英语专八-最全英美文学常识.

英国文学(English Literature)一、Old and Medieval English Literature中古英语文学(8世纪-14世纪)1) The Old English Period / The Anglo-Saxon Period古英语时期(449-1066)a. pagan poetry(异教诗歌): Beowulf《贝奥武甫》- 最早的诗歌；长诗(3000行) heroism & fatalism & Christian qualitiesthe folk legends of the primitive northern tribes; a heroic Scandinavian epic legend; 善恶有报b. religious poetry: Caedmon(凯德蒙610-680): the first known religious poet; the father of English songCynewulf(基涅武甫9C): The Christc. 8th C, Anglo-Saxon prose: Venerable Bede(673-735); Alfred the Great(848-901)2) The Medieval Period中世纪(1066-ca.1485 / 1500):a. Romance中世纪传奇故事(1200-1500): the Middle Ages; 英雄诗歌无名诗人- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight《高文爵士与绿色骑士》: Celtic legend; verse-romance; 2530 lines~ 14th C,Age of Chaucer:* Geoffrey Chaucer(乔叟1340-1400): 文风：vivid and exact language, his poetry is full of vigor and swiftnessthe father of English poetry; the father of English fiction; 首创“双韵体”couplet; 首位用伦敦方言写作英国作家The Canterbury Tales:pilgrims stories 受Boccaccio(薄伽丘) - Decameron《十日谈》启发The House of Fame; Troilus and Criseyde; The Romaunt of the Rose《玫瑰罗曼史》(译作)* William Langland(朗兰1332-1400)：The Vision of Piers Plowman《农夫皮尔斯之幻象》: 普通人眼中的社会抗议b. 15th C, English ballads: Thomas Malory (1395-1471):Morte D’Arthur《亚瑟王之死》- 圆桌骑士二、The Renaissance Period英国文艺复兴(1500-1660): humanism十四行诗，文艺复兴，无韵诗，伊丽莎白戏剧1) 诗歌Henry Howard(霍华德1516-1547)a. Thomas Wyatt (怀亚特1503-1542): the first to introduce the sonnet into English literatureb. Sir Philip Sidney(雪尼爵士1554-1586)：代表了当时的理想- “the complete man”Defense of Poetry《为诗辩护》Astrophel and Stella; Arcadia《阿卡狄亚》: a prose romance filled with lyrics; a forerunner of the modern worldc.Edmund Spenser(斯宾塞1552-1599): the poets’ poet; non-dramatic poet of伊丽莎白时代- long allegorical romance文风：a perfect melody, a rare sense of beauty and a splendid imagination. The Shepherd CalendarThe Faerie Queen《仙后》：long poem for Queen Elizabeth; Allegory - nine-line verse stanza/ the Spenserian Stanza Spenserian Stanza(斯宾塞诗体): Nine lines, the first eight lines is in iambic(抑扬格) pentameter(五步诗),and the ninth line is an iambic hexameter(六步诗) line.2) Prose 散文a. Thomas More(莫尔1478-1535): 欧洲早期空想社会主义创始人Utopia《乌托邦》: More与海员的对话b. John Lyly (黎里1553-160，剧作家&小说家)：EupheusEuphuism(夸饰文体): Abundant use of balanced sentences, alliterations(头韵) and other artificial prosodic(韵律) means.The use of odd similes(明喻) and comparisonsc. Francis Bacon (培根1561-1626)：英国首位散文家，中世纪至现代欧洲时期; 近代唯物主义哲学奠基人和近代实验科学先驱the trumpeter of a new age;Essays(论说文集)：Of Studies, Of Love, Of Beauty: the first true English prose classic3) 戏剧a. Christopher Marlowe(马洛1564-1593): University Wits 大学才子派Edward II；The Jew of Malta《马耳他的犹太人》first made blank verse(无韵诗：不押韵的五步诗) the principle instrument of English dramaThe Tragical History of Doctor Faustus《浮士德博士的悲剧》：根据德国民间故事书写成; 完善了无韵体诗。

专八英美文学常识

英美文学1. William Faulkner is the author of ______.A. Far From the Modeling CrowdB. Sound and FuryC. For Whom the Bell TollsD. Scarlet Letter1. Robert Frost is a famous ______.A. novelistB. playwrightC. poetD. literary critic3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ______A. Jack LondonB. Charles DickensC. Samuel Coleridge DEmest Hemingway4. Which of the following poets is different from the others?A. John Donne.B. John Keats.C. Lord Byron.D. Percy Bysshe Shelley.5. Which of the following is not written by William Shakespeare?A. Othello.B. The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus.C. Romeo and Juliet.D. The Twelfth Night.6. Beowulf narrates a story taking place in ______.A. the MediterraneanB. Northern EuropeC. EnglandD. Scandinavia7. ______ refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.A. AllegoryB. ConflictC. IronyD. Flashback8. William Wordsworth is an English _____.A. poetB. novelistC. playwrightD. critic9. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is ______.A. NatureB. WaldenC. ExperienceD. Essays10. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT ______.A. DublinersB. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManC. Jude the ObscureD. Ulysses11. The Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT ______.A. The Tenant of Wildfell HallB. Jane EyreC. Wuthering HeightsD. Agnes Grey12. In which novel can "Yahoo" be found?A. John Bunyan' s Pilgrim' s Progress.B. Edmund Spencer' s The Faerie Queen.C. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.D. Henry Fielding's Tom Jones.13. The Victorian Age was largely an age of ______, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A. pessimismB. naturalismC. modernismD. critical realism14. Mark Twain shaped the world' s view of America and made a combination of ______ andserious literature.A. American folk humorB. funny jokesC. English folkloreD. American values15. Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War?A. Fennimore Cooper.B. Nathaniel Hawthorn.C. Walt Whitman.D. Washington Irving.16. Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by ______.A. Christopher MarlowB. John MiltonC. William ShakespeareD. Ben Jonson17. Have a Dream is addressed by ______.A. Abraham LincolnB. John F. KennedyC. Martin Luther KingD. Ralph Waldo Emerson18. Which of the following is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson?A. This is my letter to the world.B. heard a fly buzz — when I died.C. This is just to say.D. Because I could not stop/or death.19. Eugene 0' Neil is an American ______.A. novelistB. playwrightC. poetD. essayist20. The Romantic Age in England came to an end with the death of ______.A. Jane AustinB. Walter ScottC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. William Wordsworth21. In the works of such aesthetics as ______ and Walter Pater, the theory of "art for art's sake" is advocated.A. Oscar WildeB. Mrs. GaskellC. Alexander PopeD. Charles Lamb22. Works by ______ are characterized by stream-of-consciousness.A. George EliotB. Jane AustenC. Emily BronteD. Virginia Woolf23. Who of the followings is a playwright of the "theater of absurd" ?A. John Osbom.B. Wystan Hugh Auden.C. Bernard Shaw.D. Samuel Beckett.24. The period from 1865—1914 has been referred to as the ______ in the literary history of the United States.A. Age of RealismB. Age of ClassicalismC. Age of RomanticismD. Age of Renaissance25. With "Collected Poems" , ______won the second Pulitzer Prize.A. Ezra PondB. e. e. cummingsC. Robert FrostD. William Cullen Bryant26. ______ belongs to the second period in Shakespeare' s three stages of writing career.A. The Merchant of VeniceB. Love' s Labor LostC. HamletD. The Tempest27. Grass is a poem written by ______.A. Walt WhitmanB. Carl SandburgC. Langston HughesD. Alien Ginsberg28. William Makepeace Thackeray' s most famous work is ______.A. The School for ScandalB. Past and PresentC. Major BarbaraD. Vanity Fair29. Dover Beach is written by ______.A. Robert BrowningB. Alfred TennysonC. Mathew ArnoldD. Dylan Thomas30. The period of Old English literature refers to ______.A. about 450 — 1066B. 14th century — mid-17th centuryC. 14th century — mid-ISA centuryD. 16th century — mid-18th century31. Moby Dick is the most important work by ______.A. Jack LondonB. Herman MelvilleC. Sinclair LewisD. Ralph Ellison32. 0. Henry earned his fame mainly for his ______.A. novelsB. poemsC. short storiesD. dramas33. Francis Bacon' s ______ is a great essay on education.A. The Advancement of LearningB. The Importance of Being EarnestC. The New AtlanticD. The Learned Reading upon the Statute of Uses34. ______ is NOT a novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald.A. Tender Is the NightB. Anna ChristieC. The Beautiful and DammedD. The Great Gatsby35. The American literature in modem period is divided into two parts by the event ofA. the expatriate movementB. the Great DepressionC. the First World WarD. the Second World War36. Which of the following novels does NOT belong to Dreiser' s Trilogy of DesirefA. The Titan.B. The Financier.C. The "Genius".D. The Stoic.37. The followings are all Dickens' works EXCEPT______.A. Oliver TwistB. Moll FlandersC. Great ExpectationsD. Bleak House38. It is generally regarded that Keats' s most important and mature poems are in the form ofA. odeB. elegyC. epicD. sonnet39. The 1954 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to ______ for his "mastery of the artof modem narration".A. William FaulknerB. John SteinbeckC. Saul BellowD. Ernest Hemingway40. Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of ______ work.A. romanticB. classicC. neo-classicD. naturalistic41. Who is the father of English poetry?A. Shakespeare.B. Edmund Spencer.C. John Milton.D. Geoffrey Chaucer.42. The Octopus is written by ______.A. Frank NorrisB. Sherwood AndersonC. Willa GatherD. Stephen Crane43. James Baldwin' s most famous short story is ______.A. A Rose/or EmilyB. The Story of an HowC. Sonny's BluesD. A Clean, Well-lighted Place44. John Galsworthy won the 1932 Nobel Price for his work ______.A. UlyssesB. Hard. TimesC. The Forsyte SagaD. Jude the Obscure45. Which of the following poems is NOT written by George Gordon Byron?A. She Walks in Beauty.B. The Solitary Reaper.C. When We Two Parted.D. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.46.______wrote several novels with the name of "Rabbit".A. Arthur MillerB. Thomas PynchonC. John UpdikeD. Wallace Stevens47. The Road Not Taken is a poem written by ______.A. Robert FrostB. LongfellowC. Ezra PondD. Carl Sandburg48. "God help them that help themselves" is found in ______' s work.A. FranklinB. FreneauC. JeffersonD. Paine49. T. S. Eliot' s most famous long poem is ______.A. The Love Song of J. Alfred Pru/rockB. A Boy's WillC. The Waste LandD. The Golden Bough50. ______ is often credited with writing the first true " novel of incident".A. John BanyanB. Henry FieldingC. Samuel RichardsonD. Daniel Defoe51. Daisy Miller is a great work by ______.A. Henry JamesB. Mark TwainC. DreiserD. Stowe52. Hester is a character in ______.• A. Cone with the Wind B. The Fall of the House of UsherC. BabbittD. Scarlet Letter53. Jack London' s ______ is his patently autobiographical novel.A. The Call of the WildB. The Sea WolfC. Martin EdenD. The Iron Heel54. William Golding' s first and most well-known novel is ______.A. Coral IslandB. Lord of the FliesC. Treasure IslandD. The Brass Butterfly55. "To be, or not to be" is quoted from ______.A. King Lear BHamletC. Julius CaesarD. Romeo and Juliet56. The first book of the Old Testament is called ______.A. ExodusB. NumbersC. LeviticusD. Genesis57. The black man Jim is a character in Mark Twain' s ______.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Life on the MississippiD. The Prince and the Pauper58. 0 Captain} My Captain\ was written in memory of ______.A. Walt WhitmanB. Benjamin FranklinC. Abraham LincolnD. Martin Luther King59. Which of the following works is NOT written by D. H. Lawrence?A. Women in Love.B. Sores and Lovers.C. The Rainbow.D. The French Lieutenant' s Woman.60. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ______ and ______ centuries.A. 14th/mid-17thB. 14th/mid-18thC. 16th/mid-18thD. 16th/mid-17th61. The Crapes of Wrath is the masterpiece of ______.A. John SteinbeckB. John CheeverC. John UpdikeD. John DOS Passes62. _____ is NOT a play written by Tennessee Williams.A. Cat on a Hot Tin RoofB. The Class MenagerieC. Light in AugustD. A Streetcar Named Desire63. Robert Bums is a poet from ______.A. EnglandB. New EnglandC. IrelandD. Scotland64. Look Back in Anger is a play written by ______.A. John OsbomeB. Samuel BeckettC. Edward AlbeeD. Eugene O'Neil65. ______ is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A. RomanceB. NovelC. SonnetD. Drama66. Seize the Day is regarded the best novel written by ______.A. Flannery 0'ConnerB. Saul BellowC. Ralph EllisonD. Sherwood Anderson67. ______ is NOT among the postwar poets in modem American literature.A. Robert LowellB. Gary SynderC. Alien GinsbergD. e. e. cummings68. William Blake' s The Tiger is collected in ______.A. Songs of InnocenceB. Songs of ExperienceC. Marriage of Heaven and HellD. Poetical Sketches69. The image of the famous "henpecked husband" is created by ______.A. Washington IrvingB. Fennimore CooperC. Edith Wharton D William Dean Howells70. ______ is known as "the poet' s poet".A. ShakespeareB. MarloweC. SpenserD. Donne71. The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be ______.A. O'NeilB. PoundC. Robert FrostD. Scott Fitzgerald72. ______was the most important person of the transcendental club.A. HawthornB. WhitmanC. EmersonD. Thoreau73. Shylock is a character in ______.A. The Merchant of VeniceB. The Twelfth NightC. The Winter's TaleD. Macbeth74. The compiler of A Dictionary of the English Language is ______.A. Joseph AddisonB. Richard SteeleC. Samuel JohnsonD. Laurence Stem75. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following EXCEPTA. religionB. love and marriageC. life and deathD. war and peace76. American fiction in the 1960s and 1970s proves different from its predecessors. It is referred to as ______.A. imagismB. black humorC. new fictionD. the Beat Generation77. Together with Lawrence and Joyce, ______ is considered one of the three giants ot the modem English novel and a master of English prose.A. Henry JamesB. Joseph ConradC. E. M. ForsterD. Aldous Huxley78. This line "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" is quoted from ______.A. Don Juan C Kubia KhanC. To AutumnD. Ode to the West Wind79. Stephen Crane is famous for ______.A. An American TragedyB. The AmbassadorsC. Main StreetD. The Red Badge of Courage80. "Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay". What is the figure oi this speech?A. Hyperbole.B. Simile.C. Metaphor.D. Synecdoche.81. ______ has won the Pulitzer Prize four times and Nobel Prize.A. Ernest HemingwayB. John SteinbeckC. Eugene 0' NeilD. William Faulkner82. Golden Notebook is a feminist novel written by ______.A. Amy TanB. Doris LessingC. Flannery 0' ConnorD. Kate Chopin83. Which of the following poems is written by W. H. Auden?A. Sailing to ByzantiumB. To an Athlete Dying YoungC. Musee des Beaux ArtsD. Church Going84. Beloved is the masterpiece of ______.A. Tony MorrisonB. Ralph EllisonC. John DOS PassesD. Willa Gather85.______, the author of The Interpretation of Dreams has great impact on literary creation and criticism.A. Carl JungB. Jean-Paul SartreC. Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheD. Sigmund Freud86. Henry Fielding is the author of the great 18th century English novel, ______.A. The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingB. PamelaC. Moll FlandersD. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy87. Tess is a character created by ______.A. D. H. LawrenceB. James JoyceC. Thomas HardyD. Dylan Thomas88. The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer' s day" is quoted from Shakespe-A. comediesB. tragediesC. historiesD. sonnets89. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?A. To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.B. To put the stress on traditional values.C. To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.D. To advocate a conscious break with the past.90. In A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, John Donne compares the lovers ' souls to ______.A. two rosesB. two circlesC. sun and moonD. twin compasses91. Utopia is ______' s work.A. Thomas MoreB. Francis BaconC. John DrydenD. George Herbert92. One of the Prime Ministers of Britain has won the Nobel Prize for literature, and that is ______.A. Margaret ThatcherB. Tony BlairC. Winston ChurchillD. John Major93. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" is an epigrammatic line by ______.A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe Shelley94. Whitman' s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ______.A. a strict poetic formB. a simple and conversational languageC. a free and natural rhythmic patternD. an easy flow of feelings95. Who initiated the name of the Lost Generation?A. Hemingway.B. Fitzgerald.C. Gertrude Stein.D. William Faulkner.96. My Last Duchess is a monologue poem written by ______.A. William ShakespeareB. Robert BrowningC. Ben JonsonD. Robert Herrick97. The high tide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around ______.A. 1820B. 1850C. 1880D. 192098. The title of Alfred Tennyson' s poem "Ulysses" reminds the reader of the following EXCEPT______.A. the Trojan WarB. Homer's OdysseyC. adventures over the seaD. religious quest99. As a literary figure, Heathcliff appears in ______.A. Jane EyreB. Oliver TwistC. Wuthering HeightsD. Middlemarch100. The publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of the New England Transcendentalism.A. NatureB. Self-RelianceC. The Over-SoulD. The American Scholar101. ______ is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.A. Richard SheridanB. Oliver GoldsmithC. Oscar WildeD. Bernard Shaw102. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ______.A. Ezra PoundB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Robert FrostD. Emily Dickinson103. The success of Jane Eyre is partly due to its introduction to the English novel the first ______ heroine.A. explorerB. peasantC. workerD. governess104. ______ is the representative work of the Beat Generation.A. The Great CatshyB. On the RoadC. Look Back in AngerD. The Sun Also Rises105. Emily Grierson is a literary figure created by ______.A. Willa GatherB. Doris LessingC. William FaulknerD. Nathaniel Hawthorn106. The most significant idea of the Renaissance is ______.A. humanismB. realismC. naturalismD. skepticism107. The title of Thackeray' s "Vanity Fair" is taken from __A. The Holy BibleB. The Faerie QueenC. The Pilgrim' s ProgressD. Paradise Lost108. Mr. Micawber in David Coppeifield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps I best ______ characters created bv Charles Dickens.A. comicB. tragicC. roundD. sophisticated109. Thomas Pynchon can also be categorized as a Black Humor writer, as well as ______ writer.A. classicalB. transcendentalC. postmodernist D realistic110. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is written by ______.A. Ben JonsonB. Thomas GrayC. William WordsworthD. William Blake111. Who is considered the father of American poetrv?A. Philip Freneau.B. William Cullen Bryant.C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. D Henry David Thoreau.112. In America,there is "a little woman started a great war". Who is she?A. Anne BradstreetB. Harriet Beecher StoweC. Edith WhartonD. Catharine Anne Porter113. Waiting/or Godot is a ______.A. poemB. playC. short storyD. novel114. Which of the following poets has once won the Nobel Prize?A. William Butler Yeats.B. Thomas Hardy.C. Wystan Hugh Auden.D. Dylan Thomas.115. ______ is NOT written by Edgar Allan Poe.A. The RavenB. Annabel LeeC. The Fall of the House of UsherD. Song to Celia116. Arthur Miller is an American ______.A. novelistB. poetC. playwrightD. essayist117. Mr. Darcy is a character in ______.A. Tess of the D' UrbervillesB. Pride and PrejudiceC. Happy PrinceD. The Mill on the Floss118. Iceberg Theory is a writing principle proposed and closely followed by ______.A. Jack LondonB. Sinclair LewisC. William FaulknerD. Ernest Hemingway119. ______ is featured by black humor.A. CaricatureB. Catch-22C. The Catcher in the Rye C. Death of a Salesman120. Who is the only woman writer that has won both Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize?A. Pearl Buck.B. Virginia Woolf.C. Tony Morrison.D. Katharine Mansfield.。

英语专八英美文学常识汇总

英语专八英美文学常识汇总3专八人文知识:英国地理概况the english channel: the channel is a narrow sea passage which separates england and france and connects the atlantic ocean and north sea.英吉利海峡：英吉利海峡是一道狭长的海峡，分割英法两国，连接大西洋和北海。

the dee estuary: a small sea ( in irish sea) where the dee river enters.迪河河口：是迪河流入的一个小海。

"the act of union of 1801": in 1801 the english parliament passed an act by which scotland, wales and the kingdom of england were constitutionally joined as the kingdom of great britain.1801合并法：1801年英国议会通过法令，规定英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士根据宪法合并成为大不列颠王国。

gaelic: it is one of the celtic language, and is spoken in parts of the highlands.盖尔语：是盖尔特语言的一种，在高地地区仍有人说这种语言。

the "backbone of england": it refers to the pennies, the board ridge of hills.英格兰脊梁：指的是山脉的背脊。

lead ore: british lead ores have been worked since pre-roman times. it contains silver.铅矿：自前罗马时代开始，英国的铅矿就被开发了。

tem8-英美文学知识（1）

英美文学知识第一节英国文学一、古英语时期的英国文学 (约499-1066)Alliteration – Beowulf《贝奥武甫》- national epicCaedmon (开德蒙)Anthem《赞美诗》1. 诗歌Cynewulf(基涅武甫)Dream of the Rood《十字架之梦》Bede (比德)Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum《英吉利人教会史》2. 散文King Alfred(阿尔弗雷德大帝)Wessex – Father of English Prose (“英国散文之父”);Anglo-Saxon Chronicle《盎格鲁-撒克逊编年史》二、中古英语时期的英国文学 (14世纪 – 15世纪)1. Allegory – Romance – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight《高文爵士和绿衣骑士》2. Ballad – The Robin Hood Ballads《罗宾汉民谣集》3. William Langland (威廉•兰格伦)The Vision Concerning Piers the Plowman 《农夫皮尔斯的幻想》4. Geoffrey Chaucer (杰弗里•乔叟)Father of English Poetry (“英国诗歌之父”); The Canterbury Tales《坎特布雷故事集》;- octosyllabic & heroic couplet (八音节英雄双韵体)5. Sir Thomas Malory(托马斯•马洛礼)Le Morte d’Arthur《亚瑟王之死》三、文艺复兴时期的英国文学 (15世纪末 – 17世纪中期)1. Humanism – classic culture2. Thomas More (托马斯•莫尔)Utopia《乌托邦》; The Painful Life of Edward V; Historie of Richard the Third《理查德三世传》3. Thomas Wyatt (托马斯•怀亚特), Henry Howard (亨利•霍华德) – Sonnet4. Philip Sidney (菲利浦•锡德尼)Arcadia《阿卡迪亚》-第一篇田园生活的传奇,“现代长篇小说的先驱”;The Defence of Poesie / Apology for Poetry《诗辩》-人文主义文学的宣言,开创近代英国的文学批评5. Edmund Spencer (埃德蒙•斯宾塞)poet’ poet – Spencerian stanza – 9行(ababbcbcc)8 iambic pentameter + 1 iambic hexameter; The FaireQueene 《仙后》被誉为英国文艺复兴时期“最杰出的史诗” nationalism, humanism, puritanism 6. Christopher Marlowe(克里斯托弗•马娄)Tamburlaine 《帖木耳大帝》; The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus 《浮士德博士的悲剧历史》7. William Shakespeare2首长诗, 154首十四行诗, 37部戏剧长诗Venus and Adonis 《维纳斯和阿多尼斯》;The Rape of Lucrece 《露克丽丝受辱记》十四行诗iambic pentameter – 14 (abab cdcd efef gg)3 quatrains + 1 couplet = Shakespearean sonnet悲剧Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth喜剧 A Midsummer Night’s Dream ; The Merchant ofVenice ; As You Like It 《皆大欢喜》; TwelfthNight历史剧Henry VI, Henry IV, Richard III(威廉•莎士比亚)戏剧传奇剧Pericles 《泰尔亲王配力克里斯》;Cymbeline 《辛白林》; The Winter’s Tale ;Tempest 《暴风雨》8. Ben Jonson (本•琼森)comedy of manners (风俗喜剧的奠基人);Every Man In His Humor 《人性互异》9. John Donne (约翰•多恩)Metaphysical Poems (“玄学派”诗歌创始人);Songs and Sonnets 《歌曲与十四行诗》10. George Herbert (乔治•赫伯特)the saint of the Metaphysical school(“玄学派诗圣”);The Temple 《神殿》11. Andrew Marwell (安德鲁•马韦尔)诗风结合了玄学派和古典主义的创作特点;To His Coy Mistress 《致他的娇羞女友》12. Francis Bacon (弗朗西斯•培根)Materialism; Essays 《随笔》(Of Study, OfTruth );The Advancement of Learning 《学术的推进》;The New Instrument 《新工具》四、资产阶级革命及启蒙时期的英国文学 (17世纪末，18世纪 )1. the Enlightenment: liberty, equality, democracy前30年：neo-classicism (崇尚古典文学的创作及美学原则)40年代到80年代：realism2. 18世纪的英国文学80年代以后：sentimentalism & pre-romanticism (崇尚情感)3. John Milton (约翰•弥尔顿)Defence of the English People 《为英国人民而辩》;Second Defence of the Englishpeople 《为英国人民再辩》;Paradise Lost (blank verse, 旧约); Paradise Regained(新约);Samson Agonistes 《力士参孙》(poetical drama, closet73. Tennessee Williams (田纳西·威廉斯)The Glass Menagerie《玻璃动物园》; A Street car Named Desire《欲望号街车》; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof《热铁皮屋顶上的猫》74. Arthur Miller (阿瑟·米勒)All My Sons《都是我的儿子》; The Death of a Salesman《推销员之死》75. Edward Albee (爱德华·阿尔比)The Zoo Story《动物园的故事》; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 《谁害怕弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫》76. Sylvia Plath (西尔维亚·普拉斯)自白派; The Colossus and Other Poems《巨人》。

