英国文学样题1
英国文学试题（A）
I. Match the following works with their respective authors. (One point for each)
( ) 1. Thomas Hardy A. Pamela
( ) 2. Geoffrey Chaucer B. The Pilgrim's Progress
( ) 3. Francis Bacon C. Gulliver's Travels
( ) 4. John Bunyan D. Essays
( ) 5. Samuel Richardson E. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
( ) 6. Jonathan Swift F. The Rainbow
( ) 7. D. H. Lawrence G. The Canterbury Tales
( ) 8. William Shakespeare H. Tom Jones
( ) 9. G. G. Byron I. The Mill on the Floss
( ) 10. Henry Fielding J. Mary Barton
( ) 11. George Eliot K. To the Lighthouse
( ) 12. P. B. Shelley L. Don Juan
( ) 13. Charles Dickens M. Romeo and Juliet
( ) 14. Mrs. Gaskell N. A Tale of Two Cities
( ) 15. Virginia Woolf O. Prometheus Unbound
II. Multiple Choices (one point for each)
16. __________is the national epic of the English people.
A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
B. History of the Kings of Britain
C. The Dunciad
D. Beowulf
17. The culmination of the romance of King Arthur can be found in__________.
A. Bru
B. History of the Kings of Britain
C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
D. Mort D’Arthur
18. The most important department of English folk literature in feudal England is the _________.
A. ballad
B. romance
C. epic
D. Morality play
19. _________ was the father of English poetry.
A. Shakespeare
B. Chaucer
C. Milton
D. Spenser
20. The __________provides a framework for the tales in The Canterbury Tales
A. heroic couplet
B. personality of the host
C. iambic pentameter
D. Prologue
21. Chaucer was the forerunner of __________.
A. enlightenment
B. rationalism
C. humanism
D. Asceticism
22. The Canterbury Tales is mainly written in ________.
A. heroic couplet
B. alliterative verse form
C. blank verse
D.sonnet
23. The Faerie Queene is written in ________-line stanza form..
A. 7
B. 9
C. 8
D. 14
24. ___________ was the first of English essayist.
A. Bacon
B. Addison
C. Steele
D. Swift
25. The most gifted of the “ university wits” was ___________.
A. Shakespeare
B. Bacon
C. Marlowe
D. Thomas More
26. ___________ was the summit of English Renaissance.
A. Chaucer
B. Spenser
C. Milton
D. Shakespeare
27. ___________was the first in using blank verse in poetry.
A. Pope
B. Milton
C. Chaucer
D. Marlowe
28. ___________was the first in using blank verse in drama.
A. Marlowe
B. Chaucer
C. Milton
D. Shakespeare
29. Samson Agonistes is ______________.
A. an epic
B. a novel
C. a sonnet
D. a poetical drama
30. The term “ vanity fair” comes from _______________.
A.Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress
B. Milton’s Paradise Lost
C. Shakespeare’s Hamlet
D. Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
31. ____________ was the founder of Metaphysical school of poetry.
A. Thomas Carew
B. George Herbert
C. Andrew Marvell
D. John Donne
32. The most distinguished literary figure of the Restoration Period was ___________.
A. Ben Jonson
B. John Dryden
C. Alexander Pope
D. Samuel Johnson
33. The keynote of Enlightenment is ________________.
A. reason
B. humanism
C. emotion
D. regulation
34. In the hands of _____________, the English essay had completely established itself as a
literary genre.
A. Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
B. Joseph Addison
C. Ben Jonson
D. Francis Bacon
35. __________ marked the end of English writers’reliance on the patronage of noblemen for
support.
A. Pope’s Essay on Criticism
B. Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
C. Richardson’s Pamela
D. Johnson’s Dictionary
36. Sophia is the heroine of ________________.
A. Tom Jones
B. The Merchant of V enice
C. Hamlet
D. The School for Scandal
37. _________was the greatest English poet of the classical school in the first half of the 18th
century.
A. Dryden
B.Jonson
C. Johnson
D. Pope
38. Joseph Andrews was written in connection with ___________. It shows Fielding’s disgust
with the poor ethics of this novel.
A. Pamela
B. Clarissa
C. Sir Charles Grandison
D. Tom Jones
39. The School for Scandal is a __________.
A. comedy of manners
B. comedy of character
C. comedy of humour
D. romance
40. __________ is the first English psycho-analytical novel.
A. Tristram Shandy
B. Roderick Random
C. Humphry Clinker
D. Pamela
41. ___________ is written in a stream of consciousness manner.
