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Exercise OneI. Name the Writers by the given passages. (10%) ( ) 1. What man art thou,quoth he, That lookest as thou wouldst find a hare; For ever on the ground I see thee stare. ( ) 2. Here where nothing is private, the common affairs be earnestly looked upon...•There where all things be common to every man, It is not to be doubted that any an shall lack anything necessary for his private use, so •that •the •common •storehouses bars be sufficiently stored ( ) 3. Can honor set to a leg ?no, or an arm? No:...what is honor? A word, what is that word, honor? Air. ( ) 4. ...What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield... ( ) 5. It sucked me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea, our two bloods mingled be; This flea is you & I,& this Our marriage-bed, marriage temple is. ( ) 6. To err is human, to forgive ,divine ( ) 7. Imitation here will not to do the business. The picture must be after Nature herself. ( ) 8. Mother bore me in the southern wild And I am black, but O ! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child But I am black, as if bereaved of light ( ) 9. Farewell my friend ! farewell my foes ! My peace with these, my love with those: The bursting tears my heart declare----- Farewell the bonnie banks of Ayr! ( ) 10. I love all that thou lovest Spirit of Delight ! The fresh earth in new leaves dressed And the stary night Autumn evening, the moon When the golden mists are born II.True & False statement. (20%) ( ) 1. Chancer's contribution to English poetry lies chiefly in the fact •he •introduced from France the rhymed stanza in Iambic meter to English poetry. ( ) 2. Hamlet,the great tragedy of Shakespear, with perfect artistry, studys the big •question "to be or no to be." ( ) 3. Bacon was the founder of modern science & also famous for his "essays." ( ) 4. Milton's Areopagistica is a pamphlet about religious abuse. ( ) 5. University wits contribute a lot in prose writing as well as drama writing. ( ) 6. Romance is a typical kind of noble literature & has nothing to do with common people. ( ) 7. Sperser's "Faerie Queene", Sidney's "Astrophel & Stella "& Shakespeare's•"Sonnets" are the most famous sonnet sequences of Elizabethan Age. ( ) 8.Blank verse is the most popular literary form in 11th-14th century. ( ) 9. Marlowe was the greatest pioneer of English drama & it was Marlowe •who •first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama. ( ) 10.The eighteenth century is an enlightenment century that most of the writers show great interest on reasoning, rationality & classicism (Neo-classicism) ( ) 11.Swift was born in London, England. He was a national literary figure & •well-•known •by his humorous work-----Gulliver's Travels. ( ) 12.Defoe is the author of Robinson Crusoe, which is a scientific and fantastic work. ( ) 13.Richardison wrote his first novel when •he •was •very •young, he is thought as the follower of English psycho-analytical novelist. ( ) 14.Shelley is among the world's greatest lyric poets. He is the most wonderful lyric poet England has ever produced. ( ) 15.Tom Jones is the masterpiece of Henry Fielding & it offers •a •panoramic •picture •of 18th century England with the life of people in London, in the countryside & on the open road. ( ) 16.Robert Burns is a peasant poet & is famous for his •songs •written •in •the •Scottish dialect on a variety of subjects. ( ) mb,Hunt,Hazlitt & De Quincy are among the most famous prose writers •in •romantic period. ( ) 18.Sentimentalism is the transition period from realism to romanticism. ( ) 19.The best known historical novel created by Walter Scott is "Ivanhoe." ( )20.Charles Dickens is the best known representative of critical realism. III. Put the literary terms into Chinese. (20%) 1. alliteration 2. Romance 3. allegory 4. blank verse 5. euphuism 6. tragic-comedy 7. ballad 8. elegy 9. pastoral 10. picaresque novel 11. heroic couplet 12. lyrics 13. metaphysical poets 14. Spenserian stanza 15. realistic fiction 16. Romanticism 17. canto 18. soliloquy 19. neo-classicism 20. interlude IV. With the character of the book giving out, write down the name of the book. (10%) 1. The Wife of Bath 2. Bassanio ,Antonio 3. Sir John Falstaff 4. Friday 5. Joseph Andrews 6. Clarissa 7. Sophia 8. Don Juan 9. Cythna 10. Lilliputians V. Match the following information. 