英国文学史习题全集(含答案)

Part One Early and Medieval English Literature

Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks.

1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and

defeating England.

A. William the Conqueror

B. Julius Caesar

C. Alfred the Great

D. Claudius

2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .

A. Langland

B. Wycliffe

C. Gower

D. Chaucer

3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.

A. novel

B. drama

C. romance

D. essay

4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.

A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

B. Beowulf

C. Piers the Plowman

D. The Canterbury Tales

5. William Langland?s ____ is written in the form of a dream vision.

A. Kubla Khan

B. Piers the Plowman

C. The Dream of John Bull

D. Morte d?Arthur

1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB

6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that

time. The Normans spoke _____.

A. French

B. English

C. Latin

D. Swedish

7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first

translator of the Bible.

A. Langland

B. Gower

C. Wycliffe

D. Chaucer

8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the author

dreamed, through which, we can see a picture of the life in the ____ England.

A. primitive

B. feudal

C. bourgeois

D. modern

9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in

romances.

A. loyalty

B. revolt

C. obedience

D. mockery

10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a

legendary outlaw called _____.

A. Morte d?Arthur

B. Robin Hood

C. The Canterbury Tales

D. Piers the Plowman

11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative

poets of England, was born in London in about 1340.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Sir Gawain

C. Francis Bacon

D. John

Dryden

12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.

A. Flanders

B. France

C. Italy

D. Westminster

Abbey

13. Chaucer?s earliest work of any length is his _____, a translation of the

French Roman de la Rose by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung,

which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.

A. The Romaunt of the Rose

B. “A Red, Red Rose”

C. The Legend of Good Women

D. The Book of the Duchess

14. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of occupations that had

impact on the wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career?

____.

A. engineer

B. courtier

C. office holder

D. soldier

E. ambassador

F. legislator (议员)

15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on

Boccaccio?s poem “Filostrato”.

A. The Legend of Good Women

B. Troilus and Criseyde

C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

D. Beowulf

Key to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAAB

自考真题

2002-4

●.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___

adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.

A.Christian

B.knightly

C.Greek

D.primitive

（B）

●Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for

his production of ___.

A.Piers Plowman

B.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

C.Confessio Amantis

D.The Canterbury Tales

（D）

●The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a

comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______________.

A．William Langland? s Piers Plowman B．G eoffrey Chaucer?s The Canterbury Tales

C．John Gower?s Confession Amantis D．Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

（B）

Ⅱ. Questions

1.What are the features of Beowulf?

2. Comment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales.

Part Two The English Renaissance

Ⅰ. Match the writer and his works. 1. T homas More 2. H olinshed 3. H akluyt 4. R ichard Tottel 5. P hilip Sidney 6. W alter Raleigh A. A pology for Poetry B. M iscellany of Songs and Sonnets C. U topia D. D iscovery of Guiana E. Principal Navigations, V oyages and Discoveries F. Chronicles

The key: (1—C 2—F 3—E 4—B 5—A 6—D)

Ⅱ. Choose the best answer.

1. _____ founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy of a totally new type, which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie.

A. Henry V

B. Henry VII

C. Henry VIII

D. James I

2. The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star of the Reformation” and his followers. A. William Tyndal B. James I

C. John Wycliffe

D. Bishop Lancelot Andrews

3. The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad. ____ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interests of the English merchants. A. Henry V . B. Henry VII

C. Henry VIII

D. Queen Elizabeth

4. Except being a victory of England over ___, the rout of the fleet “Armada” (Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.

A. Spain

B. France

C. America

D. Norway

5. Those, both traders and pirates like ____, established the first English colonies.

A. Francis Drake

B. Lancelot Andrews

C. William Caxton

D. William Tyndal

6. ____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.

A. Ben Johnson

B. William Shakespeare

C. Thomas More

D. Christopher Marlowe 7. The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.

A. Lyly

B. Peele

C. Greene

D. Marlowe 8. Morality plays appeared after_____.

A. miracle plays

B. mystery plays

C. interlude

D. Classical plays

9._____ is used to say and do good things.

A. Mercy

B. Folly

C. Vice

D. Peace

10._____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.

A. Phillip Sidney

B. Edmund Spenser

C. Thomas More

D. Walter Raleigh

11._____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.

A. Thomas North

B. Thomas Wyatt

C. George Chapman

D. John Florio

12.____ had supplied Shakespeare with the material for Julius Caesar.

A.L ives of Greek and Roan Heroes《希腊罗马名人传》

B.M iscellany of Songs and Sonnets

C.D on Quixote

D.H istory of the World

13.____ was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and

poverty to understand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing the poor.

