《英美文学史和选读》期末试卷(2)

2021年1月25日发(作者：干旱)
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台州学院外国语学院

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《英国文学史及选读
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I. Multiple choice. Choose the best out of the four . (10%=1*10)

1.
The Song of Beowulf
can be termed a(n) praising England
’
s national hero
Beowulf .
A. epic

B. sonnet

C. romance

D. novel
2.
Romance,
which
uses
narrative
verse
or
prose
to
tell
stories
of
___ adventures
or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.
A. Christian B. knightly C. Greek D. primitive
3. An iambic pentameter couplet is called____.
A. heroic couplet B. blank verse C. tercet D. sestet
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4. Sonnets originated from Italy , and in the 16
century, ____ introduced it to
England .
A. Thomas More B. John Milton C. Thomas Wyatt D. Petrarch
5. In the poetic line
“
bathes each bud and shoot
”
,
“
bathes
”
and
“
bud
”
make
a sound effect called .
A. alliteration B. assonance
C. consonance D. internal rhyme
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6. The supreme master in the 1
half of the 18
century is ____.
A. Jonathan Swift B. Richard Steele
C. Daniel Defoe D. Henry fielding
7. Romanticism in England began in 1798, with the publication of ____.
A.
Lyrical
Ballads
B.

Endymion
C.
The
Rime
of
the
Ancient
Mariner
D.
To
Autumn

8.
“
Eternal summer gilds them yet, / But all, except their sun, is set.
”
is
from____ .
A.
Ozymandias
B.
Ode to the West Wind
C.
She Walks in Beauty
D.
The Isles
of Greece

9.
, the author of
Ivanhoe
, is the creator and a great master of the
















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historical novel.
A. Henry fielding B. Walter Scott
C. Daniel Defoe D. Jonathan Swift


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10. ___
_is one of the “Lakers”, or Lake school poets .

A. John Keats B. Percy Bysshe Shelley
C. Leigh Hunt D. S. T. Coleridge

II. True or False? Write T for true and F for false . (10%=1*10)

th
____
1.
John
Donne
is
the
most
outstanding
representative
of
the
17

century
dramas.
____
2.
A
Modest
Proposal

by
Swift
shows
the
writer
’
s
irony
towards
the
projectors.
____
3.
In
a
poetic
line,
a
foot
with
a
stressed
syllable
followed
by
an
unstressed
syllable is trochic.
th
th
____
4.
The
turn
of
the
18

century
and
the
19

century
in
England
saw
the
appearance
of a new literary current
—
Preromanticism.
____ 5.
The Tiger
by William Blake is a poem in
The Songs of Innocence.

____ 6. The glory of the Romantic Age lies in the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge,
Byron,
Shelley and Keats etc..
____ 7. The Satanic School includes Byron, Shelley and William Wordsworth.
____ 8.
Don Juan
made John Keats famous overnight.
____

first
poem
in
The Lyrical Ballads

is
Wordsworth
’
s
masterpiece
The Rime
of Ancient Mariner.
____10.
In
his
poems
Byron
aimed
at
simplicity
and
purity
of
the
language,
fighting
th
against the conventional forms of the 18
century poetry.

III. Blank Filling. (10%=1*10)

1. The line
“
Shall I compare thee to a summer
’
s day?
”
is taken from by
William Shakespeare.
th
2. The 18
century was distinctively an age of .
th
3. The later enlighteners of England in the 18
century found the power of reason
to
be
insufficient
and
therefore
appealed
to
sentiments
as
a
means
of
achieving
social
justice,
which
led
to
the
appearance
of
the
new
literary
current
—
.
4.
She Stoops to Conquer
is a rollicking comedy by .
5. is
the most independent and
the most original of all
the romantic poets
of
th
the 18
century.
th

image
of
an
enterprising
Englishman
of
the
18

century
was
created
by
in his famous novel
Robinson Crusoe
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the political tempests led to a confusion in English literature
in the 17

century, the
th
peaceful development of the 18
century made a prevailing literary
current.
two representatives of Pre-Romanticism are William Blake and .
9. The most outstanding figure of English Sentimentalism is .
10. Romanticism in England ended in 1832, with the death of .



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IV. Define or explain the following. (15%=5*3)

1. Blank Verse
2. Conceit
3. The Graveyard School

V. Identify.(20%=10*2)

Passage I

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly over the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
……

Questions
1. Who is the writer of these lines?
2. What is the title of the whole poem from which the lines are taken?
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3. In the 2
line,
“
/l/
”
sound is repeated in
“
lowing
”
and
“
lea
”
to make
for linking both sound and meaning.
4. What is the theme of the poem?
Passage II

I lay down on the grass, which was very short and soft, where I slept sounder
than ever I remember to have done in my life, and as I reckoned, above nine hours;
for when I awaked, it was just daylight. I attempted to rise, but was not able to
stir
…


Questions
1.

Who is the writer of this passage?
2.

What’s the
title of the novel from which the passage was taken?
3.

Who is the narrator in the novel?
















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4.

Explain
how
the
artistic
ideals
of
Classicism
are
displayed
in
the
passage
with
an example.

VI. Answer the following questions.(20%=10*2)

1. What do you know about Sentimentalism?
2. List at least five novels written by Jane Austen.

VII. Literary essay writing. (15%)

Refer to the following poem in explaining the literary movement
——
Romanticism.

She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways

She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
Beside the spring of Dove.
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love;

A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye!
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.

She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!

























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