EnglishliteratureOldEnglishLiterature(8thC.--1066)---ItsrootsliedeepinthetalesofDenmarkandotherScandinaviancountries.Thechiefworkincludes“Beowulf”whichisafolklegendbroughttoEnglandbyAnglo-Saxons.Itisalongpoemofover3000linesandthenationalepicoftheEnglishpeople.2.MiddleEnglishLiterature(1066-14thC.)

ComparingwiththeOldEnglishLiterature,ithadavariousthemesandstyles,suchasthelegend,knight’sromance,popularballadetc.

ThegreatfigureisGeoffreyChaucerwithhismasterpiece“TheCanterburyTales”.HiscontributionlieschieflyinthefactthatheintroducedfromFrancetherhymedcoupletof5accentsiniambicmeter“theHeroicCouplet”(5音步抑揚格)toEnglishpoetry.Hewascalled“thefatherofEnglishpoetry”.or“thefounderofEnglishPoetry”.WhenspringshowersofAprilfallandshoot

DownthroughthedroughtofMarchtopiercetherootWhenspring/showers/ofA/prilfall/andshoot

Downthrough/thedrought/ofMarch/topierce/theroot

3.TheRenaissancePeriod(15thC.-early17thC.)

Itreferstotheperiodoftransitionfromthemedievaltothemodernworld.Humanismflourishesandtendstoexaltthehumanelementorstresstheimportanceofhumaninterests,asopposedtothesupernatural,divineelements.

TherepresentativesareWilliamShakespeare,FrancisBacon,JohnMilton,ThomasMoreetc.

WhichofthefollowingareregardedasShakespeare’sfourgreattragedies?A.RomeoandJuliet,Hamlet,Othello,KingLearB.RomeoandJuliet,Hamlet,Othello,MacbethC.Hamlet,Othello,KingLear,MacbethD.RomeoandJuliet,Othello,Macbeth,TimonofAthensWhichofthefollowingistheworkofFrancisBacon?A.UtopiaB.ParadiseLostC.SongsofInnocenceD.Essays

Essays:

Ofstudies,ofFriendship,OfWealth

“Readingmakethfullman,writinganexactman,conferenceareadyman”“Studiesservefordelight,forornament,andforability.”isoneoftheepigramsfoundin_____.A.Bacon’s“OfStudies”B.Bunyan’s“ThePilgrim’sProgress”C.Fielding’s“TomJones”D.Johnson’s“ADictionaryoftheEnglishlanguage”MiltoncreatedSatantherealheroinhispoem____.A.“Paradiselost”B.“ParadiseRegained”C.“Agonistes”D.“Lycidas”“Utopia”waswrittenby___________.A.ThomasMoreB.FrancisBaconC.DanielDefoeD.JonathanSwift4.TheNeoclassicPeriod(17thC.---18thC.)

TheEnlightenmentMovement(toenlightentheworldwiththelightofmodernphilosophicalandartisticideas)wasinfullswing.TheliteraturetooktheancientGreekandRomanclassicalworksandcontemporaryFrenchonesastheliterarymodel.Poetrywaselegantinstructureanddiction,thenovelgavearealisticpresentationoflifeofcommonpeople.

ThemainfiguresareDanielDefoe,JonathanSwift,JohnBunyan,HenryFielding,JohnDonneDanielDefoeisafamous__________.

A.poetB.novelistC.playwrightD.essayist

“HehasaservantcalledFriday.”“He”inthequotedsentenceisacharacterin__________.

A.HenryFielding’sTomJonesB.JohnBunyan’sThePilgrim’sProgressC.RichardB.Sheridan’sTheSchoolforScandalD.DanielDefoe’sRobinsonCrusoeNovelists:DanielDefoe:

“RobinsonCrusoe”.Thenovelconcernsthestruggleoftheshipwreckedpersonforsecurity,eulogizestheheroofthehard-workingclass.)JonathanSwift:“Gulliver’sTravels”.Heisfamousasagreatsatirist.ThenoveldescribesthetravelsofGullivertoLilliput,Brobdingnag,LaputaandLagado.JohnBunyan:“ThePilgrim’sProgress”.Itisaproseallegorydepictingthepilgrimageofahumansoulinsearchofsalvation.HenryFielding:“TomJones”.thefirsttogivethemodernnovelsitsstructureandstyle,fatherofEnglishnovelPlaywright:RichardB.Sheridan(theonlyimportantEnglishdramatistofthe18thcentury.HisplaysaregenerallyregardedasimportantlinksbetweenthemasterpiecesofShakespeareandthoseofBernardShaw.Theimportantworks:TheSchoolforScandal(造謠學(xué)校)TheRivals(情敵）Poet:JohnDonne(playwright,essayist,founderofmetaphysicalschool”玄學(xué)派):“TheFlea”TheMetaphysicalpoets---17thcenturypoetswhoseworkwascharacterizedbyintellectualwitandingenuity,esp.theuseofelaboratefiguresofspeech.Theauthorof“TheFlea”wastherepresentativeof_________poets.A.religiousB.romanticC.metaphysicalD.realisticInthefollowingdescriptionoftheNeoclassicalPeriod,whichiswrong?A.NeoclassicalPeriodispriortotheRomanticperiodB.HenryFieldingisoneoftherepresentativesoftheNeoclassicalPeriodC.ThemodernEnglishnovelscameintobeingintheNeoclassicalPeriodD.NeoclassicalPeriodisalsoknownastheAgeofEnlightenment5.TheRomanticPeriod

(late18thC.---mid.19thC.)

---anageofpoetry,markedbyimagination,worshipofnature,simplicity,expressivenessWilliamWordsworth,SamuelT.Coleridge,GeorgeG.Byron,PercyB.Shelley,JohnKeats,RobertBurnsJ.Austen,etc.

TheRomanticPeriodinEnglishliteraturebeganwiththepublicationof_________.

A.WilliamBlake’sSongsofInnocence

B.JaneAusten’sPrideandPrejudiceC.Wordsworth’sandColeridge’sLyricalBallads

D.SirWalterScott’sIvanhoeGeorgeG.Byronwasmostfamousfor_____.A.DonJuanB.OdetotheWestWindC.KublaKhanD.OdetoaNightingale.JohnKeatsistheauthorof________.A.OdetoaSkylarkandOdetoaNightingaleB.OdetoaGrecianUrnandOdetotheWestWindC.OdetoaNightingaleandOdetoaGrecianUrnD.OdetotheWestWindandOdetoaNightingaleWecanperhapsdescribethewestwindinShelley’spoem“OdetotheWestWind”withallthefollowingtermsexcept______.A.tamedB.swiftC.proudD.wild

Thenovelstartswith“Itisatruthuniversallyacknowledged,thatasinglemaninpossessionofagoodfortune,mustbeinwantforawife.”ThisnovelisJaneAusten’s_______.A.PrideandPrejudiceBEmma.CPersuasionD.SenseandSensibilitySummeryoftheperiod:Thepublicationof“LyricalBallads”byWordsworthandColeridgemarksthebeginningofRomanticperiod.

OdetotheWestWind,OdetoaSkylark,PrometheusUnboundbyShelley

DonJuanbyBaron

OdetotheNightingalebyKeats

ARed,RedRosebyBurns6.TheVictorianPeriod(19th.C)

Novelbecamethemostwidelyreadandthemostvitalandchallengingexpressionofprogressivethought,writersbecamesocialandmorecritical,exposingallkindsofsocialevils.Itisalsoknownasarealisticperiod.Dickens,Brontesisters,ThomasHardy,GeorgeEliot,WilliamThackeray,etc.

CharlesDickenswroteallofthefollowingexcept_______

A.OliverTwistB.DavidCopperfieldC.ATaleofTwoCitiesD.HeartofDarknessThenovel“VanityFair”waswrittenby______.

A.WilliamM.ThackerayB.O.HenryC.CharlesDickensD.HenryJames“Doyouthink,becauseIampoor,obscure,plain,andlittle,Iamsoullessandheartless?AndifGodhadgiftedmewithsomebeauty,andmuchwealth,Ishouldhavemadeitashardforyoutoleaveme,asitisnowformetoleaveyou.”

Theabovequotedpassageismostprobablytakenfrom______.