A. John Wycliffe

B. William Caxton

C. Geoffrey Chaucer

D. Thom as More

14.Utopia was written in the form of _____.

A. prose

B. drama

C. essay

D. dialogue

15.One of the popular morality plays was ____.

A. The Shepherds

B. Everyman

C. The Play of the Weather

D. Gammer Gurton?s Needle

16.Shakespeare?s plays written between _____ are sometimes called

“romances” and all end in reconciliation and reunion.

A. 1590 and 1594

B. 1595 and 1600

C. 1601 and 1607

D. 1608 and 1612

Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare?s ______. ACBADDB

17.

A. Pericles

B. Cymbeline

C. The Winter?s Tale

D. The Tempest

18.In _____ appeared Shakespeare?s Sonnet，Never before Imprinted（《莎

士比亚十四行诗》“迄今从未刊印过”）which contains 154 sonnets.

A. 1606

B. 1607

C. 1608 1609

19.Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.

A. romanticism

B. realism

C. naturalism

D. classicism

20.Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good

at) with the _______.

A. dramatic blank verse

B. song

C. sonnet

D. couplet

21.In the plays, Shakespeare used about ______words.

A. 15000

B. 16000

C. 17000

D. 18000

22._____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.

A. Christopher Marlow

B. Francis Bacon

C. W. Shakespeare

D. Ben Johnson

Key to the multiple choices:

1-5 BCDAA 6-10 DDCBA 11-15 BDADA 16-22 ACBADDB

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/2315822944.html,tin Bible

2.Protestantism; Catholicism

3.Protestants

4.John Wycliffe; Reformation

5.William Tyndal

Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks.

1.The ____ was universally used by the Catholic Churches.

2.The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle

between ____ and ___.

3.The Bible was notably translated into English by the ____.

4.The first complete English Bible was translated by ____, “the morning

star of the _____”.

5._____ translated the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament,

which is known as Tyndale?s Bible.

6.After Tydale?s Bible, then appeared the ______, which was made in 1611

under the auspices of _____. And so was sometimes called the ____.

7.Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has had a great

influence on English ___ and ____.

8.With the widespread influence of the English Bible, the standard modern

English has been _____ and _____.

9.A great number of ____and phrases have passed into daily English speech

as household words.

10.The ____and ____ language of the Authorized Version has colored the

style of the English prose for the last 300 years.

11.____ was the first English printer.

12.William Caxton was a prosperous merchant himself, but he was fond

of ___ , and his interest was turning to ____.

13.He translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into English from

French which was the ___ book printed in English.

14.The Recuyell served as a source for ____ Troilus and Cressida. 《特洛

埃勒斯与克雷雪达》

15.After having established his printing press, William Caxton devoted

himself to the career of a ____ and _____.

16.William Caxton published about ____ books, ___ of which were

translated by himself.

17.By rendering (翻译) French books into English, Caxton exercised the

youthful language in the airs (曲调), the graces, the crafts of the elder and

contributed to the development of the style of ___ century English ____.

18.The in fluence of Caxton?s publications is also great in fixing a ____

language in England.

19.As the first English printer, Caxton invented in England the profession

of ____, which in fact has had a lasting significance to the development of English ___ as a whole.

20.The Renaissance started in the ______ century and ended in the

______century.

21.The word, “renaissance” means ________, which was stimulated by a

series of historical events, such as ________.

22.In the Renaissance, the humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid

of those old ____in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expresses ____ of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the ____of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.

23.____ is the theme of the English Renaissance, which emphasized the

capacities of ____and the achievements of ____.

24.____ Stanza is a verse form created by _____ for his poem, ______, in

which the rhyme scheme is ____.

25.The Wars of the Roses (1455—1485) between the House of ___ and

the House of ___ struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years.

26.Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the

King of England, the far-reaching movement of ___ took place in England, started by Henry VIII.

27.After ___ in England, the helpless, dispossessed peasants, being

compelled to work at a low wage, became hired laborers for the merchants. These laborers were the fathers of modern English ___.

28.The introduction of ___ to England by William Caxton (1476) brought

classical works within reach of the common multitude.

29.The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up ____of

relations and the establishing of the foundations of ____.

30.Because the wool trade was rapidly growing in bulk, it was a time

when, according to Thomas More, “___”.

31.____ broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeys

in the country, confiscated their lands and proclaimed himself head of the Church of England.

32.Together with the development of bourgeois relationships and

formation of the English national state this period is marked by a flourishing of national culture known as ____.

33.____, in his translation of Virgil?s Aeneid, wrote the first English blank

verse.

34.Richard Tottel?s Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets contained _____

poems by ______ and _____ by _____.

Philip Sidney thought that _____ had superiority over philosophy and history. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

poetry

Utopia, Book One; poverty

private ownership

Italian/Petrarchan ; Shakespearean

Drama

Bible

real

35._____ is a picture of contemporary England with forcible exposure of

the ___ among the laboring classes.

36.More points out that the root of poverty is the ____ _____ of social

wealth.

37.Sonnets contain _____ sonnets and ____ sonnets.

38.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its

____.

39.The “miracles” were simple plays based on ______stories.

40.There are significant touches of _____ life in the play titled The

Shepherds.

41.A morality play presented the _____ of good and _____ with

_____personages.

42.Vice was the predecessor of the modern _____.

Conflict; evil; allegorical

Clown

Greek; Latin

Structure; style; comedy; tragedy

16th

Gammer Gurton?s Needle 《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》

Gorboduc 《高波特克》

43.Through the revival of classical literature, English playwrights came

into contact with ______ and ______drama.

44.From the contact with Greek and Latin drama, English playwrights

learned all the important rules in ____ and ____, the more exact conception of ____ and ____.

45.English comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared in the

middle of the ____ century.

46.The first English comedy is ______.

47.The first English tragedy is _____.

Mi racle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays paved the way for the flourishing of ____. Drama

London

1567

Elizabethan theatres

actress; boys

countryside

48.In the 16th century _____ became the centre of English drama.

49.By ____, professional actors were organized into companies.

50.____ were wooden buildings, usually circular in form, with tiers（一排

排）of galleries surrounding a roofless pit（楼下剧场）.

51.In the Elizabethan Theater, there were no ____ and women?s parts

were always taken by ____.

52.Shakespeare?s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of vivid

images of the ______, and aphorisms (格言、警句) on life.

53.Shakespeare was a great ____ of the English language.

54.Shakespeare?s dramatic creation often used the method of _____.

55.Shakespeare?s drama becomes a monument of the English ______.

56.Shakespeare was a _____ for play-writing.

57.Shakespeare?s _____ people represent all the complex ities and

implications of real life.

master

adaptation (revision)

Renaissance

master-hand (能手)

full-blood

Key to the blanks:

Latin Bible Protestantism; Catholicism Protestants

John Wycliffe; Reformation William Tyndal

Authorized Version, James I; King James Bible. Language; literature

6.fixed; confirmed

7.Bible coinages

8.simple; dignified

9.William Caxton

10.Reading; literature

11.First

12.Shakespeare

13.Printer; publisher

14.100; 24

15.15th ; prose

16.National

17.Publisher; culture

18.14th; 17th 19.Religious reformation

20.feudalist ideas; interests; purity

21.Humanism; human mind; human culture

22.Spenserian; Edmund Spenser; The Faerie Queene; ababbcbcc

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/2315822944.html,ncaster; York

24.The Reformation

25.the Enclosure Movement; proletarians

26.printing

27.feudal; capitalism

28.sheep devours men

29.William VIII

30.Renaissance

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

poetry

Utopia, Book One; poverty

private ownership

Italian/Petrarchan ; Shakespearean

Drama

Bible

real

Conflict; evil; allegorical Clown

Greek; Latin

Structure; style; comedy; tragedy

16th

Gammer Gurton?s Needle 《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》Gorboduc 《高波特克》Drama

London

1567

Elizabethan theatres actress; boys countryside

master

adaptation (revision) Renaissance

master-hand (能手)

full-blood

Ⅳ. Say true or false.

1.The old English aristocracy having been exterminated (wiped out) in the course of the War of the Roses, a new nobility, totally dependent on King?s power, come to the fore.

2.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

3.The progress of bourgeois economy made England a powerful state and enabled her in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible Armada.

4.The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a political guise.

5.Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by the Catholic churches.

6.Walter Raleigh wrote his History of the World in imprisonment.

7.More the man is even more interesting than More the writer.

8.Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist society.

9.Translations occupied an important place in the English Renaissance.

10.Philip Sidney?s collection of love sonnets is Astrophel and Stella.

11.The Miracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churches after the

actors introduced secular and even comical elements into the performance.

12.The writer of Gammer Gurton?s Needle is unknown.

13.Two lawyers who wrote Gorboduc were Thomas Sackville (托马斯·萨

克维尔) and Thomas Norton（托马斯·诺顿）.

14.Shakespeare?s sonnets are divided into three groups: Numbers 1—17,

Numbers 18—126, and Numbers 127—154.

15.Shakespeare?s sonnets are written for variety of virtues.

16.Engels said, “Realism implies, besides truth in detail, the truthful

reproduction of typical characters under typical circumstances.”

17.Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time.

18.Shakespeare?s one play contains one theme. (contains more than one

theme)

19.To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majestic

with the funny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with the comic.

20.Engels called Shakespeare?s plays the “Shakespearean vivacity (活泼、

快活) and wealth of (大量的) action”.

21.Utopia is More?s masterpiece, written in the form of letters between

More and Hythloday, a voyage.

21. F (a conversation)

22. F (poet and critic of poetry)

23. F

24. F(darma)

25. T

26. T

27. T

28. T

29. T

30. T

22.Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.

23.Carl Marx commented highly on More?s Utopia and mentioned it in

his great work, The Capital.

24.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its

poetry.

25.The miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories, such as

the creation of the world, Noah and the flood, and the birth of Christ. 26.Grammer Gurton?s Needle is the first English comedy, Gorboduc the

first English tragedy.

27.Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But

the upper class was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre.

28.After Shake speare?s death, Herminge and Condell collected and

published his plays in 1623.

29.From Shakespeare?s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took

a great interest in the political questions of his time.

30.In Shakespeare?s historical plays, historica l accuracy is not strictly

regarded.

31.King Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a brave soldier and

national hero to degenerate into a bloody murder and despot right to his doom.

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/2315822944.html,ing from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the summit

of Shakespeare?s art.

29. T

30. T

31. F (Macbeth)

32. F (Hamlet)

33. F (realism)

34. F(decline)

35. F (not an age of prose)

36. T

37. F (ordinary people were)

38. T

33.Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature.

34.Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was

undergoing a process of prosperity.

35.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was

an age of prose.

36.There are two main characters in As You Like It: Orlando and

Rosalind.

37.Ben Johnson?s comedies are “comedies of humors” and every

character in his comedies personifies a definite “humor”.

38.In Ben Johnson?s later years he became the “literary king” of his time. Key to the True/False statements:

1.T

2.T

3.T

4. F. (a political movement in a religious guise)

5. F. (the Latin Bible)

6.T

7. F (Sidney)

8.T

9.T

10.T

6.T

7.T

8. F ( Book Two)

9.T

10.T 11.T

12.T

13.F

14.T

15.T

21.F (a conversation)

22.F (poet and critic of poetry)

23.F

24.F(darma)

25.T

26.T

27.T

28.T

29.T

30.T

31.F (Macbeth)

32.F (Hamlet)

33.F (realism)

34.F(decline)

35.F (not an age of prose)

36.T

37.F (ordinary people were)

38.T

Ⅴ. Questions on the English Renaissance

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/2315822944.html,ment on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff.

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/2315822944.html,ment on the character of Hamlet.

3.What are the features of Shakespeare?s drama?

4.Remember Shakespeare?s major plays in each literary career.

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/2315822944.html,ment on Marlowe?s social significance and literary achievement.

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/2315822944.html,ment on The Faerie Queene.

未复习Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois Revolution

I.Choose the right answer.

1.The rhyme scheme of Milton?s L?Allkegro and Il Penseroso is _____.

A. aabbccbbc

B. abbacdccd

C. abacdeec

D. ababcdcdd

2. _____ , as a declaration of peopl e?s freedom of the press, has been a weapon in the later democratic revolutionary struggles.

A. On the Morning of Christ?s Nativity

B. Comus

C. Of Reformation in England

D. Areopagitica

3. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses.

A. John Milton

B. John Bunyan

C. John Donne

D. John Dryden

4. _____ expressed Donne?s own way of describing love.

A. Holy Sonnets

B. Witchcraft by a Picture

C. The Sun Rising

D. Death, Be Not Proud

5. George Herbert?s ______ is a well-known shaped poem.

A. The Altar

B. To His Coy Mistress

C. To Daffodils

D. Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May

6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.

A. John Donne

B. George Herbert

C. Andre Marvell

D. Henry Vaughan

7. Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet?

A. Richard Crashaw

B. Henry Vaughan

C. Andrew Marvell

D. Robert Burton

8. ____is a prose poem on death and immortality.

A. The Anatomy of Melancholy

B. Religio Mecici

C. Holy Dying

D. Urn-Burial

9. Izaak Walton?s ____ is a delightful description of the English countryside and the simple and kind people.

A. The Compleat Angler

B. Holy Living

C. To His Coy Mistress

D. To Daffadils

10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry?

A. John Suckling

B. Richard Lovelace

C. Robert Herrick

D. John Dryden

11. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19th century.

A. John Dryden

B. Richard Steele

C. Joseph Addison

D. Alexander Pope

Key to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAAD

II.Fill in the blanks.

1.In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, _______ occupies the most important place.

