《英美文学史及选读》期末试卷(2)

2021年1月25日发(作者：filon)
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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


4. Sonnets originated from Italy , and in the 16
th
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

6. The supreme master in the 1
st
half of the 18
th
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 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)

____ 1. John Donne is the most outstanding representative of the 17
th
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.
____ 4. The turn of the 18
th
century and the 19
th
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 against the
conventional forms of the 18
th
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.
2. The 18
th
century was distinctively an age of







.
3.
The
later
enlighteners
of
England
in
the
18
th

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
the
18
th

century.
image of an enterprising Englishman of the 18
th
century was created by









in his
famous novel
Robinson Crusoe
.
the political tempests led to a confusion in English literature in the 17
th
century, the

peaceful development of the 18
th
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?
3.
In
the
2
nd

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?
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.

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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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