《英美文学史及选读》期末试卷(2)

台州学院外国语学院学年第学期级专业《英国文学史及选读I》期末试卷(2)（闭卷) 班级姓名学号

I. Multiple choice. Choose the best out of the four . (10%=1*10)

1. The Song of Beowulf can be termed a(n) praising England’s national hero Beowulf .

A. epic

B. sonnet

C. romance

D. novel

2. Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.

A. Christian

B. knightly

C. Greek

D. primitive

3. An iambic pentameter couplet is called____.

A. heroic couplet

B. blank verse

C. tercet

D. sestet

4. Sonnets originated from Italy , and in the 16th century, ____ introduced it to England .

A. Thomas More

B. John Milton

C. Thomas Wyatt

D. Petrarch

5. In the poetic line “bathes each bud and shoot”, “bathes”and “bud”make a sound effect

called .

A. alliteration

B. assonance

C. consonance

D. internal rhyme

6. The supreme master in the 1st half of the 18th century is ____.

A. Jonathan Swift

B. Richard Steele

C. Daniel Defoe

D. Henry fielding

7. Romanticism in England began in 1798, with the publication of ____.

A. Lyrical Ballads

B. Endymion

C. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

D. To Autumn

8. “Eternal summer gilds them yet, / But all, except their sun, is set.” is from____ .

A. Ozymandias

B. Ode to the West Wind

C. She Walks in Beauty

D. The Isles of Greece

9., the author of Ivanhoe, is the creator and a great master of the historical novel.

A. Henry fielding

B. Walter Scott

C. Daniel Defoe

D. Jonathan Swift

10. ___ _is one of the “Lakers”, or Lake school poets .

A. John Keats

B. Percy Bysshe Shelley

C. Leigh Hunt

D. S. T. Coleridge

II. True or False? Write T for true and F for false . (10%=1*10)

____ 1. John Donne is the most outstanding representative of the 17th century dramas.

____ 2. A Modest Proposal by Swift shows the writer’s irony towards the projectors.

____ 3. In a poetic line, a foot with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable is trochic.

____ 4. The turn of the 18th century and the 19th century in England saw the appearance of a new literary current—Preromanticism.

____ 5. The Tiger by William Blake is a poem in The Songs of Innocence.

____ 6. The glory of the Romantic Age lies in the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats etc..

____ 7. The Satanic School includes Byron, Shelley and William Wordsworth.

____ 8. Don Juan made John Keats famous overnight.

____ 9.The first poem in The Lyrical Ballads is Wordsworth’s masterpiece The Rime of Ancient Mariner.

____10. In his poems Byron aimed at simplicity and purity of the language, fighting against the conventional forms of the 18th century poetry.

III. Blank Filling. (10%=1*10)

1. The line “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”is taken from by William

Shakespeare.

2. The 18th century was distinctively an age of .

3. The later enlighteners of England in the 18th century found the power of reason to be

insufficient and therefore appealed to sentiments as a means of achieving social justice, which led to the appearance of the new literary current—.

4. She Stoops to Conquer is a rollicking comedy by .

5. is the most independent and the most original of all the romantic poets of the 18th century.

6.The image of an enterprising Englishman of the 18th century was created by in his famous novel Robinson Crusoe.

7.While the political tempests led to a confusion in English literature in the 17th century, the peaceful development of the 18th century made a prevailing literary current.

8.The two representatives of Pre-Romanticism are William Blake and .

9. The most outstanding figure of English Sentimentalism is .

10. Romanticism in England ended in 1832, with the death of .