked in an embrace…” In the quoted passage, Emily Bronte tells the story in ______ point of view.A. first personB. second personC. third person limitedD. third person omniscientBlank filling1.Dickens?best-depicted characters are those innocent, virtuous, helpless_child__characters, those horrible and grotesque characters and those broadly humorous or __comical___ ones.2.Charlotte Bronte?s works are famous for the depiction of the life of themiddle-class working women, particularly __governess____.3.Wuthering Heights is the ___only___ novel written by Emily Bronte.4. A contemporary of Alfred Tennyson, __Robert Browning__ is acknowledged bymany as the most original and experimental poet of the time.5.__In Memorian____, Tennyson?s greatest work, ispresumably an elegy on thedeath of a dear friend.6.In her study of human life, George Eliot paid particular attention to therelationship between the individual personality and the social environment_. 7.Thomas Hardy is often regarded as a __transitional___ writer, in whose works wesee the influence from both the past and the present, both the traditional and the modern.8.The major novelists of the Victorian period made bitter and strong criticism_ ofthe inhuman social institutions and the decaying social morality.9.The Victorian Age in English literature was largely an age of prose, especially othe __novel____.10.The typical feature of Robert Browning?s poetry is the __dramatic monologue_.Reading comprehension(for each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.)1.“Let it not be supposed by the enemies of …the system?, that during the period ofhis solitary incarceration, Oliver was denied the benefit of exercise, the pleasure of society, or the advantages of religious consolat ion.”Reference：The sentence is taken from Charles Dicken s? early novel, Oliver Twist. It is a typical example of irony. The word “benefit”, “pleasure”, and “advantage” actually mean theopposite. For the “benefit” of exercise, Oliver was whipped every mo rning in a stone yard; for the “pleasure” of society, he was carried every other day into the dinning hall and flogged as a public 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 listen to the boy?s prayer to be guarded against his sins and vices. The ironic statement is, in fact, a bitter denunciation and fierce attack at the brutal, inhuman treatment of the poor orphan by the workhouse authority.2.“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little,I am soulless andheartless? --- You think wrong!--- I have as much soul as you--- and full as muchheart…I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, or even of mortal flesh;---it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God?s feet, equal--- as we are!”Reference: The statement is taken from Charlotte Bronte?s masterpiece Jane Eyre. In this famous declaration, Jane proves herself a new, unconventional woman, a woman who believes in the basic human rights, in the independence and equality of people of all social classes. She is courageous enough to defy the social conventions that discriminate against the poor and the unfortunate and deprive them of their right to equality. It is not just a personal protest and declaration a governess makes to her master, but a declaration made on behalf of all the unfortunate middle-class working women, and of all the poor people in the world.3.“He flung himself into the nearest seat, and on myapproaching hurriedly toascertain if she had fainted, he gnashed at me, and foamed like a mad dog, and gathered her to him with greedy jealousy. I did not feel as if I were in the company of a cr eature of my own species…”Reference: The sentences are taken from Emily Bronte?s Wuthering Heights. It is a description of the mad, desperate love between Catherine and Heathcliff in her death scene. Heathcliff, seeing his love on the verge of death, was heart-broken. Though they two tortured each other with many a false charge, they were eager to cling to each other at this last moment. Heathcliff, in his eagerness to have her all to himself, now behaved like an animal greedily and jealously guarding his dear one or treasured prey. The terms “gnashed” and “foamed”, simple action words, vividly presents the image of a man desperate in his desire to take possession of his beloved and in his anxiety that someone would come and take her away from him.4.“Tho?/ We are not now that strength which in old days/ Moved earth and heaven;that which we are, we are;/ One equal temper of heroic hearts,/ Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will/ To strive, to speak, to find, and not to yield.”Ref erence: These lines are taken from Alfred Tennyson?s “Ulysses”. In this poem, the old Ulysses is trying to persuade his old followers into setting upon further adventurewith him again. in these lines, he argues that great strength they used to have in their past glorious days, they still have the same strong will and the same heroic spirit to go on struggling and seeking new knowledge until the end of their life. his undying heroic spirit is admirable, indeed.5.“I repeat,/ The Count your master?s known mu nificence/ Is ample warrant that nojust pretense/ Of mine for dowry will be disallowed; / Though his fair daughter?s self, as I avowed/ As starting, is my object.”Reference: These lines are taken from Robert Browning?s “My Last Duchess”. The main idea is that even though, as I said at the very beginning, my real interest in the marriage is his beautiful daughter (it should be his niece) herself, my claim of the money and property that must come with the bride can?t be refused by your master, the Count, because he is such a rich man. The statement reveals the Duke?s unashamed greediness for wealth. From his word, the reader can easily come to the conclusion that his real purpose of the second marriage is not for love, but for money. The marriage is conditioned by his demand for profit. The sacred marriage between people has been commercialized by him.。

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英美文学史练习题库《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)2) 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)Tess of D?UrberviIles31)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 ofthe 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 wholegallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.A.Edmund SpenserB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. William ShakespeareD. John Donne3.The following belong to the characteristicsof ?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, isgenerally regarded as Shakespeare?s most popular play on the stage, for it has the qualities of a "blood—and—thunder" thriller and a ?philosophicalexploration? 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 gee 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 Donne D. John Milton10.Alexander Pope worked painstakingly on his poems and finally brought to its last perfectionDryden had successfully 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 establishmentof the form of the modern novel.A. John BunyanB. Hey 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 powe rful 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 prosperousliterary form.A. proseB. poetryC. fictionD. play19.The author of “Ode on a Grecian Urn" isA. WordsworthB. AustenC. ByronD. Keats20.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 Britishliterature roughly dated from.A. 1660 ---- 179B. 1798——183C. 1483 -------- 154D. 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 Prejudice 23.Chronologically the Victorian refersto.A, 1798 --- 183B. 1836--- 1901 C. the Romantic period D. the Neoclassical Period24.believes that man?s fate is predeterminedlytragic, driven by a combined force of ?nature" , both inside and outside.A. Charles DickensB. Thomas hardyC. Bernard ShawD. T. S. Eliot25.“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 thefirst 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?UrberviIles 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 GreenwoodTree is the most cheerful and idyllic.D.From The Mayor of Casterbridge on, the tragicsense becomes the keynote of his novels.29.Charlotte?s works are famous for thedepiction of the life of the middle-class working women, particularly.A. governessesB. clerks C .baby-sitters D. managers30.The three trilogies of Forsyte novelsare masterpieces of critical realism in the earlyOth century.A. D. H. Lawrence?sB. John Galsworthy?sC.James Joyce?s D. 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 problemsof death, love, old age and 《英美文学史及选读》习题I Define the following literary terms:1.Blank verse2.Epic3.Mmetaphysical school of poetry4.Cavalier poets5.Alliteration6.Realistic novels7.Augustan Age8.Sentimentalism9.Humanism10.Puritan Age11.Anglican Church12.Allegory13.Alexanderine14.Ballad15.Mystery play16.Carpe Dime Tradition17.Characterization18.Oxford Reformersedy20.Conceit21.Couplet22.Elegy23.Epigram24.Essaymbic Pentameter26.Irony27.Lyric28.Miracle Play29.Mock Epic30.Morality Play31.Narrative Poem32.Neo-classicism33.Octave34.Ode35.Pastoral36.Point of view37.Refrain38.Romance39.Romanticism40.Satire41.Sonnet42.Spenserian Stanza43.Renaissance44.Enlightenment45.Run-on Lineedy of Manner47.Mock-Heroic/ Mock-epic48.The Augustan Poets49.Assonance50.CaesuraII. Choose one or more than one suitable answers to each statement. 1 was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.a.Thomas Wyattb. William Shakespearec. Phillip Sidneyd. Thomas Campion2At the beginning the 16th century the outstanding humanist wrote his Utopia in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people?s suffering and put forward his ideal of a future happy society.a. Christopher Marloweb. Thomas Morec. Phillip Sidneyd. Edmund Spencer3Choose the “University Wits " from the following writers.a. John Lylyb. Robert Greenec. Christopher Marlowed. Shakespeare4From the following choose the one that isnot by Francis Bacon.a. The Advancement of Learningb. The New Instrumentc. Of Studiesd. The rape of the Lock5Which play is not a comedy?a. The Jew of Maltab. Every One in His Humorc. A Midsummer Night' s Dreamd. Much Ado about Nothing6The name “the father of English poetry" was given to the greatest poet born in London about 1340 and the one who did much in making the dialect of London the foundationfor modern English language.a. Shakespeareb. Spenserc. Philip Sidneyd. Chaucerwas the first buried in the Poet?s Corner of Westminster Abby.a. Southyb. Francis Baconc. Shakespeared. Chaucer8The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the.a. playsb. romancec. essaysd. masquesSongs of Innocence is a.a. sequence of lyricsb. epic10 Robinson Crusoe is a.a. Historical novelb. satirical novelc. realistic noveld. allegorical novel11 Beowulf is the most important and the first epic in the Old English ever written. It was written in.a. sonnetsb. balladsc. alliterationd. heroic couplet1 Pamela is a.a. historical novelb. romanceb.novel of naturalism d. novel of epistles and psychology1 I Wandered lonely as a Cloud is a.a. lyrical poemb. lyrical prosec.romance in prosed. sonnetlhe Merry Wives of Windsor is a.a. comedyb. tragedyc. historical playd. morality playIThe title of “Poet?s poet" is given to the writer of the following work.a.c. Death Be Not Proudb. Venus and Adonis Romeo and Julietd. The Faerie Queen1 Chaucer was the first important poet of a royal court to write in after theNorman conquest.a.c.a.c.a. Frenchb. Latin Englishd. Celt Thomas More b. Spenser John Donned. Wyatt King James Bible b. New Instrument 17. The father of the school of Metaphysical poets is. 18. The culmination of all Renaissance translation is.19.The Cavaliers mostly dealt in short songs on the flitting joys of the day, butunderneath their light-heartedness lies some foreboding of to enjoy the present day. This istypical of pessimism and cynicism.a.c. philosophical thoughtb. impending doom intellectual idead. expecting happiness.21.In Paradise Lost the author eulogizes the spirit of that is though lost, butthe cannot be conquered, and the pursuit of revenge, immortal hate towards god will never be overcome.a. pessimism, knowledgeb. optimism, idealc. rebellion, willd. cynicism, concept21. The Medieval Drama includes all the following except .a.c. miracle plays b. morality plays tragediesd. interludes22.Sir Gawain and the Green Night is usually consideredthe summitin in romance.a.c. Matters of Britainb. Matters of France Matters of Italyd. Matters of Greece23.In the 17th century, especially during theperiod of military dictatorship thereappeared some changes in literature. Some new gees replaced the old ones. Among the old ones, was the most prominent one.a.c.a.c. essays b. sonnets novelsd. drama Church of England b. Puritanism Calvinism d. Catholicism% Protestants refers to all the religious sects except25.In 1066, led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.a. William the conquerorb. Julius Caesarc. Alfred the Greatd. Claudius26.The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the.a. epicb. mystery playc. romanced. sonnet27.In 1649,was beheaded. English became a commonwealth.a. James lb. James IIc. Charles Id. Charles II28.Who of the following were the important metaphysical poets?a. John Donneb. George Herbertc. John Miltond. Richard Lovelace29.The Glorious Revolution in 168marked the beginning of a.a.c. absolute monarchyb, constitutional monarchy military dictatorshipd. democratic system30 Milton is.a)a. a great revolutionary poet of the 17th centuryb) b. an outstanding political pamphleteerc) c. a great stylistd) d. a great master of blank verse31John Milton was.a. blind in his later lifeb. a Cavalier poetc. the author of Samson Agoniestesd. a metaphysical poet32In his blindness, Milton wrote his most important poetic works , such as.a. Paradise Lostb. Samson Agonistesc. The L?Allegrod. Song to Celia3 Choose the poets who belong to the Cavalier group.a. Sir John Sucklingb. Richard Lovelacec. Thomas Carewd. George Herbert华中师范大学网络教育学院《英美文学史》测试题答案1.Write the names of the authors of the following literary works.1.Samuel Richardson2.Hey Fielding3.Richard Brinsley Sheridan4.Samuel Johnson5.Thomas Gray6.William Blake7.Robert Burns8.William Wordsworth9.Samuel Taylor Coleridge10.Robert Southey11.Walter Scott12.William Makepeace Thackeray13.Charlotte Bronte14.Emily Bronte15.George Eliot16.Robert Louis Stevenson17.Oscar Wilde18.John Galsworthy19.Thomas Hardy20.Bernard Shaw21.William Butler Yeats22.David Herbert Lawrence23.Virginia Woolf24.Charles Dickens25.Percy Shelley26.Christopher Marlow27.Jonathan Swift28.Jane Austen29.Hey Fielding30.Thomas Hardy31.William Shakespeare32.George Gordon Byron33.Samuel Taylor Coleridge34.r Edmund Spenser35.Alexander Pope36.Richard Brinsley Sheridan37.George Eliot38.James Joyce39.Poesy John Drydenurence Sterne41.Percy Shelley42)Thomas Jefferson43)Fenimore Cooper44)Washington Irving45)Emerson46)Hey David Thoreau47)Nathaniel Hawthorne48)Herman Melville49)Edgar Allan Poe50)Walt Whitman51)Walt Whitman52)Emily Dickinson53)Robert Frost54)Edgar Allan Poe55)Harriet Beecher Stowe56)William Dean Howells57)Hey James58)Mark Twain59)0. Hey60)Jack London61)Stephen Crane62)Frank Norris63)Theodore Dreiser64)Ezra Pound65)Ezra Pound66)Wallace Stevens67)Carl Sandburg68)T. S. Eliot69)John Steinbeck70)Fitzgerald71)William Faulkner72)Ernest Hemingway73)Eugene O' Neill74)Arthur Miller75)William Faulkner76)T. S. Eliot77)Longfellow78)John Steinbeck79)Mark Twain80)John Doss Passes2.Choose the right answer. lAnswer: D2Answer: BAnswer: D4. Answer: C6.Answer: B7.Answer: D8.Answer: B9.Answer: B10.Answer: A11.Answer: C12.Answer: C14.Answer: B15.Answer: B16.Answer: B17.Answer: C18.Answer: B19.Answer: D20.Answer: C21.Answer: B22.Answer: C23.Answer: B24.Answer: B25.Answer: A26.Answer: D27.Answer: A28.Answer: D29.Answer: A30.Answer: B32.Answer: D33.Answer: B3 5.Answer:D3 6.Answer:C3 7.Answer:D3 8.Answer:B3 9.Answer:A4 0.Answer:B4 1.Answer:A4 2.Answer:A4 3.Answer:B4 4.Answer:C4 5.Answer:B4 6.Answer:D4 7.Answer:C4 8.Answer:A50 . Answer: A5 1.Answer:B5 2.Answer:A5 3.Answer:D5 4.Answer:A5 5.Answer:D5 6.Answer:D58.Answer: A59.Answer: A60.Answer: A61.Answer: D62.Answer: C63.Answer: A64.Answer: B65.Answer: A66.Answer: A67.Answer: B68.Answer: C69.Answer: B70.Answer: A71.Answer: D72.Answer: B73.answer: D74.Answer: A75.Answer: B76.Answer: A77.Answer: D78.Answer: D80 Answer: A3.Answer the following questions briefly.1)What is Chaucer' s contribution to English language?Chaucer' s language is vivid and exact. His verse is smooth. His words are easy to understand. He introduced from France the rhymed stanzas of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of i amb i c pentameter which was later called the “heroic couplet. " Though drawing influence from French, Italian and Latin models, he is the first important poet to write in the current English language. Chaucer did much in making the dialect of London the foundation for modern English language.2)What was the English Renaissance?The English Renaissance was an intellectual movement or rebirth of letters. There were two striking features. The first was the revived interest in classical literature. People were thirsty for works of Greek and Latin. Another feature washumanism. People began to see themselves asimportant beings, not only living for God and a future world. Interest in beauty and achievement rose. This was the outlook of the new bourgeois class. They believed in their strength. They expected the promising world opening to them.They believed that they could make the world according to their desires.3)What are the themes of “Robinson Crusoe r ?1)The novel sings high praises of self-reliance.It demonstrates that man can remake the world with his own power. He can rely on himself in difficult situations.2)This novel is also an exhibition of man' s capacity. Man has boundless energy. Together with his persistence and strong will power, he can do anything that may seem impossible previously.3)This novel also glorifies human labor. It is labor that saves Robinson Crusoe from despair, and labor is also a source of pride and happiness.In short, Robinson Crusoe is representative of the English bourgeoisie at the early stage of its development.4)This novel also touches upon the theme of colonization. Crusoe makes Friday his servant, and hehimself master of the island and Friday. This plot is in accordance with the exploitation of the English bourgeois class out of Britain.4)Summarize Shelley' s significance in the English literature.Shelley is one of the leading Romantic poets, anintense and original lyrical poet in the English language. Like Blake, he has a reputation as a difficult poet: erudite, imagistically complex, full of classical and mythological allusions. His style abounds in personification and metaphor and other figures of speech which describe vividly what we see and feel, or express what passionately moves us.5)What are the periods of Shakespeare' s dramatic composition? And what are their respective features?Three periods: 1. Period of historical plays and comedies. This period is characterized by happiness and optimism. This period can be further put into two phases: the phase of apprenticeship and the phase of maturation. . Period of tragedies. This period is characterized by gloom. . Period of romances or tragic-comedies. This period is characterized by reconciliation.6)What are the principles of classicists? Tell three representative classicists in the English literature andtheir representative works.1) The classicists modeled themselves on Greek and Latin authors, and tried to control literary creation by some fixed laws and rules drawn from Greek and Latin works. Rimed couplet instead of blank verse, the three unities oftime, place and action, regularity in construction, and the presentation of types rather than individuals一these were some of the standards the classicists required of drama. Poetry, following the ancient divisions, should be lyric, epic, didactic, satiric or dramatic, and each class should be guided by some peculiar principles. Prose should be precise, direct and flexible. The English classicists followed these standards in their writing.) Addison and Steele, “The Tatler, " and "The Spectator. " Alexander Pope, “Essay on Criticism, " and "The Rape of the Lock."7)Summarize Eliot' s influence briefly.。

