整理英美文学选读期末练习题.docx

1、整理英美文学选读期末练习题(完整版)英美文学选读期末练习题 编辑整理：尊敬的读者朋友们：这里是精品文档编辑中心，本文档内容是由我和我的同事精心编辑整理后发布的，发布之前我们对文中内容进行仔细校对，但是难免会有疏漏的地方，但是任然希望（(完整版)英美文学选读期末练习题）的内容能够给您的工作和学习带来便利。同时也真诚的希望收到您的建议和反馈，这将是我们进步的源泉，前进的动力。本文可编辑可修改，如果觉得对您有帮助请收藏以便随时查阅，最后祝您生活愉快 业绩进步，以下为(完整版)英美文学选读期末练习题的全部内容。(完整版)英美文学选读期末练习题 编辑整理：张嬗雒老师尊敬的读者朋友们：这里是精品文档编辑中

2、心，本文档内容是由我和我的同事精心编辑整理后发布到文库，发布之前我们对文中内容进行仔细校对，但是难免会有疏漏的地方，但是我们任然希望 (完整版)英美文学选读期末练习题 这篇文档能够给您的工作和学习带来便利.同时我们也真诚的希望收到您的建议和反馈到下面的留言区，这将是我们进步的源泉，前进的动力。本文可编辑可修改，如果觉得对您有帮助请下载收藏以便随时查阅，最后祝您生活愉快 业绩进步,以下为 这篇文档的全部内容。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 Shakespe

3、ares 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 o

4、f 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。”

5、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.

6、（ 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 Yeat

7、ss 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 ） Parad

8、ise 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 lowerclass people.20.（ T ) In Jonathan Swifts opinion, human nature is seriously and permanently flawed

9、.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 fouract

10、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 writ

11、ers 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 lif

12、e 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

13、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 giv

14、e 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 P

15、eterloo 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 moder

16、nist writers are mainly concerned with the inner being of an individual. 44.( T ） James Joyce is the most outstanding streamofconsciousness 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

17、 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 repetitio

18、n 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

19、 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

20、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 a

21、nd 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

22、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 so

23、nnet 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

24、, 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 sh

25、ort 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 a

26、s “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 fou

27、rteen-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 usuall

28、y 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

29、made used of the nature: Hamlet the melancholic scholarprince,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 lus

30、t 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；Neer saw I， never felt, a calm so deep！The river glideth at his own sweet will:Dear God！ t

31、he 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 stric

32、tly 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 ；