英美文学选读期末练习题

《英美文学选读》期末考试练习一、搭配题二、判断题1.(F)Hamlet,Othello,KingLear,andAntonyandCleopatraareShakespeare’sgreatesttragedies.2.(T)TheElizabethanDramaistherealmainstreamoftheEnglishRenaissance.3.(T)ParadiseLostisalongepicdividedinto12books.4.(F)CaptainSingleton,MollFlanders,ColonelJack,andAJournalofthePlagueYeararethefirstliteraryworksdevotedtothestudyofproblemsofthelower-classpeople.5.(T)JonathanSwiftdefinedagoodstyleas“properwordsinproperplaces.”6.(T)HenryFieldinghasbeenregardedbysomeas“FatheroftheEnglishNovel.”7.(F)WilliamBlake,WilliamWordsworth,andSamuelTaylorColeridgeareregardedasthe“LakePoets.”8.(T)TheBritishRomanticperiodisanageofprose.9.(T)ThemajorthemeofJaneAusten’snovelsisloveandmarriage.10.(T)TheVictoriaperiodhasbeengenerallyregardedasoneofthemostgloriousintheEnglishhistory.11.(F)FarfromtheMaddingCrowdisThomasHardy’sfirstnovel.12.(T)Modernismroseoutofskepticismanddisillusionofcapitalism.13.(T)Themajorthemesofthemodernistliteraturearethedistorted,alienatedandillrelationshipsbetweenmanandnature,manandsociety,manandman,andmanandhimself.14.(T)TheearlypoemsofPoundandEliotandYeats’smaturedpoetrymarkedriseof“modernpoetry.”15.(T)Shaw’splayshaveonepassion,andoneonly,thatis,indignation.16.(F)RomeoandJulietisoneofShakespeare’sfourgreatesttragedies.17.(T)ThefirstperiodoftheEnglishRenaissancewasoneofimitationandassimilation.18.(T)ParadiseLostisJohnMilton’smasterpiece.19.(F)CaptainSingleton,MollFlanders,ColonelJack,andAJournalofthePlagueYeararethefirstliteraryworksdevotedtothestudyofproblemsofthelower-classpeople.20.(T)InJonathanSwift’sopinion,humannatureisseriouslyandpermanentlyflawed.21.(T)HenryFieldingwasthefirsttowritespecificallya“comicinprose.”22.(F)WilliamBlake,WilliamWordsworth,andSamuelTaylorColeridgeareregardedasthe“LakePoets.”23.(F)TheBritishRomanticperiodisanageofpoeticdrama.24.(T)Shelley’sgreatestachievementishisfour-actpoeticdrama,PrometheusUnbound.25.(T)OscarWildeandWalterPaterareadvocatorsofthetheoryof“artforart’ssake.”26.(F)FromUndertheGreenwoodTree,thetragicsensebecomesthekeynoteofThomasHardy’snovels.27.(T)TheFrenchsymbolismheraldedmodernism.28.(T)Themodernistwriterspaymoreattentiontothepsychictimethanthechronologicalone.29.(T)KingsleyAmiswasthefirsttostarttheattackonmiddle-classprivilegesandpowerinhisnovelLuckyJim.30.(T)TheWasteLandisapoemconcernedwiththespiritualbreakupofamoderncivilizationinwhichhumanlifehaslostitsmeaning,significanceandpurpose.31.(F)Shakespeare’sgreatesttragedyisRomeoandJuliet.32.(T)IntheearlystageoftheEnglishRenaissance,poetryandpoeticdramawerethemostoutstandingliteraryforms.33.(T)SamsonAgonistesisthemostperfectexampleoftheversedramaaftertheGreekstyleinEnglish.34.(F)CaptainSingleton,MollFlanders,ColonelJack,andAJournalofthePlagueYeararethefirstliteraryworksdevotedtothestudyofproblemsofthelower-classpeople.35.(T)JonathanSwiftisamastersatirist.36.(T)HenryFieldingwasthefirsttogivethemodernnovelitsstructureandstyle.37.(F)WilliamBlake,WilliamWordsworth,andSamuelTaylorColeridgeareregardedasthe“LakePoets.”38.(F)NovelwasthemostpopularliteraryformintheBritishRomanticperiod.39.(T)“ASong:MenofEngland”waswrittenin1819,theyearofthePeterlooMassacre.40.(T)CharlesDickensandtheBronteSistersarerepresentativesofcriticalrealism.41.(F)ThomasHardybelongstooneoftheEnglishromanticpoets.42.(T)Modernismtakestheirrationalphilosophyandthetheoryofpsycho-analysisasitstheoreticalbase.43.(T)Themodernistwritersaremainlyconcernedwiththeinnerbeingofanindividual.44.(T)JamesJoyceisthemostoutstandingstream-of-consciousnessnovelist.45.(T)D.H.Lawrencewasoneofthefirstnoveliststointroducethemesofpsychologyintohisworks.三、名词解释1.Antagonist:Apersonorforceopposingtheprotagonistinanarrative;arivaloftheheroorheroine.2.Allegory:Ataleinverseorproseinwhichcharacters,actions,orsettingsrepresentabstractideasormoralqualities.Anallegoryisastorywithtwomeanings,aliteralmeaningandasymbolicmeaning.3.Alliteration:Therepetitionoftheinitialconsonantsoundsinpoetry.4.Canto:Asectionordivisionofalongpoem.5.Characterization:themeansbywhichawriterrevealsthatpersonality.6.Comedy:Ingeneral,aliteraryworkthatendshappilywithahealthy,amicablearmisticebetweentheprotagonistandsociety.7.CriticalRealism:Thecriticalrealismofthe19thcenturyflourishedinthefortiesandinthebeginningoffifties.Therealistsfirstandforemostsetthemselvesthetaskofcriticizingcapitalistsocietyfromademocraticviewpointanddelineatedthecryingcontradictionsofbourgeoisreality.Buttheydidnotfindawaytoeradicatesocialevils.8.Elegy:Apoemofmourning,usuallyoverthedeathofanindividual.Anelegyisatypeoflyricpoem,usuallyformalinlanguageandstructure,andsolemnorevenmelancholyintone.9.Epic:Alongnarrativepoemtellingaboutthedeedsofagreatheroandreflectingthevaluesofthesocietyfromwhichitoriginated.Manyepicsweredrawnfromanoraltraditionandweretransmittedbysongandrecitationbeforetheywerewrittendown.10.Flashback:Asceneinashortstory,novel,play,ornarrativepoemthatinterruptstheactiontoshowaneventthathappenedearlier.11.Imagery:Wordsorphrasesthatcreatepictures,orimages,inthereader’smind.Imagescanappealtoothersensesaswell:touch,tast