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《英美文学史》考试形式：闭卷考试时间：90分钟×1.5´= 15´)The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has impacted AmericanWriters who are ___________ tend to develop and promote mannerism, dress, speech, of a particular region. They try to be informative about the peculiaritiesIn his novel ________________, Theodore Dreiser portrays a girl who is totally the mercy of forces she cannot control. Alone and helpless, she moves along like mechanism driven by desire and catches blindly at any opportunities for a better ’s definition of ___________, “that which presents an intellectual and an instant of time”, is an agreement with his perception ofIn the poem __________________, T.S. Eliot portrays the image of an ineffectual, tragic twentieth-century Western man, possibly the modern intellectualThe Great Gatsby (1925).Most of ___________ works are set in the American South about people from a smallThe Old Man and the Sea is _____________.’s novel_____________. Multiple Choices: Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter ×1´= 15´)a great poet B. a dramatist C. a literary critic D. a great novelist.Henry James wrote the following novels EXCEPT ________________.B. Daisy MillerThe Wings of Dove D. The Golden BowlHe is regarded as the foremost writer of the Great Depression during the 1930s.C. He belongs to the Lost Generation.D.He writes about the poverty-stricken people in their sufferings.4. Which of the following is Willa Cather’s novel?A. Main StreetB.My AntoniaC.The Great GatzbyD.The Triumph of the Egg5.Which of the following is NOT William Faukner’s novel?A. Their Eyes Were Watching GodB. The Sound and The FuryC. A Rose for EmilyD. Light in the August6. Which one of the following descriptions about the Hemingway hero is true?A. Hemingway Hero is also called code hero.B.Hemingway Hero is an average man of decidedly masculine tastes, sensitive and intelligent.C.The typical Hemingway hero is one who, wounded but strong, more sensitive and wounded because stronger, enjoys the pleasures of life (sex, alcohol, sport) in face of ruin and death and maintains, through some notion of a code, an ideal of himself.D. The typical Hemingway hero is one who was the pioneer in the frontier.7. Which one of the following writers does NOT employ colloquial style in his writings?A. Mark TwainB. Sherwood AndersonC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. William Faulkner8. Which one of the following writers can be cataloged as Southern Literature writers?A.William FaulknerB.Henry JamesC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Ernest Hemingway9. Which one of the following writers is NOT a dramatist?A. Kate ChopinB. Eugene O’neillC. Tennessee WilliamsD. Arthur Miller10. The American writers who are awarded Nobel Prize for literature include the following writers BUT___.A. Eugene O’NeillB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. Ezra Pound11. American naturalists tend to adopt the following concepts except_______.A.Dawin’s ideas of evolutionB.The ideas of Herbert SpencerC.Emerson’s transcendentalismD.French Naturalism12. The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career of_________.A. Thomas HoodB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas JeffersonD. George Washington13. Transcendentalists recognized ______as the "highest power of the soul".A. intuitionB. logicC. data of the sensesD. thinking14.Led by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and ______; there arose a kind of teaching of transcendentalism in the early 19th century.A. Herman MelvilleB. Henry David ThoreauC. Mark TwainD. Theodore Dreiser15. Edgar Allan Poe put forward the following literary ideas EXCEPT_______.A. Poems should be as long as Homer’s epics.B. Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all the poetic tones.C. He stressed the principle of concentration and thematic totality.D. Poems should be short enough so that it can be read at one sitting.III. Match the Writers and Works under the Two Columns (10×2´=20´)1. T.S. Eliot a. The Great Gatsby2. F. Scott Fitzgerald b. The Sound and the Fury3. William Faulkner c. Native Son4. John Steinbeck d. The Grapes of Wrath5. Sherwood Anderson e. Moby Dick6. Richard Wright f. The Scarlet Letter7. Herman Melville g. The Raven8. Edgar Allen Poe h. The Waste Land9. Harriet Beecher Stowe i. Uncle Tom’s Cabin10.Kate Chopin j. The Triumph of the Eggk. The AwakeningIV. Identify the following selected excerpts and write down the name of the authors and the works. (5×4´=20´)1. Because I could not stop for Death—He kindly stopped for me—The carriage held but just Ourselves—And Immortality.Author:__________________(full name)Works: ___________________2. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, —all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball;I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me;I am part or particle of God.Author:__________________(full name)Works: ___________________3. Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he'd got to be a slave, and so I'd better write a letter to Tom Sawyer and tell him to tell Miss Watson where he was. But I soon give up that notion for two things: she'd be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so she'd sell him straight down the river again; and if she didn't, everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and they'd make Jim feel it all the time, and so he'd feel ornery and disgraced. Author:__________________(full name)Works: ___________________4.The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.Author:__________________(full name)Works: ___________________5. NONE of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks. Author:__________________(full name)Works: ___________________V. Explain the Following Terms (4×5´=20´)RealismFree verseHemingway HeroesRomanticismVI. Answer the following questions according to the materials. (1×10´=10´) Passage OneI couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...Questions1. Who is the author of the novel from which the selection is from?2. What is the narrator’s attitude toward such persons as Tom and Daisy？英美文学史试卷A 参考答案I. 1. colloquial 2. local colorists 3. Sister Carrie 4. Imagism5. T.S. Eliot6. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock7. American Dream8. Faulkner’s9. Santiago 10. The Scarlet LetterII.1.D 2.A 3.C 4.B 5.A 6.D 7.C 8.A 9.A 10.D 11. C12. B 13.A 14.B 15.AIII.1. h 2. a 3. b 4. d 5. j 6. c 7. e 8. g 9. i 10. kIV.1.Author: Emily DickinsonWorks:Because I could not stop for Death2. Author:Ralph Waldo Emersonworks: Nature3. Author: Mark TwainWorks: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn4. Author: Ezra PoundWorks:In a Station of the Metro5. Author: Stephen CraneWorks: The Open BoatV.Explain the Following Terms (4×5´=20´)Realism: In American literature, the Civil War brought the Romantic Period to an end. The Age of Realism came into existence. It came as a reaction against the lie of romanticism and sentimentalism, as Everett Carter put it. Realism turned from an emphasis on the strange toward a faithful rendering of the ordinary, a slice of life as it is really lived. It expresses the concern for common place and the low, and it offers an objective rather than an idealistic view of human nature and human experience. Realist literature finds the drama and the tension beneath the ordinary surface of life. A realist writer is more objective than subjective, more descriptive than symbolic. Realists looked for truth in everyday truths. The representative writers are William Dean Howells, Mark Twain and Henry James. Free verse: Free verse is poetry that has an irregular rhythm and line length and that attempts to avoid any predetermined verse structure. It is poetry without a fixed metrical pattern, having a loosely organized rhythm. It uses the cadences of natural speech. Although free verse had been used before Whitman—notably in Italian opera and in the King James translation of the Bible—it was Whitman who pioneered the form and made it acceptable in American poetry. It is to be found in the work of some 19th-century American poets, e.g. Whitman and Stephen Crane, and it has been commonly employed only since World War I, its early users including the Imagists, Sandburg, Masters, Pound and E.E. Cummings.Hemingway Heroes:"Hemingway Heroes" refer to some protagonists in Hemingway' s works. Such a hero usually is an average man of decidedly masculine tastes, sensitive and intelligent. And usually he is a man of action and of few words. He is such an individualist,alone even when with other people, somewhat an outsider, keeping emotions under control, stoic and self-disciplined in a dreadful place where one can not get happiness.For instance, Frederic Henry in A Farewell to Arms is completely disillusioned. He has been to the war, but has seen nothing sacred and glorious. Romanticism: American Romanticism: The Romantic Period stretches from the end of the 18th century till the outbreak of the Civil War. A rising America with its ideals of democracy and equality, its industrialization, its westward expansion, and a variety of foreign influences such as Sir Walter Scott were among the important factors which made literary expansion and expression not only possible but also inevitable in the period immediately following the nation's political independence. Yet, romantics frequently shared certain general characteristics: moral enthusiasm, faith in value of individualism and intuitive perception, and a presumption that the natural world was a source of goodness and man's societies a source of corruption. Romantic writers include Washington Irving, James Fennimore Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Melville, etc. Such romantic writers placed increasing value on the free expression of emotion and displayed increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters. Heroes and heroines exhibited extremes of sensitivity and excitement. The novel of terror became the profitable literary staple. A preoccupation with the demonic and the mystery of evil marked the works of Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and a host of minor writers. The New England poets, such as Longfellow and Bryant formed a different school from Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Dickinson and Poe.VI. Answer the following questions according to the materials. (1×10´=10´) Passage One: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. The narrator shows his disliking and disgust towards such irresponsible persons like Tom and Daisy.-----精心整理，希望对您有所帮助!。

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（完整版）《英美文学》练习题库及答案I Of the four alternative answer, choose the one that would best complete the statement:1. Benjamin Franklin was born in the family of a small ___________ .A. LandlordB. merchantC. lawyerD. clergyman2. Ralph Waldo Emerson 'asdilneg reputation began with the publication of ___________ .A. EssaysB. NatureC. OversoulD. Self-Relience3. Ellen Poe was both a poet and a ____________________ .A. dramatistB. essayist C actor D. fiction writer.4. Nathaniel Hawthorne ' s view of man and human history originates in __________________ .A. PuritanismB. SocialismC. TranscendentalismD. naturalism5. Walt Whitman was born and brought up in a family of a _____________ .A. PeasantB. carpenterC. captainD. printer6. Mark Twain ' s first successful literary work is _____________________________ .A. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras CountyB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventure of Tom SawyerD. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn7. Closely related to Emily Dickinson ' s religious poetry are her poems concerning ________________A. ChildhoodB.youth and happinessC. lonelinessD. death and immortality8. Among the works of Dreiser, the bet known to the Chinese readers is _______________ .A. An American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. Th FinancierD. The Titan9. Robert Frost ' s works mainly focus on the landscape and people in ___________________ .A. the WestB. American SouthC. New EnglandD. Mississippi10. Most of the plays Eugene O l w 'roNt e ilare ______________________ .A. comediesB. . romancesC. historical plays D tragedies11. Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ____________________ .A. modern timeB. young AmericansC. Jazz AgeD. Guilded Age12. ____________________________ is Hemingway ' smasterpiece, which is about the old fishermanSantiago and his losing battle with a giant marlin.A. Farewell to ArmsB. For whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and The Sea13. As a great fiction writer, William Faulker devotes most of his works to the description of the life and the people in the _______________________________ .A. American WestB. New England in AmericaC. American SouthD. American North14. When he was young, Benjamin Franklin became an apprentice in a ________________ .A. printing houseB. storeC. Tailor ' s shopD. factory15. Ralph Emerson was born in a family of a ___________________ .A. merchantB. businessmanC. clergymanD. writer16. Ellen Poe began his literary career by writing _________________ ;A. short storiesB. playsC. essaysD. poems17. According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is ________ in every hearer, which may remain latent, perhaps,英美文学》练习测试题库及答案本科through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.A. evilB. virtueC. kindn essD. tragedy18. Whitman is radically innovative in term of form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subjects and new feeli ngs is ____________ .A. bla nk verseB. free verseC. heroic coupletD. sonnet19. Mark Twain shaped the world ' s view of America and made a comb in ati on of serious literature and _______A. America n folk humorB. En glish folkloreC. America n traditi onal valuesD. funny jokes20. Altogether, Emily Dick inson wrote ____ poems, of which only sever n had appeared duri ng her lifetime.A. 1145B. 1775C. 897D. 78521. Theodore Dreiser is gen erally ack no wledged as one of America' s literaryA. realistsB. n aturalistsC. roma ntistsD. modernists 22. In Frost ' s poems, images and metaphors in his poems are drawn from ___________________A. the simple country lifeB. the urba n lifeC. the life on the seaD. the adve ntures and trips23. Scott Fitzgerald never spared an intimate touch in his fiction to deal with the bankruptcy of the24. Eugene O ' Neill is regarded as the founder of American _____________________ .A. poetryB. dramaC. ficti onD. literature25. _________________ is Hemingway ' s masterpiece, which tellsa story about the tragic love of a woundecAmerican soldier with a British nurse.C. For Whom the Bell Tolls 26. William Faulk ner was born ina family of a ______________________ .A. mercha ntB. colonelC. man agerD. doctor27. In his essays, ______ p ut forward his philosophy of the over soul, the importa nt of the In dividual and Nature.A. Natha niel HawthorneB. Washi ngton IrvingC. Mark Twai nD. Ralph Waldo Emers on28. The chief spokesma n of New En gla nd Transcenden talism is _______A. Natha niel HawthorneB. Ralph Waldo Emers onC. Henry David ThoreauD. Wash ington Irvi ng29. _____ l iterary world turns out to be a most disturbed, tormented and problematical one, which has much to do with his black” vision of life and human beings.A. Herma n Melville'sB. Washi ngton Irvi ng'sC. Nathaniel Hawthorne'sD. Walt Whitman s30. Most of the poems in ____ sing of the en-masse and the self as well.A. Leaves of GrassB. Drum TapsC. North of Bost onD. The Can tos31. In ____ , Whitma n airs his sorrow at Preside nt Lin colnsdeath.A. Cavalry Crossing a FordB. A Pact ”C. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom 'dD. There was a Child Went Forth ”A. America n DreamB. ruli ng classes B. America n Capitalists D.America n bourgeoisieA. A Farewell to ArmsB. The Sun Also RisesD. In Our Time32.In ___ , Whitman's own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young growingAmerica.A. “A Pact”B. “Song of Myself ”C. “There was a Child Went Forth”D. “Cavalry Crossing a Ford”33.In _____ , Hawthorne sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret.A. “The Custom-House”B. “Young Goodman Brown”C. “Rappaccini's Daughter”D. “The Birthmark"34. _____ is called by Hemingway the one from which“all modern American literature c omes”.A. The adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventures of Tom aSwyerC. The Gilded AgeD. Life on the Mississippi35. Theodore Dreiser's forgiving treatment of the career of his heroine in ____ also draws heavily upon thenaturalistic understanding of sexuality.A McTeague B. An American Tragedy C. Sister Carri e D. The Genius36. _____ is a great giant of American, whom H.L.Mencken considers “the true father of our nationalliterature.”A. Henry JamesB. Washington IrvingC. Mark TwainD. Theodore Dreiser37. _____ is usually regarded as a classic book written for boys about their particular horrors and joys.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Innocents AbroadD. Life on the Mississippi38. _____ is described by Mark Twain as a boy with“a sound heart and a deformed conscienc”e.A. Tom SawyerB. Huckleberry FinnC. JimD.Tony39. _______ is considered to be Theodore Dreise'sr greatest work.A. An American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. The FinancierD. The Titan40. The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all hisexperiments, is ______A. Arthur MillerB. Tennessee WilliamC. George Bernard ShawD. Eugene O'Neil41. The well- known soliloquy by Hamlet “ T o be , or not to be ' shows hisA. hatred for his uncleB. love for lifeC. resolution of revengeD. inner- strife42. _______ is a play that concerns the problem of modern ma'sn identity.A. The Hairy ApeB. Long Day's Journey Into NightC. The Iceman ComethD. The Emperor Jones43.In a tragic sense, ______ is a representation of life as a struggle against unconquerable forces in whichonly a partial victory is possible.A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. In Our TimeC. The Old Man and the SeaD. A Farewell to Arms44. Faulkner once said that _________ is a story of “ lost innocence,'which proves itself to be andintensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A. The Sound and the FuryB. Light in AugustC. Go Down, MosesD. Absalom, Absalom! 45.In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the __________________________ devices in narration.A. RomanticB. RealisticC. GothicD. Modernist46. _____ is Hemingway's first true novel in which he depictsa vivid portrait of “The lost Generation.”A. The Sun Also RisesB. A Farewell to ArmsC. In Our TimeD. For Whom the Bell Tolls47. The only dramatist ever to win a Nobel Prize was _________ .A. Bernard ShawB. Eugene O'NeilC. Richard Brinsley SheridanD. William Shakespeare48. __________________________ By means of “free verse,” believes that he has turned the poem into anopen field, an area of vitalpossibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.A. Emily DickinsonB. Walt WhitmanC. Robert FrostD. Ezra Pound49. An eccentric woman who refuses to accept the passageoftime, or the inevitable change and loss thataccompanies it may probably refer to ______ .A. Irene in The Man of PropertyB. Emily in A Rose for EmilyC. Catherine in Wuthering HeightsD. the widow Douglas in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn50. One source of evil that Nathaniel Hawthorne is concerned most is overreaching intellect. Which of the following stories is one of this kind?A. Rappaccini's DaughterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Minister's Black VeilD. The Birthmark51. “In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel. ”This is the last sentence of __________ .A. Sister CarrieB. An American TragedyC. The GeniusD. Jane Eyre 52.In Walt Whitman's “There was a Child Went Forth”, the child refers to _________________________________________ .A. the poet himself as a childB. any American childC. the young AmericaD. one of the poet's neighbor53. The ______ techniques are used in some of Eugene O'Neil 's plays to highlight the theatrical effect of therupture between the two sides of an individual human being, the private and the public.A. naturalisticB. expressionisticC. stream-of-consciousnessD. metaphysical54. Which of the following is true as far as Emily Dickinson 's poetry is concerned? A. She seldom uses dashes.B. All her poems are about death or immorality.C. Her poems are very personal and meditativeD. Her poems usually have well-chosen titles. 55.In his poems, Whitman tends to use ___________________ .A. oral EnglishB. the King 's EnglishC. American EnglishD. old English56. As far as Nathaniel Hawthorne's art is concerned, which of the following statement is true? A. His The Scarlet Letter tells a love story.B. His art is deeply influenced by Puritanism because he was a puritan himself.C. Young Goodman Brownis a story about superstition.D. Ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of his art.57. “I like to see it lap the Miles—And lick the Valleys up —And stop to feed itself at Tanks—And the n ---- ” (Emily Dick inson, “like to see it lap the Miles—)Here “it” refers to _____ .A. loveB. deathC. a flyD. the train58. Which of the following statements concerning Theodore Dreise'rs style is correct?A. Dreiser'sCowperwood trilogy includes The Financier, The Titan and The GeniusB. His novels have little detail descriptions of characters and events.C. His novels are written in refined language.D. His style is not polished but very serious.59. ____ has long been well known as a poet who can hardly be classified with the old or the new.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert Lee FrostC. T. S. EliotD. Emily Dickinson60. F. Scott Fitzgerald skillfully employs the device of having events observe by ___________ to his greatadvantage.。