2.The Pilgrim?s Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writing produced during the _____ Age.

3.______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration.

4._____masterpiece, The Pilgrim?s Progress, is an allegory, a narrative in which general concepts such as sins, despair, and fa ith

are represented as people or as aspects of the natural world.

5._____ is the most excellent representative of English classicism in the Restoration period.

6.In English literature, the Restoration period is traditionally called “Age of _____.

7.In political affairs, ____ was quite changeable in attitude.

8.In his “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, ____ showed his famous appre ciation of Shakespeare.

9.Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is _______, a tragedy dealing with the same story as Shakespeare?s Antony and

Cleopatra.

10.The main literary achievements of the 17th century lies in the poetry of John Milton, in the prose writing of John Bunyan, and

in the plays and literary criticism of ______.

11.Paradise Lost is one of Milton?s ______.

12.Satan is the hero in Milton?s masterpiece __________.

13.Paradise Lost took its material from ______.

14.The works of the Metaphysical poets are characterized, generally speaking, by _____in content and fantasticality in form.

15._______ was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 18th century.

16.Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost embody Milton?s belief in the powers o f _____.

17.The Pilgrim?s Progress is a religious allegory and _____ is another writing feature.

18.In the second half of the 17th century we may hear the voices of the private citizens by letters and _____.

Key to the blanks:

1.(John Bunyan)

2.(Puritan)

3.(The Pilgrim?s Progress)

4.(John Bunyan?s)

5.(John Dryden)

6.(Dryden)

7.(John Dryden)

8.(John Dryden)

9.(All for Love)

10.(John Dryden)

11.(epics)

12.(Paradise Lost)

13.(mysticism)

14.(the Bible)

15.(Dryden)

16.(man)

17.(symbolism)

18.(diaries)

III.Say true or false.

1.The major parliamentary clashes of the early 17th century were over land ownership.

2.After the victory of the English Revolution, the movement of the Diggers broke out. The leader of this revolt is Wat Tyler.

3.With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship, Charles II became the Protector of the English Commonwealth.

4.The spirit of unity and the feeling of patriotism ended with the reign of James I, and England was then convulsed (shook,

quivered) with the conflict between the two antagonistic camps, the Royalists and the Puritans.

5.In 1644, James I was sentenced to death and Cromwell became the leader of the country.

6.English literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish on the whole.

7.The Revolution Period produced one of the most important poets in English literature, William Shakespeare.

8.The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it produced a great poet whole name is William Milton.

9.The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama.

10.Among the English poets during the Revolution Period, John Donne was the greatest one.

11.John Milton towers over his age as Byron towers over the Elizabethan Age, and as Chaucer towers over the Medieval Period.

12.On his first wife?s death, Milton wrote his only l ove poem, a sonnet, on His Deceased Wife.

13.The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lose, is written in heroic couplets.

14.The poem of Samson Agonistes was “to justify the ways of God to man”, i.e. to advocate submission to the Almighty.

15.It has been noticed by many critics that the picture of Satan surrounded by his angels who never think of expressing any

opinions of their own, resembles the court of an absolute monarch.

16.Izaak Walton?s The Compleat Angler becomes a “Piscatorial classic”.

17.Thomas Bro wne?s Religia Medici is a collection of opinions on a vast number of subjects more or less connected with religion.

Key to True/False statements:

1. F (ownership: monopolies)

2. F (Wat Tyler: Gerald Winstanley)

3. F (Charles II: Oliver Cromwell)

4. F (Donne: Milton)

5. F (James I: Charles I)

6. F (flourish: decline)

7.T (William Shakespeare)

8. F (William: John)

9. F (drama: poetry)

10.F (James I: Elizabeth I)

11.F (Byron: Shakespeare)

12.F (first: second)

13.F (heroic couplets: blank verse)

14.F (Satan: God)

15.F (Samson Agonistes: Paradise Lost)

16.T

17.T

IV. Questions

1.What are the writing features of The Pilgrim?s Progress?

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/2315822944.html,ment on the image of Satan.

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/2315822944.html,ment on Samson.

Part Four The English Century Ⅰ. Match the works and the characters. (3 points)

A

1. ( ) Tome Jones

2. ( ) The Vicar of Wakefield

3. ( ) Robinson Crusoe

4. ( ) Gulliver?s Travels

5. ( ) Pamela

6. ( ) The School for Scandal

B

a.Friday

b.King of Brodingnag

c.Sophia

d.Mr. B

e.William Thornhill

f.Charles Surfac

The key: (1—c, 2—e, 3—a, 4—b, 5—d, 6—f )

Ⅱ. Choose the right answer.