A. Pamela
B. Roderick Random
C. Humphry Clinker
D. Tristram Shandy
42. The 18th century was the golden age of the English ____________.
A. drama
B. novel
C. poetry
D. essay
43. Thomas Gray is poet of ________..
A Sentimentalism B. Classicism
C. Realism
D. Enlightenment
44. ________ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic
epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
A. Jane Austen
B. Daniel Defoe
C. Jonathan Swift
D. Henry Fielding
45. The preface to the second edition of ________ is in fact a manifesto for English Romanticism.
A. Kubla Khan
B. Lyrical Ballads
C. Ode to the West Wind
D. Don Juan
46. Walter Scott is the first major _________, exerting a powerful literary influence both in
Britain and on the Continent throughout the 19th century.
A. stream-of-consciousness writer
B. critical realistic novelist
C. historical novelist
D. national poet
47. Robert Burns is a poet who uses _____ dialect in his poetry.
A. Irish
B. Gaelic
C. London
D. Scottish
48. ______ is regarded as the nature port of the romantic school.
A. Wordsworth
B. Shelley
C. Byron
D. Keats
49. The key word for commenting on _____ is “Beauty”.
A. Keats
B. Shelley
C. Coleridge
D. Blake
50. ______ is the transitional figure from realism to modernism.
A. Dickens
B. George Eliot
C.T.S. Eliot
D. Hardy
III. Point out the author according to the following description. (two points for each.)
1. It is an epistolary novel of the 18th century. And it is regarded as the first psychoanalytical
novel in the history of British literature. ( ) 2. It is a comedy of manners of the 18th century. And it is the masterpiece by a playwright who
is regarded as the bridge from Shakespeare to Bernard Shaw. ( ) 3. It is a long poem by a romantic poet of the younger generation, describing the life and
adventures of a Spanish young man of noble birth. Through the young man’s reflections of various events the poet attacks various kinds of oppressions. Haidee is a character in it.
( ) 4. It is a realistic novel whose title comes from Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress and one of
whose aims is to satirize the social climbers. ( ) 5. It is the only novel ever created by a critical realist, which directly describes the Chartist
Movement. ( ) 6. It is a novel written by the most important critical realist, the former part of which is about
the misery of a little boy under the ill-treatment of his step father, Mr. Murderstone.
( ) 7. It is a 19th century novel written in a gothic style by a woman writer. It is about a poor
foundling’s love and hatred for the two generations of two families. It is narrated by two narrators, Nelly Dean and Mr. Lockwood, with the aid of the diaries of the heroine.
( ) 8. It is a novel written in the 19th century by a woman writer. It is mainly about the
contradictions between a noble-minded girl with high aspiration and the philistines around her. The heroine’s name is Maggie. ( ) 9. It is an epic by a revolutionary and puritan poet in the 17th century. It is mainly about Satan’s
revolt against the tyranny of God. ( ) 10. It is a travel novel by the best satirist in the 18th century. In his last travel the hero meets some
noble-minded and intelligent horses and some abominable creature in the shape of human beings, which are called yahoos. ( ) IV. Please list the features of Romanticism as briefly as possible. ( 8 Points and 60 words at most)
V. Please discuss the causes for King Lear’s tragedy. ( 11 Points)
VI. Please talk about the theme of A Tale of Two Cities. ( 11 points)
英国文学试题（A）答案
I．EGDBA CFMLH IONJK （一个一分）
II．DCABD CABAC DBADA DBAAD ADAAD DBADB CDAAD （一个一分）
III．
1. Pamela
2. The School for Scandal
3. Don Juan
4. V anity Fair
5. Mary Barton
6. David Copperfield
7. Wuthering Heights 8. The Mill on the Floss
9. Paradise Lost 10. Gulliver’s Travels
IV. A Romantic work has the following characteristics: a) an emphasis on feeling and imagination;
b) a love of nature; c) a belief in individual; d）a belief in or sympathy for the common man; e) an interest in the past, the unusual, the unfamiliar, the bizarre or picturesque; f) a revolt against authority or tradition. g) It expresses the ideology and sentiment of the classes and strata who were dissatisfied with the development of capitalism. (一个要点一分，酌情加减，满分为8分)
V． 1. irresponsibility to his nation
2. inability to distinguish between good and evil and between truth and falsehood.
3. the prevalence of evil in that society.
4. his irrationality and impulse.
5. his love for flattery
能答对前三条且论述充分，得11分，其他酌情加减分，满分11分。
VI．1. Where there is oppression, there is revolution.
