英美文学介绍复习

11级英语二专《英美文学》期末复习指南(AB卷)【备注：】1. 考试形式为闭卷，允许带一张统一标准(8cm×8cm) 的手抄复习资料（严禁打印、复印）；考前检查不符合要求的一律上交（包括纸张尺寸超标，复印、打印等），相关后果自负！2. 书写时请注意：英语中没有书名号《》；书籍、杂志报纸、剧本、长诗、影片及歌剧的名称书写时要加下划线（打印用斜体表示）；文章或非长诗加双引号。

（考试时不规范的格式扣该题的一半分数！）3. 课堂上已讲解过的题目均省略答案，请参照自己的课堂笔记。

＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊一、Identification. (1%×10=10%)(考其中一组) (答案参考教材)Identify the author with his or her work.(1)Charles Dickens A. A Passage to India(2) E.M. Foster B. Paradise Regained(3)James Joyce C. The Color Purple(4)John Milton D. The Road Not Taken(5)Shelley E. For Whom the Bell Tolls(6)Robert Frost F. Jude the Obscure(7)Alice Walker G. The Waste Land(8)Ernest Hemingway H. Hard Times(9)T.S. Eliot I. Ulysses(10)T homas Hardy J. Prometheus Unbound(1)Henry James(2)Francis Bacon(3)George Bernard Shaw(4)Emily Bronte(5)William Golding(6)Shelley(7)Dylan Thomas(8)William Blake(9)Oscar Wilde(10)J ames Joyce A.Lord of the FliesB.Wuthering HeightsC.“The Tyger”D.Queen MabE.The Portrait of a LadyF.The DublinersG.The Importance of Being EarnestH.PygmalionI.Novum OrganumJ.Deaths and Entrances二、Fill in the blanks. (1%×10=10%)(考其中10题)1.Beowulf is regarded as the oldest poem in English literature.2.The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the Romance.13.In 1925, Fitzgerald wrote his best novel The Great Gatsby. It is the story of an idealist who isdestroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.4.The greatest and most distinctive achievement of Elizabethan literature is drama.5.In 1925, Virginia Woolf published her masterpieces Mrs. Dalloway, in which she used thetechnique of “stream of consciousness” to denote the flow of inner experiences.6.William Faulkner wrote about the society in the south by inventing families which representsdifferent social forces: the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious unscrupulous class of the “Poor Whites”; and the Negroes who labor for both of them.7.The two major novelists of the English Romantic Period are Jane Austen and Walter Scott.8.J. D. Salinger is regarded as a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post-war era and his TheCatcher in the Rye is referred to as a students’ classic.9.Jane Eyre is one that introduces to the English novel the first governess heroine.10.John Dryden wrote his famous prose com position “an Essay of Dramatic Poesy” in 1668, whichestablished his position as the leading critic of the day.11.Beowulf is regarded as the oldest poem in English literature.12.The Rape of the Lock takes the form of a mock epic, which describes the triviality of high societyin a grand style.13.The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the dramatic monologue.14.James Joyce is the founder of the “Stream of consciousness” school of novel writing.15.The Rainbow and Women in Love are generally regarded as D. H. Lawrence’s masterpieces.16.The Grapes of Wrath is written by John Steinbeck who won the Pulitzer Prize.17.Carl Sandburg was associated with the imagists and wrote well-known imagist poems such as TheHarbor, Smoke and Steel, and Fog.18.The two-line stanza form is called the couplet, the best-know being the heroic couplet which iswritten in iambic pentameter with an end rhyme.19.J. D. Salinger is regarded as a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post-war era and his TheCatcher in the Rye is referre d to as a students’ classic.20.Stephen Crane’s novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Street, is the story of a girl who experiences theviolence and cruelty of the society almost every day.三、Choose the best answer. (1%×20=20%)(考其中20题)1. The hero in the romance is usually the knight.2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the most accomplished example of medieval romance, dealing with Arthurian romance.3. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is taken from Ode to the West Wind.4. Most of Hardy’s novels are set in Wessex, the fictional primitive and crude region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.5. Milton’s Paradise Los t is written in blank verse.6. The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory.7. “He was not of an age, but for all the time.” “He” here refers to Shakespeare.8. In The Preface to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth set forth his principles of poetry, “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.9. Transcendentalists believed that nature is ennobling and the individual is divine.10. Keats’s poetry is always sensuous, colorful and rich in imagery, which expresses the acuteness of his senses. In his poetry, sight, sound, scent, taste and feeling are all taken in to give an entire understanding of an experience.11. The prevailing tone in Pride and Prejudice is mild satire.12. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.13. The Last Leaf by the American short story writer O. Henry relates the story of a fictional painter who finally finishes his “masterpiece” of life at the cost of his life.14. Robert Burns wrote under the influence of Scottish folk tradition and old Scottish poetry.15. The Rainbow is a story about the three generations of the Brangwen family on the Marsh farm.16. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis is a comic novel.17. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by Ezra Pound.18. All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain became increasingly pessimistic.19. “Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style” are the famous words by Jonathan Swift.20. In Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving agrees with the protagonist on the preferability of the past to the present, of a dream-like world to the real world.21.The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde’s only novel.22.The Dynasts is Thomas Hardy’s epic。