is the oldest surviving poem in the english language, and is generally regarded as the national epic of the english people.
romance was characteristic of the early feudal age, as it reflected the spirit of , i.e., the quality and ideal of knightly conduct.
english renaissance period was an age of .
which of the following is not regarded as one of the characteristics of renaissance?
the most significant intellectual movement of the renaissance was _____.
christopher marlowe, the most prominent of the university wits, wrote two plays: ______ representing the renaissance desire for infinite power and authority, and ______ reflecting the renaissance desire for infinite knowledge.
the canterbury tales has a general prologue and four tales that are connected by “links”.
in spenser’s masterpiece the faerie queene, he speaks of _____ virtues of the private gentleman.
edmund spenser acclaimed his masterpiece the faerie queen to be “a continued________” and the theme is to “fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline”.
spenser’s first important work is , a pastoral poem in 12 parts, one for each month of the year.
spenser’s masterpiece, the faerie queene, is dedicated to queen .
the spenserian stanza: a verse form consisting of 8 iambic pentameter lines followed by a ninth line of 6 iambic feet with the rhyme scheme .
the redcross in book i of the the faerie queene stands for the true religion of the church.
the rhyme scheme of spenserian sonnet is abab bcbc cdcd ee, which is very distinctive from that of shakespearean sonnet: .
of the following lines from milton’s paradise lost, which statement is correct? “to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee, and deify his power …that were low indeed, that were an ignominy, and shame beneath this downfall; …”
milton’s paradise lost took its material from .
in paradise lost, satan says: “we may with more successful hope resolve / to wage by force or guile eternal war, / irreconcilable to our grand foe.” what is the “eternal war” satan and his followers were to wage against god?
blank verse is a poetic form in which each line is written in _____.
paradise lost also follows the tradition of invocation by appealing to _____.
l’allegro and ii penseroso respectively celebrate and .
which of the following does not describe metaphysical poetry that is best represented by john donne’s works?
“and though it in the centre sit,/ yet, when the other far doth roam,/it leans, and hearkens after it,/and grows erect, as that comes home.” what does three “it” mean respectively in the quoted line .
john donne was a great poet and as well.
in the line “so let us melt, and make no noise,/no tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move”, what kind of figure of speech is used?
's poems can be ided into two categories：the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses.
in the line “’twere profanation of our joys , to tell the laity our love”, “laity” means .
____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 18th century.
the literature of the enlightenment in england mainly appealed to the ____ readers.
the middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form, that is the modern english ___, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common english people.
the unquenchable spirit of robinson crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial existence on a lonely island reflects _____.
which of the following works were written by daniel defoe?
daniel defoe’s most famous novel was _____.
____ had been regarded as the first english novel.
robert burns wrote ____.
pre-romantici is ushered in by ____ and william blake and represented by percy, macpherson and chatterton.
the greatest scottish poet in the pre-romantici is ____.
“the poet of the peasants” is a title given to the greatest scottish poet ____.
burn’s poems are largely based on imitation and revision of _____ of his motherland scotland.
______ is not written by robert burns.
which of the poetic devices is not used in “a red, red rose”?
the isles of greece comes from george gordon byron’s great work ____.
byron’s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the romantic age.
which of the following is taken from george gordon byron’s “she walks in beauty”?
the impetus of the romantic movement includes the french revolution and ____.
_____ shares the common features of imagination, intuition, and natural sentiment.
while “she walks in beauty” primarily focuses on physical beauty, it also explores the relationship between ____ and ____.
the critical realists like charles dickens in the victorian period wrote novels_____.
the victorian period roughly began at the enthronement of queen victoria in _____.
chronologically the victorian period refers to _____.
which is correct according to the time when they appeared?
which of the following statements is correct as to the factors for the rise of the novel ?
which of the following statements is correct as to the middle period of victorian age?
heathcliff is cathrine’s_________.
heathcliff is earnshaw’s_______.
in heathliff’s conflict with hindley and the lintons, the novel portrays the conflict________.
which one of the following names are not the bronte sisters’?
thomas hardy preaches _____ in his works.
which of the following best describes the nature of thomas hardy’s later works?
_____is not thomas hardy’s works.
most of thomas hardy’s novels are set in wessex______.
thomas hardy’s pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a _____writer.
tess’ tragic fate is mainly caused by____.
heart of darkness is based on the author’s experiences in ____.
______is claimed as the carrier and incarnation of the western culture and civilization.
conrad’s attitude towards colony is_______.
heart of darkness exposes the cruelty, absurdity, and _____of european coloniali.
the word “ivory” represents______ and meaninglessness in the novel.
which one of the following is not conrad’s works?
bloomury group advocated liberali in politics, education and art, fought for freedom for _________.
which one of the following is not forster’s works?
the novel a passage to india is ided into three parts:
which one of the following characters is not white people?
______was the only englishman to believe that dr. aziz was innocent while all the other english gentlemen and ladies stood firmly on the side of miss quested.
_____are nobel prize winners.
the bard of imperiali was _____who glorified the colonial expansion of great britain in his works.
the theme of the novel is_____________.
kim’s identity anxiety is that ________.
which one of the following is not kipling’s works?
d. h. lawrence’s first novel _____was published in 1911.
___is not d. h. lawrence’s works.
sons and lovers is lawrence’s ________.
in lady chatterley’s lover, lawrence advocates ________.
lawrence’s attitude towards connie’s marriage with clifford is______.
lawrence’s attitude towards war is______.
which of the following is not one of the main ideas advocated by emerson?
emerson is the chief spokean of ().
