英国文学I期末考试试题B

1. Hamlet, , King Lear and Macbeth are generally regarded as Shakespeare's four great tragedies.

2.___________ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.

3. Of Bacon‟s literary works, the most important are the ___________.

4. Milton gave us the only _________ since Beowulf, and Bunyan gave us the only great _________.

5. Defoe's masterpiece ___________ is based upon the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, who had been marooned in the island of Juan Fernadez off the coast of Chile and who had had lived there in solitude for five years.

6. Alexander Pope was called the representative poet in the ________ Age.

7. ________is regarded as the “father of English prose”, who was the first to write essays in the English language.

8. In the 17th century, John Donne, Andrew Marvell, and George Herbert were the typical poets in the school of .

9. Name three types of sonnet in English literature. They are , , . 10. As a whole, the 18th century is an age of _________ rather than of _________, and in this respect it differs from all the preceding ages of English literature.

III. Explain the following literary terms in your own words. (20%)

A. 1. epic

2. romance

3.Blank verse

4.Sonnet

5.Allegory

B. C-E translation:

1. 人文主义

2. 喜剧

3．感伤主义 4 史诗5．十四行诗

IV. Identify the names of the works from which the characters come: (15%):

1. Christian and Faithful from___________________

2. Portia, Bassanio and Shylock from___________________

3. Robinson and Friday from____________________

4. The Nun and Wife of Bath from____________________

5. Satan, Adam and Eve from____________________

6. Ophelia and the Prince of Denmark from__________________

7. Beowulf and Grendal, the monster from__________________

IV. Identify the following quotations by indicating the FULL NAMES of the authors and the WORKS from which they are taken. (15%)

1. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

Author Work

2.When I consider how my light is spent

Ere half my days in this dark world and wide

Author Work

3. Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of the town is Vanity; Author Work

4. Shall I compare thee to a summer‟s day?

Thou are more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer‟s lease hath all too short a date:

Author Work

5.Go and catch a falling star,

Get with child a mandrake root,

Tell me where all past years are,

Or who cleft the Devil‟s foot,