专业八级英美文学知识

1.William Faulkner is the author of _________.a. For From the Madding Crowdb. The Sound and Furyc. For Whom the Bell Tollsd. The Scarlet Letter2. Robert Frost is a famous __________.a. novelistb. Playwrightc. poetd. literary critic3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by _________.a. Jack Londonb. Charles Dickensc.Samuel Coleridged. Ernest Hemingway4. Which of the following poets is different from the others?a. John Donne.b. John Keats.c. Lord Byron.d. Percy Bysshe Shelley5. Which of the following is not written by William Shakespeare?a. Othello.b. The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus.c. Romeo and Juliet.d. The Twelfth Night.6. Beowulf narrates a story taking palce in _______.a. the Mediterraneanb. Northern Europec. Englandd. Scandinavia7. __________ refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.a. Allegoryb. Conflictc. Ironyd.Flashback8. William Wordsworth is an English ___________.a. poetb. novelistc. playwrightd. critic9. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is __________.a. Natureb. Waldenc. Experienced. Essays10. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT________.a. Dublinersb. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manc. Jude the Obscured. Ulysses11. The Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT _______.a. The Tenant of Wildfell Hallb. Jane Eyrec. Wuthering Heightsd. Agnes Grey12. In which novel can “Yahoo” be found?a. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress.b. Edmund Spencer’s The Faerie Queen.c. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.d. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones.13. The Victorian Age was largely an age of _________, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.a. pessimismb. naturalismc. modernismd. critical realism14. Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination of _______ and seriou s literature.a. American folk humorb. funny jokesc. English folklored. American values15. Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War?a. Fennimore Cooper.b. Nathaniel Hawthorn.c. Walt Whitmand. Washington Irving.16. Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by _________.a. Christopher Marlowb. John Miltonc. William Shakespeared. Ben Johnson17. I Have a Dream is addressed by _________.a. Abraham Lincolnb. John F. Kennedyc. Martin Luther Kingd. Ralph Waldo Emerson18. Which of the following is a poem by Emily Dickinson?a. Song of Myself. B. The Raven. C. A Red Red Rose d. Because I Could Not Stop for Death.19. Eugene O’Neil is an American __________.a. novelistb. playwrightc. poetd. essayist20. The Romantic Age in England came to an end with the death of _________.a. Jane Austinb. Walter Scottc. Samuel Taylor Coleridged. William Wordsworth21. In the works of aesthetism, the theory of “art for art’s sake” is advocated by ________.a. Oscar Wildeb. Mrs. Gaskellc. Alexander Poped. Charles Lamb22. Whose works are characterized by stream-of-consciousness?23. The most famous work by Chaucer is ________.a. Beowulfb. The Canterbury Talec. Sir Gawain and the Green Knightd. The Christ24. The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the ________ in the literary history of the United States.a. Age of Realismb. Age of Classicalismc. Age of Romanticismd. Age of Renaissance25. ________ has been given 18 honorary degrees?a. Ezra Pondb. E.E. Cummingsc. Robert Frostd. William Cullen Bryant26. Which of t he following is NOT Shakespeare’s tragedies?a. The Merchant of Veniceb. King Learc. Hamletd. The Tempest27. Leaves of Grass is written by ________.a.Walt Whitmanb. Carl Sandburgc. Langston Hughesd. Allen Ginsberg28. William Mak epeace Thackeray’s most famous work is _________.a. The School for Scandalb. Past and Presentc. Major Barbarad. Vanity Fair29. Daver Beach is written by ________.a. Robert Browningb. Alfred Tennysonc. Mathew Arnoldd. Dylan Thomas30. The period of Old English literature refers to _________.a. 449---1066b. 14th century—mid 17th centuryc. 14th century—mid 18th centuryd. 16th century---mid 18th century31. Moby Dick is the most important work by _________.a. Jack Londonb. Herman Melvillec. Sinclair Lewisd. Ralph Ellison32. O. Henry earned his fame mainly for his _________.a. novelsb. poemsc. short storiesd. dramas33. Which of the following is NOT Francis Bacon’s essay?a. Of Studies. B. Of Travel. C. Of Wisdom. D. Of Love.34. ________ is the most famous novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald?a. Tender Is the Nightb. This Side of Paradisec. The Beautiful and Dammedd. The Great Gatsby35. “Morte d’Arthur” is a famous work by __________.a. John Miltonb. Venerable Bedec. Thomas Maloryd. Alfred the Great36. Which of the following novels does NOT belong to Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire?a. The titanb. The Financier.c. The Geniusd. The Stoic.37. The followings are all Dickens’ works EXCEPT _________.a. Oliver Twistb. The Vicar of Wakefieldc. Great Expectationsd. A Tale of Two Cities38. It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important ant mature poems are in the form of _______.a. odeb. elegyc. epicd. sonnet39. The 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to __________.a. William Faulknerb. John Steinbeckc. Saul Bellowd. Ernest Hemingway40. Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of _________ work.a. romanticb. classicc. neo-classicd. naturalistic41. Who is the father of English poetry?a. Shakespeare.b. Edmund Spencer.c. John Miltond. Geoffrey Chaucer.42. The Red Badge of Courage is written by ________.a. Frank Norrisb. Sherwood Andersonc. Willa Catherd. Stephen Crane43. The most distinctive achievement of Elizabethan literature is _________.a. dramab. prosec. noveld. poetry44. John Galsworthy won the 1932 Nobel Prize for his work _________.a. Ulyssesb. Hard Timesc. The Forsyte Saged. Jude the Obscure45. Which of the following poems is NOT written by George Gordon Byron?a. She Walks in Beauty.b. The Solitary Reaper.c. When We Two Parte.d. Childe Haro ld’s Pilgrimage.46. _______ wrote several novels with the name of “Rabbit”.a. Arthur Millerb. Thomas Pynchonc. John Updiked. Wallace Stevens47. The Road Not Taken is a poem written by _______.a. Robert Frostb. Longfellowc. Ezra Pondd. Carl Sandburg48. It is _______ who first made blank verse the principle instrument of English drama.a. Marloweb. Shakespearec. Spencerd. Henry Howard49. T. S. Eliot’s most famous long poem is __________.a. I Wand ered Lonely as a Cloudb. A Boy’s Willc. The Waste Landd. The Golden Bough50. Who has been regarded as the discoverer of the modern novel?a. John Banyanb. Henry Fielding.c. Samuel Richardsond. Daniel Defoe51. The Portrait of a Lady is a great work by __________.a. Henry Jamesb. Mark Twainc. Dreiserd. Stowe52. Hester is a character in _________.a. Gone with the Windb. The Fall of the House of Usherc. Babbittd. The Scarlet Letter53. In Paradise Last, the real hero created by Milton is __________.a. Godb. Adamc. Eved. Satan54. The island of Lilliput can be found in _________.a. Robinson Crusoeb. Gulliver’s Travelsc. Adventures of Tom Sawyerd. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn55. “To be, or not to be” is quoted from __________.a. King learb. Hamletc. Julius Caesard. Romeo and Juliet56. Mr. Allworthy is a kind-hearted gentleman in __________.a. A Tale of Two Citiesb. Great Expectationsc. Sons and loversd. The History of Torn Jones, a Foundling57. The black man Jim is a character in Mark Twain’s __________.a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyerb. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnc. Life on the Mississippid. The Prince and the Pauper58. The Catcher in the Rye is written by __________.a. J. D. Salingerb. Jack Londonc. Flannery O’Connord. Saul Bellow59. Which of the following works is NOT written by D. H. Lawrence?a. Women in Loveb. Sons and Lovers.c. The Rainbowd. The French Lieutenant’s Woman.60. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between _________ centuries.a. 14th and mid-17thb. 14th and mid-18thc. 16th and mid-18thd. 16th and mid-17th61. The Grapes of Wrath is the masterpiece of ___________.John Steinbeck b. John Cheever c. John Updike d. John Dos Passos62. _________ is NOT a play written by Tennessee Williams.a. Cat on a Hot Tin Roofb. The Glass Menageriec. Light is Augustd. A Streetear Named Desire63. Robert Burns is a poet from __________.a. Englandb. New Englandc. Irelandd. Seotland64. The Zoo Story is a play written by _________.a. Romanceb. Novelc. Sonnetd. Drama65. _________ is a popular literary form in the medieval period.a. Romanceb. Novelc. Sonnetd. Drama66. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the _______century.a. 18thb. 19thc. 17thd. 20th67. _______ is the greatest songwriter in the world and the national poet of Scotland.a. William Blakeb. Robert Burnsc. Byrond. Keats68. William Blake’s The Tiger is collected in __________.a. Songs of Innocenceb. Songs of Experiencec. Marriage of Heaven and Helld. Poetical Sketches69. The image of the famous “henpecked husband” is created by _________.a. Washington Irvingb. Fennimore Cooperc. Edith Whartond. William Dean Howells70. __________ was the most important person of the transcendental club.a. Shakespeareb. Marlowec. Spenserd. Donne71. The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be _________.a. O’Neilb. Poundc. Robert Frostd. Scott Fitzgerald72. _________ was the most important person of the transcendental club.a. Hawthornb. Whitmanc. Emersond. Hemingway73. Shylock is a character in _________.a. The Merchant of Veniceb. The Twelfth Nightc. The Winter’s Taled. Macbeth74. The compiler of A Dictionary of the English Language is ________.a. Joseph Addisonb. Richard Steelec. Samuel Johnsond. Laurence Stern75. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following EXCEPT __________.a. friendshipb. love and marriagec. life and deathd. war and peace76. American fiction in the 1960s is referred to as ________.a. imagismb. black humorc. new fictiond. the Beat Generation77. James Joyce mostly wrote about his hometown ________.a. Londonb. Dublinc. New Yorkd. Edinburgh78. This line “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” is quoted from _________.a. Dan Juanb. Kubla Khanc. To Autumnd. Ode to the West Wind79. Stephen Crane is famous for _________.a. An American Tragedyb. The Ambassadorsc. Main Streetd. The Red Badge of Courage80. _______ translated Homer’s Iliad (伊利亚特)and Odyssey (奥德赛) in Ameriean literary history.a. William Cullen Bryantb. Philip Freneauc. Edwin Arlington Robinsond. Walt Whitman81. The emotional effect and social significance made _________ the first well-known sociological novel inAmerican literature.a. The Sun Alson Risesb. Uncle Tom’s Cabinc. The Old Man and The Sead. Sister Carrie82. _______ has been entitled the “Father of American Poetry”.a. Philip Freneaub. Ralph Waldo Emersonc. William Cullen Bryantd. Walt Whitman83. Which of the following poems is written by William Butler Yeats?a. Sailing to Brzantium.b. To an Athlete Dying Youngc. Musee des Beaux Arts.d. Church Going.84. Mary Barton is a masterpiece of ________.a.George Eliotb. Samuel Butlerc. Mrs. Gaskelld. Flannery O’Connor85. Among the following poets, which is NOT a lake poet?a. William Wordsworthb. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.c. Robert Southeyd. William Collins.86. Henry Fielding is the author of the great 18th century English novel _________.a. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundlingb. Pamelac. Moll Flanderd. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy87. Tess is a character created by _________.a. D. H. Lawrenceb. James Joycec. Thomas Hardyd. Dylan Thomas88. Which of the following is NOT true for Benjamin Franklin?a. He was a famous writer.b. He was a member to draft The Declaration of Independence.c. He was a great scientist.d. He was once elected American President.89. “Gold Rush” was vividly depicted in _________ novels.a.Hemingway’sb. Mark Twain’sc. Henry James’sd. Faulkner’s90. __________ is a nineteenth century European literary movement that sought to portray familiar characters,situations, and settings in a realistic manner.a. Realismb. Modernismc. Naturalismd. Romanticism91. Utopia is _________ work.a. Thomas More’sb. Francis Bacon’sc. John Dryden’sd. George Herbert’s92. Mr. Rochester is a figure in _________.a. Wuthering Heightsb. Jane Eyrec. Vanity Faird. Uncle Tom’s Cabin93. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by ________.a. John Keatsb. William Blakec. William Wordsworthd. Percy Bysshe Shelley94. Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT __________.a. a strict poetic formb. a simple and conversational languagec. a free and natural rhythmic patternd. an easy flow of feelings95. Who initiated the name of the Lost Generation?a. Hemingway.b. Fitzgerald.c. Gertrude Stein.d. William Faulkner.96. My Last Duchess is a monologue poem written by _________.a. William Shakespeareb. Robert Browningc. Ben Jonsond. Robert Herrick97. The high tide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around _________.a. 1820b. 1850c. 1880d. 192098. The title of Alfred Tennyson’s poem Ulysses reminds the reader of the following EXCEPT ___________.a. the Trojan Warb. Homer’s Odysseyc. adventures over the sead. religious quest99. As a literary figure, Heathcliff appears in __________.a. Jane Eyreb. Oliver Twistc. Wuthering Heightsd. Middlemarch100. The publication of __________ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of the New England Transcendentalism.a. Natureb. Self-Reliancec. The Over Sould. The American Scholar101. _________ is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works and plays inspired by social criticism.a. Richard Sheridanb. Oliver Goldsmithc. Oscar Wilded. The American Scholar102. Lyrical Ballads is the joint work between Wordsworth and his friend _________.a. Coleridgeb. Bryonc. Keatsd. Shelly103. The success of Jane Eyre is partly due to its introduction to the English novel the first _________ heroine.a. explorerb. peasantc. workerd. governess104. _________ is the representative work of the Jazz Age.a. The Great Gatsbyb. On the Roadc. Look Back in Angerd. The Sun Also Rises105. Invisible Man is a famous work by _________.a. Tennessee Williamsb. Arthur Miller106. _________ is commonly used to describe an original pattern or model from which all other things of the same kind are made.a. Allusionb. Alliterationc. Allegoryd. Archetype107 The title of Thackeray’s Vanity Fair is taken from _________.a. The Hol y Bibleb. The Faerie Queenc. The Pilgrim’s Progressd. Paradise Lost108. _________ was a southerner from Mississippi who produced 18 novels and 3 volumes of short stories in his life.a. William Faulknerb. Earnest Hemingwayc. Mark Twaind. Robert Frost109. The theme of A Tale of Two Cities is _________.a. revolutionb. wasc. loved. brotherhood110. Which of the following statements is NOT true for the Lost Generation?a. Those young people were cut off from old values.b. They wondered pointlessly and restlessly.c. They were aware that the world was crazy and meaningless.d. They boasted that people should return to nature.111. Who is considered the Poet of the American Revolution?a. Philip Freneau.b. William Cullen Bryand.c. Henry Wadsworth Longfellowd. Henry David Thoreau.112. In America, there is “a little woman started a great war”. Who is she?a. Anne Bradstreet.b. Harriet Beecher Stowe.c. Edith Wharton.d. Catharine Anne Porter.113. Waiting for Godot is a _______.a. poemb. playc. short storyd. novel114. Which of the following writers has once won the Nobel Prize?a. William Butler Yeats.b. Thomas Hardyc. Wystan Hugh Auden.d. Dylan Thomas.115. _________is NOT written by Edgar Allan Poe.a. The Ravenb. Annabel Leec. The Fall of the House of Usherd. Song to Celia116. Arthur Miller is an American __________.a. novelistb. poetc. playwrightd. essayist117. Mr. Darcy is a character in _________.a. Tess of the D’Urbervillesb. Pride and Prejudicec. Happy Princed. The Mill on the Floss118. Besides The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald wrote another famous novel _________,which was his second masterpiece.a. As I Lay Dyingb. a Good Man Is Hard to Findc. Tender Is the Nightd. The Dangling Man119. Among Shakespeare’s tragedies, _________ is the most complex in plot and most painful.a. King Learb. Hamletc. Romeo and Julietd. Othello120. _______ created the style of euphuism.a. Sir Philip Sidneyb. John Lylyc. Henry Howardd. Thomas Wyatt121. A Voldielion: Forbiding Mouming is the masterpiece of ________a. William Shakaspeareb. Edrnund spencerc. John Miltond. John Donne122. Which of the following is not Virginia Woolf’s greatest _______ writers.a. To the Lighthouseb. Mrs. Dallowayc. The Wavesd. Modern Painters123. Theodore Dreiser was one of America’s greatest _______ write rs.a. naturalisticb. realisticc. modernisticd. romantic124. _________ is the first American professional writer and the first writer of detective story in the world.125. Pygmalion is a famous play written by ________.a. William Shakespeareb. Tobias George Smollettc. Charles Lambd. Bernard Shaw126. The Renaissance was a European Phenomenon, which originated in _______.a. Franceb. Britainc. Italyd. Spain127. _______ was the greatest poet between Milton and Pope and was poet laureate for 20 years.a. Edmund Spencerb. John Drydenc. John Donned. George Herbert128. Which of the following is NOT Jane Austen’s wo rk?a. Pride and Prejudiceb. Sense and Sensibilityc. Emmad. Sister Carrie.129. Richard Brinsley Sheridan was a famous _______.a. poetb. novelistc. dramatistd. essayist130. The major representatives of America’s transcendentalist group are _______.a. Emerson and Henry David Thoreaub. Washington Irving and Emersonc. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Irvingd. Natheaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau131. Among the following novels, _______ is Thomas Hardy’s best-known novel.a. The Return of the Nativeb. Far From the Madding Crowdc. The Mayor of Casterbridged. Tess of the D’Urbervilles132. _______ was recognized as the greatest poet of Victorian England.a. Tennysonb. Robert Browningc. Mrs. Browningd. Robert Burns133. _______ is D.H. Lawrence’s semi-autographical novel.a. Sons and Loversb. Women is Lovec. Rainbowd. Lady Chatterley’s lover134. _______ was once in the same class with Franklin Pierce, America’s 14th President.a. Henry Jamesb. Jack Londonc. Edwin Arlington Robinsond. Nathaniel Hawthorne135. Richard Steele and Joseph Addison has the following contributions to Englishliterature EXCEPT that _______.a. their writings provide a new code of social morality for the rising bourgeoisieb. they give a true picture of social life of England in the 18th centuryc. the English essay completed established itself as a literary genre in their handsd. they were representatives of the realistic tradition in English literature136. ________ is the representative among the writers of aestheticism and decadence.a. Stevensonb. George Gissingc. Oscar Wilded. Ralph Fox137.The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays is the work by _______.a. William Hazlittb. Charles Lambc. Leigh Huntd. De Quincy138. Ruskin’s social and economic thoughts have exerted deep influence on many writers and poet except _______.a. William Morrisb. Waliter Scottc. Oscar Wilded. Bernard Shaw139. Whitman’s _______ has been praised as “Democratic Bible” and as American Epic.a. Leaves of Grassb. Son of Myselfc. In a Metro Stationd. Evangeline140. _______ killed himself with a gun, just as his father did.a. Jack Londonb. Eamest Hemingwayc. Fitzgeraldd. Mark Twain141. ________ ealled himself “the trumpeter of a new age”. He was England’s first essayist.a. Richard Steeleb. Joseph Addisonc. Francis Bacond. Alexander Pope142. Don Juan is the masterpiece of _______.a. Byronb. Robert Frostc. Wordsworthd. Longfellow143. Which of the following is NOT true for Ralph Waldo Emerson?a. A great thinker.b. A famous novelist.c. A well-known essayist.d. A poet.a. Charlotte Bronteb. Virginia Woolfc. Jane Austend. George Eliot145. On the Road is the masterpiece of _______.a. Arthur Millerb. J.D. Salingerc. Allen Ginsbergd. Jack Kerouac146. Soames Forsyte is famous figure in ______ novel.a. Theodore Dreiser’sb. Henry James’sc. William Faulkner’sd. John Galsworthy’s147. Which of the following is not an American romantic writer?a. Nathaniel Hawthorneb. Herman Melvillec. Mark Twaind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow148. The story of Prometheus Unbound is taken from _______.a. Greek mythologyb. Roman mythologyc. Bible149. Language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons is called the _______, which is the foundation of English language and literature.a. Modern Englishb. Old Englishc. Ancient Englishd. Medieval English150. ______ refers to the use of one object to represent another.a. Metaphorb. Ironyc. Symbolismd. Imagism1. b2. c3. d4. a5. b6. d7. c8. a9. b10.c11.a12.c13.d14.a15.d16.b17.c18.d19.b20.b21.a22.d23.b24.a25.c 27.a28.d29.c30.a31.b32.c33.d34.d35.c36.c37.b38.a39.d40.d41.d42.d43.a44.c45.b46.c47.a48.a49.c50.d51.a53.d54.b55.b56.d57.b58.a59.d60.a61.a62.c63.d64.c65.a66.a67.b68.b69.a70.c71.d72.c73.a74.c75.d76.b77.b79.d80.a81.b82.a83.a84.c85.d86.a87.c88.d89.b90.a91.a92.b93.a94.a95.c96.b97.a98.d99.c100.d101.d102.a103.d105.c106.d107.c108.a109.a110.d111.a112.b113.b114.a115.d116.c117.b118.c119.a120.b121.d122.d123.a124.d125.d126.c127.b128.d129.c131.d 132.a 133.a 134.d 135.d 136.c 137.a 138.b 139.a 140.b 141.c 142.a 143.b 144.c 145.d 146.d 147.c 148.a 149.b 150.c。

