英美文学练习6
英美文学练习
PART ONE (40 POINTS)
I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.
1. The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realis-tic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid charac-ters from all walks of life is most likely _B_____.
A. William Langland5 s Piers Plowman
B. Geoffrey Chaucer9 s The Canterbury Tales
C. John Gower5 s Confession Amantis
D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2. The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe' s The Tragic Histo-ry of Dr. Faustus, is the very fact that ___A___.
A. man is confined to time
B. he tried to join Africa to Spain
C. he became a man without soul after he sold it
D. he conjured up Helen, the lady who was partially responsible for the breaking - up of the Trojan War
3. The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer5 s day?" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare) s __C____.
A. comedies
B. tragedies
C. sonnets
D. histories
4. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from B
A. the Renaissance
B. the Old Testament
C. Greek Mythology
D. the New Testament
5.Spenser' s masterpiece __A____ is a great poem of its time.
A.The Faerie Queene
B. The Shepheardes Calender
C.The Canterbury Talks
D. Metamorphoses
6.___C__ is the essence of the Renaissance.
A.Poetry
B. Drama
C.Humanism
D. Reason
7.The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and ___C___.
A.John Milton
B. John Marlowe
C.Ben Jonson
D. Edmund Spenser
8.―To be, or not to be—that is the question‖ is a line taken from __A____.
A.Hamlet
B. Othello c.king Lear
D. The Merchant of Venice
9.Francis Bacon' s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and ___C___.
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/c08346050.html,plicity
B. complexity
C.powerfulness
D. mildness
10.Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ___A___.
A.the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual? s feeling and experiences
B.the former is heavily religious but the latter secular
C.the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the mid-dle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultiva-tion
D.the former advocates the "return to nature" whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models
11.Dmiel Defoe describes __D____ as a typical English Middle - class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist. A. Tom Jones B. Gulliver C.Moll Flanders D. Robinson Crusoe
12.__A__ is a typical feature of Swift' s writings.
A. Bitter satire
B. Elegant style
C.Casual narration
D. Complicated sentence structure
13.The Pilgrim' s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for___B___.
A. material wealth
B. spiritual salvation
C. universal truth
D. self – fulfillment
14.Alexander Pope strongly advocated D ,emphasizing that literary works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and deco-rum.
A. Sentimentalism
B. Romanticism
C. Idealism
D. Neoclassicism
15. "Metaphysical poetry" refers to the works of the 17th - century writers who wrote un-der the influence of ___A___.
A. John Donne
B. Alexander Pope
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. John Milton
16. It is generally regarded that Keats9 s most important and mature poems are in the form of___A___.
A. ode
B. elegy
C. epic
D. sonnet
17. ___A___ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ______ as his encyclopedia - like masterpiece.
A. James Joyce, Ulysses
B. E. M. Foster, A Passage to India
C.
D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers D. Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
18. Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry? A
A. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth
C. "Remorse" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
19. The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Roman-tic Period is ___D___.
A. prose
B. drama
C. novel
D. poetry
20. Which of the following poem by T. S. Eliot is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry? D
A. Poems 1909 - 1925
B. The Hollow Man
C. Prufrock and Other Observations
D. The Waste Land
21. "My Last Duchess" is a poem that best exemplifier Robert Browning' s ____D__.
A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language
B. excellent choice of words
C. mastering of the metrical devices
D. use of the dramatic monologue
22. Dickens' works are characterized by a mingling of___A___ and pathos.
A. humor
B. satire
C. passion
D. metaphor
23. Walt Whitman, whose ___A___ established him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century.
A. Leaves of Grass
B. Go Down, Moses
C. The Marble Faun
D. As I Lay Dying
24. has always been regarded as a writer who―perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced.‖ D
A. Edgar Ellen Poe
B. Walt Whitman
C. Henry David Thoreau
D. Washington Irving
25.The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American lit-erature , stretches from the end of __ to the outbreak of __B___.
A. the 17th centu ry … the American War of Independence
B. the 18th century … the American Civil War
C. the 17th century… the American Civil War
D. the 18th century…the U. S. -Mexican War
26.Which one of the following statements is NOT true of American Transcendentalism? D
A. It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement.
B. It can be defined philosophically as "the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively".
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.
D. It sprang from South America in the late 19th century.
27.The theme of Washington Irving' s Rip Van Winkle is ____D__.
A. the conflict of human psyche
B. the fight against racial discrimination
C. the familial conflict
D. the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past
28.The unofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was __C____, Emerson' s first little book, which established him ever since as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.