1. William Shakespeare a. To Daffodils 2. Walt Scott b. Ode to West Wind 3. Percy Bysshe Shelley c. Ivanhoe 4. William Longland d. Pilgrim's Progress 5. Geoffrey Chaucer e. Oliver Twist 6. Charles Dickens f. Piers the Plowman 7. John Milton g. Troilus & Criseyde 8. John Bunyan h. Utopia 9. Thomas More i. Samson Agonistes 10. William Wordsworth j. Othello VI. Listing. (20%) 1. List the most important dramas created by William Shakespeare (At least 8 of them) (8%) 2. List the famous women characters appearing in the works in each important literary periods.(5%) 3. List five important poets of different literary periods (5%) 4. List two best English elegies in English literary history(2%) VII. William Wordsworth's literary theory of poetry.(10%) 参考答案： I． 1. Geoffrey Chaucer 2. Thomas More 3. Shakespeare 4. John Milton 5. John Donne 6. Alexander Pope •7.•Henry Fielding 8. William Blake 9. Robert Burns 10. Percy Bysshe Shelley II. 1-5 T T T F T 6-10 T F F T T 11-15 F F F T T 16-20 T T F T T III. 1. 头韵 2. 传奇文学/罗曼司 3. 讽寓 4. 无韵诗/白体诗 5. 夸饰文体 6. 悲剧7. •遥曲/民谣/民歌8. 挽歌/诗9. 田园牧歌作品10. 流浪汉小说 11. 英雄双行/韵体12. 抒情诗13.•玄学派诗人14. 斯宾塞诗节15. 现实主义小说 16. 浪漫主义17. 诗章18. 独白19.新古典主义20. 插剧 IV.1. Canterbury Tales2. The Merchant of Venice3. Henry IV4. Robinson Crusoe5.•Joseph Andrews6. Clarissa Harlowe7. Tom Jones8. Don Juan9. The Revolt of Islam • 10. Gulliver's Travels V. 1-5 JCBFG 6-10 EIDHA VI.1. A Midsummer Night's Dream As You Like It The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night Hamlet macbeth Othello King Lear 2. Wife of Bath,Portia,Betrice, Pamela, Clarissa, Cythna 3. Chaucer ,Edmund Spenser ,John Milton, Alexander Pope, William Wordsworth • 4.•Shelley's "Adonais" & Mitton "Lycidas". VII. 1. All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings 2. The theme is to be situations & incidents chosen from common life 3. The language used is to be a selection of language really used by men 4. Ordinary things are to be presented in an unusual way 5. finding of universal signicance in human society Exercise Two + I. With the following passages, please name the writers.(10%) ( ) 1."Farewell,my friends ! Farewell, my foes ! My please with these, my love with those: The bursting tears my heart declare_______ Farewell the bonnie banks of ayr ! " ( ) 2. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea; The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to blackness and to me. ( ) 3.My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but o ! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if brereav'd of light. ( ) 4. Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind. Why have I strayed from pleasure and repose To seek a good each government bestows ? ( ) 5. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I •had •exhausted •all the •art of pleasing which a retired and uncouthly scholar can possess...Is not a Patron, my lord,• one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? ( ) 6. Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. ( ) 7. The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The will-side's few-pearled; The lard's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in the heaven ______________ All's right with the world ! ( ) 8. If thou must love me, let it be for naught Except for love's sake only. Do not say "I love her for her smile...her look...her way Of speaking gently...For a trick of thought ( ) 9. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on as if in pain. ( ) 10.Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by ! II. Some of the following statements are true, some false. Mark them out.