英语八级英美文学整理

美国文学第一阶段独立革命之前（十七世纪中期之前）（before the revolution of independence）第一节美国本土文学（美国印第安传统文学）印第安传统文学的主要内容和形式：在各种典仪上咏颂的祝词，在劳作中吟唱的歌曲，时代交口相传的部落神话故事和英雄故事，刻写在山河岩壁上的象形史诗。

第二节北美殖民时期文学（十六世纪末-----十七世纪中）（colonial settlement）这一时期的文学作品主要是一些英国的殖民地官员或者传道士、冒险家们以日记或游记等形式记录的新大陆的风土人情、自然景色和民间生活等。

John Smith 约翰·史密斯《关于弗吉尼亚的真实叙述》A True Relation of Virginia（被认为是美国文学史上的“第一部作品”）第三节请教思想的表述（Puritanism）他们的作品主要是以传布清教主义思想的布道文为主第二阶段独立革命时期（十七世纪中期-------十八世纪末）（around the revolution of independence）独立革命前后的美国文学，标志着北美文学产生后的第一次大转折该期文学特色：充满浓烈的政治性和思辨性。

主题多为爱国主义及对于独立民主自由的热切呼唤。

Benjamin Franklin 本杰明·富兰克林《穷查理历书》Poor Richard’s Almanac《自传》The AutobiographyThomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩《常识》Common Sense 《美国危机》The America Crisis《人的权利》Rights of Human《理性时代》The Age of ReasonPhilip Freneau 菲利普·弗伦诺（18世纪最杰出的美国诗人，被誉为“the poet of the American revolution）《英国囚船》The British Prison Ship 《美国的荣耀蒸蒸日上》The Rising Glory of America《印第安人殡葬地》（lyric）The Indian Burying Ground 《野金银花》The Wild Honey Suckle第三阶段浪漫主义时期（18世纪末---19世纪中后期）（American Romanticism）该时期主题多为传统文化与现代文明之间的冲突、“对久远与遥远故事的兴趣”以及对死亡、潜意识的剖析等。

英语专八英美文学常识汇总

精心整理英国文学(English Literature)一、Old and Medieval English Literature中古英语文学(8世纪-14世纪)1) The Old English Period / The Anglo-Saxon Period古英语时期(449-1066)a. pagan poetry(异教诗歌): Beowulf《贝奥武甫》- 最早的诗歌；长诗(3000行) heroism & fatalism & Christian qualitiesthe folk legends of the primitive northern tribes; a heroic Scandinavian epic legend; 善恶有报b. religious poetry: Caedmon(凯德蒙610-680): the first known religious poet; the father of English songCynewulf(基涅武甫9C): The Christc. 8th C,a.~ 14th C,*b. 15th C,二、1) 诗歌b. Sir《为诗辩护》2) Prosea.b. John Lyly (黎里1553-160，剧作家&小说家)：EupheusEuphuism(夸饰文体): Abundant use of balanced sentences, alliterations(头韵) and other artificial prosodic(韵律) means.The use of odd similes(明喻) and comparisonsc. Francis Bacon (培根1561-1626)：英国首位散文家，中世纪至现代欧洲时期; 近代唯物主义哲学奠基人和近代实验科学先驱the trumpeter of a new age;Essays(论说文集)：Of Studies, Of Love, Of Beauty: the first true English prose classic3) 戏剧a. Christopher Marlowe(马洛1564-1593): University Wits 大学才子派Edward II；The Jew of Malta《马耳他的犹太人》first made blank verse(无韵诗：不押韵的五步诗) the principle instrument of English dramaThe Tragical History of Doctor Faustus《浮士德博士的悲剧》：根据德国民间故事书写成; 完善了无韵体诗。

专八考试人文知识英美文学部分

英国文学知识点总结一、中古世纪时期和文艺复兴时期1.The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on theirway to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by ______. (2006)A.William LanglandB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. William ShakespeareD. AlfredTennyson2.______ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed intofourteen lines. (2006)A.Free verseB. sonnetC. odeD. epigram重要文学术语一句话定义：Ballad 民谣：Ballad is a story in poetic form to be sung or recited. It was handed down from generation to generation. 代表作：Robin HoodEpic 史诗：Epic, in poetry, refers to a long work dealing with the actions of gods and heroes. 代表作：BeowulfRenaissance 文艺复兴：It meant the reintroduction into Western Europe of the full cultural heritage of Greece and Rome.Humanism 人文主义：Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance.Spenserian stanza 斯宾塞诗节：it refers to a stanza of nine lines, with the first eight lines in iambic pentameter, the last line in iambic pentameter, rhyming ababbcbcc. 代表作：the Faerie QueeneSonnet 十四行诗: A sonnet is a lyric consisting of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter. 代表人物：William Shakespeare重要人物和其代表作的一句话评价：Geoffrey Chaucer 乔叟：He is regarded as the father of modern English poetry. 英国诗歌之父代表作：Canterbury Tales: A collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims.Philip Sidney 菲利普锡尼：He stands for the spirit of the Elizabeth age. 伊莉莎白时代精神的代表代表作：Defense of Poetry, Arcadia.Edmund Spenser 斯宾塞：the poet s’ poet. He created Spenser Stanza. 诗人中的诗人，斯宾塞诗节的创作者。

英语专八英美文学常识(English Literature)

英国文学(English Literature)一、Old and Medieval English Literature中古英语文学(8世纪-14世纪)1) The Old English Period / The Anglo-Saxon Period古英语时期(449-1066)a. pagan poetry(异教诗歌): Beowulf《贝奥武甫》- 最早的诗歌；长诗(3000行) heroism & fatalism & Christian qualitiesthe folk legends of the primitive northern tribes; a heroic Scandinavian epic legend; 善恶有报b. religious poetry: Caedmon(凯德蒙610-680): the first known religious poet; the father of English songCynewulf(基涅武甫9C): The Christc. 8th C, Anglo-Saxon prose: Venerable Bede(673-735); Alfred the Great(848-901)2) The Medieval Period中世纪(1066-ca.1485 / 1500):a. Romance中世纪传奇故事(1200-1500): the Middle Ages; 英雄诗歌无名诗人- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight《高文爵士与绿色骑士》: Celtic legend; verse-romance; 2530 lines~ 14th C,Age of Chaucer:* Geoffrey Chaucer(乔叟1340-1400): 文风：vivid and exact language, his poetry is full of vigor and swiftnessthe father of English poetry; the father of English fiction; 首创“双韵体”;首位用伦敦方言写作英国作家The Canterbury Tales:pilgrims stories 受Boccaccio(薄伽丘) - Decameron《十日谈》启发The House of Fame; Troilus and Criseyde; The Romaunt of the Rose《玫瑰罗曼史》(译作)* William Langland(朗兰1332-1400)：The Vision of Piers Plowman《农夫皮尔斯之幻象》: 普通人眼中的社会抗议b. 15th C, English ballads: Thomas Malory (1395-1471) :Morte d’Arthur《亚瑟王之死》- 圆桌骑士二、The Renaissance Period英国文艺复兴(1500-1660): humanism十四行诗，文艺复兴，无韵诗，伊丽莎白戏剧1) 诗歌Henry Howard(霍华德1516-1547)a. Thomas Wyatt (怀亚特1503-1542): the first to introduce the sonnet into English literatureb. Sir Philip Sidney(雪尼爵士1554-1586)：代表了当时的理想- “the complete man”Defense of Poetry《为诗辩护》Astrophel and Stella; Arcadia《阿卡狄亚》: a prose romance filled with lyrics; a forerunner of the modern worldc.Edmund Spenser(斯宾塞1552-1599): the poets’ poet; non-dramatic poet of伊丽莎白时代- long allegorical romance文风：a perfect melody, a rare sense of beauty and a splendid imagination. The Shepherd CalendarThe Faerie Queen《仙后》：long poem for Queen Elizabeth; Allegory - nine-line verse stanza/ the Spenserian Stanza Spenserian Stanza(斯宾塞诗体): Nine lines, the first eight lines is in iambic(抑扬格) pentameter(五步诗),and the ninth line is an iambic hexameter(六步诗) line.2) Prose 散文a. Thomas More(莫尔1478-1535): 欧洲早期空想社会主义创始人Utopia《乌托邦》: More与海员的对话b. John Lyly (黎里1553-160，剧作家&小说家)：EupheusEuphuism(夸饰文体): Abundant use of balanced sentences, alliterations(头韵) and other artificial prosodic(韵律) means.The use of odd similes(明喻) and comparisonsc. Francis Bacon (培根1561-1626)：英国首位散文家，中世纪至现代欧洲时期; 近代唯物主义哲学奠基人和近代实验科学先驱the trumpeter of a new age;Essays(论说文集)：Of Studies, Of Love, Of Beauty: the first true English prose classic3) 戏剧a. Christopher Marlowe(马洛1564-1593): University Wits 大学才子派Edward II；The Jew of Malta《马耳他的犹太人》first made blank verse(无韵诗：不押韵的五步诗) the principle instrument of English dramaThe Tragical History of Doctor Faustus《浮士德博士的悲剧》：根据德国民间故事书写成; 完善了无韵体诗。

专八英美文学常识

英美文学1. William Faulkner is the author of ______.A. Far From the Modeling CrowdB. Sound and FuryC. For Whom the Bell TollsD. Scarlet Letter1. Robert Frost is a famous ______.A. novelistB. playwrightC. poetD. literary critic3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ______A. Jack LondonB. Charles DickensC. Samuel Coleridge DEmest Hemingway4. Which of the following poets is different from the others?A. John Donne.B. John Keats.C. Lord Byron.D. Percy Bysshe Shelley.5. Which of the following is not written by William Shakespeare?A. Othello.B. The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus.C. Romeo and Juliet.D. The Twelfth Night.6. Beowulf narrates a story taking place in ______.A. the MediterraneanB. Northern EuropeC. EnglandD. Scandinavia7. ______ refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.A. AllegoryB. ConflictC. IronyD. Flashback8. William Wordsworth is an English _____.A. poetB. novelistC. playwrightD. critic9. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is ______.A. NatureB. WaldenC. ExperienceD. Essays10. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT ______.A. DublinersB. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManC. Jude the ObscureD. Ulysses11. The Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT ______.A. The Tenant of Wildfell HallB. Jane EyreC. Wuthering HeightsD. Agnes Grey12. In which novel can "Yahoo" be found?A. John Bunyan' s Pilgrim' s Progress.B. Edmund Spencer' s The Faerie Queen.C. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.D. Henry Fielding's Tom Jones.13. The Victorian Age was largely an age of ______, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A. pessimismB. naturalismC. modernismD. critical realism14. Mark Twain shaped the world' s view of America and made a combination of ______ andserious literature.A. American folk humorB. funny jokesC. English folkloreD. American values15. Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War?A. Fennimore Cooper.B. Nathaniel Hawthorn.C. Walt Whitman.D. Washington Irving.16. Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by ______.A. Christopher MarlowB. John MiltonC. William ShakespeareD. Ben Jonson17. Have a Dream is addressed by ______.A. Abraham LincolnB. John F. KennedyC. Martin Luther KingD. Ralph Waldo Emerson18. Which of the following is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson?A. This is my letter to the world.B. heard a fly buzz — when I died.C. This is just to say.D. Because I could not stop/or death.19. Eugene 0' Neil is an American ______.A. novelistB. playwrightC. poetD. essayist20. The Romantic Age in England came to an end with the death of ______.A. Jane AustinB. Walter ScottC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. William Wordsworth21. In the works of such aesthetics as ______ and Walter Pater, the theory of "art for art's sake" is advocated.A. Oscar WildeB. Mrs. GaskellC. Alexander PopeD. Charles Lamb22. Works by ______ are characterized by stream-of-consciousness.A. George EliotB. Jane AustenC. Emily BronteD. Virginia Woolf23. Who of the followings is a playwright of the "theater of absurd" ?A. John Osbom.B. Wystan Hugh Auden.C. Bernard Shaw.D. Samuel Beckett.24. The period from 1865—1914 has been referred to as the ______ in the literary history of the United States.A. Age of RealismB. Age of ClassicalismC. Age of RomanticismD. Age of Renaissance25. With "Collected Poems" , ______won the second Pulitzer Prize.A. Ezra PondB. e. e. cummingsC. Robert FrostD. William Cullen Bryant26. ______ belongs to the second period in Shakespeare' s three stages of writing career.A. The Merchant of VeniceB. Love' s Labor LostC. HamletD. The Tempest27. Grass is a poem written by ______.A. Walt WhitmanB. Carl SandburgC. Langston HughesD. Alien Ginsberg28. William Makepeace Thackeray' s most famous work is ______.A. The School for ScandalB. Past and PresentC. Major BarbaraD. Vanity Fair29. Dover Beach is written by ______.A. Robert BrowningB. Alfred TennysonC. Mathew ArnoldD. Dylan Thomas30. The period of Old English literature refers to ______.A. about 450 — 1066B. 14th century — mid-17th centuryC. 14th century — mid-ISA centuryD. 16th century — mid-18th century31. Moby Dick is the most important work by ______.A. Jack LondonB. Herman MelvilleC. Sinclair LewisD. Ralph Ellison32. 0. Henry earned his fame mainly for his ______.A. novelsB. poemsC. short storiesD. dramas33. Francis Bacon' s ______ is a great essay on education.A. The Advancement of LearningB. The Importance of Being EarnestC. The New AtlanticD. The Learned Reading upon the Statute of Uses34. ______ is NOT a novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald.A. Tender Is the NightB. Anna ChristieC. The Beautiful and DammedD. The Great Gatsby35. The American literature in modem period is divided into two parts by the event ofA. the expatriate movementB. the Great DepressionC. the First World WarD. the Second World War36. Which of the following novels does NOT belong to Dreiser' s Trilogy of DesirefA. The Titan.B. The Financier.C. The "Genius".D. The Stoic.37. The followings are all Dickens' works EXCEPT______.A. Oliver TwistB. Moll FlandersC. Great ExpectationsD. Bleak House38. It is generally regarded that Keats' s most important and mature poems are in the form ofA. odeB. elegyC. epicD. sonnet39. The 1954 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to ______ for his "mastery of the artof modem narration".A. William FaulknerB. John SteinbeckC. Saul BellowD. Ernest Hemingway40. Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of ______ work.A. romanticB. classicC. neo-classicD. naturalistic41. Who is the father of English poetry?A. Shakespeare.B. Edmund Spencer.C. John Milton.D. Geoffrey Chaucer.42. The Octopus is written by ______.A. Frank NorrisB. Sherwood AndersonC. Willa GatherD. Stephen Crane43. James Baldwin' s most famous short story is ______.A. A Rose/or EmilyB. The Story of an HowC. Sonny's BluesD. A Clean, Well-lighted Place44. John Galsworthy won the 1932 Nobel Price for his work ______.A. UlyssesB. Hard. TimesC. The Forsyte SagaD. Jude the Obscure45. Which of the following poems is NOT written by George Gordon Byron?A. She Walks in Beauty.B. The Solitary Reaper.C. When We Two Parted.D. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.46.______wrote several novels with the name of "Rabbit".A. Arthur MillerB. Thomas PynchonC. John UpdikeD. Wallace Stevens47. The Road Not Taken is a poem written by ______.A. Robert FrostB. LongfellowC. Ezra PondD. Carl Sandburg48. "God help them that help themselves" is found in ______' s work.A. FranklinB. FreneauC. JeffersonD. Paine49. T. S. Eliot' s most famous long poem is ______.A. The Love Song of J. Alfred Pru/rockB. A Boy's WillC. The Waste LandD. The Golden Bough50. ______ is often credited with writing the first true " novel of incident".A. John BanyanB. Henry FieldingC. Samuel RichardsonD. Daniel Defoe51. Daisy Miller is a great work by ______.A. Henry JamesB. Mark TwainC. DreiserD. Stowe52. Hester is a character in ______.• A. Cone with the Wind B. The Fall of the House of UsherC. BabbittD. Scarlet Letter53. Jack London' s ______ is his patently autobiographical novel.A. The Call of the WildB. The Sea WolfC. Martin EdenD. The Iron Heel54. William Golding' s first and most well-known novel is ______.A. Coral IslandB. Lord of the FliesC. Treasure IslandD. The Brass Butterfly55. "To be, or not to be" is quoted from ______.A. King Lear BHamletC. Julius CaesarD. Romeo and Juliet56. The first book of the Old Testament is called ______.A. ExodusB. NumbersC. LeviticusD. Genesis57. The black man Jim is a character in Mark Twain' s ______.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Life on the MississippiD. The Prince and the Pauper58. 0 Captain} My Captain\ was written in memory of ______.A. Walt WhitmanB. Benjamin FranklinC. Abraham LincolnD. Martin Luther King59. Which of the following works is NOT written by D. H. Lawrence?A. Women in Love.B. Sores and Lovers.C. The Rainbow.D. The French Lieutenant' s Woman.60. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ______ and ______ centuries.A. 14th/mid-17thB. 14th/mid-18thC. 16th/mid-18thD. 16th/mid-17th61. The Crapes of Wrath is the masterpiece of ______.A. John SteinbeckB. John CheeverC. John UpdikeD. John DOS Passes62. _____ is NOT a play written by Tennessee Williams.A. Cat on a Hot Tin RoofB. The Class MenagerieC. Light in AugustD. A Streetcar Named Desire63. Robert Bums is a poet from ______.A. EnglandB. New EnglandC. IrelandD. Scotland64. Look Back in Anger is a play written by ______.A. John OsbomeB. Samuel BeckettC. Edward AlbeeD. Eugene O'Neil65. ______ is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A. RomanceB. NovelC. SonnetD. Drama66. Seize the Day is regarded the best novel written by ______.A. Flannery 0'ConnerB. Saul BellowC. Ralph EllisonD. Sherwood Anderson67. ______ is NOT among the postwar poets in modem American literature.A. Robert LowellB. Gary SynderC. Alien GinsbergD. e. e. cummings68. William Blake' s The Tiger is collected in ______.A. Songs of InnocenceB. Songs of ExperienceC. Marriage of Heaven and HellD. Poetical Sketches69. The image of the famous "henpecked husband" is created by ______.A. Washington IrvingB. Fennimore CooperC. Edith Wharton D William Dean Howells70. ______ is known as "the poet' s poet".A. ShakespeareB. MarloweC. SpenserD. Donne71. The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be ______.A. O'NeilB. PoundC. Robert FrostD. Scott Fitzgerald72. ______was the most important person of the transcendental club.A. HawthornB. WhitmanC. EmersonD. Thoreau73. Shylock is a character in ______.A. The Merchant of VeniceB. The Twelfth NightC. The Winter's TaleD. Macbeth74. The compiler of A Dictionary of the English Language is ______.A. Joseph AddisonB. Richard SteeleC. Samuel JohnsonD. Laurence Stem75. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following EXCEPTA. religionB. love and marriageC. life and deathD. war and peace76. American fiction in the 1960s and 1970s proves different from its predecessors. It is referred to as ______.A. imagismB. black humorC. new fictionD. the Beat Generation77. Together with Lawrence and Joyce, ______ is considered one of the three giants ot the modem English novel and a master of English prose.A. Henry JamesB. Joseph ConradC. E. M. ForsterD. Aldous Huxley78. This line "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" is quoted from ______.A. Don Juan C Kubia KhanC. To AutumnD. Ode to the West Wind79. Stephen Crane is famous for ______.A. An American TragedyB. The AmbassadorsC. Main StreetD. The Red Badge of Courage80. "Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay". What is the figure oi this speech?A. Hyperbole.B. Simile.C. Metaphor.D. Synecdoche.81. ______ has won the Pulitzer Prize four times and Nobel Prize.A. Ernest HemingwayB. John SteinbeckC. Eugene 0' NeilD. William Faulkner82. Golden Notebook is a feminist novel written by ______.A. Amy TanB. Doris LessingC. Flannery 0' ConnorD. Kate Chopin83. Which of the following poems is written by W. H. Auden?A. Sailing to ByzantiumB. To an Athlete Dying YoungC. Musee des Beaux ArtsD. Church Going84. Beloved is the masterpiece of ______.A. Tony MorrisonB. Ralph EllisonC. John DOS PassesD. Willa Gather85.______, the author of The Interpretation of Dreams has great impact on literary creation and criticism.A. Carl JungB. Jean-Paul SartreC. Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheD. Sigmund Freud86. Henry Fielding is the author of the great 18th century English novel, ______.A. The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingB. PamelaC. Moll FlandersD. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy87. Tess is a character created by ______.A. D. H. LawrenceB. James JoyceC. Thomas HardyD. Dylan Thomas88. The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer' s day" is quoted from Shakespe-A. comediesB. tragediesC. historiesD. sonnets89. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?A. To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.B. To put the stress on traditional values.C. To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.D. To advocate a conscious break with the past.90. In A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, John Donne compares the lovers ' souls to ______.A. two rosesB. two circlesC. sun and moonD. twin compasses91. Utopia is ______' s work.A. Thomas MoreB. Francis BaconC. John DrydenD. George Herbert92. One of the Prime Ministers of Britain has won the Nobel Prize for literature, and that is ______.A. Margaret ThatcherB. Tony BlairC. Winston ChurchillD. John Major93. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" is an epigrammatic line by ______.A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe Shelley94. Whitman' s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ______.A. a strict poetic formB. a simple and conversational languageC. a free and natural rhythmic patternD. an easy flow of feelings95. Who initiated the name of the Lost Generation?A. Hemingway.B. Fitzgerald.C. Gertrude Stein.D. William Faulkner.96. My Last Duchess is a monologue poem written by ______.A. William ShakespeareB. Robert BrowningC. Ben JonsonD. Robert Herrick97. The high tide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around ______.A. 1820B. 1850C. 1880D. 192098. The title of Alfred Tennyson' s poem "Ulysses" reminds the reader of the following EXCEPT______.A. the Trojan WarB. Homer's OdysseyC. adventures over the seaD. religious quest99. As a literary figure, Heathcliff appears in ______.A. Jane EyreB. Oliver TwistC. Wuthering HeightsD. Middlemarch100. The publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of the New England Transcendentalism.A. NatureB. Self-RelianceC. The Over-SoulD. The American Scholar101. ______ is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.A. Richard SheridanB. Oliver GoldsmithC. Oscar WildeD. Bernard Shaw102. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ______.A. Ezra PoundB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Robert FrostD. Emily Dickinson103. The success of Jane Eyre is partly due to its introduction to the English novel the first ______ heroine.A. explorerB. peasantC. workerD. governess104. ______ is the representative work of the Beat Generation.A. The Great CatshyB. On the RoadC. Look Back in AngerD. The Sun Also Rises105. Emily Grierson is a literary figure created by ______.A. Willa GatherB. Doris LessingC. William FaulknerD. Nathaniel Hawthorn106. The most significant idea of the Renaissance is ______.A. humanismB. realismC. naturalismD. skepticism107. The title of Thackeray' s "Vanity Fair" is taken from __A. The Holy BibleB. The Faerie QueenC. The Pilgrim' s ProgressD. Paradise Lost108. Mr. Micawber in David Coppeifield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps I best ______ characters created bv Charles Dickens.A. comicB. tragicC. roundD. sophisticated109. Thomas Pynchon can also be categorized as a Black Humor writer, as well as ______ writer.A. classicalB. transcendentalC. postmodernist D realistic110. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is written by ______.A. Ben JonsonB. Thomas GrayC. William WordsworthD. William Blake111. Who is considered the father of American poetrv?A. Philip Freneau.B. William Cullen Bryant.C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. D Henry David Thoreau.112. In America,there is "a little woman started a great war". Who is she?A. Anne BradstreetB. Harriet Beecher StoweC. Edith WhartonD. Catharine Anne Porter113. Waiting/or Godot is a ______.A. poemB. playC. short storyD. novel114. Which of the following poets has once won the Nobel Prize?A. William Butler Yeats.B. Thomas Hardy.C. Wystan Hugh Auden.D. Dylan Thomas.115. ______ is NOT written by Edgar Allan Poe.A. The RavenB. Annabel LeeC. The Fall of the House of UsherD. Song to Celia116. Arthur Miller is an American ______.A. novelistB. poetC. playwrightD. essayist117. Mr. Darcy is a character in ______.A. Tess of the D' UrbervillesB. Pride and PrejudiceC. Happy PrinceD. The Mill on the Floss118. Iceberg Theory is a writing principle proposed and closely followed by ______.A. Jack LondonB. Sinclair LewisC. William FaulknerD. Ernest Hemingway119. ______ is featured by black humor.A. CaricatureB. Catch-22C. The Catcher in the Rye C. Death of a Salesman120. Who is the only woman writer that has won both Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize?A. Pearl Buck.B. Virginia Woolf.C. Tony Morrison.D. Katharine Mansfield.。