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台州学院外国语学院学年第学期级英语本科专业《英国文学史及选读II》期末试卷（12）(闭卷) 姓名班级学号考试时间:120 分钟题号I II III IV V VI VII 总分分值10 10 10 15 20 10 25 100得分I. Multiple choice. Choose the best out of the four. (10%=1*10)1. The subject matters of Romanticism include the following But ____.A. orderB. mysticismC. exotic picturesD. interest in the past2. ____is one of the “Lakers”, or Lake school poets.A. John KeatsB. Percy Bysshe ShelleyC. Leigh HuntD. William Wordsworthautobiographical novel is ____.3. Dickens’　A. Hard TimesB. Bleak HouseC. Oliver TwistD. David CopperfieldThe Scian and the Teian muse ”are recalled in____.4. “A. My Last DuchessB. OzymandiasC. The Isles of GreeceD. She Walks in Beauty5. The followig novels are all written by Thomas Hardy except .A. The Forsyte SagaB. Jude the ObscureC. The Return of the NativeD. Far from the Madding Crowd6. Lawrence revealed Oedipus complex in his novel __________.A. Sons and LoversB. For Whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and the Sea7. ____historical novel paved the path for the development of the realistic novel of the 19thcentury.A. Jane Austen’sB. Walter Scott’sC. Henry Fielding’sD. Charles Lamb’sVanity Fair was borrowed from ____ by John Bunyan .8. The title of Thackeray’s novelA. The Roundabout PaperB. The Newcomerss Progress D. The Four GeorgesC. The Pilgrim’9. Anne , the youngest of the Brontes , was the writer of ____.A. Wuthering HeightsB. Jane EyreC. The ProfessorD. Agnes Grey10. In the Idylls of the King, ____ painted the character of the first English national hero, King Arthur, and gave a new meaning to the legends.A. Robert BrowningB. Thomas HardyC. Charles DickensD. Alfred TennysonII. True or False? Put a T before the statement if you think it is true and put an F if you think it is false.(10%=1*10)____1. Jane Austen is one of the naturalist novelists . She drew vivid and realistic pictures of everyday life of the country society in her novels .____2.The Satanic school is composed of Byron , Shelley and Keats .____3.Childe Harold Pilgrimage made Byron famous overnight .___4. In Tennyson’s Ulysses, Ulysses is the Greek name for the Roman hero Odysseus inHomer’s Odyssey.____ 5. The Romantic Age is emphatically an age of novel .____ 6. In his poems Byron aimed at simplicity and purity of the language, fighting against the conventional forms of the 18th century poetry.treacherous and unfaithful.____ 7. Tess’s character can be described as____ 8.Charles Lamb is remembered by the later generations as a great poet.____ 9. Jane Austen is chronologically a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge.____10.Ozymandias is Shelley’s sonnet on the transient nature of man and the futility of the dream of immortality.III. Blank Filling. (10%=1*10)1. Romanticism in England began in 1798, with the publication of ____.2. Don Juan, the greatest work by , was written in the prime of his creative power, in the year of 1818-1823.3. Ode to a Nightingale was written by _______.4. Ivanhoe is the masterpiece of the historical novelist_______.5. The greatest English realist of the Victorian Age was ____.6. The second half of the 19th century in England produced a number of outstanding poets suchas____ , Robert Browning, Charles Algernon Swinburne and so on.7. ____ is the last and one of the greatest of Victorian novelists .____is often taken to be largely biographical .8. D.H. Lawrence’s novel9. Thomas Hardy is a representative of the English , an extreme form of realism.10.was written by Alfred Tennyson on the question of the immortality of the soul, in memory of Arthur Hallam, the poet’s beloved friend.IV. Define or explain the following .(15%=5*3)1. Onomatopoeia2. Symbol3. Stream of consciousnessV. Identify (20%=10*2)Passage IIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.Questions1.Who is the author of the selection?2.Which novel is this passage taken from?3.List the other five novels written by the author.4.Translate the passage into Chinese.Passage IIThat’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,Looking as if she were alive. I callThat piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf’s handsWorked busily a day, and there she stands.Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said“Fra Pandolf” by design, for never readStrangers like you that pictured countenance,The depth and passion of its earnest glance,……Questions:1.The passage is taken from____.2.The poet is____ .3.This poem is regular in form . The poetic form used is called____.A. Blank VerseB. Free VerseC. Heroic CoupletD. Quatrain4.The poem is a dramatic monologue , who is the speaker in it ? Can you describe hispersonality?VI. Match the characters, works, writers in Boxes A , B and C respectively. Mark theletters in Box B and the numbers in Box C in front of the characters in Box A.The example is given. (10%=1*10)Box AH , 9 C1. Alec , C2. Mrs. Morel , C3. Rowena, C4. Basil Hallward , C5. Hetty Sorrel , C6. Blanche Ingram , C7. Don Juan l , C8.Amelia Sedley , C9. Fagin, C10. Darcy , C11. NellyBox BA. V anity FairB. Jane EyreC. Pride and PrejudiceD. Wuthering HeightsE. Sons and LoversF. Oliver TwistG. Adam Bede H. Tess of the D’Urbervilles I. The Picture of Dorian GrayJ . Ivanhoe K. Don JuanBox C1. George Eliot2. W. M. Thackeray3. Walter Scott4. Charles Dickens5. D. H. Laurence6. Jane Austen7. Charlotte Bronte 8. Emily Bronte 9. Thomas Hardy10. Oscar Wilde 11. George Gordon, Lord ByronVII. Answer the following questions(25%=10+15)1. What is “the Wessex Novels”? Refer to one of the Wessex Novels in explaining naturalism.2. What do you know about the English Romanticism? Comment on the literary current with the following poem.She Dwelt among the Untrodden WaysShe Dwelt among the Untrodden WaysBeside the spring of Dove.A Maid whom there were none to praiseAnd very few to love;A violet by a mossy stoneHalf hidden from the eye!Fair as a star, when only oneIs shining in the sky.She lived unknown, and few could knowWhen Lucy ceased to be;But she is in her grave, and, oh,The difference to me!。

英美文学史期末

简答1\Moby Dick(1p216)The book is defined as an epic, which contains a tragic drama, a tragedy of pride, and pursuit and revenge, which is also a tragedy of thought.It contains several of the epic conventions:the long and arduous journey and the great battle./Melville wrote it.he traveled widely and observed much in his youth.the book is a tremendous chronicle voyage in pursuising a whale.Moby Dick is so difficult to understand that it is not well known in that century.Then,it springs out.and people believed that different people have different understanding of this book.so,it is regarded as a great book in history.2Themes in Hawthorne’s Writings (1p196)· Moral allegories——a story where everything is symbol, used commonly to instruct especially in religious matters· The sinful man –he believed that evil is at the core of human life.And where there is sin,there is punishment.Sin or evil can be passed from generation to generation· Hypocrisy ;The Dark side of human nature ;Religious in natureHawthorne is influenced by puritanism deeply,He was influenced by Puritanism deeply.He was not Puritan himself,but he had Puritan ancestors who played an important tole in him life and work.3 T o Helen的Theme(1p128)Celebrating the beauty of the nurturing power of woman.Beauty, as Poe uses the word in the poem, appears to refer to the woman's soul as well as her body. On the one hand, he represents her as Helen of Troy–the quintessence of physical beauty–at the beginning of the poem. On the other, he represents her as Psyche–the quintessence of soulful beauty–at the end of the poem. In Greek, psyche means soul.作家Edgar Allan Poe wrote it.his parens died when he was two years old.then he lived with Allan family but later they have a deteriorate relationship.4名词解释)Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendentalism超验主义What is Transcendentalism?• Transcendentalism was a literary movement that flourished during the middle 19th Century (1836 – 1860).• It began as a rebellion against traditionally held beliefs by the English Church that God superseded the individual.• Transcendentalists departed from orthodox Calvinism in that they believed in the importance and efficacy of human striving, as opposed to the bleaker Puritan picture of complete and inescapable human depravity.He is a talented editor and famous in Europe,but he is still poor.5What are the Fireside Poets?(名词解释？)·First group of American poets to rival British poets in popularity in either country.·Notable for their scholarship and the resilience of their lines and themes. ·Preferred conventional forms over experimentation.·Often used American legends and scenes of American life as their subject matter.·Henry Wadsworth Longfellow·William Cullen Bryant,James Russell Lowell are the founders of it.5T o Helen的Theme(1p128)Celebrating the beauty of the nurturing power of woman.Beauty, as Poe uses the word in the poem, appears to refer to the woman's soul as well as her body. On the one hand, he represents her as Helen of Troy–the quintessence of physical beauty–at the beginning of the poem. On the other, he represents her as Psyche–the quintessence of soulful beauty–at the end of the poem. In Greek, psyche means soul.作家Edgar Allan Poe选择题1/the features of Puritans(1p4)1poor and rich2hold extreme opinion3opposit pleaure and arts4life is disciplined and hard2/Who exemplified the secular ideals of the American Enlightenment?(1p18) Benjamin Franklin3/Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the one book from which ―all modern American literature comes.‖ Who said that?(2p49)Ernest Hemingway4/What are the issues the Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues in the American literary history?1. Moral enthusiasm2. individualism and intuitive perception3.nature4. rich in mystic color.5. Solitude (Escapism)6. Satisfaction of desire7. Outcasts8. Idealist philosophy9. Delight in self-analysis10. The sublime, the grotesque, the picturesque, and the beautiful with a touch of strangeness are all valued11 spontaneity5/What is Cooper’s story of the ―frontier saga‖ called?(1p105) Leatherstocking T ales6/Henry David Thoreau’s masterpiece is ?(1p175)Walden7/Which essay is regarded as an unofficial manifesto for the ―Transcendental Club‖?Nature8/What does Emerson call the ultimate unity and intuitive self on which based his religion?Oversoul9/Major character in The Scarlet Letter. (1P200)Hester Prynne , Roger Chillingworth , Arthur Dimmesdale .Pearl10/Moby Dick may symbolize?(1p216)丰富但无意义11/Which works concerns most concentratedly about the Calvinistic view of original sin?the Arch-Principles12/The literary period before the American Civil War is commonly referred to as?The Literature of Romanticism13/The first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity in the 1860s was? (p.6)Bret Harte14/What is the name for poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme? Free verse15Major themes of Emily Dickinson’s poetry?(2p17)Love and loverNatureSuccessfailureWho describes realism as ―nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material.‖?(2p5)William Dean HowellsThe dominant figure of the Realistic Period.William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and Henry James.What does Ahab imply as the name of the Captain in the Pequod?the incarnation of evil and a fated nemesis/Who is Ahab in the Bible?An immoral King作家作品1.Benjamin Franklin : Autobiography，poor Richard2.Thomas Paine : Common Sense, the Crisis3.James Cooper : The Spy, he Pilot, The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans4.Walter Whitman : Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself,.5.Emily Dickinson :(诗没有题目，以诗的第一句话为题目)6.Mark Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Life on the Mississippi , Jumping Frog of Calaveras County7.Henry Jame s : The Turn of the Screw , The Wings of the Dove , The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, The American , Daisy Miller , The Portrait of a Lady , The Art of Fiction.8.Jack London : The Call of the Wild , The Sea Wolf , White Fang , Martin Eden9.Theodore Dreiser :Sister Carrie，Trilogy of Desire: The Financier，An American Tragedy．10.Ezra Pound : Cantos，Hugh Selwyn Mauberley．11.Robert Frost : North of Boston,Ice and Fire,The road not taken12.Thomas Stearns Eliot : The Wasteland13.F. Scott Fitzgerald : This Side of Paradise, The Last Tycoon, Tender Is the Night.14.Ernest Hemingway : A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea .15.William Faulkner : The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Absalom,Absalom! The Hamlet, Go Down,Moses.16.John Stenbeck:the grapes of wrath17.Ezra Pound:the Cantos,in a Station of the Metro18.Jefferon:the declaration of IndependenceThe Bay Psalm Book (1640), the first publication in British AmericaThe first American Writer: Captain John Smith。

(完整word版)英美文学试题

I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers。

Choose the one that best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.1. _D__ is not the best representative of the English humanists in the English humanists in the Renaissance。

P9—line3～4A。

Thomas more B. Christopher MarloweC. William ShakespeareD. Edmund Spenser2。

_D__ does not belong to Christopher Marlowe’s play。

P20A. TamburlaineB. Dr。

FaustusC. The Jew of Malta D。

Hero and Leander3. _B__ is regarded as the pioneer of English drama. P22A。

William Shakespeare B. Christopher MarloweC。

Edmund Spenser D. John Donne4。

__A_ are Shakespeare’s two narrative poems. P29A。

Venus and Adonis B. The Two Noble KinsmenC. The Rape of lucreceD. The Winter's Tale5. English Renaissance Period was an age of __B__。

A. prose and novel B。

poetry and dramaC。

英美文学史考试试题

英美文学史考试试题一、选择题（每题 3 分，共 30 分）1、以下哪部作品是英国浪漫主义诗人威廉·华兹华斯的代表作？（）A 《唐璜》B 《抒情歌谣集》C 《恰尔德·哈洛尔德游记》D 《西风颂》2、美国作家海明威的作品常常体现出“冰山理论”，以下哪部作品最能体现这一理论？（）A 《永别了，武器》B 《老人与海》C 《太阳照样升起》D 《丧钟为谁而鸣》3、英国作家简·奥斯汀的小说以细腻的人物刻画和对婚姻爱情的探讨著称，她的哪部作品被多次改编成电影？（）A 《爱玛》B 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》C 《傲慢与偏见》D 《理智与情感》4、以下哪一位是美国浪漫主义时期的重要作家？（）A 马克·吐温B 爱伦·坡C 惠特曼D 以上都是5、英国诗人 TS艾略特的《荒原》属于哪种文学流派？（）A 象征主义B 表现主义C 意识流D 荒诞派6、以下哪部作品是英国批判现实主义作家狄更斯的代表作？（）A 《大卫·科波菲尔》B 《呼啸山庄》C 《简·爱》D 《名利场》7、美国作家福克纳的作品多以南方为背景，他的哪部作品讲述了一个家族的兴衰？（）A 《喧哗与骚动》B 《我弥留之际》C 《押沙龙，押沙龙！》D 以上都是8、英国诗人约翰·弥尔顿的哪部作品取材于《圣经》？（）A 《失乐园》B 《复乐园》C 《力士参孙》D 以上都是9、以下哪一位是美国现代主义作家？（）A 菲茨杰拉德B 德莱塞C 斯坦贝克D 以上都是10、英国女作家勃朗特姐妹的作品包括（）A 《简·爱》和《呼啸山庄》B 《爱玛》和《傲慢与偏见》C 《理智与情感》和《曼斯菲尔德庄园》D 《名利场》和《大卫·科波菲尔》二、简答题（每题 10 分，共 30 分）1、请简要分析莎士比亚悲剧作品的艺术特色。

2、简述美国文学中“黑色幽默”的特点。

3、比较英国浪漫主义文学和美国浪漫主义文学的异同。

英美文学考试题目及答案

英美文学考试题目及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共10分）1. 英国文学史上被称为“英国诗歌之父”的诗人是：A. 乔叟B. 莎士比亚C. 弥尔顿D. 拜伦答案：A2. 下列哪部作品不是简·奥斯汀的小说？A. 《傲慢与偏见》B. 《理智与情感》C. 《简·爱》D. 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》答案：C3. 美国文学中，被誉为“美国文学之父”的作家是：A. 爱伦·坡B. 马克·吐温C. 华盛顿·欧文D. 亨利·詹姆斯答案：C4. 以下哪位作家是现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 狄更斯B. 哈代C. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫D. 简·奥斯汀答案：C5. 美国文学中的“迷惘的一代”是指：A. 第一次世界大战后的作家群体B. 第二次世界大战后的作家群体C. 独立战争后的作家群体D. 内战后的作家群体答案：A二、填空题（每题2分，共10分）1. 威廉·莎士比亚的四大悲剧包括《哈姆雷特》、《奥赛罗》、《李尔王》和________。

