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British Literature
I. Multiple
Choice.
The Middle Age
1.
When we speak of the Old English prose, the first
name that comes into our minds is_______,
who is the first scholar in English
literature and has been regarded as father of
English learning.
A.
William Shakespeare
B. Beowulf
C.
Julius Caesar
D. V
enerable
Bede
2.
The
most
important
work
of
Alfred
the
Great
is
_______,
which
is
regarded
as
the
best
monument
of the Old English prose.
A.
The Song of Beowulf
B.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
C.
The Ecclesiastical
History of the English People
D.
Brut
3. _______ is the first important
religions poet in English literature.
A. John Donne
B. George Herbert
C. Caedmon
D. Milton
4. In Anglo-Saxon
period,
Beowulf
represented
the _______ poetry
.
A. pagan
B. religious
C. romantic
D. sentimental
5. Prose literature did not show its
appearance until the ______ century
.
A. 6
th
B.
7
th
C.
8
th
D.10
th
6.
Beowulf
describes
the
exploits
of
a
hero,
Beowulf,
in
fighting
against
the
monster
Grendel, his revengeful mother, and a
fire-breathing dragon.
A. Danish
B. Scandinavian
C. English
D. Norwegian
7. English
literature began with these
settlements
in England. Of old English
literature,
Beowulf
, the
national epic of the English people,
is an example of the
mingling of
nature
myths
and heroic legends.
A. Anglo-Saxon
B.
Roman
C. Norman
D.
Britain
8. In 1066,
with his Norman army, succeeded in
invading and defeating English.
A.
William the Conqueror
B.
Julius Caesar
C. Alfred the Great
D.
Claudius
9. In the 14
th
century
, the most important writer
(poet) is
.
A. Lang land
B.
Wyclif
C. Gower
D. Chaucer
10. The
prevailing form of Medieval English literature is
the
.
A. novel
B. drama
C. romance
D. essay
11. The story of
is the culmination of the Arthurian
romances.
A.
Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight
B.
The Story of Beowulf
C.
Piers the Plowman
D.
The Canterbury Tales
12. William
Langland‘s
is written in
the form of a dream via-ion.
A.
Kubla Khan
B.
Piers the Plowman
C.
The Dream of John Bull
D.
Morte d’
Arthur
13.
Piers
the
Plowman
describes
a
series
of
wonderful
dreams
the
author
dreamed,
through
which, we can see a picture of the life
in the
England.
1
A. primitive
B. feudal
C. bourgeois
D. modern
14. The theme of
to king and lord was
repeatedly emphasized in romances.
A.
loyalty
B. revolt
C.
obedience
D. mockery
15.
The
most
famous
cycle
of
English
ballads
centers
on
the
stories
about
a
legenda
ry
outlaw
called.
A.
Morte d’
Arthur
B.
Robin Hood
C.
The Canterbury Tales
D.
Piers the Plowman
16. In
English poetry
, a four-line stanza is
called
.
A. heroic couplet
B. quatrain
C.
Spenserian stanza
D. terza rima
17.
, the
―father of English
poetry‖ and one of the
greatest
narrative poets of England,
was born in London about 1340.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Sir Gawain
C.
Francis Bacon
D. John Dryden
18. Chaucer died on the
25
th
October 1400, and was
buried in
.
A. Flanders
B. France
C.
Italy
D. Westminster
Abbey
19. Chaucer‘s earliest work of
any
length
is
his
, a
translation
of the French Roman
de
la
Rose
by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de
Meung,
which 14
th
centuries
not only
in France
but
throughout Europe.
A.
The Romaunt of the Rose
B.
A red, Red Rose
C.
Piers the Plowman
D.
The Book of the Duchess
20.
The
second
period
of
Chaucer‘s
literary
career
includes
mainly
the
three
longer
poems
written prior to The Canterbury Tales.
Choose the three from the following.
A.
The House of Fame
B.
Troilus and Criseyde
C. The Legend of Good Women
D. The Book of the Duchess
21.
creative work
vividly
reflected the changes which had taken root
in
English culture
of the second half of the
14
th
century
.
A. Chaucer‘s
B. Byron‘s
C. Shelley‘s
D.
Eliot‘s
22. Apart from
original poems, Chaucer translated various works
of French authors, among them
is the
famous
.
A.
The Canterbury Tales
B.
The Romaunt of the Rose
C.
The Parliament of Fowls
D.
The House of
Fame
23.
Chaucer
composes
a
long
narrative
poem
named
based
on
Boccaccio‘s poem Filostrato.
A.
The Legend of Good Woman
B.
Troilus and Criseyde
C.
Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight
D.
Beowulf
24.
Generally
speaking,
Chaucer‘s
works
fall
into
three
main
groups
corresponding
roughly
to
the three period of his
adult life. Which period is wrong?
.
A. The period of French influence
(1359-1372)
B. The period of Italian
influence (1372-1386)
2
C. The period of English period
(1386-1400)
D. The period of American
period (1371-1382)
25. Chaucer‘s
diplomatic
missions
to
Italy enabled
him
to study
the poems
of
,
famous
Italian
writers of the Renaissance period,
which
were
later to
have profound
influence
upon
his
own
writing.
A. Dante
B. Petri arch
C.
Homer
D. Boccaccio
26.
Chaucer was the
first
important poet of a
royal court
to
write
in
after
the
Norman
Conquest.
A. French
B. Latin
C. English
D. Greek
The Renaissance
27.
was the first
to introduce the sonnet into English literature.
A. Thomas Wyatt
B.
William Shakespeare
C. Philip Sidney
D. Thomas Camp
ion
28.
was
the first to give the sonnet its English form. And
his metrical innovations are
very
important in English poetry
.
A. Thomas Wyatt
B. William Shakespeare
C.
Philip Sidney
D. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
29.
The
epoch
of
Renaissance
witnessed
a
particular
development
of
English
drama.
It
was
who made blank
verse the principal vehicle of expression in
drama.
A. Christopher Marlowe
B. Thomas Loge
C. Edmund Spencer
D. Thomas More
30. Thanks to
Surrey
, English prosody
has
gained a
magnificent
instrument blank
verse,
which
was used by many writers, such as
.
A. Marlowe
B. Shakespeare
C. Milton
D.
Byron
31. Sir Philip Sidney is known
both as a poet and as a
.
A. essayist
B. dramatist
C. a critic of poetry
D. novelist
32.
Great
popularity
was
won
by
John
Lily‘s
prose
romance
which
gave
rise
to
the
term
―euphuism‖,
designating an affected
style of court speech.
A. Cymbeline
B.
V
enus and Adonis
C. Lucrece
D. Euphues
33.
In the conclusion of the prose
, the author points out that the root
of poverty is the
private ownership of
social wealth.
A. Advancement of
Learning
B. Utopia
C. Tamburlaine
D. Henry IV
34. From the following, choose the one
which is not Edmund Spencer‘s work:
.
A.
The Shepherd‘s Calendar
B.
Epithalamion
C. The Faerie
Queen
D. Amoretti
35. Euphues of John
Li
ly
was
written
in a peculiar style
known as
―Euphuism‖,
which
consists
on the use of
.
A. balanced sentences
B. words alliterating
C. riming or identical
D. precision
36.
The
intellectual
energy
of
the
English
Renaissance
showed
itself
in
the
achievement
of
3
Francis Bacon
，
.
A. the founder of English
materialist philosophy
B. the founder
of modern science in English
C. the
first English essayist
D. the most
gifted of the ―university wits‖
h Renaissance Period was an age of
___________.
A. prose and novel
B.
poetry and drama
C. essays and journals
D. ballads and songs
38.
The
greatest
and
most
distinctive
achievement
of
Elizabethan
literature
is
drama.
Thus
appeared a group of excellent
dramatists. Mainly they are _______.
A.
John Lily
B. Thomas Kyd
C. George Peele
D. Christopher Marlowe
E.
William Shakespeare
39.
Elizabethan
poetry
is
remarkable.
England
then
became‖
a
nest
of
singing
birds‖.
The
famous poets of that period were ___.
A. William Shakespeare
B.
Edmund Spencer
C. Philip Sidney
D. Thomas Wyatt
40.
Sidney
is
well
—
known
as
a
poet
and
a
critic
of
poetry
.
He
is
known
mainly
for
his
three
principal works. They
are_____.
A. Arcadia
B. Artrophel and Stella
C. Apology for Poetry
D. Utopia
41.‖Liberty
, Fraternity and
Equality‖ were first uttered in the
book_______.
A. The
Shepherd‘s Calendar
B. Utopia
C. The
Rights of Man
D. The Declaration of
Independence
42. Marlowe‘s best plays
include______.