1.In 1701, Steele published a pamphlet, _____, in which he first displayed his moralizing spirit.

A. The Funeral

B. The Lying Lover

C. The Christian Hero

D. The Tender Husband

2. Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele?

A. The Tatler

B. The Spectator

C. The Theatre

D. The English

3. _____ is Addison?s great tragedy.

A. A Letter from Italy

B. Rosamond

C. The Campaign

D. Cato

4. Which of the following is not the hero in The Spectator?

A. Isaac Bickerstaff

B. Mr. Roger

C. Captain Sentry

D. Andrew Freeport

5. ______ were looked upon as the model of English composition by British authors all through the 18th century.

A. Jeremy Taylor?s Holy Living

B. Thomas Browne?s Religio Meidic

C. Samuel Pepys?s diaries

D. Addison?s Spectator essays

6. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____.

A. Steele

B. Addison

C. Pope

D. Dryden

7. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is ____.

A. Essay on Criticism

B. The Rape of the Lock

C. Essay on Man

D. The Dunciad

8. Essay on Man is a _____poem in heroic couplets.

A. didactic

B. satirical

C. philosophical

D. dramatic

9. ____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 18th century.

A. The Enclosure Movement

B. The Industrial Revolution

C. The Religious Reform

D. The Enlightenment

10. The literature of the Enlightenment in England mainly appealed to the ____ readers.

A. aristocratic

B. middle class

C. low class

D. intellectual

11. ____ is a great classicist but his satire is not always just.

A. Steele

B. Milton

C. Addison

D. Pope

12.The main literary stream of the 18th century was ____ . What the writers described in their works were mainly social realities.

A. romanticism

B. classicism

C. realism

D. sentimentalism

13.The 18th century was the golden age of the English ___. The novel of this period spoke the truth about life with an

uncompromising (unbending) courage.

A. drama

B. poetry

C. essay

D. novel

14.In 1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, ____ and ___, which made him well-known as a satirist.

A. A Tale of Tub

B. Bickerstaff Almanac

C. Gulliver?s Travels

D. The Battle of the Books

15.In a series of pamphlets Jonathan Swift denounced the cruel and unjust treatment of Ireland by the English government. One of

the most famous is ____.

A. Essays on Criticism

B. A Modest Proposal

C. Gulliver?s Travels

D. The Battle of the Books

16.“Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.” This sentence is said by ____, one of th e greatest masters

of English prose.

A. Alexander Pope

B. Henry Fielding

C. Jonathan Swift

D. Daniel Defoe

17._____?s best-known pamphlet was The Trueborn Englishman—A Satire, which contained a caustic exposure of the aristocracy

and the tyranny of the church.

A. Alexander Pope

B. Henry Fielding

C. Jonathan Swift

D. Daniel Defoe

18.Henry Fielding?s first novel ____ was written in connection with Pamela of Samuel Richardson. But after the first 10 chapters,

Henry Fielding became so interested and absorbed in his own hovel as to forget his original plan of ridiculing Pamela.

A. Tom Jones

B. Joseph Andrews

C. Jonathan Wild

D. Amelia

19.____ the first important work by Tobias Smollett, is based on his own experience as a naval doctor and in part

autobiographical.

A. Roderick Random

B. Humphry Clinker

C. Peregrine Pickle

D. A Sentimental Journey

20.From the character Mr. Malaprop, in ___ by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is derived the term “malapropism” which means a

ridiculous misusage of big words.

A. The Rivals

B. The School for Scandal

C. The Beggar?s Opera

D. The London Merchant

21.Which of the following periodicals is edited by Samuel Johnson? _____.

A. The Review

B. The Tatler

C. The Rambler

D. The Bee

22.Which of the following works are not written by Oliver Goldsmith? ____.

A. The Traveller

B. The Deserted Village

C. The Vicar of Wakefield

D. The School for Scandal

23.Which of the following works is written by Edward Gibbon?______.

A. The School for Scandal

B. She Stoops to Conquer

C. The Good-natured Man

D. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

24.The sentence of “The plowman homeward plods his weary way, /And leaves the world to darkness and to me” is written by

____.

A. William Cowper

B. George Crabbe

C. Thomas Gray

D. William Blake

25.______ is not written by William Blake.

A. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

B. Songs of Experience

C. Auld Lang Syne

D. Poetical Sketches

26.“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” This proverb is cited from William Blake?s _____.

A. Songs of Experience

B. Songs of Innocence

C. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

D. Poetical Sketches

27.The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties, ______, which were satirized by Jonathan

Swift in his Gulliver?s Travels.

A. the Whigs and the Tories

B. the senate and the House of Representatives

C. The upper House and lower House

D. the House of Lords and the House of Commons

28.____ found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Edward Young and Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself

chiefly in the novels of Lawrence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.

