【单选题】1. which of the following is the most famous epic poem in old english ?
【单选题】2. which of the following poets is not mentioned in this part?
【单选题】3. who is the writer of the faerie queene?
【单选题】1. when did the earliest settlers migrate to the british isles?
【单选题】2. which of the following is not among the tribes who settled on the british isles in 450?
【单选题】3. which language is spoken by the upper class in the british society during the norman period?
【单选题】1. who is honored as father of english history?
【单选题】2. the ecclesiatical history of the english people covers early english history from ____ to the year 731.
【单选题】3.one of alfred’ s contribution to english contribution is the launching of ____.
【填空题】1. beowulf of the following is called the national _____ and the the world’s oldest poem in english language.
【填空题】2. the whole poem beowulf consists of three battles. the first battle takes place between beowulf and the monster __________.
【填空题】3. the last part of the beowulf is about his _______________.
【单选题】1. beowulf was written in ____.
【填空题】1.beowulf is essentially an aristocratic poem concerned with the heroic ideal of ______________ in north europe.
【填空题】2. the most striking feature in beowulf is the use of ________.
【填空题】1. harold godwinson was defeated by william on 14 october at the battle of ____.
【填空题】2. in order to get great knowledge of the land all over england, william appointed officials to make a survey of the farmland all over the country. these statistics were documented in the ___________.
【填空题】3. one of the most obvious effects of the conquest was the introduction of _______, a northern dialect of old french
【填空题】1. the central character of romances was the _____, a man of noble birth skilled in the use of weapons.
【填空题】2. in subject matters, romance naturally falls under three categories，the matters of france, _____ and britain.
【填空题】3. knights of the round table is one of the best-known stories about _______.
【填空题】1. sir gawain and the green knight describes how sir gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious "________" who challenges any knight to strike him with his axe.
【填空题】2. sir gawain and the green knight are written in what linguists call the "______ revival" style typical of the 14th century.
【填空题】3. apart from alliteration, the use of ________ is also a remarkable artistic feature of sir gawain and the green knight.
【填空题】the famous rising of 1381 broke out in england with the leaders _______ and john ball.
【填空题】the hundred years' war was a series of conflicts waged from ____ to 1453 between england and france.
【填空题】the hundred years' war sped up the decline of _________ and established an absolute monarchy in england.
【填空题】at the end of wars of roses, ___________ became the new monarch in england and started a new dynasty.
【填空题】the intellectual basis of the renaissance was its own invented version of __________, derived from the rediscovery of classical greek philosophy.
【填空题】in england, ___________ started english reformation and founded the church of england.
【填空题】geoffrey chaucer, is widely considered the greatest english poet of the middle ages and now honored as the _________________________.
【填空题】the most outstanding work of geoffrey chaucer is __________________.
【填空题】the canterbury tales is a collection of _____ stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in middle english.
【填空题】the canterbury tales is a collection of stories and each story of which focused on a ___________ theme.
【单选题】which is not william shakespeare’s famous tragedies?
【填空题】the first modern drama was written by a school master and the name of the play is called _________________________.
【填空题】the most brilliant star in english drama was _____________.
【填空题】sonnet is a lyric poem of ____ lines with a formal rhyme scheme.
【填空题】1. in the work, hamlet is the prince of _________ and heir to the throne.
【填空题】2. after hamlet’s father died, throne was seized by hamlet's uncle ________, who also married hamlet's mother.
【填空题】3.the key-note of hamlet’s character is _________, and there can be no hamlet without it.
【填空题】1. the fourth period of shakespeare’s work is the period of romantic drama. it includes 4 romances and a historical play, __________.
【填空题】2. in romeo and juliet, shakespeare employs several dramatic techniques and most notably is the abrupt shifts from _________ to tragedy.
【填空题】3. the love romeo and juliet share is beautiful and passionate, as well as chaotic and destructive. true or false?
【填空题】1. the story of the merchant of venice is a combination of two stories: the marriage of portia, and the jewish usurer ___________.
【填空题】2. the act 4 scene 1 is the famous court scene which reflects many of the themes, such as prejudice and intolerance, greedy vs. _______.
【填空题】3. the primary grievance that antonio has against shylock is that he is _______.
【填空题】1. anglo-saxon poetry reflected the transition from traditional pagan beliefs to ________ ideas, and the struggle to blend the two into a new worldview.
