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Part One: Early Medieval English Literature
1.
How to define the period of Old English literature?
2.
What is the plot & theme of England’s national epic Beowulf?
3.
What
is
the
Medieval
Period
in
English
Literature?
How
many
parts can
it
be
divided
into?
4.
What impact does Norman Conquest exert on English history & culture?
5.
What is romance? Name the most well-known one in English literature.
6.
What is the miracle play & what is the morality play?
7.
Why is Cha
ucer regarded as “the father of English poetry”?
8.
What is Heroic couplet?
9.
What great contributions has Chaucer made to English literature?
10.
What
is
your
opinion
about
the
monk
in
Chaucer’s
“Canterbury
Tales”?
Is
he
entirely
a
negative character? How is the setting the General Prologue described?
11.
Describe the character of the knight from the brief introduction in the General Prologue.
12.
What is the social significance of The Canterbury Tales?
13.
What is popular ballad? How has English ballad developed?
14.
What role does Robin Hood play in history?
Part Two: The English Renaissance
1.
How did Renaissance originate? And how did it develop in England?
2.
What role does humanism play in Renaissance?
3.
What are the main characteristics of Humanist writing?
4.
What is the historical & cultural background of the English Renaissance?
5.
How was Protestantism established in England?
6.
What is blank verse?
7.
Why is the reign of Elizabeth I famous?
8.
What tastes had Edmund Spenser in common with Sir Philip Sidney?
9.
What has been Spenser’s influence on English poetry?
10.
In what respects was Sir Walter Raleigh a typical Elizabethan?
11.
How is English drama as a literary form developed in the Elizabethan period?
12.
Who is Thomas More & what is the content & theme of his Utopia?
13.
What are the great ideals presented in the 2nd part of the novel Utopia?
14.
How would you define the term “University Wits”?
15.
What are Christopher Marlowe’s achievements in literature?
16.
What is the moral lesson in Marlowe’s “Dr. Faustus”?
17.
Shakespeare’s literary career can be divided into 4 periods, what are they? And what are his
major works in each period?
18.
There are mainly 2 types of sonnet, what are the characteristics of Shakespearian sonnet?
19.
What is the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day”?
20.
How do you interpret the seemingly contradictory attitude of Shakespeare toward Shylock in
the play The Merchant of V
enice?
21.
What are the common characteristics shown in the four great tragedies of Shakespeare?
22.
Why is Hamlet always melancholy & slow to take action?
23.
In what sense if Hamlet a representative of the English Renaissance?
24.
Why is it said that Shakespeare’s heroines are the daughters of the Renaissance?
25.
What are the literary achievements of William Shakespeare?
26.
What are Francis Bacon’s contributions to English science & literature?
27.
What are the main features of Bacon’s Essays?
28.
How many parts can Bacon’s essay “Of Studies” fall into? And what is the main idea of each
of them?
29.
In what sense does reading make a full man?
30.
What are some functions and methods of reading according to Bacon?
31.
Why does Bacon emphasize the importance of experience and observation?
32.
What is Metaphysical Poetry?
33.
What is conceit?
34.
Why
do we
say that
John
Donne
is
a
man
of
contradictions
&
how
is
it
reflected
in
his
poetry?
Part Three: English Revolution & Restoration
1.
What is the historical background of John Milton’s writing?
2.
How do the 3 stages of Milton’s literary career coincide with the development of the 17th
century English literature?
3.
What are the main plot & theme of the epic Paradise Lost?
4.
Why is Paradise Lost considered as a work of humanistic ideas?
5.
What image does Milton present to the reader through the devil Satan? How to interpret
the contradiction between Milton as a Puritan & Milton as a revolutionary?
6.
How
does
the
part concerning
Adam
&
Eve
in
Paradise
Lost
reflect the contradiction
between Milton as a Puritan & Milton as a Renaissance humanist?
7.
Why
is
it
said
that
in
the
verse
drama
Samson
Agonistes
there
are
many
Autobiographical elements of the author?
8.
Satan is the most well-developed character in Paradise Lost. Is he a hero? Why?
9.
