英美文学试题

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1.With the ending of the reign of Elizabeth I ,England was then convulsed with the conflict between the two antagonistic camps, the Royalists and the Puritans p99

2. Milton ,the spokesman of the Revolution, wrote a number of pamphlets defending the English people.

3. Samson Agonistes ended John Milton’s writing life ,the hero of which is Milton himself.

4.John Bunyan’s masterpiece The Pilgrim’s Progress tells of the spiritual pilgrimage of Christian from the City of Destruction to the Delectable Mountains and the Celestial City.

5.The main literary from of seventeenth century was poetry .Among the poets, besides Milton and Bunyan,there were two schools of poets: Metaphysical Poets and Cavalier Poets.

6. John Donne (1572-1631) is the founder of the Metaphysical school of poetry.

7. John Donne and his followers wrote Devotions upon Emergent Occasions what would later be called highly intellectual verse filled with metaphors.

8. Thomas Browne and Jeremy Taylor have been called two representative baroque prose-writers in English literature for their elaborate and magnificent style.

9 An Essay of Dramatic Poesy John Dryden’s most famous prose composition established his position as the leading critic of the day

10. Following the standards of classicism ,John Dryden established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse forms.

选择题

1.During the “Glorious Revolution", B was expelled and William was invited from Holland to be the King of England in 1688.

A. James I

B. James I I

C. Charles I

D. Charles I I

2. Which one of the following work is NOT written by John Milton? C

A. Paradise Lost

B. Paradise Regained

C. Julius Caesar

D. Samson Agonistes

3. Which one of the following work is NOT writ ten in John Milton’s blindness? D

A. Paradise Lost

B. Paradise Regained

C. On His Deceased Wife

D. Defence of the English People

4.John Milton's best-known prose work __D____ , as a declaration of people’s freedom of the press, has been a weapon in the later democratic revolutionary struggles.

A. Lycidas

B. Paradise Regained

C. Aeropagitica

D. Defence of the English People

5.The epic of Paradise Lost is based on the stories from. __B____.

A. The New Testament

B. The Old Testament

C. The Ancient Greek Myths

D. The Ancient Roman Myths

7.John Bunyan uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual journey of the soul toward God in his __A____.

A. The Pilgrim’s Progress

B. Lycidas

C .The Faerie Queene D. Don Juan

8. Who does NOT belong to the Metaphysical school? __D____.

A. John Donne

B. George Hrbert

C. Andrew Marvell

D. Robert Herrick

9. ___C ___is an elaborate metaphor comparing two apparently dissimilar objects with an effect of shock or surprise.

A. Soliloquy

B. Allegory

C. Conceit

D. Foreshadowing

11.The following characteristics belong to the metaphysical poetry represented by John Donne except D .

A. Conceits

B. Actual imagery and simple diction

C. Argumentative form

D. Elegant style

13. Paradise Lost is __C____ ’s masterpiece, which is an epic in 12 books , written in blank verse ,about the heroic revolt of Satan against God’s authority .

A. John Donne

B. Christopher Marlowe

C. John Milton

D. Edmund Spenser