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Old English Literature 古英语文学（450-1066 年）Beowulf （贝奥武甫）---The first English national epic中世纪英语文学（1066-1500）Geoffrey Chaucer (乔叟，c. 1343–1400)was an English poet. He is remembered for his Theture 英―国文学之父‖Canterbury Tales 《坎特伯雷故事集》, called the father of English literaWilliam Langland (朗格兰，1330?-1400?),the author of the 14th-century English long narrative poem Piers Plowman《农夫皮尔斯》文艺复兴（16-17 世纪）William Shakespeare (莎士比亚，1564-1616), English poet and playwright, his surviving.《维拉斯和works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems Venus and Adonis阿多尼斯》The Rape of Lucrece. 《鲁克丽丝受辱记》Shakespeare ‘s greatest works:greatest tragedies are King Lear 《李尔王》,Macbeth《麦克白》,Hamlet《哈姆雷特》, Othello 《奥赛罗》,Romeo and Juliet 《罗密欧与朱丽叶》‘s Dre《am仲夏夜之梦》,As You Like It 《皆大欢喜》great comedies: A Midsumme r NightMerchant of Venice 《威尼斯商人》,The《第十二夜》, Twelfth Night《理查三世》,Henry IV 《亨利四世》, Henry V 《亨利五great historical plays: Richard III世》, Henry VII John Milton 《亨利八世》( 弥尔顿, 1608-1674)was an English poet and civil servant for theCommonwealth of England. He is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost 《失乐园》, Paradise Regained《复乐园》Samson 《力士参孙》.18 世纪文学和新古典主义Alexander Pope (浦柏,1688-1744 )is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the eighteenth century, best known for his satirical epigram 讽刺隽语and heroic couplet 英雄双韵体.His major works include mock epic satirical poem An Essay on Manon Criticism 《论批评》《人论》and An Essay Daniel Defoe ( 笛福，1660—1731) was an English writer who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe 《鲁滨逊漂流记》, spokesman for middle-class peopleHenry Fielding ( 菲尔丁, 1707 ---1754) ，an English novelist known for his novel:The History of Tom Jones.Jonathan Swift ( 斯威夫特,1667-1745) , was an Anglo-Irish novelist, satirist. He is rememberedfor novel such as Gulliver‘s Tr a《v e格ls列佛游记》.Richard Sheridan ( 谢立丹，1751—1816) , Irish playwright ,known for his satirical play School of Scandal( 造谣学校). He was a represntative writer of Comedies of Manners.Laurence Sterne (斯特恩,1713—1768 ), an English novelist. He is best known for his novel Tristram Shandy （《商第传》）.Oliver Goldsmith （哥尔德斯密斯，1728-1774 ）English novelist, known for his novel Vicar ofWakefield ( 《威克菲尔德牧师传记》)Thomas Gray (托马斯?格雷1716—1771 )，an English poet, author of Elegy Writtenin a Country Churchyard（《墓畔哀歌》）, writer of sentimentalism感伤派.浪漫主义（18 世纪末19 世纪初）William Blake (1757 –1827) was an English poet, best known for his poetical collections of Songof Innocence 《天真之歌》and Song of Experience 《经验之歌》.William Wordsworth (1770-1850),a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads《抒情歌谣集》.Wordsworth?s magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude《序曲》.Samuel Taylor Coleridge( 柯勒律治, 1772 –1834) was an English poet who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and oneof the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 《古舟子颂》and Kubla Khan 《忽必烈汗》George Gordon Byron (拜伦，1788—1824 ) was a English poet and a leading figure in Romanticism.Amongst Byron?s best-known works are his narrative poems Childe Harold?s Pilgrimage 《哈罗尔德游记》and Don Juan《唐璜》Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets in the English language. He is perhaps most famous for Ode to the West Wind 《西风颂》, To a Skylark《致云雀》, Prometheus Unbound《解放了的普罗米修斯》.Mary Shelley ( 玛丽? 雪莱1797 –1851) was a British novelist best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein 《弗兰肯斯坦》, considered as first science fictionJohn Keats ( 济慈, 1795—1821) was an English poet who became one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. His masterpieces such as Ode on a Grecian Urn 《希腊古瓮颂》and Ode to a Nightingale 《夜莺颂》浪漫主义时期小说家Jane Austen (1775 —1817) , was an English novelist. Her major novels include Sense and Sensibility ( 《理智与情感》), Pride and Prejudice ( 《傲慢与偏见》), Emma ( 《爱玛》). Walter Scott ( 司各特, 1771---1832), a prolific Scottish historical novelist . His major works is Ivanhoe《艾凡赫》Realism 现实主义时期（V ictorian Age 维多利亚时期1837-1901）, 1818 –1848) and Bronte sisters 勃朗宁姐妹, Charlotte ( 夏洛蒂, 1816 –1855), Emily ( 艾米丽Anne (安妮, 1820 –1849), were English writers of t he 1840s and 1850s. Charlotte?s Jane Eyre 《简爱》, Emily ‘s Wuthering Heights《呼啸山庄》and Anne's Agnes Grey《艾格妮斯·格雷》are masterpieces of English literature.George Elliot ( 乔治-爱略特，1819—1880 ) was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England. Her major novelsinclude:The Mill on the Floss 《佛洛斯河上的磨坊》 Middlemarch 《米德尔玛契》 .Charles Dickens (1812 –1870) ：one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian era. His《双城记》 ,Oliver Twist 《奥利弗退斯特》 major novels include: A Tale of Two Cities ,DavidCopperfield 《大卫科波菲尔德》 , Great Expectation 《远大前程》 , Hard Times 《艰难时世》Makepeace Thackeray (萨克雷， 1811— 1863) was an English novelist of the 19thWilliam century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair 《名利场》Mrs. Gaskell ( 盖斯凯尔夫人 , 1810-1865) was an English novelist during the Victorian era. Hermajor novels include: Mary Barton 《玛丽 ? 巴顿》Thomas Hardy( 哈代 , 1840 –1928) , an English novelist of the naturalism 自然主义 . His majornovels include: Tess of the d?Urbervilles 《德伯家的苔丝》 Far from the Madding Crowd 《远离尘嚣》 Jude the Obscure. 《无名的裘德》现实主义时期诗歌Most of his novels are set in Wessex （威塞克斯） .Robert Browning ( 布朗宁 , 1812 –1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery ofdramatic monologues 戏剧独白 , made him one of the foremostdramatic verse, especially Victorian poets.Alfred Tennyson ( 丁尼生， 1809 –1892) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and remainsone of the most popular English poets. Tennyson excelled at penning short lyrics, including"Break, break, break"Oscar Wilde ( 王尔德 , 1854 –1900)唯美主义 (art for art ‘为s s 了a 艺k e 术而艺playwright and one novel, known for his aestheticism 术). His major plays include The Importance of Being Earnest The Picture of Dorian Gray 《道林 -格雷的画像》20 世纪和现代主义Bernard Shaw (萧伯纳 , 1856-1950), an Irish playwright, literature in the 20th century. He adhered to the tradition of 《不可儿戏》 ; His major novel is the greatest dramatist in Englishrealism, writing plays as a way todiscuss social problems. He won Nobel Prize for literature in 1925. His major plays include, MrsWarren ‘ s Profess i 《on 华伦夫人的情人》 , Major Barbara 《芭芭拉少校》 , Pygmalion 《皮革马力翁》 and Saint Joan 《圣女贞德》John Galsworthy ( 高尔斯华绥 , 1867-1933) one of the most important novelists in the Early 20thcentury ， a Nobel Prize winner. His major works is Forsyte Saga 《福尔赛世家》 which comprisesthree novels:The Man of Property 《有产业的人》 , In Chancery 《衡平法院》 To Let 《出租》Joseph Conrad (康拉德 , 1857-1932) Conrad was born in Poland and an English novelist. Hismajor novels include Lord Jim 《吉姆爷》 and The Heart of Darkness 《黑暗的心》 .James Joyce (乔伊斯 , 1882-1941): An Irish born novelist, known for the technique of thestream of consciousness. His main works: Ulysses 《尤利西斯》 ;A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ; 《青年艺术家的肖像》夜祭》 Dubliners 《都柏林人》Finnegan ‘ s W a ; k 《e 芬尼根彻E. M. Forster （福斯特 , 1879-1970 ） an English novelist, A Passage to India 《印度之行》T.S. Eliot (T.S. 艾略特 , 1888-1965) ：American poet, best known for his poem The Waste Land《荒原》 , 1948 Nobel Prize winner for literature.David Herbert Lawrence (D.H. 劳伦斯 , 1885-1930), an English novelist. His most importantnovels are, Rainbow 《彩虹》 of consciousness 意识流 .and Sons and Lovers 《儿子与情人》 . He is the founder of streamWilliam Butler Yeats ( 叶芝 , 1865-1939) an Irish poet and awarded Nobel Prize for literature in1923. His major poems include Sailing to Byzantium 《驶向拜占庭》和天鹅》 .and Leda and Swan 《利达Samuel Beckett ( 贝克特， 1906-1989) , an Irish dramatist and Nobel Prize winner for Literature.His masterpiece is Waiting for Godot 《等待戈多》 . He is the exponent of the theatre of the absurd荒诞派戏剧 .Iris Jean Murdoch (默多克 , 1919-1999) , English female Black Prince 《黑王子》 , The Sea, the Sea 《大海啊，大海》 novelist, her major novels includeand Unicorn 《独角兽》Doris Lessing ( 莱辛 , 1919--) is a British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass isSinging. In 2007, Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature.Muriel Spark （斯帕克 , 1918-2006）English female novelist, best known for her novel The Primeof Miss Jean Brodie (1961) 《布罗迪小姐的青春》Virginia Woolf (伍尔夫 , 1882-1941) Woolf is important female novelists. Her major works Lighthouse 《向灯塔去》 .美国文学殖民地革命时期Benjamin Franklin ( 富兰克林 , 1706-1790): an exponent of modernism and one of the mostinclude Mrs. Dalloway 《达洛威夫人》 , To theone of American founding fathers ( 建国之父 )Autobiography 《自传》 Poor Richard ‘ s Almana 《ck 穷人理查历书》 Major works: Jonathan Edwards ( 爱德华兹， 1703 –1758) was a colonial theologian and writer. His work isoften associated with the Puritan heritage. His famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an AngryGod," 《落在忿怒之神手中的罪人》 is credited for starting the First Great Awakening.Thomas Pain (潘恩 , 1737-1809) :British （1776 ）works: Common Sense 《常识》pamphleteer. Major Federalists P ’a p e rs 《联邦党人文集》 Madison 曼迪逊浪漫主义时期Romantic Period （ 1790-1865 ）：Earlier Romantic Period (1790-1830)Romantic Heyday (1830-1865)Earlier Romantic Period:Washington Irving (1783-1859)Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)汉密尔顿 John Jay 杰伊 James: Alexander HamiltonWashington Irving ( 华盛顿? 欧文, 1783-1859): American romantic novelist. He was bestknown for his short stories―The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ‖and―Rip V a h n i cW h inkle‖, both of w appear in his book The Sketch Book 《见闻札记》. Irving is the first American writer who gainedinternational fame.James Fenimore Cooper ( 库珀, 1789-1851): American romantic novelist , best remembered forhis Leatherstocking Tales 《皮袜子故事》(The Pioneer《拓荒者》, Deer Slayer《猎鹿者》,Pathfinder《探路人》, Prairie《大草原》, The Last of the Mohicans《最后的莫西干人》) featuringfrontiersman Natty Bumppo.2) Romantic Heyday (1830-1865):Waldo Ralph EmersonHenry David ThoreauWalt WhitmanEmily DickinsonNathaniel HawthorneHerman MelvilleHarriet Beecher StoweEdgar Allan PoeTranscendentalists（超验主义）:Waldo Ralph EmersonHenry David ThoreauWalt WhitmanWalt Whitman ( 惠特曼，1819-1882): American romantic poet, father of free verse( 自由诗) , bestknown for his collection of poems Leaves of Grass 《草叶集》Waldo Ralph Emerson ( 爱默生，1803-1882): leader of the transcendentalism, his essay Nature《论自然》is the manifesto of transcendentalism. his another essay The American Scholar 《美国学者》is considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence ‖.Henry David Thoreau ( 梭罗, 1817–1862) : American romantic writer best known for his bookWalden《瓦尔登湖》, a reflection upon simple living.Herman for his novelMelville (麦尔维尔, 1819–1891) : American novelist,best knownMoby-Dick 《白鲸》Hawthorne ( 霍桑, 1804–1864):Nathaniel American novelist, best known for his fourromances(传奇小说):The Scarlet Letter 《红字》The House of the Seven Gables 《七个尖尖角的房子》The Blithedale Romance 《福谷传奇》The Marble Faun 《玉石人像》Emily Dickinson (狄金森，1830 –1886)American poetess, whose poetry are concerned with life,death and immortality.Harriet Beecher Stowe ( 斯托尔夫人, 1811–1896American female novelist,whose novel Uncle Tom?s Cabin (1852) 《汤姆叔叔的小屋》attacked the cruelty of slavery. )Realism 现实主义Mark novelist. most noted for his novels The Twain ( 马克?吐温1835 –1910), AmericanAdventures of Tom Sawyer（《汤姆索亚历险记》）and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 《哈克贝恩历险记》Life on the Mississippi River 《密西西比河上的生活》《亚瑟王朝的康涅狄克州的美国佬》Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur?s CourtThe Gilded Age 《镀金时代》Henry James (亨利?詹姆斯1843-1916),American realist novelist, founder of international novel（国际题材小说）Important works:The American 《美国人》The Europeans 《欧洲人》The Portrait of a Lady 《贵妇画像》The Wings of the Dove 《鸽冀》The Ambassadors 《大使》The Golden Bowl 《金碗》was the pen name of American novelist William Sydney Porter (1862O. Henry 欧亨利–1910). O. Henry?s short stories are well known for his short stories such as Cop and Anthem (《警察和赞美诗》) and Gift of Magie ( 《麦琪的礼物》)William Dean Howells (豪威尔斯, 1837 –1920) was an American realist novelist and literary critic. Major works include The Rise of Silas Lapham 《赛拉斯? 拉帕姆的发迹》Theodore Dreiser (德莱塞, 1871–1945) American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for his novels Sister Carrie 《嘉莉妹妹》and An American Tragedy 《美国悲剧》and his desire trilogy 《欲望三部曲》:The Financier 《金融家》The Titan 《巨头》The Stoic 《斯多葛》American Naturalist （自然主义）1) Stephen Crane 克莱恩2) Frank Norris 诺里斯3) Jack London 杰克-伦敦1) Stephen Crane ( 克莱恩, 1871–1900)was an American novelist.He won international acclaimfor his 1895 Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage 《红色的英勇勋章》.2) Frank Norris ( 诺瑞斯1870–1902)American novelist.His notable works include McTeague《麦克提格》, The Octopus《章鱼》3)Jack London ( 杰克? 伦敦, 1876–1916)American novelist,known for his novel Martin Eden《马丁? 伊登》, The Call of the Wild 《野性的呼唤》.20 世纪和现代主义-诗歌T.S. Eliot (T.S. 艾略特, 1888-1965) ：American poet, best known for his poem The Waste Land《荒原》, 1948 Nobel Prize winner for literature.Ezra Pound（庞德）: American imagist poet 意象派诗人, major poems include Cantos 《诗章》,Hugh Selwyn Maubery ( 莫伯里), Cathay (《华夏》translation of ancient Chinese poems)Robert Frost (弗罗斯特, 1874 –1963) American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life in New England and his command of American colloquialspeech. Hiswork was first recognized in England and then in America.Wallace Stevens（斯蒂文斯, 1879-1955）American poet, best known for his poem Anecdote forthe Jar and his emphasis on Imagination.Allen Ginsberg ( 金斯伯格, 1926-1997), American poet of Beat Generation ( 垮掉的一代), bestknown for his poem How―l‖《嚎》Ernest Hemingway (海明威, 1899—1961) American novelist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation". He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Major works:The Sun also Rises 《太阳照样升起》A Farewell to Arms 《永别了-武器》The Old Man and the Sea《老人与海》For Whom the Bell Tolls 《丧钟为谁而鸣》―Meditation XVII ‖, an essay by metaphysical poet John D多o n恩ne―any man's death dim inishes me, because I am involved in mankind,and therefore never send to‖know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.Fitzgerald ( 菲茨杰拉德, 1896 –1940) American writer of novels, whose works are evocative ofthe Jazz Age. Fitzgerald is considered a memb er of the―Lost Generation ―. Most important works is The Great Gatsby 《了不起的盖茨比》which represents the destruction of American dream.Lost Generation 迷惘的一代:The 'Lost Generation' is a phrase made popular by American author Ernest Hemingway in his firstpublished novel The Sun Also Rises. Figures identified with the "Lost Generation" includeauthors and poets Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, John Dos Passos.William Faulkner 福克纳: American novelist, winner of Nobel Prize for literature. Most of hisworks was set in an imaginary location named Yoknapatawpha. Major works include:The Sound and the Fury 《喧哗与骚动》Sartoris《家族小说》Go Down, Moses 《去吧，莫西》Light in August 《八月之光》Absalom, Absalom! 《押沙龙，押沙龙！》Sanctuary 《圣地》John Steinbeck (斯坦贝克, 1902 –1968) American novelist, Nobel Prize winner. He is known forhis novel The Grapes of Wrath 《愤怒的葡萄》Saul Bellow（贝缕, 1915-2005）American novelist, Nobel Prize winner, best known for hisnovel such as The Adventures of AugieMarch, 《奥吉?玛其历险记》Herzog, Seize the Day,Humboldt's GiftJames Baldwin （鲍德温, 1924-1987 ）, black American novelist, best known for his novel Go Tell It on the Mountain 《向苍天呼吁》.Ralph Ellison （艾里森, 1913-1994 ）, black American novelist, best known for his The Invisible Man 《看不见的人》black American novelist, best known for his Roots 《根》Alex Harley (1936-1969),Toni Morrison( 莫里森, 1931-) Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize-winning female American n ovelist. among the best known are her novels The Bluest Eye 《最蓝的眼睛》and Beloved 《宠儿》.20 世纪戏剧家Eugene O‘Neil （尤金-奥尼尔, 1888-1953 ）American playwright, Nobel Prize winner, best known for his Long Day‘s Journey Into Nigh《t 长夜漫漫路迢迢》, Beyond the Horizon 《天边外》，The Hairy Ape 《毛猿》Arthur Miller （亚瑟-米勒,1915-2005 ）,American playwright, best known for his The Death of Salesman《推销员之死》Edward Albee (阿尔比1928---) is an American playwright best known for Who?s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?( 《谁怕弗吉尼亚伍尔夫》). His early works reflect a Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd 荒诞派that found its peak in works by Irish playwrights such as Samuel Beckett 贝克特.。

专八英美文学常识整理(综合版)

