英美文学选读期末练习题

1、as the“Lake Poets.”8. ( T ) The British Romantic period is an age ofprose.9. ( T ) The major theme of Jane Austen10. ( T ) The Victoria period has been generally regarded as one of the mostin the English history.( T ) Modernism rose out of skepticism and disillusion of capitalism.and himself.( T ) S

2、haws plays have one passion, and one only, that is, indignation.英美文学选读期末考试练习一、 搭配题二、 判断题1. ( F ) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra are Shakespeares greatest tragedies.2.(T ) The Elizabethan Drama is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance.3.( T) Paradise Lost is a long epic

3、 divided into 12 books.4.( F) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the PlagueYear are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-classpeople.5.( T) Jonathan Swift defined a good style asproper words in proper places.6.( T ) Henry Fielding has b

4、een regarded by some as“Father of the EnglishNovel.”7.( F) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge areregarded16.( F) Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeares four greatest tragedies.17.( T ) The first period of the English Renaissance was one of imitationandassimilation.18. (

5、T ) Paradise Lost is John Miltons masterpiece.19. ( F ) Captain Singleton,Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the PlagueYear are the first literaryworks devoted to the study of problems of the lower-classpeople.20. ( T ) In Jonathan Swifts opinion, human nature is seriously and permanently

6、flawed.s novels is love and marriage.glorious11.( F ) Far from the Madding Crowd is Thomas Hardys first novel.12.13.( T ) The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted,alienatedand ill relationships between man and nature, man and society, man andman, and man14.( T) The early poems

7、of Pound and Eliot and Yeatss matured poetrymarked riseofmodern poetry.”15.21. ( T) Henry Fielding was the first to write specificallyaa .”ic in prose.”22. ( F ) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regardedas the“Lake Poets.”23. ( F ) The British Romantic period is an

8、age of poetic drama.24. ( T ) Shelleys greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, PrometheusUnbound.25. ( T ) Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater are advocators of the theory ofart forarts sake.”26. ( F ) From Under the Greenwood Tree, the tragic sense bees the keynote of ThomasHardys novels.27. (

9、T ) The French symbolism heralded modernism.28. ( T ) The modernist writers pay more attention to the psychic time than thechronological one.29. ( T) Kingsley Amis was the first to start the attack on middle-classprivilegesand power in his novel Lucky Jim.30. ( T ) The Waste Land is a poem concerned

10、 with the spiritual breakupof a moderncivilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance andpurpose.31. ( F) Shakespeares greatest tragedy is Romeo and Juliet.32. ( T) In the early stage of the English Renaissance, poetry and poeticdrama werethe most outstanding literary forms.33. (

11、 T ) SamsonAgonistesis the most perfect example of the verse drama after theGreek style in English.34. ( F ) Captain Singleton,Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the PlagueYear are the first literaryworks devoted to the study of problems of the lower-classpeople.35. ( T ) Jonathan Swift i

12、s a master satirist.36. ( T ) Henry Fielding was the first to give the modern novel its structureandstyle.37. ( F ) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regardedas the“Lake Poets.”38. ( F ) Novel was the most popular literary form in the British Romantic period.39. ( T

13、)“A Song: Men of England”was written in 1819, the year of the PeterlooMassacre.40. ( T) Charles Dickens and the Bronte Sisters are representatives of critical14.realism.41. ( F ) Thomas Hardy belongs to one of the English romantic poets.42. ( T ) Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the the

14、ory of psycho-analysisas its theoreticalbase.43. ( T ) The modernist writers are mainly concerned with the inner being of anindividual.44. ( T ) James Joyce is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist.45. ( T ) D. H. Lawrence was one of the first novelists to introduce themesofpsycholog

15、y into his works.三、 名词解释..9.10.11.Antagonist: A person or force opposing the protagonist in a narrative; a rival of thehero or heroine.Allegory: A tale in verse or prose in which characters, actions, or settings representabstract ideas or moral qualities. An allegory is a story with tw

16、o meanings, a literalmeaning and a symbolic meaning. Alliteration: The repetition of the initial consonantsounds in poetry. Canto: A section or division of a long poem.Characterization: the means by which a writer reveals that personality. edy: In general,a literary work that ends happily with a hea

17、lthy, amicable armistice between theprotagonist and society.Critical Realism: The critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the fortiesand in the beginning of fifties. The realists first and foremost set themselves thetask of criticizing capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and de

18、lineated thecrying contradictions of bourgeois reality. But they did not find a way to eradicatesocial evils. Elegy: A poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual. Anelegy is a type of lyric poem, usually formal in language and structure, and solemnor even melancholy in tone.Epic: A lo

19、ng narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflecting thevalues of the society from which it originated. were drawn from an oral tradition andwere transmitted by song and recitation before they were written down.Flashback: A scene in a short story, novel, play, or narrative interr

20、upts the actionto show an event that happened earlier.Imagery: Words or phrases that create pictures, or images, in s mind. Images can appealtoother senses as well: touch, taste,and hearing.Many epicspoem thatthe readersmell,12.13.Lyric: A poem, usually a short one, which expresses a speakers person