A. Pre-romanticism

B. Romanticism

C. Sentimentalism

D. Naturalism

29._____ compiled the A Dictionary of the English Language which became the foundation of all the subsequent English

dictionaries.

A. Ben Johnson

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Alexander Pope

D. John Dryden

30.Which of the following novels is not epistolary (written in letter form) novels?

A. Clarissa Harlowe

B. Pamela

C. Sir Charles Grandison

D. Tomes Jones

31.Which play is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?

A. She Stoops to Conquer

B. The Rivals

C. The School for Scandal

D. The Conscious Lovers

Key to the multiple choices:

1-5 CADAD 6-10 CBCDB 11-15 DDDDB

16-20 CDBAA 21-25 CDDCC 26-31 CACBDC

Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks.

1.The essays in Steele?s The Tatler were written in the form of ______ style.

2.Steele?s appeal was made to the ____classes.

3.The purpose of Addison and Steele?s ideas expressed in The Spectator is ______.

4._____ is the most striking feature in The Spectator.

5.Addison and Steele developed the form of letter writing to the verge of the _____ novel.

6.Humor, intimacy and elegance shown in The Tatler and The Spectator essays have become the striking features of the English

_____.

7.Essay on Criticism is a ______poem.

8.The Dunciad is ______a poem.

9.English enlighteners believed in the _____.

10.English enlighteners believed that social problems could be dealt with by ____.

11.Blake attacks religious ______in the poem, A Little Boy Lost.

12.Bur ns?s poems like The Jolly Beggars are characterized by humor and _____.

13.Sheridan?s The School for Scandal has been called a great comedy of _____, giving a brilliant portrayal and a biting satire o f

English high society.

14.Sameul Johnson?s ______ also marked the end of English writers? reliance on the patronage of noblemen for support.

15.Samuel Richardson?s first novel, Pamela, is the first _____novel in English literature.

16.Tobias Smollett, a good humorist, used the form of _____ novel. His humor is better shown in Humphrey Clinker than

anywhere else.

17.In describing Robinson?s life on the island, Defoe glorifies human _____.

18.Fielding thought that the stage should be the school of _____.

19.The chapter of “On Hats” in Fielding?s Jonathan Wild is full of satire and ______.

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/2315822944.html,urence Sterne belonged to the school of those writers who were versed in the “knowledge of _____.”

Key to the blanks:

1.conversational

2.middle

3.social reform

4.Character sketch

5.epistolary

6.familiar essay

7.didactic

8.satirical

9.power of reason

10.human intelligence

11.persecution

12.lightheartedness

13.manner

14.A Dictionary of English Language

15.epistolary

16.picaresque https://www.sodocs.net/doc/2315822944.html,bor

18.morality

19.symbolism

20.Heart

Ⅳ. Say true or false.

1.Addison?s The Spectator was published three times a week, having one essay for each issue.

2.Addison?s ch ief contribution to literature lies in his essays written for The Tatler and The Spectator.

3.The essays published in The Tatler deal with the current topics of the time which treated in a serious manner.

4.The character sketches in The Spectator are the forerunner of the English novel.

5.Steele?s translations of Humor?s works are done in heroic couplet.

6.Isaac Bickerstaff is the major character of The Spectator.

7.The 18th century was an age of poetry. A group of excellent prose writers, such as Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry

Fielding, were produced.

8.Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. The main characters in the novels were no longer common people, but

the kings and nobles.

9.The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups: the sentimentalist novelists and the realist

novelist.

10.In the poems of Edward Young and Thomas Gray, sentimentalism found its fine expression.

11.A Tale of a Tub is mainly an attack on pedantry in the literary world of the time, in which the reader is told the story of the Bee

and the Spider.

12.Tobias Smollett gives a true picture of the evils in the British navy in the novel of Roderick Random, in which Random, like

Smollett, is a Scot and a doctor.

13.The two most important of all Samuel Johnson?s literary works are the preface and comments of individual plays in his edition

of Shakespeare, and his Lives of Poets, which pass judgment on a century of English poetry.

14.Classicism turned to the countryside for its material, so is in striking contrast to sentimentalism, which had confined itself to

the clubs and drawing-rooms, and to the social and political life of London.

15.Robert Burns is remembered mainly for his songs written in the English dialect on a variety of subjects.

16.In The School for Scandal, Sheridan contrasts two brothers, Joseph Surface and Charles Surface.

17.My Heart?s in the Highlands is one of the best known poems written by Robert Burns in which he pored his unshakable love for

his homeland.