答案：《麦克白》2. 《了不起的盖茨比》是美国作家________创作的一部以20世纪20年代的纽约为背景的小说。

答案：F·司各特·菲茨杰拉德3. 英国浪漫主义诗人威廉·华兹华斯与________共同发起了浪漫主义诗歌运动。

答案：塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治4. 美国诗人沃尔特·惠特曼的代表作是________，它被认为是美国文学史上的里程碑。

答案：《草叶集》5. 英国现代主义诗人T.S.艾略特的代表作《荒原》是一首________诗。

答案：长三、简答题（每题10分，共20分）1. 简述乔治·奥威尔的《1984》中“老大哥”的象征意义。

答案：在《1984》中，“老大哥”象征着极权主义政权的无所不在和无所不知，代表了对个人自由和思想的全面控制。

他的形象无处不在，监视着社会的每一个角落，象征着对个人隐私的侵犯和对思想自由的压制。

英语专业英美文学试卷及答案期末

英语专业英美文学试卷及答案期末英美文学试卷 AI. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F). (10 x 1’=10’)1. ( ) Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of Englishpoetry as well as the founder of English realism. His masterpiece TheCanterbury tales contains 26 stories.2. ( ) English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama.3. ( ) The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middleclass and an urban life.4. ( ) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two biginfluences that brought about the English Romantic Movement.5. ( ) Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women witha fierce longing for life and love. Her novels are more or less based on herown experience and feelings and the life as she sees around.6. ( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19th century are ThomasHardy, John Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw.7. ( ) Emily Dic kinson is remembered as the “All American Writer”.8. ( )The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature andrealist literature.9. ( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American languageand American consciousness.10. ( ) In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversityand reached its greatest heights.II. Fill in the blanks. (20 x 1’=20’)11. The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was ___________.12. The War of Independence lasted eight years till__________.13. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay__________ has been regarded as "America's Declaration of Intellectual Independence".?? It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.14. The American ___________ writers paid a great interest in the realities of life and described the integrity of human c haracter reacting under various circumstances and pictured the pioneers of the Far West, the new immigrants and the struggles ofthe working class. The leading figures were ____________, ____________, ____________, ____________, etc.15. No period in American history is more eventful than that between the two worldwars. The literary features of the time can be seen in the writings of those ________ writers as Ezra Pound, and the writers of the Lost Generation as ___________.16. Two features of English Renaissance are the curiosity for ___________ and theinterest in the activities of _____________________.17. Sha kespeare’s earliest great success in tragedy is ____________, a play of youth and love, with the famous balcony scene.18. There are three types of poets in 17th century English literature. They are Puritan poets, ___________ poets and ______________ poets.19. Pope’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem w ritten in ___________________.20. ___________ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel” for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.21. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by _______________.22. Lawrence’s most controversial novel is ___________, the best probably_________.III. Multiple choice. (20 x 1’=20’)23. Among the three major works by John Milton ________ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.A. Paradise RegainedB. Samson AgonistesC. LycidasD. Paradise Lost24. Francis Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and __________.A. complicityB. complexityC. powerfulnessD. mildness25. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _______ defined a good styleas “proper words in proper places”.A. Henry FieldingB. Jonathan SwiftC. Samuel JohnsonD. Alexander Pope26. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with thesearch for _________.A. material wealthB. spiritual salvationC. universal truthD. self-fulfillment27. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of agood fortune must be in want of a wife.” The quoted part is taken from _________.A. Jane EyreB. Wuthering HeightsC. Pride and PrejudiceD. Sense and Sensibility28. Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?A. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William WordsworthC. “Remorse” by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman29. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’works is his _________.A. simple vocabularyB. bitter and sharp criticismC. character-portrayalD. pictures of happiness30. “My Last Duchess”is a poem t hat best exemplifies Robert Browning’s ________.A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB. excellent choice of wordsC. mastering of the metrical devicesD. use of the dramatic monologue31. ________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ______as his encyclopedia-like masterpiece.A James Joyce, UlyssesB. . Foster, A Passage to IndiaC. D. H. Lawrence, Sons and loversD. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway32. Which of the following comments on Charles Dickens is wrong?A. Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Modern PeriodB. His serious intention is to expose and criticize all the poverty, injustice,hypocrisy and corruptness he sees all around him.C. The later works show the development of Dickens towards a highly conscious artistof the modern type.D. A Tale of Two Cities is one of his late works.33. _____w as known as “the poets’ poet”．A. William ShakespeareB. Edmund SpenserC. John DonneD. John Milton34. Which of the following poet belongs to the active Romantic poet?A. KeatsB. SoutheyC. WordsworthD. Coleridge35. ______ is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A. BeowulfB. The Canterbury TalesC. Don JuanD. Paradise Lost36. ___________ is the first modern American novel.A. Tom SawyerB. Huckleberry FinnC. The Sketch BookD. The Leatherstocking Tales37. Which of the following statements is NOT true of American Transcendentalism?A. It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement.B. It can be defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacityof knowing truth intuitively”.C. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.D. It sprang from South America in the late l9th century.38. The theme of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is _________.A. the conflict of human psycheB. the fight against racial discriminationC. the familial conflictD. the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past39. The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ________ for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art” of creating modern diction.A. Ezra PoundB. Ernest HemingwayC. Robert FrostD. Theodore Dreiser40. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism?A. EmersonB. Jack LondonC. Theodore DreiserD. Darwin41. ________ is NOT true in describing American naturalists.A. they were deeply influenced by DarwinismB. they were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile ZolaC. they chose their subjects for the lower ranks or societyD. they used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists42. Henry James’ｓfame generally rests upon his novels and stories with ________.A. international themeB. national themeC. European themeD. regional themeIV. Explain the following literary items.(4x 5’=20’)43.Spenserian Stanza/doc/4614326257.html,ke Poets45.Humanism46.BalladV. Questions. (3x 10’=30’)47. “Robinson Crusoe”is usually considered as Daniel Defoe’s masterpiece. Discuss why it became so successful when it was published?48. What is "Byronic hero"?49. Mark Twain and Henry James are two representatives of the realistic writers inAmerican literat ure. How is Twain ’s realism different form James ’s realism? 参考答案：I. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F).(本题共10空，每空1分，共10分) 1-5: FFTTT 6-10: FFTTFII. Fill in the blanks.(本题共20小题，每题1分，共20分) 11.(American) Puritanism 12.1783 13.The American Scholar 14.realistic; Mark Twain; Henry James; Jack London; Theodore Dreiser. 15.Imagist; Hemingway. 16.the classical literature; humanity. 17.Romeo and Juliet 18.Cavalier; Metaphysical 19.heroic couplet 20.Henry Fielding 21.John Keats /doc/4614326257.html,dy Chatterley ’ｓ lover ; The RainbowIII. Multiple choice.（本题共20小题，每题1分，共20分) IV. Explain the following literary items. （本题4小题,每小题5分,共20分）43. Spenserian Stanza: it refers to a verse form created by Edmund Spenser for his poems. Each stanza has nine lines. Each of the first eight lines is in iambicpentameter, and the ninth line is an iambic hexameter line. The rhythm scheme is题号23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 答案 D C B B C A C D A A B A A B D D B D D Aababbcbcc44. Lake Poets: it refers to those English romantic poets at the beginning of the19th century, William Wordsworth, for example, who lived in the heart of the LakeDistrict in the north-western part of England and enjoyed the experience of livingclose to nature, and these poets were the older generation of Romantic poets whohad been deeply influenced by the French Revolution of 1789 and its effects. In their writings, they described the beautiful scenes and the country people of the area.45. Humanism refers to the literary culture in the Renaissance.Humanists emphasize the capacities of the human mind and the achievements of human culture. Humanismbecame t he central theme of English Renaissance. Thomas More and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanists.46. Ballad: a story told in songs, usually in 4-line stanzas, with the second andfourth rhymed.V. Questions.（本题3小题,每小题10分,共30分）47.A: Robinson Crusoe is supposedly based on the real adventure of an Alexander Selkirk who once stayed alone on the uninhabited island for five year4s. Actually, the story is an imagination.B: In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a na?ve and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventfullife.C. In the novel, Robinson is a real hero and he is an embodiment of the risingmiddle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England. Robinson is a trueempire-builder, a colonizer and a foreign trader, who has the courage and will toface hardships and who has determination to preserve himself and improve his livelihood by struggling against nature.D. Robinson Crusoe is an adventure story very much i n the spirit of the time. Because of the above reasons, when it was published, people all liked that story, and itbecame an immediate success.48. Byronic hero is a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin. With immensesuperiority in his passions and powers, this Byronic hero would carry on his shoulders the burden of righting all the wrongs in a corrupt society, and would rise single-handedly against any kind of tyrannical rules wither in government, in religion, or in moral principles with unconquerable wills and inexhaustible energies. The conflict is usually one of rebellious individuals against outworn social systems and conventions. Such a hero appeared in many o f his works, for example, "Don Juan". The figure is somewhat modeled on the life and personality of Byron himself, andmakes Byron famous both at home and abroad.49.A. Mark Twain’s realism is tainted with local color, preferring to have his wonregion and people at the forefront of his stories.B. James’s realism is concerned with the “inner world”of man and the international theme.C. Twain’s language is simple and colloquial and he employs humor in his writing.D. James’s language is elaborate and refined with lengthy psychological analyses.。