British Literature1.450-1066Old Englisha)Beowulf(7th-8th)头韵alliteration1.Pagan heroism&Fatalism&Christian2.Poem3.Scene:Denmark2.1066-1485Medieval Age French/Latina)Caedmon(610-680)the earliest English poet1.Caedmon’s Hymnb)Bede(673-735)Father of Historiography英国史学之父1.Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorumc)King Alfred(848-901)Wessex Father of English Prose1.Anglo-Saxon Chronicled)William Langland(1332-1400)1.Piers the Plowmane)Geoffrey Chaucer(1343-1400)Father of English Poetry;1st to use Heroic Couplet英雄双行体;Poet of Westminster Abbey1.The Canterbury Tales24stories2.The Romaunt of the Rose翻译的发过作品3.The Legend of good Women4.The House of Famef)The Gawain-Poet(无名诗人)1.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight(1360-1370)头韵alliterationg)Sir Thomas Malory(1405-1471)1.Le Morte d’Arthur(The Death of Arthur)(1470)第一部关于亚瑟王传奇故事的英语散文作品3.14th-17th Renaissance Humanism;Poetry&Poeticdramaa)Thomas More(1478-1535)Humanist1.Utopiab)Philip Sidney(1554-1586)the complete man1.Astrophel and Stella被认为是伊丽莎白时代除莎士比亚外最好的十四行诗2.The Defence of Poesie(or Apology for Poetry)最早英语散文之一c)Edmund Spenser(1552-1599)Poet’s poet;Spenserian Stanza1.The Faerie Queene Allegorical work dedicated to Queen ElizabethⅠ2.The Shepherd Calendard)Francis Bacon(1561-1626)唯物主义；现代科学；1st English essayist1.Essays58篇2.The Advancement of Learning3.The New Instrumente)Christopher Marlowe(1564-1593)greatest of the pioneers of English Drama;most gifted ofthe“university wits”;blank verse1.Tamburlaine人性对权力的渴求2.Te Tragical History of Doctor Faustus人性对知识、幸福的渴求f)William Shakespeare(1564-1616)Ben Johnson:was not of an age,but for all timei.154sonnets:first126addressed to the young nobleman;later28to Dark Ladyii.4tragedies:Hamlet;King Lear;Othello;Macbethedies:A Midsummer Night’s DreamAs you like itMerchant of VeniceTwelfth NightMuch Ado About Nothing无事生非The Taming of the Shrew驯悍记iv.Tragicomedy:Romeo and Julietv.Chronicle Play:1.亨利六、四、五、八世2.理查德三、二世3.凯撒4.Cleopatra克莉奥帕特拉vi.Miracle Play:1.Pericles2.Cymbeline3.The Winter’s Tale4.The Tempestg)Ben Johnson(1572-1637)Forerunner of classicism;first Poet Laureate1.Every Man in His Humour个性互异2.Song:To Celia英语中最有名的爱情诗之一3.Volpone4.The Alchemist炼金术士h)John Donne(1572-1631)Metaphysical school of poetry奇特的比喻1.Songs and Sonnets best known poem collection;Love主题2.The Flea3.The Sun Rising4.The Holy Sonnets5.Death,Be Not Proud6.Go and Catch a Falling Star7.A Valediction:Forbidding Mourningi)John Milton(1608-1674)1st to use blank verse in non-dramatic works1.Paradise Lost12books;from Old Testment;a revolt against God’s authority2.Paradise Regained New Testment;how Christ overcame Santa3.Samson Agonistes poetical drama;Book of Judges士师记4.Defence of the English people5.Second Defence of the English People4.Mid17th-18th Neoclassical Period early17th:Age of Milton;late17th:Age ofDrydenPoetryMetaphysical poets:17th初受John Donne影响a)John Dryden(1631-1700)Father of English Criticism、桂冠诗人1.All for Love2.Alexander’s Feast3.An Essay of Dramatic Poesy使其成为当时最杰出的批评家b)John Bunyan(1628-1688)英国文学史上首位小说家1.The Pilgrim’s Progress成名作religious allegory与《神曲》（但丁）、《忏悔录》（奥古斯丁）并称为世界三大宗教题材文学杰作2.The Holy War3.The life and Death of Mr.Badmanc)Samuel Pepys(1633-1731)17th最伟大的diaristd)Daniel Defoe(1660-1731)Father of English and European novels现实主义小说代表作家1.Robison Crusoe2.A journal of the Plague year3.Captain Singletone)Jonathan Swift(1667-1745)以Satirical Prose闻名1.Gulliver’s Travel2.A Tale of a Tub3.A Modest proposal4.The Drapier’s lettersf)Alexander Pope(1688-1744)英雄双行体登峰造极1.An Essay on Criticism2.An Essay on Man3.The Rape of the Lock4.Odysseyg)Samuel Richardson(1689-1761)founder of the English domestic novel现实主义小说代表作家1.Pamela2.Clarissa3.The History of Sir Charles Grandisonh)Henry Fielding(1707-1754)现实主义小说先驱，现实注意理论奠基人1.Amelia2.The History of Tom Jones,a Foundling代表作，获称Prose Homer3.Joseph Andrewsi)Samuel Johnson(1709-1784)著名词汇家，第一部英语字典的编者1.A Dictionary of the English Language2.The Vanity of Human Wishes3.Londonj)Lawrence Sterne(1713-1768)k)Thomas Gray(1716-1771)1.Elegy Written in a country churchyard2.Ode on the springl)Oliver Goldsmith(1730-1774)1.The Vicar of Wakefield2.She Stoops to Conquerm)Richard Brinsley Sheridan(1751-1816)18世纪最伟大的剧作家1.The school for the scandal2.The Rivals5.Mid-18th–mid-19th Romantic Perioda)Robert Burns(1759-1796)苏格兰最伟大的诗人；前浪漫主义代表诗人1.A Red,Red Rose2.Auld Lang Syme3.The Tree of Liberty4.Holy Willie’s Praiser5.My Heart’s in the Highlands6.A Man’s A Man for A’That7.Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialectb)William Blake(1767-1827)19世纪浪漫主义先驱1.Songs of Experience2.Songs of Innocence3.Poetical Sketches4.The marriage of heaven and hellc)William Wordsworth(1770-1850)湖畔诗人最杰出代表；1843桂冠诗人1.Lyrical Ballads2.To the Cuckoo3.My Heart leaps upd)Walter Scott(1771-1832)Father of Historical NovelEdinburg1.Ivanhoe英国历史为背景2.Waverley3.The Black Dwarf4.Rob Roy苏格兰历史为背景5.Old Mortality6.Quentin Durward欧洲其他国家历史为背景7.The Lady of the Lake8.The Minstrlsy of the Scottish Bordere)Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834)湖畔诗人1.Kubla Khan忽必烈汗2.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner3.The Fall of the Bastille4.Christabelf)Robert Southey(1774-1843)湖畔诗人；1813桂冠诗人1.Joan of Arc圣女贞德2.The Battle of Blenheim3.My Days among the Dead Are Past4.Thalaba the Destroyer5.The Curse of Kehamag)Charles Lamb(1775-1834)散文家1.Tales from Shakespeare2.Essays of Elia3.New Year’s Eve4.The Praise of Chimney Sweepers5.Old Chinah)Jane Austen(1775-1817)1.Emma2.Sense and Sensibility3.Pride and Prejudice4.Mansfield Park5.Persuasioni)George Gordon Byron(1788-1824)1.Cain2.Don Juan3.Childe Harold’s Pilgrimagej)Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822)1.Ode to the West Wind2.Ode to the Skylark3.Prometheus unbounded4.The Necessity of Atheism5.Queen Mabk)John Keats(1795-1821)1.Ode to Autumn2.Ode to a nightingale3.Ode on a Grecian um希腊古瓷颂4.Isabellal)Mary Shelley(1797-1851)1.Frankenstein第一部科幻小说6.1836-1901Victorian Perioda)Elizabeth Barrett Browning(1806-1861)1.Sonnets from the Portuguese2.The Cry of the Childrenb)Alfred Tennyson(1809-1892)19th最高产的诗人;1850桂冠诗人；Poet of thePeople1.In Memoriam悼念朋友A.H.Hallam2.The Princess3.Idylls of the King4.Break,Break,Break5.Poems by Two Brothers6.Enoch Arden7.Maudc)Mrs.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell(1810-1865)英国小说史上首批把工人阶级与资本家的斗争些人小说的作家之一1.Mary Barton2.Life of Charlotte Bronte3.North and Southd)William Makepeace Thackeray(1811-1863)critical realism1.Vanity Fair塑造了19th贵族资产阶级的典型形象2.Henry Esmond3.The Newcomese)Charles Dickens(1812-1870)1.Oliver Twist2.The Pickwick Papers3.Sketches by Boz4.The Old Curiosity Shop5.David Copperfield his favorite6.Dombey and Son7.American Notes8.A Tale of Two Cities French Revolution;Paris,London9.Bleak House10.Hard Times11.Great Expectationsf)Robert Browning(1812-1889)诗人及剧作家;戏剧独白诗Dramatic monologues1.My Last Duchess独白诗代表2.Men and Women3.The Ring and the Book奠定位列伟大诗人的作品4.Home Thoughts from Abroad5.Meeting at Night6.Dramatic Lyrics7.Strafford8.Dramatic Romances an Lyricsg)Charlotte Bronte(1816-1855)1.Jane Eyre女性主义代表作品2.Shirleyh)Emily Bronte(1818-1848)1.Wuthering Heights诗歌式的语言，多视角i)Anne Bronte(1820-1849)1.Agnes Greyj)George Eliot(1819-1880)原名：Mary Ann Evans;Realism;Psychological insights“1st novelist to start putting al the actions inside”--DH Lawrence1.Adam Bede2.The Mill on the Floss3.Silas Marner4.Middlemarchk)William Morris(1830-1896)principal founder of the British Arts and Crafts movement1.The Earthly Paradise2.News form Nowhere3.A Dream of John Ball4.Chants of Socialism5.Pilgrims of Hopel)Thomas Hardy(1840-1928)Wessex多数小说展开的地点，古七国之一1.Far from the Madding Crowd2.Jude the Obscure3.Tess of the D’Urbervilles男人无法掌控自己的命运4.The Mayor of Casterbridge5.The Return of the Nativem)Robert Stevenson(1850-1894)苏格兰散文家、诗人、小说家；新浪漫主义杰出代表1.Treasure Island金银岛2.The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde化身博士3.Kidnapped4.New Arabian Nights新天方夜谭5.A Child’s Garden of Verses6.Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes7.An Inland Voyagen)Oscar Wilde(1854-1900)爱尔兰诗人、剧作家、小说家、散文家、Aestheticism 唯美主义代表1.The Importance of Being Earnest2.The Picture of Dorian Gray唯一的小说dy Windermere’s Fan4.The Happy Prince and Other Tales5.AN Ideal Husband6.A Woman of No Importanceo)Joseph Conrad(1857-1924)波兰裔小说家1.The Nigger of the Narcissus2.Heart of Darkness黑暗之心3.Lord Jim吉姆老爷4.Youth7.20th Modern Perioda)George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)生于爱尔兰都柏林1925诺奖1.Major Barbara2.Mrs.Warren’s Profession3.Widowers’Houses Joan4.Pygmalion改编成音乐剧My Fair Lady5.Saint Joan圣女贞德赢得诺奖6.The Quintessence of Ibsenism7.John Bull’s Other Island8.Man and Supermanb)William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)爱尔兰诗人、剧作家；1923首位爱尔兰诺奖得主；早期英国象征主义symbolism诗歌代表1.When you are Old2.The Autumn of the Body3.The Wind among the Reeds4.The Land of Heart’s Desire5.The Tower6.The Wild Swan at Coole7.Sailing to Byzantium8.The Second Coming9.Leda and the Swanc)Herbert George Wells(1866-1946)forerunner of modern science fiction1.The Time Machined)John Galsworthy(1867-1933)20th realistic writer;1932诺奖1.The Forsyte Saga most famous trilogya)The Man of Propertyb)In Chanceryc)To Let2.A Modern Comedya)The White Monkeyb)The Silver Spoonc)Swan Song剧本：3.The Silver Box4.Strifee)W.S.Maugham(1874-1965)剧作家，小说、短篇小说家1.Of Human Bondage2.The Moon and Sixpencef) E.M.Forster(1879-1970)讽刺；20th社会阶级不平等及伪善1.A Room with a View2.A Passage to India3.Where Angels Fear to Tread4.Howards Endg)James Joyce(1882-1941)意识流1.Dubliners短篇小说集；共15篇；20世纪中下层市民生活2.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man半自传体3.Ulysses现代主义在文学的重要体现；非传统小说；现代散文体史诗；4.Finnegans Wakeh)Virginia Woolf(1882-1941)stream of consciousness；poetic style;feminist1.Mrs.Dalloway2.A Room of One’s Own3.To the Lighthouse4.The Waves5.Three Guineas6.Jacob’s Room7.Orlandoi)David Herbert Lawrence(1885-1930)小说家、诗人1.Sons and Lovers自传体小说；Oedipus Complex2.The Rainbow3.The White Peacock4.Women in Love结构上比其他的小说更出色dy Chatterley’s Loverwrence Trilogy:a)A Collier’s Friday Nightb)The Daughter-in-Lawc)The Widowing of Mrs.Holroyedj)T.S.Eliot(1888-1965)1948诺奖；modernist；诗人；剧作家；评论家1.The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock戏剧独白诗；意识流2.Ash Wednesday3.The Waste Land一战后人们精神上的堕落4.Four Quartets后期主要诗作k)Katharine Mansfield(1888-1923)女；英国小说家1.Bliss2.The Garden Partyl)George Orwell(1903-1950)novelist&journalist1.Animal Farm2.19843.Homage to Catalonia记述西班牙内战m)Samuel Beckett(1906-1989)1969诺奖，forerunner of Absurd Drama荒诞派戏剧1.Waiting for Godotn)William Golding(1911-1994)小说家，诗人，剧作家，诺奖1.Lord of the Flies2.The Inheritorso)Doris Lessing(1919-2013)2007诺奖1.The Golden Notebookp)John Osborne(1929-1994)Angry Young Man领军人物1.Look Back in AngerAmerican Literaturete-16th-mid-17th Literature o Colonial Settlementsa)The Bay Psalmbook first book in Anglo-America;希伯来文-->英文b)John Smith(1580-1631)1.A True Relation of Virginia2.A Map of Virginia:with a Description of the Countryc)Anne Bradstreet(1612-1672)1st notable poet1.The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America2.Contemplationsd)Edward Taylor(1642-1729)conservative Puritan minister;Metaphysical Poets1.God’s Determinations Touching his Electe)Jonathan Edwards(1703-1758)most famed preachers of the Great Awakening1.Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God2.The Freedom of the Will3.The Great Doctrine of Original Sin defended4.The Nature of True Virtue2.mid-17th-18th Revolution of Independencea)Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790)1.A Modest Inquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Money;2.Poor Richard’s Almanack穷查理历书；3.The Way to Wealth致富之道；4.The Autobiography自传b)Thomas Paine(1737-1909)1.The Case of the Officers of Excise税务员问题；mon Sense常识；3.American Crisis美国危机；4.Rights of Man人的权利：5.Downfall of Despotism专制体制的崩溃；6.The Age of Reason理性时代c)Philip Freneau(1752-1832)poet of American revolution;father of American Poetry1.The British Prison Ship英国囚船；2.The Rising Glory of America蒸蒸日上的美洲；3.To the Memory of the Brave Americans纪念美国勇士-----同类诗中最佳；4.The Wild Honeysuckle野金银花；5.The Indian Burying Ground印第安人殡葬地(lyric)d)Phillis Wheatley(1754-1784)美国史上首位黑人女诗人1.On Messrs Hussey and Coffine)William Dunlap(1766-1839)美国喜剧先驱1.History of the American Theater2.Major Andre3.18th-19th Romanticisma)Washington Irving(1783-1859)美国文学之父1.A History of New York纽约的历史-----美国人写的第一部诙谐文学杰作；2.The Sketch Book见闻札记浪漫注意的开端，美国文学史上第一部短篇小说集a)The Legend of Sleepy Hollow睡谷的传说-----使之成为美国第一个获得国际声誉的作家；b)Rip Van Winkle3.Bracebridge Hall布雷斯布里奇田庄；4.Talks of Travellers旅客谈；5.The Alhambra阿尔罕伯拉b)James Fenimore Cooper(1789-1851)frontier sagas and sea adventure tales1.The Spy间谍;2.The Pilot领航者;3.The Littlepage Manuscripts利特佩奇的手稿;4.Leather Stocking Tales皮裹腿故事集:a)The Pioneer拓荒者；b)The Last of Mohicans最后的莫希干人;c)The Prairie大草原;d)The Pathfinder探路者;e)The Deerslayer杀鹿者c)William Cullen Bryant(1794-1878)1.To a Waterfowl用美国英语写作的最完美的短诗2.Thanatpsis3.The Yellow Violetd)Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)Transcendentalism运动领袖1.Concord Hymn康考德颂;2.The Rhodo杜鹃花;3.The Humble Bee野蜂;4.Days日子-首开自由诗之先河5.Essays散文集:6.Nature论自然新英格兰超验主义者的宣言The Bible of Transcendentalism;Manifesto of American Transcendentalism;7.The American Scholar论美国学者;Intellectual Declaration of Independence8.Divinity;The Oversoul论超灵9.Self-reliance论自立;10.The Transcendentalist超验主义者;11.Representative Men代表人物;12.English Traits英国人的特征;13.School Address神学院演说e)Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-1864)人性的原罪1.Twice-told Tales尽人皆知的故事2.Mosses from an Old Manse古屋青苔:Young Goodman Brown年轻的古德曼·布朗3.The Scarlet Letter红字1st symbolic novel;Hester Prynne4.The House of the Seven Gables有七个尖角阁的房子--------心理若们罗曼史5.Fanshaw6.The Blithedale Romance福谷传奇7.The Marble Faun玉石雕像f)Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-1882)诗人角1.The Song of Hiawatha海华沙之歌----美国人写的第一部印第安人史诗2.Voices of the Night夜吟3.Ballads and Other Poens民谣及其他诗4.Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems布鲁茨的钟楼及其他诗5.Tales of a Wayside Inn路边客栈的故事6.诗集：a)An April Day四月的一天b)A Psalm of Life人生礼赞最出名的一首短诗c)Paul Revere’s Ride保罗·里维尔的夜奔d)Evangeline伊凡吉琳e)The Courtship of Miles Standish迈尔斯·斯坦迪什的求婚----叙事长诗；f)Poems on Slavery奴役篇---反蓄奴组诗g)Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1848)father of psychoanalytic criticism and detective story1.Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque怪诞奇异故事集2.Tales故事集3.The Fall of the House of Usher厄舍古屋的倒塌4.Ligeia莱琪儿5.Annabel Lee安娜贝尔·李-----歌特风格；6.Tamerlane and Other Poems帖木儿和其他诗7.Al Araaf,Tamerlane and Minor Poems艾尔·阿拉夫，帖木儿和其他诗8.The Raven and Other Poems乌鸦及其他诗:a)The Raven乌鸦b)The City in the Sea海城c)Israfel伊斯拉菲尔d)To Hellen致海伦h)Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862)1.Walden2.Civil Disobedience3.A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Riversi)Herman Melville(1819-1891)1.Moby Dick/The White Whale莫比·迪克/白鲸；2.Typee泰比3.Omoo奥穆4.Mardi玛地5.Redburn雷得本6.White Jacket白外衣7.Pierre皮尔埃8.Piazza广场故事9.Billy Budd比利·巴德j)Walt Whitman(1819-1892)1.Leaves of Grass草叶集第一部真正的史诗a)Song of Myself自我之歌b)I Sit Here and Look Outc)Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking2.O Captain!O Captain!3.Song of the Broad-Axe阔斧之歌4.I hear America Singing我听见美洲在歌唱5.When Lilacs Lost in the Dooryard Bloom’d小院丁香花开时6.Democratic Vistas民主的前景7.The Tramp and Strike Question流浪汉和罢工问题k)Emily Dickson(1830-1886)romantic poet;1,800poems1.The Poems of Emily Dichenson埃米莉·迪金森诗集-----a)Because I Could Not Stop for Deathb)I Died for Beauty-But Was Scarcec)I’m Nobody.Who Are You？d)This is My Letter to the Worlde)I Heard a Fly Buzz When I die4.19th-20th Realisma)Harriet Beecher 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the Horizon3.Desire Under the Elms4.The Iceman Cometh5.The Hairy Apef)Thomas Stearns Eliot(1888-1965)1.Prufrock and Other Observations普罗夫洛克（荒原意识）2.The Waste Land荒原3.The Burial of the Dead死者的葬礼4.A Game of Chess弈棋5.The Fire Sermon火诫6.Death by Water水边之死7.The Hollow Man空心人8.The Sacred Wood圣林9.Gerontion小老头10.What the Thunder Said雷电之言11.名诗：Ash Wednesday圣灰星期三12.Four Quarters四个四重奏13.诗剧：Murder in the Cathedral大教堂谋杀案14.Family Reunion大团圆15.Cocktail Party鸡尾酒会g)Pearl S.Buck(1892-1973)赛珍珠1934年前主要在中国；1932普利策；1938诺奖（美国历史上第一个）1.The Good Earth大地获得普利策小说奖h) E.E.Cummings(1894-1962)Forerunner of Concrete Poetry and Visual Poetry1.Tulips and Chimneys郁金香与烟囱2.The Enormous Room大房间3.XLI Poems诗41首4.Viva万岁5.No,Thanks不，谢谢6.Collected Poems诗集7.Eimi爱米（访苏游记）i) F.Scott Fitzgerald(1896-1940)迷惘的的一代;Spokesman of the Jazz Age1.The Side of Paradise人间天堂2.The Beautiful and the Damned美丽与毁灭3.The Great Gatsby了不起的盖茨比4.Tender in the Night夜色温柔5.The Last Tycoon最后的巨头6.短篇小说：Flappers and Philosophers姑娘们和哲学家们7.Tales of the Jazz爵士时代的故事8.Taps at Reveille早晨的起床号→The Ice Palace冰宫9.May Days五一节10.The Diamond as Big as the Ritz像里茨饭店那样大的钻石11.Winter Dreams冬天的梦12.The Rich Boy富家子弟13.Babylon Revisted重访巴比伦敦14.The Crack-up崩溃（自传体文集j)William Faulkner(1897-1962)1950诺奖；南方新旧之间冲突的史诗式描写1.The Sound and the Fury lost innocence;意识流2.The Hamlet3.The Town4.The Mansion5.A Fable6.Absalom,Absalom!Historical novel7.Go Down,Moses8.As I Lay Dying9.Light in August10.A Rose for Emilyk)Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961)迷惘的一代（Gertrude Stein首先使用；“你们都是迷惘的一代”被作为<太阳照样升起>的卷首语）；iceberg principle;1954诺奖；1953普利策奖1.In Our Time在我们的年代里2.The Torrents of Spring春潮3.The Sun Also Rises太阳照样升起4.Farewell to Arms永别了，武器5.For Whom the Bell Tolls丧钟为谁而鸣6.短篇小说：Men Without Women没有女人的男人7.The Winners Take Notheing胜者无所获8.The Fifth Column and First Forty-nine Stories第五纵队与首次发表的四十九个短篇9.政论：To Have and Have Not贫与富回忆录：A Moveable Feast到处逍遥l)Vladimir Nabokov(1899-1977)俄罗斯裔长短篇小说家、诗人1.Lolitam)John Steinbeck(1902-1968)经济大萧条时期最杰出的小说家；1962诺奖；1940普利策奖1.Cup of Gold金杯2.Tortilla Flat煎饼房3.In Dubious Battle胜负未定4.Of Mice and Men鼠和人5.The Grapes of Wrath愤怒的葡萄经济大萧条时期的美国现状6.The Moon is Down月落7.Cannery Row罐头厂街8.The Pearl珍珠9.The Winter of Or Discontent10.The Pastures of Heaven11.短篇小说：The Red Pony小红马12.The Great Mountains大山13.The Promise许诺14.The Leader of the People人们的领袖n)Langston Hughes(1902-1967)1.Mulatto混血儿（剧本）2.The Weary Blues疲倦的歌声3.Dear Lovely Death亲爱的死神4.Shakespear in Harlem哈莱姆的莎士比亚5.I Wonder as I Wander我漂泊我思考6.The Best of Simple辛普尔精选o)Isaac Bashevis Singer(1904-1991)1978诺奖1.The Magician of Lublin鲁柏林的魔术师p)Tennessee Williams(1911-1983)二战后最杰出剧作家；关注现代人的寂寞和孤立1.American Blues美国的布鲁斯2.Battle of Angels天使的战斗3.The Glass Menagerie玻璃动物园4.The Streetcar Named Desire欲望号街车获得普利策奖；揭露暴力和性变态主题5.Cat on a Hot Tin Roof热铁皮屋顶上的猫6.The Night of The Iguana鬣蜥之夜7.Summer and Smoke夏与烟8.The Rose Tattoo玫瑰纹9.Sweet Bird of Yout可爱的青春鸟q)WIBernard Malamud(1914-1986)1.The Assistant店员r)Ralph Ellison(1914-1994)1.看不见的人s)William Burroughs(1914-1997)垮掉一代的重要作家；后现代主义的重要作家1.Naked Lunch裸体午餐t)Arthur Miller(1915-2005)1.Situation Normal情况正常2.The Man Who Had All the Luck吉星高照的人3.All My Sons都是我的儿子4.The Death of a Salesman推销员代表着；获得普利策戏剧奖；托尼戏剧音乐奖；美国梦造成的悲剧5.The Crucible严峻的考验/萨姆勒的女巫6.A View from the Bridge桥头眺望7.A Memory of Two Mondays两个星期一的回忆8.After the Fall堕落之后9.Incident at Vichy维希事件10.The Price代价11.The Creation of the World and Other Business创世及其他12.The Archbishop’s Ceiling大主教的天花板13.The American Clock美国时钟u)Saul Bellow(1915-2005)1976诺奖1.Dangling Man晃来晃去的人2.Humboldt’s Gift洪堡的礼物3.Seize the Day勿失良辰v)Jerome David Salinger(1919-2010)1.长篇小说：The Catcher in the Rye麦田里的守望者2.短篇小说：The Young Folks年轻人短篇小说集：Nine Stories故事九篇3.中篇小说：Franny弗兰尼4.Zooey卓埃5.Raise High the Roof Beam,Carpenters木匠们，把屋梁升高6.Seymour:An Introduction西摩其人w)Jack Kerouac(1922-1969)the beat generation1.On the Road自传性质x)Joseph Heller(1923-1999)讽刺小说家；短篇小说家；剧作家；黑色幽默1.长篇小说：Catch-22第二十二条军规黑色幽默代表2.Something Happened出了毛病3.As Good as Gold像高尔德一样好4.剧本：We Bombed in New Haven我们轰炸纽黑文5.Catch-226.Clevinger’s Trial克莱文杰受审（据Catch-22第八章）y)Allen Ginsberg(1926-1997)The Beat Generation;1.Howl与惠特曼《自我之歌》、艾略特《荒原》为美国文学重要长诗z)Edward Albee(1928-)受荒诞派戏剧和残酷戏剧的影响1.The Zoo Story动物园的故事2.The Death of Bessie Smith贝西·史密斯之死3.The Sandbox沙箱4.The American Dream美国梦5.Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?谁害怕弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫代表作6.Tiny Alice小爱丽丝7.A Delicate Balance脆弱的羊群8.Seascape海景9.The Lady from Dubuque来自杜布克的女人10.The Man With Three Arms在臂人aa)Toni Morrison(1931-)1993诺奖；第一个获得诺奖的非洲裔美国女作家1.The Bluest Eye2.Song of Solomon3.Beloved宠儿ab)John Updike(1932-2009)sweet lonesome singer of Protestant mediocrity1.Rabbit Series:a)Rabbit,Runb)Rabbit Reduxc)Rabbit is Richd)Rabbit at Restac)Alice Walker(1944-)第一位获得普利策奖的黑人女作家1.Everyday Use日用家当2.The Color Purple紫色a)Samuel Butler Erehwon埃瑞璜乌托邦，讽刺英国社会b)Edith Wharton现实主义作家1.The House of Mirth欢乐之家2.The Age of Innocence天真时代讽刺暴发户的庸俗和私利、上层社会狭隘的文化和传统观念c)Upton Sinclair1.The Jungle屠宰场芝加哥屠宰场剥削工人的小说。

