英国文学史及选读__复习要点总结

《英国文学史及选读》第二册练习题

I. 浪漫主义时期

I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.

1. English Romanticism is generally said to have begun with_____in 1798.

A. the publication of Lyrical Ballads

B. the death of Sir Scott

C. the birth of William Wordsworth

D. the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament

2. The Romantic Period is first of all an age of_____.

A. Novel

B. poetry

C. drama

D. prose

3. Romanticism does not emphasize_____.

A. the special qualities of each individual’s mind

B. the inner world of the human spirit

C. individuality

D. the features that men have in common

4._____ is not a Romantic poet.

A. William Blake

B. Sir Scott

C. P. B. Shelley

D. Lord Byron

5. _____ is a Romantic novelist but is impressed with neo-classic strains.

A. Walter Scott

B. Mary Shelley

C. Jane Austen

D. Ann Radcliff

6. _____ is not characteristic of Will iam Blake’s writing.

A. plain and direct language

B. compression of meaning

C. supernatural quality

D. symbolism

7. Wordsworth published Lyrical Ballads in 1789 with _____.

A. Byron

B. Coleridge

C. Shelley

D. Keats

8. Wordsworth thinks that _____ is the only subject of literary interest.

A. the life of rising bourgeoisie

B. aristocratic life

C. the life of the royal family

D. common life

9. Don Juan is the masterpiece of_____.

A. Lord Byron’s

B. P. B. Shelley’s

C. John Keats’s

D. Samuel Coleridge’s

10. _____ is not a novel written by Jane Austen.

A. Jane Eyre

B. Sense and Sensibility

C. Pride and Prejudice

D. Emma

II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook.

1. In essence, Romanticism designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the_____as the very center of all life and all experience.

2. For the Romantics, _____ is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.

3. Wordsworth is regarded as a “worshipper of _____.”

4. According to the subjects, Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about nature and poems about _____.

5. Coleridge’s achieveme nt as poet can be divided into two remarkably diverse groups: _____ and the conversational.