1.The Old English poetry can be divided into two groups: the secular and _______.
2.In the 14th century, the two most famous writers are_________ and William Longland who wrote Piers the Plowman.
3.Today，Chaucer is regarded as the father of English poetry. His masterpiece is_______
4.The Canterbury Tales contains the _______ and 24 tales, two of which left unfinished.
5.Chaucer employed the _______ couplet in writing his greatest work The Canterbury Tales.
6._______ is the most prevailing literary form in the Middle Ages.
7.The ______ is an important stream of the British literature in the 15th century.
8.Poetry can be classified as narrative or lyric. Narrative poems stress action, and lyrics ______.
Part 4
1.Shakespeare’s four great comedies are _____. _____, ______, _____ .
2.In Elizabethan period, ______ wrote many excellent essays, such as “Of Studies”.
3.____ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.
4.____ wrote the famous The Faerie Queen and is often referred to as “the peots’ poet”.
5.A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three four-line quatrains and a concluding _____.
6.The most significant intellectual movement during the English Renaissance period was _____.
A. the Reformation B. geographical explorations
C. Humanism D. the Italian revival
7. Which of the following poetic forms is the principal form of Shakespeare’s dramas?
A. lyric B. blank verse C. sonnet D. quatrain
8. Which of the following plays does NOT belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies?
A. Othello B. Macbeth C. Romeo and Juliet D. Hamlet
9. Christopher Marlow’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love is a(n)
A. pastoral lyric B. elegy C. eulogy D. epic
10. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is _____.
A. ancient poem B. drama C. prose D. romantic novel
Passage 1
To die, to sleep
No more and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devotedly to be wished. To die, to sleep
To sleep-perchance to dream: ay there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dream may come?
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us a pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely
The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns,
The patient merit of th’ unworthy takes
QUESTION:
1.1. These lines are taken from a famous play named________.
2.2. The author of the play is____________.
3.3. In the play these lines are uttered by ____________.
4.4. About the utterance what does the speech show?
Passage 2
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee..
Questions:
1.1. This is one of Shakespeare’s best known______.
a. sonnets b, ballads c, songs
2.2. It runs in iambic pentameter rhymed in_________.
3.3. The fourteen lines include three stanzas according to their content with the last two lines as ______which complete the sense of the whole poem.
a. prelude b. couplet c. epigraph
▪4. What is the real purpose that the poet compare the beloved to the days of early summer?
Passage 3
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some boos also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things.
Questions:
1.1. This passage is taken from a famous essay written by______.
2.2. What is the title of this passage?
3.3. What’s the theme of the article?
Part 5
1, John Donne is the founder of the school of ______. His poetry is characterized by mysticism in content and fantasticality in form.
2. The 18th century England is known as the Age of ______ or the Age of Reason.
3.______ is called the Father of the English Novel.
4.______ is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.
5.______ , written in heroic couplet by Pope, is considered manifesto of English neoclassicism.
6.Thomas Gray has been regarded as the leader of the ______ of the day.
A. romantic B. sentimental C. religious D. modern poetry
7. In his novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the _____.
A. aristocratic class B. enterprising class C. rising bourgeoise D. hard-working people
8. The modern English novel came into being in _____-
A. the middle of the 17th century B. the 17th century
C. the late 18th century D. the middle of the 18th century
9. The Pilgrim’s Progress is often said to be concerned with the search for ______.
A. material wealth B. spiritual salvation C. universal truth D. self-fulfillment
10. Of the 18th century novelists, _____ was the first to set out in theory and practice, to write specially a “comic epic in prose”.
A. Danniel Defoe B. Samuel Richardson C. Henry Fielding D. Oliver Goldsmith
11. Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in _____.
A. alliteration B. heroic couplet
C. sonnet D. blank verse
12. _____ is William Blake’s most important prose work, which is the manifesto of his spiritual independence.
A. Songs of Innocence B. Songs of Experience
C. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell D. London
Part 6
1.The Romantic Period began in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work ______.
2._____ was memorized and honored as “the heart of all hearts” after his death.
3.The English Romantic Age produced two major novelists, _____ and _____.
4.Scott is considered “ the father of _____” which open up to fiction the rich and lively realm of history.
5.Romanticism was in effect a revolt of the English__ imagination ___ against the neoclassical _ reason ____, which prevailed from the days of Pope to those of Johnson.
