英国文学复习题.docx

LiteratureI. Fill in the blanks （15 空）II. Choose the best answer for each blank・（10 空）1・After the fall of the Roman Empire 帝国and the withdrawal 撤退of Roman troops from Albion, the aboriginal 土著的Celtic 凯尔特 A population of the larger part of the island was soon conquered 征月艮and almost totally exterminated by the Teutonic 日耳曼人的tribes of Angles , Saxons , and Jutes who came from the continent and settled in the island, naming its central part England. 2・For nearly 400 years prior to the coming of the English, British had been a Roman province. In 410A.D. , the Rome withdrew 撤回their legions 古罗马军团from Britain to protect herself against swarms of Teutonic invaders・3. The literature of early period falls naturally into two divisions, paqan 异教徒and Christian ・The former represents the poetry which the Anglo-Saxons probably brought with them in the form of oral saqas 长篇英雄故事，the crude material out of which literature was slowly developed on English soil；the later represents the writings developed under the teaching of the monks ・4. Among the early Anglo-Saxon poets we may mention Caedmon who lived in the latter half of the 7th century and who wrote a poetic Paraphrase of the Bible・5. The Sonq of Beowulf can be justly termed 称为England's national epic and its hero Beowulf --------- o ne of the national heroes of the English people・6. The Song of Beowulf reflects events which took place on the Continent approximately at the beginning of the 6th century, when the forefathers of the Jutes lived in the southern part of the Scandinavian peninsula 斯堪的纟内维亚半岛and maintained close relations with kindred tribes, e.g. With the Danes who lived on the other side of the straits・7. In the year_1066 ___ , at the battle of _Hastings _______ , the__ Normans ____ h eaded by William, Duke of Normandy, defeated the Anglo-Saxons・8. In the tenth century the Normans conquered a part of northern France, which is still called Normandy, and rapidly adopted 采纟内French civilization and the French lanquaae.9. The literature which Normans brought to England is remarkable for its bright, romantic tales of love and adventure 冒险,in markedcontrast with the strength 力量and somberness 忧郁of Anglo・Saxon poetry.10. (英语的形成)Anglo-Saxon speech simplified 简化itself by dropping of its Teutonic in flections, absorbed eventually a large part of the French vocabulary and became the English language・ 10. English literature is also a combination of _French_and _Saxon_ elements.(选)11. At first the new literature was remarkably varied, but of small intrinsic 本质白勺worth; and very little of it is now read・ In our study we have noted (a) Geoffrey's History, which is valuable as a source book of literature, since it contains the n ative Celtic lege nds of Arthur;(b) the work of the French writers, who made the Arthurian 亚瑟王的legends popular; (c) Riming Chronicles编年史, i.e. history in doggerel 打油诗verse, like Laysmon J s Brut; (d) Metrical Romances 韵律拉丁语，or tales in verse.12 In contradistinction to the alliterative verse of Anglo-Saxon poetry, Chaucer chose the metrical form which laid the foundation of the English tonico-svllbic verse・13. Chaucer's masterpiece is The Canterburv Tales, one of the most famous works in all literature・ He created a strikingly brilliant and picturesque panorama of his time and his country in this poem.14. Ballads are anonymous 匿名的narrative songs that have been preserved 力口工by oral transmission 口头相传.(T解选择)15. The 16th century in England was 繁荣昌盛的prosperous and flourishing.出现：(1 )the qentrv 新贵,the main supporters of the absolute monarchy 君主制度・(2) the class of bourgeoisie屮产阶级.(选择)16. The revolution of 1688 meant three things: (1) the supremacy of Parliament 至高无上的议会；(2) the beginning of modern England; (3) the final triumph 胜利of the principle of political liberty 自市of Puritan 清教徒17, John Donne ------metaphvsical poet 玄学诗18. John Bunyan ------ biblical allegory 圣经寓言(biblical include biblical allegorical epic 叙事诗and biblical allegory)(选择)19- The Puritan Age was one of confusion. The Puritan believed in simplicity 朴素of life・11 .There are various kinds of ballads _historical _____ ,_legendary ____ , _fantastical ______ , _lyrical ____ , and_humorous ____ .12. The name of the “jolly innkeeper” in The Canterbury Tales isHarry Baily ____, who proposes that each pilgrim of the_group __ should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and twomore on the way back.14. Shakespeare's first original play written in about 1590 was_King Henry Vl_・15. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and _Macbeth __________ are generally regarded as Shakespeare's four great tragedies・16. Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of _Queen Elizabeth I _____ .17. Bacon's works may be divided into three classes, the_philosophical ____ , the」iterary ________ , the_professional _____ works ・18. Together with the development of bourgeois relationships and formation of the English national state this period is marked by a flourishing of national culture known as the__ Renaissance ______ .19. Edmund Spenser was the author of the greatest epic poem of _The Fairy Queen ______ ・20. Anglo-Saxon poets typically used _alliterative ________ v erse, a form of verse that uses _alliteration ___________ as the principal structuring device to unify lines of poetry.21. The British legend of King Arthur was important in defining the ideal of _chivalry _______ which is essential to the Europeanconcept of the knight as an elite warrior who swear to uphold the values of _faith ______ , _courage _____ , _loyalty _______ and honor.22. As a literary genre of high culture, _ Roma nee is a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about the marvelous adventures of a chivalrous, heroic knight errant, often of super-human ability, who often goes on a quest.23. _______ lambic pentameter ____ is a line made up of five pairs of short/long, or unstressed/stressed, syllables・24. A ___ heroic couplet ____ is a traditional form for Englishpoetry constructed from a sequenee of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines・ Use of the heroic couplet was first pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in theLegend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales・ Chaucer is