文学欣赏练习题1

一．选择题练习：

The Renaissance refers to between 14th-mid—17th century, which was under the reign of Queen ___and absolute monarchy in England reached its summit, and in which the “real mainstream” was ____.

A. Victoria/ poetry

B. Elizabeth/ drama

C. Mary/ novel

D. James/ drama

The two major novelists of the English Romantic Period are _____and Walter Scott.

A. Washington Irving

B. Jane Austen

C. Herman Melville

D. Charles Dickens Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are the following works except____.

A. Hamlet

B. King Lear

C. Romeo and Juliet

D. Othello

In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput”, “Brobdingnag”, “Houyhnhnm” and “Yahoo”?

A. The Pilgrim’s Progress

B. The Faerie Queene

C. Gulliver’s Travels

D. The School of Scandal The period before the American Civil War is commonly referred to as _______.

A. the Romantic Period

B. the Realistic Period

C. the Naturalist Period

D. the Modern Period

Moby Dick is regarded as the first American_________.

A. Prose epic

B. Comic epic

C. Dramatic fiction

D. Poetic fiction

In the Romantic period of British literature, ____is the most prosperous literary form.

A. prose

B. poetry

C. fiction

D. play

The Essence of Renaissance, the most significant intellectual movement, was_____.

A. Geographical exploration

B. Religious reformation

C. Publishing and translation

D. Humanism.

Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is not a usual subject of her poetic expression?

A. Religion

B. Life and death.

C. Love and marriage

D. War and peace.

“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” This “iceberg” analogy is put forward by ______.

A．Mark Twain B．Ezra Pound

C．William Faulkner D．Ernest Hemingway

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good for-tune, must be in want of a wife.” The quoted part is taken from ______.

A．Jane Eyre

B．Wutheri ng Heights

C．Pride and Prejudice D．Sense and Sensibility

You may have meet the term "Yahoo" on internet, but you may also have met it in English literature .It is found in _____

A. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

B. Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes

C. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

D. Henry Fielding's tom Jones

Stream-of-consciousness novels emphasize the depiction of:

A. man’s inner world of thought

B. the narration of events

C. the utterance of speeches

D. dramatic monologues

Which of the following works concerns most concentrated the Calvinistic view of original sin?

A. The Wasteland.

B. The Scarlet Letter.

C. Leaves of Grass.

D. As I Lay Dying

_____ as a trend became dominant in America literature in the late 1860s and early 1870s.

A. Local colorism

B. Romanticism

C. Stream of Consciousness

D. Naturalism

The Essence of Renaissance, the most significant intellectual movement, was_____.

A. Geographical exploration

B. Religious reformation

C. Publishing and translation

D. Humanism.

The Renaissance refers to between 14th-mid—17th century, which was under the reign of Queen ___and absolute monarchy in England