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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上英美文学选读期末考试练习一、 搭配题二、 判断题1. ( F ) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra are Shakespeares greatest tragedies.2. (T ) The Elizabethan Drama is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance.3. ( T) Paradise Lost is a long epic divided into 12 books.4. ( F) Captain Singleton,
2、 Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people.5. ( T) Jonathan Swift defined a good style as “proper words in proper places.”6. ( T ) Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “Father of the En
3、glish Novel.”7. ( F) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the “Lake Poets.”8. ( T ) The British Romantic period is an age of prose.9. ( T ) The major theme of Jane Austens novels is love and marriage.10. ( T ) The Victoria period has been generally regarded
4、as one of the most glorious in the English history. 11. ( F ) Far from the Madding Crowd is Thomas Hardys first novel.12. ( T ) Modernism rose out of skepticism and disillusion of capitalism. 13. ( T ) The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships be
5、tween man and nature, man and society, man and man, and man and himself.14. ( T) The early poems of Pound and Eliot and Yeatss matured poetry marked rise of “modern poetry.”15. ( T ) Shaws plays have one passion, and one only, that is, indignation.16. ( F) Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeares fou
6、r greatest tragedies.17. ( T ) The first period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimilation.18. ( T ) Paradise Lost is John Miltons masterpiece. 19. ( F ) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works devoted to the
7、 study of problems of the lower-class people.20. ( T ) In Jonathan Swifts opinion, human nature is seriously and permanently flawed.21. ( T) Henry Fielding was the first to write specifically a “comic in prose.”22. ( F ) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as
8、the “Lake Poets.”23. ( F ) The British Romantic period is an age of poetic drama.24. ( T ) Shelleys greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, Prometheus Unbound.25. ( T ) Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater are advocators of the theory of “art for arts sake.”26. ( F ) From Under the Greenwood Tree
9、, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of Thomas Hardys novels.27. ( T ) The French symbolism heralded modernism.28. ( T ) The modernist writers pay more attention to the psychic time than the chronological one.29. ( T) Kingsley Amis was the first to start the attack on middle-class privileges and p
10、ower in his novel Lucky Jim.30. ( T ) The Waste Land is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.31. ( F) Shakespeares greatest tragedy is Romeo and Juliet.32. ( T) In the early stage of the English Renais
11、sance, poetry and poetic drama were the most outstanding literary forms.33. ( T ) Samson Agonistes is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English.34. ( F ) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works d
12、evoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people.35. ( T ) Jonathan Swift is a master satirist.36. ( T ) Henry Fielding was the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.37. ( F ) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the “Lake Poets.”38
13、. ( F ) Novel was the most popular literary form in the British Romantic period.39. ( T ) “A Song: Men of England” was written in 1819, the year of the Peterloo Massacre. 40. ( T) Charles Dickens and the Bronte Sisters are representatives of critical realism.41. ( F ) Thomas Hardy belongs to one of
14、the English romantic poets.42. ( T ) Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base. 43. ( T ) The modernist writers are mainly concerned with the inner being of an individual. 44. ( T ) James Joyce is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness
15、novelist. 45. ( T ) D. H. Lawrence was one of the first novelists to introduce themes of psychology into his works.三、 名词解释1. Antagonist: A person or force opposing the protagonist in a narrative; a rival of the hero or heroine.2. Allegory: A tale in verse or prose in which characters, actions, or se
16、ttings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities. An allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.3. Alliteration: The repetition of the initial consonant sounds in poetry.4. Canto: A section or division of a long poem.5. Characterization: the means by which a writer reveals that personality.6. Comedy: In general, a literary work tha
