英国文学试卷

host of playwrights.

A.William Blake

B.Richard Brinsley Sheridan

C.Ben Johnson

D.George Bernard Shaw

10.In the field of literature,the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works.This tendency is known as________.

A.Classicism

B.Neoclassicism

C.Romanticism

D.Pre-romanticism

11.The modern English novel came into being in______.

A.the middle of the17th century

B.the17th century

C.the late18th century

D.the middle of the18th century

12.Samuel Richardson,one of the great18th century novelists,is well known for his_______.

A.epistolary method

B.allegory

ic-epic in prose

D.symbolism

13._________compiled the“Dictionary of the English Language”which became the foundations of all the subsequent English dictionaries.

A.Ben Johnson

B.Samuel Johnson

C.Alexander Pope

D.John Dryden

14.Which play is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?

A.She Stoops to Conquer

B.The Rivals

C.The school for Scandal

D.The Conscious Lovers

15.English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in1798with the publication of a joint volume of poetry,Lyrical Ballads,written by Wordsworth and________.

A.Keats

B.Coleridge

C.Southey

D.Byron

16.The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is________.

A.prose

B.drama

C.novel

D.poetry

17.William Wordsworth asserts that poetry originated from______.

A.form

B.thoughts

C.artistic devices

D.emotion

18.In Coleridge’s“The Rime of Ancient Mariner”,the mariner suffers the horror of death, because________.

A.he experiences a shipwreck

B.he is tortured with starvation

C.he undergoes much sufferings

D.he kills an albatross

19.Which of the following writings is not written by William Wordsworth?

A.I wandered lonely as a cloud

B.the daffodils

C.The Solitary Reaper

D.The Chimney Sweeper

20._____is the author of the writing“Ode to a Nightingale”.

A.Herman Melville

B.John Keats

C.William Wordsworth

D.Coleridge

21.A proud,mysterious rebel of noble origin is called_______hero in Romantic period of English Literature.

A.Romantic

B.Realistic

C.Renaissance

D.Byronic

22.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner tells an adventurous story of_____.

A.a sailor

B.a knight

C.a king

D.a poet

23.William Wordsworth,a romantic poet,advocated all the following except______.

A.the use of everyday language spoken by the common people

B.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

C.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter

D.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech

24.“If winter comes,can spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by_______.

A.John Keats

B.William Blake

C.Wordsworth

D.Percy Bysshe Shelley

25.Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques,writers in the Victorian period shared one thing in common,that is,they were all concerned about________.

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