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《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.” 精品文档
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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. 精品文档
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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 thoughts 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
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setting and character will reveal each other.
Simile: It refers to a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things through the use of a specific word of comparison, such as “like, as, or resemble”. The comparison must be between two essentially unlike things.
Soliloquy: In drama, an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage. The character reveals his or her innermost thoughts and feelings directly to the audience, as if thinking aloud.
Sonnet: A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. A sonnet generally expresses a single theme or idea.
Tragedy: In general, a literary work in which the protagonist meets an unhappy or disastrous end. Unlike comedy, tragedy depicts the actions of a central character who is usually dignified or heroic.
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四、 简答题
1. What do the William Shakespeare’s tragedies have in common?
Each portrays some noble hero ,who faces the injustices of human life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation .
Each hero has his weakness is made used of the nature: Hamlet the melancholic scholar-prince,faces the dilemma between action and mind ; Othello`s inner weakness is made use of by the outside evil force; the king lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power makes himself suffer from treachery and infidelity; and Macbeth`s lust for power stirs up his ambitions and leads him to incessant crimes
Shakespeare dramatizes the whole world around the hero.
2. “Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!”
(from Wordsworth’s sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge) Questions:
A. What does this sonnet describe?
A vivid picture of a beautiful morning in London B. What does the word “mighty heart” refer to？
London
B. The sonnet follows strictly the Italian form. What is the feature of the Italian form sonnet?
There is a clear division between the octave and the sestet; the rhyme scheme is abbaabba, cdcdcd.
3. “Wherefore feed and clothe and save
From the cradle to the grave
Those ungrateful drones who would
Drain your sweat- nay, drink your blood?”
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Percy Bysshe Shelley ; A song :Men of England. B. What figure of speech is used in Line 2? Metonymy
C. Whom does “drones” refer to? Parasitic class in human society .
4. Hardy is often regarded as a transitional writer. In him we see the influence from both the past
and the modern. Some critics believe that he is intellectually advanced and emotionally traditional. How do you understand this idea?
5. What is the theme of Wuthering Heights?
From the social point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused,betrayed and distorted by his social betters because he is a poor nobody . As a love story, this is one of the most moving : the passion between Heathcliff and Catherine proves the most in tense , the most beautiful and at the same time the most horrible passion ever to be found possible in human beings.
6. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:” Questions:
A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken
William Shakespeare; Sonnet 18.
B. Name the figure of speech employed in the poem.
The first line: rhetorical question ,
C. What is the theme of the poem?
He has a profound meditation on the destructive power of time and the eternal beauty brought forth by poetry to the one he loves .
7. “When the stars threw down their spears,
And water’d heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” Questions:
A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken
William Blake , The Tyger
B. Whom does the “he’’ refer to?
The god who create the Tyger.
C. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?
Symbol of peace and purity
8. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? —You
think wrong!… And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you…—it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal—as we are!” 精品文档
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