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III. True or False: write T if the statement
is true and F if the statement is false.
1. The story of Pamela by Fielding is told in a series of letters written by
the heroine Pamela Andres to her parents and her two friends.
2. Sentimentalism was a direct reaction against the cold and hard
commercialism and rationalism as well as the surviving feudalism.
Sentimentalists criticized the cruel capitalist relations and the terrible
social injustice.
3. The biggest task of Enlightenment was to enlighten or educate the people.
That is, they believed in the power of reason and use “reason” to open
people’s “common sense”. That is why the 17th century of England has often
been called “ The Age of Reason”
4. Neo-classicism flourished in England from late the 17th century to 1730s.
Addison, Goldsmith and Pope were the representatives of this school.
5. Dryden has been considered as the representative figure in the literary
development of English literature in the Restoration Age.
6. Sidney’s literary work was all published after his death. The Arcadia,
an elaborate pastoral romance and a highly well-written prose mixed with
verse, was for the entertainment of his wife.
7. Spenser was influenced by Puritanism, Renaissance Neoclassicism, and
English nationalism.
8. The hero of The Jew of Malta by Sakespare is Barabas, a rich
merchant and a terrible money lender who is characterized by his greed for
wealth.
9. Dr. Faustus in The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus sells his
souk to the devil because he wants to live an extravagant life.
10. Beowulf 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.
IV. Fill in the blanks.
ANSWER I. to IV
1. In Paradise Lost ______ is depicted like a tyranny, while ______is
lively and full of resources and courage.
2. The most impressive and popular genre in Victoria period is_____, which
expressed the progressive thought and depicted the vast social reality.
3. The English critical realists of the 19th century showed a satirical
portrayal of the ______and the entire ruling classes as well as profound
sympathy for the_______.
4. ________is autobiographical to some extent, because this novel is known
to embody many of the early experiences of its author, although it is not an
exact autobiography
5. Two world wars, an intervening _______and great social and political
changes following these wars help to explain the direction and
characteristics of English literature in the first half of the twentieth
century.
6. Characterized by such movements as Symbolism, Imagism, Futurism,
Impressionism, Cubism and Surrealism, _______mainly flourished between 1910
and 1925, but its extending influence has lasted even till now.
7. _________was written about 1375-1400 by an unknown poet and it is seen as
the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend in alliterative
verse and in the Midland dialect of Middle English with about 2530 lines.
8. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, the three_______, traversed the same
path in politics—that is from worshipped the French Revolutionary ideal to
become afraid of the reality in French Revolution.
9. As a national poet of Scotland,______ is chiefly remembered for his songs
in a strong Scottish dialect: simple, direct.
10. Thomas More was a typical “Renaissance man”--a writer, scholar,
statesman, diplomat, political theorist and patron of the arts. He was the
foremost English _________of his day.
V. Explain the Terms:
ANSWER
1. Auden Group
2. Critical Realism
VI: Analyze the characters:
ANSWER
1. David Copperfield
2. Becky Sharp
VII. Answer the following questions.
ANSWER
1 to 2
1. Analyze the theme of religion in Jane Eyre.
3 to 4
2. According to William Wordsworth in the preface of Lyrical Ballads
, what makes a good poetry?
3. Make a comparison between Restoration drama and the drama of Elizabethan
Age.
4. How does prose writing reflected Romantic spirit in the Romantic Age?
Illustrate it with some
instances.
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