英国文学填空练习

1、Part One Old and Middle English Literature I. Fill in the bla nks 1. Choose the best answer Critics tend to divide Chaucer s literary career into three periods: the French period, the Italian period and the English period. 2. Chaucer employed the heroic couplet in writ ing his greatest work The Can

2、terbury tales . 3. The framework in The Can terbury Tales is a pilgrimage . 4. When Chaucer died on the 25th of October 1400, he was the first to be buried in Westminster Abbey . 5. The Prologue provides a framework for the tales in The Can terbury Tales, and it comprises a group of vivid pictures o

3、f various medieval figures. 6. The 15th century has traditi on ally bee n described as the barre n age in En glish literature. 7. Poetry can be classified as n arrative or lyric. Narrative poems stress actions, and lyrics stresssongs. Part Two En glish Literature in the Ren aissa nee Period I. Fill

4、in the bla nks 1. The second period of English Renaissanee is also called the Elizabethan period or the age of Shakespeare. 2. Shakespeare plays have bee n traditi on ally divided into four categories accord ing to dramatic type: histories, comedies, tragedies an d romances. 3. Edmund Spenser is oft

5、en referred to as “ thqooets poet ” because of his considerable in flue nee on later poets. 4. Spenser s Amoretti is a series of 8 Con spiri ng with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-evs run The figure of speech used in the lines is personification . “ Ode to a Nig

6、ht in gale” expresses the con trast betwee n the happ in ess of the n atural world and the pain of the human reality. Percy Shellev was memorized and honored as“ the heart of all hearts” after his death. Many critics regard Shelley as one of the greatest of all English poets. They point especially t

7、o his lyrics . Romanticism was in effect a revolt of the English imaainationagainst the neoclassical reason, which prevailed from the days of Pope to those of Joh nson. Odes are gen erally regarded as Keats most importa nt and mature works. Ode on a Grecia n Urn shows the con trast bet inence of art

8、 and tran sie nee of human passion . Scott is con sidered the father of historical novels Two prevailing themes of Pride and Prejudice are pride and prejudice and love and marriage . Kubla Khan was composed in a dream after the poet Coleridge took the opium. All such w orks of Coleridge as“ The Rime

9、 of the Ancient Mariner” ,“ Christabel ” , and Khan ” revealed his keen interest inmystery . Wordsworth is regarded as a“ worshipper of n ature”. I Wan dered Lon ely as a Cloud” ,“ An Evening WalkLe aps upy Heaatnd in tern Abbey ” are all masterpieces onature . 28. The constant sight of nature in th

10、e wondrous beauty of Lake District awoke love and revere nee in Wordsworth. 29. In 1797, Wordsworth made friends with S.T. Coleridge and a year later they jointly published the Lyrical Ballads. 30. The main idea running through the romantic poem Prometheus Unbound is that of freedom . 31. Shelley, w

11、ith a triumphant praise of the imagination, highly exalts the role of poetry, thinking that poetry alone could free man and offer the mi nd a wider view of its powers. He holds that poetry is as more direct represe ntati on of the actions and pass ins of our internal being. 32. French revoluti on an

12、d British in dustrial revoluti on gave great impetus to the rise of the Roma ntic Moveme nt. Part Six 19th cen tury Literature 1. The comic eleme nt is strong in Charles Dicke nsThe fiPeklwjvlelPapers which appeared in mon thly sect ions betwee n April 1836 and November 1837. 2. In the 19th century

13、English literature, a new literary trend, critical realism , appeared after the roma ntic poetry. 3. The Victorian Age in English literature was largely an age of prose, especially of the novel. 4. 4. David Copperfield is one of Charles Dicke ns best works. It is writte n in the first pers on and is

14、 the most autobiographical of all his books. 5. Written in 1837-38, Oliver Twist tells the story of an orphan boy, whose adventure provide material for a description of the lower depths of London. 6. Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques, the Victoria n no veli

15、sts shared one thi ng in com mon, that is, they were concerned about the fate of the com mon people. 7. Robert Browning poetic experiments transferred the thematic interest of poetry from mere n arrati on of the story to revelati on and studv of characters inner w6rld and brought to the Victoria n p

16、oetry some psycho-a nalytical eleme nt. 8. Wuthering Heights is written by Emily Bronte . It is a morbid story of love, but a powerful attack on the bourgeois marriage system. It shows true love ion a class society is impossible of atta inment. 9. In his works, Dicke ns sets out a full map and a lar

17、ge-scale criticism of the 19th cen tury England, particularly London . 10. Thomas Hardy , novelist and poet, is one of the representatives of English critical realism at the turn of the 19th cen tury. 11. The Mayor of Casterbridge , one of the century s finest novels, traces the rise and fall of Mic

18、hael Hen chard, a tough, egotistical, fellow who sold his wife and baby at a fair. 12. Jane Eyre represents those middle class working women, who are struggling for the recognition of their basic rights and equality as a human being. 13. In her novels, George Eliot seeks to present the inner struggl

19、e of a soul and to reveal the motives, impulses and hereditary in flue nces which gover n huma n action. 14. The two most predo min at ing poets of the Victoria n period are Alfred Tennyson and Robert Brow ning . 15. In many Hardy later novels, the conflict between the tradition and the modern is br

20、ought to the cen ter of the stage. 16. As a woman of exceptional intelligenee and life experienee, George Eliot shows a particular concern for the destiny of women. Part Seve n Early 20th Cen tury Literature 1. Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theore

21、tical base. 2. “ Araby from Dubliners is a tale of the frustrated quest for beauty in the midst of drab ness. 3. The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and aill relati on ships betwee n man and nature , man and society, man and man, and man and himself. 4. W.B.Yeat

22、s experieneed a slow and painful change in his poetic creation, starting in the romantic tradition and finishing as a mature modernist poet. 5. T.S. Eliot s major achievement in play writing has been the creation ofase drama in the 20th century to express the ideas and actions of moder n society wit

23、h new acce nts of the con temporary speech. 6. In his famous essay“ Traditi on and In dividual TalTtS. Eliot put great emphasis on the importance of tradition both in creative writing and in criticism. 7. “ The Hollow Man , which bears a strong thematic resemblance to“ The Waste Land , is gen erally

24、 regarded as the darkest of Eliot s poems. 8. Structurally and thematically, George Bernard Shaw follows the great tradition of realism . 9. Joyce seems to mean that the novel Ulysses describes the mental activities of two Dubli ners in a sin gle day. 10. Virginia Woolf represents the much more read

25、able novelists of the stream of con scious ness school. She is a fine artist, a woma n of sharp sen sitivity who, in one of her freque nt men tal depressi ons, committed suicide. 11. All of Joyce s novel and short stories have the same setlrndg nd , especially Dublin , and the same subject, Dubli ners and their life. 12. The statement “ Ademanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affect ion to her sons sums up the main plot of D.H LawSoiceand Lovers . s 13. In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf adopted a writing technique called s