英国文学下发期末考试复习资料
《英国文学》复习资料
I Choo the most appropriate answer for the following questions.
11. Charles Dickens is a reprentative of English critical realism.
A. novelist
B. dramatist
C. poet
D. essayist
12. Wordsworth is a .
A. realist
B. classicist
C. romanticist
D. impressionist
13. The author of Ode to the West Wind is .
A. Shelly
B. Byron
C. Allen Poe
D. Emerson
14. Which of the following did not belong to Romanticism?
A. Keats
B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth
D. Alfred Tennyson
15. “Frankenstein” was filmed many times. Who wrote the book?
A. Edgar Allan Poe
B. James Joyce
C. Mary Shelley
D. Brain Stoker
16. Who is the author of The Canterbury Tales?
A. Robert Browning
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Thomas Hardy
D. William Wordsworth
17. Among the three major works by John Milton ______ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.
A．Paradi Regained B．Samson Agonistes
C．Lycidas D．Paradi Lost
18. Which of the following is not included in the three famous conquests in the British history?
A. The French Conquest
B. The Roman Conquest
C. The Anglo-Saxon Conquest
D. The Norman Conquest
19. The character “Grendel” is from ?
A. The Merchant of Venice
B. Pride and Prejudice
C. Gulliver’s Travels
D. Beowulf
20. The novel of Oliver Twist is the story about the underworld of .
A. Ireland
B. Washington
C. London
D. Paris
ⅡReading Comprehension
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
3．“Do you think, becau I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? —You think wrong!… And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you…—it is my spirit that address your spirit; just as if both had pasd through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal—as we are!”
Questions:
A．Identify the author and the novel from which the quoted part is taken. 2’
B．To whom is the speaker speaking? 1’
C．What does the quoted part imply about the speaker? 2’
3答案：
A. Charlotte Bronte; Jane Eyre
B. Jane Eyre is speaking to Rochester.
C. Jane Eyre loves Rochester but she values her basic rights and equality as a human being.
4. “When the stars threw down their spears,
And water’d heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to e?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”
Questions:
A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?2’
B. Whom does the “he” refer to? 1.5’
C. What does the “Lamb” symbolize? 1.5’
4答案：
A. The poet of the quoted stanza is William Blake, and the title of the poem is The Lamb.
B. Here the “he” refers to God.
C. The lamb symbolizes Jesus.
ⅢQuestions and Answers
Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English .Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
3. What are Swift’s writing features?10’
3答案：Swift is one of the realist writers. His realism is quite different from Defoe’s. Defoe’s stories are bad upon the reality of human life, while all of Swift’s plots come fro
m imagination, which is the chief means he us in his satires. His satire is marked by outward gravity and an apparent earnestness. This makes his satire all the more powerful. He not only criticizes the evils of the English bourgeoisie but shoes of other bourgeois countries.
Swift express democratic ideas in his works. This exerts a strong influence on later writers, such as Sheridan, Fielding, Byron and even Bernard Shaw.
Swift is one of the greatest masters of English pro. His language is simple, clear and vigorous. He said, “Proper words in proper place, make the true definition of a style”. There are no ornaments in his writings. In simple, direct and preci, Swift is almost unsurpasd in English literature.
4. What are Austen’s writing features?10’
4答案：1）Though living in the Romantic period, Austen is generally regarded as a realistic novelist. She drew vivid and realistic pictures of everyday life of the country socie
ty in her novels. 2）Jane Austen’s main concern is about human beings in their personal relations, human beings with their families and neighbors, and stories of love and marriage (the country middle class life). The provide the framework for all her novels and in them women are always taken as the major characters.
3) Austen’s work has a very narrow literary field. S he confines herlf to small country parishes, who simple country people become the characters of her novels, but within her own field, she is unrivaled.
4) Her novels show a wealth of humor, wit and delicate satire. Her plots are straight-forward; there
