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III. Filling in the following blanks.
1. Chaucer’s work “_________” gives us a picture of the condition of English
life his day, such as its work and play, its deeds and dream, its fun and
sympathy.
2. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and _________ are generally regarded as
Shakespeare’s four great tragedies.
3. In writing plays the neo-classical writers used _______ instead of blank
verse. They observed three unities of time, place and action.
4. As a poet, Blake’ s fame has been chiefly resting upon two volumes of
poems, “__________” and “The Song of Experience”.
5. ________marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realism
which followed it.
6. The first poem in the collection “the Rime of Ancient Mariner”.
7. Mrs. Gaskell’ s novel _________ is undoubtedly her best novel because of
its realistic description of the social and political life of that period..
8. In Memoriam is a collection of 131 short poems intended as a lament for
the death of his friend ________.
9. “ ________” is Browning ;s masterpiece which tells a horrible story of a
man’s murder of his beautiful young wife.
10. Lawrence’s novel “_______” was positively taken as a typical example of
Oedipus Complex in fiction.
IV. Write T if the statement is true and F if the statement is
false.
ANSWER I. to IV
1. In his An Essay of Dramatic poesy，John Dryden showed his famous
appreciation of Shakespeare.
2. Santan is the hero in Milton’ s masterpiece Paradise Lost.
3. The greatest English playwright of 18th century was Sheridan, whose best
play is The School for Scandal.
4. The publication of :the Lyrical Ballads marked the break with
classicism and the beginning of the Romantic Age.
5. Romantic prose of the romantic age was represented by Lamb, Hazlitt, De
Quincey and Hume
6. Jane Austen is one of the naturalist novelists. She drew vivid and
realistic picture of everyday life of the country society in his novels.
7. The Time Machine was written by Ellison. The War in the
Air is his another novel.
8. Look at Homeward, Angel was written by Virginia Woolf. He is a
well-know novelist.
9. Widowers’ Houses was written by Ibsen.
10. Too good to be True is one of Shaw’s plays. It shows the decay of
capitalism and growth of a republic.
V. Explain the terms
ANSWER
1. Romanticism
2. Neo-classicism
VI. Analyze the characters
ANSWER
1. Jane Eyre
2. Hamlet
VII. Answer the following questions briefly.
ANSWER
1. What are the characteristics of Hardy’ s novels?
2. What are the features of Fielding ‘s writing?
3. What is the significance of the sub-title of Vanity Fair?
4. What is Scott’s contribution to the historical novel?
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