A.
Tamburlaine the Great
B. The Jew of Malta
C. The Tragically History of Doctor
Faustus
D. Cymbeline
43.
Which are Ben Johnson‘s
main comedies?________.
A.
Every Man in His Humor
B. Vulpine
C.
The Alchemist
D. The Silent Woman
E. The Merchant of V
enice
F.T
he Winter‘s Tale
44.
In
1593
and
1594,
William
Shakespeare
published
his
two
narrative
poems,
which
are______.
A.
V
enus and Adonis
B. Atrophic and
Stella
C. The rape of Lucerne
D. Vulpine
45.
The
heroines
of
William
Shakespeare‘s
great
c
omedies,
______are
the
daughters
of
the
Renaissance, whose images and stories
will remain a legacy to readers and audience of
all time.
A. Portia
B. Roseland
C. Viola
D. Beatrice
46.
Choose the four great tragedies of Shakespeare
from the following: ______.
A. Hamlet
B. Othello
C.
Macbeth
D. King Lear
E.
Timmons of Athens
4
47. Shylock is a character in the
play______.
A. Tamburlaine written by
Marlowe
B. Othello written by Marlowe
C. The Jew of Malta written by Marlowe
D. The Merchant of V
enice
written by Shakespeare
48. Which
historical plays were written by Shakespeare? ___.
A .Henry VI
B. Henry IV
C.
Richard III
D.
Henry V
E. Richard II
F. Charles I
G
. One the Great
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.‖Denmark
is a
prison‖.
In which play does the
hero summarize
his
observation of
his world
into such a bitter sentence? _______.
A. Charles I
B. Othello
C. Henry VIII
D. Hamlet
50.
The
works
of
_____and
the
Authorized
V
ersion
of
the
English
Bible
are
the
two
great
treasuries of the
English language.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B.
Edmund Spencer
C. William Shakespeare
D. Ben Johnson
51.
In
which
play
does
the
hero
show
his
profound
reverence
firm
man
through
the
sentence:‖What a piece of work is a
man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!
‖_____.
A. Romeo and Juliet
B. Hamlet
C. Othello
D.
The Merchant of V
enice
52.
Sir Philip Sidney‘s Arcadia was a long ____written
in an elaborately artful prose.
A. pastoral eclogue
B. pastoral
lyric
C. pastoral romance
D. pastoral drama
53. Which of following poetic forms is
the principal form of Shakespeare‘s dramas?
______.
A. lyric
B.
sonnet
C. blank verse
D.
quatrain
54. ______is the most common
foot in English poetry
.
A.
The iamb
B. The anapest
C. The
trochee
D.
The dacty1
55.
The
Tragically
History
of
Doctor
Faustus
is
one
of
Christopher
Marlowe‘s
best
works
in
which Dr. Faustus seeks _____no
matter at what cost and
finally
meets his tragic end
as a result
of selling his soul to the
Devil.
A. money
B. immorality
C. knowledge
D. political power
The Period of Revolution and
Restoration
56. Who of the following
were the important metaphysical poets? _________.
A. John Donne
B. George
Herbert
C. John Milton
D. Richard Lovelace
57. John
Milton
wrote a number of pamphlets
defending the
English People. Choose
them
from
the
following______.
A. Defiance of the
English People
B. Second Defiance of
the English People
C. L‘
Allegro
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D. Il Ponderosa
58. Which
works were written by John Milton?____.
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C.
Samson Agonists
D.
Vulpine
59. Paradise Lost is________.
A. John Milton‘s masterp
iece
B.A great epic in 12 books
C. written in blank verse
D.
about the heroic revolt of Satan against God‘s
authority
60. John
Milton
wrote
his
best-known prose
work, _____,
in the
form of a speech
addressed
to
the House of
Parliament, I n which he appealed for the freedom
of the press.
A. Of Reformation in
English
B. Lucida
C. Areopagitica
D. L‘ Allegro
61. From Old Testament, John Milton
took his stories of Paradise Lost, i.e.________.
A. the creation
B. the
rebellion in Heaven of Satan and his fellow-angels
C. their defeat and expulsion from
heaven
D. the creation of the earth and
of Adam and God
E. the fallen angels in
hell plotting against God
F. Satan‘s
temptation of Eve
G
. the departure of Adam and
Eve from Eden
63. Ben Johnson_______.
A. was the first poet laureate in the
history of English literature
B. was a
productive playwright
C. wrote a great
number of comedies
D. was the author of
Vulpine
64. In his blindness, Milton
wrote his most important poetic works, such
as______.
A. Paradise Lost
B.
Samson Agonists
C. Paradise Regained
D. The Pilgrim‘s
Progress
E. Paradise
Regained
65. The main literary form of
the seventeenth century was poetry
.
Among the poets, John Milton
was the
greatest. Besides him, there were two groups of
poets. They are ______.
A. the lake
poets
B.
the university wits
C. the Metaphysical
poets
D. the Cavalier poets
E. the
Active Romantic poets
66. Choose the
poets who belong to the Cavalier group._______.
A. Sir John Suckling
B. Richard
Lovelace
C. Thomas Carew
D. Robert Herrick
E. Andrew
Marvell
F. George Herbert
67. To His Coy Mistress is one of_
____‘s famous poems.
A. John
Donne
B. George Herbert
C. Andrew
Marvell
D. Richard Crashaw
68.
Another
school
of
poetry
prevailing
in
17th
century
was
that
of
_______,
I .
e .
those
verse-writers,
often
knights
and
squires,
who
sided
with
the
King
against
the
Parliament
and
Puritans.
A. Metaphysical
Poets
B.
Cavalier Poets
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C. John Milton
D. John Dryden
69.
During
this
period
of
revolution
and
counter-revolution,
_____
turned
with
the
tide
and
always
placed
himself
on
the
winning
side.
Thus,
he
has
been
called
a
time-saver
by
some
critics.
A.
John Milton
B. John Bunyan
C. John Donne
D.
John Dryden
70. Which work was not
written by John Dryden?_____.
A.
Absalom and Acidophil
B. Annuls
Mirabilis
C. Alexander‘s
Feast
D. Devotion upon
Emergent Occasions
71. _____is shown in
John Bunyan‘s The Pilgrim‘s Progress.
A. Utopianism
B. Idealism
C. Realism
D. Puritanism
72.
The
Pilgrim‘s
Progress
by
John
Bunyan
is
often
said
to
be
concerned
with
the
search
for_______.
A. material
wealth
B. spiritual salvation
C. universal truth
D. self-fulfillment
The Age of
Enlightenment in England
73.
______was
a
progressive
intellectual
movement
throughout
Western
Europe
in
the
18th
century
.
A. The
Renaissance
B. The
Enlightenment
C. The Religious
Reformation
D.
The Chartist Movement
74. Most of the
English writers in the 18th century were
enlighteners. They fell into two groups;
one is ______, and the other is_____.
A. the moderate group; the radical
group
B. the passive Romantic poets;
the active Romantic poets
C. the
Metaphysical poets; the Cavalier poets
D. the Lakers; the sentimentalists
75. Which of the following writers
belong to the moderate group of
enlighteners?_______.
A.
Alexander Pope
B. Daniel Defoe
C. Joseph
Addison
D. Richard Steel
E. Samuel
Richardson
F. Jonathan Swift
76.
The
18th
century
was
an
age
of
prose.
A
group
of
excellent
prose
writers,
such
as
______were produced.
A.
Joseph Addison
B. Richard Steel
C. Jonathan Swift
D. Henry Fielding
the 18th
century
, satire
was
much
used
in
writing,
English
literature
of
this age produced
some
excellent satirists, such as_______.
A.
Alexander Pope
B. Jonathan
Swift
C. Henry Fielding
D. Daniel Defoe
E. William Blake
78. The
main
literary stream of
the 18th century
was
_____.What the writers described
in
their
works were mainly social
realities.
A. naturalism
B.
romanticism
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C.
classicism
D. realism
E. sentimentalism
79Joseph
Addison‘s chief contribution to literature lies in
his essa
ys written for ____and____.
A. The Spectator
B. The Review
C. The Tattler
D. Cato
80.
______was the most important English poet in the
first half of the 18th
century
.
A.
Richard Steele
B. Joseph
Addison
C. Alexander Pope
D. Samuel Richardson
81.‖To
err is human, to forgive, divine‖ is a famous line
from Alexander Pope‘s poem______.
A. The Rape of the Lock
B.
Essay on Man
C. The Unclad
D. Essay on
Criticism
82.
The
Eighteenth
century
was
the
golden
age
of
the
English____.
