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III. Write T if the statement is true
and F if the statement is false.
1. The Old English literature based on history events or Germanic legends
and the form was ballad.
2. The earliest English dramas include miracle plays, morality plays,
classical plays and interludes.
3. Sir Thomas Wyatt can be known as the father of modern English poetry for
English poetry beginning with his translations from Petrarch.
4. Chaucer is sometimes called “the poet’s poet” because so many people
imitated and studied his style such as stanza, meter, and rhyme.
5. Shakespeare was the first greatest writer of English dram and the first
person who made blank verse the major instrument of English drama.
6. Dryden’s importance in the Restoration period is greater than that of any
one. So the last quarter of the seventeenth century is the “Age of Dryden”.
7. Before Addison and Steele wrote their essays, no lively picture about man
and manners of the ordinary social world of their time was available in
English literature.
8. Gray’s “Elegy” is always regarded as the peak of graveyard poetry.
9. The Romanticism was also influenced by international elements—the French
Revolution, whose influence soon swept all over Europe.
10. In Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”, One of the
characteristics of English Romanism is reflect: mystery.
IV Fill in the blanks.
ANSWER I. to IV
1. Ballads are generally narrative poems that originated in ___form. They
are mainly the literature of___, and reflect the outlook of the English
common people in the feudal society.
2. The rediscovery of Greek and Roman literature occurred across Europe that
finally led to the development of the ___ movement. Humanists believed that
___had significance within society.
3. Two influences are obvious in Elizabethan Drama. The first influence came
from the___. The other influence was___ drama.
4. The sonnet form was brought into English poetry in the 16th century by
___and ___.
5. Under the principle of “Beauty is truth, truth in beauty”, the short
poems Keats wrote are rich in images of beauty and ___and___.
V. Explain the terms.
ANSWER
1.Neo-classicism
2. Dramatic monologue
VI Analyze the character.
ANSWER
1.Iago
2.Mr. Collins
VII Answer the following questions briefly.
ANSWER
1.What is the main function of the General Prologue in The Canterbury
Tales?
2. What is the strength of Shakespeare’s plays?
3. What is the contribution of the critical realists of the 19th century to
novel as a genre?
4. what is the importance of the two settings, Satis House and the mists on
the marshes in Great Expectations?
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