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试卷纸第1页台州学院外国语学院学年第学期级专业《英国文学史及选读I》期末试卷(6)（闭）班级姓名学号考试时间:120 分钟I. Multiple choice. Choose the best out of the four. (10%=1*1)1. Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A. ChristianB. knightlyC. GreekD. primitive2. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.A. Piers PlowmanB. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC. Confessio AmantisD. The Canterbury Tales3.Shakespeare’s literary work may be divided into three major periods, in the first of whichwas created.A. The Tragedy of MacbethB. King LearC. The Merchant of VeniceD. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark4. The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils”may well sum up the implied meaning of ___.A. Gulliver's TravelsB. The Rape of the LockC. Robinson CrusoeD.The pilgrim's Progress5. The work which was not written by John Milton is ____.A. L’ AllegroB. LycidasC. As You Like ItD. Defense for the English People6. Alexander Pope, a classic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.A. the emphasis of moderation in the writingsB. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the stress of balance and common senseD. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech7.The forerunners of the 18th century preromanticism include .A. Daniel DefoeB. Jonathan Swift试卷纸第2页C. Robert BurnsD. Henry Fielding8.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “___ in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. tragic epicB. comic epicC. romanceD. lyric epic9.The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties, the Whigs and the Tories ,which were satirized by Swift in his .A. Gulliver's TravelsB. The Rape of the LockC. Robinson CrusoeD.The pilgrim's Progress10. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___.A. horses that are endowed with reasonB. pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC. giants that are superior in wisdomD. hairy, wild , low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.II. True or False? Write T for true and F for false . (10%=1*10)____ 1. Hamlet’s character can be described as melancholy and hesitating .____ 2. John Donne is remembered by the later generations as a great prose writer .____3.In the line “We all expect a gentle answer , Jew.”, “gentle” is a pun.____4..”Studies serve for delight , for ornament , and for ability.” Is taken from “of Truth ”by Francis Bacon.____5.The novel “The History of Tom Johns, A Foundlings”is John Bunyan’s masterpiece .____6. The enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 17th century ._ 7.Swift’s masterpiece is “Robinson Crusoe” which contains four parts ._ 8.The turn of the 18th century and the 19th century in England sees the appearance of the new literary current---sentimentalism.____ 9. The two representative writers of realism in the 18th century are Henry Fielding and Tobias George Smollet.____ 10. In a poetic line , a foot with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is an iamb.III. Blank Filling. (10%=1*10)1.Today, Chaucer is acclaimed not only as “the father of English poetry ” but also as “the father of English fiction”. His masterpiece is ___.2.Ophelia is a character in the tragedy by Shakespeare .3.The title of Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair was borrowed from by John Bunyan, the greatest allegorist in English literature.试卷纸第3页4.The story Gulliver's Travels is told by the first person narrator, Doctor .5. is the most independent and the most original of all the romantic poets of the 18th century.6. The School for Scandal is a famous comedy by .7. The later enlighteners of England in the 18th century found the power of reason to be insufficient and therefore appealed to as a means of achieving social justice.8.The image of an enterprising Englishman of the 18th century was created by Daniel Defoe in his famous novel .9. In the line “Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright”, the rhythm is in the pattern with a strong beat and a weaker one in each foot, and the four such repetitions are called , or, four feet.10.is undoubtedly the greatest poet Scotland has ever produced. His Poems Chiefly in theScotland is of great significance.IV. Define or explain the following. (15%=5*3)1. Epic2. Alliteration3. Blank Verse4. Narrator5. ComedyV. Identify. (20%=10*2)Passage IThere was also a Nun, a Prioress,Whose smile was gentle and full of guilelessness.“By St. Loy!” was the worst oath she would say.She sang mass well, in a becoming way,Intoning through her nose the words divine,And she was known as Madame Eglantine.Questions:1.These lines are from a literary work with the title ___.2. The name of the writer of these lines is .3. The poetic form in these lines is .A. sonnetB. heroic coupletC. free verseD. blank verse4. From the lines, we may describe the nun’s character traits as , , .5. Comment on the style of the writer of these lines.Passage IIIf they be two , they are two so试卷纸第4页As stiff twin compasses are two ,Thy soul the fixt foot , makes no showTo move , but doth , if th’other do .And though it in the centre sit ,Yet when the other far doth roam ,It leans , and hearkens after it ,And grows erect , as that comes home .Such wilt thou be to me , who mustLike th’other foot , obliquely run ;Thy firmness makes my circle just ,And makes me end , where I begun .Questions1.Who is the writer of these lines?2.What’s the title of the poem from which these lines are taken?3.“The compasses”in these three stanzas is an extended metaphor. Analyze the similaritiesbetween the tenor and the vehicle in the metaphor.VI. Answer the following questions.(20%=10*2)1. What do you know about the English Renaissance?2. Make a brief introduction about Paradise Lost.VII. What is a sonnet? Analyze the sound effects and the developing of ideas in the following sonnet. (15%)Sonnet 18Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day ?Thou are more lovely and more temperate :Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May ,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date :Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shinesAnd often is his gold complexion dimmed ;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed ;But they eternal summer shall not fade ,Nor lose possesion of that fair thou ow’st;Nor shall death brag thou wonder’st in his shade ,When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:So long as men can breathe , or eyes can see ,So long lives this , and this gives life to thee .台州学院外国语学院学年第学期级专业《英国文学史及选读I》期末试卷答卷(6)（闭）班级姓名学号考试时间:120 分钟I. Multiple choice. Choose the best out of the four. (10%=1*1)II. True or False? Write T for true and F for false . (10%=1*10)1.____2.____3.____4.____5.____6.____7.____8.____9.____ 10.____III. Blank Filling. (10%=1*10)1. 6.2. 7.3. 8.4. 9.5. 10.IV. Define or explain the following. (15%=5*3)1..2.3.45.V. Identify.(20%=10*2Passage I 1.2.3.4.Passage II1.2.3.4.VI. Answer the following questions.(20%=10*2) 1.2.VII. Literary essay writing. (15%)。