判断题-英国文学

1、1. The progress of bourgeois economy made England a powerful state and enabled her in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible Armada. T2. The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a political guise. F3. Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used

2、 by the Catholic churches. F4. Shakespeares sonnets are divided into three groups: Numbers 117, Numbers 18126, and Numbers 127154. T5. Shakespeares sonnets are written for variety of virtues. T6. Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time. T7. To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare

3、 often combines the majestic with the funny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with the comic. T8. Utopia is Mores masterpiece, written in the form of letters between More and Hythloday, a voyage. F9. Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But the upper class was t

4、he dominant force in Elizabethan theatre. T10. From Shakespeares history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took a great interest in the political questions of his time. T11. Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing a process of prosperity. F12. English Renaissance

5、 Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age of prose. F13. Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist society. F14. English literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish on the whole. F15. The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it produced a great poet whole

6、name is William Milton. F16. The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama. F17. Among the English poets during the Revolution Period, John Donne was the greatest one. F18. The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lost, is written in heroic couplets. F19. The 18th century

7、was an age of poetry. A group of excellent prose writers, such as Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, were produced. F20. Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. The main characters in the novels were no longer common people, but the kings and nobles. F21. The 19th centu

8、ry produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups: the sentimentalist novelists and the realist novelist. F22. Robert Burns is remembered mainly for his songs written in the English dialect on a variety of subjects. F23. My Hearts in the Highlands is one of the best known poems writt

9、en by Robert Burns in which he pored his unshakable love for his homeland. T24. Many of Goldsmiths poems were put to music. F25. Pre-romanticism is ushered by Burns and Blake and represented by Percy, Macpherson and Chatterton. F26. English Romantic literature started from mid-18th to the early 19th

10、 century. F27. Jane Austen is one of the greatest romantic woman novelists. T28. After composing the Lucy poems, Wordsworth began his The Prelude . T29. P.B. Shelley gained his nickname, “Mad Shelley” because of his independent and rebellious attitude. T30. Lyrical Ballads begins with Coleridges lon

11、g poem, “Tintern Abbey”. F31. Many of the subjects of the poems in Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of nature. T32. Coleridge wrote the majority of poems in Lyrical Ballads. F33. Wordsworths “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud” has another name, Growth of a Poets Mind. F34. The Prelude is a long and aut

12、obiographical poem considered as Coleridges masterpiece. F35. Some romantic writers stood on the side of the feudal forces and even combined themselves with those forces. T36. Wordsworth and Coleridge are revolutionary Romantic poets. F37. Byron and Shelley and Keats are known as the romantic poets

13、of the second generation. T38. The romanticists paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man. T39. Jane Austen is a writer who regards novel writing as a sophisticated art. T40. The story of Shelleys Prometheus Unbound was taken from Roman mythology. F41. Shelley is one of the lea

14、ding Romantic poets, an intense and original lyrical poet in the English language. T42. Byrons Don Juan begins with descriptions of the heros childhood. T43. Byrons literary career was closely linked with the struggle and progressive movements of his age. T44. Byron opposed oppression and slavery, a

15、nd has a passionate love for liberty. T45. Wordsworth drew inspirations from the mountains and lakes. T46. Dickens The Pickwick Papers gives a rather comprehensive picture of early 19th century England. T47. Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller were two major characters in The Pickwick Papers which aroused t

16、he interests of the readers. T48. In Oliver Twist, Dickens makes his readers aware of the inhumanity of country life under capitalism. F49. The title Bleak House is not only the name of a house but is also an apt (贴切的) description of the society of the time. T50. Hard Times is a fierce attack on the

17、 bourgeois system of education and ethics(论理学，道德学) and on utilitarianism (功利主义）. T51. A Tale of Two Cities takes the Industrial Revolution as the subject. F52. The theme underlying A Tale of Two Cities is the idea “Where there is oppression, there is revolution.” T53. The story of Tess is filled wit

18、h a feeling of dismal foreboding and doom. T54. Fateful circumstances and tragic coincidences abound in the book of Jude the Obscure. F55. James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are the two best-known novelists of the “stream of consciousness” school. T56. With the establishment of the Jacobin dictatorship

19、in France, Wordsworths attitude toward revolution changed into active. ( F )57In the revised version of Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge held that poetry is the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”. ( F )58. Romanticism is a literary trend. It prevailed in England in the period (1798-1832) ( F )59.

20、The ideals of French Revolution are liberty, democracy, and equality. ( F ) 6. The brilliant literary criticism “Biographia Literaria” is written by Wordsworth. ( F )60. A Tale of Two Cities belongs to the first writing phase of Dickenss career, and the two cities are London and Paris. ( F )61. Symb

21、olism, Surrealism, Imagism, Expressionism, etc, all belong to School of Modernism. ( T )62. The Rainbow is D. H. Lawrences autobiographical work. ( T )63. Chaucer employed the heroic couplet in writing his greatest work The Canterbury tales. T 64. Shakespeares plays have been traditionally divided i

22、nto four categories according to dramatic type: histories, comedies, tragedies and romances. T 65. John Miltons Paradise Lost opens with the description of a meeting among the fallen angels, and ends with the departure of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. T 66. “ Till a the seas gang dry, my dea

23、r, / And the rocks melt wi the sun: / I will luve thee still, my dear, / While the sands of life shall run.” The above lines are taken from the famous poem “Scots Wha Hae”. F67. In Gullivers Travels, Yahoos are the creatures living in Houyhnynms. T68. As an age of romantic enthusiasm, the Romantic A

24、ge began in 1789 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published Lyrical Ballads. F69. Odes are generally regarded as Keats most important and mature works. T70. Wuthering Heights is written by Ann Bronte. It is a morbid story of love, but a powerful attack on the bourgeois marriage system. F71. The English

25、 translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle between Protestant and Catholicism. T72. The Bible was notably translated into English by the Protestants. T 73. Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has had a great influence on English language and literature. T 74

26、. Rationalism is the theme of the English Renaissance, which emphasized the capacities of human mind and the achievements of human nature. F 75. Sonnets contain Italian sonnets and Shakespeare sonnets. T 76. The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its novel. F 77. In the 16th

27、 century, London became the centre of English drama. T 78. In the Elizabethan Theater, there were no actress and womens parts were always taken by boys. T 79. Shakespeares drama becomes a monument of the English neo-classicism. F 80. The Pilgrims Progress gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanit

28、y Fair which is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration. T 81. John Miltons masterpiece, The Pilgrims Progress, is an allegory, a narrative in which general concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are represented as people or as aspects of the natural world. F 82. Satan is the hero in Milt

29、ons masterpiece The Pilgrims Progress. F 83. English enlighteners believed in the emmotion. F 84. English enlighteners believed that social problems could be dealt with by human intelligence. T85. Sameul Johnsons A Dictionary of English Language also marked the end of English writers reliance on the

30、 patronage of noblemen for support. T86. In describing Robinsons life on the island, Defoe glorifies human labor. T87. In a sense, in English Romantic Age, literature equaled poetry. T88. William Wordsworth was influenced by the American Independence War. F89. Many subjects of Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of nature. T90. Lyrical Ballads a joint work of Wordsworth and his friend Southey. F 91. The publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 marks the beginning of the Romantic Mo