【填空题】2.the most prolific writer from the anglo-saxon period to renaissance is ___________.
【填空题】1.the english civil war ended in 1649. monarchy was abolished and england was declared a ______.
【单选题】1. in 1649, _____ was beheaded, england became a commonwealth.
【单选题】2.the revolution of 1688 meant three of the following things except ______.
【单选题】3.england became a commonwealth under the leadership of _____ in 1649.
【填空题】1. metaphysical poetry is a derogatory term invented by ______ and later adopted by samuel johnson.
【填空题】2.to sum it up, metaphysical poetry is characterized by _____ in content and fantasticality in form.
【判断题】john milton is the chief representative poet among so many metaphysical poets.
【判断题】the theme of song is the inconstancy of women.
【填空题】1. ______ is considered as “the saint of the metaphysical school”.
【多选题】1.there are two schools of poets during the reign of charles i. they are____.
【填空题】1.the cavalier poets dealt chiefly with the theme of love and _____.choose one or more answers for the following:
【判断题】in “song to celia”, “jove” is another name for “jupiter” and “nectar” is the drink of the gods.
【判断题】in the second part of “song to celia”, the poet’s eternal love for celia is compared with drinking wine and jove’s nectar.
【填空题】1.the speaker of “song to celia” is a man in love maintaining a _____ person point of view with his “i”s and “me”s found throughout.
【填空题】2. the poem of “song to celia” is written in the form of ______.
【填空题】1.the theme of “song to celia” demonstrates the ____ and immortality of love.
【填空题】the theme of ____ (seize the day) is evident in herrick’s “to the virgins, to make much of time”.
【填空题】1.the english revolution was sometimes called the ____ revolution.
【填空题】2.the puritans were ____ who wanted to make reforms in the anglican church.
【填空题】1.bunyan is best remembered as the author of ______.
【填空题】1.the pilgrim’s progress is written in the old fashioned medieval form of ____ and dream.
【填空题】2.the pilgrim’s progress opens with the author’s dream in which he sees a man “with a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back”. the book is the ______.
【判断题】hopeful is christian’s first companion on the pilgrimage.
【判断题】the book’s most significant aspect is its allusion, which without doubt is directed at the ruling classes.
【填空题】1.in 1665 after seven years’ hard labour in darkness he finished _____.
【填空题】2. another epic _____ was published in 1671.
【填空题】1.the story of paradise lost is based on ____.
【填空题】2. paradise lost is a long epic in 12 books, written in ______ verse.
【判断题】the central theme of paradise lost deals with heroi.
【判断题】milton is very fond of using latinate inversion.
【判断题】milton is a great stylist. he is famous for his grand style.
【判断题】both samson and milton have been persecuted by their enemies and give in.
【填空题】the english bourgeois revolution was carried out under the cloak of religion. the bourgeoisie found an ideological weapon— ______ in the christian religion.
【填空题】1. the constitutional monarchy set up by _______________ in 1688 was a compromise between the bourgeoisie and the aristocrats.
【填空题】2.without mentioning the __________, the picture of the culture life of 18th century england would be incomplete.
【填空题】3. in the 18th century, _________________ developed a lot. newton and john locke are the predominant elements.
【填空题】1. defoe’s two important novels are _____________ and ___________________.
【填空题】2. robinson crusoe is considered as a long _____________ literary masterpiece.
【填空题】3. he changed his surname from __________ to defoe which can show a genteel birth, and he got married happily.
【填空题】1. the rape of the lock and essay on critici are both ___________’s works.
【填空题】2. alexander pope developed the poetic form of ___.
【判断题】home’s translations of iliad and odyssey were finished in alexander pope’s third period.
【判断题】pope’s chief achievement lies in composing satirical poetry in heroic couplet.
【填空题】1. ______________ spent eight years in writing the elegy written in a country churchyard.
【填空题】2. thomas gray was appointed professor of history and ______________.
【填空题】1. burns wrote poems and songs in the scottish dialect and in the tradition of scottish folk songs. his poems and songs are permeated with ____________.
【填空题】2. most of burns’ poems and songs are about __________.
【填空题】3. burns devoted the last 12 years of his life to collecting _______.
【填空题】1. william blake’s poems are collected in two collections. they are songs of innocence and __________.
【填空题】2. blake was a poet as well as an ____________.
【填空题】3. the poems collected in songs of innocence express the poet’s _____________, even in the face of ________ and suffering.
【填空题】4. many poems in blake’s two collections contradict each other. there are many verses that bear the same title in the two books, but they are _______.
【填空题】1. swift’s the battle of books was written in the form of ______________.
【填空题】2. ____ is the writer of both the battle of books and the draiper’s letter.
【填空题】3. in 1713, ___________ was made the dean of st. patrick’s cathedral in dublin.
【填空题】1. the history of tom jones, a foundling is regarded as __________’s masterpiece, with the fame of being the best constructed novel in english literature.
【填空题】2. the history of tom jones, a foundling includes _________ books ided into 3 parts with 6 in each. the middle one contains __________ on the road to london.
【判断题】true or false: ( ) henry fielding has been dramatist and poet.
【填空题】1. ________________ is considered as the greatest drama after shakespeare.
【填空题】2. sheridan’s masterpiece __________ was written in the tradition of __________.
【填空题】3. __________ was sheridan’s first comedy.
【填空题】1.in the 18th century, in drama, a dramatist should observe the three unities of _________, __________ and __________.
【填空题】2.one of the characteristics of ____ is that people emphasized reason rather than emotion, form rather than content.
【单选题】english romantici is generally said to have begun with __________ in 1798.
【单选题】the romantic period is first of all an age of________
【单选题】romantici does not emphasize__________
【单选题】________ is not a romantic poet.
【单选题】wordsworth published lyrical ballads in 1789 with ____________
【单选题】wordsworth thinks that________ is the only subject of literary interest.
【单选题】don juan is the masterpiece of_____
【单选题】both of charles lamb and wordsworth emphasized the function of ___________.
【单选题】walter scott’s contribution to english literature, and even to world literature, is his ___________novel.
【单选题】wordsworth is most celebrated for his poetry of _________.
【多选题】what are the characteristic features of the romantic movement?
【多选题】lake poets are___________
【多选题】which of following works are charles lamb’s?
【多选题】the essence of romantic movement is ___________
【多选题】the two major novelists of the romantic period are _____.
【填空题】an ______________ is a rhymed lyric expressing noble feelings, often addressed to a person or celebrating an event.
【填空题】ode to the west wind and song to the men of england are written by_________________.
【填空题】ode to a nightingale is written by__________________.
【填空题】thomas paine published _________________________, which asserts that “man has no property in man”, claiming that it is the right of the people to overthrow a government that opposes humanity.
【填空题】poetry is defined by ____________________ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”.
【判断题】the romantic period is also a great age of prose.
【判断题】romantics also tend to be nationalistic, defending their own literary heritage against the advocates of classical rules.
【判断题】coleridge has been rewarded as poet laureate.
【判断题】keats is one of the lake poets.
【判断题】terza rima was used by dante in the divine comedy.
【判断题】gothic novels predominated in the early eighteenth century.
【判断题】william wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
【判断题】the solitary reaper is william wordsworth’s masterpiece on nature.
【判断题】the major british romantic poets blake，wordsworth，coleridge，byron，shelley and keats started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature，which was later regarded as the poetic revolution
【判断题】wordsworth’s i wondered lonely as a cloud is perhaps the most anthologized poem in english literature.
【单选题】1. which one of the following is not an aspect of victoriani?
【单选题】1.the victorian era is predominantly one of ____.
【单选题】1.what is dickens’s first published literary work?
【单选题】1. dickens’s bleak house was first published in serial installments ____?
【单选题】2. which one of the following is a major plot line of bleak house?
【单选题】dickens’s social critici in bleak house is different from that in his other works mainly because the former is ____.
【判断题】tennyson’s in memoriam is dedicated to his father. ( )
【判断题】tennyson is very enthusiastic about scientific discoveries in the nineteenth century ( )
【判断题】according to john stuart mill, “change” is the spirit of the victorian age. ( )
【判断题】in tennyson’s in memoriam, we can see that he suffers from a crisis of faith. ( )
【判断题】tennyson believes that traditional faith grows useless and will be replaced by natural science. ( )
【判断题】tennyson tried to reconcile faith and science by using a ine frame work. ( )
【判断题】the grande chartreuse is a chief monastery of the carthusian monks, which is a solitary catholic order founded by st. bruno in the 11th century. ( )
【判断题】the overall atmosphere of “stanzas from the grande chartreuse” is quite light-hearted. ( )
【单选题】1.what is hardy’s first published novel?
