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Fill in the following blanks.
1. Caedmon is the first
important religious poet in English literature. He
was called
___. He wrote a poetic
Paraphrase of the Bible.
2.
The first important religious poet in English
literature who was called the father of
English song is ___.
3.
Beowulf
is
an
epic
of
_____
lines,
and
it
tells
the
events
that
took
place
on
the
continent before they moved to the
British Isles.
4. The epic,
Beowulf,
tells the events
that took place on ______ before they moved to
the British Isles.
5.
After
the
Norman
Conquest,
politically,
a
_____
system
and
a
centralized
government was established in England.
6. In 1066, William, the
energetic Duke of Normandy, defeated the Anglo-
Saxons and
became the King of England.
He is called King William I _____.
7.
John Wyclif was a translator of ______.
8. Romance was written for the _____
class, so it had nothing to do with the common
people. It exaggerates the vices of
human nature and idealized the virtues.
9. Henry
Ⅷ
broke away from the Roman Catholic
Church and established _____.
10. _____
broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and
established _____.
11. _____ was the
first to introduce Italian sonnets into England.
12. John Lily was famous for his prose
romance _____, in which he established a kind
of redundant, pompous and flowery
style.
13.
_____
is
considered
an
outstanding
literary
critic
for
the
essay
A
Defence
of
Poesy.
14. In
Elizabethan Period, _____ wrote more than 50
excellent essays,
which made
him one of the best essayists in
English literature.
15. Christopher
Marlowe used ____ to write his plays and 3 of his
important plays are
Tamberlaine,
the
Great,
The
Jew
of
Malta
and
The
Tragical
History
of
Doctor
Faustus
.
16. Ben
Johnson's comedies are a special kind, named
_____, and he was made ____
in 1616.
17.
____
is
both
a
dramatist
and
a
good
critic.
His
most
successful
comedies
are
V
olpone and
The Alchemist.
18. _____, ______,
Macbeth
and Othello are
generally regarded as Shakespeare's
4
great tragedies.
19 The Shakespearean sonnet
rhymes _____, and the last _____ lines are used as
a
conclusion to sum up the
message of the poem.
20.
The
17th
century
was
one
of
the
most
tempestuous
periods
in
English
history.
Conflicts and clashes appeared between
the ____ and the ____, which represented the
bourgeois class.
21. In
1642, a civil war broke out between
____ and the ____. At last the
royalists
were defeated by the
parliament army led by Oliver Cromwell.
22. The main literary stream of the
18th century was____. What the writers described
were mainly social realities.
23.
Pope
wrote
a
poem
about
literary
principles
in
the
form
of
_____,
which
is
1
entitled
An Essay on
Criticism
.
24. Samuel
Johnson took 7 years to compile _____.
25. The 2 well-known newspapers run by
Steele and Addison are ____ and ____.
26.
____
is
undoubtedly
the
greatest
poet
Scotland
has
ever
produced.
His
Poems
Chiefly in the
Scottish Dialect
is of great
significance.
1
the
father
of
English
song
2
Caedmon
3
alliterative
4
the
continent
5
feudal
6 The Conqueror
7 Bible
8 noble
9 the church of England
10 Henry
Ⅷ
,
the church of
England
11Thomas Wyatt
12 Euphues
13 Philip Sidney
14
Francis
Bacon
15
blank
verse
16
comedy
of
humors,
poet
laureate
17
Ben
Johnson
18. Hamlet, King Lear
19 abab cdcd efef gg, two
20 King, Parliament
21
Charles
Ⅰ
,
parliament
22.
realism
23
heroic
couplet
24
A
Dictionary
of
the
English
Language
25
The
Spectator, The Tatler
26
Robert Burns
Answer the following questions.
1.
What’s
the definition of epic in Old English
Literature?
It
is
originally
an oral
narrative poem,
majestic
both
in theme and style.
Epics deal
with
legendary
or
historical
events
of
national
or
universal
significance,
involving
actions of broad
sweep and grandeur.
2. Introduce
the
contribution of Geoffrey Chaucer briefly.
1) He is the forerunner of Humanism,
and he
praises man’s energy, intellect,
quick wit
and love of life and he
exposes and satirizes the social vices, including
the corruption
of the
Church.
2)
He
is
the
founder
of
English
Realism.
For
the
first
time
in
English
literature,
Chaucer presents
to the readers comprehensive realistic picture of
English society of
his time.
3) He is the father of
English poetry. Chaucer is the 1st to use the
heroic couplet to
replace
the
old
English
alliterative
verse.
He
lays
the
foundation
of
the
English
tonic-syllabic
verse.
4)
He
is
the
master
of
the
English
language.
Chaucer
uses
London
dialects
in
his
writings
and he contributes to making it the foundation for
modern English speech.
3.
Please
introduce
the different periods of Shakespeare’s
l
iterary career.
Shakespeare’s
literary
career
may
be
divided
into
3
major
periods
which
represent
respectively his early, mature and late
period.
In the first
period
，
he created mainly
history plays and comedies: such as Henry
IV
,
The Merchant of Venice
and The Twelfth Night. The second period
(1601-1608) is the
one of great
tragedies, namely Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and
King Lear. In the
last
period(1609-1612), he wrote dramatic
romances.
4.
As
a
playwright
how
different
is
Ben
Johnson
from
Shakespeare?
List
the
similarity and
differences.
Johnson’s theory of
“humours” reduces his characters to types, who
represent greed,
vanity, falsehood,
etc. They are flat, one-sided and have no
development. Unlike him,
Shakespeare
digs
deep
into
human
nature
and
depicts
the
complexities
of
human
,
Ben
Johnson
advocates
classic
Roman
and
Greek
masters,
strictly
observes the three
unities and disapproves of any mixture of the
tragic with the comic,
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