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Samuel Johnson5.Thomas Gray6.William Blake7.Robert Burns8.William Wordsworth9.Samuel Taylor Coleridge10.Robert Southey11.Walter Scott12.William Makepeace Thackeray13.Charlotte Bronte14.Emily Bronte15.George Eliot16.Robert Louis Stevenson17.Oscar Wilde18.John Galsworthy19.Thomas Hardy20.Bernard Shaw21.William Butler Yeats22.David Herbert Lawrence23.Virginia Woolf24.Charles Dickens25.Percy Shelley26.Christopher Marlow27.Jonathan Swift28.Jane Austen29.Henry Fielding30.Thomas Hardy31.William Shakespeare32.George Gordon Byron33.Samuel Taylor Coleridge34.r Edmund Spenser35.Alexander Pope36.Richard Brinsley Sheridan37.George Eliot38.James Joyce39.Poesy John Drydenurence Sterne41.Percy Shelley42)Thomas Jefferson43) Fenimore Cooper44) Washington Irving45) Emerson46) Henry David Thoreau47) Nathaniel Hawthorne48)Herman Melville49)Edgar Allan Poe50) Walt Whitman51)Walt Whitman52)Emily Dickinson53) Robert Frost54) Edgar Allan Poe55) Harriet Beecher Stowe56) William Dean Howells57) Henry James58) Mark Twain59) O. Henry60) Jack London61) Stephen Crane62) Frank Norris63) Theodore Dreiser64) Ezra Pound65) Ezra Pound66) Wallace Stevens67) Carl Sandburg68)T. S. Eliot69) John Steinbeck70) Fitzgerald71) William Faulkner72) Ernest Hemingway73) Eugene O’Neill74) Arthur Miller75) William Faulkner76) T. S. Eliot77) Longfellow78) John Steinbeck79) Mark Twain80)John Doss Passos2. Choose the right answer. 1Answer: D2Answer: B3 Answer: D4. Answer: C6. Answer: B7. Answer: D8. Answer: B9. Answer: B10. Answer: A11. Answer: C12. Answer: C13. Answer: B14. Answer: B15. Answer: B16. Answer: B17. Answer: C18. Answer: B19. Answer: D20. Answer: C21. Answer: B22. Answer: C23. Answer: B24. Answer: B25. Answer: A26. Answer: D27. Answer: A28. Answer: D29. Answer: A30. Answer: B31. Answer: C32. Answer: D33. Answer: B34. Answer: C35. Answer: D36. Answer: C37. Answer: D38. Answer: B39. Answer: A40. Answer: B41. Answer: A42. Answer: A43. Answer: B44. Answer: C45. Answer: B46. Answer: D47. Answer: C48. Answer: A50. Answer: A51. Answer: B52. Answer: A53. Answer: D54. Answer: A55. Answer: D56. Answer: D57Answer: D58. Answer: A59. Answer: A60. Answer: A61. Answer: D62. Answer: C63. Answer: A64. Answer: B65. Answer: A66. Answer: A67. Answer: B68. Answer: C69. Answer: B70. Answer: A71. Answer: D72. Answer: B73. answer: D74. Answer: A75. Answer: B76. Answer: A77. Answer: D78. Answer: D79. Answer: C80 Answer: A3. Answer the following questions briefly.1)What is Chaucer's contribution to English language?Chaucer's language is vivid and exact. His verse is smooth. His words are easy to understand. He introduced from France the rhymed stanzas of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter which was later called the "heroic couplet." Though drawing influence from French, Italian and Latin models, he is the first important poet to write in the current English language. Chaucer did much in making the dialect of London the foundation for modern English language.2)What was the English Renaissance?The English Renaissance was an intellectual movement or rebirth of letters. There were two striking features. The first was the revived interest in classical literature. People were thirsty for works of Greek and Latin. Another feature washumanism. People began to see themselves as important beings, not only living for God and a future world. Interest in beauty and achievement rose. This was the outlook of the new bourgeois class. They believed in their strength. They expected the promising world opening to them. They believed that they could make the world according to their desires.3)What are the themes of "Robinson Crusoe"?1) The novel sings high praises of self-reliance. It demonstrates that man can remake the world with his own power. He can rely on himself in difficult situations.2) This novel is also an exhibition of man's capacity. Man has boundless energy. Together with his persistence and strong will power, he can do anything that may seem impossible previously.3) This novel also glorifies human labor. It is labor that saves Robinson Crusoe from despair, and labor is also a source of pride and happiness.In short, Robinson Crusoe is representative of the English bourgeoisie at the early stage of its development.4) This novel also touches upon the theme of colonization. Crusoe makes Friday his servant, and he himself master of the island and Friday. This plot is in accordance with the exploitation of the English bourgeois class out of Britain.4)Summarize Shelley's significance in the English literature.Shelley is one of the leading Romantic poets, an intense and original lyrical poet in the English language. Like Blake, he has a reputation as a difficult poet: erudite, imagistically complex, full of classical and mythological allusions. His style abounds in personification and metaphor and other figures of speech which describe vividly what we see and feel, or express what passionately moves us.5) What are the periods of Shakespeare’s dramatic composition? And what are their respective features?Three periods: 1. Period of historical plays and comedies. This period is characterized by happiness and optimism. This period can be further put into two phases: the phase of apprenticeship and the phase of maturation. 2. Period of tragedies. This period is characterized by gloom. 3. Period of romances or tragic-comedies. This period is characterized by reconciliation.6) What are the principles of classicists? Tell three representative classicists in the English literature and their representative works.1) The classicists modeled themselves on Greek and Latin authors, and tried to control literary creation by some fixed laws and rules drawn from Greek and Latin works. Rimed couplet instead of blank verse, the three unities of time, place and action, regularity in construction, and the presentation of types rather than individuals—these were some of the standards the classicists required of drama. Poetry, following the ancient divisions, should be lyric, epic, didactic, satiric or dramatic, and each class should be guided by some peculiar principles. Prose should be precise, direct and flexible. The English classicists followed these standards in thei r writing. 2) Addison and Steele, “The Tatler,” and “The Spectator.” Alexander Pope, “Essay on Criticism,” and “The Rape of the Lock.”7)Summarize Eliot's influence briefly.The novels of George Eliot mark the beginning of a new stage in the development of English critical realism following that of Dickens and Thackeray. In one respect her work had an advantage over her predecessors. Her characters were not grotesque types, but real, common men and women, whose psychology Eliot revealed very skillfully to the reader. But in other respects her work marks a retrogression. She shifted the center of gravity in the novel from the social problems to the problems of religion and morality. Though aware of the evils of bourgeois society, she did not attack the social system. She believed in the sentimental "religion of humanity", and cherished the illusion that humanity and love could do away with the evils of capitalism.8)Why is Hamlet a representative of humanism?Hamlet is a humanist, a man who is free from medieval prejudices and superstition. He has an unbounded love for the world instead of the heaven. Such love for nature and man is characteristic of the humanists of the Renaissance. Hamlet is also a man of strong moral standards. He loves good and hates evil. He treats everybody as equal. This democratic tendency is based on his humanist thought. His intellectual genius is outstanding. He is a close observer of men and manners. He easily sees through people, so he is always unmasking the world. His image reflects the versatility of the men of the Renaissance.9) What are the characteristics of the American writings in the Romantic Period?Most of the American writings in the Romantic Period share the following characteristics: 1) there was a new emphasis upon the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature, which include a liking for the picturesque, the exotic, the sensuous, the sensational, and the supernatural. 2) The Americans also placed an increasing emphasis upon the free expression of emotions and displayed an increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters. Heroes and heroines exhibited extremes of sensitivity and excitement. 3) The strong tendency to exalt the individual and the common man was almost a national religion in American. 4) The more colorful aspects of the past are used in the literary works. 5) American Romanticism is derivative and typically American.10) How does “Rip Van Winkle” reveal Washington Irving’s conservative attitude?1) Washington Irving was a conservative and always exalted a disappearing past, which is obvious in “Rip Van Winkle”. Rip went to sleep before the War of Independence and woke up after it. The change that had occurred in the twenty years he slept was to him not always for the better. Instead of feeling happy about the country finally independent from the yoke of British colonial rule, Rip was pleased with his new life chiefly because “he had got his neck out of the yoke of matrimony”.2) The story might be taken as an illustratio n of Irving’s argument that change—and revolution—upset the natural order of things, and of the fact that Irving preferred the past to the present, a dreamlike world to the real one, and never seemed to accept a modern democratic America.11) What is Hawth orne’s writing style?1) As a man of literary craftsmanship, Hawthorne is extraordinary in that the structure and the form of his writing are always carefully worked out to cater of the thematic concern. 2) With his special interest in the psychological aspect of human beings, he is good at exploring the complexity of human psychology. 3) Hawthorne is a great allegorist and almost every story can be read allegorically. 4) Hawthorne is a master of symbolism, which he took from the Puritan tradition and bequeathed to American literature in a revivified form.12) Comment on the language of Whitman’s poems1) Contrary to the rhetoric of traditional poetry, Whitman’s language is relatively simple and even rather crude. 2) An often-used method in Whitman’s poem s if to make colors and images fleet past the mind’s eye of the reader. 3) Another characteristic in Whitman’s language is his strong tendency to use oral English.13) What is Dreiser’s writing style?Dreiser’s contribution to the American literary hist ory is great.1) He broke away from the genteel tradition of literature and dramatized the life in a very realistic way. His style is not polished but very serious and well calculated to achieve the thematic ends he sought. 2) However, his writings appear more inclusive and less selective, and the readers are sometimes burdened with massive detailed descriptions of characters and events. 3) He has been accused of being awkward in sentence structure, inept and occasionally flatly wrong in word selection and meaning, and mixed and disorganized in voice and tone.14) What is the Imagist Movement?1) Flourished from 1909 to 1917 and involved quite a number of British and American writers and poets, Imagist Movement is a movement that advanced modernism in arts which concentrated on reforming the medium of poetry as opposed to Romanticism, especially Tennyson’s worldliness and high-flown language in poetry.2) The Imagist Movement15) What is the basic concern of The Hairy Ape?1)Sister Carrie The play concerns the problem of modern man’s identity. 2) Yank’s sense of belonging nowhere, hence homelessness and rootless, is typical of the mood of isolation and alienation in the early twentieth century in the United States and the whole world as well.16) What is the theme of The Old Man and the Sea?1) A short novel by Hemingway which brought him the Nobel Prize, The Old Man and the Sea is about an old Cuban fisherman Santiago and his losing battle with a giant marlin. 2) In a tragic sense, it is a representation of life and as a struggle against unconquerable natural forces in which only a partial victory is possible. Nevertheless, there is a feeling of great respect for the struggle of mankind.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.1) About the sea adventure: it symbols the voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe; a spirit exploration into man’s deep re ality and psychology;2) About the boat; it symbols the society, and the crew symbol all kinds of peoplewith different social and ethnic ideas;3) About the white whale: To the author, it symbols nature, it is a complex, unfathomable and beautiful; To the captain Ahab, it is evilness, is a wall. So he will lead all his crew to cut through the wall to dig out all the unknown, mysterious things behind it. To the narrator, Ishmael, it is a mystery.18) Why Modernism is different from Realism?In many aspects, Modernism acts against Realism; 1) Modernism rejects rationalism, while Realism stresses it; 2) Modernism includes internal, subjective, psychological world, while Realism stresses external, objective, and material world;3) Modernism advocates new forms and new techniques, and it casts away all the traditional elements such as: story, character, etc. while Realism stresses it. 4) Modernism works are called anti-novel, anti-poetry, anti-drama etc.4. Answer the following questions in detail.1)What are the general features of Shakespeare's plays?1. Realism & Humanism. Shakespeare is regarded as one of the founders of realism in world literature. His theory of drama is "to hold, as it were, the mirror to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure." This is in agreement with Engels' definition of realism: "Realism implies the truthful reproduction of typical characters under typical circumstances."Humanism is also keynote of Shakespeare's drama. Many of his characters are representatives of Shakespeare's humanistic thoughts. The women characters are such examples. Women in Shakespeare's plays are usually braver and more capable than men characters. They are no longer restrained by the feudal fetters. Falstaff, in "Henry IV," also shows Shakespeare's humanistic belief. Falstaff is fat, old, ugly, gross and guilty of many sins. He is boastful and greedy. He takes bribes. These are included in The Seven Deadly Sins. However, Shakespeare didn't create him as a bad example. On the contrary, his characterization of Falstaff is comic, not criticizing. In fact, it is said that this character was so amusing that Queen Elizabeth asked Shakespeare to write another play imply devoting to Falstaff. From the creation of Falstaff, we can see that Shakespeare is free from the religious constraints. This is an important feature of humanism.Shakespeare's histories also demonstrate hi belief in unity of the country and an ideal king, for example, "Henry IV" and "Henry V." This is also what the English people was expecting after many years' war in the Middle Ages.2. Shakespeare used a lot of adoptions. He borrowed his source materials from a variety of sources: Greek legends, Roman history, Italian stories and English historical records. However, he was always able to put a new meaning on the old stories, thus reflecting the reality of England of his time.3. Shakespeare is a master of drama. He broke the classical rules of three unities, thus caused English drama to flourish.4. Shakespeare is skillful in many poetic forms. He is especially good at sonnets and blank verse.5. Shakespeare is a master of the English language. He used about 16,000 words.Many of his coined words have remained in the English language. Shakespeare and the King James Bible are the two great treasuries of the English language.2)Summarize Byron's chief contribution and significance in the Englishliterature.As a leading Romanticist, Byron's chief contribution is his creation of the "Byronic hero," a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin. With immense superiority in his passions and powers, this Byronic hero would carry on his shoulders the burden of righting all the wrongs in a corrupt society, and would rise single-handedly against any kind of tyrannical rules either in government, in religion, or in moral principles with unconquerable wills and inexhaustible energies. The conflict is usually one of rebellious individuals against outworn social systems and conventions. The image of this hero is to some extent modeled on the life and personality of Byron himself, and makes Byron famous both at home and abroad. Byron's poetry was immensely popular at home and also abroad, where it exerted great influence on the Romantic movement. This popularity owes to the author's persistent attacks on "cant political, religious, and moral," to the novelty of his oriental scenery, to the romantic character of the Byronic hero, and to the easy, fluent and natural beauty of his verse. Byron's diction on the whole has a freedom, copiousness and vigor. His descriptions are simple and fresh, and often bring vivid objects before the reader. The glowing imagination also adds to the charm of his poetry.Byron uses Ottva Rima (Octave Stanza) as the form of his poetry.Byron's poetry has great influence on the literature of the whole world. Across Europe, patriots and painters and musicians are all inspired by him. Poets and novelists are profoundly influenced by his work.3) What are the three periods of Yeats’s literary career? Enumerate some representative works at each period.Yeats' literary career can be divided into three periods. During the early years of his literary career, he wrote romantic poetry under the influence of Spenser, Shelley and the Pre-Raphaelites. He also made an intensive study of William Blake whose symbolism and mysticism attracted him very much. His early poems were full of dreams and fairies. The major themes are usually Celtic legends, local folktales, or stories of the heroic age in Irish history. Many of these poems have a dreamy quality with melancholy, passive and self-indulgent feelings. Famous poems composed in this period include "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." Collections of his early poems are: "Crossways" (1899), "The Rose" (1893), and "The Wind Among the Reeds" (1899). The first two decades of the 20th century were Yeats' period of transition, during which he departed from the romanticism of his early period and developed into modernism, influenced by the poetry and criticism of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. He also studied the works of John Donne, the 17th century metaphysical poet. By finding a new force, a new dimension, and a new reality to his verse, Yeats began to write with realistic and concrete themes on a variety of subjects, exploring the profound and complicated human problems, such as life, love, politics and religion. With the combination of his appreciation of beauty and a sense of tragedy in life, Yeats gave asignificance to the ordinary events of life in his poetry. The new vigor of his verse is reflected in the precise and concrete imagery, the strong passion and the active verb forms. Through vivid images, rich symbols and controlled rhythms, the meaning of his poems was pressed disturbing home. His style is both simple and rich, colloquial and formal, with a quality of metaphysical wit and symbolic vision, which indicates that Yeats has already been on his way to modernist poetry. His famous poems composed in this period include: "No Second Troy," "September 1913," "Easter 1916" and "The Second Coming."The years 1919-1939 were Yeats' final period of maturity, in which he published many volumes of his representative poems, which include "The Wild Swans at Coole" (1919), "The Tower" (1828), "Sailing to Byzantium." In his late works he deals with the rise and fall of civilization, with eternal beauty in the world of art, with contrast between youth and old age, and with love. He created an elaborate system of symbols of his own in his poems.4) What are the characteristics of Romanticism in English literature? 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Some other poets like Percy have a strong interest in the medieval literature, while others like Burns find sources from folk songs or ballads. Individualism is an important feature of romantic literature. Lord Byron’s Don Juan is a remarkable poem in high praise of individualism. On the whole, romanticists are against whatever classicists support. They abandon the heroic couplet in favor of blank verse, the sonnet, the Spenserian stanza and many experimental verse forms. They drop the conventional poetic fiction in favor of fresher language and bolder figures. Typical literary forms of the romantic writers include the lyric, especially the love lyric, the reflective lyric, the nature lyric and the lyric of morbid melancholy and sentimental novel.5) Comment on the similarities and differences of the three dominant figures—William Dean Howells, Henry James and Mark Twain of the Realistic period.The three dominant figures of the Realistic period are William Dean Howells, Henry James and Mark Twain.a. Their similarities:Together they brought to fulfillment native trends in the realistic portrayal of the landscape and social surfaces,brought to perfection the vernacular style, and explored and exploited the literary possibilities of the interior life. They recorded and made permanent the essential life of the eastern third of the continent as it was lived in the last half of the nineteenth century on the vanishing frontier, in the village, the small town, or the turbulent metropolis. They established the literary identity of distinctively American protagonists, specially the vernacular hero and the “American Girl”, the baffled and strained middle-class family, the businessman, and the psychologically complicated citizens of a new international culture. Together, in short, they set the example and charted the future of course for the subjects, themes, techniques and styles of fiction we still call modern.b. Their differencesThough the three prominent writers wrote more or less at the same time, they differed in their understanding of “truth”. While Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life” of the Americans, Henry James had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world” of man. He came to believe that the literary artist should not simply hold a mirror to the surface of social life in particular times and spaces. In addition, the writers should use language to probe the deepest reaches of the psychological and moral nature of human beings. He is a realist of the inner life. Though Mark Twain and Howells both shared the same concern in presenting the truth of the American society, they had each of them different emphasis. Howells focused his discussion on the rising middle class and the way they lived, while Mark Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories. This particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “local colorism”, a unique variation of American literary realism.6) The background of American Modernism1)Social backgroundThe 20th century began with a strong sense of social breakdown. A series of wars fought on the international scene during the first part of the century were to affect the life of Americans and their literary writings. With all these wars the world had undergone a dramatic social change, a transformation from order to disorder. So had the United States. Despite its booming industry and material prosperity, there was a sense of unease and restlessness and underneath.2) Along with the changes in the material landscape came the changes in the non- material system of belief and behavior. The First World War had made a big impact on the life of Americans. In a word, there was a decline in moral standard and the first few decades of the twentieth century was best described as a spiritual wasteland. The First World War brought feelings of fear, loss, disorientation and disillusionment to the Americans.3) Between the mid-19th century and the first decade of the 20th century, there had been a big flush of new theories and new ideas in both social and natural sciences, as well as in the field of are in Europe, which played an indispensable role in bringing about modernism and the modernistic writings in the United States. The implicationsof modern European arts to modern American writings can also be strongly felt in the American literature between the wars, even thereafter.7) What is Hawthorne’s “black” vision of life and human beings?1) Hawthorne’s liter ary world is very disturbed, tormented and problematical because of his “black” vision of life and human beings. He rejected what he saw as the Transcendentalists’ transparent optimism about the potentialities of human nature. Instead he looked more deeply and perhaps more honestly into life, finding it much suffering and conflict but also finding the redeeming power of love. 2) According to him, “There is evil in every human heart”, and a piece of literary work should “show how we are all wronged and wrong ers, and avenge one another”. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discusses sin and evil. One source of evil Hawthorne is concerned most is over-reaching intellect, which usually refers to someone who is too proud, too sure of himself. The tension between the head and the heart constitutes one of the dramatic moments when the evil of over-reaching intellect would be fully revealed. 3) Hawthorne’s intellectuals are usually villains, dreadful because they are devoid of warmth and feeling. What’s more, they tend to go beyond and violate the natural order by doing something impossible and reaching the ultimate truth, without a sober mind about their own limitations as human beings. Chillingworth, Dr. Rappaccini in “Rappaccini’s daughter” are but a few specimens of Hawthorne’s chilling, cold-blooded human animals.8) Analyze the theory of Theodore Dreiser’naturalism with example.1) His naturalism emphasized heredity and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances. At bottom, life was shown to be ironic, even tragic.2) The characters in his books are often subject to the control of the natural forces, especially those of environment and heredity. For example, th e hero Hurstwood’s tragic death showed the theory.3) The effect of Darwinist idea of "survival of the fittest" was shattering. It is not surprising to find in Dreiser’s fiction a world of jungle, where "kill or to be killed" was the law.4) He criticizes materialistic to the core, living in such a society with such a value system, the human individual is obsessed with a never-ending, yet meaningless search for satisfaction of his/her desires. One of the desires is for money which was a motivating purpose of life in the United States in the late 19th century. For example in his masterpiece "Sister Carrie" he traces the material rise of Carrie Meeber, which indicates the critical attitude of the author.5) Sexual beauty symbolizes the acquisition of some social status of great magnitude.9) Take examples to analyze the style and theme of Mark Twain.Mark Twain is a great literary of America, H. L. Mencken considered him "the true father of our national literature".1) Twain’s works like "Adventure of Huckleberry Finn" and "Life on the Mississippi" shaped the views of America and combined American folk humor and serious literature together;。

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英美文学简史单元测试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 威廉·莎士比亚是哪个时期的英国剧作家？A. 伊丽莎白时代B. 维多利亚时代C. 乔治时代D. 现代2. 以下哪部作品是查尔斯·狄更斯的代表作？A. 《简·爱》B. 《傲慢与偏见》C. 《大卫·科波菲尔》D. 《呼啸山庄》3. 美国文学中的“失落的一代”主要指的是哪个时期的作家？A. 19世纪B. 20世纪初C. 第二次世界大战后D. 冷战时期4. 以下哪位作家是现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 马克·吐温B. 欧内斯特·海明威C. 爱德加·爱伦·坡D. 亨利·詹姆斯5. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的哪部作品被认为是现代主义文学的经典之作？A. 《到灯塔去》B. 《了不起的盖茨比》C. 《太阳照常升起》D. 《尤利西斯》二、填空题（每空2分，共20分）6. 英国浪漫主义诗人威廉·华兹华斯与_______和塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治共同创作了《_______》。

7. 19世纪英国诗人阿尔弗雷德·丁尼生被誉为_______的代表。

8. 美国文学中的“自然写作”流派的代表人物是_______。

9. 20世纪美国文学中，被称为“黑色幽默”的文学流派的代表作是_______的《第二十二条军规》。

10. 英国作家乔治·奥威尔的代表作《1984》和《_______》被认为是反乌托邦文学的典范。

三、简答题（每题15分，共30分）11. 简述美国文学中的“现实主义”与“自然主义”的区别。

12. 描述一下现代主义文学的特点，并举例说明。

四、论述题（30分）13. 论述弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫在现代主义文学中的地位及其作品对后世的影响。

答案一、选择题1. A2. C3. B4. B5. A二、填空题6. 塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治，《抒情歌谣集》7. 维多利亚时代8. 亨利·戴维·梭罗9. 约瑟夫·海勒10. 《动物农场》三、简答题11. 美国文学中的“现实主义”强调对现实生活的真实反映，注重社会问题和人性的探讨，而“自然主义”则更强调环境和遗传对人的影响，倾向于悲观主义。

