英美文学题库英美文学期末复习题
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I. Choo the one that would best complete the statement below. (30 points, 2 points each)
1. ______ is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.
A. Beowulf
B. The Canterbury Tales
C. Don Juan
D. Paradi Lost
游戏节目2. John Dryden called ______ the father of English poetry.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Edmund Spencer
C. John Milton
D. John Donne
頫3. The Merchant of Venice is a ________.
A. tragedy
B. comedy
C. history play
D. tragicomedy
4. Hamlet faces the dilemma between ______.
A. action and mind
B. dream and reality
C. money and power
D. hate and love
5. John Milton’s masterpiece is his ______.
A. Paradi Lost
B. Paradi Regained
C. Samson Agonistes
D. Areopagitica
下划线怎么加6. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the n that his poems depict mostly ______.
A. the frontier life
B. The a adventures
C. the Puritan community
D. New England landscape
7. The novel ________ is not written by Henry James.
A. The Ambassadors
B. The Wings of the Dove
C. The Bostonians
D. The Mysterious Stranger
8. In the 1920s decade, O’Neill established an international reputation with such plays as ______.
A. The Emperor Jones
B. Anna Christie
C. The Hairy Ape
D. all of the above
非凡是什么意思9. Fitzgerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the Jazz Age, in whic
h he shows a particular interest in ______ society.
A. the middle-class
B. the upper-class
C. the lower-middle-class
D. the working-class
10. Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner ud to construct his stories include ______, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.
A. impressionism
B. expressionism
C. multiple points of view
D. first person point of view
11. The following are Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies except __________.
A. Hamlet
B. Othello
C. Twelfth Night
D. King Lear
12. __________ is a novella about a young American girl who gets “killed” by the winter in Rome, and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time.
A. The American
B. The Europeans
C. Daisy Miller
D. The Portrait of A lady
13. John Donne is the leading figure of ________.
A. Lake Poets
存续什么意思B. Graveyard School
C. Satanic Poets
发面千层饼D. Metaphysical School
14. In Jane Austen’s novels, life and human nature are expod __________________.
A. at moments of crisis
B. during the battles
C. in the most trivial incidents of everyday
D. through the traveling
15. The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except ________.
A. William Faulkner
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. John Steinbeck
D. Ernest Hemingway
II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phra. (30 points, 2points each)
16. Edmund Spenr’s masterpiece is _________, a great poem of its age.
17. Marlowe’s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected _________ and made it the principle medium of English drama.
18. As a lexicographer, Samuel Johnson distinguished himlf as the author of the first E
nglish dictionary by an Englishman: _________, a gigantic task which Johnson undertook single-handedly and finished in over ven years.
19. Pope’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in _________.
20. _________ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel” for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.
21. Mark Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories. This particular concern about the local character of a region came about as _____________, a unique variation of American literary realism.
22. Pound was the leader of a new movement in Poetry which he called “_________” movement.
23. Dreir broke away form the genteel tradition of literature and dramatized the life in a very _________ way
24. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human _________, especially as an explanation of xual desire.
25. Two major figures of black fiction in America are ________ and Ralph Ellison.
26. Apart from Darwinism, the two thinkers who ideas had the greatest impact on the Modernism period were the German女装分类
________ and the Austrian Sigmund Freud.
