英国文学填空练习

1、精选文档Part One Old and Middle English LiteratureI. Fill in the blanks1. Choose the best answer Critics tend to divide Chaucers literary career into three periods: the French period, the Italian period and the English period.2. Chaucer employed the heroic couplet in writing his greatest work The Canter

2、bury tales.3. The framework in The Canterbury Tales is a pilgrimage.4. When Chaucer died on the 25th of October 1400, he was the first to be buried in Westminster Abbey.5. The Prologue provides a framework for the tales in The Canterbury Tales, and it comprises a group of vivid pictures of various m

3、edieval figures.6. The 15th century has traditionally been described as the barren age in English literature.7. Poetry can be classified as narrative or lyric. Narrative poems stress actions, and lyrics stress songs.Part Two English Literature in the Renaissance PeriodI. Fill in the blanks1. The sec

4、ond period of English Renaissance is also called the Elizabethan period or the age of Shakespeare.2. Shakespeares plays have been traditionally divided into four categories according to dramatic type: histories, comedies, tragedies and romances.3. Edmund Spenser is often referred to as “the poets po

5、et” because of his considerable influence on later poets.4. Spensers Amoretti is a series of 88 sonnets in which he links each quatrain to the next by a continuing rhyme: abab bcbc cdcd ee. This form is usually called Spenserian sonnets.5. Christopher Marlowe is considered the first great English dr

6、amatist and the most important Elizabethan playwright before Shakespeare.6. Shakespeares 154 sonnets fall into two series: one series are addressed to W. H, a young man, and the other addressed to a dark lady.7. The writings of Francis Bacon mainly fall into three categories: philosophical, literary

7、 and professional.8. A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three quatrains and a concluding couplet.Part ThreeEnglish Literature in the 17th CenturyI. Fill in the blanks1. The poems of John Donne belong to two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verse.2. Milton gave us the only

8、 epic since Beowulf, and Bunyan gave us the only great allegory.3. Bunyans most important work is The Pilgrims Progress, written in the old-fashioned, medieval form of allegory and dream.4. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend, critical realism, appeared after the romantic po

9、etry. 5. John Donne is the founder of the school of metaphysical poetry. His works are characterized by mysticism in content and fantasticality in form.6. Because of the success of Paradise Lost, John Milton produced in 1671 another epic, Paradise Regained.7. John Miltons Paradise Lost opens with th

10、e description of a meeting among the fallen angels, and ends with the departure of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eve.8. The most distinguished literary figure of the Restoration Period was John Dryden, poet, critic, and playwright.9. Paradise Lost is a long epic. The stories are taken from the Old

11、 Testament.10.Part Four18th Century LiteratureI. Fill in the blanks1. Thomas Grays “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyards” is taken as a model of sentimental poetry, esp. the graveyard school.2. The exciting tale of Robinson Crusoe is largely an adventure story rather than the study of human charac

12、ter.3. An Ode, in ancient literature, is an elaborate lyrical poem composed for a chorus to chant and to dance to.4.5. In Jerusalem, William Blake expounded his theory of imagination, asserting that the world of imagination is the world of eternity.6. “ Till a the seas gang dry, my dear,And the roac

13、ks melt wi the sun:I will luve thee still, my dear,While the sands of life shall run”The above lines are taken from Robert Burns famous poem “My Luves Like a Red, Red, Rose”.7. Friday is a character in the novel Robinson Crusoe.8. Henry Fielding is called the Father of the English Novels.9. The 18th

14、 century is known as the age of enlightenment or the age of reason.10. In Gullivers Travels, Yahoos are the creatures living in Houyhnynms.Part FiveRomantic Literature I. Fill in the blanks1. As an age of romantic enthusiasm, the Romantic Age began in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published Lyr

15、ical Ballads and ended in 1832 when Scott died.2. The Englightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century. 3.4. In the Preface of the 2nd and 3rd editions of Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth laid down the principles of poetry composition.5. The English Rom

16、antic Age produced two major novelists, Walter Scott and Jane Austen.6. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey are referred to as the “Lake Poets” because they lived in the Lake District in the northwestern part of England.7. In 1805, Wordsworth completed his long autobiographical poem entitled The Prelu

17、de.8. Percy Shelley mourned for John Keats premature death in an elegy “Adonais”, writing “he is made one with nature”.9. In his poems Wordsworth aimed at simplicity and purity of the language, fighting against the conventional forms of the 18th century poetry.10. “Childe Harolds Pilgrimage” is long

18、 poem created by Byron. It contains four cantos in the Spenserian stanza, namely a 9-line stanza rhymed abbabbcbcc, in which the first eight lines are iambic pentameter while the 9th line in iambic hexameter.11. The greatest English realist of the 19th century was Charles Dickens.12. Don Juan is Byr

19、ons masterpiece, written in the prime of his creative power. He called it an “epic satire”, “ a satire on abuse of the present state of society”.13. The plot of Shelleys lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound is borrowed from Prometheus Bound, a play of the Greek tragedian Aeschylus.14. Walter Scott is th

