《英国文学简史》期末考试复习提纲
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Part One Early and Medieval English Literature
Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks.
1. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest
narrative poets of England, was born in London in about 1340.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain
C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden
2. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in
____.
A. Flanders B.
France C. Italy
D. Westminster
Abbey
3. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on
Boccaccio’s poem “Filostrato”.
A. The Legend of Good Women
B. Troilus and
Criseyde
C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
D. Beowulf
Part Two The English Renaissance
Ⅱ. Choose the best answer.
1. Miranda
is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______.
A. Pericles B.
Cymbeline C. The Winter’s Tale
D. The Tempest
2. In _____
appeared Shakespeare’s Sonnet，Never before
Imprinted（《莎士比亚十四行诗》“迄今从未刊印过”）which contains 154 sonnets.
A. 1606 B. 1607
C. 1608
1609
3.
Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.
A. romanticism B. realism
C. naturalism D.
classicism
4. _____has
been called the summit of the English Renaissance.
A. Christopher Marlow B. Francis Bacon
C. W. Shakespeare
D. Ben Johnson
II. Fill in the blanks.
1. The ____
was universally used by the Catholic Churches.
2. The
English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the
struggle between ____ and ___.
3. The
Bible was notably translated into English by the ____.
4. The
first complete English Bible was translated by ____, “the morning
star of the _____”.
5. _____
translated the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament,
which is known as Tyndale’s Bible.
Ⅳ. Say true or false.
6.
Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world
literature.
7.
Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was
undergoing a process of prosperity.
8. English
Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age
of prose.
Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois
Revolution
I.
Choose the right
answer.
1. The rhyme scheme of
Milton’s L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is _____.
A. aabbccbbc B. abbacdccd
C. abacdeec D.
ababcdcdd
2. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.
A. John Donne
B. George Herbert
C. Andre Marvell D. Henry
Vaughan
3.. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry?
A. John Suckling
B. Richard Lovelace
C. Robert Herrick
D. John Dryden
4. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school of
literature in the 19th century.
A. John Dryden
B. Richard Steele
C. Joseph Addison
D. Alexander Pope
II. Fill in the blanks.
1. _______ was the
forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the
18th century.
2. Adam and Eve in Paradise
Lost embody Milton’s belief in the powers of _____.
3. The Pilgrim’s Progress
is a religious allegory and _____ is another writing feature.
4. In the second half of
the 17th century we may hear the voices of the private
citizens by letters and _____.
III. Say true or false.
1. The Revolution Period
produced one of the most important poets in English literature,
William Shakespeare.
2. The Revolution Period is
also called Age of Milton because it produced a great poet whole
name is William Milton.
3. The greatest epic
produced by Milton, Paradise Lose, is written in heroic
couplets.
Part Four The English Century
I. Choose the right answer.
11. Samuel Richardson’s first novel,
Pamela, is the first _____novel in English literature.
12. Tobias Smollett, a good humorist, used
the form of _____ novel. His humor is better shown in Humphrey
Clinker than anywhere else.
13. In describing Robinson’s life on the
island, Defoe glorifies human _____.
14. Fielding thought that the stage should
be the school of _____.
15. The chapter of “On Hats” in Fielding’s
Jonathan Wild is full of satire and ______.
16. Laurence Sterne belonged to the school
of those writers who were versed in the “knowledge of _____.”
II. Say true or false.
1. Robert Burns is
remembered mainly for his songs written in the English dialect on a
variety of subjects.
2. In The School for
Scandal, Sheridan contrasts two brothers, Joseph Surface and
Charles Surface.
3. My Heart’s in the
Highlands is one of the best known poems written by Robert Burns in
which he pored his unshakable love for his homeland.
4. Many of Goldsmith’s
poems were put to music.
5. Pre-romanticism is
ushered by Burns and Blake and represented by Percy, Macpherson and
Chatterton.
Part Five Romanticism in England
Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.
1.
Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______.
A. realism B. Renaissance C.
Enlightenment D. feudalism
2. The main
literary stream is ____.
A. poetry B. novels
C. prose D.
periodicals
3. ____ has
a another name called “The Daffodils”.
A. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” B.
“Tintern Abbey”
C. “Revolution”
D. “I
Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
4.
Coleridge’s _____ is a “conversation” poem.
A. Frost at Midnight B. “The Rime
of the Ancient Mariner”
C. Christabel
D. Biographia Literaria
5. Byron’s
____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.
A. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
B. Hours of Idleness
C. Lara
D. Don Juan
C. Mr H
D. Tales from Shakespeare
6. Because
of _______, Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University.
A. The Masque of Anarchy
B. A Defence of Poetry
C. The Necessity of Atheism
D. The Triumph of Life
7. ______
is Shelley’s first book written in ____.
A. Zastrozzi; Eton
B. The
Necessity of Atheism; Italy
C. Queen Mab; Greece
D. Prometheus Unbound;
Italy
8. The
Romantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____.
A. 1789…1821 B. 1778…1823 C.
1798…1832 D. 1768…1819
9. Byron,
Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.
A. the first B. the second C. the
third D. the forth
10. The Examiner is a famous _____
in the English Romantic Age.
A. novel B. poem C. periodical
D. newspaper
Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.
1. In a
sense, in English Romantic Age, “____” equaled “_____”.
2. William
Wordsworth was influenced by the _____ Revolution.
3. Many
subjects of Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of ____.
4. Ode
to a Nightingale was written by ____.
5.
Ivanhoe is the masterpiece of the historical novelist
____.
6. To
Charles