6.William Wordsworth, Coleridge and _____ are known as the “ Lake poets”.
A. Byron B. Robert Southey
C. Shelly D. Keats
7. ____ is the poet who not only started the modern poetry, but also changed the course of English poetry.
A. William Blake B. William Wordworth C. Byron D. Keats
8. “ It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” This sentence is presented in a(n) _____ tone.
A. ironic B. indifferent C. delightful D. jealousy
9. “ Ode to the West Wind” is concluded with ____ mood.
A. pessimistic and skeptical B. triumphant and hopeful
C. desperate and sad D. indifferent
10. _____ shows the contrast between the permanence of art and the transience of human passion.
A. Ode to the West Wind B. Ode to a Nightingale
C. To a Sky- Lark D. Ode on a Grecian Urn
11. Of all the 18th century novelists, ______ was the first to set out in theory and practice, to write specially a “ comic epic in prose”, and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
A. Danial Defoe B. Samuel Richardson
C. Henry Fielding D.Oliver Goldsmith
12. ______ ’s works are characterized by a mingling of humor and pathos.
A. Thomas Hardy B. Geoge Eliot
C. Charlotte Bronte D. Charles Dickens
13．______was the first to be buried in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.
A. Keats B. Southey C. Tennyson D. Chaucer
14. Paradise Lost is written in _____.
A. epic B. blank verse
C. heroic couplet D. ballad
15. Of the following writers, _________ is not regarded as “Lake Poets”?
A. William Blake B. John Bunyan C. Jane Austen D. John Keats
16. In the English Renaissance period, the most significant intellectual movement was_____
A.The Reformation B. Geographical explorations
C. Humanism D. The Italian revival
17．In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works. This tendency is known as_____.
A. Classicism B. Neoclassicism
C. Romanticism D. pre-Romanticism
18．The Pilgrim’s Progress written by Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for______.
A. material wealth B. spiritual salvation
C.universal truth D. self- fulfillment
19. “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested” is one of the epigrams found in _____.
A. Francis Bacon’s Of Studies C. Thomas More’s Utopia
B. John Bunyan’s The pilgrim’s Progress D. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
20. _____, is a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.
A. The Wife’s Complaint B. Beowulf
C. The Dream of the Rood D. The Seafarer
Passage 1
How the chimney-sweeper’s cry
Every black’ning church appalls;
And the hapless soldier’s sigh
Runs down palace walls.
But most thro’ mid-night streets I hear
How the youthful harlots curse
Blasts the new-born infant’s tear,
And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.
Questions:
1.1. What is title of the poem?
2.2. Where is this poem taken from_________.
3.3. Who is the writer of this poem.
4.4. The theme of this poem is _____________________________.
Passage 2
O wild West Wind; thou breath of Autumn's being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, -
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed -
The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave, until
Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow -
Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill
(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)
With living hues and odors plain and hill: -
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear! -
Questions:
a. What is the title of this poem and who is the poet? (2’)
b. Why is the West Wind called “Destroyer and preserver”?(5’)
c. What is the symbolic meaning of the West Wind ? (5’)
1. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date
Questions:
A. Where does this poem quoted and what is it about?
B. What is the real purpose that the poet compares the beloved to the days of early summer?
C. In what sense can the speaker make the young man eternal through poetry?
2." I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er values and hills ,
When all at once I saw a crowd ,
A host , of golden daffodiles ;
Beside the lake , beneath the trees ,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze . "
Questions :
A. Who is the author ?
B. What does " a host of " mean ?
C. Give a short explanation .
3." O Wild West Wind , thou breath of Autumn 's being ,
Thou , from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven , like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing . "
Questions :
A. Who is the author of this stanza ?
B. what does " West Wind " symbolize?
C. What is the intention of the poet in writing the poem ?
4.In Hamlet's soliloquy he says , " To Sleep , perchance to dream :---- ay, there's the rub ."
Questions :
A. What does " perchance " mean here ?
B. What does " the rub" refer to ?
C. What is he primarily thinking about ?
5." To be ,or not to be --- that is the question ;
Whether' tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles ."
Question :
A. Who is the author of the play ?
B. who is the speaker ?
C. What does he mean when he says " To be ,or not to be----that is the question ?"下载本文