18.Racial discrimination is expressed in B lake?s “The Little Black”.

19.Many of Goldsmith?s poems were put to music.

20.Pre-romanticism is ushered by Burns and Blake and represented by Percy, Macpherson and Chatterton.

Key to the True/False statements:

1. F (one time a day)

2.T

3. F (light and pleasant manner)

4.T

5.F(Pope?s )

6. F (The Tatler)

7. F (prose)

8. F (nobles; common people)

9. F (18th )

10.T

11. F ( The Battle of the Books)

12.T

13.T

14. F ( Sentimentalism; classicism) 15. F ( Scottish)

16.T

17.T

18.T

19. F (Burns?s)

20.F(Percy,Macpherso

n and Chatterton;

Burns and Blake)

英国文学史资料

一、中世纪文学（约5世纪—1485）

《贝奥武甫》（Beowulf）

《高文爵士和绿衣骑士》（Sir Gawain and the Green Knight )

杰弗利·乔叟（Geoffrey Chaucer) “英国诗歌之父”。（Father of English Poetry）《坎特伯雷故事》（The Canterbury Tales ）

二、文艺复兴时期文学（15世纪后期—17世纪初）

托马斯·莫尔（Thomas More）《乌托邦》（Utopia）

埃德蒙·斯宾塞（Edmund Spenser）《仙后》（The Faerie Queene)

弗兰西斯·培根（Francis Bacon）《论说文集》（Essays)

克里斯托弗·马洛Christopher Marlowe《帖木儿大帝》（Tamburlaine）、《浮士德博士的悲剧》（The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus）、《马耳他岛的犹太人》（The Jew of Malta ）

威廉·莎士比亚William Shakespeare

喜剧《仲夏夜之梦》（A Midsummer Night?s Dream）、《威尼斯商人》（The Merchant of Venice）、悲剧《罗密欧与朱丽叶》（Romeo and Juliet）、《哈姆莱特》（Hamlet）、《奥赛罗》（Othello）、《李尔王》（King Lear）、《麦克白》（Macbeth）

历史剧《亨利四世》（Henry IV）

传奇剧《暴风雨》（The Tempest）

本·琼生Ben Johnson《人人高兴》（Every Man in His Humor）《狐狸》（Volpone）《练金术士》（The Alchemist ）

三、17世纪文学

约翰·弥尔顿John Milton 《失乐园》（Paradise Lost）、《复乐园》（Paradise Regained）、诗剧《力士参孙》（Samson Agonistes）约翰·班扬（John Bunyan）《天路历程》（The Pilgrim?s Progress）

威廉·康格里夫（William Congreve）《以爱还爱》（Love for Love）《如此世道》（The Way of the World ）

四、启蒙时期文学（17世纪后期—18世纪中期）

18世纪初，新古典主义成为时尚。新古典主义推崇理性，强调明晰、对称、节制、优雅，追求艺术形式的完美与和谐。亚历山大·蒲柏（Alexander Pope）是新古典主义诗歌的代表。

乔纳森·斯威夫特Jonathan Swift 《格列佛游记》Gulliver?s Travels

丹尼尔·笛福Daniel Defoe 英国小说之父《鲁滨孙漂流记》（Robinson Crusoe）

亨利·菲尔丁Henry Fielding 《汤姆·琼斯》（Tom Jones）

奥利弗·哥尔德斯密斯Oliver Goldsmith《荒村》（The Deserted Village）

詹姆斯·汤姆逊James Thomson《四季歌》（The Seasons）

威廉·柯林斯William Collins《黄昏颂》（Ode to Evening）

托马斯·格雷Thomas Gray《墓园哀歌》（Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ）

一. Old English Literature & The Late Medieval Ages中世纪文学（约5世纪—1485

贝奥武夫:the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons

Epic: long narrative poems that record the adventures or heroic deeds of a hero enacted in vast landscapes.

The style of epic is grand and elevated.

e.g. Homer?s Iliad and Odyssey

Artistic features:

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/2315822944.html,ing alliteration

Definition of alliteration: a rhetorical device, meaning some words in a sentence begin with the same consonant sound（头韵）

Some examples on P5

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/2315822944.html,ing metaphor and understatement

Definition of understatement: expressing something in a controlled way Understatement is a typical way for Englishmen to express their ideas

Geoffery Chaucer 杰弗里?乔叟1340(?)~1400

(首创“双韵体”，英国文学史上首先用伦敦方言写作。约翰·德莱顿（John Dryden）称其为“英国诗歌之父”。代表作《坎特伯雷故事集》。)

The father of English poetry.

It is ____alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive (综合的，广泛的)realistic picture

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英国文学史及选读 复习要点总结

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