《英国文学史及作品选读》练习题.

《英国文学史及作品选读》练习题

All the sonnets were written by Keats EXCEPT .

正确答案: A. London 1802

In_______, _______set forth his principles of poetry, “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.

正确答案: A. In The Preface to Lyrical Ballads; Wordsworth华兹华斯

The revolutionary Romantic poet went to Greece to help that country in its struggle for liberty and died of fever there.

正确答案: D. Byron

In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s (塞缪尔·泰勒·柯尔律治“Kubla Khan”, “A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice “_______.

正确答案: D. Refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once lived

is Byron’s poetic drama with the material taken from Biblical story or stories.

正确答案: B. Cain

Wordsworth does not emphasize the importance of ______in poetry composition.

正确答案: C. the right poetic form

T he following statements are about “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”. Among them which one is NOT true?

正确答案: B. The first canto deals with Albania and Greece.

Pride and Prejudice is noted for its vividly depicted characters who are revealed through comparison and contrast with each other. Among the following pairs of characters are NOT in contrast.

正确答案: C. Lady Catherine and Mr. Collins

Shelley was influenced by the Utopian ideal of ________.

正确答案:William Godwin 威廉·戈德温

It is said that all Keats’s personality se ems to be breathed into his odes, of which the more famous odes are “de to Autumn”, “Ode on Melancholy”, ”Ode on a Grecian Urn” and “Ode to Nightingale”, all with the praise of _______ as their general theme.

正确答案: B. beauty

_______is a poem that tells the glorious victory of the battle at Bannockburn led by the Scottish national hero Robert Bruce.

正确答案:The Lord of the Isles

_______can be found among Shelley’s love lyrics.

正确答案: D. One Word is Too Often Profaned

The first poem in The Lyrical Ballads 《抒情歌谣集》is Coleridge’s (柯立基masterpiece_______. 正确答案: A. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

All the following statements about “Ode on a Grecian Urn” are true EXCEPT.

正确答案: B. In this poem, the poet spoke as bitterly of human woes as he did in “Ode to a Nightingale”.

At the beginning of Pride and Prejudice, the attitude of Darcy and Elizabeth toward each other is that of .

正确答案: B. mutual repulsion

Among the following, _______is an elegy.

正确答案: C. Adonais

Which one of the following does NOT describe the characteristic s of Scott’s writing?

正确答案: B. His plotting is often closely knitted.

William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following EXCEPT

_______.

正确答案: C. Elegant wording and inflated figures of speech

King Richard the Lion Heart and Robin Hood bot h appear in Scott’s novel_____.

正确答案:Ivanhoe 《劫后英雄传》

_______is NOT a historical novel written by Scott.

正确答案: B. Marmion

_______is NOT among the representative essayists in the romantic times.

正确答案: B. Walter Scott

The Romantic period is a great age of all literary genres EXCEPT.

正确答案: D. drama

All the following are novels written by Jane Austen EXCEPT_______.