2. The author’s attitude to the representatives of the revolutionary people
3. The author’s attitude to the bourgeois intellectual
4. The author’s attitude to the reformed young men
5. A warning to the ruling class
一个要点2分，论述好且要点全者的11分，其他酌情加减分，满分11分。
英国文学期末考试题目(英语专业必备)
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英国文学期末考试题目(英语专业必备)
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1．{The Isles of Greece} QUESTIONS: 1. Who is the writer of these lines? Byron 2. It is taken from the writer's masterpiece entitled ___ "Don Juan"_________. 3. Who is "Sappho" in line 2? Sappho is an ancient Greek poetess , known for her passionate love lyrics. 4. Who is "Phoebus" in line 4? It's Apollo, the Greek Sun-god. 5. Whom does the "Scian muse" refer to? Homer, because Scio claimed to be the birthplace of Homer. 6. What does the whole section "The Isles of Greece" write about? The section "The Isles of Greece" is among Byron's most effective poetical utterances on national freedom. All the 16 stanzas are supposed to have been sung by a Greek singer at the wedding feast of Don Juan and Haidee on the isle of Greece. In the song, by contrasting the freedom enjoyed by the Greek ancient people with the enslavement of the early 19th century Greeks under the Turkish rule, the poet calls on the Greeks to struggle for their national freedom and liberation. 7. This selection consists of two six-lined stanzas of iambic tetrameter, with a rime scheme of ___ Ababcc__________ What does the poem mainly write about? This poem is about the beauty of nature. There is a vivid picture of the daffodils, mixed with the poet’s philosophical and somewhat mystical thoughts. What is the rime scheme in each stanza? ababcc 2．I wandered lonely as a cloud 1.What does the poem mainly write about? This poem is about the beauty of nature. There is a vivid picture of the daffodils, mixed with the po et’s philosophical and somewhat mystical thoughts. 2.What is the rime scheme in each stanza? ababcc 3. What is the poet’s view on nature? And how is that view shown in this poem? Wordsworth’s conception of nature is that nature has a lot to do with man, it can not only refresh one’s soul and fill one with happiness, but it can also be reduced into a beautiful memory which will comfort one’s heart when in solitude. In the narrative poem, the poet successfully compared his loneliness with the happy daffodils. The daffodils, the symbol of the nature, bring great joy and relief to the speaker. The diction of this poem is, in general, simple, direct, and clear. The image of the daffodils conveys qualities of movement and radiance through carefully chosen words. At first sight, the flowers are seen as “fluttering and dancing”; then the poet compares the flowers to the “stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way”, and then to the “sparkling waves” of a nearby lake. The daffodils are described as “golden”, not yellow, because “golden” suggests more than a color; it connotes light. These words of movement and radiance create a picture of nature as vital, animated, and glowing. Words for joy (glee, sprightly, gay, jocund, bliss) are used in a crescendo that suggests the intensity of the speaker’s happiness.
英国文学期末考试复习要点
英国文学期末考试复习要点 1.英国最早的居民：凯尔特人Celts 2.英语语言起源于盎格鲁萨克斯ANGLO-SAXON部落融合统一之后，发展于诺曼征服Norman Conquest之后。 3.古代文学两个分支（异教徒文学Pagan和基督文学Christian）；BEOWULF文学地位（英国的民族史诗national epic of England），人物角色(Beowulf,Grendel, Grendel's mother, Fire Dragon,Wiglef)，修辞手法（头韵法alliteration，暗喻metaphor，低调陈述understatement） 4.诺曼征服人物William the Conqueror，骑士Romance文学年代（中世纪14th-16TH）, 《高文和绿衣骑士的故事》Sir Gawain and the Green Knight（亚瑟王传说最佳作品）P.21选段，反映的是英国的故事matters of Britain。骑士的优良传统美德（忠诚loyalty） 5.威廉朗莱德William Langland作品《耕者皮尔斯》Piers the Plowman（十四世纪以梦境dream vision呈现的作品）
6.乔叟Chaucer地位（诗歌之父Father of English Poetry），主要作品The Canteberry Tales，文学贡献（英雄双行体Heroic Couplet，净化purified LONDON 音dialect），葬于西敏寺大教堂Westminster Abbey，为此建立诗人角Poet's Corner；《坎特伯雷故事集》主要人物（32 朝圣者pilgrims），选作P45(时间April，地点Tabard Inn，人物，巴斯妇人的故事Wife of Bath)，抑扬五步格iambic pentameter （轻音unstressed syllable+重音stressed syllable） 7.实行政教分离者（亨利八世Henry VIII）Religious Reformation:The King broke off with the Pope. 8.托马斯摩尔Thomas More的《乌托邦》Utopia，宣扬财产property与困境poverty 分离和建立理想国度ideal state。 9.托马斯怀亚特Thomas Wyatt把十四行诗sonnet引入英国，分离为莎士比亚体Shakespearian Sonnet和斯宾塞体Spencerian Sonnet，十四行诗源于意大利