A. The American Scholar
B. Self-reliance
C. Nature
D. The Over-Soul
29.Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the "interior of the heart" of man's being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discusses B
A. love and hatred
B. sin and evil
C.
frustration and self - denial D. balance and self - discipline
30.In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the name of Goodman Brown' s wife is ____C__, which also contains many symbolic meanings.
A. Ruth
B. Hester
C. Faith
D. Mary
31.Which one of the following statements might be true of the theme of Song of Myself by Whitman?
A. This poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him and improved himself accordingly. D
B. This poem shows the author' s cynical sentiments against the American Civil War.
C. This poem reflects the author' s belief in Unitarianism or Deism.
D. This poem reflects the author' s belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value.
32.In Moby-Dick, the white whale symbolizes A for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well..
A. nature
B. human society
C. whaling industry
D. truth
33. Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards ro-mance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to ___B__.
A. Cynicism
B. Modernism
C. Transcendentalism
D. Neo - Classicalism
34. Hemingway once described Mark Twain9 s novel ___A___ the one book from which "all modem American literature comes. "
A. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
C. The Gilded Age
D. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
35. ____C__ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th –century― stream - of -consciousness" novels and the founder of psychological realism.
A.Theodore Dreiser
B. William Faulkner
C. Henry James
D. Mark Twain
36. Which one of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetry? B
A. She remained unmarried all her life.
B. She wrote 1,775 poems, and most of them were published during her life time.
C. Her poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines.
D. Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination.
37. As a genre, naturalism emphasized ___B___ as important deterministic forces sha-ping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circum-stances.
A. theological doctrines
B. heredity and environment
C. education and hard work
D. various opportunities and economic success
38. Ezra Pound, a leading spokesman of the "____A__" , was one of the most important poets in his time.
A. Imagist Movement
B. Cubist Movement
C. Reformist
Movement D. Transcendentalist Movement
39. Eugene 0 ' Neill' s first full - length play, ____D__, won him the first Pulitzer Prize. Its theme is the choice between life and death, the interaction of subjective and objective factors.
A. Bound East for Cardiff
B. The Hairy Ape
C. Desire Under the Elms
D. Beyond the Horizon
40. Hemingway' s "Indian Camp" is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of ___D___. This title is very ironic because there is no peace at all in the sto-ries.
A. Three Stories and Ten Poems
B. Across the River and into the Trees
C. The Green Hills of Africa
D. In Our Time
英美文学推荐课外阅读书目和期刊
向学生推荐阅读书目 A.S. Byatt：Possession Charles Dickens：David Copperfield Doris Lessing：The Grass Is Singing Emily Bronte：Wuthering Heights Henry James: Daisy Miller James Joyce：A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man John Galsworthy：The Man of Property Joseph Conrad：Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim Lewis Carroll: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Oscar Wilde：The Picture of Dorian Gray Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island Rudyard Kipling: Kim Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe Thomas Hardy：Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure Virginia Woolf：Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse William Golding：Lord of the Flies William Thackeray：Vanity Fair 期刊 1.English Language Learning 2.English Digest 3.College English 4.China Today
英美文学 试卷
广东商学院硕士研究生入学考试试卷 考试年度：20010年考试科目代码及名称：807-英美文学适用专业：050201-英语语言文学 [友情提醒：请在考点提供的专用答题纸上答题，答在本卷或草稿纸上无效！] I. Define the following five terms. (25 points in all, 5 points for each) 1. Symbol 2. The English Renaissance 3. Naturalism 4. Romanticism 5. Transcendentalist Club II. Multiple choice. In this part, there are 20 statements or questions; in each of them, there are four choices marked by A), B), C), and D). Choose the ONE answer that is the most suitable to the statement or question. (20 points in all, 1 point for each) 1. Geoffrey Chaucer, the “___________” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in or about the year 1340. A)Father of English literature B)founder of British literature C)Father of English poetry D) compiler of Canterbury Tales 2. Which of the following is not John Milton's works? A) Paradise Lost B) Paradise Regained C) Samson Agonistes D) Ulysses 3. “My Last Duchess” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning?s ________. A) sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language B) excellent choice of words C) mastering of the metrical devices D) use of the dramatic monologue 4. Shakespeare?s four great tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, ______ and ______. A) King Lear…Romeo and Juliet B) King Lear…Macbeth C) King John…Julius Caesar D) King John…The Merchant of Venice 5. The greatest English critical realist novelist was ______ , who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people. A) Charles Dickens B) Emily Bronte C) W.M. Thackeray D) Charlotte Bronte 6. Richard Brinsley Sheridan?s famous comedy, ________ written in 1777, is considered his masterpiece.
英美文学复习
Romantic period Came from two great shapers of thought 1.rousseau’s du contrat social and emile 2.thomas paine’s declaration of right of man Time: from1798 the publication of wordsworth and coleridge’s lyrical ballads to 1832 scott’s death and the passage of first reform bill in the parliament The romantic focus on following things: Stong imagnationg Individual feelings Return to nature Being nationalistic 文学思想： 1.constitudes a change of direction from attention to the outer world of social civilization to the inner world of human spirit.社会文明的外部世界与人类精神的内部世界的转变 2.litery and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience.文学和哲学理论倾向于把个人思想作为所有生活和经历的中心。 3.poetry writing, the writers employed new theories and innovated new techniques.preface acts as a manifesto for the new school.强调新理论和创作新手法，序言作为新学派的里程碑。 4.not only extol the faculty of imagination, but also elevate the concepts of spontaneity and inspiration.不仅要称颂想象的作用，也要重视自发和联想的概念。 5.regarded nature as the major source of poetic imagery and the dominant subject.自然是诗歌想象的主要资源也是永恒的主题 6.romantics also tend to the nationalistic.大多具有民族主义 Poems Balke,wordsworth,coleridge,byron,shelley and keats are the major romatic poets.
英美文学欣赏考题整理及答案
Part One：English Poetry 1.William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 ?Why does the poet compare `thee` to a summer?s day? And who could `thee` be? Because summer?s day and thee both represent beauty . thee could be beauty, love. ?What picture have you got of English summer, and could you explain why? Warm, beautiful, sunshine. Because summer is the best season of a year ,the most beautiful season. It is like our May. ?How does the poet answer the question he puts forth in the first line? Thee is more beautiful than summer. ?What makes the poet think that “thou” can be more fair than summer and immortal? Because humanism is more eternal than summer and immortal. ?What figures of speech are used in this poem? Simile, metaphor, personification, oxymoron and so on . ?What is the theme of the poem? Love conquers all, Beauty lives on. 2. Thomas Nashe Spring ?Read the poem carefully, pay attention to those image- bearing words, and see how many images the poet created in the poem and what sense impressions you can get from those images. There is “Blooms each thing, maids dance in a ring, the pretty birds do sing, the palm and may make country houses gay, Lambs frisk' and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay, The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit, In every street these tunes bur ears do greet!” The “Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit，”impressions me most because of the harmony of the people?s relationship. ?Can you point out and explain the sound and their musical effect in the poem? In the Poem, each section has four lines, each line has ten syllables ( five tone step ) . In order to give the reader a spring breeze , streams , flowers , winding , Song Xin texture of sound and light flavor, Naixi greater uses English word S , z , f , V , R , L , and θconsonants means. In Naixi's poem, the use of phonological is also very harmonious, very smooth , very mellow. Section I of the poetry has Three pairs [ ing ] , section II of the poem has three pairs [ ei ] and the third quarter has three pairs [ i : ]. 3.John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning ?What is a “valediction” any way? Is the speaker in the poem about to die? Why does the speaker forbid mourning? No, it is about the lover s?separation. As the poem metaphors, the poet believed he and his wife?s love is sacred, he didn?t hope they cry when separation comes, let their love be stained by the ordinary and mundane.
英美文学选读试题详解4
英美文学选读-阶段测评4 成绩：30分 一、Multiple Choice 共40 题 题号: 1 本题分数:2.5 分 ( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th—century “stream—of—consciousness” novels and the founder of psychological realism. A、Theodore Dreiser B、William Faulkner C、Henry James D、Mark Twain (P498.para.2)亨利.詹姆斯是美国现实主义文学大师，他的作品往往涉及美国之外的主题，其作品的风格是“心理活动”。被誉为20世纪美国意识流文学的先驱。 标准答案：C 考生答案：D 本题得分：0 分 题号: 2 本题分数:2.5 分 Closely related to Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning( ),ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death. A、love and nature B、death and universe C、death and immortality D、family and happiness （P518para2）迪金森的诗歌涉及宗教和爱情两方面，而其涉及宗教的诗歌往往是以死亡和永恒为主题的，所以答案是C。 标准答案：C 考生答案：A
英语专业-英美文学试卷及答案-期末
英语专业-英美文学试卷及答案-期末
英美文学试卷A 共9页第 I. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F). (10 x 1’=10’) 1. ( ) Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of English poetry as well as the founder of English realism. His masterpiece The Canterbury tales contains 26 stories. 2. ( ) English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama. 3. ( ) The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middle class and an urban life. 4. ( ) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two big influences that brought about the English Romantic Movement. 5. ( ) Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for life and love. Her novels are more or less based on her own experience and feelings and the life as she sees around. 6. ( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19th century are Thomas Hardy, John Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw. 7. ( ) Emily Dickinson is remembered as the “All American Writer”. 8. ( )The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist literature. 9. ( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and American consciousness.
英美文学选读练习题
English Literature Questions on The Canterbury Tales 1. Lines 1-18 are the introduction to the weather. Why did the author write so many words to describe it? To answer why so many pilgrim go to the Canterbury at the same time. 2. Summarize the main idea of lines 19-34. A group of pilgrims came across at the Canterbury and go together. 3. How many people are there in the group of pilgrims? Thirty 4. Based on Prioress 's portrait, can you give a possible reason why she is undertaking this pilgrimage? She wants to look for the worldly love. 5. What details does the narrator use in describing the Prioress, and in what order? 1, Facial expression2,voice 3,etiquette 4 ，sympathy and charity 5 ，appearance 6，dress 7 ，personal accessories.. 6. Why does the Wife of Bath go on pilgrimage?
自考英美文学选读00604考前串讲(7)
英美文学考前串讲（7） American Literature Chapter 1 The Romantic Period I. Choose the right answer: 1. Of all the following issues, _____is definitely NOT the focus of the Romantic writers in the American literary history. A. Puritan morality B. Human bestiality C. Noble sav ages D. Divinity of man Answer: B (P401) 2.Henry David Thoreau’s work, ________, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of the New England Transcende ntal Movement. A. Walden B. The Pioneers C. Nature D. "Song of Myself" Answer: A (P402) 3. "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" is a famous quote fr om______’s writings. A. Walt Whitman B. Henry David Thoreau C. Herman Melville D. Ralph Waldo Eme rson Answer: D (P402) 4. Leaves of Grass’commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of ________, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and t he American Civil War. A. the democratic ideals B. the romantic ideals C. the self-reliance spirits D. the relig ious ideals Answer: A (P447) 5. According to Whitman, the genuine participation of a poet in a common cultural effort was to behave as a supreme_________. A. democrat B. individualist C. romanticist D. lead er Answer: B (P448) 6. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as ___________. A. The Naturalist Period B. The Modern Period C. The Romantic Period D. The Realistic Pe riod Answer: C (P399) 7. In the following works, which sign the beginning of the American literature? A. The S ketch Book B. Leaves of Grass C. Leather Stocking Tales D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B (P399) 8._____is the author of the work ’The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’. A. Washington Irving B. James Joyce C. Walt Whitman D. William Butler Yeats Answer: A (P404) 9. Washington Irving’s ’Rip Van Winkle’is famous for_________. A. Rip’s escape into a mysterious B. The story’s German legendary source material C. Rip’s seeking for happiness D. Rip’s 20-years sleep Answer: D (P406) 10. Which of the following statement is not true about Washington Irving? A. Washington Irving is regarded as Father of the American short stories. B. Irving’s relationship with the Old World in terms of his literary imagination can hardly be ign
必读英美文学经典作品20本
必读英美文学经典作品20本 American Literature 1、The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Howthorne《红字》霍桑著 小说惯用象征手法，人物、情节和语言都颇具主观想象色彩，在描写中又常把人的心理活
动和直觉放在首位。因此，它不仅是美利坚合众国浪漫主义小说的代表作，同时也被称作 是美利坚合众国心理分析小说的开创篇。 2、The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 《哈克贝利.芬历险记》 简称《赫克》是美国文学中的珍品,也是美国文化中的珍品。十六年前【1984】 ,美国文坛为《赫克》出版一百周年举行了广泛的庆祝活动和学术讨论,也出版了一些研究马克吐温,特别是他的《赫克》的专著。专门为一位大作家的一本名著而举行如此广泛的纪念和专门的研究,这在世界文坛上也是少有的盛事。这是因为《赫克》的意义不一般. 美国著名作家海明威说, "一切现代美国文学来自一本书, 即马克吐温的《赫克尔贝里芬历险记》……这是我们所有书中最好的。一切美国文学都来自这本书,在它之前,或在它之后,都不曾有
过能与之媲美的作品。 3、The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 《贵妇画像》 亨利.詹姆斯著】 美国小说家亨利·詹姆斯的《贵妇画像》自问世以来一直受到文学评论界的关注，专家学者已从各个不同角度对女主人伊莎贝尔·阿切尔作了深入细致的研究。本文试图从一个全新的视角，即跨文化交际角度，剖析伊莎贝尔在婚姻方面所作的选择。文章指出她是该小说中跨文化交际的最大失败者，并对其失败原因作了分析。希望在跨文化交际日益频繁的今天我们都能从伊莎贝尔的生活经历中得到某种启发。
英美文学复习资料
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