1、【单选题】the history of english literature begins in the ____ century. a、7th b、6th c、5th d、4th
2、【单选题】the piece of work that is commonly considered to be the beginning of the english literature is ____. a、beowulf b、the canterbury tales c、paradise lost d、the legends of robin hood
3、【填空题】the oldest type of poetry is ______, which is usually about heros and their heroic deeds.
4、【填空题】the most striking feature of epic is the use of ______. it refers to the words beginning with the same consonant sound.
5、【判断题】the setting of the song of beowulf is inscotland.
1.3中古英语文学与高文爵士
1、【单选题】after the norman conquest, three languages existed in england at that time. the normans spoke ____. a、french b、english c、latin d、swedish
2、【单选题】the theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances. a、loyalty b、revolt c、obedience d、mockery
3、【填空题】the most prevalent kind of literature in feudal england was ____. it was a long composition, sometimes in verse, sometimes in prose, describing the life and adventure of a noble hero, usually a knight.
4、【填空题】the story of ______ is the highest point of the arthurian romances.
5、【填空题】the central character of romances was the ____, a man of noble birth skilled in the use of weapons.
1.4乔叟和坎特伯雷故事集
1、【单选题】it is chaucer who presents us a comprehensive realistic picture of the english society in his masterpiece ____. a、the canterbury tales b、the romaunt of the rose c、the legend of good women d、troilus and criseyde
2、【单选题】chaucer is praised as the "____". a、father of experimental science b、founder of english poetry c、founder of english realism d、father of the english prose
3、【填空题】the canterbury tales contains ____ and 24 tales, and it leaves unfinished.
4、【填空题】chaucer empolyed the ____ couplet in his masterpiece the canterbury tales.
1.5第一章测试
1、【单选题】the story of __________ is the highest point of the arthurian romances. a、sir gawain and the green knight b、the song of beowulf c、piers, the plowman d、he canterbury tales
2、【单选题】the anglo-saxon period ended in ____. a、1017 b、1042 c、1016 d、1066
3、【单选题】in ____, metaphors and understatements are frequently used to create an impression of reserve and sometimes a touch of ironical humor. a、the canterbury tales b、teh romanunt of the rose c、beowulf d、sir gawain and the green knight
4、【填空题】the central character of romances was the _____, a man of noble birth skilled in the use of weapons
5、【填空题】________, a typical example of old english poetry, is regarded today as the natinal epic of the anglo-saxons.
2.4莎士比亚十四行诗第18首
1、【填空题】the english sonnet consists of three ______ and a couplet, rhymed abab cdcd efef gg.
2、【填空题】in poetry, “thou art” means ____.
3、【填空题】"when in eternal lines to time thou grow'st." what do the "eternal lines" refer to?_____
4、【判断题】in sonnet 18, shakespeare shows a faith in the permanence of poetry.
2.7第二章测试
1、【单选题】what flourished in elizabethan age more than any other form of literature? a、novel b、drama c、essay d、poetry
2、【单选题】which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of shakespeare’s sonnet 18? a. the speaker eulogizes the power of nature. b. the speaker satirizes human vanity. c. the speaker praises the power of artistic creation. d. the speaker meditates on man’s salvation a、the speaker eulogizes the power of nature. b、the speaker satirizes human vanity. c、the speaker praises the power of artistic creation. d、the speaker meditates on man's salvation
3、【单选题】among many poetic forms, shakespeare was especially good at with the _____. a、dramatic blank verse b、song c、sonnet d、couplet
4、【单选题】francis bacon manifested himself as a /an______. a、dramatist b、poet c、novelist d、essayist
5、【单选题】in the merchant of venice, portia’s speech on the court shows shakespeare’s opinion that everyone should have _____. a、beautiful appearance b、mercy c、justice d、friendship
6、【单选题】the _________ sonnet consists of an octave rhyming abba, abba and a sestet rhyming cde, cde or cdc, dcd. a、shakespearean b、petrarchan c、spenserian d、elizabethan
7、【填空题】a lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, restricted to a definite rhyme schemes is called a ________.
8、【填空题】"when , in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes," this is the beginning line of shakespeare's sonnet ________.
9、【填空题】francis bacon says: “studeis serve for delight, for ornament and for ______.”
10、【填空题】“…-- so do i answer you: the pound of flesh, which i demand of him, is dearly bought, ‘this mine, and i will have it. if you deny me, fie upon your law! there is no force in the decrees of venice. i stand for judgement: answer, -- shall i have it?” who is the speaker of the above lines? _______
3.4第三章测试
1、【单选题】the pilgrim's progress by john bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for ______. a、material wealth b、spiritual salvation c、universal truth d、self-fulfillment
2、【单选题】what is milton's stated purpose in paradise lost? a、to assert his superiority to other poets. b、to argue against the doctrine of predestination. c、to justify the ways of god to men. d、to make his story hard to understand
3、【单选题】the narrator of the pilgrim's progress learns about christian from _____. a、a book b、a wise man c、a dream d、an ancient poem
4、【单选题】the poetry of john donne represents a sharp break from the poetry of his predecessors in the elizabethen era. one of the outstanding features in his poetry is "conceit" which means ____. a、irony b、satire c、elaborated metaphor d、contrast
5、【单选题】the form of john bunyan's masterpiece, the pilgrim's progress, is a/an _____. a、allegory b、epic c、fairy d、legend
6、【单选题】in "a valediction: forbidding mourning", john donne compares love to a _____. a、spider b、compass c、flea d、cannon
7、【填空题】miltion's paradise lost ends with the depature of ____ and ____ from the garden of eden.
8、【填空题】_______ is famous for his metaphysical conceit, that is, a comparison betweeen the two strikingly resembling objects.
9、【填空题】_____ is the most important hero in milton's masterpiece paradise lost.
10、【填空题】“… at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts…”this is taken from ______, one of most remarkable passages in the pilgrim's progress.
4.3彭斯和一朵红红的玫瑰
1、【填空题】figure out the rhyme scheme of the first stanza. ______
2、【简答题】figure out the metrical pattern of this poem. you can take the first stanza as an example.
3、【简答题】comment on this poem in terms of its diction, figures of speech, images and tone.
4.4第四章测试
1、【单选题】“he has a servant called friday.” “he”in the quoted sentence is a character in _______. a、gulliver's travels b、robinson crusoe c、the pilgrim's progress d、a modest proposal
2、【单选题】the houyhnhnms depicted by jonathan swift in gulliver's travels are________. a、horses that are endowed with reason. b、giants that are superior in wisdom. c、pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities d、brutish humanlike creatures
3、【单选题】jonathan swift was the most powerful _________of his time. a、humorist b、politician c、satirist d、critic
4、【单选题】robert burns wrote his poems chiefly in the _________dialect. a、irish b、scottish c、english d、welsh
5、【单选题】in gulliver's travels, which of the following names is not the place he traveled? a、lilliput b、brobdingnag c、belmont d、houyhnhnm
5.1华兹华斯和水仙
1、【单选题】william wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocate all the following except _____. a、the use of everyday language spoken by the common people b、the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings c、the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter d、the use of noble and dignified words and inflated figures of speech
2、【填空题】identify the rhyme scheme of the following lines _______. i wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills, when all at once i saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils; besides the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
3、【填空题】"for oft, when on my couch i lie/ in vacant or in pensive mood,/ they flash upon that inward eye/ which is the bliss of solitude". what does the underlined "they" refer to ? ______.
4、【填空题】______ defines the poet as "man speaking to men" and poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility."
5.5西风颂
1、【多选题】the trumpet of a prophecy "o wind/if winter comes, can spring be far behind?" is from ____. a、keats' ode to a nightingale b、shelley's ode to the west wind c、frost's stopping by woods on a snowy evening d、wordsworth's i wandered lonely as a cloud
2、【多选题】we can perhaps describe the west wind in ode to the west wind with all the following terms except ___. a、swift b、proud c、tamed d、wild
3、【填空题】"o wind,/ if winter comes, can spring be far behind?"expressed shelley's ____ belief for the future that the old world must go and a new world must come with the spring.
4、【填空题】in the first 3 parts of the poem, shelley describes the wind's power and its role as a ______ that scatters leaves, clouds and waves and at same time a ______ that quickens a new birth.
