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III. Write T in the bracket if the statement
is true and F if the statement is false. (5 points)
1. Compared to Addison, Steele was
more highly regarded as an essayist, for his carefulness,
therefore, his influence was profound.
2. Most of the writings of the Neo-classicists were sentimental,
didactic and satirical.
3. Elizabethan literature generally reflects the exuberant
self-confidence of a nation expanding its powers, increasing its wealth, and
thus keeping at bay its serious social and religious problems.
4. The restoration of Charles II ushered in a literature characterized
by reason, moderation, good taste, deft management, and simplicity.
5. The well-known heroic play of Dryden’s is Marriage A-La-Mode, which
gained him great fame and popularity.
6. Shaw thought the dramatist should deal with social issues, like
universal conflict between private will and circumstance, showing the
individual struggle to realize an identity and a purpose in a mysterious
universe.
7. Sons and Lovers, which contains many autobiographical details, was
written by D.H. Lawrence in 1913.
8. Virginia Woolf was a talented English novelist, a distinguished
feminist poet and critic.
9. Auden tried to use Marxism and psychoanalysis to evaluate social
phenomena and inclined much to the Left, and then he became a Marxist.
10. Galsworthy was English novelist and playwright of international fame. He
won the Nobel Prize in 1932.
IV. Fill in the blanks. (10 points)
ANSWER
I. to IV.
1. __________, a complete national epic, is the oldest existing Germanic
epic and possibly the longest and most important poem in English poetry of
Anglo-Saxon period.
2. Two types of plays, ________and the moralities, became popular in the
14th century.
3. The dominant literary figure of James’s reign was _______, whose varied
and dramatic works followed classical models and were enriched by his
worldly, peculiarly English wit.
4. The Renaissance witnessed its greatest literary achievements in poetry,
_______ and prose, which are hard to surpass by those of the late
generation.
5. Most of the ___________ writers were in the field of poetry, such as
Edward Young and Thomas Gray.
6. Paradise Lost expresses the poet’s radicalism not only in its rejection
of epic structure but in its inversion of the __________ of styles.
7._________ is Bunyan’s masterpiece, and is generally agreed to be the most
successful allegory in English literature.
8. Galsworthy’s novels dealt with the life of the _________class and their
decline.
9. Through his essays, dramas, and especially his poetic practice, Eliot
played a major role in establishing the _________ conception of poetry
10. Beckett’s __________ art is an expression of his most intimate visions
on the fundamental philosophical question about the place of the human being
in the surrounding world.
V. Explain the terms. (20 points)
ANSWER
1. Absurdism
2. Literature of Satire
VI. Analyze the character. (20 points)
ANSWER
1. Tom Jones
2. Becky Sharp
VII. Answer the following questions briefly. (20 points)
ANSWER
1. What were the writing features of Milton?
2. What were the contributions of Pope to British literature?
3.What are the characteristics of Romanticism compared to the
Neo-Classicism？
4. What are the benefits of dramatic monologue towards poetry?
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