【单选题】1.nearly all hardy’s important novels are set in the agricultural areas or towns of dorset in southwest england near dorchester. these novels are called the ____.
【单选题】1.what is the subtitle for tess of the d'urbervilles?
【单选题】1.what is the theme of hardy’s short poem “hap”?
【判断题】byron was browning’s first role model in verse writing. ( )
【判断题】byron was browning’s first role model in verse writing. ( )
【判断题】in poetry writing, browning employed and perfected the technique of dramatic dialogue. ( )
【判断题】browning is good at exploring the psychological world of his speaker. ( )
【判断题】in “my last duchess,” the duke is a man of honor and integrity. ( )
【判断题】the duke’s wife, the duchess, is objectified and leads a miserable life. ( )
【判断题】the protagonist in “fra lippo lippi” is a monk and painter. ( )
【判断题】according to lippi, art serves nothing but a religious purpose. ( )
【判断题】dickens is a prolific novelist, who is the author of many great works including oliver twist, the old curiosity shop, dombey and son, david copperfield, bleak house, hard times, little dorrit, a tale of two cities. ( )
【判断题】as for the theme of tennyson’s in memoriam, on a personal level, it is about tennyson’s recollection of his friendship with a. h. h., his lasting mourning and lamentation. ( )
【判断题】what hardy’s novel does is more than to portray a personal tragedy. it also documents a way of life that serves as a historical account of life in southern england at the end of the 1900s. ( )
【判断题】a cornerstone of browning’s poetic reputation is that he perfected the form of dramatic monologue, and this technique proved to be a great inspiration for the 20th century poets and help them understand how poetry should be written. ( )
【判断题】the two world wars in europe have greatly change the literary landscape in uk. ( )
【填空题】1.moderni takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of ______ as its theoretical base.
【填空题】2. the major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships between man and ______ man and society, man and man, and man and himself.
【单选题】1. _________ is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist.
【填空题】1.in his famous essay “tradition and inidual talent”, ______ puts great emphasis on the writing and in critici.
【填空题】2. moderni upholds a new view of time by emphasizing the _______ time over the chronological one.
【填空题】a portrait of the artist as a young man is ________’s first novel.
【填空题】to the lighthouse is a novel by ______.
【填空题】t.s. eliot’s classic expression of the temper of his age is “__________”.
【单选题】artistically, samuel beckett has come under the strong influence of ______, whose works parody the unsympathetic world and man’s wretched lot.
【填空题】_________ is the most important historical background of theatre of the absurd.
【填空题】in look back in anger, _______ creates an image who forges a voice of his generation in 1950s.
【单选题】______ presents in his works strong christian nihili, which is reflected explicitly in his play end game.
【单选题】john oorne’s achievements lie in ______.
【判断题】his life experiences are the contributing factors of joyce’s literary philosophy. ( )
【判断题】lucid, logical and leisurely are major styles of joyce’s ulysses. ( )
【判断题】the stream of consciousness is one of the techniques used in joyce’s ulysses. ( )
【判断题】dubliners, a collection of 20 short stories, is james joyce’s first important work. ( )
【判断题】a portrait of the artist as a young man is joyce’s first novel. ( )
【判断题】ulysses is noted for the use of “steam-of-consciousness” and has been described as one of the greatest novel ever written. ( )
【判断题】ulysses can be called revolutionary prose, a combination of stream-of-consciousness immediacy and protean flexibility. ( )
【判断题】there is actually no story, no plot and almost no action in ulysses. ( )
【判断题】ten prime ministers –four labour, six conservative– headed the british government between 1945 and 1990. ( )
【判断题】uk’s influence had been increasing since the second world war. ( )
【判断题】alienation is one of the major themes of ian mcewan’s novels in early stages. ( )
【判断题】ian mcewan’s early novels are set against distinct and recognizable socio-historical background. ( )
【判断题】amsterdam won the booker prize in 1998 and it was the only booker prize mcewan won. ( )
【判断题】amsterdam won the booker prize in 1998 and it was the only booker prize mcewan won. ( )
【判断题】oranges are not the only fruit is a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. ( )
【判断题】moderni was immediately replaced by post-moderni after the second world war in england. ( )