21、al thoughtsor feelings. The elegy, ode, and sonnet are all forms of the lyric.Metaphor: A figure of speech that makes a parison between two things which are basicallydissimilar. Unlike simile, a metaphor does not use a connective word such as like, as,or resembles in making the parison.Protagonist:

22、The central character of a drama, novel, short story, or narrative poem.The protagonist is the character on whom the action centers and with whom the readersympathizes most. Usually tagonist strives against an opposing force, or antagonist, to acplish something.Setting: The time and plac

23、e in which the events in a short story, novel, play or narrativepoem occur. Setting can give us information, vital to plot and theme. Often, settingand character will reveal each other.Simile: It refers to a figure of speech that makes a parison between two things throughthe use of a specific word o

24、f parison, such as“like,as, or resemble”. The parison must be between two essentially unlike things.Soliloquy: In drama, an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage. Thecharacter reveals his or her innermost thoughts and feelings directly to the audience,as if thinking aloud.Sonnet: A

25、fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. A sonnetgenerally expresses a single theme or idea. Tragedy: In general, a literary work in whichthe protagonist meets an unhappy or disastrous end. Unlike edy, tragedy depicts theactions of a central character who is usually dig

26、nified or heroic.四、 简答题1. What do the William Shakespeares tragedies have in mon?Each portrays some noble hero ,who faces the injustices of human life and is caught in a difficultsituation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation .Each hero has his weakness is made used

27、of the nature: Hamlet the melancholicscholar-princefaces the dilemma between action and mind ; Othellos inner weakness is made use ofby the outside evil force; the king lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power makes himselfsuffer from treachery and infidelity; and Macbeths lust for power s

28、tirs up his ambitions and leadshim to incessant crimesShakespeare dramatizes the whole world around the hero.2.“Never did sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;Neer saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!The river glideth at his own sweet will:Dear God! the very houses s

29、eem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!(from Wordsworths sonnetposed upon Westminster Bridge)Questions:A. What does this sonnet describe?A vivid picture of a beautiful morning in LondonB. What does the word“mighty heart”refer to？LondonB. The sonnet follows strictly the Italian form. Wha

30、t is the feature of the Italianform sonnet?There is a clear division between the octave and the sestet; the rhyme scheme is abbaabba, cdcdcd.3.“Wherefore feed and clothe and saveFrom the cradle to the graveThose ungrateful drones who wouldDrain your sweat- nay, drink your blood?Questions:A. Identify

31、 the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.9.Percy Bysshe Shelley ; A song :Men of England.B. What figure of speech is used in Line 2?MetonymyC. Whom does“drones”refer to?Parasitic class in human society .4.Hardy is often regarded as a transitional writer. In him we

32、 see the influence from both the pastand the modern. Somecritics believe that he is intellectually advanced and emotionally traditional.How do you understand this idea?5. What is the theme of Wuthering Heights ?From the social point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused,betrayed and distort

33、ed byhis social betters because he is a poor nobody . As a love story, this is one of the most moving :the passion between Heathcliff and Catherine proves the most in tense , the most beautiful and at thesame time the most horrible passion ever to be found possible in human beings.6.“Shall I pare th

34、ee to a summers day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summers lease hath all too short a date:Questions:A. Identify the poet and the poemfrom which the quoted lines are taken WilliamShakespeare; Sonnet 18.B. Name the figure of speech employed

35、in the poem.The first line: rhetorical question ,C. What is the theme of the poem?He has a profound meditation on the destructive power of time and the eternal beauty brought forthby poetry to the one he loves .7.“When the from which the quotedlineWilliam Blake , The TygerB. Whom does the“heThe god

36、who create the TygerC. What does the“Lamb”Symbol of peace and purity8.“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?You think wrong!And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have madeit as hard for you to leave me, as it is now f

37、or me to leave youit is my sp irit thataddresses your sp irit; just as if bothhad passed through the grave, and we stood at Gods feet, equalas we are!”Questions:A. Identify the author and the novel from which the quoted part is taken.Charlotte Bronte ; Jane Eyer.Andwaterd heaven with theirtears,Didh

38、e smilehiswork tosee?Didhe whomade the Lambmakethee?”Questions :A.Identifythe poetandthe posaretakenrefer to?symbolize?stars threw down their spears,B. To whom is the speaker speaking?Mr RochesterShe want to tell the Mr Rochester that dont judge her by the outlooking,she desperately and opening decl

39、ares her equality with him and her love for him.C. What does the quoted part imply about the speaker?9.The following quotation is from one of the poems by T. S. Eliot:“No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or two Advi

40、se the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential,glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous, Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;Questions:A. Identify the titleof the poem from which the quotedThe love song of J Afred prufrock ,T. S. Eliot.B. Whos the speaker of the quoted lines?Mr A

41、lfred prufrock.C. What does the first line show about the speaker?The speaker has something in mon with the hamlet, he is neurotic,self-important,illogicaland incapable of action.五、 论述题1.Daniel Defoes novelRobinson Crusoewas a great success partly because the protagonistwas a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, theprotagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in themid-eighteenth century England.Robinson is here a real hero :