companyname英国文学练习题

2021年1月20日发(作者：radical)

英国文学选读练习

1.

English Romanticism is generally said to have begun with_____in 1798.
A. the publication of Lyrical Ballads








B. the death of Sir Scott
C. the birth of William Wordsworth










D the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament
2. The Romantic Period is first of all an age of_____.
A. Novel



B. poetry




C. drama



D. prose
3. Romanticism does not emphasize_____.
A.
the special qualities of each individual’s mind




B. the inner world of the human spirit
C. Individuality





























D. the features that men have in common
4._____ is not a Romantic poet.
A. William Blake


B. Sir Scott



C. P
. B. Shelley


D. Lord Byron
5. _____ is a Romantic novelist but is impressed with neo-classic strains.
A. Walter Scott




B. Mary Shelley




C. Jane Austen




D. Ann Radcliff
6. _____ is not characteristic of William Blake’s writing.

A. plain and direct language




B. compression of meaning



C. supernatural quality





D. symbolism
7. Wordsworth published Lyrical Ballads in 1789 with _____.
A. Byron




B. Coleridge




C. Shelley




D. Keats
8. Wordsworth thinks that _____ is the only subject of literary interest.
A. the life of rising bourgeoisie




B. aristocratic life



C. the life of the royal family



D. common life
9. Don Juan is the masterpiece of_____.
A. Lord Byron’s




B. P
. B. Shelley’s




C. John Keats’s




D. Samuel Coleridge’s

10. _____ is not a novel written by Jane Austen.
A. Jane Eyre




B. Sense and Sensibility



C. Pride and Prejudice




D. Emma
II. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets.
( T )1. The Romantic period is also a great age of prose.
( T )2. Romantics also tend to be nationalistic, defending their own literary heritage against the advocates of classical rules.
( F)3. Coleridge has been rewarded as Poet Laureate.
( F
)4. Keats is one of the “Lake Poets.”

( F )5. Jane Austen is a typical Romantic writer.
III. Name the author of each of the following literary work.
1.“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
-----Coleridge
of Innocence-----Blake
3“Ode to a Nightingale”
-----Keats

4.“A Song: Men of England”
-----Shelley
Prelude----- Wordsworth
IV
. Define the literary terms listed below
icism: Romanticism is a movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music and art in western culture during most of the nineteenth
century, beginning as a revolt against classicism. There have been many varieties of Romanticism in many different times and places. The leading
features of Romantic movements are Wordsworth, Shelley, etc.
:Ode is a complex and often lengthy lyric poem, written in a dignified formal style on some lofty or serious subject. Odes are often written for
a special occasion, to honour a person or a season or to commemorate an event.
V
. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly
interpret it.
1….Be through my lips to unawakened Earth.

The trumpet of a prophecy! O, Wind,
If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.
V
. 1. It is taken from Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind. In this poem, Shelley eulogizes the powerful west wind and expresses h
is eagerness to enjoy
the boundless freedom from the reality. In these last lines, the poet shows his optimistic spirit for the future.
2.

It is taken from Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” The poet thinks that it is a bliss to recollect the beauty of n
ature in his mind
while he is in solitude. He expresses his strong affecting for nature in the poem.

Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is not such an event?
rediscovery of ancient Rome and Greek culture.
d's domestic rest
.
discovery in geography and astrology.
religious reformation and the economic expansion.

of the following is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the English language.
Pilgrim's Progress

B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

Life and Death of Mr. Badman

D. The Holy War

is
alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and
created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Martin Luther C. William Langland D. John Gower

of the following four except
are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England.

A. Francis Bacon
B. Christopher Marlowe C. William Shakespeare D. Ben Jonson

is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in the form of
.
A. elegy
B. ode
C. epic D. sonnet

Defoe's novels mainly focus on
.
A. the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existence

B. the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for security
C. the struggle of the pirates for wealth












D. the desire of the criminals for property

Beowulf,

fought against the monster Grendel and a five breathing dragon.
A. the Anglo-Saxons
B. Beowulf
C. the Scandinavian D. the Winter Dragon

s Bacon is best known for his

which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.

A. essays
B. poems C. works D plays

of Thomas Hardy's novels are set in Wessex
.
A. a crude region in England


B. a fictional primitive region

C. a remote rural area


D. Hardy's hometown

can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley's poem
.
A. swift B. proud
C. tamed
D. wild

11.
.
A. Elizabeth B. Darcy C. Mr. Bennet
D. Mrs. Bennet

modern English novel came into being in
.
A. the middle of the 17th century


B. the 17th century

C. the late 18th century


D. the middle of the 18th century


is not the major figure of modernist movement?
A. Eliot B. Joyce
C. Charles Dickens
D. Pound

is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare?
A. Oscar Wilde B. John Galsworthy C. W.B. Yeats
D. George Bernard Shaw


the following poets, which is not regarded as
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge B. Robert Southy C. William Words worth
D. William Shakespeare

the first part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in
.

A. Lilliput
B. Brobdingnag C. Houyhnhnm D. England

of the following cannot describe
A. proud B. mysterious
C. noble origin
D progressive

the history of literature, Romanticism is generally regarded as .

A. the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all