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24.It tells the story of a coal miner's family with the third child Paul as the central character. The thread of the story involves around Paul's love for the two girls Miriam and Clara as well as his love for his mother Mrs .Morel. In this last instance the author definitely fell under the influence of Sigmund Freud and his theory of \

The author of the novel is ____________ ; the title is ____________ .

25.Published in 1922,it is a long ,complicated poem that revants dislusionment and pessimism with contemporary society and is remarkable for its ooriginality in form and content. In this poem., the poet brings in allusions to mythology,classical literature… such as the Bible and Dante's Divine Comedy. One part of it is entitled \

The poem is ____________ ;the poet is ____________ who also writes The Love Song of ____________ .

V. Paper One

I. Identify the author with his or her work . 1.Henry James 2.Prancis Bacon 4.Emily Bronte 6.Shelly

A.Lord of the Flies B.Wuthering Heights

C.\

3.Geroge Bernard Shaw

D.Queen Mab

F.The Dubliners

G.The Importance of Being Earnest H. Pygmalion I. Othello

5.William Golding E.The Portrait of a Lady 7.William Shakespeare 8.Wiliam Blake 9.Oscar Wilde

10.James Joyce J.Deaths and Entrances

Ⅱ. Choose the best answer for each blank.

1.The Most important work of Aflred the Great is _______, which is regarded as the best monument of the old English prose.

A. The Song of Beowulf

B. The Angle—Saxon Chronicles

C. The Ecclesiastical History of the English People D. Brut

2.Beowulf descriibes the exploits of a_______hero, Beowulf, in fighting against the monster Grendel, his revengeful mo ther, and a firebreathing dragon.

A. Danish B. Scandinavian C. English D. Norwegia. 3.The prevailing from of Medieval English liteature is the_______. A. novel B. drama C. romance D. essay

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4.The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendary outlaw called_______.

A. Robin Hood B. Morte d' Arthur C. The Canterbury Tales D. Piers the Plowman

5.________, the ―father of English poetry‖ and one of the greatest narrative poets of English, was born in London about 1 340.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden

6.Apart from original peoms, Chaucer translated various works of French author, among them is the famous _______.

A. The Canterbury Tales B. The Romaunt of the Rose C. The Parliament of Fowls D. The House of Fame

7.________ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.

A. Thomas Wyatt B. William Shakespeare C. Philp Sidney D. Thomas Campion

8.Great popularity was won by John Lyly' s prose romance _______ which gave rise to the term \

ng an affected style of court speech.

A. Cymbeline B. Venus and Adonis C. Lucrece D. Euphues 9.English Renaissance Period was an age of ________.

A. prose and novel B. poetry and drama C. essays and journals D. Ballads and songs

10.The works of ________ and the Authorized Version of the English Bible are the two great treasuries of the English lang uage.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Edmund Spenser C. William Shakespeare D. Ben Johnson 11.Which was not written by John Milton ? ________ .

A. Areopagitica B. Lycidas C. L ' Allegro D. Song to Celia

12. Of the many contemporaries and successors of William Shakespeare , the most important and well— known was ____

who became the poet laureate in 1616.

A. John Dryden B. Samuel Johnson C. Ben Johnson D. Robert Southey

13. _______ was the progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century A. The Renaissance B. The Englishtenment

C. The Religious Reformation D. The Chartist Movemen

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14.The main literary stream of the 18th century was _______. Whant the writers described in their

works were mainly social realities.

A. naturalism B. romanticism C. classicism D. realism E. sentimentalism

15.―To err is human, to forgive, divine‖is a famous line from Alexander Pope's poem_______. A. The Rape of the Lock B. Essay on Man

C. The Dunciad D. Essay on Criticism

16. The Romantic Age began with the publication of The Lyrical Ballads which was written by ______.

A. William Wordsworth B. Samuel Johnson

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. Wordsworth and Coleridge

17. The publication of _______ marked the break with the conventional poetical tradition of the Ro

Mantic revival in England.

A. The Lyrical Ballads B. The Prelude C. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage D. Don Juan

18. ________ was made poet laureate in 1813. But most of his works, according to modern critics,

are―the product of literary industry , not of literary creation ‖.

