英美文学期末选择题

1、英美文学期末选择题1、English literature began with the Anglo-Saxon settlement in England.2. The Anglo-Saxons were Christianized in the 7th century.3、In 1066, William the Conqueror with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating England.4. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England

2、 at that time. The Normans spoke French.5、Beowulf, the national epic of the English people, describes the explocits of a Scandinavian hero in fighting against the monster Grendel, his revengeful mother and a fire-breathing dragon.6. The story of Piers the Plowman is the culmination of the Arthurian

3、romances.7. William Langlands Piers the Plowman is written in the form of a dream vision.8. Geoffrey Chaucer is acciaimed as “the father of English poetry” and is one of the great narrative poets of England.9. The Canterbury Tales contains in fact a general Prologue and only 24 tales, of which two a

4、re left unfinished.10.The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendary outlaw called Robin Hood.1、 Except being a victory of England over Spain ,the rout of the fleet “Armanda”(invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old fe

5、udation.2、 Sonnet is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteen lines.3、 Thomas Wyatt was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.4、 “The lettuce was lonely wihout tomatoes and cucumbers for company.” is an example of personification.5、 Absolute mona

6、rchy in English reached its summit during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.6.Enlish Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama.7.At the begining of the 16th century the outstanding humanist Thomas More wrote his Utopia in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of th peoples suffering and

7、 put forward his ideal of a future happy society.8.Great populary was won by John Lylys prose romance Euphues which geve rise to the term “enphuism” designating an affected style of court speech.9.The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. It was Christopher Marlow

8、e who made blank verse the pricipal vehicle of expression in drama.10.Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his 37 plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems. 1. In 1642, a civil war was broke out in England in 1649, the royalists were finally defeated by the parliament ar

9、my led by Oliver Cromwell. Charleswas sentenced to death and England was declared to be a commonwealth. 2. The Revolution Period is also called The Puritan Age because the English Revolution was carried out under a religious cloak. 3. The revolution of 1688 meant three of the following things: the s

10、upremacy of Parliament the beginning ofmodern England the triumph of the principle of polotical liberty 4. In the Revolution Period, John Milton towers over his age as William Shakespeare towers over the Elizabethan Age and as Chaucer towers over the Medieval Period. 5.in which famous pamphlet did M

11、ilton thus write:“Our king made not us, but we him. Nature has given fathers to us all, but we ourselves appointed our own king; so that the people are not for the king, but the king for them?”Defense of the English people 6. Among the statements about Miltons Paradise Lost, which statement is not t

12、rue?A. John Miltons masterpieceB. A great epic in 10 booksC. Writen in blank verse D.About the heroic revolt of Satan against Gods authority 7.The Pilgrims Progress gives a vivid and satirical description of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration. 8.The main literary fo

13、rm of the seventeenth century was poetry. Among the poets, John Milton was the greatest. Besides him, there were two groups of poets. They were The Metaphysical poets and the Cavalier poets. 9. The term “metaphysical poetry” is commonly used to name the work of the 17th-century writers who wrote und

14、er the influence of John Donne. 10. In his blindness, Milton wrote his most impotant poetic works, which one is not included?A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise regainedC. Samson AgonistesD. lycidas1. The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two polotical parties, the Whigs and the Tories,

15、 which were satirzed by Jonathan Swift in his Gullivers Travels.2. Generally speaking, English literature of the 18th century may be diviided into three periods. The first period was characterized by the neo-classicism, of which Alexander Pope was the representative poet.3. An Essay on Criticism, wr

16、itten in heroic couplet by Alexander Pope, was a manifesto of English neo-classicsim as he put forward his aesthetic theories in it.4. Samuel Johnson compiled The Dictionary of the English Language which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.5. The 18th century produced th

17、e first English novelists, who fall into two groups, one is the realist novelists; the other is the sentimental novelists.6. Hentry Fielding was the real founder of the realistic novel in England. His novels unfold a panorama of life in all dections of English society.7. Which of the following novel

18、s are epistolary novels?A. Clarissa Harlowe B. Pamela C. Sir Charles Grandison8. Sentimentalism found its representative writers in the filed of poetry, such as Edward Young and Thomas Gray, but it manifested itselfe chiefly in the novels of Laurence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.9.The English drama o

19、f the 18th century does not reach the same high level as its novel. One of the main reasons is that Licensing Act of 1737 which drove Henry Fielding out of the theatre which reatricted the freedom of expression by dramatists.10.In the last twenty years of the 18th century, England produced two great

20、 romantic poets. They are William Blake and Robert Burns.1. In contrast to the rationalism of the enlighteners and classicists in the 18th century, the Romanticists paid great attention to the apirtual and emotional life of man.2. The publication of The Lyrical Ballads in 1798 marked the break with

21、the conventional poetical tradition of the 18th century, i.e., with classicism, and the beginning of Romantic revival in England.3. Which of the follwing poems written by William Wordsworth does not have the theme of Nature and country life. A. The Solitary Reaper B.We Are Seven C. I Wandered Lonely

22、 as a Cloud D.Lucy Poems4. The firs poem in The Lyrical Ballads is Samuel Taylor Coleridges masterpiece The Rime of Ancient Mariner.5. Which of the following statements is (are) not ture about Percy Bysshe Shelley? A. Prometheus Unbound is Percy Bysshe Shelleys masterpiece, a long epic poem. B. At Eton Percy Bysshe Shelley was known as “Mad Shelley,” for his obstinate opposition to the brutal fagging system, accoring to which the younger school-boys were obliged to obey the older boys and bear a great deal of cruel treatment. C. George Gordon Byron called Percy Bys