The
novel
of
this
period
spoke the truth about
life with an uncompromising courage.
A.
drama
B. poetry
C.
essay
D. novel
series of pamphlets Jonathan Swift
denounced the cruel and
unjust
treatment o
f Ireland by
the
English government. Two of most famous ones are
______.
A. Gulliver‘s Travels
B .The Draper‘s Letters
C. The Battle of the Books
D.A Modest
Proposal
84.‖Proper
words
in
proper
places,
makes
the
true
definition
of
a
style‖,
this
sentence
is
said
by______, one of the greatest masters
of English prose.
A. Alexander Pope
B. Henry
Fielding
C. Daniel Defoe
D. Jonathan Swift
85. _____ was
the real
founder of the
realistic
novel
in
England.
His
novels
unfold a panorama
of life in all sections of English
society
.
A. Alexander Pope
B.
Henry Fielding
C. Daniel Defoe
D. Jonathan
Swift
86.______‘s
best
-known
pamphlet
was
The
trueborn
Englishman
A
Satire,
which
contained
a
caustic exposure of the aristocracy and
the tyranny of church.
A. Alexander
Pope
B. Henry Fielding
C. Daniel
Defoe
D. Jonathan
Swift
87. Which of following
books are written by Samuel Richardson?_____.
A. Pamela
B. Clarissa Marlowe
C. Sir Charles Grandson
D. Don Quixote in England
88.
Henry
Fielding‘s
first
novel____
was
written
in
connection
with
Pamela
of
Samuel
Richardson. But after the first ten
chapters, Henry Fielding became as interested and
absorbed in
his own novel as to forget
his original plan of ridiculing Pamela.
A. Tom Jones
B. Joseph Andrew
C. Jonathan Wild
D.
Amelia
89.______,
the
first
important
work
by
Tobias
Smollett,
is
based
on
his
own
experience
as
a
naval doctor and in part
autobiographical.
A. Roderick Random
B. Humphrey
Clinker
D. Peregrine Pickle
D.A
Sentimental Journey
90. Among Samuel
Johnson‘s works, the best
-known
are______.
A. The dictionary of the
English Language
B. The Idler
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C. The
V
anity of Human Wishes
D.
Lives of the poets
91. Which of the
following works are not written by Oliver
Goldsmith? ______.
A. The Traveler
B. The Deserted Village
C. The Vicar of Wakefield
D. The School for Scandal
E.
She Stoop to Conquer
F. The Good-natured Man
G
. The Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire
92.______ are written
by William Black.
A. Poetical S ketches
B.
Songs of Innocence
C. Songs of
Experience
D. Auld Lang
sync
E. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
F. Prophecies
G
. Visions of the Daughter
of Albion and America, a Prophecy
93.‖In
seed
time
learn,
in
harvest
teach,
in
winter
enjoy‖.
This
proverb
is
cited
from
William
Blake‘s______.
A.
Songs of Experience
B. Songs of
Innocence
C. The Marriage of Heaven and
Hell
D. Poetical Sketches
94. Which of the following works are
written by Robert Burns?
_________.
A.
A
Red, Red Rose
B. Bruce at Bannockburn
C. The Jolly Beggars
D.
The Slave‘s Lament
E. Poems
Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
95. In
the 18th century English literature, the
representative writer of neoclassicism is_____.
A. Alexander Pope
B. Jonathan
Swift
C. Daniel Defoe
D. John Milton
96. In the 18th century English
literature, the representative poets of pre-
romanticism were____.
A. Alexander Pope
B. William Blake
C. Robert
Burns
D.
Jonathan Swift
97.
_______was
Alexander
Pope‘s
poem
which
satirized
the
idle
and
artificial
life
of
the
aristocracy
.
A.
The Rape of the Lock
B.
The Rape of Licorice
C. The School for
Scandal
D. Every Man in
His Humor
98. In
the
middle decades of the 18th
century
, _____became
the
leader of
the
classic school
in
English
poetry and prose.
A. Alexander Pope
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Robert Burns
D. William
Blake
99. Which are the two periodical
started by Richard Steele and Joseph Addison?
______.
A. The Tattler
B. The Rambler
C. The Idler
D.
The Spectator
100. ______compiled The
Dictionary of
the
English Language which became the
foundation of
all the
subsequent English dictionaries.
A. Ben
Johnson
B. Samuel
Johnson
C. Alexander Pope
D. John Dryden
101. Choose Samuel Johnson‘s works from
the following._______.
A.
Lives of the Poets
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B. The Dictionary of the English
Language
C. Every Man of His Humor
D. The V
anity of Human
Wishes
E. An Essay on Criticism
102. Choose the representative poets of
the 18th century pre-romanticism and
the
forerunners of
romanticism _____.
A. Thomas
Gray
B.
Edward Y
oung
C. James
Thomason
D. William Blake
E. Robert
Burns
103. The realist novelists of the
18th century include_____.
A. Daniel
Defoe
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Henry Fielding
D. Tobias Smollett
E. William Blake
104. Henry Fielding was a versatile
man. He was _____.
A. a novelist
B. a dramatist
C. an
essayist
D.
a political pamphleteer
E. a political
economist
105.
______
is
a
satirical
novel,
in
which
the
author
Henry
Fielding
exposes
the
English
bourgeois aristocratic society and
mocks at its political system.
A. A
Modest Proposal
B. Gulliver‘s Travels
C. V
olpone
D. Jonathan Wild the Great
106. Which of the following novels are
epistolary novels? ____.
A. Clarissa
Harlowe
B. Pamela
C. Sir Charles Grandison
D. Tom Jones
107. Which play is regarded as the best
English comedy since Shakespeare?
______.
A. She Stoops to
Conquer
B. The
Rival
C. The School for Scandal
D. The Conscious Lovers
Romanticism in England
108. The publication of
_____ marked the beginning of Romantic Age.
A. Don Juan
B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
C. The Lyrical ballads
D.
Queen Mab
109. The prose writing of the
Romantic Period was represented by ______.
A. Charles Lamb
B. William
Hazlitt
C. Thomas De Quincey
D.
Leigh Hunt
E. John Keats
110. Which poets belong to the Active
Romantic group? ____.
A. George Gordon
Byron
B. William Wordsworth
C. Percy Bysshe Shelley
D. John Keats
E. John Milton
111. Which
poets belong to the Lakers? ______.
A.
William Wordsworth
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. John Keats
D. Robert Southey
E. Walter Scott
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112. Choose the poems
written by Wordsworth with the theme on nature and
country life. _____.
A. To
the Cuckoo
B. We Are Seven
C. Lucy Poems
D. The Solitary Reaper
E. I
Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
113.
______ was the first critic
of the Romantic school.
A. William
Wordsworth
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
D. Wordsworth
and Coleridge
114. George
G
ordon Byron was a staunch champion of
the people‘s cause. He raised his voice in
defence of the oppressed workers in his
well-known_____.
A. Song for the
Luddites
B. The Prisoner of Chillon
C. The Vision of Judgment
D. The Revolt
of Isalm
115. Which of following
statements is (are) not true about Don Joan?
_______.
A. Don Juan was written in
Italy during the years 1818-1823.
B.
The story describes
Don Juan‘s an
English
young of
noble birth,
life and
adventures
in
many
countries.
C. In Greek
island , Don Juan met his sweetheart, Haidee, and
fell in love with her.
D.
The
last cantos
are
taken
up
with a satirical description of the
English ruling classes,
whose
reactionary policy has
aroused the hatred from the other nations.
E. In Don Juan Byron displayed his
genius as a romanticist and a realist
simultaneously.
116. Which short lyrics
were written by George Gordon Byron? ________.
A. She Walks in Beauty
B.
When We Two Parted
C.
Hebrew Melodies
D. One Word Is Too
Often Profaned
E. A Red, Red Rose
117. Choose the poetic plays written by
George Byron. _______.
A. Hours of
Idleness
B. Mansfred
C. Cain
D. Oriental Tales
E. Prometheus Unbound
118.
For
his pamphlet ______ , Percy Bysshe
Shelley
was expelled
from
Oxford a
nd disowned
by his
father.
A. Address to the Irish People
B. Vindication of Right of Women
C. Masque of Anarchy
D. The
Necessity of Atheism
119.
Which
of
the
following
poems
are
written
by
Percy
Bysshe
Shelley
on
the
death
of
John
Keats? ______.
A. Peter Bell
the Third
B. Hellas
C. Adonais
D. The Cenci
120.
Which
poem
shows
Percy
Bysshe
Shelley‘s
attitude
towards
the
position
of
women
in
society
,
besides the theme of revolutionary? ______.