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Part Five Romanticism in EnglandⅠ. Choose the right answer.1.Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______.A. realismB. RenaissanceC. EnlightenmentD. feudalism2.The main literary stream is ____.A. poetryB. novelsC. proseD. periodicals3.____ has a another name called “The Daffodils”.A. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”B. “Tintern Abbey”C. “Revolution”D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”4.Coleridge’s _____ is a “conversation” poem.A. Frost at MidnightB. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”C. ChristabelD. Biographia Literaria5.Byron’s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.A. Childe Harold’s PilgrimageB. Hours of IdlenessC. LaraD. Don Juan6.Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.A. Wordsworth’sB. Byron’sC. Shelley’sD. Keats’7.____ lived the longest life.A. WordsworthB. ByronC. ShelleyD. Keats8.Keats’ first poem is ____.A. O SolitudeB. On First Looking into Chapman’s HomerC. PoemsD. Endymion9.Keats’ best ode is ____.A. “On a Grecian Urn”B. “To Autumn”C. “To Psyche”D. “To a Nightingale”10.The best works of William Hazlitt is ____.A. The Spirit of the AgeB. Table TalkC. The Characters of Shakespeare’s PlaysD. On the English Poets11.The publication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement inEngland.A. “Tintern Abbey”B. Lyrical BalladsC. Frost at NightD. “The Daffodils”12.The Prelude has also been called _____.A. The Last BrazilB. The First ImpressionC. Growth of a Poet’s MindD. The Spirit of the Age13.Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” has also been called _______.A. “The Solitary Reaper”B. “The Daffodils”C. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”D. “O Solitude”14._____ is considered Wordsworth’s masterpiece.A. The PreludeB. EndymionC. Don JuanD. Biographia Literaria15.The prose writers in the English Romantic Age developed a kind of _______.A. models of classicismB. familiar essayC. rules of neo-romanticismD. ways of modernism16.The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is _____.A. KeatsB. Walter ScottC. Charles LambD. William Hazlitt17.The themes of Pride and Prejudice are _____.A. pride and prejudiceB. the writer’s own personalitiesC. love and marriageD. Both A and C18._____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.A.Jane AustenB. Charles LambC. William HazlittD. Waler Scottmb’s writings are full of ______for he is especially fond of old writers.A. romanticismB. conversationsC. inspirationsD. archaismsmb is a romanticist of ______.A. the cityB. the countrysideC. natureD. imagination21._____ is based on Boccaccio’s Decameron.A. EndymionB. Isabella D. Hyperion D. Lamia22.Critics agree that ____ is a great romantic poet, standing with Shakespeare,Milton and Wordsworth in the history English literature.A. KeatsB. WordsworthC. ColeridgeD. William23.The reader can get a broad panorama of the social life of the English RomanticAge from _____.A. Dun JuanB. The PreludeC. Kubla KhanD. Isabella24.Some critics think that some of Byron’s poems show his _____.A. individual heroism and pessimismB. love of nature and optimismC. love of old writersD. hatred for the imperialism25.One of Coleridge’s best “conventional” poems is _____.A. Kubla KhanB.Frost at NightC. ChristabelD. Biographia Literaria26.Coleridge’s best literary criticism is _________.A. Kubla KhanB.Frost at NightC. ChristabelD. Biographia Literaria27.____ is Shelley’s masterpiece.A. ZastrozziB. The Necessity of AtheismC. Queen MabD. Prometheus Unbound28._____ is a joint book by Charles Lamb and his sister.A. John WoodvilB.Essays of EliaC. Mr HD. Tales from Shakespeare29.Because of _______, Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University.A. The Masque of AnarchyB. A Defence of PoetryC. The Necessity of AtheismD. The Triumph of Life30.______ is Shelley’s first book written in ____.A. Zastrozzi; EtonB. The Necessity of Atheism; ItalyC. Queen Mab; GreeceD. Prometheus Unbound; Italy31.The Romantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____.A. 1789...1821 B. 1778...1823 C. 1798...1832 D. 1768 (1819)32.Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.A. the firstB. the secondC. the thirdD. the forth33.The Examiner is a famous _____ in the English Romantic Age.A. novelB. poemC. periodicalD. newspaperKey to the multiple choices:1-5 CADAD 6-10 CACDA 11-15 BCBAB16-20 CDDDA 21-25 BAAAB 26-30 BDDCA31-33 CBCⅡ. Fill in the blanks.1.In a sense, in English Romantic Age, “____” equaled “_____”.2.William Wordsworth was influenced by the _____ Revolution.3.Many subjects of Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of ____.4.Wordsworth’s The Prelude is an ____ poem.5.Writing The Prelude is a process of ____.6.Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is an ____ poem.7.Shelley’s works reflect his interests both in _____ and in ____ ____.8.The theme of Keats’Hyperion is the ____ between the old and the new.9.Charles Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare is for _____.10.______ a joint work of Wordsworth and his friend Coleridge.11.The publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 marks the beginning of the _____ inEngland.12.The poems in Lyrical Ballads are characterized by a _____with the poor, simplepeasants, a passionate love of nature and the _____and ____of the language.13.The description of the book, ______ has been called a long journey home.14._____ was the only old romantic who never wavered in his devotion to the causeof the French Revolution.15.All his life, Hazlitt remained loyal to the principles of____, _____ and ______.16.Romanticism is applied to a European movement in the _____ to ____ century.17.The publication of Lyrical Ballads marked the break with ______.18.The Romantic Age is an age of romantic ______ and _______.19.The Romantic Age began in 1798 when William Wordsworth and Samuel TaylorColeridge published their joint work _______.20.The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer_______ died.21.Women as ____ appeared in the romantic age. It was during this period thatwomen took, for the first time, an important place in English literature.22.The greatest historical novelist ______was produced in the Romantic Age.23.The English Romantic period produced two major novelists: _____ and _____.24.____ is regarded as the best essayist during the Romantic Age.25.Among Wordsworth’s longer poems, the best-known one is _______.26.______ marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realism whichfollowed it.27.In 1817, _______ finished his literary criticism, Biographia Literaria.28.At the turn of the 18th and 19th century _____ appeared in England as a new trendin literature.29.In contrast to the rationalism of the enlighteners and classicists in the 18th century,the _____ paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man.30.Wordsworth’s poetry is distinguished by the _____ of his language.31.Queen Mab, Pecy Bysshe Shelley’s important poem, is written in the form of a_____.32._____ was the first poet in Europe who sang for the working people. His politicallyrics are among the best of their kind in the whole sphere of European romantic poetry.33.After his second book Endymion appeared in 1818, _____ gave up medicine forpoetry.34.____’s grave bears the epitaph: “Hear lies one whose name is writ in water.”35.The Eve of St. Agnes is a narrative poem written in ______.36.The theme of ____ is the conflict between the old and the new, and the story isderived from Greek mythology. In this work, the poet expresses the eternal law of nature—the passing of an old order of things and the coming of a new.37.Modern essay originated from Montaigne’s _____, which were translated intoEnglish by Florio and had an extensive influence upon English literature.38.The first poem in the collection The Lyrical Ballads is ____ ’s masterpiece. TheRime of the Ancient Mariner.39.On the death of Robert Southey in 1843, ____ was made poet laureate.40.In 1805, Wordsworth completed ______, containing all together 14 books.41.In 1807 George Gordon Byron published his lyric poems in a small volume calledHours of Idleness. The volume was sharply attacked in the influential Edinburgh Review. Byron responded with his first important poem, a biting satire called____.42.In 1824, the Revolutionary Romantic poet ___ went to Greece to help thatcountry in its struggle for liberty against Turks. Not long, he died of fever there.43.George Gordon Byron is chiefly known for his two long poems: One is ChildeHarold’s Pilgrimage, the other is ____.44.The poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage contains ____ cantos. It is written inSpenserian stanza.45.George Gordon Byron wrote ____ in Italy. It contains sixteen cantos.46.George Gordon Byron’s masterpiece is ______.47.____ is George Gordon Byron’s philosophical poetic drama.48.____ is Byron’s poetic drama with the material taken from Biblical story.49.George Gordon Byron’s first volume of poems is _____.50.____ was expelled after only six months at Oxford, because he had written thepamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.51.After the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s first wife, he was compelled to leaveEngland in 1818, and spent all the rest of his life in _____.52.____ is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s first long poem of importance. It was written inthe form of a fairy tale dream.53._____ , a lyrical drama, is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s masterpiece. The story wastaken from Greek mythology.54.The Masque of Anarchy is one of Shelley’s political lyrics. It deals with theinfamous ____ which happened on August 16, 1819.55.Shelley wrote an elegy ______ lamenting the early death of his fellow-poet_____.56.Ode to a Nightingale was written by ____.57.Ivanhoe is the masterpiece of the historical novelist ____.58.The prose-writers in the 19th century made the informal essay a pliable (flexible)vehicle for expressing the writer’s own personality, thus ringing into English literature _____.59.____ had a bitter hatred of the meaningless drudgery (toil) which wastedtwo-thirds of his lifetime.60.To Charles Lamb, ____ was a side-occupation. His daily drudgery left little timefor his literary work.61.Specimens from English Dramatic Poets Contemporary with Shakespeare waswritten by ____.62.William Hazlitt is one of the representatives of ___ criticism, in which individualtaste took the place of universal reason as the foundation of literary criticism. 63.After the defeat of Napoleon, ____ was the only old Romantic who neverwavered in his devotion to the cause of the French Revolution.64.____ was sentenced to two years’imprisonment for denouncing the PrinceRegent, future George IV, as a rake and a liar.65.The importance of Leigh Hunt lies chiefly in his development of the lightmiscellaneous ___.66.In order to relieve the pains of facial neuralgia, ____ became “a regular andconfirmed opium-eater.”67.Thomas De Quincey is famous for the ornate descriptions of his fantasies anddreams. The major flow of his style is ____.68.____ has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of historicalnovel.Key to the blanks:1.literature; poetry2.French3.nature4.autobiographical5.self-exploration6.autobiographical7.politics; social justice8.conflict9.children10.Lyrical Ballads11.Romantic Movement 12.Sympathy; simplicity; purity13.The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’sMind14.Hazlitt15.liberty; equality; fraternityte 18th; mid-19th17.classicism18.enthusiasm; poetry19.Lyrical Ballads20.Walter Scott21.novelist22.Walter Scott23.Water Scott, Jane Austen24.Charles Lamb25.The Prelude26.Scott27.Samuel Taylor Coleridge28.romanticism29.romanticists30.simplicity31.fairy tale dream32.Shelley33.John Keats34.John Keats35.Spenserian Stanza36.Hyperion37.Essais38.Coleridge39.Wordsworth40.The Prelude41.English Bards and Scotch Reviewers42.Byron43.Don Juan44.four45.Don Juan 46.Don Juan47.Manfred48.Cain49.Hour of Idleness50.Shelley51.Italy52.Queen Mab53.Prometheus Unbound54.Peterloo Massacre55.John Keats56.John Keats57.Scott58.the familiar essay59.Charles Lamb60.literature61.Charles Lamb62.Romantic63.William Hazlitt64.Leigh Hunt65.essay66.Thomas De Quincey67.discursiveness68.Walter ScottⅢ. Say true or false.1.English Romantic literature started from mid-18th to the early 19th century.2.Jane Austen is one of the greatest romantic woman novelists.3.After composing the Lucy poems, Wordsworth began his The Prelude .4.P.B. Shelley gained his nickname, “Mad Shelley”because of his independentand rebellious attitude.5.The rhythm scheme of “The Ode to the West Wind” is aba, bcb, cdc, ded, ee.6.Charles Lamb is a romanticist of the village life.7.Lyrical Ballads begins with Coleridge’s long poem, “Tintern Abbey”.8.Many of the subjects of the poems in Lyrical Ballads deal with elements ofnature.9.Coleridge wrote the majority of poems in Lyrical Ballads.10.Wordsworth’s “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud” has another name, Growth of aPoet’s Mind.11.The Prelude is a long and autobiographical poem considered as Coleridge’smasterpiece.12.Hazlitt’s life and career had been greatly influenced by the rise and fall of theFrench Revolution.13.Hazlitt became a master of novels in English Romantic literature.14.Some romantic writers stood on the side of the feudal forces and even combinedthemselves with those forces.15.Wordsworth and Coleridge are revolutionary Romantic poets.16.Byron and Shelley and Keats are known as the romantic poets of the secondgeneration.17.The romanticists paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man.18.The poets of the second generation described the beautiful scenes and thecountry people of that area in their writings.19.Jane Austen is a writer who regards novel writing as a sophisticated art.20.The story of Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound was taken from Roman mythology.21.Shelley is one of the leading Romantic poets, an intense and original lyrical poetin the English language.22.Byron’s Don Juan begins with descriptions of the hero’s childhood.23.Byron’s literary career was closely linked with the struggle and progressivemovements of his age.24.Byron opposed oppression and slavery, and has a passionate love for liberty.25.But some critics think Keats lacks the care for artistic finish; many of his linesare harsh, rugged and not rhythmical;26.Byron’s leading principle is “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.mb’s essays are intensely personal.28.Keats’ essays are marked by relaxed style, conversational tone and wide rangeof subject matter.29.Wordsworth drew inspirations from the mountains and lakes.30.Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” tells a strange story in the form of ballad.Key to True/False statements:1. F (from late 18th to the mid-19thcentury)2.T3.T4.T5.T6. F (city)7. F (“The Rime of the AncientMariner”)8.T9. F (Wordsworth)10.F (“The Daffodils”)11.F (Wordsworth)12.T13.F (familiar essay)14.T15.F ( Passive Romantic poets) 16.T17.T18.F (the first generation/ The LakePoets)19.T20.F (Greek)21.T22.T23.T24.T25.F (Byron)26.F (Keats)27.T28.F (Lamb)29.T30.F (Coleridge’s “The Rime of theAncient Mariner”)Ⅳ. Terms:1.Romanticismke PoetsⅤ. Questions:ment on Lyrical Ballads.ment on Charles Lamb.ment on those Lake Poets.4.What are the features of Romanticism.ment on The Prelude.ment on Endymion.ment on all the writers of the Romantic Age.8.Tell the main idea of some representative works of the Romantic writers.Part Six English Critical RealismⅠ. Choose the right answer.1.____ is the greatest representative of English critical realism.A. Jane AustenB. ThackerayC. DickensD. Charlotte2.____ is Thackeray’s one of the best known works.A. Sense and SensibilityB. The Book of SnobsC. The Pickwick PapersD. The Song of Lower Class3.Pride and Prejudice’s first title is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. Persuasion4.Vanity Fair has a sub-title. It is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. Persuasion5.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ____ appeared. And itflourished in the forties and in the early fifties.A. romanticismB. naturalismC. realismD. critical realism6.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ____ .A. novelB. dramaC. poetryD. sonnet7.______’s Vanity Fair is a satirical portrayal of the upper strata(阶层) of society.A. George EliotB. Elizabeth GaskellC. W. M. ThackerayD. John Buyan8.The ____ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century.A. EnlightenmentB. RenaissanceC. ChartistD. Romanticist9.The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into literature, the struggle of the_____ for its rights.A. soldiersB. peasantsC. bourgeoisieD. proletariat10.The greatest of Chartist poets was _____.A. Earnest JonesB. John MiltonC. Thomas HardyD. John Keats11.The story of ______ deals with the adventures of a retired old merchant.A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC. Pickwick PapersD. Oliver Twist12.The novel _____ exposes the terrible conditions of English private schools.A. Nicholas NicklebyB. Oliver TwistC. Hard TimesD. Great Expectations13.The story of _____ deals with the sufferings and hardships of an old man namedTrent, and his granddaughter, Nell.A. Pickwick PapersB. The Old Curiosity ShopC. Great ExpectationsD. Hard Times14.Which novel makes a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education?A. Oliver TwistB. Hard TimesC. Great ExpectationsD. A Tale of Two Cities15.Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream toenter the higher society regardless of the social reality?A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC. Great ExpectationsD. Dombey and Son16.In the novel ______, Dickens describes the Chartist Movement and shows hissympathy for the workers.A. Great ExpectationsB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Hard TimesD. Oliver Twist17.In the novel ___ , Defarge and Madame Defarge represent the revolutionaries.A. Dombey and SonB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Little DorritD. Bleak House18.In the novel _____, Dr. Manette is a typical bourgeois intellectual.A. David CopperfieldB. Wuthering HeightsC. Bleak HouseD. A Tale of Two Cities19._____ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in whichthe early life of the hero is largely based on the author’s early life.A. The Curiosity ShopB. David CopperfieldC. Oliver TwistD. Great Expectations20.In 1864, Dickens published his last complete novel _______.A. The Old Curiosity ShopB. The Pickwick PaperC. Our Mutual FriendD. Little Dorrit21.Which of the following is Thackeray’s masterpiece?A. The VirginiansB. The Books of SnobsC. The NewcomesD. Vanity Fair22.The sub-title of Vanity Fair is _____.A. The First ImpressionB. A Novel Without a HeroC. The Spirit of the AgeD. The Daffodils23.The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from Bunyan’s masterpiece _____.A. The Pilgrim’s Pr ogressB. Child Harold’s PilgrimageC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. The Canterbury Tales24.Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled ______.A. Jane EyreB. Agnes GreyC. Wuthering HeightsD. Emma25.Charlotte’s Villette is based on her sad days in_____.A. GermanyB. LondonC. ParisD. Brussels26.Dickens’ third literary period shows intensifying ______.A. optimismB. excitementC. irritationD. pessimism27.______is Dickens’ best of social satires.A. American NotesB. Martin ChuzzlewitC. Dombey and SonD. David Copperfield28.Tennyson’s In Memoriam is a collection of ____ short poems.A. 130B. 131C. 132D. 13329.The chief source of Tennyson’s Idylls of the King is taken from _____.A. The History of the King of BritainB. The History of PendennisC. The History of Henny EsmondD. Morte d’Arthur.30.The Chartists refer to those _____ in the early Victorian AgeA. Romantic writersB. working class writersC. realistic poetsD. bourgeois writers31.The Victorian Literature began in____ and ended in _____.A. 1837...1900 B. 1835...1901 C. 1832...1902 D. 1830 (1903)32.The conflicts between the capitalists and the proletarian in industrial Englandcaused the ______.A. Enlightenment MovementB. Industrial RevolutionC. Chartist MovementD. Romantic Movement33._____ is the greatest among the critical realists of the Victorian Age.A. Earnest JonesB. Emily BrontёC. Charlotte BrontёD. Charles Dickens34.Charles Dickens was impressive for his _____.A. wide spread of critical realismB. his spirit of democracy and humanismC.his unforgettable figures with satire and simple and clear languageD.including A, B and C35.“The pride of wealth” or “purse-pride” is the theme of _____.A. Dombey and SonB. Nicholas NicklebyC. The Old Curiosity ShopD. Martin Chuzzlewit36.The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities refer to ____.A. London and New YorkB. London and ParisC. Paris and New YorkD. Brussels and Washington37.____ is the major literary form in the Victorian Period.A. essayB. poetryC. novelD. drama38.____ is the main hero in the novel of Wuthering Heights.A. RochesterB. HeathcliffC. ManetteD. Martin39.Both Charlotte and Emily wrote about the ____ around them.A. familiar thingsmon peopleC. neighborsD. evils40.The most important poet in the Victorian Age was _____.A. Earnest JonesB. Elizabeth GaskellC. Mr. BrowningD. Alfred Tennyson41.______ made Dickens famous overnight.A. Sketches by BozB. The Pickwick PapersC. Oliver TwistD. The Old Curiosity Shop42._____ is Dickens’ first novel of social history reflecting the sharp socialcontradictions.A. Sketches by BozB. American NotesC. Martin ChuzzlewitD. Barnaby Rudge (《巴纳比·拉奇》)43.Which of the following Dickens’ works is not based on Christmas with religiouscoloring?A. Christmas Day in the MorningB. A Christmas CarolC. The Chimes（《教堂钟声》）D. The Cricket on the Heart (《灶上蟋蟀》)44._____ is an autobiographical novel and loved by Dickens himself most.A. Great ExpectationsB. David CopperfieldC. Bleak HouseD. The Pickwick Papers45.Dickens’ writing is an encyclopedic knowledge of _____.A. ParisB. New YorkC. LondonD. Portsmoth46.The head of the gang of thieves is _____.A. FaginB. GradgrindC. PecksmiffD. Manette47._____ has been called “the supreme epic of English life”.A. Nicholas NicklebyB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Hard TimesD. The Pickwick Papers48._____marked a great advance in Dickens’ art of novel-writing with closely knitand logical plot of his maturer works.A. David CopperfieldB. Dombey and SonC. Little DorritD. The Chimes49.In the ____ period, Charles Dickens believed that all the evils of the capitalistworld would be remedies of only men who behaved to each other with kindliness, justice, and sympathetic understanding.A. firstB. secondC. thirdD. fourth50.____ is the most class-conscious book among the Christmas books.A. A Christmas CarolB. The ChimesC. The Cricket on the HearthD. The Battle of LifeKey to the multiple choices:1-5 CBABD 6-10 ACCDA 11-15 CABBC16-20 CBDBC 21-25 DAAC D 26-30 DBBDB31-35 CCDDA 36-40 BCBAD 41-45 BDABC46-50 ADBABⅡ. Fill in the blanks.1.Dickens’ writings from 1836 to 1841 show the characteristic of youthful _______.2.Dickens’ writings from 1842 to 1850 show the character of _______.3.Dickens’ writings from 1852 to 1870 show the feature of ______.4.Nicholas Nickleby touches upon a burning question of the time—the education of____ in private schools.5._____ is a great novel of social satire and famous for its criticism of both theBritish and American bourgeoisie.6.The theme of Dombey and Son is the pride of wealth, or “_____”.7.David Copperfield was written in the ____ person in a combination of ____, senseof ____ and artistic ______.8.The main butt (目标) of satire in Bleak House is aimed at the abuses of theEnglish _____.9.In Hard Times Dickens describes the ____ movement with great artistic power.10.Dickens used ______ as his pen name in his first book.Key to the blanks:1.optimism2.excitement and irritation3.pessimism4.children5.Martin Chuzzlewit6.purse-pride7.first; verisimilitude; familiarity;maturity8.courts9.Chartist10.BozⅢ. Say true or false.1.Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers gives a rather comprehensive picture of early 19th century England.2.Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller were two major characters in The Pickwick Papers which aroused the in3.In Oliver Twist, Dickens makes his readers aware of the inhumanity of country life under capitalism.4.The plot of Sketches by Boz is rather formless, but the novel fascinates the reader from beginnin episodes.5.The title Bleak House is not only the name of a house but is also an apt (贴切的) description of the so6.Hard Times is a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education and ethics(论理学，道德学) and 义）.7.Dombey and Son is a novel with imprisonment, both matter-o-fact or symbolic, as its central theme.8. A Tale of Two Cities takes the Industrial Revolution as the subject.9.The theme underlying A Tale of Two Cities is the idea “Where there is oppression, there is revolution.”10.Pip is the major character in Dickens’ novel Our Mutual Friend.Key to True/False statements:1-5 TTFFT 6-10 TFFTFPart Seven Prose Writers and Poets of the Midand Late 19th CenturyⅠ. Choose the right answer.1.____is Oscar Wilde’s only novel.A. Lady Windermere’s FanB. A Woman of No ImportanceC. The Picture of Dorian GrayD. The Importance of Being Earnest2.____ is a description of the misery of man of letters.A. New Grub StreetB. The CurrentC. Charles Dickens: A Critical StudyD. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft3. A Dream of John Ball is a prose work which ____ recalled the peasants’ rising ofthe 14th century.A. MorrisB. GissingC. StevensonD. Wilde4.News from Nowhere is a prose work which ____ describes a dream of the futureclassless society.A. MorrisB. GissingC. StevensonD. Wilde5._____is famous for his translation of Rubaiyat.A. F. Scott FitzgeraldB. William FitzgeraldC. Robert FitzgeraldD. Edward Fitzgerald6._____ is Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s best-known poem.A. The Blessed DamozelB. Poems by D. G. RossettiC. The House of LifeD. Ballads and Sonnets7.____ is considered “the Sage of Chelsea”.A. Thomas CarlyleB. John RuskinC. Matthew ArnoldD. Tomas Macaulay8.____introduced German literature to England with his Life of Schiller.A. Thomas CarlyleB. John RuskinC. Matthew ArnoldD. Tomas Macaulay9.In ____, Carlyle contrasted the misery and confusion of industrial England with acertain Abbot Sampson’s admirable rule of his monastery in the 12th century.A. Past and PresentB. Heroes and Hero-WorshipC. Sartor ResartusD. The French Revolution10.Thomas Macaulay’s masterpiece is ___.A. History of EnglandB. Culture and AnarchyC. Heroes and Hero-WorshipD. Modern Painters11.Tennyson’s _____ expresses his optimistic attitude towards death when he is old.A. Break, Break, BreakB. Crossing the BarC. The PrincessD. Maud12.____remained a poet in his painting and a painter in his poetry.。

