英美文学选读期末练习题

《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 Shakespeare

’

s greatest

tragedies.

2.

(T ) The Elizabethan Drama is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance.

3.

( T) Paradise Lost is a long epic divided into 12 books.

4.

( F) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the

first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people.

5.

( T) Jonathan Swift defined a good style as

“

proper words in proper places.

”

6.

( T ) Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as

“

Father of the English Novel.

”

7.

( F) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the

“

Lake Poets.

”

8.

( T ) The British Romantic period is an age of prose.

9.

( T ) The major theme of Jane Austen

’

s novels is love and marriage.

10.

( T ) The Victoria period has been generally regarded as one of the most glorious in the

English history.

11.

( F ) Far from the Madding Crowd is Thomas Hardy

’

s first novel.

12.

( T ) Modernism rose out of skepticism and disillusion of capitalism.

13.

( T ) The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill

relationships between man and nature, man and society, man and man, and man and himself.

14.

( T) The early poems of Pound and Eliot and Yeats

’

s matured poetry marked rise of

“

modern

poetry.

”

15.

( T ) Shaw

’

s plays have one passion, and one only, that is, indignation.

16.

( F) Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare

’

s four greatest tragedies.

17.

( T ) The first period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimilation.

18.

( T ) Paradise Lost is John Milton

’

s masterpiece.

19.

( F ) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the

first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people.

20.

( T ) In Jonathan Swift

’

s opinion, human nature is seriously and permanently flawed.

21.

( T) Henry Fielding was the first to write specifically a

“

comic in prose.

”

22.

( F ) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the

“

Lake Poets.

”

23.

( F ) The British Romantic period is an age of poetic drama.

24.

( T ) Shelley

’

s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, Prometheus Unbound.

25.

( T ) Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater are advocators of the theory of

“

art for art

’

s sake.

”

26.

( F ) From Under the Greenwood Tree, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of Thomas

Hardy

’

s novels.

27.

( T ) The French symbolism heralded modernism.

28.

( T ) The modernist writers pay more attention to the psychic time than the chronological one.

29.

( T) Kingsley Amis was the first to start the attack on middle- class privileges and power in

his novel Lucky Jim.

30.

( T ) The Waste Land is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization

in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.

31.

( F) Shakespeare

’

s greatest tragedy is Romeo and Juliet.

32.

( T) In the early stage of the English Renaissance, poetry and poetic drama were the most

outstanding literary forms.

33.

( T ) Samson Agonistes is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style

in English.

34.

( F ) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the

first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people.

35.

( T ) Jonathan Swift is a master satirist.

36.

( T ) Henry Fielding was the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.

37.

( F ) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the

“

Lake Poets.

”

38.

( F ) Novel was the most popular literary form in the British Romantic period.

39.

( T )

“

A Song: Men of England

”

was written in 1819, the year of the Peterloo Massacre.

40.

( T) Charles Dickens and the Bronte Sisters are representatives of critical realism.

41.

( F ) Thomas Hardy belongs to one of the English romantic poets.

42.

( T ) Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its

theoretical base.

43.

( T ) The modernist writers are mainly concerned with the inner being of an individual.

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 themes of psychology into his

works.

三、

名词解释

1.

Antagonist: A person or force opposing the protagonist in a narrative; a rival of the

hero or heroine.

2.

Allegory: A tale in verse or prose in which characters, actions, or settings represent

abstract ideas or moral qualities. An allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal

meaning and a symbolic meaning.

3.

Alliteration: The repetition of the initial consonant sounds in poetry.

4.

Canto: A section or division of a long poem.

5.

Characterization: the means by which a writer reveals that personality.

6.

Comedy:

In

general,

a

literary

work

that

ends

happily

with

a

healthy,

amicable

armistice between the protagonist and society.

7.

Critical Realism: The critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties and

in the beginning of fifties. The realists first and foremost set themselves the task of

criticizing capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and delineated the crying

contradictions of bourgeois reality. But they did not find a way to eradicate social

evils.

8.

Elegy: A poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual. An elegy is a

type of lyric poem, usually formal in language and structure, and solemn or even

melancholy in tone.

9.

Epic: A long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflecting

the values of the society from which it originated. Many epics were drawn from an

oral tradition and were transmitted by song and recitation before they were written

down.

10.

Flashback:

A

scene

in

a

short

story,

novel,

play,

or

narrative

poem

that

interrupts

the action to show an event that happened earlier.

11.

Imagery:

Words

or

phrases

that

create

pictures,

or

images,

in

the

reader’s

mind.

Images can appeal to other senses as well: touch, taste, smell, and hearing.

12.

Lyric: A poem, usually a short one, which

expresses a speaker’s personal thoug

hts or

feelings. The elegy, ode, and sonnet are all forms of the lyric.

13.

Metaphor: A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things which

are basically dissimilar. Unlike simile, a metaphor does not use a connective word

such as like, as, or resembles in making the comparison.

14.

Protagonist: 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

reader sympathizes most. Usually the protagonist strives against an opposing force,

or antagonist, to accomplish something.

15.

Setting:

The

time

and

place

in

which

the

events

in

a

short

story,

novel,

play

or

narrative poem occur. Setting can give us information, vital to plot and theme. Often,