A. The Revolt of Islam
B. Prometheus Unbound
C. Songs to Man of England
D. Ode to the West Wind
121. ______ is regarded as the most
wonderful lyricist England has ever produced
mainly for his
poems on nature, on
love, and on politics.
A. William
Wordsworth
B. John Keats
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C. George Gordon Byron
D. Percy Bysshe
Shelley
122. Which of the following
statements is (are) not true about Percy Bysshe
Shelley? ________.
A.
Prometheus Unbound is Percy Bysshe‘s masterpiece,
a long epic poem.
B. At
Eton Percy Bysshe Shelley was known as
―Mad Shelley‖,
for
his obstinate opposition to
the brutal fagging system, according to
which the younger school
–
boy were obliged to obey
the
older boys the bear a great deal of
cruel treatment.
C.
George
Gordon
Byron
called
Percy
Bysshe
Shelley
―the
best
and
l
east
selfish
man
I
ever
knew‖.
D. Percy
Bysshe Shelly loved the people and hated their
oppressors and exploiters.
123.
John
Keats‘s
fondness
for
sensuous
beauty
and
his
ability
of
paining
exact
word
-pictures
find their best expression in the poem
of ______.
A. Isabella
B. The Eve of St. Agnes
C. Endymion
D. Lamia
124. The unfinished
long
epic _____ has been regarded as John Keats‘s
greatest achievement
in
poetry
.
A.
Endymion
B.
Isabella
C. Hyperion
D.
When I Have Fear
125. Which are Percy
Bysshe Shelley‘s lyric on nature? ____.
A. Ode to the West Wind
B. To a Skylark
C. The Cloud
D.
Ode to the Nightingale
E. I Wandered
Lovely as a Cloud
126. Which are Percy
Bysshe Shelley‘s politic a
l lyrics?
_____.
A. A Defense of Poetry
B.
To a Skylark
C. Song to the Men of
England
D.
England in 1819
127. Which is Percy
Bysshe Shelley‘s work of literary
criticism?
A. An Essay an
Criticism
B. A Defense of
Poetry
C. On the Necessity of Atheism
D.
Of Studies
128. Choose the historical
novels written by Walter Scott. _______.
A. Rob Roy
B. Ivanhoe
C. Marmon
D. The Lady of
the Lake
E. Waverly
129.
Choose the four immortal odes written by John
Keats. ____.
A. Ode to the West Wind
B.
Ode to the Nightingale
C. To Autumn
D. Ode on Melancholy
E. Ode on a Grecian Urn
130.
Which works are based on ancient Greek Mythology?
_____.
A. Prometheus Bound
B. Prometheus Unbound
C.
Endymion
D. Paradise
Lost
E. The Rime of Ancient Mariner
131. Which works have employed the
subjects from the Bible? ________.
A.
Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C.
Sanson Agnistes
D.
Cain
E. Prometheus Unbound
132. Choose the works written by Jane
Austen. ________.
A. Pride and
Prejudice
B. Sense and Sensibility
C. Northanger Abbey
D. Emma
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E. Mansfield Park
F.
Persuasion
133. Charles
Lamb‘s ______made Shakespeare a familiar author to
the general readers.
A.
Notes and Lectures on Shakespeare
B.
Tales from Shakespeare
C. The
Characters of Shakespeare‘s Plays
D. On the Knocking at the Gate in
Macbeth
134. At 20, William Hazlitt met
Coleridge and Wordsworth when the two poets were
in the prime
of their literary career.
He described it in his famous essay_______.
A. My First Acquaintance
With Poets
B. Lectures on the English
Poets
C. The Spirit of the Age
D. Table Talk
135. As a
poet, Leigh Hunt is chiefly remembered
for________.
A. About Ben Adhem
B. Jenny Kissed
Me
C. The Liberal
D.
The Story of Rimini
136. The confession
of an English Opium-
Eater made of‖ the
Opium
-
Eater ‖ .
A. Walter Scott
B.
William Hazlitte
C. Thomas De Quincey
D. Leigh Hunt
The Victorian
Age
137. In the 19th century
English Literature, a new
literary
trend called ______ appeared . And
it
flourished on the forties and in the
early fifties.
A. romsnticism
B. naturalism
C. realism
D. critical realism
138.
__
__‘s
The
Cry
of
the
Children
contains
concrete
description
of
the
miserable
life
of
child-
workers in the factories and mines.
A.
Thomas Hood
B. Robert
Browning
C. Elizabeth Barret Browning
D. Ernest Jones
139.
In
the
19th
century
,
the
social
contradictions
were
reflected
in
the
prose
writing.
The
important prose writers who criticized
the evils of the capitalist society were
_____.
A. Thomas Carlyle
B.
John Ruskin
C. Matthew Arnold
D. Charles Lamb
E. John Dryden
140. ______
described the life of the laboring people and
criticized the the privileged classes, but
the
power
of
exposure
became
much
weaker
in
her
work.
The
significance
of
her
work
lies
in
rather in the portrayal
of the pettiness and stagnancy of English
provincial life.
A. Emily Charlotte
B. Emily Bronte
C. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
D.
George Eliot
141. In the _____ period,
Charles Dickens believed that all the evils of the
capitalist word would
be
remedies
of
only
men
behaved
to
each
other
with
kindliness,
justice,
and
sympathetic
understanding.
A. first
B. second
C. third
D.
fourth
142. _____ has been called ―the
supreme epic of English life‖.
A. A Tales of Two Cities
B. David Copperfield
C.
Pickwick Papers
D. Oliver Twist
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143. All the
traits of _____ enliven the pages of Pickwick
Papers.
A. the native, youthful
optimism
B. the joy of living
C. the lightness of heart
D.
the genuine sympathy for the workers
144. The pride of wealth, or
―pu
rse-
pride‖, is the theme
of the novel _____.
A.
Dombey and Son
B. A Tale of
Two Cities
C. Little Dorrit
D. Oliver Twist
145. Which
of the following statements about David
Copperfield are true? _______.
A. In parallel with the main line,
there is a sub-
plot of Uriah Heep,
eld‘s clerk and less
polished, more
hypocritical, and even more villainous Carker.
B .The portrait of Uriah Heep ranks
high in Dickens‘s list of villains.
C .The
novel
is
not
merely
a
personal
record
b
ut
a
broad
picture
of
the
society
of
the
author‘s
day
.
D. In this
novel Dickens lost his old na? ve optimism about
bourgeois society
.
E. Dickens‘s democratic viewpoint shows
itself in the class
-orientation of the
novel.
146. _____is a novel with
imprisonment, both matter-of-fact or symbolic, as
its central theme.
A. David Copperfield
B. A Tale Of Two Cities
C.
Little Dorrit
D. Bleak House
147. The theme underlying_____is the
idea ―Where is oppretssion, there is
revolution‖.
A. A Tale of
Two Cities
B. David Copperfield
C. Pickwick Papers
D. Oliver Twist
148. Which of the following works are
not written by William Makepeace
Thackeray?_____.
A.
V
anity Fair
B. Pendennis
C. Our Mutual Friend
D. Henry Esmond
E. Adam Bede
149. Which of the following statements
about V
anity Fair are true? _____.
A. In this novel William Makepeace
Thackeray describes the life of the ruling classes
of England
in
the
early
decades
of
the
19th
century
,
and
attacks
the
social
relationship
of
the
bourgeois
world by satirizing the individuals in
the different strata of the upper
society
.
B. The
character of Becky Sharp is drawn with admirable
skill. The unprincipled adventuress is a
gifted woman, with a keen sense of
humor and deep understanding of people.
C. Of course Amelia Sedley has her
vanity also of out-rivaling other women in beauty
and in her
power over
men,
and of
gaining admittance
into
high
society
, but
all
such
vanity
is
inseparably
bound up with
the greed for wealth.
D. There are no
common people in the novel.
150. In
Victorian age, poetry was
not a
major art
intended to change
the
world.
The
main poets
of the age were____.
A.
Alfred Tennyson
B. Robert
Browning
C. Mrs. Browning
D. Robert Burns
151. The
story of _____deals with the adventures of a
retired old merchant.
A. A
Tale of Two Cities
B.
David Copperfield
C. Pickwick Papers
D. Oliver Twist
152.
Which
novel
makes
a
fierce
attack
on
the
bourgeois
system
of
education
and
bourgeois
utilitarianism?_____.
A.
Oliver Twist
B. Hard Times
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C. Great Expectation
D. A Tale of Two Cities
153. Which
novel
is great satire upon the society and
those society and those people who dream
to enter the higher society regardless
of the social reality?____.