(20%) ( ) 1. W.B.Yeats was a poet and dramatist, who was born in Ireland. ( ) 2. Thomas Hardy was only a novelist, who didn't write any poem at all. ( ) 3. John Galsworthy was one of the most prominent of the •20th •century •English •realistic writers. ( ) 4. Mrs Warren's profession is one of the "Plays Unpleasent" by Bernard Shaw. ( ) 5. Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, dramatist and a critic. ( ) 6. Alfred Tennyson was the only English poet ever to have been ennobled purely for poetry. ( ) 7. Ben Jonson was a famous poet-dramatist, who advocated reformation in classic •drama of old Greek and Roman masters. ( ) 8. Shakespeare's long experience with the stage and his intimate •knowledge •of •dramatic art thus acquired doesn't make him a master----hand for play----writing but ( ) 9. " O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark,total eclipse Without all hope of day !" The above lines are from Byron's Don Juan, not from John Milton's Samson Agonistes. ( )10. Robert Burns and Walter Scott were born in •Scotland, both •of •them •are •the •famous national poets. III. Put the following literary terms into Chinese. (25%) 1. Aesthetic 11. iambus 21. cavalier poets 2. Imagism 12. poet 22. enlighten 3. Modernism 13. romanticism 23. sentimentalism 4. tragedy 14. trochee 24. naturalism 5. comedy 15. Critical Realism 25. historical novel 6. monologue 16. Renaissance 7. blank verse 17. humanism 8. sonnet 18. artistic 9. quatrain 19. literary career 10. anapest 20. metaphysical poets IV. Write down the name of the book with the given characters. (10%) 1. Lady Chatterley 2. Tess and Angel Clare 3. Edith and Carker 4. Beck Sharp and Amelia Sedley 5. Mr.Rochester 6. Heathcliff and Catherine 7. John Barton and his daughter Mary 8. Adam Bede and Hetty Sorrel 9. Clarissa 10.Joseph Andrews V. Link the author andthe work together.(12%) 1. Shakespeare A. Dombey and Son 2. Dickens B. Ivanhoe 3. W.B.Yeats C. Tess of D'urbervilles Villes 4. T.S.Eliot D. Heartbreak House 5. Henry James E. Women in Love 6. Virginia Woolf F. Prometheus Unbound 7. James Joyce G. The Portrait of a Lady 8. Walter Scott H. the Tower 9. Bernard Shaw I. Ullysses 10. Hardy,Thomas J. Night and Day 11. wrence K. Waste Land 12. Shelly L. Othello VI.Fill in the blanks.(8%) 1. __________________was the work that first make •Dickens •famous •as •a •popular •writer •of novel. 2.•After •he •went •blind,•Milton •wrote •and •finished ••his ••three ••great ••works:•epic masterpieces_________and ________and one biblical tragedy ___________. 3. Wordsworth was the world's greatest interpreter on ___________.He looked •upon •himself •as _______________. 4.•ALexander •Pope •was •the •undisputable •master •in •the •field ••of ••______________and ___________verse. 5. Burns is a patriotic poet as well as a national symbol of ____________. 6. In 1884 ____________was made a Baron___________the only English •poet •ever •to •have •been ennobled purely for his poetry. 7. "Dover Beach" is a poem by _____________,who was also a famous critic. 8. ________________was not only the last but the most perfect of romanticists. VII. Comment on 20th century English modernism literature.(15%) 标准答案 I. 1. Robert Burns 2. Thomas Gray 3. William Blake 4. Oliver Goldsmith 5. Samuel Johnson 6. Alfred Tennyson 7. Robert Browning 8. Elizabeth Barret 9. Christina Georgina Rossetti 10. W.B.yeats II. TFTTTTFFFF III.1.审美原理2. 意象主义(派) 3. 现代主义 4. 悲剧 5. 喜剧 6.独白 7.素体诗8. 商籁体(十四行诗) 9. 四行诗10. 抑抑扬格11.抑扬格12.音步 13.浪漫主义14. 扬抑格15. 批判现实主义16. 文艺复兴17.人文主义18.艺术的 19.文学生涯20. 玄学诗人21. 骑士诗人22. 启蒙主义23.感伤主义24.自然主义25.历史小说 IV.1. Lady Chatteley's Lover 2. Tess of D'urbervilles 3. Dombey and Son 4. Vanity Fair 5. Jane Eyre 6. Wuthering Heights 7. Mary Barton,a Tale of Manchester Life 8. Adam Bede 9. Clarrisa Harlowe 10.Joseph Andrews V. 1.(L) 2. (A) 3.(I) 4.(K) 5.(G) 6. (H) 7. (I) 8. (B) 9.(D) 10. (C) •11.(E) 12. (F) VI.1. The Pickwick Papers 2. Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes 3. nature's message, nature's priest 4. satire, didactic 5. Scotland • 6. Tennyson 7. Matthew Arnold 8. Keats VII. omitted。