5.10第五章测试
1、【单选题】_____ defines the poet as a "man speaking to men," and poetry as "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility." a、william blake b、william wordsworth c、john keats d、percy bysshe shelley
2、【单选题】______ is a poem based on a traditional spanish legend of a great lover and seducer of women. a、childe harold's pilgrimage b、don juan c、prometheus unbound d、endymion
3、【单选题】______ is taken from ode to the nightingale. a、i fall upon the thorns of life! i bleed! b、away! away! for i will fly to thee, / not charioted by bacchus and his pards, / but on the viewless wings of poesy. c、one shade the more, one ray the less / had half impaired the nameless grace. d、and then my heart with pleasure fills, / and dances with the daffodils.
4、【单选题】“it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” this sentence is presented in a(n) ______ tone. a、ironic b、indifferent c、delightful d、jealousy
5、【单选题】in his poem, “ode to the west wind,” shelley intends to present his wind as a central ______ around which the poem weaves various cycles of death and rebirth. a、synecdoche b、symbol c、simile d、metonymy
6、【填空题】_______'s grave bears the epitaph:"here lies one whose name is writ in water."
7、【填空题】as a leading romanticist, byron's chief contribution is his creation of the _______ hero, a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.
8、【填空题】shelley's poem, “ode to the west wind,” is written in the form of _______.
9、【判断题】“ode to the west wind” expresses the contrast between the happiness of the human world and the agony of the natural world.
10、【判断题】the revolutionary romantic poet shelley went to greece to help that country in its struggle for liberty and died of fever there.
6.10第六章测试
1、【单选题】_______ describes the thieves’ den and the london underworld. a、hard times b、a tale of two cities c、david copperfield d、oliver twist
2、【单选题】the victorian age was largely an age of _____, eminently represented by dickens and thackeray. a、poetry b、drama c、novel d、epic prose
3、【单选题】“i hope to see my pilot face to face / when i have crossed the bar.” “pilot” in the above lines quoted from tennyson's crossing the bar refers to _____. a、captain b、god c、the poet's friend d、the poet himself
4、【单选题】“he rose from the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said: somewhat alarmed at his own temerity: ‘please, sir, i want some more.’” this is taken from ______ a、jane eyre b、vanity fair c、a tale of two cities d、oliver twist
5、【单选题】which of the following novels is famous for its sharp criticism of the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions like lowood school? a、oliver twist b、wuthering heights c、jane eyre d、vanity fair
6、【填空题】_____ is robert browning’s best-known dramatic monologue.
7、【填空题】the title of thackeray's vanity fair is taken from _____ by john bunyan.
8、【填空题】of the four novels that charlotte bronte wrote, ___ has achieved lasting fame.
9、【判断题】charles dickens remained optimistic about life and society all his life.
10、【判断题】crossing the bar shows robert browning’s fearlessness towards death, his faith in god and an afterlife.
7.7第七章测试
1、【单选题】in mrs. dalloway, virginia woolf adopted a writing technique called ____, in which the whole story was presented with the interior monologues of the characters. a、stream-of-consciousness b、symbolism c、naturalism d、expressionism
2、【单选题】after reading “araby,” one may feel the story has a ________ tone. a、joyous b、harsh c、solemn d、painful
3、【单选题】the ______ can be regarded as one of the themes of joyce's story “araby.” a、loss of innocence b、childish love c、awareness of harsh life d、false sentimentality
4、【单选题】most of hardy’s novels are set in ______, the fictional primitive and crude rural region that is really the home place he both loves and hates. a、yorkshire b、wessex c、london d、manchester
5、【单选题】in hardy's tess of d'urbervilles, the heroine's tragic ending is due to _____. a、her weak character b、her ambition c、angel clare's selfishness d、a hostile society
6、【单选题】in hardy's wessex novels, there is an apparent _____ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive tural life. a、humorous b、romantic c、nostalgic d、sarcastic
7、【填空题】almost all of james joyce's literary works have the same setting: ____
8、【填空题】living at the turn of the century, ____ is often regarded as a transitional writer.
9、【填空题】yeat's poetic style changed from sweet romanticism in his early period to the mystic, the philosophical and religious in his mature poetry. _____ is representative of the latter period.
10、【填空题】“falcon”、"falconer" and "gyre" are the images used by _____ in his poems to expresss the idea that when history is coming near to the end of gyre, people gradually lose their faith in god.