A. A Tale
of Two Cities
B. David
Copperfield
C. Great Expectation
D. Dombey and
Son
154. Charles Dickens takes the
French Revolution as background of the novel
_____.
A. A Tale of Two
Cities
B.
Great Expectation
C. Hard Times
D. David Copperfield
155.
_____ is often regarded as semi-autobiography of
the author Dickens in which the early life
of the hero is largely based on the
author‘s early life.
A. Tome
Jones
B. David Copperfield
C.
Oliver Twist
D. Great Expectation
156.
The sub-title of V
anity Fair is _____.
A. A Pure Woman Faithfully Portrayed
B. The Spirit and the Flesh
C. A Novel Without a Hero
D.
Sense and Sensibility
157. In the novel
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte_____.
A.
pours a great deal of her own experience
B. criticizes the bourgeois system of
education
C. shows that
true love is the foundation of marriage
D. shows that women should have equal
rights with men
158. Mrs. Gaskell was
the friend of Charlotte Bronte. Her ____
is one of the best biographies in
English Literature.
A.
Life
of Charlotte Bronte
B. Life of
Johnson
C. Tales of Shakespeare
D. Adonais
159. The novel Mary Barton _____.
A. is about the class struggle between
the works and the capitalists.
B. is
one of the most important social of that period.
C. reflects something about Chartist
Movement
D. contains such characters as
John Barton, Mary
, Wilson and Cleson
160. George Eliot produces three
remarkable novels which made her famous. They are
____.
A.
Adam Bede
B.
The Mill on
the Floss
C.
Silas Marner
D.
Mary Barton
E.
Pamela
161. Women
novelists began to appear in England during the
second half of the _____ century.
A.
17th
B. 18th
C. 19th
D.
20th
162. Which of the following
statements are true about Jane Eyre?_____.
A. One of the central themes of the
book is the criticism of the bourgeois system of
education.
B. Another
problem raised in the novel is position of women
in society
.
C. This book is
Charlotte Bronte‘s best literary
production.
D.
In
this
book,
the
author
attacked
the
greed,
pretty
tyranny
and
lack
of
culture
among
the
bourgeoisie and
sympathized with the sufferings of the poor
people. Her realism was colored by
petty-bourgeois
philanthropy
.
163. Which of
the following statement are true about Wuthering
Heights?____.
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A. Wuthering Heights
is
the
name of Mr.
Earnshaw‘s
house
in North
England, remote
from
the
outside
world and amidst gloomy surroundings.
B. The pure love between Heathcliff and
Catherine has been crushed by the class prejudice
of the
bourgeoisie.
C.
Heathcliff is at first the oppressed and decides
to have his revenge on his oppressor, but in the
end,
hav
ing
had his revenge, the oppressed turns
into the oppressor.
Here
lies
the
novel‘s
theme
that ―a full human life in a
capitalist society was impossible of
attainment‖.
D. In the
writing of it, the author drew a great deal from
her own life-experience.
164. _____
written by George Eliot is largely
autobiographical in its early chapters.
A. Adam Bede
B. The Mill on
the Floss
C. Felix Holt the Radical
D. Mary Barton
165. Most of
Robert Browning‘s important works,
including___,
Are written in
the form of dramatic monologue.
A.
Dramatic Lyrics
B. Dramatic
Romances
C. Men and Women
D. Dramatic Personae
166. _____has been praised as a
―gallant, courageous and high
-
hearted figure ‖, well
-known
for
buoyant optimism.
A.
Robert Louis Stevenson
B.
Laurence Sterne
C. Robert Browning
D. Percy Bysshe
Shelley
167. The theory of ―art for
art‘s sake‖ was first put forward by the poet
____.
A. Oscar Wilde
B. Walter Pater
C. Robert Louis Stevenson
D. Theophile Gautier
168.
Thomas Hardy is one of the representatives of
English ___ at the turn of the 19th
century
.
A.
critical realism
B. pre-
romanticism
C. neo-classicism
D. new romanticism
169.
Which statement is true?_____.
A.
Thomas Hardy is a famous novelist
B.
Thomas Hardy is also a poet
C. Thomas
Hardy is a critical realist
D. Fatalism is strongly reflected in
Thomas Hardy‘s novels
170.
According
to
Thomas
Hardy‘s
own
classification,
his
novels
divide
themselves
into
three
groups. They are ____.
A. Novels of character and Environment
B. Romances and Fantasies
C.
Novels of Ingenuity
D. Working class
literature
171. Novels of character and
Environment are
also called Wessex
novels,
taking the southwest
countries of England for their setting.
They include:_____.
A. Under the
Greenwood Tree
B. Take Return of the
Native
C. Tess of the D‘
Urbervilles
D. Jude the
Obscure
172.
____
is
the
representative
of
New
Romanticism
in
novel
writing
at
the
end
of
the
19th
century
.
A.
Robert Louis Stevenson
B.
Laurence Sterne
C. Robert Browning
D. Percy Bysshe
Shelley
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173.
Oscar Wilde was the representative among the
writers of ____.
A. aestheticism
B.
decadence
C. critical realism
D. pre-
romanticism
174. Which of the following
works concern the story of King Arthur?_____.
A. Idylls of the King
B.
Morte d‘ Arthur
C. Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight
D. The
History if the King of Briton
E. Brut
175. The Last Duchess is _____.
A. a dramatic monologue
B. a short lyric
C. a novel
D. an essay
The
Twentieth-Century Literature
176.
The
late
19th
century
saw
an
upsurge
of
workers‘
movements
in
England.
V
arious
labor
organizations came into being:_____.
A. the Social-Democratic Federation
B. the Fabian Society
C. the Independent Labor Party
D. the Labor Representation Committee
177. ____ ,
―the bard of
imperialism‖,
glorified the
colonial expansion of
Britain
in
his poems,
stories and novels.
A.
Rudyard Kipling
B. Arnold Bennett
C. Joseph Conrad
D.
Herbert George Wells
178. Arnold
Bennett‘s novelist and critic, is best known for
his____.
A. Kim
B.
Novels of the Five Towns
C. The Old
Wives‘s Life
D. Lord Jim
179.
____ are genera
lly regarded as Joseph
Conrad‘s finest novels.
A.
Lord Jim
B. Nostromo
C.
Y
outh
D. The Old Wives‘s Tale
180. ____ tells the tale of a young
Englishman who serves as mate on the steam ship
―Patna‖.
A. Lord Jim
B.
Nostromo
C. Y
outh
D. The Old Wives‘s
Tale
181. Which are the
representative works by Henry James?____.
A. Daisy Miller
B.
The Portrait of a Lady
C. The Wings of
the Dove
D. The Ambassadors
E. The Golden Bowl
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82.
Who
is
regarded
as
a
forerunner
of
the
―stream
of
consciousness‖
literature
in
the
20th
century?____.
A. John
Galsworthy
B. Henry James
C. Thomas Steams Eliot
D. Katherine Mansfield
184.
_____ marks the summit of critical realism in all
Jo
hn Galsworthy‘s works.
A. The Man of Property
B. The Indian Summer of a
Forsyte
C. In Chancery
D. Awakening
185. ―The Man
of Property‖ is represented by ____ , the central
figure in The Man of
Property
.
A.
Soames Forsyte
B. Irene
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C. Bosinney
D. Heathcliff
E. Shylock
186. It is
interesting
to
note that nearly all the
important English dramatists of the
18th and 19th
centuries were Irish-
born, as ____.
A. William
Congreve
B.
Oliver Goldsmith
C. Richard Brinsley
Sheridan
D. Oscar Wilde
187. H.G
.Wells is one of the
most famous writers of ____ fiction.
A.
romantic
B.
realistic
C. classical
D. science
188. In the play ____ George
Bernard Shaw deals with the theme of
rivalry between the U.S.A.
and England
in the political arena and criticizes bourgeois
parliamentarism.
A. Widowers
‘ House
B.
Mrs. Warren ‘ s Profession
C. The Apple Cart
D. The Quintessence of Ibsenism
189. ____ , the representative of ―war
poets‖, is remember
ed chiefly for his 5
war sonnets called
1914, in which The
Solder is the famous one.
A. Thomas
Steams Eliot
B. John Masefield
C. Alfred Edward Housman
D.
Rupert Brooke
190.
____
is
a
manifesto
of
modernist
poetry
,
demanding
‖breaking
through
t
he
barriers
of
19th
century‖.
A. The Sacred Wood
B. Tradition and the individual Talent
C. Four Quartets
D. The Waste
Land
191.
In
English
literature,
____
and
____
are
the
two
best-
known
novelists
of
the
―stream
of
consciousness‖ school.