A.PrideandPrejudiceB.JaneEyreC.WutheringHeightsD.GreatExpectations

WhichofthefollowingisnotoneoftheBronteSisters?A.CharlotteBronteB.AnneBronteC.JennyBronteD.EmilyBronteGeorgeEliotwroteallthefollowingexcept_____.A.TheMillofFlossB.SilasMarnerC.MiddlemarchD.AgnesGrey“Wessexnovels”referstothenovelswrittenby________.A.CharlesDickensB.D.H.LawrenceC.JamesJoyceD.ThomasHardyNovelsbyThomasHardy:TessoftheD’UrbevillesTheReturnoftheNativesMayoroftheCasterbridgeJudetheObscure

7.TheModernperiod(20thCentury)

---areactionagainstrealism,rationalism,castingawayalmostallthetraditionalelementsinliteraturelikestory,plot,

character,chronologicalnarration,preferenceof“StreamofConsciousness”

GeorgeBernardShaw:

Widowers’Houses,SaintJoan(wonhimthe1925Nobelprize)D.H.Lawrence:

LadyChatterley’sloversWomeninLove,SonsandLoversV.Woolf:

TotheLighthouse,Mrs.Dalloway,

T.S.Eliot:TheWestLandJamesJoyce:

Ulysses

AmericanLiteratureI.TheRomanticPeriod:(late18thC.--mid.19thC.)EmphasisontheimaginativeandemotionalqualityofliteraturestartedwiththepublicationofWashingtonIrving’s

TheSketchBookandendedwithWhiteman’sLeavesofGrass.Themainfiguresandtheirkeyworks:

WashingtonIrving(FatherofAmericanliterature):ThelegendofSleepyHollow.RalphW.Emerson:“Nature”NathanielHawthorne:“TheScarletLetter”HermanMelville:“Moby-Dick”WaltWhitman:“LeavesofGrass”MobyDick(白鯨)ItisregardedasthefirstAmericanproseepic.Itisatremendouschronicleofawhalingvoyageinpursuitofaseeminglysupernaturalwhitewhale.Inthisnovel,thenarratorisIshmael.Thevoyagesymbolizesthesearchforthetruth.

ThegiantMobyDicksymbolizesthemysteryoftheuniverse,thepowerofthegreatnatureandtheeviloftheworld.RalphWaldoEmerson,theAmericanTranscendentalist,arguedforthefollowingideasexcept______A.man’sdependenceinhimselfforspiritualperfectionB.FaithinChristianityC.DirectintuitionofaspiritualGodinnatureD.TheimportanceofanindependentAmericanculture

II.TheRealisticPeriod(19thC.)

Emphasisonrealisticwritings,aimingattheactuallife(thecommonlivesofthecommonpeople),concerningmorewiththemoralandsocialeffects,freefromidealismorromanticcolor.Theleadingfigures:

MarkTwain(hiswritingstyleisbothhumorousandsatirical):_____isMarkTwain’smasterwork,theonebookfromwhichasErnestHemingwaynoted,“allmodernAmericanliteraturecomes”

A.TheGildedAgeB.TheCelebratedJumpingFrogofCalaverasCountyC.TheAdventureofTomSawyerD.TheAdventuresofHuckleberryFinnHenryJames(thefounderofpsychologicalrealism,fictionsnotedforhighlyrefinedlanguage):

“ThePortraitofaLady”“TheWingsoftheDove”TheodoreDreiser:SisterCarrie(ItisthestoryofapoorcountrygirlwhogoestoChicagotopursuetheAmericandream.)JackLondon(oneofthearticulateandmilitantspokesmenoftheworkingclassattheturnofthecentury):

ThecalloftheWild,MartinEdenEmilyDickinson(Herpoetryconcernslove,religion,nature,deathandimmortality):

I’mNobody

III.TheModernPeriod

TheliteratureofthisperiodismarkedbyImagism(poeticexpressionofthemodernspirit),Expressionism(expressiondeterminesforms,againstrealism)TheStreamsofConsciousness(theflowofimpressions,thoughts,andfeelingsarerecordedastheypassthroughacharacter’smind).MainWritersandtheirworks

SinclairLewis---FirstAmericantowin

NobelPrize(in1928),whoseworkssatirizeAmericanlifeoutsidethebigcities:

Babbitt,MainStreetEugeneO’Neill—founderofAmericanDrama,Nobelprizein1936

:

TheHairyApeT.S.Eliot---

NobelPrizein1948:

WasteLandWilliamFaulkner---theforemostsouthernwriterofthe20thcentury,thethemeofhisworksisessentiallyananalysisoftheunderlyingcauseforthefailureanddecayoftheSouthbeforetheCivilWar,

masterof“theStreamofconsciousness”,NobelPrizein1950:

TheSoundandtheFuryLightinAugustErnestHemingway—

spokesmanforthe“LostGeneration”,almostallhisstoriesdealwiththethemeofcourageinfaceoftragedy,NobelPrizein1954: