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1、-第 1 页英美文学选读期英美文学选读期末练习题末练习题-第 2 页英美文学选读期末考试练习英美文学选读期末考试练习一、一、搭配题搭配题二、二、判断题判断题1.(F)Hamlet,Othello,King Lear,andAntony and Cleopatra are Shakespeares greatesttragedies.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.
2、4.(F)Captain Singleton,Moll Flanders,Colonel Jack,andAJournal of the Plague Year are thefirst 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 o
3、f 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 JaneAustens novels is love and marriage.10.(T)The Victoria period has been generally regarded as one of t
4、he most glorious in theEnglish 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 illrelationships between man and nature,man and
5、 society,man and man,and man and himself.14.(T)The early poems of Pound and Eliot and Yeatss matured poetry marked rise of“modernpoetry.”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
6、 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,andA Journal of the Plague Year are thefirst literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people.20.(T)In Jonathan S
7、wifts opinion,human nature is seriously and permanently flawed.21.(T)Henry Fielding was the first to write specifically a“comic in prose.”-第 3 页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 dra
8、ma.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 ThomasHardys novels.27.(T)The French symbolism hera
9、lded 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 inhis novel Lucky Jim.30.(T)The Waste Land is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a moder
10、n civilizationin 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 mostoutstanding literary forms.33.(T)Samson Agonistes is the most perfect examp
11、le of the verse drama after the Greek stylein English.34.(F)Captain Singleton,Moll Flanders,Colonel Jack,andA Journal of the Plague Year are thefirst 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
12、 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)“ASong:Men of England”was written in 1819,the year of the Peterloo
13、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 itstheoretical base.-第 4 页43.(T)The modernist writers are
14、 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 hisworks.三、三、名词解释名词解释1.Antagonist:A person or force opposing the protagonist in
15、a narrative;a rival of thehero or heroine.2.Allegory:A tale in verse or prose in which characters,actions,or settings representabstract ideas or moral qualities.An allegory is a story with two meanings,a literalmeaning and a symbolic meaning.3.Alliteration:The repetition of the initial consonant sou
16、nds 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,amicablearmistice between the protagonist and society.7.Critical Realism:The critical realism of the
17、 19th century flourished in the forties andin the beginning of fifties.The realists first and foremost set themselves the task ofcriticizing capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and delineated the cryingcontradictions of bourgeois reality.But they did not find a way to eradicate socialevil
18、s.8.Elegy:A poem of mourning,usually over the death of an individual.An elegy is atype of lyric poem,usually formal in language and structure,and solemn or evenmelancholy in tone.9.Epic:A long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflectingthe values of the society from which i
19、t originated.Many epics were drawn from anoral tradition and were transmitted by song and recitation before they were writtendown.10.Flashback:A scene in a short story,novel,play,or narrative poem that interruptsthe action to show an event that happened earlier.11.Imagery:Words or phrases that creat
20、e 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 orfeelings.The elegy,ode,and sonnet are all forms of the lyric.13.Metaphor:A figure of speech that makes a
21、 comparison between two things whichare basically dissimilar.Unlike simile,a metaphor does not use a connective wordsuch 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 a
22、ction centers and with whom thereader 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 ornarrative poem occur.Setting can give us information,vital to plot an
23、d theme.-第 5 页Often,setting and character will reveal each other.16.Simile:It refers to a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two thingsthrough 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
24、:In drama,an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage.The character reveals his or her innermost thoughts and feelings directly to theaudience,as if thinking aloud.18.Sonnet:A fourteen-line lyric poem,usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter.Asonnet generally expresses a single them
25、e or idea.19.Tragedy:In general,a literary work in which the protagonist meets an unhappy ordisastrous end.Unlike comedy,tragedy depicts the actions of a central characterwho is usually dignified or heroic.四、四、简答题简答题1.What do the William Shakespeares tragedies have in common?Each portrays some noble
26、 hero,who faces the injustices of human life and is caught in adifficult 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 melancholicscholar-prince,faces the dilemma between action and mind;Othellos inner
27、 weakness ismade use of by the outside evil force;the king lear who is unwilling to totally give up hispower makes himself suffer from treachery and infidelity;and Macbeths lust for powerstirs up his ambitions and leads him to incessant crimesShakespeare dramatizes the whole world around the hero.2.
28、“Never did sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendour,valley,rock,or hill;Neer 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)Questi
29、ons:A.What does this sonnet describe?Avivid picture of a beautiful morning in LondonB.What does the word“mighty heart”refer to？LondonB.The sonnet follows strictly the Italian form.What is the feature of the Italianform sonnet?There is a clear division between the octave and the sestet;the rhyme sche
30、me is abbaabba,cdcdcd.3.“Wherefore feed and clothe and saveFrom the cradle to the graveThose ungrateful drones who wouldDrain your sweat-nay,drink your blood?”Questions:A.Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza istaken.-第 6 页Percy Bysshe Shelley;A song:Men of England.B.What
31、 figure of speech is used in Line 2?MetonymyC.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 pastand the modern.Some critics believe that he is intellectually advanced and emotionallytraditional.
32、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 anddistorted by his social betters because he is a poor nobody.As a love story,this is one of themost moving:the passion between Heathcliff and Cather
33、ine proves the most in tense,themost beautiful and at the same time the most horrible passion ever to be found possible inhuman 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
34、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 th
35、e eternal beautybrought 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 takenWilliam Blake,The
36、TygerB.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?Youthink wrong!And if God had gifted me with some beauty,and much wealth,I should havemade it
37、as hard for you to leave me,as it is now for me to leave youit is my spirit thataddresses 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.-第 7 页Charlotte Bronte;Jane E
38、yer.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 p
39、oems by T.S.Eliot:“No!I am not Prince Hamlet,nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord,one that will doTo swell a progress,start a scene or twoAdvise 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.Iden
40、tify the title of the poem from which the quoted part is taken.The love song of J Afred prufrock,T.S.Eliot.B.Whos the speaker of the quoted lines?Mr Alfred prufrock.C.What does the first line show about the speaker?Thespeakerhassomethingincommonwiththehamlet,heisneurotic,self-important,illogical and
41、 incapable of action.五、五、论述题论述题1.Daniel Defoes novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because theprotagonist 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 centuryEngland.Robinson is here a
42、real hero:a typical eighteenth century englishmiddle-class man;he is the very prototype of empire builder,the pioneercolonist.In describing Robinsons life on the island,Defoe glorifies humanlabor and the puritan fortitude,which save Robinson from despair and are asource of pride and happiness.2.Eliz
43、abeth Bennet,the heroine in Pride and Prejudice,is often regarded as the mostsuccessful character created by Jane Austen.Make a brief comment on Elizabethscharacter.3.Discuss Charles Dickenss art of fiction:the setting,the character-portrayal,the language,etc.,based on his novel Oliver Twist.Charles
44、 Dickens is a master story teller:1 1In language,he is often compared with Shakespeare for his adeptnesswith the vernacular and large vocabulary.2 2His humor and wit seem inexhaustible.3 3Character-portrayal is the most distinguishing feature of his works.4 4Among a vast range of various characters
45、marked out by some peculiarityin physical traits,speech or manner,are both types and individuals.-第 8 页5 5His best-depicted characters are thoseinnocent,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 isJane Eyre such a successful novel?1 1Its sharp criticism of existing society,e.g.the religious hypocrisy of charityinstitutions.2 2Its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine.