东南方英国文学填空练习

2021年1月20日发(作者：纪委书记)
Part One

Old and Middle English Literature
I.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.


Fill in the blanks
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.
Chaucer employed the
heroic
couplet in writing his greatest work
The Canterbury tales
.
The framework in
The Canterbury Tales
is a
pilgrimage
.
When
Chaucer
died
on
the
25
th

of
October
1400,
he
was
the
first
to
be
buried
in
Westminster Abbey
.
The
Prologue
provides
a
framework
for
the
tales
in
The
Canterbury
Tales
,
and
it
comprises a group of vivid pictures of various medieval figures.
The
15
th
century has traditionally been described as the barren age in English literature.
Poetry can be classified as narrative or lyric. Narrative poems stress
actions
, and lyrics
stress
songs
.
Part Two

English Literature in the Renaissance Period
I.

1.

2.

3.

4.

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The second period of English Renaissance is also called the
Elizabethan
period or the
age of
Shakespeare
.
Shakespeare’s
plays
have
been
traditionally
divided
into
four
categories
according
to
dramatic type: histories,
comedies
, tragedies and
romances
.
Edmund
Spenser
is
often
referred
to
as
“the
poets’
poet
”
because
of
his
considerable
influence on later poets.
Spenser’s Amoretti is a series of 88
sonnets
in which he links each quatrain to the next
by
a
continuing
rhyme:
abab
bcbc
cdcd
ee.
This
form
is
usually
called
Spenserian
sonnets
.
Christopher
Marlowe

is
considered
the
first
great
English
dramatist
and
the
most
important Elizabethan playwright before Shakespeare.
Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets fall into two series: one series are addressed to W. H, a young
man, and the other addressed to
a dark lady
.
The writings of Francis Bacon mainly fall into three categories:
philosophical
, literary
and professional.
A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three quatrains and a concluding
couplet
.

5.

6.

7.

8.

Part Three
English Literature in the 17th Century
I.

1.

2.

3.

4.

Fill in the blanks
The
poems
of
John Donne belong
to
two
categories:

the
youthful
love
lyrics

and
the
later
sacred verse.

Milton gave us the only
epic
since
Beowulf
, and Bunyan gave us the only great allegory.
Bunyan’s most important work is
The
Pilgrim’s Progress
, written in the old-fashioned,
medieval form of allegory and dream.
In the 19
th
century English literature, a new literary trend, critical realism, appeared after
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the romantic poetry.

5.

John
Donne
is
the
founder
of
the
school
of
metaphysical
poetry
.
His
works
are
characterized by mysticism in content and fantasticality in form.
6.

Because
of
the
success
of
Paradise
Lost,
John
Milton
produced
in
1671
another
epic,
Paradise Regained
.
7.

John
Milton’s
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 Eve.
8.

The most distinguished literary figure of the Restoration Period was John Dryden, poet,
critic
, and playwright.
9.

Paradise Lost
is a long epic. The stories are taken from the
Old Testament
.
10.


Part Four
18th Century Literature

I.

Fill in the blanks
1.

Thomas
Gray’s
“Elegy
Written
in
a
Country
Churchyards”

is
taken
as
a
model
of
sentimental poetry, esp. the graveyard school.
2.

The exciting tale of Robinson Crusoe is largely an adventure story rather than the study
of
human character
.
3.

An
Ode
,
in
ancient
literature,
is
an
elaborate
lyrical
poem
composed
for
a
chorus
to
chant and to dance to.
4.


5.

In

Jerusalem
,
William
Blake
expounded
his
theory
of
imagination,
asserting
that
the
world of imagination is the world of eternity.
6.

“ Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,

And the roacks melt wi’ the sun:

I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands of life shall run”

The above lines are taken from
Robert Burns
’

famous poem “My Luve’s Like a Red,
Red, Rose”.

7.

Friday is a character in the novel
Robinson Crusoe
.
8.

Henry Fielding
is called the Father of the English Novels.
9.

The 18
th
century is known as the age of enlightenment or the age of
reason
.
10.

In
Gulliver’
s Travels
, Yahoos are the creatures living in
Houyhnynms
.

Part Five
Romantic Literature

I.

Fill in the blanks
1.

As an age of romantic enthusiasm, the Romantic Age began in 1798 when
Wordsworth
and
Coleridge
published
Lyrical Ballads
and ended in 1832 when
Scott
died.
2.

The
Englightenment
was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in
the 18
th
century.

3.


4.

In
the
Preface
of
the
2
nd

and
3
rd

editions
of

Lyrical
Ballads
,
Wordsworth
laid
down
the
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principles of poetry composition.
5.

The English Romantic Age produced two major novelists,
Walter Scott
and
Jane Austen
.
6.

Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey

are referred to as the “Lake Poets” because they lived
in the Lake District in the northwestern part of England.
7.

In 1805, Wordsworth completed his long autobiographical poem entitled
The Prelude
.
8.

Percy Shelley
mourned for
John Keats
’ premature death in an elegy “Adonais”, writing “he
is made one with nature”.

9.

In his poems Wordsworth aimed at
simplicity
and purity of the language, fighting against the
conventional forms of the 18
th
century poetry.
10.

“Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” is long poem created by
Byron
. It contains four cantos in the
Spenserian
stanza, namely a 9-line stanza rhymed
abbabbcbcc
, in which the first eight lines
are iambic pentameter while the 9
th
line in iambic hexameter.
11.

The greatest English realist of the 19
th
century was
Charles Dickens
.
12.

Don Juan

is Byron’s masterpiece, written in the prime of his creativ
e power. He called it an
“epic satire”, “ a satire on abuse of the present state of society”.

13.

The
plot
of
Shelley’s
lyrical
drama
Prometheus
Unbound

is
borrowed
from
Prometheus
Bound
, a play of the Greek tragedian Aeschylus.
14.

Walter
Scott
is
the
creator
and
a
great
master
of
the
historical













novel.
His
novels give a panorama of feudal society from its early stage to its downfall.

15.

In “To Autumn”, Keats writes,

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom- friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring 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
.
16.

“Ode to a Nightingale” expresses the contrast between the happiness of the natural world and
the pain of the human reality.
17.

Percy Shelley

was memorized and honored as “the heart of all hearts” after his death.

18.

Many critics regard Shelley as one of the greatest of all English poets. They point especially
to his
lyrics
.
19.

Romanticism
was
in
effect
a
revolt
of
the
English
imagination

against
the
neoclassical
reason
, which prevailed from the days of Pope to those of Johnson.
20.

Odes

are generally regarded as Keats’ most important and mature works.

21.

“Ode on a Grecian Urn” shows the contrast between
permanence of art
and
transience of
human passion
.
22.

Scott is considered “
the father of historical novels
”.

23.

Two
prevailing
themes
of
Pride
and
Prejudice
are
pride
and
prejudice

and

love
and
marriage
.
24.

Kubla Khan
was composed in a dream after the poet Coleridge took the opium.
25.

All such w
orks of Coleridge as “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, “Christabel”, and “Kubla
Khan” revealed his keen interest in
mystery
.
26.

Wordsworth

is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.

27.

“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, “An Evening Walk”, “My Heart
Leaps up”, and “T
intern
Abbey” are all masterpieces on
nature
.
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