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1、试卷纸 第1页台州学院外国语学院 学年第 学期 级 专业英国文学史及选读I期末试卷(2)（闭卷)班级 姓名 学号 考试时间:120 分钟 题 号IIIIIIIVVVIVII总分分 值10101015202015100得 分I. Multiple choice. Choose the best out of the four . (10%=1*10)1. The Song of Beowulf can be termed a(n) praising Englands national hero Beowulf .A. epic B. sonnetC. romance D. novel 2. Ro
2、mance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of _ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A. Christian B. knightly C. Greek D. primitive 3. An iambic pentameter couplet is called_. A. heroic couplet B. blank verse C. tercet D. sestet 4. Sonne
3、ts originated from Italy , and in the 16th century, _ introduced it to England . A. Thomas More B. John Milton C. Thomas Wyatt D. Petrarch 5. In the poetic line “bathes each bud and shoot”, “bathes” and “bud” make a sound effect called .A. alliteration B. assonanceC. consonance D. internal rhyme 6.
4、The supreme master in the 1st half of the 18th century is _.A. Jonathan Swift B. Richard Steele C. Daniel Defoe D. Henry fielding 7. Romanticism in England began in 1798, with the publication of _. A. Lyrical Ballads B. Endymion C. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner D. To Autumn 8. “Eternal summer gild
5、s them yet, / But all, except their sun, is set.” is from_ . A. Ozymandias B. Ode to the West Wind C. She Walks in Beauty D. The Isles of Greece 9. , the author of Ivanhoe, is the creator and a great master of the historical novel. A. Henry fielding B. Walter ScottC. Daniel Defoe D. Jonathan Swift试卷
6、纸 第2页10. _ _is one of the “Lakers”, or Lake school poets . A. John Keats B. Percy Bysshe Shelley C. Leigh Hunt D. S. T. Coleridge II. True or False? Write T for true and F for false . (10%=1*10)_ 1. John Donne is the most outstanding representative of the 17th century dramas._ 2. A Modest Proposal b
7、y Swift shows the writers irony towards the projectors._ 3. In a poetic line, a foot with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable is trochic._ 4. The turn of the 18th century and the 19th century in England saw the appearance of a new literary currentPreromanticism._ 5. The Tiger by W
8、illiam Blake is a poem in The Songs of Innocence._ 6. The glory of the Romantic Age lies in the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats etc._ 7. The Satanic School includes Byron, Shelley and William Wordsworth._ 8. Don Juan made John Keats famous overnight._ 9.The first poem in Th
9、e Lyrical Ballads is Wordsworths masterpiece The Rime of Ancient Mariner._10. In his poems Byron aimed at simplicity and purity of the language, fighting against the conventional forms of the 18th century poetry.III. Blank Filling. (10%=1*10)1. The line “Shall I compare thee to a summers day?” is ta
10、ken from by William Shakespeare.2. The 18th century was distinctively an age of .3. The later enlighteners of England in the 18th century found the power of reason to be insufficient and therefore appealed to sentiments as a means of achieving social justice, which led to the appearance of the new l
11、iterary current . 4. She Stoops to Conquer is a rollicking comedy by .5. is the most independent and the most original of all the romantic poets of the 18th century.6.The image of an enterprising Englishman of the 18th century was created by in his famous novel Robinson Crusoe.7.While the political
12、tempests led to a confusion in English literature in the 17th century, the peaceful development of the 18th century made a prevailing literary current.8.The two representatives of Pre-Romanticism are William Blake and .9. The most outstanding figure of English Sentimentalism is .10. Romanticism in E
13、ngland ended in 1832, with the death of .试卷纸 第3页IV. Define or explain the following. (15%=5*3)1. Blank Verse 2. Conceit3. The Graveyard School V. Identify.(20%=10*2)Passage I The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd wind slowly over the lea,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Questions1. Who is the writer of these lines?2. What is the title of the whole poem from which the lines are taken?3. In the 2nd line, “/l/” sound is repeated in “lowing” and “lea” to make for linking both sound and meaning. 4. What is the theme of