A. David Herbert Lawrence
B. Thomas Steams Eliot
C.
James Joyce
D. William Bulter Y
eats
192. ____ was the biographer, critic
and editor of the Dictionary of National
Biography
.
A.
Virginia Woolf
B. Thomas
Steams Eliot
C. James Joyce
D. William
Bulter Y
eats
193. To the
Lighthouse is divide into 3 part, separately
entitled____.
A. The Window
B.
Time Passes
C. The Lighthouse
D. The Waves
194. ____ is the climax of Virginia
Woolf‘ s experiments in novel form.
A. The Window
B. Time Passes
C. The Lighthouse
D. The Waves Tune
195. Virginia Woolf
was also a well-known critic. Her best
critical essays
were collected
in two
volumes,_____.
A. The Common Reader
B. Time Passes
C. The Second Common R
eader
D. A Room oimpef One‘s Own
196. Rudyard Kipling
was
the spokesman
for
imperialist sentiment. Choose
his works
from
the
following:_____.
A. Kim
B. The Jungle Book
C. The Second Jungle Book
D. Plain Tales
from the Hills
197. J
ohn
Galsworthy ?s first trilogy The Forsyte Sage
consists of _____.
A. The
Man of Property
B.
The Indian Summer of a Forsyte
C.
Awakening
18
D. To Let
198. John
Galsworhty ‘ s second trilogy A Modern Comedy
consists of _____.
A. The
White Monkey
B. A Silent
Wooing
C. The Silver Spoon
D. Passers-By
E. Swan Song
199.
____
was
much
concerned
about
the
crying
contradictions
of
bourgeois
civilization
and
made protests against
imperialism and Fascism, but
he believe
in
the
possibilities of
improving
capitalism with a system of
―technocracy ‖. The First Men in the Moon is one
of his novels.
A. Herbert
George Wells
B. Ralph
Ellison
C. Thomas More
D. Thomas
Steams Eliot
200.
Which
of
the
following
novels
belong(s)
to
the
―stream
of
consciousness‖
school
f
novel
writing?_____
A. Ulysses
B. Finnegans
C. To the
Lighthouse
D. The Waves
E.
Mrs. Dalloway
201.
Davis
Herbert
Lawrence‘s
representative
work
____
was
positively
taken
as
a
typical
example and lively
manifesta
tion of the Oedipus Complex in
Fiction, as the result of Lawrence‘s
long-range study of the psychoanalytic
theories of Sigmund Freud.
A. Sons and
Lovers
B.
The Waste Land
C. Lady Chatterley‘s
Lover
D. Women in Love
203. Which of the characters are in the
novel Sons and Lovers?____.
A. Mrs.
Morel
B. Paul
C. Miriam
D. Clara
E. Walter Morel
204. William
Somerset Maugham ?s best
-known novel is
____.
A. The Human Bondage
B. The Good Companions
C. The stars Look Down
D. Our Betters
205. John Bull‘s Other Island is a play
written by _____.
A. Henrik
Ibsen
B. George
Bernard Shaw
C. Richard Brinsley
Sheridan
D. William Shakespeare
206.
Which is/are true?____
A. George
Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland.
B. George Bernard Shaw was a humorist
C. George Bernard Shaw was a critical
realist dramatist
D. George Bernard
Shaw was a friend of progressive people.
E. George Bernard Shaw once visited
China.
207. William Butler
Y
eats was ____
A. an Irish
poet
B. a dramatist
C. a critic
D. a senator in the Irish Free State in
1921
208. Thomas Steams Eliot defined
his belief as ____.
A. classicist in
literature
B. royalist in politics
B.
Anglo-Catholic in religion
D. all of the
above
209. Which of following statement
is not true?____
A. Thomas Steams Eliot
was born in America.
19
B. Thomas Steams Eliot became a British
subject in 1927
C. Thomas Steams Eliot
was educated in Harvard University and Oxford
University
.
D.
Thomas Steams Eliot was a poet , a critic and
playwright.
E. Thomas Steams Eliot was
also a great novelist.
210.
Which
poem
concerns
Thomas
Stearns
Eliot‘s
faith
and
emotional
satisfaction
in
the
church?____
A. Murder in the
Cathedral
B. The Solitary Reaper
C. Ash Wednesday
D. The Waste
Land
211. Ralph Fox was a progressive
English____.
A. writer
B.
critic
C. journalist
D. historian
212.
The
Novel
and
the
People
is
____
in
which
Fox
gives
a
critical
survey
of
European
literature.
A. a novel
B.
an essay
C. a drama
D. a poem
II
True or False
The Middle Age
Gawain
and
the
Green
Knight,
The
Pearl,
Piers
the
Plowman
and
Canterbury
Tales
are
considered the four
great contributions to poetry during the Middle
English Period.
Arthur and
His Knights of the Round Table was first written
in Anglo-Saxon.
first English version
of the Arthurian legend is Layamon‘s
Brut.
the 14th
century
, the two most importantwriters
are Langland and Tomas
Malory
.
fifteenth century has been traditionally described
as the barren age in English literature. But it is
the spring tide of English Ballads.
Malory wrote an important word called
Morte d‘Arthur.
ey Chaucer
is the father of English poetry
, and
the founder of English language and fiction.
r‘s literary career is conventionally
divided into three periods: the French, the
American, and
the English.
French Period, Chaucer wrote The House of Fame.
r‘s work symbolized the beginning of
English literary
history led by
vernacular literature as
main stream.
The Renaissance
11.U
topia
is More‘s masterpiece,written in the
form of letters between More and
Hythloday
,a voyager.
Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet
and dramatist.
commented highly on
More‘s U
topia
and mentionde
it in his great work, T
he
C
apital
.
highest
glory of the English Renaissance was
unquestionably its drama.
miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible
stories, such as the creation of the world,Noah
and the flood,and the birth of Christ.
Shakespeare‘s death, Ben Johnson
collected and published his plays in
1623.
Shakespeare‘s
historical
plays,it
can
be
seen
that
Shakespeare
took
great
interest
in
the
political questions of
his time.
Shakespeare‘s historical
plays, historical accuracy is not strictly
regarded.
19.K
ing
L
ear
is
a
tragedy
of
ambition,which
drives
a
brave
soldier
and
national
hero
to
degenerate
into bloody
murderer and despot right to his doom.
20
from an old Danish
legend,H
amlet
is
considered the summit of Shakespeare‘s
art.
peare is one of the
founders of
Romanticism in
world literature.
are two
main characters in A
s
Y
ou
L
ike
I
t
:Orlando and Portia.
The
story centers on the love affair between them.
The Period of Revolution
and Restoration
h literature in the
17
th
century
,
withnessed a flourish in a whole.
Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton
because it produced a great poet whose name is
William Milton.
main
literary form in literature of Revolution Period
is poetry
.
the
English poets during the Revolution Period,John
Donne was the greatest one.
greatest epic produced by
Milton,P
aradise
L
ost
,is written in heroic
couplet.
peom of
S
amson
A
gonistes
was ―to justify the ways of God to
man‖, advocate submission
to the
Almighty
.
has
been
noticed
by
many
critics
that
the
picture
of
Satan
surrounded
by
his
angels,who
never
think of expressing
any opinions of their own, resembles the court of
an abstract monarch.
the
field of prose writing of the Puritan Age,John
Milton occupies the most important
place.
P
ilgrim
‘s
P
rogress
is one
of
the
most popular pieces
of Christian writing produced during
the
Puritan Age.
Bunyan‘s
masterpiece,the
P
ilgrim
‘s
P
rogress
,is a
narrative
in
which general
concepts
such as
sins,despair,and
faith are represented as people or as aspects of
the natural world.
Dryden
is the most excellent representative of English
classicism in the Restoration Period.
his An E
ssay
of
D
ramatic
P
oesy
,John Bunyand showde
his famous appreciation of Shakespeare.
wrote about 27 famous one is
A
ll
for
L
ove
, a tragedy dealing with
the same storu
as Shadespeare‘s
A
ntony and
C
leopatra
.
main
literary
achievements
of
the
17
th
century
lies
in
the
poetry
of
John
Milton,in
the
prose
writing
of John Bunyand,and in the plays and literary
criticism of John Dryden.
is the hero in Milton‘s m
asterpiece
P
rometheus
U
nbound.
works
of the Metaphysical poets are characterized,
generally speaking, by mysticism in content
and fantasticality in form.
Donne was the forerunner of the English classical
school of literature in the
28
th
century
.