20、e creator and a great master of the historical novel. His novels give a panorama of feudal society from its early stage to its downfall. 15. In “To Autumn”, Keats writes, Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and blessWith frui

21、t the vines that round the thatch-evs runThe figure of speech used in the lines is personification.16. “Ode to a Nightingale” expresses the contrast between the happiness of the natural world and the pain of the human reality.17. Percy Shelley was memorized and honored as “the heart of all hearts” a

22、fter his death.18. Many critics regard Shelley as one of the greatest of all English poets. They point especially to his lyrics.19. Romanticism was in effect a revolt of the English imagination against the neoclassical reason, which prevailed from the days of Pope to those of Johnson.20. Odes are ge

23、nerally regarded as Keats most important and mature works.21. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” shows the contrast between permanence of art and transience of human passion.22. Scott is considered “the father of historical novels”.23. Two prevailing themes of Pride and Prejudice are pride and prejudice and lov

24、e and marriage.24. Kubla Khan was composed in a dream after the poet Coleridge took the opium.25. All such works of Coleridge as “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, “Christabel”, and “Kubla Khan” revealed his keen interest in mystery.26. Wordsworth is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.27. “I Wande

25、red Lonely as a Cloud”, “An Evening Walk”, “My Heart Leaps up”, and “Tintern Abbey” are all masterpieces on nature.28. The constant sight of nature in the wondrous beauty of Lake District awoke love and reverence in Wordsworth.29. In 1797, Wordsworth made friends with S.T. Coleridge and a year later

26、 they jointly published the Lyrical Ballads.30. The main idea running through the romantic poem Prometheus Unbound is that of freedom.31. Shelley, with a triumphant praise of the imagination, highly exalts the role of poetry, thinking that poetry alone could free man and offer the mind a wider view

27、of its powers. He holds that poetry “is as more direct representation of the actions and passins of our internal being.”32. French revolution and British industrial revolution gave great impetus to the rise of the Romantic Movement.Part Six19th century Literature1. The comic element is strong in Cha

28、rles Dickens first novel, The Pickwick Papers which appeared in monthly sections between April 1836 and November 1837. 2. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend, critical realism, appeared after the romantic poetry. 3. The Victorian Age in English literature was largely an age

29、of prose, especially of the novel.4.5. David Copperfield is one of Charles Dickens best works. It is written in the first person and is the most autobiographical of all his books. 6. Written in 1837-38, Oliver Twist tells the story of an orphan boy, whose adventure provide material for a description

30、 of the lower depths of London.7. Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques, the Victorian novelists shared one thing in common, that is, they were concerned about the fate of the common people.8. Robert Brownings poetic experiments transferred the thematic interes

31、t of poetry from mere narration of the story to revelation and study of characters inner world and brought to the Victorian poetry some psycho-analytical element.9. Wuthering Heights is written by Emily Bronte. It is a morbid story of love, but a powerful attack on the bourgeois marriage system. It

32、shows true love ion a class society is impossible of attainment.10. In his works, Dickens sets out a full map and a large-scale criticism of the 19th century England, particularly London.11. Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet, is one of the representatives of English critical realism at the turn of the

33、 19th century.12. The Mayor of Casterbridge, one of the centurys finest novels, traces the rise and fall of Michael Henchard, a tough, egotistical, fellow who sold his wife and baby at a fair.13. Jane Eyre represents those middle class working women, who are struggling for the recognition of their b

34、asic rights and equality as a human being.14. In her novels, George Eliot seeks to present the inner struggle of a soul and to reveal the motives, impulses and hereditary influences which govern human action.15. The two most predominating poets of the Victorian period are Alfred Tennyson and Robert

35、Browning.16. In many Hardys later novels, the conflict between the tradition and the modern is brought to the center of the stage.17. As a woman of exceptional intelligence and life experience, George Eliot shows a particular concern for the destiny of women.Part SevenEarly 20th Century Literature1.

36、 Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base.2. “Araby” from Dubliners is a tale of the frustrated quest for beauty in the midst of drabness.3. The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and aill relationships bet

37、ween man and nature, man and society, man and man, and man and himself.4. W.B.Yeats experienced a slow and painful change in his poetic creation, starting in the romantic tradition and finishing as a mature modernist poet.5. T.S. Eliots major achievement in play writing has been the creation of a ve

38、rse drama in the 20th century to express the ideas and actions of modern society with new accents of the contemporary speech.6. In his famous essay “Tradition and Individual Talent”, T.S. Eliot put great emphasis on the importance of tradition both in creative writing and in criticism.7. “The Hollow

39、 Man”, which bears a strong thematic resemblance to “The Waste Land”, is generally regarded as the darkest of Eliots poems.8. Structurally and thematically, George Bernard Shaw follows the great tradition of realism.9. Joyce seems to mean that the novel Ulysses describes the mental activities of two Dubliners in a single day.10. Virginia Woolf represents the much more readable novelists of the stream of consciousness school. She is a fine