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Chapter 2
Blanks:
1.

The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) between the House of _____ and the House of ______
struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years.


2.

Because
of
the
conflict
between
the
Roman
Catholic
Church
and
the
King
of
England,
the
far-reaching movement of ___________ took place in England, started by Henry the eighth.


3.

The introduction of ____ to England by William Caxton brought classical works within reach
of the common multitude.





4.

The
16
th

century
in
England
was
a
period
of
the
breaking
up
of
feudal
relation
and
the
foundation of __________.





5.

In Elizabethan Period, ________ wrote more than fifty excellent essays, which made him one
of the best essayists in English literature.










6.

Spenser
is
generally
regarded
as
the
greatest
non- dramatic
poet
of
the
Elizabeth
Age.
His
fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece ______.


7.

From the first half of the 16
th
century, _______ began to develop into a flowering of literature
and then England became
“
a nest of singing birds
”
.


8.

In the Elizabethan Period, ________ is the greatest playwright of England.


9.

_______ is the saint of the metaphysical school.


10.

In the Elizabethan Period, ______ wrote many excellent essays, such as
Of Studies
.






11.

_______ wrote his masterpiece
The Faerie Queene.




12.

Hamlet,
Othello,
King
Lear
,
and
_____
are
generally
regarded
as
Shakespeare
’
s
four
great
tragedies.






13.

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
is one of _______
’
s best plays.



14.

Shakespearean
Sonnet
is
made
up
of
three
quatrains
with
different
rhymes,
followed
by
a
couplet. The rhyme scheme is ____.



15.

The
epoch
of
Renaissance
witnessed
a
particular
development
of
English
drama.
It
was
_______ who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.


16.

The
intellectual
energy
of
the
English
Renaissance
showed
itself
in
the
achievement
of
________, who is the first English essayist.

17.

English Renaissance was an age of ________.

18.

“
Denmark is a prison
”
. The hero summarizes his observation of his world into such a bitter
sentence in ______ written by William Shakespeare.



19.

John Milton wrote his masterpiece _____ during his blindness.


20.

John Donne is a poet of Peculiar ______, having his own way of reasoning and comparison.

21.

____ is the greatest writer of the 17
th
century, and one of the giants of English literature.




22.

______ is
the founder of the “metaphysical school”
.



23.

Robert Herrick is a poet in English Renaissance who belongs to the school of ______.



T/F
1.

The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a political guise.
2.

The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its poetry.
3.

From
Shakespeare
’
s
history
plays,
it
can
be
seen
that
Shakespeare
took
no
interest
in
the
political questions of his time.
4.

King
Lear

is
a
tragedy
of
ambition,
which
drives
a
brave
soldier
and
national
hero
to

1
degenerate into a bloody murderer and despot right to his doom.
5.

Coming from an old Danish legend,
Othello
is considered the summit of Shakespeare
’
s art.
6.

Generally
speaking,
after
Shakespeare,
the
English
drama
was
undergoing
a
process
of
prosperity.
7.

English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age of prose.

Questions:
1.

Make a brief introduction of
Paradise Lost

2.

Summarize the main story of The Merchant of Venice.
3.

What features do Shakespeare
’
s plays possess?
4.

Hoe much do you know about William Shakespeare
’
s sonnets?

Explain the following terms
1.

sonnet
2.

Spenserian stanza
3.

blank verse
4.

Renaissance



Chapter 3
Blanks:
1.

Before the civil war broke out, the various classes in England soon split up into two camps led
by _____ and ______.

2.

________ gives a vivid and satirical description of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of London
at the time of Restoration.


3.

_________ wrote his masterpiece
The Pilgrim Progress
during his second imprisonment.




4.

John Dryden
wrote
many
works
on
literary
criticism,
and
has
been
regarded
as
the
earliest
literary critic of real importance in the history of English literature. The famous piece is
An
Essay of Dramatic Poetry
. He has been called ____.

5.

________ is Dryden
’
s tragedy based on the story of Antony and Cleopatra under the influence
of Shakespeare
’
s tragedy
Antony and Cleopatra
.


6.

The
________
was
a
progressive
intellectual
movement
throughout
Western
Europe
in
the
18
th
century.



7.

The
main
literary
stream
of
the
18
th

century
was
_______,
what
the
writer
described
were
mainly social realities.




8.

Generally speaking, English literature of the 18
th
century may be divided into three periods.
The
first
period
was
characterized
by
the
neo- classicism,
of
which
_____
was
the
representative poet.



9.

_______ is undoubtedly the greatest poet Scotland has ever produced. His
Poem Chiefly in the
Scottish Dialect
is of great significance.



10.

_______
was
the
most
remarkable
satirist
in
the
18
th

century
who
criticized
the
new
bourgeois- aristocratic society of his age without mercy.

11.

The enlighteners believed that reason should be the only basis of one
’
s thinking and action.

2
That is why the 18
th
century in England has been called ________.
12.

Alexander Pope
’
s ______ was a comprehensive study theories of literary criticism.
13.

The
literary
form
of
neo-classicism
is
of
the
strict
symmetry.
The
prevailing
genre
of
neo-classical literature is ________ which cosisits of two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter
and the second line completes the thoughts expressed by the couplet.