The Age of Enlightenment in
England
Enlightenment
was
a
progressive
intellectual
movement
throughout
Western
Europe
in
17
th
century
.
chief
representatives
of
radical
enlighteners
are
Alexander
Pope,Joseph
Addison,
Richard
Steele,Daniel Defoe and Samuel
Richardson.
writing
made
a
big
advance
in
the
18
th
century
.The
main
characters
in
the
novels
were
no
longer the kings and the nobles , but
common people.
the
18
th
century English
literature, satire
is
much
used
in
writing.
English
literature
of
this age
produced a
distinguished satirest Jonathan Swift.
the
18
th
century
English
literature,
the
representative
writer
of
pre-
romanticism
is
Alexander
Pope.
19
th
centure produced
the
first
English
novelists, who
fall
into
two
groups
—
the
sentimentalist
novelists and the
realist novelists.
the poems of Edward
Y
oung and Thomas Gray
, pre-
romanticism found its fine expression.
21
literature of the
Enlightenment in England mainly appealed to the
common people.
der Pope translated the
entire Iliad and half of the
O
dyssey
in blank verse.
49.T
he
B
attle
of
the
Books
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 the Spider.
the
last
part
of
G
ulliver’
s
T
ravels
,
the
satire
is
of
the
er
was
now
in
a
country
where
the Y
ahoos were possessde of reason,
and were the goveming class.
51.
Daniel
Defoe‘s
R
obinson
C
rusoe
was
one
of
the
forerunners
of
the
English
centimental
creates the image of an enterprising
Englishman, typical of the English boutgeoisie of
the 18
th
century
.
Fielding‘s greatest power of satire is
showed in his brilliant play
T
he
H
istorical
R
egister for
the
Y
ear
1736,which
is daring in the extreme as a political satire.
Smollett
Gives
a
true
picture
of
the
evils
in
the
Britain
navy
in
the
novel
R
oderick
R
andom
,in which
Random, like Smollett,is a Scot and a doctor.
two
most
important
of
all
Samuel
Johnson‘s
liter
ary
works
are
the
preface
and
comments
of
individual plays
in
his edition of Milton,and
his
L
ives
of
P
oets
,which pass judhment on
a
century of
English poetry
.
Goldsmith‘s comedies are examples of
the brief revival of the English comedy in the
17
70s.
Burns
is
remembered
mainly
for
his
songs
written
in
the
English
dislect
on
a
variety
of
subjects.
m Blake wrote two
volumes of poems:T
he
S
ongs
of
E
xperience
and
T
he
S
ongs
of
I
nnocence
.
58.M
y
H
eart’
s
in the
H
ighlands
is one
of the best known poems
written by
Burns
in which
he poured
his unshakable love for his homeland.
is the
greatest
poet Scotland
has ever
P
oems
C
hiefly
in the
S
cottish
D
ialect
is
of great significance in English
literature.
an‘s only n
ovel
is The V
icar of
W
akefield
,which
is also his masterpiece.
61.S
he
S
toops
to
C
onquer
or
T
he
M
istakes
of the
N
ight
is
Goldsmith‘s best
-known
tragedy
.
greatest
English playwright
of the 18
th
century was
Goldsmith,whose best play
is
T
he
S
chool
for
S
canda
l.
C
himney
-S
weeper
is one of the best-known poems in the collection of S
ongs of
E
xperience
.
Romanticism in England
pulication of
T
he
L
yrical
B
allads
marked
the break with classicism and the beginning of
the
Age of Reason.
Romantic
Age
is
emphatically
an
age
of
young
enthusiastic
writers
turned
to
poetry
.
as poets
appeared in the Romantic Age,such as Jane
Austen.
ic
prose
of
the
Romantic
Age
was
represented
by
Charles
Lamb,William
Hazlitt,Thomas
De Quincey
and Hume.
68.L
ines
C
omposed
a
F
ew
M
iles
above
T
intern
A
bbey
was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
brilliant literaty criticism
B
iographia
L
iteraria
was written by
Samuel Johnson.
Preface to
The
Lyrical Ballads served
as the
manifesto of the English
Romantic
Movement
in
poetry
.
Bysshe Shelley‘s theory and practice
in poetic creation stared from a dissatisfication
with the
social
reality
under
capitalism,and
hinted
at
the
thought
of
―back
to
nature‖
and
―back
to
the
patriarchal system of
the old time‖.
L
yrical
B
allads
is the
spiritual
record of
William
Wordsworth‘s
mind,
honestly
recording
his
own intimate
mental experiences,showing the development of his
own thought and sentiment.
22
dream, Samuel
Taylor Coleridge composed a poem,which
is the dream-poem,
T
he
R
ime
of the
A
ncient
M
ariner
.
74.
DunJuan
is a
long poem with 16000 lines, in 16 cantos, and
written in ottava rima.
Childe
Harold’
s
Prilgrimage
,George
Gordon
Byron
displayed
his
genius
as
a
romanticist
and
realisr simultaneously.
Queen Mab
,Percy
Bysshe Shelley
was
merely a
utopoan-socialist
in
views,looking
forward to a
happy future
for mankind but rejecting the path of revolution
by violence.
77.B
right
Star
reveals the John
Keats‘s tra
gic foresight of his
premature death.
is
said
that
Hohn
Keats‘s
personality
seems
to
be
breathed
into
his
odes,
of
which
Ode
on
a
Grecian Urn
is perhaps the
best-known poem by him.
s
Lamb‘s
first
literary
success
was
the
Tales
from
Shakespeare
,which
was
written
for
children.
1805,Rorbert
Southey completed a long autobiographical poem
entitled
The prelude
.
81.
Mansfred
and
Cain
were George Gordon
Byron‘s two poems.
Isle of
Greece is taken from the 3
rd
canto of
Childe
Harold’
s
Pril
grimage.
83.
Queen Mab
is
the first long poem written by John Keats.
84.
Song to the Man of
England
is George Gordon Byron‘s
political lyric.
to a
N
ightingale
is
John Keats‘s best poem.
86
.Pride and
Prejudice
is the masterpiece of Jane
Austen.
Auste is one of the naturalist
drew vivid and realistic pictures of everyday life
of
the country societty in her novels.
Scott is the greatest historical
novelist whose masterpiece is
lvanhoe.
s
Lamb
is
one
of
the
greatest
essayist
of
the
Romantic
Age.
Tales
from
Shakespeare
was
written by him and his sister Mary
Lamb.
The Victorian Age
the period of
Victorian
Age, a
new
trend
called pre-romanticism appeared, which
flourished
in
the
forties and in the early fifties.
h
critical realism found its expression chiefly in
the form of novel.
critical
realists did not find a way to eradicate social
evils. The chief tendency in their works is
not of reformism but rather of
revolution.
19
th
century realistic dramas became ―the
epic of the bourgeois society‖.
94. Among the characters of the lower
strata in
Oliver Twist
,
Fagin is the only one who emerges happy
and successful in the happy issue in
which Charles Dickens‘s novels
usually
end comes aboyt
as a result of his
optimistic belief in the inevitable triumph of
good over evil.
story
of
David
Copperfield
is
told
in
the
first
person,
through
the
mouth
of
its
hiro,
ty
.
96.
In
A Tale of Two Cities
,
―the cities‖a
re Paris and London.
97. The greatest English critical
realist was Charles DICKENS.
most
important poet of the Victorian Age was Alfred
Tennyson.
h
poetry
in
the
Victorian
Age
always
touched
on
the
serious
social
problems,but
mainly
concern
ed
itself with the poet‘s purely personal tastes or
spiritual questions.
English Chartist Movement appeared in the sixties
of the 19
th
century
.
the
Chartist Movement ,the writers
introduced a
new theme
into
literature:the struggle
of
the proletariat for its rights.
ray‘s
first
literaty
success
came
with
a
series
of
sarirical
sketches
entitled
The
Snobs
of
23
England
,
published in 1846-1847.
103. In
Vanity Fair
, Amelia Sedley
is classic example of this money-grubbing
instinct.
104. In
Professor
, the Lowwood
school
is the
embodiment of
the
bourgeois
principle of education,
the aim of
which is to bring up obedient slaves for the rich.
105. Matthew
Aronold‘s
social criticism, represented by
his
Essays in Criticism
, deals
with te whole
structure of
English civilization and culture.
106.
The
form of dramatic
monologue of telling a
story
―from
the side‖,by a series
of psychological
soliloquies or
―soul
-
pictures‖,was most
suitable to Alfred Tennyson‘s literary
talent.
107.
Home-Thoyghts
, from Abroad
was written by Alfred Tennyson in
Italy
.
English essay was
revived by Robert son in the late
19
th
century
.
109.