Paradise Lost includes many characters that can be compared and contrasted with eac
h
other. For instance, God and Satan stand as complete opposites; even God the Father and God the
Son
have
differences.
Pick
one
of
these
pairs
and
describe
their
differences
as
well
as
their
similarities.
10.
What is the style of The Pilgrim’s Progress?
And what is the implied meaning in the novel?
11.
What does “V
anity Fair” symbolize in The Pilgrim’s Progress?
12.
Why do all pilgrims have to pass through the V
anity Fair? Who rules it?
13.
Explain the pilgrims’ experience in V
anity Fair.
14.
What do the names of characters & places in the novel signify?
15.
Why do we say that John Dryden is a versatile writer?
16.
How do you define “The Heroic Play”? And what are the representative works of this genre?
17.
What is the new development of English literature in the 17th century?
18.
How
much
do
you
know
about
the
Puritan
Revolution
&
the
Restoration
of
the
Stuart
Dynasty?
Part Four: The Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment & Neo-Classicism
1.
What are the characteristics of the Enlightenment Movement?
2.
What did the enlighteners advocate?
3.
What is the “Neoclassical Period” in English literature?
4.
What are the standards for literature during the neoclassical period?
5.
What influence did the Enlightenment movement make to the English literature?
6.
What is the “The Three Unities”?
7.
Who are the main writers during the neoclassical period? What are their great works?
8.
What do you know about “the English realistic novel” in the neoclassi
cal period?
9.
What are Alexander Pope’s contributions to the English literature?
10.
What is the literary significance of “An Essay on Criticism” by Pope?
11.
What are Pope’s viewpoint on criticism & literature?
12.
What is the relationship be
tween Daniel Defoe’s personal experience & his literary career?
13.
Why do people call Defoe “the father of the English novel”?
14.
What are the characteristics of Defoe’s novels?
15.
What is the literary significance of the novel Robinson Crusoe by Defoe?
16.
Why is the character Robinson Crusoe said to be a man of dual nature?
17.
How does Defoe explore the theme in Robinson Crusoe?
18.
Why is Jonathan Swift called a great satirist?
19.
What are the plot, structure & theme of Gulliver’s Trav
els?
20.
What is the social significance of Gulliver’s Travels?
21.
How does Swift use language and style for the purpose of satire? How does his style change
as the story progresses?
22.
What are the symbolic meanings of yahoos and houyhnhnms?
23.
Why does Gulliver want to stay with the houyhnhnms? Does his desire make sense in light
of the other societies he has visited?
24.
What is Henry Fielding’s idea about the purpose of literature?
25.
Why is Fielding regarded as “Father of the English Novel”?
26.
What is “comic epic in prose”?
27.
Henry
Fielding
usually
adopts
“third
-
person”
narration.
Why
is
the
difference
between
“third
-
person” point of view and “first
-
person” narration?
28.
What are Henry Fielding’s contributions to the English l
iterature?
29.
What are the characteristics of the hero Tom Jones in the novel Tom Jones by Fielding?
30.
Compare the 2 characters Tom Jones & Master Blifil in the novel Tom Jones.
31.
Why is Richard Brinsley Sheridan regarded as the most important English dramatist of the
18th century?
32.
How to understand the art of satire in The School for Scandal?
33.
What is the theme of William Blake’s poetry?
34.
What is the difference between Blake’s Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience? Is there
any significance here?
35.
What are the characteristics of Blake’s techniques in his poetry?
36.
Compare the poems by Blake which bear the same title “The Chimney Sweeper”, & relate
them to the poet’s view towards the society of his time.
Part Five: English Romanticism
1.
When did the English Romanticism begin & end?
2.
What is the historical & cultural background of English Romantic
ism?
3.
What is the Romantics’ idea about imagination?
4.
What is the Romantics’ idea about nat
ure?
5.
What do you know about the representative writers & their major works in the history of
English Romantic literature?
6.
What are the main features of Romantic poetry?
7.
What are “Lake Poets”?
8.
Why
is
the
preface
to
the
co
llection
of
poems
“Lyrical
Ballads”
regarded
as
the
Romantic Manifesto by many critics?
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