incity英国文学填空练习教程文件

2021年1月20日发(作者：后周)
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Part One
Old and Middle English Literature
I.

Fill in the blanks
1.

Choose the best answer Critics tend to divide Chaucer’s literary career into
three periods: the
French
period, the
Italian
period and the
English
period.
2.

Chaucer employed the
heroic
couplet in writing his greatest work
The
Canterbury tales
.
3.

The framework in
The Canterbury Tales
is a
pilgrimage
.
4.

When Chaucer died on the 25
th
of October 1400, he was the first to be buried
in
Westminster Abbey
.
5.

The Prologue provides a framework for the tales in
The Canterbury Tales
,
and it comprises a group of vivid pictures of various medieval figures.
6.

The
15
th
century has traditionally been described as the barren age in English
literature.
7.

Poetry can be classified as narrative or lyric. Narrative poems stress
actions
,
and lyrics stress
songs
.

Part Two
English Literature in the Renaissance Period
I.

Fill in the blanks
1.

The second period of English Renaissance is also called the
Elizabethan

period or the age of
Shakespeare
.
2.

Shakespeare’s plays have been
traditionally divided into four categories
according to dramatic type: histories,
comedies
, tragedies and
romances
.
3.

Edmund Spenser is often referred to as “the poets’
poet
” because of his
considerable influence on later poets.
4.

Spenser’s Amoretti is a serie
s of 88
sonnets
in which he links each quatrain
to the next by a continuing rhyme: abab bcbc cdcd ee. This form is usually
called
Spenserian sonnets
.
5.

Christopher Marlowe
is considered the first great English dramatist and the
most important Elizabethan playwright before Shakespeare.
6.

Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets fall into two series: one series are addressed to W.
H, a young man, and the other addressed to
a dark lady
.
7.

The writings of Francis Bacon mainly fall into three categories:
philosophical
,
literary and professional.
8.

A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three quatrains and a concluding
couplet
.

Part Three
English Literature in the 17th Century
I.

Fill in the blanks
1.

The poems of John Donne belong to two categories:
the youthful love lyrics

and the later
sacred verse.

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2.

Milton gave us the only
epic
since
Beowulf
, and Bunyan gave us the only
great allegory.
3.

Bunyan’s most important work is
The
Pilgrim’s Progress
, written in the old-
fashioned, medieval form of allegory and dream.
4.

In the 19
th
century English literature, a new literary trend, critical realism,
appeared after the romantic poetry.
5.

John Donne is the founder of the school of
metaphysical poetry
. His works
are characterized by mysticism in content and fantasticality in form.
6.

Because of the success of Paradise Lost, John Milton produced in 1671
another epic,
Paradise Regained
.
7.

John Milton’s Paradise Lost opens with the description of a meeting among
the fallen angels, and ends with the departure of
Adam
and
Eve
from the
Garden of Eve.
8.

The most distinguished literary figure of the Restoration Period was John
Dryden, poet,
critic
, and playwright.
9.

Paradise Lost
is a long epic. The stories are taken from the
Old Testament
.
10.


Part Four
18th Century Literature

I.

Fill in the blanks
1.

Thomas Gray’s
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyards”
is taken as a
model of sentimental poetry, esp. the graveyard school.
2.

The exciting tale of Robinson Crusoe is largely an adventure story rather than
the study of
human character
.
3.

An Ode
, in ancient literature, is an elaborate lyrical poem composed for a
chorus to chant and to dance to.
4.


5.

In

Jerusalem
, William Blake expounded his theory of imagination, asserting
that the world of imagination is the world of eternity.
6.

“ Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,

And the roacks melt wi’ the sun:

I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands of life shall run”

The above lines are taken from
Robert Burns
’

famous poem “My Luve’s
Like a Red, Red, Rose”.

7.

Friday is a character in the novel
Robinson Crusoe
.
8.

Henry Fielding
is called the Father of the English Novels.
9.

The 18
th
century is known as the age of enlightenment or the age of
reason
.
10.

In
Gulliver’s Travels
, Yahoos are the creatures living in
Houyhnynms
.

Part Five
Romantic Literature
I.

Fill in the blanks
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