() is not the member of transcendental club.
emerson's speech entitled () at harvard in 1837 was hailed by oliver holmes as "intellectual declaration of independence."
as a philosophical and literary movement, transcendentali fourished in new england from the 1830s to the ().
which of the following works is not writen by edgar allan poe?
which of the following settings is not a typical gothic setting?
the main characters in "the cask of amontillado" are and .
in "the cask of amontillado", the murder took place in the .
which of the following statements about edgar allan poe is not true?
which of the following works is not writen by henry james?
the main theme of henry james' works is .
henry james is an important writer in american .
in "the jolly corner", alice staverton is brydon's .
of the following writers, ( ) is not influenced by naturalistic writing.
naturali is evolved from reali when the author's tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ( ).
who exerts the most important influence on literary naturali?
the poet william carlos williams was a new jersey ____.
the imagist poets followed three principles, they are ____, direct treatment and economy of expression.
“the red wheelbarrow” is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of ____.
which of the following is not a theme of the poem “the red wheelbarrow”?
william faulkner is considered a great representative writer of .
which of the following works is not written by william faulkner?
in his novel, william faulkner has invented a county named _____
the compsons, the sartorises, and the sutpens are representative southern aristocratic families in william faulkner’s novels, and they are all portrayed as prisoners of the past, who cannot reconcile with the fall of the south after ______.
in 1954, ____ was awarded the nobel prize for literature for his “mastery of art of modern narration.”
in which of the works of hemingway does the character santiago occur?
which of the following statements concerning ernest hemingway is not true?
which of the following statements concerning the role of the sea in hemingway’s novella the old man and the sea is not correct?
which of the following is hemingway’s spanish civil war novel?
which of the following was not written by saul bellow?
which of the following element cannot be found in saul bellow works?
“whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might...” this quotation is taken from ____.
the author of humboldt’s gift (1975) is ____.
which of the following is not a theme of “looking for mr. green”?
which of the following is not one of the main ideas advocated by emerson?
naturali is evolved from reali when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ____.
william faulkner is considered a great representative writer of .
“two roads erged in a yellow wood, / and sorry i could not travel both.”in the above two lines, the poet, by implication, was referring to _____.
____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 18th century.
burn’s poems are largely based on imitation and revision of _____ of his motherland scotland.
while “she walks in beauty” primarily focuses on physical beauty, it also explores the relationship between ____ and ____.
which is correct according to the time when they appeared?
heathcliff is earnshaw’s_______.
thomas hardy preaches _____ in his works.
which one of the following is not forster’s works?
in lady chatterley’s lover, lawrence advocates ________.
novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. the main characters in the novels were no longer common people, but the kings and nobles.
the 18th century was an age of poetry. a group of excellent prose writers, such as jonathan swift, robert burns, henry fielding, were produced.
robert burns is remembered mainly for his songs written in the english dialect on a variety of subjects.
pre-romantici is ushered by william wordsworth and represented by burns and blake.
at the turn of the 18th and 19th century romantici appeared in england as a new trend in literature.
in 1824, the revolutionary romantic poet byron went to greece to help that country in its struggle for liberty against turks. not long, he died of fever there.
transcendentalists believed in iniduali, independence of mind and self-reliance.
naturalists used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists.
robert frost showed great interest in chinese literature and translated the poetry of li po into english.
“the cask of amontillado” is a gothic story.
the main theme of henry james’ novels is “the international theme”.
“the jolly corner” is written by mark twain.
in the poem “the red wheelbarrow”, williams tries to convey meanings through a traditional style.
“looking for mr. green” is set in chicago in the “jazz age”.
, the author of the canterbury tales, is widely acclaimed as “the father of english poetry”.
christopher marlowe, the most prominent of the university wits, wrote two plays: in representing the renaissance desire for infinite power and authority, and in reflecting the renaissance desire for infinite knowledge.
in describing robinson’s life on the island, defoe glorifies human _____.
robert burns wrote in ____ dialect.
“the poet of the peasants” is a title given to the greatest scottish poet ____.
at the turn of the 18th and 19th century _____ appeared in england as a new trend in literature.
in 1824, the revolutionary romantic poet ___ went to greece to help that country in its struggle for liberty against turks. not long, he died of fever there.
ralph waldo emerson wrote ____ , which has been called “the manifesto of american transcendentali”.
transcendentalists recognized____ as the “highest power of the soul”.
stephen crane’s ____ relates the story of a good woman’s down fall and destruction in a slum environment.
in stephen crane’s ____, a boy dreams of glorious battle in the union army in the civil war. however, his initial confrontation with true war perplexes him.
robert frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems depict mostly the landscape and people in____
that profound ideas are delivered under the disguise of the plain language and the simple form may be a very appropriate statement to describe____ ’s poetry.
the author of “the cask of amontillado” is ____.
in the poem “the raven”, the only one word that the raven speaks is ____.
the portrait of a lady is____ ’s major work.
in “the jolly corner”, brydon was fright to coma because he saw his____.
in his novel, william faulkner has invented a county named _____.
the compsons, the sartorises, and the sutpens are representative southern aristocratic families in ______’s novels, and they are all portrayed as prisoners of the past, who cannot reconcile with the fall of the south after ______.
____ is the spokean for the lost generation.
ernest hemingway’s statue as a writer was confirmed with the publication of his novel ____ in 1929. the novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.
discuss hemingway’s “iceberg principle” of writing.
emerson's transcendentali and his attitude toward nature.