英美文学作业题之英国文学作业题

《英美文学》作业题之〈英国文学〉作业题

第一章: 古代与中世纪英国文学

I.Choose one that best complete each of the statement.

1.The most prevailing of literature in the feudal English is________

a. Romance

b. Romanticism

c. Realism

d. Modernism

2._________ is considered the earliest national epic of the English people.

a. Beowulf

b. Piers the plowman

c. Hamlet

d. Canterbury Tale

II.Briefly introduce the significance of Canterbury Tale.

第二章: 文艺复兴时期

I. Choose one that best complete each of the statement.

1. ________is not Shakespeare’s work.

a. Hamlet

b. King Lear

c. Othello

d. The Faerie

2. The Four Greatest Tragedies of Shakespeare’s do not include_______.

a. Romeo and Juliet

b. Hamlet

c. Macbeth

d. Othello

3..“shall I comparee thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of Shakespeare’s _________.

a. Songs

b. tragedies

c. sonnets

d. comedies

4.________ is regarded as ________.

a. “Father of English Essays”

b. “Father of Essays”

c. “Father of English Literature”

d. “Father of English Novels”

5.The English Renaissance began in the _________.

a. 15th century

b. 16th century

c. 14th century

d. 17th century

6._______is the essence of Renaissance.

a. Realism

b. Romanticism

c. Romance

d. Humanism

III.Define the literature terms

1.Renaissance

2.Humanism

the author of each of the following literature works

1.Hamlet

2.Essay

IV.For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literature work which it is taken and then brief

interpret it.

1. “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, //So long lives this, and this

gives life to thee14.”

2.“Reading maketh a full man29; conference30 a ready man31; and writing32

an exact man33”.

3. “For thy sweet love rememb’red such wealth brings,// That then I scorn

to change my state10 with kings.”

4. “Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring2; for ornament,

is in discourse3; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition of

business4.”

IV.Briefly analyze Hamlet in Shakespeare’s Hamlet

第三章: 十七世纪英国文学

I. Choose one that best complete each of the statement.

1. _______ is not written by John Milton.

a. Paradise lost

b. Paradise Regained

c. Samson Agonistes

d.. Beowulf

II.For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literature work which it is taken and then brief interpret it.

1.All is not lost(not all is lost): the unconquerable will,

And the study of revenge, immortal hate( undying hatred),

And courage never to submit or yield,

And what is else not to be overcome?

III.Briefly introduce the main idea of Samson Agonistes by Milton

IV.Briefly analyse the Significance and the theme of Paradise Lost .

1.Paraphrase the excerpt of Paradise Lost