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III. Fill in the blanks (5%)
1. ________ is probably the longest and most important poem in English
poetry of Anglo-Saxon period.
2. ________ is called “Father of English History”.
3. ________was the first poet who was buried in Westminster Abbey.
4. ________ is called “the poet’s poet”.
5. Certainty, _______ and death are the three major themes of Hamlet.
6. ________ was the forerunner of the English classical school of
literature.
7. _________ in Spectator was the image of a new culture and the ideal
spokesman of the middle class of the 18th century.
8. _____________ is considered as the declaration of English writers’
financial independence from the patronage of noblemen.
9. Thomas Gray is the representative of ___________.
10. Gerard Manley Hopkins’ theory __________ is a third influence on modern
poets.
IV. Write T if the statement is true and F if the statement is
wrong. (10%)
ANSWER I. to IV
1. Anglo-Saxon tribe was originally English.
2. Most of English ballads were collected in the 18th century.
3. Sir Thomas Malory is the author of the single romance Sir Gawain and
Greenknight
4. Sir Philip Sidney introduced blank verse into English literature.
5. Utopia is a Communist work.
6. Macbeth belongs to the third period of Shakespeare’s dramatic career.
7. The first place visited by Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travels is the
Kingdom of Horses.
8. Wuthering Heights is a famous Gothic novel.
9. Austin’s literary career marked the transition from Romanticism to
Realism.
10. The development of the twentieth century fiction was characterized by
two simultaneous but contrary tendencies, Modernism and Realism.
V. Analyze the characters (20%)
ANSWER
1. The Wife of Bath
2. Becky Sharp
VI. Explain the terms. (20%)
ANSWER
1. Aestheticism
2. The dramatic monologue
VII. Answer the following questions briefly (20%)
ANSWER
1. What are the main features and the theme of The Rime of Ancient
Mariner?
2. What are the main points of Arnold’s literary criticism?
3. What are the three phases of Yeats’ literary career and the main features
of each phase?
4. What is Fielding’s theory of Realism?
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