东师英美文学18春在线作业2

(单选题) 1: Of the below poets, has not been awarded Poet Laureate.

A: William Wordsworth

B: Thomas Gray

C: Alfred Tennyson

D: Ben Jon son

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(单选题) 2: Who is not considered a Beat Generation writer?

A: Kerouac

B: Ginsberg

C: Mailer

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(单选题) 3: (The)____was a progressive intellecrual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century．

A: Romandcism

B: Humanism

C: Enlightenment

D: Sentimentalism

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(单选题) 4: The Pilgrim‘s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _______ .

A: material wealth

B: spiritual salvation

C: universal truth

D: self-fulfillment

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(单选题) 5: It is on his _______ that Washington Irving‘s fame mainly rested.

A: childhood recollections

B: sketches about his European tours

C: early poetry

D: tales about America

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(单选题) 6: Of the following writers , who wrote the critical essay On Poetry and Poets ?

A: Pound

B: Eliot

C: Frost

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(单选题) 7: ________ is famous for his international theme .

A: Howells

B: Mark Twain

C: Henry James

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(单选题) 8: In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and the TrojanWar?

A: "Sailing to Byzantium"

B: " Leda and the Swan"

C: "The Lake Isle if Innisfree".

D: " Sown by the Sally Garden"

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(单选题) 9: provides the main source of influence on American naturalism.

A: The puritan heritage

B: Howells’ ideas of realism

C: Darwin’s theory of evolution

D: The pioneer spirit of the wild west

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(单选题) 10: “To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.”（John Milton, Paradise lost) By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God?

A: By planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.

B: By turning into poisonous snakes to threaten man’s life.

C: By removing God from His throne.

D: By corrupting man and woman created by God.

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(单选题) 11: In his essay“of Studies，”Bacon Said：“Some books are to be tasted，others to be swallowed，and some few to be chewed and____.

A: Skimmed

B: perfected

C: imitated

D: digested

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(单选题) 12: The typical feature of Robert Browning`s poetry is the_____.

A: bitter satire

B: larger-than-life caricature

C: Latinized diction

D: dramatic monologue

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(单选题) 13: “In dream vision Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awaking resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form .

A: Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene

B: William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

C: Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His love”

D: John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”

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(单选题) 14: "So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?" In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte‘s Wuthering Heights, the word "soul" apparently refers to _______ . A: Heathcliff

B: Catherine

C: ghost

D: one‘s spiritual lift

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(单选题) 15: Dubliners is writing of

A: realism

B: modernism

C: stream of consciousness

D: none of the above

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(单选题) 16: Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of venice：“NOt on thy Sole，but on thy soul，harsh Jew /thou mak‘st thy knife keen．”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines?

A: Simile．

B: Metonymy．

C: Pun．

D: Synecdoche．

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(单选题) 17: The Idylls of the King is written by

A: Browning

B: Tennyson