英语英美文学常识归纳

英语英美文学常识归纳篇一：英语专八英美文学常识归纳3专八人文知识:英国地理概况the english channel: the channel is a narrow sea passage which separates england and france and connects the atlantic ocean and north sea.英吉利海峡：英吉利海峡是一道狭长的海峡，分割英法两国，连接大西洋和北海。

the dee estuary: a small sea ( in irish sea) where the dee river enters.迪河河口：是迪河流入的一个小海。

"the act of union of 1801": in 1801 the english parliament passed an act by which scotland, wales and the kingdom of england were constitutionally joined as the kingdom of great britain.1801合并法：1801年英国议会通过法令，手册英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士根据法律合并成为大不列颠王国。

gaelic: it is one of the celtic language, and is spoken in parts of the highlands.盖尔语：是盖尔特语言的一种，在高地地区仍有人说这种语言。

the "backbone of england": it refers to the pennies, theboard ridge of hills.英格兰脊梁：指的是山脉的背脊。

lead ore: british lead ores have been worked since pre-roman times. it contains silver.铅矿：自前罗马时代开始，英国的铅矿就被开发了。

英专八级人文重要考点总结——英美文学

. 英语专业八级人文知识——英国文学Part one Old and Medieval English Literature1. Old English P oetry and “Beowulf ”(贝奥武浦)• “Beowulf ” → the national epic of the Anglo-Saxon and English people →Alliteration( 头韵）national epic: 国家史诗（赞颂一个国家的丰功伟绩）2.Middle English Literature and the Canterbury T ales①The R omance ( describing the life and adventures of a noble hero) 浪漫传奇• King Arthur and His Knights o f the R ound T able 《亚瑟王与他的圆桌骑士》②Geoffrey Chaucer 乔叟→ the “_ father of English poetry__________________”,→“The Canterbury T ales ” is Chaucer’s masterpiece (stories narrated by Pilgrims 朝圣者)→ he introduced rhymed couplet to English poetry , instead of the old Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse.• (Couplet: A stanza of two lines, usually rhyming. ) couplet: 对句，对联 stanza:诗的一节Renaissance (1485—1660) 文艺复兴→ The Background: the society was in its transition from the feudalism to capitalism.→ Revival or rebirth of classical arts, culture and philosophy after the dark ag e s of medieval → The key word for it is _ humanism _, emphasized secular concerns , express the interests of the rising bourgeoisie.→ Shakespeare, Spenser , and Marlowe are all famous literary figures in this periodThomas More (1478-1535)Utopia (socialism ) The definition of Utopia is "no place." Edmund Spenser(1552-1599) “A poet’s poet” The Faerie Queen 《仙后》Francis Bacon 培根 (1561-1626)1 “Adv an cemen t o f Learning ” 学术的推进:2 “New Instrument ” :新工具 the inductive method of reasoning3. “New Atlantics ” : an ideal society 新大西岛4. “Essays ” / 58 essays 论说文集A wide variety of subjects: love, truth, friendship, beauty, studies, riches…His style: clearness, brevity, force of expression☆ his essays is an important landmark in the development of English pr oseChristopher Marlowe (1564-1593)1.University wits, the greatest pioneer of English d rama2. blank verse V erse consisting of unrhymed lines, usually of iambic pentameter(五步抑扬格). 无韵诗，素体诗3. Doctor Faustus 《浮士德》William Shakespeare：the greatest English poet and dramatist①154sonnets（十四行诗）（商籁体）,②37plays,including14comedies,12tragedies,and11historical plays,③2long poems.☆But for such a great writer,we have very little definite knowledge about his life. Shakespeare’s T ragedies(1)Hamlet(2)Othello(3)King Lear(4)Macbeth Shakespeare’s Comedies(1)The Merchant o f V enice(2)A Mi d summer Night's Dream(3)As Y ou Like It《皆大欢喜》(4)T welfth nightThe Merchant of Venice to praise the friendship be tw e en Antonio and Bassanio,to idealize Portia a heroine of great beauty,wit and loyalty,to expose the insatiable greed and brutality (Shylock)Hamlet hesitate betw een fact and fiction,language and action→T o be,or not to be-to live on in this world or to die;to suffer or to tak e action Soliloquy or monologue-fully reveal the inner conflict of the characters（独白）Poetry1.Narrative poetry①the epic②the r omance③popular ballads2.Lyric poetry①the elegy:a lyric poem lamenting the death of an individual.挽歌②the ode:a lyric poem of considerable length to sing in honor a person or a thing.It is seriousin subject and formal in style.颂歌3.Dramatic poetry:dialogue in the d ramaSonnetA14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes.Rhyme:abab cdcd efef gg☆3quatrains(3four-line stanza)+1couplet(2lines)quatrains:四行诗The period of the English Bourgeois Revolution→Historical background:two revolutions:puritan revolution and glorious revolutionthe transition from the absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy→1.two literary schools of poets①the school of Metaphysical玄学②the school of Cavaliers.骑士2.the most important poet:John Milton Metaphysical Poetry（玄学派诗歌)It is the poetry of John Donne and other seventeenth-century poe ts who wrote in a similar style.dislike traditional poem Scholar,Highly abstract or theoretical;John Milton约翰·弥尔顿the last great poemsParadise Lost失乐园Paradise Regained复乐园Samson Agonistes力士参孙.→The two most essential things:Puritanism and his republicanism.Paradise Lost→the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.→the main idea of the poem is a revolt against God’s authority→Satan is the real her o of the poem.Satan led a rebellion against God with his unconquerable will.John Bunyan(1628-1688)班扬Puritan author His best known work,The Pilgrim‘s Progress天路历程a religious allegory（宗教预言）18世纪英国文学Cultural Background1.Enlightenment Movemen t启蒙运动⑴A progressive intellectual movement⑵E nlighteners considered“Enlightenment”or“education”of the people to be their chief objective.⑶They believed in the power of reason(the age of reason)⑷two groups:①the moderate(Pope,Defoe,Addison)（温和派）→support the principles of the existing social order②the radical(Swift,Fielding,Sheridan)（激进派）→crisis→Sentimentalism（感伤主义）18世纪英国文学Complex:An age of pr ose(Addison’s essay\Swift’s satire\Fielding’s novel)1.Neo-classicism新古典A revival interest in old classic works,order,logic→(P ope\Addison\S teel:model themselves after Greek and Latin authors)2.Sentimentalism(Gray\Goldsmith\Richardson\Sterne:discontent with the social reality “Heart”)3.The beginning of modern novel→Major novelists:Defoe\Swift\Fielding\Richardson,4.Pre-romanticism in English poetry5.English Drama(Sheridan:the school for Scandal) Neo-classicism新古典A revival interest in old classic works,order,logic→(model themselves after Greek andLatin authors)1.Alexander P ope蒲伯:Heroic couplet英雄双韵体2.Joseph Addison艾迪生Sir Richard Steele斯梯尔:The Spectator旁观者3.Samuel Johnson:DictionaryAlexander P ope蒲柏Neo-classicism新古典Heroic couplet英雄双韵体Lines of ia mbic pentameter rhyme in pairs；P ope carried this to its last stage of perfection；An Essay on CriticismSentimentalism格列 n i discontent with the social realityThomas Gray 格雷 (poem) Laurence Sterne (novel)Thomas Gray (1716 -1771)Sentimentalism The graveyard school 墓园派Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard《墓园挽歌》The beginning of modern novelSmollett: First important sea novelist Laurence Sterne 斯泰恩 : SentimentalismSamuel Richardson 理查生: Pamela, or Virtue R ewarded 《帕美拉》Clarissa Harlowe, or Virtue T riumphant 《克拉丽莎》1.Daniel Defoe 迪福 : R obinson Crusoe 鲁宾逊漂流记R obinson is the very prototype of the empire builder , the pioneer colonist.2.Jonathan Swift 斯威夫特： a master satirist Gulliver‘s Travels 佛游记3.Henry Fielding ：Father of English novel 、The founder of English realistic novel T om Jones 汤姆· 琼斯Romanticism in Britain The New Literary T rend (1798---1832)1.Dissatisfaction with the society (1) A revolt against it (2) An escape from it2. An introspection into one ’s inner world ( attention on spiritual and emotional life)3. The passions of man and the beauties of nature4. A period of poetical revival(1) The Romantic period is an age of poetry . (Blake , Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley , Keats)(2) The Romantic period is a great age of prose. Coleridge , Hazlitt, Lamb (3) This period is also a great age of novels.Walter ScottScott ’s historical novels combine a romantic atmospher e with a realistic depiction of historical b ack ground and common people ’s life. Scott mark ed the transition from romanticism to the period realism.William Blake 布莱克 Symbolism: 象征主义1.The earliest poems: Poetical sk etches 素描诗集2.Songs o f Innocence 天真之歌3.Songs o f experience 经验之歌_4.famous poem: The tiger\London\The Chimney SweeperRobert Burns (1759-1796)1.Written in the Scottish dialect on a variety of subjectsP oems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect 苏格兰方言诗集2. Songs of love and friendship —a new spirit of romanticism“A Red, Red Rose ”一朵红红的玫瑰3 The rural theme / Beauties of nature“My Heart’s the Highlands ”我的心呀在高原1.Samuel T aylor Coleridge(1772-1834)柯勒律治P oetic and critic “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” 1798 《古舟子咏》“Kubla Khan” 1816 《忽必烈汗》•W ordsworth and Coleridge 's Lyrical Ballads 《抒情歌谣集》William Wordsworth 威廉· 华兹华斯“Lucy ”---《露西组诗》(She Dwelt Among the Untr odden Ways ） ☆harmony be tw ee n humanity and nature2. “The Solitary Reaper ”---《孤寂的刈麦人》 ☆pathetic pictures of the labouring people3. “I wondered lonely as a cloud ”—《我孤独如云》☆ deep love for natureGeorge Gordon“Childe Harold ’s Pilgrimage ” 1812《恰罗德· 哈罗德游记》“Don Juan ” 1812-1823 masterpiece 《唐· 璜》 a great comic epic of the early 19th century . The “ Byronic hero ” is a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin• 名诗：She W alks in Beauty The Isles o f GreecePercy Bysshe Shelly 雪莱 (1792-1822)1. “Queen Mab ”:麦布女王 His first long poem expresses almost all his major political ideas.2. “Prometheus Unbound ”:《解放了的普罗米修斯》His masterpiece; a lyrical drama.3. Lyrics on nature and love: e.g. “Ode to the West Wind”; “To a Skylark”《西风/云雀颂》 ☆“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”John Keats(1795-1821) Not noble Died of TB Died at 25Ode on MelancholyOde on a Grecian Urn 希腊古瓮颂It reveals the contrast between the permanence o f art and the transience o f human passion. Ode to a Nightingale 夜莺颂It reveals the contrast between the happy world o f natural loveliness and human world o f agonyOde to Psyche Ode to Autumn 秋颂The Development of Victorian Literature→ Victorian Literature, as a pr oduct of its age, naturally had its quality of magnitude and diversity .It was many-sided and complex, and reflected both romantically and realistically the great changes that were going on in people ’s life and thought.→the great period of the novel in Britain Critical realists were all concerned about the fate of the common peopleThe Genres of Victorian Literature1)The novel became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.Charles Dickens,William Makepeace Thackeray,Charlotte Bronte,Emily Bronte,Elizabeth Gaskell,George EliotRobert Browning勃朗宁(1812-1889)the most original poet,who improve and matur e the dramatic monologue戏剧独白Wrote an admiring letter to Elizabeth Barret(an invalid,a poet,six years elder)→famous r omance→secretely wedded,eloped to Italy in1846→Sonnets From the P ortuguese(love poems to her husband)葡萄牙十四行诗The ring and book(poetic drama)My last Duchess(dramatic monologue)→A poem in which a single character,addressing a silent listener,explains his actions at an important moment or crisis in his lifeHome Thoughts From AbroadAlfred T ennyson(1809-1892)P oet Laureate A real artistinvents dramatic monologueJane Austen简·奥斯丁1775-18171.Northanger Abbey诺桑觉寺2.Sense and Sensibility理智与情感3.Pride and Prejudice傲慢与偏见4.Mansfield Park曼斯菲尔德庄园5.Emma爱玛6.P ersuasion劝导Austen’s writing style1.The founder of the novel which deals with unimportant middle-class people.2.Vivid pictures of everyday life of simple country society,the small world she lived in3.Delicate description of the daily talks and doings of y oung people4.Quiet irony and analysis of characterCharles Dickens(1812-1870)→one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian Age→famous for his forceful social criticism→urb an poor(Critical realists were all concerned about the fate of the common people)→Character-portrayal is the most distinguishing feature of his works→A mingling of humor and p ath os悲伤The P osth umou s Papers o f the Pickwick Club匹克威克外传Oliver T wist奥利弗·退斯特/雾都孤儿American Notes美国札记The Old Curiosity Shop老古玩店Dombey and Son董贝父子David Copperfield大卫·科波菲尔Hard Times艰难时世A T ale o f T wo Cities双城记Great Expectation远大前程”·Thackeray (1811-63)萨克雷 Representative of critical realism→different from Dickens, Less interested in direct social criticism→ Showing people ’s vanity and their deluded efforts to achieve wealth and social statusThe book o f Snobs (1846-47)势利者集 V anity Fair (1847-48)名利场P endennis (1848)潘登尼斯 Henry Esmond (1852)亨利爱德芒德The Newcomes (1853)纽卡姆一家 The Virginians (1857)弗吉尼亚人V anity Fair 名利场★V anity Fair is Thackeray ’s masterpiece.★ The term "vanity fair" originates from the allegorical story The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan.★ The sub-title of the book, “A Novel Without a Hero (the characters are all flawed to a greater or lesser degree )★ The novel satirizes society in early 19th-century England (characterised by hypocrisy and opportunism).George Eliot (1819-1880)insightful psychological novels （心理小说）Writing about life in small rural towns,《亚当· 比德》 Adam Bede (1859) 《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》 The Mill on the Floss (1860)《织工马南》 Silas Marner (1861) 《米德尔玛契》Middlemarch (1871-1872) ----a portrait of life in a provincial town, is considered her masterpiece.As a woman of exceptional (特有的)intelligence and life experience, she shows a particular concern for the destiny of womenThe Bronte SistersCharlotte Bronte (1816-1855) Jane Eyre Shirley ProfessorEmily Bronte 爱米丽 · 勃郎特 1818-1848 Wuthering Heights 呼啸山庄（Heathcliff ） Anne Bronte 安妮· 勃郎特 Agnes Grey 艾格尼斯格雷简· 爱 Jane Eyre (1847) Jane Eyre Mr. Rochester★ The center theme : women should have equal rights with man. （The position of woman in society ）★ The problem of the bourgeois system of education;★ The problem of orphan;Thomas HardyUnder the Greenwood T ree(1872) 绿茵下 Far fr om the Madding Crowd(1874) 远离尘嚣 The Return o f the Native(1878) 还乡 The Mayor o f Casterbridge(1886) 卡斯特桥市长 T ess of the D ’Urbervilles(1891) 德伯家的苔丝Jude the Obscure(1896) 无名的裘德His principal works are the Wessex novelsi.e.novels describing the characters and environment of his native countryside.He truthfully depicts the impoverishment and decay of small farmers威塞克斯小说His pessimistic philosophy seems to show that mankind is subjected to the rule of some hostile and mysterious fate,which brings misfortune to human life.English literature at the turn of the century→The turn of the century→Oscar Wilde(1854-1900),John Galsworthy George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)Oscar Wilde(1854-1900),→Irish poet and dramatist→The literary school of decadence→apostle of Aestheticism “art for art’s sake”.→The Picture o f Dorian Gray(1891)道林·格雷的画像剧作→his comic masterpieces The Importance o f Being Earnest(1895)埃耐斯特的重要性. Lady Windermere's Fan(1892)温德米尔夫人的扇子An ideal Husband理想丈夫童话→"The Happy Prince."(his fairy tales especially)快乐王子John Galsworthy(1867-1933高尔斯华绥①The first trilogy“The Forsyte Saga”福尔塞世家:The Man o f Property(1906)有产业的人（It was a landmark in the development of Galsworthy’s art.It established his place in literature as a representative of bourgeois realism in the20th century English novel.）In Chancery(1920)骑虎难下T o let(1921)出租;②The second trilogy,“A Modern Comedy”:现代喜剧The White Monkey(1924)白猿The Silver Spoon(1926)银匙Swan Song(1928)天鹅曲Bernard ShawShaw was an essay-writer，language scholar and critic，but is best-remembered as a playwright.pr oblem plays.Widowers’Houses鳏夫的房产Mrs.W arren’s Profession华伦夫人的职业The Devil’s Disciple魔鬼的门徒Man and Superman人与超人Major Barbara巴巴拉少校Heartbroken House伤心之家The Apple Cart苹果车H.G.Wells（1866-1946）威尔斯•Wells is celebrated as a popularizer of science，but his best novels explore serious social and cultural themes，•科幻小说：The Time Machine时间机器E.M.Forster福斯特（1879-1970）A P assage to India印度之行Howards End霍华德庄园The Longest Journey最漫长的旅程The Room With A View可以远眺的房间Wher e Angels Fear to T read天使们忘而却步的地方,William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)毛姆1915—Of Hu man Bandage 人性枷锁 1919 — The Moon and Sixpence 月亮与六便士 1930—Cakes and Ale 寻欢作乐 1944—The Razor ’s Edge 刀锋 1951—short storiesArnold Bennett ， 1867-1931Naturalism Old Wives' T ale 《老妇谭》Joseph Conrad 康拉德 (1857-1924)☆by birth a P ole ☆ His experience as a sailor made the sea his favorite theme.☆ Conrad's narratives may resemble adventure stories in incident and setting ， but his real concern is with issues of character and morality .Heart o f Darkness 黑暗的心灵 Lord Jim 吉姆老爷An Outcast o f progress 文明的前哨 The Chance 机缘The Nostromo 诺斯特罗莫 The secret Age n t 间谍“The Nigger o f the Narcissus ”(1899) is a magnificent and symbolic story of a ship in a storm. 水仙号上的黑鬼Modernism(1)A reaction against realism(2)Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base.(3)The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships b e tw e en man and nature,man and society, man and man, and man and himself .(4) The modernist writers concentrate more on the private than on the public, more on the subjective th an on the objective.They are mainly concerned with the inner being of an individual. In their writings, th e past, the present and the future are mingled toge ther and exist at the same time in the consciousness of an individual.James Joyce (1882-1941)乔伊斯 Irish novelistSecond only to Shak espeare in his mastery of the English language• definitely established “ stream of consciousness ” as a valid way of writing fiction.• 1914—Dubliners 短篇小说集（都柏林人）short stories about the hard life of poor peoplein Dublin• 1916– A Portrait of the Artist as a Y oung Man 青年艺术家的画像, a novel which islargely autobiographical, about a boy growing up in Dublin.• 1922– Ulysses 尤利西斯, a novel about three main characters in Dublin, told entirelythr oug h “stream of consciousness ”• 1939— Finnegan ’s Wake 芬尼根的觉醒, a long , extremely difficult book, written inmany languages, with many layers of symbolism, full of puns, linguistic gymnastics anddeep complicated philosophy• ☆stream-of -consciousness, or interior -monologue: a literary device that renders all theth ough ts ， feelings and sensations of a character with scrupulous psychological realism.• ☆ epiphany Joyce employ ed symbols to create what he called an “epiphany ，” the; revelation of an emotional or personal truthVirginia Woolf (1882-1941) Novelist and critic Leader of the “Bloomsbury Group ” 1922 — J acob ’ s R oom 1925 Mrs. Dalloway 达洛威夫人 1927 – T o the Lighthouse 到灯塔去1929—A R oom of O ne ’s Own 1931—The W aves 浪 1937—The Y ears 1939—Between the Acts 幕间散文集D wrence(1885-1930) 劳伦斯 O ne of the most original and controversial writers of the early 20th century• 1910---- The white P eacock 白孔雀 1913—Sons and Lovers 儿子与情人 • 1915—The Rainbow 虹 1921—Women In Love 恋爱中的妇女 •1923—Kangaroo 1926—The Plumed Serpent •1928—Lady Chatterly ’s Lover 查泰莱夫人的情人P oem of 20th centuryWilliam Butler Y eats 叶芝Irish writer who is considered among the greatest poe ts of the 20th century .• The Winding Stair 盘旋的楼梯T.S.Eliot 艾略特诗集：Prufrock and Other Observation 普鲁夫洛克及其他The W aste Land 荒原•William Golding (1911-1993)戈尔丁Winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize Novelist, essayist, poetThe Lord of the Flies （1954） The Inheritors 继承人T ed Hughs 特德· 休斯 1930-The Hawk in the Rain 雨中鹰（poem ）Richard Lessing 多丽丝· 莱辛 1919-The Four -gated City 四门城 The Golden Notebook 金色笔记蒸英语专业八级人文知识——美国文学Introduction to American literature1.The Colonial P eriod2.The Romantic P eriod (the first half of 19th century)3.The Age of Realism and Naturalism4.The P eriod ar ound WWIChapter One The Colonial PeriodI. The Colonial P eriod (the early 17th and 18th century)1. Puritanism: idealism and opportunism2. Benjamin Franklin 本杰明· 富兰克林 :→ “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”自传→ Poor Richard ’ s Almanac 穷查理历书 (containing witty maxims for achieving wealth as a result of hard work and thrift)3.Philip Freneau (poem)菲利普· 弗伦诺 The Rising Glory of America 蒸日上的美洲American PuritanismPuritans → The early settlers☆ founding fathers of the America nation☆T o purify the rituals and lessen the authority of bishops → escaped to the new world, create a new paradise→ advocate highly religious and moral principles.→ American Puritanism was one of the most enduring shaping influences in American thought and American literature.Chapter Two American Romanticism and New England LiteratureRepresentative figures of the time:Pre-romanticism: W ashington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper 库珀Post-romanticism:Novelists: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman MelvilleP oets: Henry W adesworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan P oe, Walt Whitman Emily DickinsonEssayists: Ralph W aldo Emerson, Henry David ThoreauAmerican RomanticismThe romantic period stretches from the end of the eighteenth century thr oug h the outbreak of the Civil W ar (1790-1865).1. Background(1) Political b ack ground and economic developmentT erritorial Expansion Industrial Growth The Civil WarThe “newness” of Americans as a nation is in connection with American Romanticism. →optimism and hope among the people There is American Puritanism as a cultural heritage to consider.(2)foreign influence–Romantic movement in European countriesAmerican Romanticism☆Romanticism was a rebellion against the objectivity of rationalism.☆For romantics,the feelings,intuitions and emotions were more important than reason and common sense.☆They stressed th e close relationship be tw ee n man and nature;☆They emphasized individualism and affirmed the inner life of the self.Washington Irving(1783-1859)华盛顿·欧文早期浪漫主义小说家A History of New Y ork纽约的历史-----美国人写的第一部诙谐文学杰作；The Sketch Book见闻札记→①The Legend of Sleepy Hollow睡谷的传说---使之成为美国第一个获得国际声誉的作家→②Rip V an WinkleJames Fenimore Cooper1789-1851詹姆斯•费尼莫尔•库珀早期浪漫主义小说家“Leatherstocking T ales”皮裹腿故事集→a series of five novels,that is☆the Pioneers拓荒者(I823)☆the Last o f the Mohicans(1826)最后的莫希干人☆The Prairie(1827)大草原☆The Pathfinder(1840)探路者☆The Deerslayer(1841)杀鹿者→adventure into the wilderness of the West2.The summit of Romanticism---New England T ranscendentalism超验主义1.Emerson/“Nature”2.Henry David Thoreau/“Walden”3.Whitman/“Leaves of Grass”4.Hawthorn/“The Scarlet Letter”5.Herman Meville\“Moby Dick”Post-romanticism(New England T ranscendentalism)• 1.Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)爱默生•→The leading New England T ranscendentalist•→“Nature”论自然-----新英格兰超验主义者的宣言书;The American Scholar论美国学者• 2.Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862)•→T ranscendentalist\Emerson’s friend→W alden《瓦尔登湖》The major features of T ranscendentalism1.The T ranscendentalists placed emphasis on spirit,or the Oversoul,as the most importantthing in the universe.2.The T ranscendentalists stressed the importance of the individual.T o them the individualwas the most important element of society.3.The T ranscendentalists offered a fresh perception of nature as symbolic of the Spirit orGod.Nature was,to them,not purely matter.It was alive,filled with God’s overwhelming presence.·The Development of T ranscendentalism• ☆ Nature (in 1836) by Ralph W aldo Emerson• Nature ’s voice pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of NewEngland T ranscendentalism, the summit of American Romanticism.• T ranscendentalist Club• ☆ T ranscendentalism was indebted to the dual heritage of American Puritanism, thereligious idealism of their Puritan past.T ranscendentalists ’ emphasis on the individualwas directly traceable to the Puritan principle of self -culture and self -improvement. Thusthere is good reason to state that New England T ranscendentalism was Romanticism onthe Puritan soil.• ☆ New England T ranscendentalism was important to American literature. It inspired awhole new generation of famous authors such as Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman and Dickinson.Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)☆ Novels:Scarlet Letter 《红字》 Hester Prynne; The House of Seven Gables 《七个尖角阁的房子》;• The Blithedale R omance 《福谷传奇》; The Marble Faun 《大理石神像》☆Short story collections:• T wice-T old T ales 《故事新编》Moses from an Old Manse 《古屋青苔》Herman Melville 赫尔曼· 梅尔维尔 1819-1891• Moby Dick/The White Whale 莫比· 迪克/白鲸Edgar Allan P oe 埃德加· 爱伦· 坡 1809-1849→The first professional writer in AmericaThe first writer of detective story in the world• -----歌特风格；首开近代侦探小说先河，又是法国象征主义运动的源头• The Fall o f the House o f Usher 厄舍古屋的倒塌(novel);• → The Raven 乌鸦(poem) T amerlane and Other P oems 帖木儿和其他诗;• T o Hellen 致海伦（以诗为诗；永为世人共赏的伟大抒情诗人-----叶芝）Walt Whitman(1819-1892)沃尔特· 惠特曼 •••••O ne of the great innovators in American P oetry Free verse Growing up in a working-class back ground, having little education Leaves o f Grass 草叶集 → Song o f Myself ”自我之歌 reveals a world of equality , without rank and hierarchy .poets •①Emily Dickinson(1830-1886) • The P oems o f Emily Dickinson 埃米莉迪金森诗集(love, death,nature,friendship, andimmortality)·”• ② Henry W adsworth Longfellow 亨利·沃兹沃思朗费罗 1807-1882 →A Psalm of Life 生命礼赞（short poem ）→ The Song of Hiawatha 海华沙之歌----美国人写的第一部印第安人史诗•③; William Cullen Bryant 1794-1878 柯伦· 布莱恩特 •→ T o a Waterfowl 致水鸟-----英语中最完美的短诗Harriet Beecher Stowe 哈丽特· 比彻· 斯托 1811-1896• Uncle T om ’s Cabin 《汤姆叔叔的小屋》 ☆“一个女人和一本书引发的战争 ”—南北战争Chapter 3 The Age of Realism and Naturalism• The three strong advocates of 19th century American realismWilliam Dean Howells (critic)豪威尔斯 Henry James 威廉· 詹姆斯 Mark Twain 马克· 吐温Henry James 1842-1910→ James ’novel ’s “international situation” are set against a b ack gr ound be tw een America and Europe→James contribution to literary criticism is immense.• T o him, “art without life is a poor affair ”. “the aim of the novel is to represent life ”.→ His realism was called as Psychological realism .• He was esp. an observer of the mind rather than a recorder of the times.• The American Daisy Miller The Portrait o f a Lady 贵妇人画像• The Wings o f the Dove 鸽翼 The Ambassadors 大使Mark Twain 马克· 吐温1. “The Adventures o f Tom Sawyer 汤姆· 索耶历险记2. “The Adventures o f Huckleberry Finn ”----his masterpiece/ 哈克贝利· 费恩历险记“The Gilded Age ” 镀金时代3. F amous for his localism, colloquial style, humor and bitter attacksAmerican Naturalism : pessimistic realism1. Naturalism cam e from France.2. Reasons: civil war , social upheavals ☆Darwin ’s theory of evolution : the survival of the fittest→ Men were conditioned\ d omi nat ed by social and economic forces, by heredity and environment.3. Features of naturalist writing:A. naturalist writers turned literary creation into a mechanical record of society, in a way of attempting to achieve extreme objectivity and frankness. They never made comments on the characters and their behaviors.B. The characters were o ften figures of low social and economic classesC.They stressed men had no free will,their lives were controlled by heredity and environment.4.American Naturalist writers:S tephen Crane,Frank Norris,Jack London,Henry Adams,Theodore Dreiser.Stephen Crane(1871-1900)斯蒂芬·克莱恩•Maggie:A Girl o f the S treets街头女郎梅姬（美国文学史上首次站在同情立场上描写受辱妇女的悲惨命运）•The R ed Badge o f Courage红色英勇勋章•The Black Riders(his first book of poems)Theodore Dreiser(1871-1945)德莱塞•Sister Carrie1900☆A feather in wind,she is totally at the mercy of forces she cannot comprehend and control.She does not seem to possess what may be called a moral fibre in her.•Jennie Gerhardt1911T rilogy of Desire欲望三部曲Financer金融家1912,The Titan巨人1914,The Stoic斯多葛1915•An American T ragedy美国的悲剧1925（被称为美国最伟大的小说）Frank Norris(1870-1902)弗兰克·诺里斯The Octopus1901章鱼Jack London(1876-1916)杰克·伦敦Martin Eden马丁·伊登（masterwork）The Call o f the Wild野性的呼唤The Sea-W olf海狼White Fang白獠牙O Henry(1862---1910)欧·享利☆famous for short stories1“The Gift o f Magi”2“The Cop and the Anthem”3.F amous for his fascinating plot,h umor ous touch,interesting puns,localism,and unexpected endings.Chapter Four The Period around WWIAmerican literature in the1920s and1930s1.P oets:T.S.Eliot:“the W aste Land”R obert Frost2.Novelists:Fitzgerald/“the Great Gatsby”Hemingway/“A Farewell to Arms”Faulkner/ wrote about the SouthThe Lost Generation迷惘的一代→a disillusionment about the value of war→disgusted by th e new frivolous,greedy way of life in AmericaWhen the First World W ar brok e out,many idealistic y oung Americans volunteered to tak e part in the war and test their own bravery.They discovered that modern warfare was not。