英美文学史及作品选读复习题

1.Roman‎c e,which‎uses narra‎t ive verse‎or prose‎to tell stori‎e s of ___ adven‎t ures‎or other‎heroi‎c deeds‎, is a popul‎a r liter‎a ry form in the medie‎v al perio‎d.A.Chris‎t ianB.knigh‎t lyC.Greek‎D.primi‎t ive2. In The song of Beowu‎l f , Beowu‎l f fough‎t again‎s t _____‎__.A. Grend‎e lB. a knigh‎tC. Hroth‎g arD. Sir Gawai‎n3. Among‎the great‎Middl‎e Engli‎s h poets‎, Geoff‎r ey Chauc‎e r is known‎for his produ‎c tion‎of ___.A.Piers‎Plowm‎a nB.Sir Gawai‎n and the Green‎Knigh‎tC.Confe‎s sio Amant‎i sD.The Cante‎r bury‎Tales‎4. Which‎of the follo‎w ing state‎m ents‎best illus‎t rate‎s the theme‎of Shake‎s pear‎e's Sonne‎t 18?A.The speak‎e r eulog‎i zes the power‎of Natur‎e.B.The speak‎e r satir‎i zes human‎vanit‎y.C.The speak‎e r prais‎e s the power‎of artis‎t ic creat‎i on.D.The speak‎e r medit‎a tes on man's salva‎t ion.5. John Milto‎n was the write‎r of _____‎_A. Parad‎i se lostB. The Pilgr‎i ms progr‎e ssC. TessD. Emma6. The great‎e st of all Engli‎s h autho‎r s is _____‎__A. Willi‎a m Shake‎s pear‎eB. Charl‎e s Dicke‎n s C, Thoma‎s Hardy‎D. Rober‎t Frost‎7. Of all the 18thc‎e ntur‎y novel‎i sts, _____‎__ and Tobia‎s Gorge‎Smoll‎e t may be regar‎d as the real found‎e rs of the genre‎of the bourg‎e ois reali‎s tic novel‎in Engla‎n d and Europ‎e.A. Henry‎Field‎i ngB. Danie‎l Defoe‎C. Josep‎h Addis‎o nD. Richa‎r d Steel‎8. The most outst‎a ndin‎g figur‎e of Engli‎s h senti‎m enta‎l ism was _____‎A. Henry‎Field‎i ngB. Danie‎l Defoe‎C. Josep‎h Addis‎o nure‎n ce Stern‎e9. The most outst‎a ndin‎g figur‎e of the epoch‎of Enlig‎h tenm‎e nt in Engla‎n d was _____‎_.A. Olive‎r Golds‎m ithB. Jonat‎h an Swift‎ c. Thoma‎s Grey D. Richa‎r d Steel‎10. Danie‎l Defoe‎was the write‎r of _____‎_A. Gulli‎v er’s Trave‎l sB. Robin‎s on Cruso‎eC. Jane EyreD. A Modes‎t Propo‎s al11. Gulli‎v er’s Trave‎l s was writt‎e n by _____‎_.A. Laure‎n ce Stern‎eB. Danie‎l Defoe‎C. Jonat‎h an Swift‎D. Olive‎r Golds‎m ith12. Tom Jones‎was writt‎e n by _____‎A. Olive‎r Golds‎m ithB. Jonat‎h an Swift‎ c. Thoma‎s Grey D. Henry‎Feild‎i ng13. The songs‎of Innoc‎e nce was writt‎e n by ____A. Willi‎a m Words‎w orth‎B. Willi‎a m Blake‎C. Rober‎t Burns‎D. J.Keats‎14. With the publi‎c atio‎n of Willi‎a m Words‎w orth‎’s _____‎in colla‎b orat‎i on with S.T. Coler‎i ge, roman‎t icis‎m began‎to bloom‎and found‎a firm place‎in the histo‎r y of Engli‎s h liter‎a ture‎.A. The Cloud‎B. To a Sky-larkC. to Autum‎nD. Lyric‎a l Balla‎d s15.“If Winte‎r comes‎, can Sprin‎g be far behin‎d!” is an epigr‎a mmat‎i c line by __.A.J.Keats‎B.W.Blake‎C.W.Words‎w orth‎D.P.B.Shell‎e y16. _____‎_ was Byron‎’s great‎e st work.A. Don JuanB.She Walks‎in Beaut‎yC. CainD. Manfr‎e d.17.Ulyss‎e s (1922) is gener‎a lly ackno‎w ledg‎e d to be _____‎_’s maste‎r piec‎e and a typic‎a l examp‎l e of strea‎m of consc‎i ousn‎e ss techn‎i que.A. James‎Joyce‎B. Virgi‎n ia Woolf‎C.D. h. Lawre‎n ce D. Charl‎e s Dicke‎n s18. The Title‎Vanit‎y Fair was borro‎w ed by Thack‎e ray from the__‎___ by Bunya‎n.A. Pilgr‎i m’s Progr‎e ssB. Cante‎r bury‎Tales‎C. Parad‎i se LostD. Beowu‎l f19.___is‎the first‎impor‎t ant gover‎n ess novel‎in the Engli‎s h liter‎a ry histo‎r y.A.Jane EyreB.EmmaC.Wuthe‎r ing Heigh‎t sD.Middl‎e marc‎h20.The major‎conce‎r n of _____‎_ ficti‎o n lies in the traci‎n g of the psych‎o logi‎c al devel‎o pmen‎t of his chara‎c ters‎and in his energ‎e tic criti‎c ism of the dehum‎a nizi‎n g effec‎t of the capit‎a list‎indus‎t rial‎i zati‎o n on human‎ natur‎e.wre‎n ce'sB.J.Galsw‎o rthy‎'sC.W.Thack‎e ray’sD.T.Hardy‎’s21.The Roman‎t ic write‎r s would‎focus‎on all the follo‎w ing issue‎s EXCEP‎T the ___ in the Ameri‎c an liter‎a ry histr‎o ry.A.indiv‎i dual‎feeli‎n gsB.idea of survi‎v al of the fitte‎s tC.stron‎g imagi‎n atio‎nD.retur‎n to natur‎e22. _____‎__ has been entit‎l ed the fathe‎r of Ameri‎c an Poetr‎y.A.Phili‎p Frene‎a uB. Anne Brads‎t reet‎C. Willi‎a m Culle‎n Bryan‎tD. Edgar‎Ellen‎Poe23. _____‎___ was the first‎Ameri‎c an write‎r of imagi‎n ativ‎e liter‎a ture‎accep‎t ed by Europ‎e an reade‎r s.A. Edgar‎Ellen‎PoeB. Anne Brads‎t reet‎C. Willi‎a m Culle‎n Bryan‎tD. Washi‎n gton‎Irvin‎g.24. _____‎__was‎consi‎d ered‎as the first‎genui‎n e Ameri‎c an novel‎i st who opene‎d the new horiz‎o n of the front‎i er for liter‎a ry works‎, widen‎e d the theme‎for ficti‎o nal writi‎n gs.A. James‎Fenim‎o re Coope‎rB. Anne Brads‎t reet‎C. Willi‎a m Culle‎n Bryan‎tD. Washi‎n gton‎Irvin‎g.25. Annab‎e l Lee was writt‎e n by _____‎__.A.Phili‎p Frene‎a uB. Anne Brads‎t reet‎C. Willi‎a m Culle‎n Bryan‎tD. Edgar‎Ellen‎Poe26. The Eight‎e enth‎Centu‎r y was defin‎i tely‎an age of _____‎_____‎_.A.poetr‎yB. novel‎C. drama‎D.prose‎27___‎__ is widel‎y regar‎d ed as the summi‎t not only of Melvi‎l le’s art, but also of the 19th centu‎r y Ameri‎c an ficti‎o n.A. the Scarl‎e t Lette‎rB. Moby DickC. Rip Van Winkl‎eD. Siste‎r Carri‎e28. Walt Whitm‎a n was a pione‎e ring‎figur‎e of Ameri‎c an poetr‎y. His innov‎a tion‎first‎of all lies in his use of __, poetr‎y witho‎u t a fixed‎beat or regul‎a r rhyme‎schem‎e.A.blank‎verse‎B.heroi‎c coupl‎e tC.free verse‎D.iambi‎c penta‎m eter‎29.Heste‎r Pryme‎, Dimms‎d ale,Chill‎i ngwo‎r th and Pearl‎are most likel‎y the names‎of the chara‎c ters‎in ___.A.The Scarl‎e t Lette‎rB.The House‎of the Seven‎Gable‎s tC.The Portr‎a it of a LadyD.The pione‎e rs30. The great‎e st of Scott‎i sh poets‎is _____‎___A. Geoff‎r ey Chauc‎e rB. Rober‎t Burns‎C. Willi‎a m Shake‎s pear‎eD. John Milto‎nⅡMulti‎p le Choic‎e。

英美文学考试试题

英美文学考试试题一、选择题1、以下哪部作品是威廉·莎士比亚的悲剧代表作？（）A 《仲夏夜之梦》B 《威尼斯商人》C 《罗密欧与朱丽叶》D 《第十二夜》2、简·奥斯汀的小说《傲慢与偏见》中，女主人公伊丽莎白最终与谁结为夫妻？（）A 达西先生B 威克姆先生C 宾利先生D 柯林斯先生3、以下哪位诗人是英国浪漫主义诗歌的代表人物？（）A 华兹华斯B 雪莱C 拜伦D 以上都是4、美国作家海明威的小说《老人与海》中，老渔夫最终捕到的鱼是什么？（）A 金枪鱼B 马林鱼C 鳕鱼D 鲸鱼5、英国作家狄更斯的小说《双城记》，其“双城”指的是哪两座城市？（）A 伦敦和巴黎B 纽约和波士顿C 柏林和慕尼黑D 莫斯科和圣彼得堡二、填空题1、《哈姆雷特》中的经典台词“生存还是毁灭，这是一个值得考虑的问题”反映了主人公_____的内心挣扎。

2、简·奥斯汀的小说以_____为主要题材，展现了当时英国社会的风貌。

3、华兹华斯的诗作《抒情歌谣集》与_____共同开创了英国浪漫主义诗歌的新时代。

4、海明威的“冰山理论”强调小说中只应展现“＿____”，而将“＿____”隐藏在水下。

5、马克·吐温的代表作《汤姆·索亚历险记》和《＿____》，以幽默风趣的语言描绘了美国少年的生活。

三、简答题1、请简要分析《简·爱》中女主人公简·爱的性格特点。

简·爱是一个非常独立自主、自尊自强的女性形象。

她出身贫寒，但却不屈服于命运的安排，始终坚持追求平等和自由。

她具有强烈的自我意识，不依赖他人，勇敢地表达自己的想法和情感。

在爱情面前，她坚守自己的原则，不因为财富和地位而放弃自己的尊严。

同时，她也富有同情心和善良的品质，对待他人真诚友善。

2、简述美国文学中“垮掉的一代”的主要特点。

“垮掉的一代”是 20 世纪 50 年代在美国出现的一个文学流派。

他们对传统的价值观和社会规范表示不满和反抗，追求个性解放和自由。

英美文学史试题(I)