Robinson
Crusoe
is
set
in
the
18
th
century
,and
its
plot
is
about
the
hunt
for
a
treasure
on
a
deserted island.
ticism began to prevail in Europe at
the middle of the 19
th
century
.
. Rocherster is a
character in the novel
Jane
Eyre
, which was written by Charlotte
Bronte.
background of the novel
Great Expectation
is the
French Revolution.
113.
Mary
Barton
is
undoubtedly
the
best
novel
of
Mrs.
Gaskell
because
of
its
critical
realistic
description.
Hardy
is one of
the
representatives of
English critical
romanticism at the turn of
the
19
th
century
.
ism and
fatalism are strongly reflec
ted in
Thomas Hardy‘s writings.
subtitle lf Thomas Hardy‘s
Tess of the
D’
Urbervilles is A Novel without a
Hero.
117. Thomas Hardy was
a dramatist before he was a novelist.
Wilde is the representative among the writers of
aestheticism and critical realism.
nt
literature reflects
the
crisis of bourgeois opposes
the
democratic and
socialist
ideals. Its slogan is ―art for art‘
sake‖.
Picture
of
Dorian
Gray
is
Oscar
Wilde‘s
typical
decadent
play
describing
the
author‘s
aesthetical view and immoralism.
two greatest Victorian poets are
Alfred Tennyson and Robert Burns.
122.
In Memoriam
was written by Tobert Browning for his friend
Hallam.
m
Morris was the
first socialist writer who
gave bourgeois sociery a thorough
criticism and
who voiced the
revolutionary ideal of Socialism in his poetry and
prose.
The Twentieth-Century
Literature
124.
In
1907
Rudyad
Kinpling
received
the
Nobel
Prize
For
―Idealism‖in
is
h
is
long
novel.
125.
The Man of Property
was a
land
mark
in
the development of John
Galsworthy‘s art.
The
novel
established
his
place
in
literature
as
representative
of
bourgeois
realism
in
the
20
th
century
English
novel.
spirit of
―Forsytism‖
is re
presented
by Soames Forsyte
–
that
is , the principle of
making
the
accumulation
of
wealth
the
sole
aim
in
life,
and
that
of
considering
everything
in
terms
of
one;s
property
.
leaders of the dramatic revival
in Ireland
were
the poet, Thomas Stearns
ELIOT
AND
Lady
Augusta Gregory
, both
founders of the national Irish theatre ,callde the
Abbey Theatre.
greatest
playwright
of
the
Irish
dramatic
movement
was
J.M.
Synge,
whose
comedy
is
The
Playboy of the Western
World.
ing
to
George
Ber
nard
Shaw‘s
theory
,
verse
drama
should
conform
to
natural
24
speech-rhytnm
and
not
be
consciously
poetic,
his
play
are
written
in
a
bland
verse
of
his
own
invention, in which the metrical effect
is not separated from the meaning, thus cringing
poetical drama
to the popular stage.
Hardy is the founde of the ―stream of
consciousness‖school of novel writing.
m
Butler
Y
eats was also a
very
influential and
important essay
Tradition
and the
Individual Talen
t,
appearing
in
his
first
volume of critical
essays,
The Sacred Wood,
is as
historically
important as William Wordsworth‘s
Preface to
The Lyrical Ballads.
132
.Sons and
Lovers
tells about three
generations of the
Bragwans,
a Nortingham
family
of
farmers,
especially about
the relations betweeen men and women in marriage.
Stearns
Eliot
advocated
the
principle
of
saving
the
decaying
civilization
through
a
rearrangement of personal
relationships,especially a
rearrangement of the
relationship berwween
men
and women.
134.
Of
Human Bondage
is an autobiographical
novel written by William Somerset Maugham who is a
doctor by training.
135
.The Good
Companions
was written by Priestley ,
who is also a critic and an interesting
essayist.
136.
Mrs. Warren’
s
Profession
is one of George bernard
Shaw‘s novels.
13
7.
W
i
dowers’
Houses
was written by Henrik
Ibsen.
138.
The Apple
Cart
is a farce written by Frost.
139.
The Waste Land
is long poem written by Thomas Stearms
Eliot, which consists of five poems.
140. In 1948, Thomas Stearns Eliot was
offered the Noble Prize for literature.
141.
The Sacred
Wood
is Eliot‘s work on
novel.
fox‘s contribution
to literature is a critical work entitlde
The Novel and the People.
Ⅲ
.Blank Filling.
The Middle Age
period witnessed a
transition from trial society to feudalism.
literature of the Anglo-Saxon period
falls naturally into two divisions,
and Cristian.
the
early
Anglo-
Saxon
poets
there
was
one
poet
whose
name
is
.
He
wrote
a
poetic
―Paraphrase‖ of Bible, and
Cynewulf.
the
8
th
century
,
A
nglo-Saxon
prose
appeared.
The
famous
prose
writers
of
that
period
were
V
enerable Bede and
.
5.
is
the
oldest
poem
in
the
English
language,
and
also
the
oldest
surviving
epic
on
the
English language.
6.
is the first
known religious poet of England. He is known as
the father of English song.
7. The didactic poem
The
Christ
was wrist was written by
.
8. In the
14
th
century
, the
two most inportant writers are
and
Langland.
Chaucer
is
acclaimed
not
only
as
―the
father
of
English
poetry‖
but
also
as
―the
father
of
English Fiction‖. His
masterpiece is
.
10. In
the
15
th
century
,
There
is only one
important prose
writer whose
name
is
. He
wrote
an important work
callde
Morted’
Arthur
.
the
Conquest, feudal system was established
in English society
.
the
time
when
England
entered
into
feudal
society
,
the
society
was
divided
into
two
classes:
and
.
romances were usually
composed for the noble, of noble, and had nothing
to do with the
.
14.
is regarded as the ―father of English
song‖,the first known religious poet of
England.
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most
magnificent
prose
writer
in
the
15
th
century
is
Morte’d
Arthur
concerning
with
legend.
16.
The Canterbury Tales
contains in fact a general Prologue and
only
tales, of which two are
left
unfinished.
provides a
framework
for the tales
in
The Canterbury
Tales
,and ot comprises a
group
of vivid pictures of
various medieval figures.
18.
The
Canterbury
Tales
is
Chaucer‘s
greatest
work
and
the
freater
part
of
it
was
written
in
couplets.
pilgrims in
The Canterbury
Tales
are on their way to the shrine of
St. Thomas Becket at a place
named
.
20.
is
Chaucer‘s
longest
complete
poem(about
8000
lines)and
his
greatest
artistic
achievement.
The
Canterbury Tales
,
from the
character of
,we
may see a
very
vivid sketch of woman
of the
middle class, and a colorful picture of the
domestic life of that class in Chaucer‘s own
day
.
The Renaissance
introduction of
to E ngland by William
Caxon(1476)brought classical works within
reach of the common multitude.
More wrote his famous prose work
.
Elizabethan
Period,
wrote
more
than
fifty
excellent
essays,which
made
him
one
of
the best essayists in
English literature.
25.
is often referr
de to as ―the
poets‘ poet‖.
first poet
laureate in England was
during 1591
—
1599.
r is generally regarded as the greatest
non-dramatic poet of the Elizabethan fame is
chiefly based on his masterpiece
.
the
first
half of
16
th
century
,
began
to develop
into
a
flowering
of
literature and
then
England became ―a nest of singing
birds‖.
29.
wrote his masterpiece The Faerie
Queene.
,Othello,King
Lear
and
are
generally
regarded
as
S
hakespeare‘s
four
great
tragedies.
31.
was
the
most
gifted
of
the
―university
wits‖.He
produced
in
all
six
plays
and
several
poems.
32. ―Shall I compare
thee to a summer‘s day‖is a line from one of
‘s
best known sonnets.
33. ―To
be or not to be‖is a famous line in Shakespeare‘s
great tradegy
.
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.The Tragical
History of Doctor Faustus
is one of
?s best plays.
peare‘s plays are poetical dramas.A
great
number of
important dialogues and soliloquies
in
his plays assume the form
of
.
second
period
of
Shadespeare‘s
work
is
mainly
a
period
of‖great
comedies‖and
mature
historical general sporit in this
period is
.
principal
idea
of
Shakespeare‘s
historical
plays
is
the
necessity
for
under
one
ideas were of vital
interest to the Elizabethan audience.
Shadespeare‘s
histories
there
is
only
one
ideal
king
---
,though
this
real
prototype
little
differed from other kings.
pearean
Sonnet
is
made
up
of
three
quatrains
with
different
thymes,
followed
by
a
rhyme
scheme is
.
peare‘s
plays
have
been
traditionally
diveded
into
four
categories
according
to
dramatic
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