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英国文学一、古英语时期的英国文学〔499-1066〕1、贝奥武夫2、阿尔弗雷德大帝：英国散文之父二、中古英语时期的英国文学1、allegory体非常盛行2、Romance开场上升到一定的高度3、高文爵士和绿衣骑士4、Willian Langlaud "农夫皮尔斯的幻象"5、乔叟坎特伯雷故事集〔英雄双韵体〕6、托马斯.马洛礼"亚瑟王之死"三、文艺复兴时期的英国文学〔伊丽莎白时代〕〔14-16世纪〕1、托马斯.莫尔"乌托邦"2、Thomas Wyatt 和Henry Howard引入sonnet3、Philips Sidney "The defense of Poesie""阿卡迪亚"描述田园生活；现代长篇小说的先驱4、斯宾塞"仙后" 诗人中的诗人；斯宾塞体诗节；5、莎士比亚：长篇叙事诗："维纳斯和阿多尼斯"、"露克丝受辱记"四大悲剧：哈姆雷特、尔王、奥赛罗、麦克白7、本.琼森风俗喜剧〔edy of manners〕"人性互异"8、约翰.多恩"玄学派〞诗歌创始人9、George Herbert 玄学派诗圣10、弗朗西斯.培根现代科学和唯物主义哲学创始人之一"Essays"英国开展史上的里程碑"学术的推进"和"新工具"四、启蒙时期〔18世纪〕1、约翰、弥尔顿："失乐园"、"为英国人民争辩"2、约翰、班扬："天路历程"religious allegory3、约翰、德莱顿：英国新古典主义的出色代表、桂冠诗人；"论戏剧诗"4、亚历山大.蒲柏：英国新古典主义诗歌的重要代表；英雄双韵体的使用到达登峰造极的使用；"田园组诗"是其最早田园诗歌代表作5、托马斯、格雷：感伤主义中墓园诗派的代表人物"墓园挽歌"6、威廉、布莱克：天真之歌、经历之歌；7、罗伯特、斯：格兰最出色的农民诗人；8、Richard Steel和Joseph Addison合作创办"The tatler"和"the spectator"9、Samuel defoe 英国现实主义小说的奠基人之一；"鲁滨逊漂流记"；"铲除非国教徒的捷径"，仪表达自己的不满；10、Jonathan Swift "一个小小的建议"；"格列佛游记"；"桶的故事"；11、Samuel Richardson 英国现代小说的创始人；帕米拉；克拉丽莎；查尔斯.格蓝迪森爵士的历史；12、Henry Fielding 英国现实主义小说理论的奠基人；"约瑟夫。