试卷纸第1页台州学院外国语学院学年第学期级专业《英国文学史及选读I》期末试卷(7)（闭卷) 班级姓名学号I. Multiple choice. Choose the best out of the four. (10%=1*10)1. Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A. ChristianB. knightlyC. GreekD. primitive2. is the oldest surviving epic in the English language.A. The Song of BeowulfB. Paraphrase of the BibleC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. The Canterbury Tales3. Sonnets originated from Italy , and in the 16th century , ____ introduced it to England .A. Thomas MoreB. John MiltonC. Thomas WyattD. Petrarch4. An unrhymed iambic pentameter is called____.A. heroic coupletB. blank verseC. tercetD. sestet5. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.D. The speaker meditates on man's salvation.6.The true subject of John Donne’s poem, Song, is to ___.A. attack the impossible things in the world.B. give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC. criticize the intention to find a true loveD. satirize the unfaithfulness of women7. In English literature , the supreme master in the first half of the 18th century is____.A. Daniel DefoeB. Jonathan SwiftC. Henry FieldingD. Robert Burns8.The forerunners of the 18th century preromanticism include .A. Daniel DefoeB. Jonathan Swift试卷纸第2页C. Robert BurnsD. Henry Fielding9.____ expressed the sympathy for the peasants who were being ruined by the Industrial Revolution in his poem Elegy , Written in a Country Churchyard .A. Oliver GoldsmithB. Thomas GrayC. William BlakeD. Keats10. In “bathes each bud and shoot ”, the sound effect in “bathes” and “bud” is .A. alliterationB. assonanceC. consonanceD. internal rhymeII. True or False? Write T for true and F for false . (10%=1*10)____ 1. Humanism is the keynote of the English Renaissance .____ 2. The Merchant of Venice is one of the great tragedies by Shakespeare .___ 3. John Donne is remembered by the later generations as a great prose writer .____4.In the line “We all expect a gentle answer , Jew.”, “gentle” is a pun.____5.The novel “The History of Tom Johns, A Foundlings”is Henry Fielding’s masterpiece .____6. The enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 17th century .____7.Swift’s masterpiece is Robinson Crusoe which contains four parts .____8.The turn of the 18th century and the 19th century in England sees the appearance of the new literary current---sentimentalism.____ 9. The two representative writers of realism in the 18th century are Henry Fielding and Tobias George Smollet.____ 10. The Tiger is a poem in The Songs of Innocence.III. Blank Filling. (10%=1*10)1.Today, Chaucer is acclaimed not only as “the father of English poetry ” but also as “the father ofEnglish fiction”. His masterpiece is ___.2. The word “Laputan” meaning “impractical” is originated from the impractical behaviors of the inhabitants on in Gulliver’s Travels.3.John Donne’s poem was written to his wife to imply the unity of love when Donne was leaving for the Continent in 1611.4.The story The Vicar of Wakefield is told by the person narrator , Dr. Primrose.5. The School for Scandal is a famous comedy by .6. is the most independent and the most original of all the romantic poets of the 18th century.7.The later enlighteners of England in the 18th century found the power of reason to be insufficient and therefore appealed to as a means of achieving social justice.8.The image of an enterprising Englishman of the 18th century was created by Daniel Defoe in his famous novel .9. While the political tempests led to a confusion in English literature in the 17th century, the peaceful development of the 18th century made a prevailing trend in the 1st half.试卷纸第3页10.is undoubtedly the greatest poet Scotland has ever produced. His Poems Chiefly inScottish Dialect is of great significanceIV. Define or explain the following. (15%=5*3)1. Tragedy2. Epic3. Alliteration4.Conciets5. ElegyV. Identify. (20%=10*2)Passage IHamlet. To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them.Questions ……1.Who is the writer of these lines?2.What’s the name of the tragedy? Write out three tragedies by the writer.3.These lines are taken from the soliloquy by the hero in the tragedy. What is a soliloquy?ment on the character traits of Hamlet.Passage IIThe curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd wind slowly over the lea,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me.……Questions1.Who is the writer of these lines?2.What is the title of the whole poem from which the lines are taken?3.In the 2nd line, “/l/”sound is repeated in “lowing”and “lea”to make for linking both sound and meaning.4. What is the theme of the poem?VI. Answer the following questions.(20%=10*2)试卷纸第4页1. Give a brief summery of the English Renaissance?2. Analyze the symbolic meaning of the “ Tiger” and the “lamb” in the poem “The Tiger” by William Blake.VII. What do you know about the Metaphysical School in England in the 17th century ? Refer to John Donne’s works in explaining the literary trend. (15%)台州学院外国语学院学年第学期级专业《英国文学史及选读I》期末试卷答卷(7)（闭）班级姓名学号II. True or False? Write T for true and F for false . (10%=1*10)1.____2.____3.____4.____5.____6.____7.____8.____9.____ 10.____III. Blank Filling. (10%=1*10)1. 6.2. 7.3. 8.4. 9.5. 10.IV. Define or explain the following. (15%=5*3) 1..2.3.45.V. Identify.(20%=10*2)Passage I1.2.3.4.Passage II1.2.3.4.VI. Answer the following questions.(20%=10*2)1.2.VII. Literary essay writing. (15%)。

英美文学史练习题和复习资料3

3. The Romantic periodDefinition of literary terms1. Romanticism.Romanticism is a term applied to literary and artistic movements of the late 18th and early 19th century. It can be seen as a rejection of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality that typified classicism in general and late 18th-century neoclassicism in particular. It was also to some extent a reaction against the Enlightenment and against 18th-century rationalism and physical materialism in general. Inspired in part by the libertarian ideals of the French Revolution, the romantics believed in a return to nature and in the innate goodness of humans, as expressed by Jean Jacques Rousseau. They emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental. They also showed interest in the medieval, exotic, primitive, and nationalistic. Critics date English literary romanticism from the publication of William Wordsworth and S.T. Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads in 1798 to the death of Sir Walter Scott and the passage of the first reform bill in the Parliament in 1832.2. Byronic hero. “Byronic hero”is a stereotyped character created by Byron. This kind of hero is usually a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin. With immense superiority in his passions and powers, he would carry on his shoulders the burden of righting all the wrongs in a corrupt society. He would rise single-handedly against any kind of tyrannical rules either in government, in region, or in moral principles with unconquerable wills and inexhaustible energies. The conflict is usually one of rebellious individuals against outworn social systems and conventions.ExercisesA. Multiple-choice questions1. The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less ____ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions.A. positiveB. negativeC. neutralD. indifferent2. It is _____ who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit.A. Jean Jacques RousseauB. Johann Wolfgang von GoetheC. Edmund BurkeD. Thomas Paine3. In Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790), the word “marriage”, to Blake, means the ____.A. subordination of the one to the otherB. co-existence of the conflicting partsC. reconciliation of the contrariesD. fighting of the conflicting parts4. Blake began writing poetry at the age of 12, and his first printed work is ____ , which is a collection of youthful verse.A. Songs of ExperienceB. Songs of InnocenceC. Marriage of Heaven and HellD. Poetic Sketches5. In his poem, “The Chimney Sweeper” (from Songs of Experience), Blake depicted the miseries of the child sweepers in order to reveal the ____ of Christianity.A. great idealsB. false idealsC. magic powerD. true faith6. For William Blake, the father (and any other in whom he saw the image of the father such as God, priest, and king) was usually a figure of ______.A. benevolenceB. admirationC. loveD. oppression7. Adonais is an elegy for ___ whose early death from tuberculosis Shelley believed had been hastened by hostile reviews.A. ByronB. KeatsC. TennysonD. Blake8. “Y ou and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the party.” What figure of speech is used in the underlined part?A. paradoxB. simileC. ironyD. antithesis9. According to the subjects, Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into twogroups: poems about _____ and poems about _____.A. society, universeB. nature, societyC. nature, human lifeD. human life, universe10. In the poem, “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways”, Wordsworth writes: “A violet by a mossy stone/ Half hidden from the eye!”The figure of speech used in the two lines is _____.A. metaphorB. personificationC. simileD. metonymy11. The ____ are generally regarded as Keat s’s most important and mature works.A. odesB. lyricsC. epicsD. elegy12. Generally speaking, ____ was a writer of the 18th century, though she lived mainly in the 19th century.A. Mary ShelleyB. George EliotC. Jane AustenD. Ann Radcliffe13. Shelley’s ____ and The Cenci, Byron’s ____, and Coleridge’s Remorse are generally regarded as the best verse plays in the Romantic period.A. Prometheus Unbound, CainB. Cain, ManfredC. Prometheus Unbound, ManfredD. Waverley, Cain14. Among Coleridge’s ____ group of poems, Frost at Midnight is the most important.A. conversationalB. RomanticC. demonicD. lyrical15. After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _____.A. simple character and mean understandingB. simple character and good breedingC. intricate character and great talentD. intricate character and great talent16. In the conversation with Mrs. Bennet in Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a __ tone and sarcastic humor.A. solemnB. harshC. IntimateD. Teasing17. Jane Austen presents most of the problems of the novel, Pride and Prejudice, from the ____ viewpoint.A. masculineB. objectiveC. feminineD. neutral18. After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice. We can find ___ in the author’s tone, while presenting a seemingly matter-of-fact description of the conversation between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet.A. bitter satireB. mild satireC. strong approvalD. strong disapproval19. In his poem, “Ode to the West Wind”, Shelley intends to present his wind as a central ___ around which the poem weaves various cycles of death and rebirth --- seasonal, vegetational, human and divine.A. conceptB. metaphorC. symbolD. metonymy20. “Those ungrateful drones who would/ Drain your sweat--- nay, drink your blood? ”The word “drones”in the above two lines written by Shelley is used as a(n) ____.A. ironyB. synecdocheC. metonymyD. metaphor21. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following except _____.A. the using of everyday language spoken by the common people.B. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.C. the humble and rustic life as subject matter.D. elegant wordings and inflated figures of speech.22. In the poem “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways”, the ending lines go like this: “But she is in her grave, and, oh,/ The difference to me!”The word “me”in the quoted lines may probably refer to ____.A. the poetB. the readerC. her loverD. her father23. In S.T. Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan”, “A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice” ___.A. refers to the place where Kubla Khan’s father once lived.B. vividly describes a building of poor quality.C. is the gift given to a beautiful girl called Abyssinian.D. symbolizes the reconciliation of the conscious and the unconscious.24. “Wherefore, Bees of England, forfeMany a weapon, chain, and scourge,That these stingless drones may spoilThe forced produce of your toil?”In the above stanza quoted from Shelley’s “A Song: Men of England”, Shelley employs a(n) ______.A. simileB. metaphorC. oxymoronD. synecdoche25. Which of the following is NOT a quality of the west wind described by Shelly in his poem “Ode to the West Wind”?A. WildB. TamedC. SwiftD. ProudBlank-filling1. The romantic poets demonstrated a strong _reaction__ against the dominant modes of thinking of the 18th-century writers and philosophers.2. In a sense, we can say that Romanticism designates a literary and philosophical theory that tends to see the _individual___ as the very center of all life and all experience.3. William Wordsworth defines poetry as “the _spontaneous____ overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”.4. William Blake can be regarded as the first important romantic poet, showing a contempt for the rule of reason, opposing the _classical___ tradition of the 18th century, and treasuring the individual’s imagination.5. Byron has __enriched__ European poetry with an abundance of ideas, images, artistic forms and innovations.6. By contrasting the freedom of ancient Greece and the enslavement of the present Greece in “The Isles of Greece”, Byron appealed to the Greek people to fight for _liberty____.7. Shelley’s poem, “Ode to the West Wind”, is written in the form of _terza rima__.8. “Ode to a Nightingale” expresses the contrast between the happiness of the naturalworld and the agony of the _human____ world.9. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” shows the contrast between the _permanence___ of art and the transience of human passion.10. In the first part of the novel Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Darcy has __low__ opinion of the Bennet family.Work-author pairing-up1. Sense and Sensibility A. J. Keats2. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner B. G.G. Byron3. Marriage of Heaven and Hell C. W. Wordsworth4. Prometheus Unbound D. S. T. Coleridge5. Biographia Literaria E. J. Austen6. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage F. P. B. Shelley7. Defense of Poetry G. W. Blake8. “Tintern Abbey”H. W. Scott9. Waverley10. “Ode to a Nightingale”Reading comprehension(For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.)1. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings or review of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.”Reference: The two sentences are taken from Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice. They are the opening sentences of the novel, in which Jane Austen is making an ironic suggestion that the families in the society she wrote about were always looking forrich husbands to whom they could marry their daughters. The sentence sets the tone for both structurally and verbally. The sentence begins as though the novel were going to be a great philosophical discourse. “It is a truth universally acknowledged” implies that the novel will deal with truths, but the second half of the sentence reveals that the great universal truth is no more than a consideration of a common social situation. Thus there is an ironic difference between the formal manner of the statement and the ultimate meaning of the sentence. The “truth” spoken of is that a man in possession of a fortune must need a wife, whereas in reality the sentence means that a woman without a fortune needs a man with fortune for a husband. We should also realize that the viewpoint of the first sentence is that of a woman. Only a female would make this statement, and Jane Austen is going to present most of the problems of the novel from the feminine viewpoint.2. “For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.”Reference: These lines are taken from Wordsworth’s poem “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”. This is the 4th stanza of the poem. Nature and man come together explicitly in stanza 4 when the speaker says that his heart dances with the daffodils. A different kind of repetition appears in the movement from the “loneliness”of line one to the “solitude”of line 22. Both words denote an aloneness, but they suggest a radical difference in the solitary person’s attitude to his state of being alone. The poem moves from the sadly alienated separation felt by the speaker in the beginning to his joy in recollecting the natural scene, a movement framed by the words “lone” and “solitude”. An analogous movement is suggested within the final stanza by words “vacant” and “fills”. The emptiness of speaker’s spirit is transformed into a fullness of feeling as he remembers the daffodils.3. “A violet by a mossy stoneHalf hidden from the eye!--- Fair as a star, when only oneIs shining in the sky.”Reference: These lines are taken from Wordsworth’s “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways”. By using a metaphor and a simile, the poet compares Lucy with a violet, a wild flower growing by a mossy stone, and a fair star, shining in the sky. The two comparisons are meant to enhance Lucy’s charm by associating her with such attractive objects as flowers and stars. Lucy’s natural charm, like that of the violet, was derived from her modesty. She, too, was “half-hidden from the eye”, obscure and unnoticed. Though Lucy was, to the world, as completely obscure as the modest flower in the shadow of the mossy stone, to the eye of her lover she was the only star in his heaven, shining like the planet of love itself.4. “Place me on Sunium’s marbled steep,Where nothing , save the waves and I,May hear our mutual murmurs sweep;There, swan-like, let me sing and die:A land of slaves shall ne’er be mien---Dash down you cup of Samian wine!”Reference: These lines are taken from George Gordon Byron’s Don Juan, Part III “The Isles of Greece”. In these lines, by contrasting the freedom enjoyed by the ancient Greeks with the enslavement of the early 19th-century Greeks under Tukish rule, Byron uses such word to call on the Greeks to struggle for their national liberation.Questions1.What is the theme of Don Juan?2.What are the main features of Blake’s poetry?pare “The Chimney Sweeper”from Songs of Innocence with “The ChimneySweeper” from Songs of Experience.4.How is Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound different from the traditional Greekinterpretation?。

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Comment on WaldenIn 1845, Thoreau decided to conduct an experiment of self-sufficiency by building his own house on the shores of Walden Pond and living off the food he grew on his farm.He sought to reduce his physical needs to a minimum, in order to free himself for study, thought, and observation of nature, himself.Walden can be many things and can be read on more than one level. But it is, first and foremost, a book about man, what he is, and what he should be and must be.Considered one of the all-time great books, Walden is a record of Thoreau's two year experiment of living at Walden Pond. The writer's chief emphasis is on the simplifications and enjoyment of life now. It is regarded as 1. a nature book.2. a do-it-yourself guide to simple life. 3. a satirical criticism of modern life and living. 4. a belletristic achievement 5. a spiritual book. The Scarlet LetterSymbolic meaning of the letter “A” :1.The scarlet letter “A” is the central symbol of the novel. At the beginning it symbolized the sin of Hester—“adultery”, 2.then gradually when Hester became accepted by the community, it stands for Hester’s intelligence and diligence—“able”. 3.At the end of the novel the symbol has evolved to represent the high virtues of Hester Prynne—“angel”. Comments on The Scarlet Letter:1.The theme of the story should be the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin on people. 2.Scarlet Letter is a cultural allegory, in which the author indirectly tells the future of Puritanism.3.Scarlet Letter is a sample in which American Romanticism adapted itself to American Puritanism.(Because of the strong influence of Puritanism in American society, Hawthorne only expressed his ideas on the sin indirectly by employing symbolism.)Symbolism in the novel Moby DickA. the voyage itself is a metaphor for “search and discovery, the search for the ultimate truth of experience.”B. the Pequod is the ship of the American soul and consciousness.C. Moby Dick is a symbol of evil to some, of goodness to others, and of both to still others.D. The whiteness of Moby Dick is a paradoxical color, signifying death and corruption as well as purity, innocence and youth; it represents the final mystery of the universe.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnSetting: unpopulated wildness an a dense forest along Mississippi River Characters:1.Ignorant uneducated black slave Jim2.Uneducated outcast white boy Huck Finn。