A. William Wordsworth B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge C. Robert Southey D. George Gordon Byron

19. Walter Scott's first novel ________ appeared anonymously in 1814 with immediate success. A. Great Unknown B. Rob Roy C. Guy Mannering D. Waverley

20. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend called ________ appeared. And it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.

A. romanticism B. naturalism C. realism D. critical realism Ⅲ. Fill in the following blanks.

1. The literaature of the Anglo— Saxon period falls naturally into two divisions, ________ and Christian.

2. In the 1066, the Normans defeated the Anglo— Saxons at the battle of ________.

3. Chaucer's work ________ gives us a picture of the condition of English life of his day, such as its work and play, its deeds and dreams, its fun and sympathy.

4. In Elize Period, ________wrote more than fifty excellent essays, which made him one of the best essayists in English literature.

5. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and________ are generally regarded as Shakespeare‘s four great tragedies.

6. Shakespearean Sonnet in made up of the three quatrains with different rhymes, followed by a couplet.

The rhyme scheme is ________.

7. ________ is the greatest writer of the 17th century, and one of the giants of English literature. 8. ________ is Dryden‘s tragedy based on the story of Antony and Cleopatra under the influence of

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Shakespeare‘s tragedy Antony and Cleopatra.

9. Generally speaking, English literature of the 18th century may be divided into three periods. The

First period was characterized by the neo—classicism, of which ________ was the representative Poet.

10.The rise and growth of ________ is the most prominent achievement of 18th century English literature

11.As a poet,William Blake‘s fame has been chiefly resting upon two volumes of poems,________ and the Songs of Experience.

12.In the last twenty years of the 18th century, Endland produced two well— known romantic poets.

They are William Blake and ________.

13.The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer ________ died. 14.Modern essay originated from Montaigne‘s ________, which were translated into English by Florio

And had an extensive influence upon English literature.

15.________ was a cultural phenomenon of ―fin de siele‖in Europe. It was a kind of escapism in essence.

16.The Importance of being Earnest, which mercilessly exposes the hypocrisy of the upper society in

Victorian England, is________‘s masterpiece in drama.

17.________ is regarded as one of the two greatest English poetesses, the other being Mrs. Browning.

18.The________ Age witnessed ―the at least temporary decline of English poetry‖.

19.The novelist‘s task is to ―record the atoms as they fall‖and to ―convey this varying, this Unknown and uncircumscribed spirit‖. This was the manifesto of Virginia Woolf‘s literary creation

as well as that of the―________‖school in English novel.

20.________ in English literature prevailed during the 20s and 30s of the 20th century. Ⅳ. True of False.

1. In 1066,Alexander the Great led the Norman army to invade England. It was called the Norman Conquest.

2. The spoken English of Chaucer‘s time consisted of several dialects,and Chaucer did much in making

The dialect of Cambridge the standard for the modern English speech.

3. English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was not an age of prose. 4. With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship, Charles Ⅱ became the Protector of the English

Commonwealth.

5. In the filed of prose writing of the Puritan Age, John Bunyan occupies the most important place.

6. There were two groups of English enlighteners, one is the moderated group; the other is the radical group.

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7. The Romantic Age is emphatically an age of poetry, Many young enthusiastic writers turned to poetry.

8. A Woman of No Importance was written by Alfred Wilde. 9. Thomas Hardy was a dramatist before he was a novelist.

10. Ulysses is one of Virginia Woolf‘s novels. Finnegan’s Wake is her another novel. Ⅴ. Define the following literary term and techniques.

1. Romanticism 2. parody 3. Heroic couplet 4. Legend 5． Epic 6. Blank verse 7. Naturalism 8. Neoclassicism Ⅵ. Read the passages and answer the questions. Passage 1

To be, or not to be—that is the question: Whether ?tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them. To die: to sleep； No more；and by a sleep to say we end

The heart—ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to,?tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish‘d. To die, to sleep；

To sleep!perchanceto dream: aye,there‘s the rub； For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause:there‘s the respect That makes calamity of so long life；

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor‘s wrong, the proud man‘s contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law‘s delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover‘d country, from whose bourn No traveler returns, puzzles the will,

And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o‘er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn away, And lose the name of action. Soft you now! The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in your orisons Be all my sins remember‘d Questions:

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