专业八级英美文学知识

1.William Faulkner is the author of _________.a. For From the Madding Crowdb. The Sound and Furyc. For Whom the Bell Tollsd. The Scarlet Letter2. Robert Frost is a famous __________.a. novelistb. Playwrightc. poetd. literary critic3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by _________.a. Jack Londonb. Charles Dickensc.Samuel Coleridged. Ernest Hemingway4. Which of the following poets is different from the others?a. John Donne.b. John Keats.c. Lord Byron.d. Percy Bysshe Shelley5. Which of the following is not written by William Shakespeare?a. Othello.b. The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus.c. Romeo and Juliet.d. The Twelfth Night.6. Beowulf narrates a story taking palce in _______.a. the Mediterraneanb. Northern Europec. Englandd. Scandinavia7. __________ refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.a. Allegoryb. Conflictc. Ironyd.Flashback8. William Wordsworth is an English ___________.a. poetb. novelistc. playwrightd. critic9. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is __________.a. Natureb. Waldenc. Experienced. Essays10. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT________.a. Dublinersb. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manc. Jude the Obscured. Ulysses11. The Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT _______.a. The Tenant of Wildfell Hallb. Jane Eyrec. Wuthering Heightsd. Agnes Grey12. In which novel can “Yahoo” be found?a. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress.b. Edmund Spencer’s The Faerie Queen.c. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.d. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones.13. The Victorian Age was largely an age of _________, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.a. pessimismb. naturalismc. modernismd. critical realism14. Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination of _______ and seriou s literature.a. American folk humorb. funny jokesc. English folklored. American values15. Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War?a. Fennimore Cooper.b. Nathaniel Hawthorn.c. Walt Whitmand. Washington Irving.16. Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by _________.a. Christopher Marlowb. John Miltonc. William Shakespeared. Ben Johnson17. I Have a Dream is addressed by _________.a. Abraham Lincolnb. John F. Kennedyc. Martin Luther Kingd. Ralph Waldo Emerson18. Which of the following is a poem by Emily Dickinson?a. Song of Myself. B. The Raven. C. A Red Red Rose d. Because I Could Not Stop for Death.19. Eugene O’Neil is an American __________.a. novelistb. playwrightc. poetd. essayist20. The Romantic Age in England came to an end with the death of _________.a. Jane Austinb. Walter Scottc. Samuel Taylor Coleridged. William Wordsworth21. In the works of aesthetism, the theory of “art for art’s sake” is advocated by ________.a. Oscar Wildeb. Mrs. Gaskellc. Alexander Poped. Charles Lamb22. Whose works are characterized by stream-of-consciousness?23. The most famous work by Chaucer is ________.a. Beowulfb. The Canterbury Talec. Sir Gawain and the Green Knightd. The Christ24. The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the ________ in the literary history of the United States.a. Age of Realismb. Age of Classicalismc. Age of Romanticismd. Age of Renaissance25. ________ has been given 18 honorary degrees?a. Ezra Pondb. E.E. Cummingsc. Robert Frostd. William Cullen Bryant26. Which of t he following is NOT Shakespeare’s tragedies?a. The Merchant of Veniceb. King Learc. Hamletd. The Tempest27. Leaves of Grass is written by ________.a.Walt Whitmanb. Carl Sandburgc. Langston Hughesd. Allen Ginsberg28. William Mak epeace Thackeray’s most famous work is _________.a. The School for Scandalb. Past and Presentc. Major Barbarad. Vanity Fair29. Daver Beach is written by ________.a. Robert Browningb. Alfred Tennysonc. Mathew Arnoldd. Dylan Thomas30. The period of Old English literature refers to _________.a. 449---1066b. 14th century—mid 17th centuryc. 14th century—mid 18th centuryd. 16th century---mid 18th century31. Moby Dick is the most important work by _________.a. Jack Londonb. Herman Melvillec. Sinclair Lewisd. Ralph Ellison32. O. Henry earned his fame mainly for his _________.a. novelsb. poemsc. short storiesd. dramas33. Which of the following is NOT Francis Bacon’s essay?a. Of Studies. B. Of Travel. C. Of Wisdom. D. Of Love.34. ________ is the most famous novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald?a. Tender Is the Nightb. This Side of Paradisec. The Beautiful and Dammedd. The Great Gatsby35. “Morte d’Arthur” is a famous work by __________.a. John Miltonb. Venerable Bedec. Thomas Maloryd. Alfred the Great36. Which of the following novels does NOT belong to Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire?a. The titanb. The Financier.c. The Geniusd. The Stoic.37. The followings are all Dickens’ works EXCEPT _________.a. Oliver Twistb. The Vicar of Wakefieldc. Great Expectationsd. A Tale of Two Cities38. It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important ant mature poems are in the form of _______.a. odeb. elegyc. epicd. sonnet39. The 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to __________.a. William Faulknerb. John Steinbeckc. Saul Bellowd. Ernest Hemingway40. Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of _________ work.a. romanticb. classicc. neo-classicd. naturalistic41. Who is the father of English poetry?a. Shakespeare.b. Edmund Spencer.c. John Miltond. Geoffrey Chaucer.42. The Red Badge of Courage is written by ________.a. Frank Norrisb. Sherwood Andersonc. Willa Catherd. Stephen Crane43. The most distinctive achievement of Elizabethan literature is _________.a. dramab. prosec. noveld. poetry44. John Galsworthy won the 1932 Nobel Prize for his work _________.a. Ulyssesb. Hard Timesc. The Forsyte Saged. Jude the Obscure45. Which of the following poems is NOT written by George Gordon Byron?a. She Walks in Beauty.b. The Solitary Reaper.c. When We Two Parte.d. Childe Haro ld’s Pilgrimage.46. _______ wrote several novels with the name of “Rabbit”.a. Arthur Millerb. Thomas Pynchonc. John Updiked. Wallace Stevens47. The Road Not Taken is a poem written by _______.a. Robert Frostb. Longfellowc. Ezra Pondd. Carl Sandburg48. It is _______ who first made blank verse the principle instrument of English drama.a. Marloweb. Shakespearec. Spencerd. Henry Howard49. T. S. Eliot’s most famous long poem is __________.a. I Wand ered Lonely as a Cloudb. A Boy’s Willc. The Waste Landd. The Golden Bough50. Who has been regarded as the discoverer of the modern novel?a. John Banyanb. Henry Fielding.c. Samuel Richardsond. Daniel Defoe51. The Portrait of a Lady is a great work by __________.a. Henry Jamesb. Mark Twainc. Dreiserd. Stowe52. Hester is a character in _________.a. Gone with the Windb. The Fall of the House of Usherc. Babbittd. The Scarlet Letter53. In Paradise Last, the real hero created by Milton is __________.a. Godb. Adamc. Eved. Satan54. The island of Lilliput can be found in _________.a. Robinson Crusoeb. Gulliver’s Travelsc. Adventures of Tom Sawyerd. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn55. “To be, or not to be” is quoted from __________.a. King learb. Hamletc. Julius Caesard. Romeo and Juliet56. Mr. Allworthy is a kind-hearted gentleman in __________.a. A Tale of Two Citiesb. Great Expectationsc. Sons and loversd. The History of Torn Jones, a Foundling57. The black man Jim is a character in Mark Twain’s __________.a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyerb. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnc. Life on the Mississippid. The Prince and the Pauper58. The Catcher in the Rye is written by __________.a. J. D. Salingerb. Jack Londonc. Flannery O’Connord. Saul Bellow59. Which of the following works is NOT written by D. H. Lawrence?a. Women in Loveb. Sons and Lovers.c. The Rainbowd. The French Lieutenant’s Woman.60. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between _________ centuries.a. 14th and mid-17thb. 14th and mid-18thc. 16th and mid-18thd. 16th and mid-17th61. The Grapes of Wrath is the masterpiece of ___________.John Steinbeck b. John Cheever c. John Updike d. John Dos Passos62. _________ is NOT a play written by Tennessee Williams.a. Cat on a Hot Tin Roofb. The Glass Menageriec. Light is Augustd. A Streetear Named Desire63. Robert Burns is a poet from __________.a. Englandb. New Englandc. Irelandd. Seotland64. The Zoo Story is a play written by _________.a. Romanceb. Novelc. Sonnetd. Drama65. _________ is a popular literary form in the medieval period.a. Romanceb. Novelc. Sonnetd. Drama66. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the _______century.a. 18thb. 19thc. 17thd. 20th67. _______ is the greatest songwriter in the world and the national poet of Scotland.a. William Blakeb. Robert Burnsc. Byrond. Keats68. William Blake’s The Tiger is collected in __________.a. Songs of Innocenceb. Songs of Experiencec. Marriage of Heaven and Helld. Poetical Sketches69. The image of the famous “henpecked husband” is created by _________.a. Washington Irvingb. Fennimore Cooperc. Edith Whartond. William Dean Howells70. __________ was the most important person of the transcendental club.a. Shakespeareb. Marlowec. Spenserd. Donne71. The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be _________.a. O’Neilb. Poundc. Robert Frostd. Scott Fitzgerald72. _________ was the most important person of the transcendental club.a. Hawthornb. Whitmanc. Emersond. Hemingway73. Shylock is a character in _________.a. The Merchant of Veniceb. The Twelfth Nightc. The Winter’s Taled. Macbeth74. The compiler of A Dictionary of the English Language is ________.a. Joseph Addisonb. Richard Steelec. Samuel Johnsond. Laurence Stern75. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following EXCEPT __________.a. friendshipb. love and marriagec. life and deathd. war and peace76. American fiction in the 1960s is referred to as ________.a. imagismb. black humorc. new fictiond. the Beat Generation77. James Joyce mostly wrote about his hometown ________.a. Londonb. Dublinc. New Yorkd. Edinburgh78. This line “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” is quoted from _________.a. Dan Juanb. Kubla Khanc. To Autumnd. Ode to the West Wind79. Stephen Crane is famous for _________.a. An American Tragedyb. The Ambassadorsc. Main Streetd. The Red Badge of Courage80. _______ translated Homer’s Iliad (伊利亚特)and Odyssey (奥德赛) in Ameriean literary history.a. William Cullen Bryantb. Philip Freneauc. Edwin Arlington Robinsond. Walt Whitman81. The emotional effect and social significance made _________ the first well-known sociological novel inAmerican literature.a. The Sun Alson Risesb. Uncle Tom’s Cabinc. The Old Man and The Sead. Sister Carrie82. _______ has been entitled the “Father of American Poetry”.a. Philip Freneaub. Ralph Waldo Emersonc. William Cullen Bryantd. Walt Whitman83. Which of the following poems is written by William Butler Yeats?a. Sailing to Brzantium.b. To an Athlete Dying Youngc. Musee des Beaux Arts.d. Church Going.84. Mary Barton is a masterpiece of ________.a.George Eliotb. Samuel Butlerc. Mrs. Gaskelld. Flannery O’Connor85. Among the following poets, which is NOT a lake poet?a. William Wordsworthb. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.c. Robert Southeyd. William Collins.86. Henry Fielding is the author of the great 18th century English novel _________.a. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundlingb. Pamelac. Moll Flanderd. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy87. Tess is a character created by _________.a. D. H. Lawrenceb. James Joycec. Thomas Hardyd. Dylan Thomas88. Which of the following is NOT true for Benjamin Franklin?a. He was a famous writer.b. He was a member to draft The Declaration of Independence.c. He was a great scientist.d. He was once elected American President.89. “Gold Rush” was vividly depicted in _________ novels.a.Hemingway’sb. Mark Twain’sc. Henry James’sd. Faulkner’s90. __________ is a nineteenth century European literary movement that sought to portray familiar characters,situations, and settings in a realistic manner.a. Realismb. Modernismc. Naturalismd. Romanticism91. Utopia is _________ work.a. Thomas More’sb. Francis Bacon’sc. John Dryden’sd. George Herbert’s92. Mr. Rochester is a figure in _________.a. Wuthering Heightsb. Jane Eyrec. Vanity Faird. Uncle Tom’s Cabin93. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by ________.a. John Keatsb. William Blakec. William Wordsworthd. Percy Bysshe Shelley94. Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT __________.a. a strict poetic formb. a simple and conversational languagec. a free and natural rhythmic patternd. an easy flow of feelings95. Who initiated the name of the Lost Generation?a. Hemingway.b. Fitzgerald.c. Gertrude Stein.d. William Faulkner.96. My Last Duchess is a monologue poem written by _________.a. William Shakespeareb. Robert Browningc. Ben Jonsond. Robert Herrick97. The high tide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around _________.a. 1820b. 1850c. 1880d. 192098. The title of Alfred Tennyson’s poem Ulysses reminds the reader of the following EXCEPT ___________.a. the Trojan Warb. Homer’s Odysseyc. adventures over the sead. religious quest99. As a literary figure, Heathcliff appears in __________.a. Jane Eyreb. Oliver Twistc. Wuthering Heightsd. Middlemarch100. The publication of __________ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of the New England Transcendentalism.a. Natureb. Self-Reliancec. The Over Sould. The American Scholar101. _________ is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works and plays inspired by social criticism.a. Richard Sheridanb. Oliver Goldsmithc. Oscar Wilded. The American Scholar102. Lyrical Ballads is the joint work between Wordsworth and his friend _________.a. Coleridgeb. Bryonc. Keatsd. Shelly103. The success of Jane Eyre is partly due to its introduction to the English novel the first _________ heroine.a. explorerb. peasantc. workerd. governess104. _________ is the representative work of the Jazz Age.a. The Great Gatsbyb. On the Roadc. Look Back in Angerd. The Sun Also Rises105. Invisible Man is a famous work by _________.a. Tennessee Williamsb. Arthur Miller106. _________ is commonly used to describe an original pattern or model from which all other things of the same kind are made.a. Allusionb. Alliterationc. Allegoryd. Archetype107 The title of Thackeray’s Vanity Fair is taken from _________.a. The Hol y Bibleb. The Faerie Queenc. The Pilgrim’s Progressd. Paradise Lost108. _________ was a southerner from Mississippi who produced 18 novels and 3 volumes of short stories in his life.a. William Faulknerb. Earnest Hemingwayc. Mark Twaind. Robert Frost109. The theme of A Tale of Two Cities is _________.a. revolutionb. wasc. loved. brotherhood110. Which of the following statements is NOT true for the Lost Generation?a. Those young people were cut off from old values.b. They wondered pointlessly and restlessly.c. They were aware that the world was crazy and meaningless.d. They boasted that people should return to nature.111. Who is considered the Poet of the American Revolution?a. Philip Freneau.b. William Cullen Bryand.c. Henry Wadsworth Longfellowd. Henry David Thoreau.112. In America, there is “a little woman started a great war”. Who is she?a. Anne Bradstreet.b. Harriet Beecher Stowe.c. Edith Wharton.d. Catharine Anne Porter.113. Waiting for Godot is a _______.a. poemb. playc. short storyd. novel114. Which of the following writers has once won the Nobel Prize?a. William Butler Yeats.b. Thomas Hardyc. Wystan Hugh Auden.d. Dylan Thomas.115. _________is NOT written by Edgar Allan Poe.a. The Ravenb. Annabel Leec. The Fall of the House of Usherd. Song to Celia116. Arthur Miller is an American __________.a. novelistb. poetc. playwrightd. essayist117. Mr. Darcy is a character in _________.a. Tess of the D’Urbervillesb. Pride and Prejudicec. Happy Princed. The Mill on the Floss118. Besides The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald wrote another famous novel _________,which was his second masterpiece.a. As I Lay Dyingb. a Good Man Is Hard to Findc. Tender Is the Nightd. The Dangling Man119. Among Shakespeare’s tragedies, _________ is the most complex in plot and most painful.a. King Learb. Hamletc. Romeo and Julietd. Othello120. _______ created the style of euphuism.a. Sir Philip Sidneyb. John Lylyc. Henry Howardd. Thomas Wyatt121. A Voldielion: Forbiding Mouming is the masterpiece of ________a. William Shakaspeareb. Edrnund spencerc. John Miltond. John Donne122. Which of the following is not Virginia Woolf’s greatest _______ writers.a. To the Lighthouseb. Mrs. Dallowayc. The Wavesd. Modern Painters123. Theodore Dreiser was one of America’s greatest _______ write rs.a. naturalisticb. realisticc. modernisticd. romantic124. _________ is the first American professional writer and the first writer of detective story in the world.125. Pygmalion is a famous play written by ________.a. William Shakespeareb. Tobias George Smollettc. Charles Lambd. Bernard Shaw126. The Renaissance was a European Phenomenon, which originated in _______.a. Franceb. Britainc. Italyd. Spain127. _______ was the greatest poet between Milton and Pope and was poet laureate for 20 years.a. Edmund Spencerb. John Drydenc. John Donned. George Herbert128. Which of the following is NOT Jane Austen’s wo rk?a. Pride and Prejudiceb. Sense and Sensibilityc. Emmad. Sister Carrie.129. Richard Brinsley Sheridan was a famous _______.a. poetb. novelistc. dramatistd. essayist130. The major representatives of America’s transcendentalist group are _______.a. Emerson and Henry David Thoreaub. Washington Irving and Emersonc. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Irvingd. Natheaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau131. Among the following novels, _______ is Thomas Hardy’s best-known novel.a. The Return of the Nativeb. Far From the Madding Crowdc. The Mayor of Casterbridged. Tess of the D’Urbervilles132. _______ was recognized as the greatest poet of Victorian England.a. Tennysonb. Robert Browningc. Mrs. Browningd. Robert Burns133. _______ is D.H. Lawrence’s semi-autographical novel.a. Sons and Loversb. Women is Lovec. Rainbowd. Lady Chatterley’s lover134. _______ was once in the same class with Franklin Pierce, America’s 14th President.a. Henry Jamesb. Jack Londonc. Edwin Arlington Robinsond. Nathaniel Hawthorne135. Richard Steele and Joseph Addison has the following contributions to Englishliterature EXCEPT that _______.a. their writings provide a new code of social morality for the rising bourgeoisieb. they give a true picture of social life of England in the 18th centuryc. the English essay completed established itself as a literary genre in their handsd. they were representatives of the realistic tradition in English literature136. ________ is the representative among the writers of aestheticism and decadence.a. Stevensonb. George Gissingc. Oscar Wilded. Ralph Fox137.The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays is the work by _______.a. William Hazlittb. Charles Lambc. Leigh Huntd. De Quincy138. Ruskin’s social and economic thoughts have exerted deep influence on many writers and poet except _______.a. William Morrisb. Waliter Scottc. Oscar Wilded. Bernard Shaw139. Whitman’s _______ has been praised as “Democratic Bible” and as American Epic.a. Leaves of Grassb. Son of Myselfc. In a Metro Stationd. Evangeline140. _______ killed himself with a gun, just as his father did.a. Jack Londonb. Eamest Hemingwayc. Fitzgeraldd. Mark Twain141. ________ ealled himself “the trumpeter of a new age”. He was England’s first essayist.a. Richard Steeleb. Joseph Addisonc. Francis Bacond. Alexander Pope142. Don Juan is the masterpiece of _______.a. Byronb. Robert Frostc. Wordsworthd. Longfellow143. Which of the following is NOT true for Ralph Waldo Emerson?a. A great thinker.b. A famous novelist.c. A well-known essayist.d. A poet.a. Charlotte Bronteb. Virginia Woolfc. Jane Austend. George Eliot145. On the Road is the masterpiece of _______.a. Arthur Millerb. J.D. Salingerc. Allen Ginsbergd. Jack Kerouac146. Soames Forsyte is famous figure in ______ novel.a. Theodore Dreiser’sb. Henry James’sc. William Faulkner’sd. John Galsworthy’s147. Which of the following is not an American romantic writer?a. Nathaniel Hawthorneb. Herman Melvillec. Mark Twaind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow148. The story of Prometheus Unbound is taken from _______.a. Greek mythologyb. Roman mythologyc. Bible149. Language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons is called the _______, which is the foundation of English language and literature.a. Modern Englishb. Old Englishc. Ancient Englishd. Medieval English150. ______ refers to the use of one object to represent another.a. Metaphorb. Ironyc. Symbolismd. 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英美文学1. William Faulkner is the author of ______.A. Far From the Modeling CrowdB. Sound and FuryC. For Whom the Bell TollsD. Scarlet Letter1. Robert Frost is a famous ______.A. novelistB. playwrightC. poetD. literary critic3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ______A. Jack LondonB. Charles DickensC. Samuel Coleridge DEmest Hemingway4. Which of the following poets is different from the others?A. John Donne.B. John Keats.C. Lord Byron.D. Percy Bysshe Shelley.5. Which of the following is not written by William Shakespeare?A. Othello.B. The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus.C. Romeo and Juliet.D. The Twelfth Night.6. Beowulf narrates a story taking place in ______.A. the MediterraneanB. Northern EuropeC. EnglandD. Scandinavia7. ______ refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.A. AllegoryB. ConflictC. IronyD. Flashback8. William Wordsworth is an English _____.A. poetB. novelistC. playwrightD. critic9. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is ______.A. NatureB. WaldenC. ExperienceD. Essays10. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT ______.A. DublinersB. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManC. Jude the ObscureD. Ulysses11. The Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT ______.A. The Tenant of Wildfell HallB. Jane EyreC. Wuthering HeightsD. Agnes Grey12. In which novel can "Yahoo" be found?A. John Bunyan' s Pilgrim' s Progress.B. Edmund Spencer' s The Faerie Queen.C. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.D. Henry Fielding's Tom Jones.13. The Victorian Age was largely an age of ______, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A. pessimismB. naturalismC. modernismD. critical realism14. Mark Twain shaped the world' s view of America and made a combination of ______ andserious literature.A. American folk humorB. funny jokesC. English folkloreD. American values15. Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War?A. Fennimore Cooper.B. Nathaniel Hawthorn.C. Walt Whitman.D. Washington Irving.16. Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by ______.A. Christopher MarlowB. John MiltonC. William ShakespeareD. Ben Jonson17. Have a Dream is addressed by ______.A. Abraham LincolnB. John F. KennedyC. Martin Luther KingD. Ralph Waldo Emerson18. Which of the following is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson?A. This is my letter to the world.B. heard a fly buzz — when I died.C. This is just to say.D. Because I could not stop/or death.19. Eugene 0' Neil is an American ______.A. novelistB. playwrightC. poetD. essayist20. The Romantic Age in England came to an end with the death of ______.A. Jane AustinB. Walter ScottC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. William Wordsworth21. In the works of such aesthetics as ______ and Walter Pater, the theory of "art for art's sake" is advocated.A. Oscar WildeB. Mrs. GaskellC. Alexander PopeD. Charles Lamb22. Works by ______ are characterized by stream-of-consciousness.A. George EliotB. Jane AustenC. Emily BronteD. Virginia Woolf23. Who of the followings is a playwright of the "theater of absurd" ?A. John Osbom.B. Wystan Hugh Auden.C. Bernard Shaw.D. Samuel Beckett.24. The period from 1865—1914 has been referred to as the ______ in the literary history of the United States.A. Age of RealismB. Age of ClassicalismC. Age of RomanticismD. Age of Renaissance25. With "Collected Poems" , ______won the second Pulitzer Prize.A. Ezra PondB. e. e. cummingsC. Robert FrostD. William Cullen Bryant26. ______ belongs to the second period in Shakespeare' s three stages of writing career.A. The Merchant of VeniceB. Love' s Labor LostC. HamletD. The Tempest27. Grass is a poem written by ______.A. Walt WhitmanB. Carl SandburgC. Langston HughesD. Alien Ginsberg28. William Makepeace Thackeray' s most famous work is ______.A. The School for ScandalB. Past and PresentC. Major BarbaraD. Vanity Fair29. Dover Beach is written by ______.A. Robert BrowningB. Alfred TennysonC. Mathew ArnoldD. Dylan Thomas30. The period of Old English literature refers to ______.A. about 450 — 1066B. 14th century — mid-17th centuryC. 14th century — mid-ISA centuryD. 16th century — mid-18th century31. Moby Dick is the most important work by ______.A. Jack LondonB. Herman MelvilleC. Sinclair LewisD. Ralph Ellison32. 0. Henry earned his fame mainly for his ______.A. novelsB. poemsC. short storiesD. dramas33. Francis Bacon' s ______ is a great essay on education.A. The Advancement of LearningB. The Importance of Being EarnestC. The New AtlanticD. The Learned Reading upon the Statute of Uses34. ______ is NOT a novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald.A. Tender Is the NightB. Anna ChristieC. The Beautiful and DammedD. The Great Gatsby35. The American literature in modem period is divided into two parts by the event ofA. the expatriate movementB. the Great DepressionC. the First World WarD. the Second World War36. Which of the following novels does NOT belong to Dreiser' s Trilogy of DesirefA. The Titan.B. The Financier.C. The "Genius".D. The Stoic.37. The followings are all Dickens' works EXCEPT______.A. Oliver TwistB. Moll FlandersC. Great ExpectationsD. Bleak House38. It is generally regarded that Keats' s most important and mature poems are in the form ofA. odeB. elegyC. epicD. sonnet39. The 1954 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to ______ for his "mastery of the artof modem narration".A. William FaulknerB. John SteinbeckC. Saul BellowD. Ernest Hemingway40. Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of ______ work.A. romanticB. classicC. neo-classicD. naturalistic41. Who is the father of English poetry?A. Shakespeare.B. Edmund Spencer.C. John Milton.D. Geoffrey Chaucer.42. The Octopus is written by ______.A. Frank NorrisB. Sherwood AndersonC. Willa GatherD. Stephen Crane43. James Baldwin' s most famous short story is ______.A. A Rose/or EmilyB. The Story of an HowC. Sonny's BluesD. A Clean, Well-lighted Place44. John Galsworthy won the 1932 Nobel Price for his work ______.A. UlyssesB. Hard. TimesC. The Forsyte SagaD. Jude the Obscure45. Which of the following poems is NOT written by George Gordon Byron?A. She Walks in Beauty.B. The Solitary Reaper.C. When We Two Parted.D. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.46.______wrote several novels with the name of "Rabbit".A. Arthur MillerB. Thomas PynchonC. John UpdikeD. Wallace Stevens47. The Road Not Taken is a poem written by ______.A. Robert FrostB. LongfellowC. Ezra PondD. Carl Sandburg48. "God help them that help themselves" is found in ______' s work.A. FranklinB. FreneauC. JeffersonD. Paine49. T. S. Eliot' s most famous long poem is ______.A. The Love Song of J. Alfred Pru/rockB. A Boy's WillC. The Waste LandD. The Golden Bough50. ______ is often credited with writing the first true " novel of incident".A. John BanyanB. Henry FieldingC. Samuel RichardsonD. Daniel Defoe51. Daisy Miller is a great work by ______.A. Henry JamesB. Mark TwainC. DreiserD. Stowe52. Hester is a character in ______.• A. Cone with the Wind B. The Fall of the House of UsherC. BabbittD. Scarlet Letter53. Jack London' s ______ is his patently autobiographical novel.A. The Call of the WildB. The Sea WolfC. Martin EdenD. The Iron Heel54. William Golding' s first and most well-known novel is ______.A. Coral IslandB. Lord of the FliesC. Treasure IslandD. The Brass Butterfly55. "To be, or not to be" is quoted from ______.A. King Lear BHamletC. Julius CaesarD. Romeo and Juliet56. The first book of the Old Testament is called ______.A. ExodusB. NumbersC. LeviticusD. Genesis57. The black man Jim is a character in Mark Twain' s ______.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Life on the MississippiD. The Prince and the Pauper58. 0 Captain} My Captain\ was written in memory of ______.A. Walt WhitmanB. Benjamin FranklinC. Abraham LincolnD. Martin Luther King59. Which of the following works is NOT written by D. H. Lawrence?A. Women in Love.B. Sores and Lovers.C. The Rainbow.D. The French Lieutenant' s Woman.60. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ______ and ______ centuries.A. 14th/mid-17thB. 14th/mid-18thC. 16th/mid-18thD. 16th/mid-17th61. The Crapes of Wrath is the masterpiece of ______.A. John SteinbeckB. John CheeverC. John UpdikeD. John DOS Passes62. _____ is NOT a play written by Tennessee Williams.A. Cat on a Hot Tin RoofB. The Class MenagerieC. Light in AugustD. A Streetcar Named Desire63. Robert Bums is a poet from ______.A. EnglandB. New EnglandC. IrelandD. Scotland64. Look Back in Anger is a play written by ______.A. John OsbomeB. Samuel BeckettC. Edward AlbeeD. Eugene O'Neil65. ______ is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A. RomanceB. NovelC. SonnetD. Drama66. Seize the Day is regarded the best novel written by ______.A. Flannery 0'ConnerB. Saul BellowC. Ralph EllisonD. Sherwood Anderson67. ______ is NOT among the postwar poets in modem American literature.A. Robert LowellB. Gary SynderC. Alien GinsbergD. e. e. cummings68. William Blake' s The Tiger is collected in ______.A. Songs of InnocenceB. Songs of ExperienceC. Marriage of Heaven and HellD. Poetical Sketches69. The image of the famous "henpecked husband" is created by ______.A. Washington IrvingB. Fennimore CooperC. Edith Wharton D William Dean Howells70. ______ is known as "the poet' s poet".A. ShakespeareB. MarloweC. SpenserD. Donne71. The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be ______.A. O'NeilB. PoundC. Robert FrostD. Scott Fitzgerald72. ______was the most important person of the transcendental club.A. HawthornB. WhitmanC. EmersonD. Thoreau73. Shylock is a character in ______.A. The Merchant of VeniceB. The Twelfth NightC. The Winter's TaleD. Macbeth74. The compiler of A Dictionary of the English Language is ______.A. Joseph AddisonB. Richard SteeleC. Samuel JohnsonD. Laurence Stem75. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following EXCEPTA. religionB. love and marriageC. life and deathD. war and peace76. American fiction in the 1960s and 1970s proves different from its predecessors. It is referred to as ______.A. imagismB. black humorC. new fictionD. the Beat Generation77. Together with Lawrence and Joyce, ______ is considered one of the three giants ot the modem English novel and a master of English prose.A. Henry JamesB. Joseph ConradC. E. M. ForsterD. Aldous Huxley78. This line "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" is quoted from ______.A. Don Juan C Kubia KhanC. To AutumnD. Ode to the West Wind79. Stephen Crane is famous for ______.A. An American TragedyB. The AmbassadorsC. Main StreetD. The Red Badge of Courage80. "Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay". What is the figure oi this speech?A. Hyperbole.B. Simile.C. Metaphor.D. Synecdoche.81. ______ has won the Pulitzer Prize four times and Nobel Prize.A. Ernest HemingwayB. John SteinbeckC. Eugene 0' NeilD. William Faulkner82. Golden Notebook is a feminist novel written by ______.A. Amy TanB. Doris LessingC. Flannery 0' ConnorD. Kate Chopin83. Which of the following poems is written by W. H. Auden?A. Sailing to ByzantiumB. To an Athlete Dying YoungC. Musee des Beaux ArtsD. Church Going84. Beloved is the masterpiece of ______.A. Tony MorrisonB. Ralph EllisonC. John DOS PassesD. Willa Gather85.______, the author of The Interpretation of Dreams has great impact on literary creation and criticism.A. Carl JungB. Jean-Paul SartreC. Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheD. Sigmund Freud86. Henry Fielding is the author of the great 18th century English novel, ______.A. The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingB. PamelaC. Moll FlandersD. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy87. Tess is a character created by ______.A. D. H. LawrenceB. James JoyceC. Thomas HardyD. Dylan Thomas88. The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer' s day" is quoted from Shakespe-A. comediesB. tragediesC. historiesD. sonnets89. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?A. To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.B. To put the stress on traditional values.C. To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.D. To advocate a conscious break with the past.90. In A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, John Donne compares the lovers ' souls to ______.A. two rosesB. two circlesC. sun and moonD. twin compasses91. Utopia is ______' s work.A. Thomas MoreB. Francis BaconC. John DrydenD. George Herbert92. One of the Prime Ministers of Britain has won the Nobel Prize for literature, and that is ______.A. Margaret ThatcherB. Tony BlairC. Winston ChurchillD. John Major93. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" is an epigrammatic line by ______.A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe Shelley94. Whitman' s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ______.A. a strict poetic formB. a simple and conversational languageC. a free and natural rhythmic patternD. an easy flow of feelings95. Who initiated the name of the Lost Generation?A. Hemingway.B. Fitzgerald.C. Gertrude Stein.D. William Faulkner.96. My Last Duchess is a monologue poem written by ______.A. William ShakespeareB. Robert BrowningC. Ben JonsonD. Robert Herrick97. The high tide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around ______.A. 1820B. 1850C. 1880D. 192098. The title of Alfred Tennyson' s poem "Ulysses" reminds the reader of the following EXCEPT______.A. the Trojan WarB. Homer's OdysseyC. adventures over the seaD. religious quest99. As a literary figure, Heathcliff appears in ______.A. Jane EyreB. Oliver TwistC. Wuthering HeightsD. Middlemarch100. The publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of the New England Transcendentalism.A. NatureB. Self-RelianceC. The Over-SoulD. The American Scholar101. ______ is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.A. Richard SheridanB. Oliver GoldsmithC. Oscar WildeD. Bernard Shaw102. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ______.A. Ezra PoundB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Robert FrostD. Emily Dickinson103. The success of Jane Eyre is partly due to its introduction to the English novel the first ______ heroine.A. explorerB. peasantC. workerD. governess104. ______ is the representative work of the Beat Generation.A. The Great CatshyB. On the RoadC. Look Back in AngerD. The Sun Also Rises105. Emily Grierson is a literary figure created by ______.A. Willa GatherB. Doris LessingC. William FaulknerD. Nathaniel Hawthorn106. The most significant idea of the Renaissance is ______.A. humanismB. realismC. naturalismD. skepticism107. The title of Thackeray' s "Vanity Fair" is taken from __A. The Holy BibleB. The Faerie QueenC. The Pilgrim' s ProgressD. Paradise Lost108. Mr. Micawber in David Coppeifield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps I best ______ characters created bv Charles Dickens.A. comicB. tragicC. roundD. sophisticated109. Thomas Pynchon can also be categorized as a Black Humor writer, as well as ______ writer.A. classicalB. transcendentalC. postmodernist D realistic110. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is written by ______.A. Ben JonsonB. Thomas GrayC. William WordsworthD. William Blake111. Who is considered the father of American poetrv?A. Philip Freneau.B. William Cullen Bryant.C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. D Henry David Thoreau.112. In America,there is "a little woman started a great war". Who is she?A. Anne BradstreetB. Harriet Beecher StoweC. Edith WhartonD. Catharine Anne Porter113. Waiting/or Godot is a ______.A. poemB. playC. short storyD. novel114. Which of the following poets has once won the Nobel Prize?A. William Butler Yeats.B. Thomas Hardy.C. Wystan Hugh Auden.D. Dylan Thomas.115. ______ is NOT written by Edgar Allan Poe.A. The RavenB. Annabel LeeC. The Fall of the House of UsherD. Song to Celia116. Arthur Miller is an American ______.A. novelistB. poetC. playwrightD. essayist117. Mr. Darcy is a character in ______.A. Tess of the D' UrbervillesB. Pride and PrejudiceC. Happy PrinceD. The Mill on the Floss118. Iceberg Theory is a writing principle proposed and closely followed by ______.A. Jack LondonB. Sinclair LewisC. William FaulknerD. Ernest Hemingway119. ______ is featured by black humor.A. CaricatureB. Catch-22C. The Catcher in the Rye C. Death of a Salesman120. Who is the only woman writer that has won both Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize?A. Pearl Buck.B. Virginia Woolf.C. Tony Morrison.D. Katharine Mansfield.。

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