《英国文学》期末复习题

I. Match the writer with his/her works. Write the corresponding letters before numbers.

II. Decide whether the following sentences are true or false, underline the wrong part and write down the correct one.

1. The Romantic Movements expressed a more or less negative attitude toward the existing social and political conditions that came with industrialization and the growing importance of the bourgeoisie.

2. The hero in Robinson Crusoe lived on the island for twenty years.

3. In the early stage of the Renaissance, poetry and novel were the most outstanding literary forms.

4. The leading principle for Wordsworth is "Beauty is truth, truth beauty".

5. Existentialism is the essence of the Renaissance.

6. The preface to the Lyrical Ballads is best read as a statement of Wordsworth's principles of poetry.

7. Jane Austen's idea about marriage is that it is wrong to marry just for money or for beauty, but it is also wrong to marry without it.

8. Heathcliff is a character in the novel of Pride and Prejudice.

9. Charles Dickens is a writer of realism combined with romanticism.

10. Virginia Woolf is a dramatist who wrote many great dramas.

III. Fill in the blanks with proper words or names.

1. Hamlet,_____, King Lear and______ are generally considered as Shakespeare's four great tragedies.

2. Shakespeare holds that literature should be a combination of beauty, kindness and________.
3. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer was written by______.
4. When Keats' second poem______ was published, it was severely criticized by the literary  magazine at that time.
5. Shakespearean sonnet runs in iambic________.

6. It is in the novel _______ that the first governess heroine was introduced to the English novel.

7. Those "novels of character and ________" by Thomas Hardy are the most representative of him as both a naturalistic and a critical realist writer.

8. Jane Austen’s novels deal with ______ and have a very narrow range of topics.

9. David Copperfield depicts the developments and growth of the hero from ________ to a famous writer through his own effort.

IV. Explain the following terms.

1. Romanticism

2. Modernism

V. Answer the following questions in about 60 words or so.

1. What do you think of Wordsworth and his poetry?

2. What are the features of style of Robinson Crusoe?

3. Why is Jane Eyre one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age?

4. How do you understand the subtitle of Tess of the D'Urbevilles, A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented?

VI. Analyze the following excerpts by using about 120 words or so for each.

1.                         No Nightingale did ever chaunt

More welcome notes to weary bands

Of travellers in some shady haunt,
Among arabian sands:
No sweeter voice was ever heard
In spring-time from the cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.

2.       If Mr. Micawber’s creditors will not give him time,” said Mrs. Micawber, “they must take the consequences; and the sooner they bring it to an issue, the better. Blood cannot be obtained from a stone , neither can anything on account be obtained at present(not to mention law expenses) from Mr. Micawber.”

3.                                     Break, Break, Break

By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 

Break, break, break,

On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!

And I would that my tongue could utter

The thoughts that arise in me.

O, well for the fisherman's boy,

That he shouts with his sister at play!

O, well for the sailor lad,

That he sings in his boat on the bay!

And the stately ships go on

To their haven under the hill;

But O for the touch of a vanished hand,

And the sound of a voice that is still!

Break, break, break,

At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!

But the tender grace of a day that is dead

Will never come back to me.