《英国文学》题库及答案

《英国文学》题库及答案

the best to complete the following statements

1.“O Wind/If winter comes,can spring be far behind?”

The two lines are from _______.

A.

“

To Autumn

”

B.

“

To a Nightingale

”

C.

“

Ode to the West Wind

”

D.

“

To a Skylark

”

2.

“

To be or not to be----that is the question

”

is taken from_______.

and Juliet

Merchant of theVenice

h

3. _______ is romantic love tragedy.

A. Romeo and Juliet

B. Macbeth

Merchant of the Venice

D. Hamlet

4. Beowulf. is considered as _______.

A. the best epic in English literature

B. the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons

C. the best narrative poem in English literature

best romance

5.

In_____,Chaucer

created

a

comprehensive

realistic

picture

of

the

English

society

and

a

whole

gallery

of vivid characters.

Canterbury Tales

Romaunt of the Rose

Legend of Good Women

s and Criseyde

6. ___ marks a transition from the medieval to the modern world.

A. Enlightenment Movement

B. The Glorious Revolution

C. The Renaissance

D. Reformation

7. _____is not a writer in the Renaissance.

A .Francis Bacon

B .William Shakespeare

C. John Milton

D .Jonathan Swift

8. __ is NOT the style of Bacon’s essays.

A. brevity

B. compactness

C .powerfulness

D .high- flowness

9 ______ is generally accepted as an English epic besides Beowulf.

Agonistes

se Lost

se Regained

D.

“

Lycidas

Neo-classicism is markedly characterized by the emphisis of__________.

m

ic function

t style

D. lyricism

11.____________ is not a picaresque novel.

A. Great Expectations

B Gulliver’s Travels

C. Robinson Crosue

D. The Pilgrim’s Progress

12.

“

Death, Be not Proud

”

is an Italian sonnet by____.

peare

Milton

Donne

D. Drydon

13. In Paradise Lost, Milton doesn’t refers God to_

___.

D. Friend

14._________ is not a Lake poet?

y

rth

y

dge

15. ____is a typical Byronic heroe.

Juan

y

C. Beowulf

D. Iliad

was the 1st important Romantic poet,showing a contempt for rationalism and bringing something

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fresh to British is __.

A .Wordsworth

dge

17.

“

Did he smile his work to see? /Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

”

, the 2 lines are from___.

A.

“

the Lamb

”

B.

“

The Tyger

”

C.

“

The Cheminey Sweeper

”

D.

“

The Sick Roes

”

18. In the above quoted lines,

“

the Lamb

”

refers to____.

A .Nature

Christ

ain

19.

“

The waves beside them danced; but they /Outdid the sparking waves in glee;

”

here,

“

they

”

refer to____.

A. roses

ils

pleasure dome is described in ____.

A.

“

Kubla Khan

”

B.

“

Christabel

”

C.

“

Frost at Midnight

”

D.

“

Dejection:An Ode

”

21.

“

Ode to the West Wind

”

is in____.

bbc

rima

bcb

verse

“

Ode to the West Wind

”

, west wind is the biggest symbol; it symbolizes______.

A. destroyer and preserver

ess freedom

C.a lyre

A and B

23.

“

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard /Are sweeter;therefore,ye soft pipes,play on;

”

the

2 lines are from

“

Ode on a Grecian Urn

”

by _____.

A. John Keats

m Wordsworth

ey

striking characteristic of the Victorian fiction lies in___.

al realism

B.a return to rationalism

lism

overall negation of society

25.____is not a character created by Charles Dickens.

Twist

Copperfield

D. Ishmael

26. Tess is sandwiched between and murdered by two so-called gentlemen: one is Alec, and the other is

______.

A. Angel Clare

B. Alec’s brother

C. Louis

D. Babalou

st Higgins appears in____.

A.

Widower’s Houses

B. Mrs. Warren’s Profession

C. St. Joan

D. Pygmalion

“

Auld Lang Syne

”

, the poet is singing for ______.

ship

tism

mother

“

The Rocking Horse Winner

”

, Lawrence attacks____.

-worshipping icy

rialism

cialism

30.

“

My Last Duchess

”

is a famous ______ by ______.

A. love lyric; Wordsworth

ic monologue;Tennyson

ic monologue; Browning

y; Shaw

explain the following terms briefly

1. Neo-classicism:

Waste Land

3. blank verse

Great Expectation couplet

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