also widely credited with first extensive use of _____________ iambic pentameter ______ .25. _An epic ______ is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarilyconcerning ____ a serious subject ___________ containingdetails of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture ornation.26. In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer believes in the right ofman to ___ earthly happiness ______ ・ He is anxious to see man freed from _______ s uperstitions and a blind belief in___ f ate_・He is also keen to praise man's _energy_______ ,adroitness, _intellect _________ , quick wit and the love for_life _______ ・27. ___ Ballad _____ i s generally a narrative poem of no greatlength, without any known author or any mark of individualauthorship ・28. _____ Blank verse ___ i s a type of poetry, distinguished byhaving a regular meter, but no rhyme・ This technique releases the new power and ____ flexibility _____ of the poetry.29. A ______ sonnet_ consists of 14 lines, and each line iswri社en in iambic pentameter in which a pattern of anunemphasized syllable followed by an emphasized syllable isrepeated five times. The rhyme scheme is _ABAB CDCD EFEF GG _____________________ ・30. Francis Bacon, a representative of the Renaissance inEngland, is a well-known philosophy, scientist and writer. His “___ Essays __ ,5 is the first example of the genre in Englishliterature, recognized as an important Iandmark in the development of prose・IL Choose the best answer for each blank.I. ______________________________ The most important work of _______________________________ A __ is the Anglo-SaxonChronicles, which is regarded as the best monument of the oldEnglish prose・a. Alfred the Greatb. Caedmonc. Cynewulfd. Venerable Bede2. Who is the monster half-human who had mingled thirty warriors in The Song of Beowulf? Ca. Hrothgat. b・ Heorot.c. Grendel.d. Beowulf.3. _A ____ is the first important religious poet in English Literature.a. Cynewulf b・ Caedmonc. Shakespeare・d. Adam Bede4. Who is the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England? Ba. Christopher Marlowb. Geoffrey Chaucerc. W. Shakespeared. Alfred the Great5. Chaucer's earliest work of any length is his “_C _____ ” a translation of the French “Roman de la Rose" by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but through Europe・a. Troilus and Criseydeb. A Red, Red Rosec. Romance of the Rosed. Piers the PlowmanIII.连线题1. Thomas More ------ Utopia ----- ut forward his ideal of a futurehappy society2. Francis Bacon ------ essays 散文3. Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard ------------ f irst to introduce thesonnet into English literature.4. Edmund Spenser ------- t he greatest epic poem of the time TheFairy Queen.5. John Lyly ----- "euphuism1华丽辞藻6. Christopher Marlowe --------- made blank verse the principalvehicle of expression in drama.把无韵诗变成戏剧基本表达形式7. John Bunyan ----- biblical allegory圣经寓言8. Richard Steele ----- a moralistic journal The Spectator9. Alexander Pope ----- “whatever is, is right”------ prosody 韵文学10. Daniel Defoe ----- Robinson Crusoe11. Henry Fielding and Tobias George Smollet -------------- the realfounders of the genre of the bourgeois realistic novel 现实主义12. Samuel Richardson --------- enriched European literature withthe method of psychological analysis 心理分析；display an interest in the innermost 最深处最隐私的life of an in dividual.13. Jonathan Swift ------ Gulliver's Travels.15. (sentimentalism 感伤主义)Oliver Goldsmith Wakefield16. --------------------------------------------------------------- (sentimentalism 感伤主义)Thomas Gray -------------------------------------- ElegyDecide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets ・1. (F ) The author of The Song of Beowulf is Cynewulf.2. ( F ) The setting of The Song of Beowulf is in Scotland.3. ( T ) The author of Paraphrase is Caedmon.4. ( T ) The 32 pilgrims, according to Chaucer's plan, was to exceed that of Brancaccio's Decahedron.5. (F ) The Prologue is a splendid masterpiece of Romantic portray, the first of its kind in the history of English literature.6. ( F ) The Canterbury Tales is a vivid and brilliant reflection of 15thcentury in England.7. ( T) Chaucer's poetry traces out a path to the literature of English Renaissance ・IV. Define the literary terms listed below.1 .Alliteration: the use of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words that are close together ,as in sing a song of sixpence ・ 14. Richard B. Sheridan School for Scandal 造谣学校 The Vicar of2. Epic: is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning aserious subject containing details of heroic deeds andevents significant to a culture or nation.I. Fill in the following blanks.II. Define the literature terms listed below・1・Canto: one of the sections of a long poem/one of the parts into which a very long poem is divided・2. Legend:a story from ancient times about people and events, that may or may be not true・3. Arthurian Legend.（亚瑟，欧洲古老传说中的不列颠王.）III. Read the excerpt of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Carefully, and then make a brief comment on it.IV. Answer the following questions・1・What is the con sequence of the Norma n Conquest?2. Make a brief survey of the Middle English literature.I. Fill in the following blanks.・ Choose the best answer.III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets・IV. Define the literary terms listed below・1. Romance: is a literary form in medieval England about the stories of knights・ It's a long narrative composition in verse or in prose・ In the romance, it reflects the noble life, reflecting three kinds of matters・2 Ballad: Ballads are anonymous narrative songs that have been preserved by oral transmission・3. English Renaissance: P664. Sonnet: A Shakespearean 5or English sonnet consists of 14 lines, each line contains ten syllables, and each line is written in iambic pentameter in which a Patten of an unemphasized syllable followed by an emphasized syllable is repeated five time. The rhyme scheme in a Shakespean sonnet is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG・ 5・ Blank Verse: is a type of poetry, distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme, usually with ten syllables and five stresses in each line syllables・。