14.

____________
is
Alexander
Pope
’
s
poem
which
indicates
the
poet
’
s
political
and
philosophical viewpoint. It deals with man
’
s relation to the universe, to society, to himself and
to happiness.



15.

___________was a manifesto of English neo- classicism in which Alexander Pope put forward
his aesthetic theories. It was a comprehensive study of theories of literary criticism.


16.

As
a
poet,
William
Blake
’
s
fame
has
been
chiefly
resting
upon
two
volumes
of
poems,
__________ and The Songs of Experience.

17.

Samuel
Johnson
compiled
________
which
became
the
foundation
of
all
the
subsequent
English dictionaries.


18.

Lives
of
the
Poets

was
one
of
_________
’
s
main
works,
which
consists
of
some
of
the
best-known pictures of the early English poets.



19.

Thomas Gray
’
s highly-praised poem ________ shows the poet
’
s sympathy for the poor, and
condemns the great ones who despise the poor and bring sufferings to the common people.


20.

In the last twenty years of the 18
th
century, England produced two well-known romantic poets.
They are William Blake and ________.


21.

_______ wrote some patriotic poems, in which he expressed his deep love for his motherland,
such as
My Heart
’
s in the Highland
.



22.

Daniel Defoe
’
s masterpiece is _________.


23.

Jonathan Swift
’
s masterpiece is ________.



24.

In the first part of Robinson Crusoe, the hero saved a savage and named him ______.



25.

The writer of
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
is _______.

26.

Henry Fielding
’
s masterpiece is _____, which gives us a vivid and truthful panoramic picture
of the 18
th
century England.


27.

_________
ranks
among
the
greatest
satirists
of
England,
and
of
the
world.
A
Modest
Proposal
is one of his satirical works.



28.

In _________, we find particularly Blake
’
s hate of the church and the clergy. In the poem A
Little Boy Lost, he attacks religious persecution.



T/F
1.

With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship, Charles
Ⅱ

became the Protector of the
English Commonwealth.




2.

The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama.


3.

The Pilgrim
’
s Progress
is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writing produced during
the Romantic Age.



4.

Gulliver
’
s
Travel
gives
a
vivid
and
satirical
picture
of
Vanity
Fir
which
is
the
symbol
of
London at the time of Restoration.




5.

In
his
An
Essay
of
Dramatic
Poetry,
John
Bunyan
showed
his
famous
appreciation
of
Shakespeare.








6.

Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is
Venus and Adonis
, a tragedy dealing with the

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same story as Shakespeare
’
s
Antony and Cleopatra
.

7.

The
main
literary
achievement
of
the
17
th

century
lies
in
the
poetry
of
John
Milton,
in
the
prose writing of John Bunyan, and in the plays and literary criticism of Samuel Johnson.









8.

The
Enlightenment
was
a
progressive
intellectual
movement
throughout
Western
Europe
in
the 17
th
century.



9.

Novel writing made a big advance in the 18
th
century. The main characters in the novels were
no longer common people, but the kings and nobles.


10.

In
the
18
th

century
English
literature,
the
representative
writer
of
pre- romanticism
is
Alexander Pope.



11.

The
enlighteners
intended
to
reform
social
life
according
to
a
more
reasonable
principle,
though this principle could never go beyond the limit of feudal interests.



12.

Alexander Pope translated the entire
Illiad
and half of the
Odyssey
in blank verse.


13.

A Tale of a Tub is mainly an attack on pedantry in the literary world of the time, in which the
reader is told the story of the Bee and Spider.


14.

In
the
last
part
of
Gulliver
’
s
Travels,
the
satire
is
of
the
bitterest.
Gulliver
was
now
in
a
country where the Yahoos were possessed of reason, and were the governing class.


15.

Henry
Fielding
is
a
master
satirist,
and
his
irony
is
deadly.
But
his
satire
is
masked
by
an
outward gravity, and apparent calmness conceals his bitter irony. This makes his satire all the
more powerful, as shown in his
A Modest Proposal
.


16.

Robert Burns is remembered mainly for his songs written in the English dialect on a variety of
subjects.



17.

Towards the end of 18
th
century, there were two best pre-romantic poets in English literature.
They were William Blake and Thomas Gray.


18.

In the first part of
Robinson Crusoe
, the hero is cast upon the shore of the island of Lilliput.




19.

The Play Tom Jones is Henry Fielding
’
s masterpiece.


20.

My
Heart
’
s
in
the
Highland
is
one
of
the
best
known
poems
written
by
William
Blake
in
which he poured his unshakable love for his homeland.





Questions:
1.

Make an introduction of
The Pilgrim
’
s Progress
.
2.

Summarize the story of Gulliver
’
s Travels.
3.

What are the features of Robert Burns
’
s poetry?
4.

How much do you know about the Neoclassicism?



Chapter 4
Blanks
1.

The Romantic Age began in 1798 when William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor
Coleridge published their joint work _________.


2.

The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer ______
died.


3.

Women as _______ appeared in the romantic age.
It was during this period that

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