《英国文学史及作品选读》练习题

《英国文学史及作品选读》练习题

All the sonnets were written by Keats EXCEPT

.

正确答案：

A.

London 1802

In_______, _______set forth his principles of poetry, “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of

powerful feeling”.

正确答案：

A. In The Preface to Lyrical Ballads; Wordsworth

华兹华斯

The revolutionary Romantic poet went to Greece to help that country in its struggle for liberty and

died of fever there.

正确答案：

D.

Byron

In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s

(

塞缪尔·泰勒·柯尔律治

)

“Kubla Khan”, “A sunny pleasure dome

with caves of ice “_______.

正确答案：

D.

Refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once lived

is Byron’s poetic drama with the material taken from Biblical story or stories.

正确答案：

B.

Cain

Wordsworth does not emphasize the importance of ______in poetry composition.

正确答案：

C.

the right poetic form

The following statements are about “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”. Among them which one is NOT

true?

正确答案：

B.

The first canto deals with Albania and Greece.

Pride and Prejudice is noted for its vividly depicted characters who are revealed through comparison

and contrast with each other. Among the following pairs of characters

are NOT in contrast.

正确答案：

C.

Lady Catherine and Mr. Collins

Shelley was influenced by the Utopian ideal of ________.

正确答案：

William Godwin

威廉·戈德温

It is said that all Keats’s personality seems to be breathed into his odes, of which the more famous

odes are “de to Autumn”, “Ode on Melancholy”, ”Ode on a Grecian Urn” and “Ode to Nightingale”,

all with the praise of _______ as their general theme.

正确答案：

B.

beauty

_______is a poem that tells the glorious victory of the battle at Bannockburn led by the Scottish

national hero Robert Bruce.

正确答案：

The Lord of the Isles

_______can be found among

Shelley’s love lyrics.

正确答案：

D. One Word is Too Often Profaned

The first poem in The Lyrical Ballads

《抒情歌谣集》

is Coleridge’s

(

柯立基

) masterpiece_______.

正确答案：

A. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

All the following statements about “Ode on a Grecian Urn” are

true

EXCEPT

.

正确答案：

B. In this poem, the poet spoke as bitterly of human woes as he did in “Ode to a

Nightingale”.

At the beginning of Pride and Prejudice, the attitude of Darcy and Elizabeth toward each other is that

of

.

正确答案：

B.

mutual repulsion

Among the following, _______is an elegy.

正确答案：

C.

Adonais

Which one of the following does NOT describe the characteristics of Scott’s writing?

正确答案：

B. His plotting is often closely knitted.

William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following EXCEPT _______.

正确答案：

C. Elegant wording and inflated figures of speech

King Richard the Lion Heart and Robin Hood both appear in Scott’s novel_____.

正确答案：

Ivanhoe

《劫后英雄传》

_______is NOT a historical novel written by Scott.

正确答案：

B. Marmion

_______is NOT among the representative essayists in the romantic times.

正确答案：

B. Walter Scott

The Romantic period is a great age of all literary genres

EXCEPT

.

正确答案：

D.

drama

All the following are novels written by Jane Austen

EXCEPT

_______.

正确答案：

C.

Shirley

雪莱

All the following about Romanticism are true

EXCEPT

.

正确答案：

B. Romanticism constitutes a change of direction from attention to the inner world

of human spirit to the outer world of social civilization.

Of the following four novels by Austen_______is the most popular and dramatic one.

正确答案：

Pride and Prejudice

Of the following statements about Lyrical Ballads, which is NOT true?

正确答案：

C.

The poems are noted for the uncompromising obscurity of much of the

language.

The two poets who won the title of the poet laureate are ________.

正确答案：

C.

Wordsworth and Southey

_______is one of the first generation of English Romantic poets.

正确答案：

Wordsworth

The prevailing tone in Pride and Prejudice is

.

正确答案：

C.

mild satire