英美文学选读期末练习题(共7页).doc

精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上英美文学选读期末考试练习一、 搭配题二、 判断题1. ( F ) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra are Shakespeares greatest tragedies.2. (T ) The Elizabethan Drama is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance.3. ( T) Paradise Lost is a long epic divided into 12 books.4. ( F) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people.5. ( T) Jonathan Swift defined a good style as “proper words in proper places.”6. ( T ) Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel.”7. ( F) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the “Lake Poets.”8. ( T ) The British Romantic period is an age of prose.9. ( T ) The major theme of Jane Austens novels is love and marriage.10. ( T ) The Victoria period has been generally regarded as one of the most glorious in the English history. 11. ( F ) Far from the Madding Crowd is Thomas Hardys first novel.12. ( T ) Modernism rose out of skepticism and disillusion of capitalism. 13. ( T ) The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships between man and nature, man and society, man and man, and man and himself.14. ( T) The early poems of Pound and Eliot and Yeatss matured poetry marked rise of “modern poetry.”15. ( T ) Shaws plays have one passion, and one only, that is, indignation.16. ( F) Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeares four greatest tragedies.17. ( T ) The first period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimilation.18. ( T ) Paradise Lost is John Miltons masterpiece. 19. ( F ) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people.20. ( T ) In Jonathan Swifts opinion, human nature is seriously and permanently flawed.21. ( T) Henry Fielding was the first to write specifically a “comic in prose.”22. ( F ) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the “Lake Poets.”23. ( F ) The British Romantic period is an age of poetic drama.24. ( T ) Shelleys greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, Prometheus Unbound.25. ( T ) Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater are advocators of the theory of “art for arts sake.”26. ( F ) From Under the Greenwood Tree, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of Thomas Hardys novels.27. ( T ) The French symbolism heralded modernism.28. ( T ) The modernist writers pay more attention to the psychic time than the chronological one.29. ( T) Kingsley Amis was the first to start the attack on middle-class privileges and power in his novel Lucky Jim.30. ( T ) The Waste Land is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.31. ( F) Shakespeares greatest tragedy is Romeo and Juliet.32. ( T) In the early stage of the English Renaissance, poetry and poetic drama were the most outstanding literary forms.33. ( T ) Samson Agonistes is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English.34. ( F ) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people.35. ( T ) Jonathan Swift is a master satirist.36. ( T ) Henry Fielding was the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.37. ( F ) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the “Lake Poets.”38. ( F ) Novel was the most popular literary form in the British Romantic period.39. ( T ) “A Song: Men of England” was written in 1819, the year of the Peterloo Massacre. 40. ( T) Charles Dickens and the Bronte Sisters are representatives of critical realism.41. ( F ) Thomas Hardy belongs to one of the English romantic poets.42. ( T ) Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base. 43. ( T ) The modernist writers are mainly concerned with the inner being of an individual. 44. ( T ) James Joyce is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist. 45. ( T ) D. H. Lawrence was one of the first novelists to introduce themes of psychology into his works.三、 名词解释1. Antagonist: A person or force opposing the protagonist in a narrative; a rival of the hero or heroine.2. Allegory: A tale in verse or prose in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities. An allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.3. Alliteration: The repetition of the initial consonant sounds in poetry.4. Canto: A section or division of a long poem.5. Characterization: the means by which a writer reveals that personality.6. Comedy: In general, a literary work that ends happily with a healthy, amicable armistice between the protagonist and society.7. Critical Realism: The critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties and in the beginning of fifties. The realists first and foremost set themselves the task of criticizing capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and delineated the crying contradictions of bourgeois reality. But they did not find a way to eradicate social evils.8. Elegy: A poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual. An elegy is a type of lyric poem, usually formal in language and structure, and solemn or even melancholy in tone.9. Epic: A long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflecting the values of the society from which it originated. Many epics were drawn from an oral tradition and were transmitted by song and recitation before they were written down.10. Flashback: A scene in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem that interrupts the action to show an event that happened earlier.11. Imagery: Words or phrases that create pictures, or images, in the readers mind. Images can appeal to other senses as well: touch, taste, smell, and hearing.12. Lyric: A poem, usually a short one, which expresses a speakers personal thoughts or feelings. The elegy, ode, and sonnet are all forms of the lyric.13. Metaphor: A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things which are basically dissimilar. Unlike simile, a metaphor does not use a connective word such as like, as, or resembles in making the comparison.14. Protagonist: The central character of a drama, novel, short story, or narrative poem. The protagonist is the character on whom the action centers and with whom the reader sympathizes most. Usually the protagonist strives against an opposing force, or antagonist, to accomplish something.15. Setting: The time and place in which the events in a short story, novel, play or narrative poem occur. Setting can give us information, vital to plot and theme. Often, setting and character will reveal each other.16. Simile: It refers to a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things through the use of a specific word of comparison, such as “like, as, or resemble”. The comparison must be between two essentially unlike things.17. Soliloquy: In drama, an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage. The character reveals his or her innermost thoughts and feelings directly to the audience, as if thinking aloud. 18. Sonnet: A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. A sonnet generally expresses a single theme or idea.19. Tragedy: In general, a literary work in which the protagonist meets an unhappy or disastrous end. Unlike comedy, tragedy depicts the actions of a central character who is usually dignified or heroic.四、 简答题1. What do the William Shakespeares tragedies have in common? Each portrays some noble hero ,who faces the injustices of human life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation . Each hero has his weakness is made used of the nature: Hamlet the melancholic scholar-prince,faces the dilemma between action and mind ; Othellos inner weakness is made use of by the outside evil force; the king lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power makes himself suffer from treachery and infidelity; and Macbeths lust for power stirs up his ambitions and leads him to incessant crimes Shakespeare dramatizes the whole world around the hero. 2. “Never did sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!The river glideth at his own sweet will:Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!”(from Wordsworths sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge)Questions:A. What does this sonnet describe? A vivid picture of a beautiful morning in London B. What does the word “mighty heart” refer to？LondonB. The sonnet follows strictly the Italian form. What is the feature of the Italian form sonnet?There is a clear division between the octave and the sestet; the rhyme scheme is abbaabba, cdcdcd.3. “Wherefore feed and clothe and save  From the cradle to the grave  Those ungrateful drones who would  Drain your sweat- nay, drink your blood?” Questions: A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken. Percy Bysshe Shelley ; A song :Men of England.  B. What figure of speech is used in Line 2? Metonymy   C. Whom does “drones” refer to? Parasitic class in human society .4. Hardy is often regarded as a transitional writer. In him we see the influence from both the past and the modern. Some critics believe that he is intellectually advanced and emotionally traditional. How do you understand this idea? 5. What is the theme of Wuthering Heights?From the social point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused,betrayed and distorted by his social betters because he is a poor nobody . As a love story, this is one of the most moving : the passion between Heathcliff and Catherine proves the most in tense , the most beautiful and at the same time the most horrible passion ever to be found possible in human beings.6. “Shall I compare thee to a summers day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summers lease hath all too short a date:”Questions: A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are takenWilliam Shakespeare; Sonnet 18. B. Name the figure of speech employed in the poem.The first line: rhetorical question ,C. What is the theme of the poem?He has a profound meditation on the destructive power of time and the eternal beauty brought forth by poetry to the one he loves .7. “When the stars threw down their spears, And waterd heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” Questions:  A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken William Blake , The Tyger B. Whom does the “he refer to? The god who create the Tyger.C. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?Symbol of peace and purity8. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave youit is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at Gods feet, equalas we are!”Questions:A. Identify the author and the novel from which the quoted part is taken.Charlotte Bronte ; Jane Eyer. B. To whom is the speaker speaking?Mr RochesterShe want to tell the Mr Rochester that dont judge her by the outlooking, she desperately and opening declares her equality with him and her love for him.C. What does the quoted part imply about the speaker?9. The following quotation is from one of the poems by T. S. Eliot:  “No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;  Am an attendant lord, one that will do   To swell a progress, start a scene or two  Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,  Deferential, glad to be of use,  Politic, cautious, and meticulous,  Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;”Questions:  A. Identify the title of the poem from which the quoted part is taken.The love song of J Afred prufrock ,T. S. Eliot.    B. Who's the speaker of the quoted lines?Mr Alfred prufrock.  C. What does the first line show about the speaker?The speaker has something in common with the hamlet, he is neurotic,self-important,illogical and incapable of action.五、 论述题1. Daniel Defoes novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England. Robinson is here a real hero :a typical eighteenth century english middle-class man; he is the very prototype of empire builder,the pioneer colonist. In describing Robinsons life on the island , Defoe glorifies human labor and the puritan fortitude,which save Robinson from despair and are a source of pride and happiness.2. Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine in Pride and Prejudice, is often regarded as the most successful character created by Jane Austen. Make a brief comment on Elizabeths character.3. Discuss Charles Dickenss art of fiction: the setting, the character-portrayal, the language, etc., based on his novel Oliver Twist.Charles Dickens is a master story teller: In language, he is often compared with Shakespeare for his adeptness with the vernacular and large vocabulary. His humor and wit seem inexhaustible. Character-portrayal is the most distinguishing feature of his works . Among a vast range of various characters marked out by some peculiarity in physical traits,speech or manner, are both types and individuals. His best -depicted characters are those innocent ,virtuous,persecuted ,helpless child characters such as Oliver twist , Fagin.4. Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age. Why is Jane Eyre such a successful novel? Its sharp criticism of existing society ,e.g.the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions. Its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine.专心-专注-专业