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Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks.(5%)
1. English literature began since the______ settled in England.
2. ______, 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.
3. The Canterbury Tales, generally considered to be _______
masterpiece, is his great literary accomplishment.
4. Paradise Lost is always considered as one of the most important
works in English literature. In this epic, _____not only created a group of
distinctive and lifelike characters, but also constructed it in a sublime
and magnificent manner.
5. ________ tragedy and comedy reached its true towering in Shakespeare’s
works.
6. More’s ______was written in Latin. It is in two parts, and the second,
describing the place Nusquama (in Greek, meaning “Nowhere”), was probably
written in 1515.
7. Marlowe was an Elizabethan poet and_______.
8. In contrast to Tennyson’s poems with appealing and elegant cadences,
Browning was much fond of a colloquial style and the ______monologue in
exploring human psychology.
9. Wilde was definitely the strongest voice of _______and has put much
influence on the latecomers of English literature.
10. His best-known novel, it is a social _______ satirizing Russia and
setting Stalinist totalitarianism in a farmyard.
Ⅳ. Write T if the statement if true and F if the statement is
false.(10%)
ANSWER I. to IV
( ) 1. In the second period among Shakespeare’s comedies, the most popular
one was A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
( ) 2. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is Ben Jonson’s
masterpiece.
( ) 3. Percy Bysshe Shelly was the Romantic poet who probed in art the
deepest among the first generation.
( ) 4. Joseph Addison, an Irish writer under a Pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff,
was an essayist, dramatist, journalist, and politician.
( ) 5. Walter Scott, as a writer and poet, a born storyteller and master of
dialogue, one of the greatest historical novelists, whose favorite subject
was his native England.
( ) 6. Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson are always considered as the two
realistic founders of the modern English novel, who totally broke away from
the convention.
( ) 7. Although Fielding started as a dramatist and then turned to write
novels, he was chiefly known as novelist.
( ) 8. As a national poet of Ireland, Burns is chiefly remembered for his
songs in a strong Scottish dialect: simple, direct.
( ) 9. Jane Eyre is usually considered to be the most popular of
Austen's novels.
( ) 10. David Copperfield, as Dickens’ favorite, is not merely a
record of personal experience but is a broad picture of English society in
Dickens’ time.
Ⅴ.Explain the terms.(20%)
ANSWER
1. Neo-classicism
2. The Lake Poets
Ⅵ. Analyze the character.(20%)
ANSWER
1. Tom Jones
2. Mr. Collins
Ⅶ. Answer the following questions briefly.(20%)
ANSWER
1. What are the literary achievements of Geoffrey and the historical
importance of his Canterbury
Tales?
2. Why Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is usually considered as a religious
allegory?
3. What are the features of Burns’ poetry?
4. What are the stories in Joyce’s Dubliners about? What is the significance
of this literary work?
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