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Ⅰ. Identification. (15%)
1. Identify each writer on the left column with what is written on the right column. (10%)
(1) John Lyly a. pre-romanticism
(2) William Blake b. impressionism
(3) Laurence Sterne c. Angry Young Man
(4) Kingsley Amis d. comic epic in prose
(5) Joseph Conrad e. historical novel
(6) Walter Scott f. University Wit
(7) Pamela g. sentimentalism
(8) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man h. Oedipus Complex
(9) Sons and Lovers i. Künstlerroman
(10) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling j. epistolary novel
2. Identify the author with his or her work. (5%)
(1) Charles Dickens a. Don Juan
(2) E. M. Foster b. Hard Times
(3) John Milton c. Mrs. Warren’s Profession
(4) Henry Fielding d. The Faerie Queene
(5) George Bernard Shaw e. “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
(6) Oscar Wilde f. The Pilgrim’s Progress
(7) John Bunyan g. A Passage to India
(8) Edmund Spencer h. Paradise Regained
(9) Thomas Gray i. Jonathan Wild the Great
(10) George Gordon Byron j. The Importance of Being Earnest
Ⅱ. Choose the best answer for each blank. (20%)
1. The hero in the romance is usually a .
A. king
B. knight
C. Christ
D. churchman
2. Modern English novel, as a product of the 18th century Enlightenment and industrialization, really came with the rising of the class.
A. working
B. aristocratic
C. bourgeois
D. capitalist
3. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens is written in the form of a novel.
A. epistolary
B. picaresque
C. Gothic
D. psychological
4. Which of the following is NOT from Ireland?
A. Jonathan Swift
B. Daniel Defoe
C. George Bernard Shaw
D. James Joyce
5. is the most accomplished example of medieval romance, dealing with Arthurian romance.
A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
B. The Canterbury Tales
C. Piers the Plowman
D. The Song of Beowulf
6. by Alexander Pope is taken as a manifesto of the English Neo-classicism as Pope put forward his aesthetic theories in it.
A. Essay on Criticism
B. The Rape of the Lock
C. Dunciad
D. An Essay on Man
7. “Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested” is taken from ’s work.
A. Thomas More
B. Francis Bacon
C. John Bunyan
D. Matthew Arnold
8. Literature of Neo-classicism is different from that of Romanticism in that .
A. the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political
rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation
B. the former is heavily religious but the latter secular
C. the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an
expression on an individual’s feelings and experiences
D. the former advocates the “return to nature” whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman
writers for its models
9. Which of the following places does Gulliver visit last in Gulliver’s Travels?
A. Lilliput
B. Brobdingnag
C. Laputa
D. Houyhnhnms
10. defined poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”.
A. William Wordsworth
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. Percy Bysshe Shelley
D. T. S. Eliot
11. could be classified to be both a naturalistic and a critical realistic writer.
A. Charles Dickens
B. George Eliot
C. Thomas Hardy
D. Emily Bront?
12. are Nobel Prize winners.
A. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence
B. Rudyard Kipling, T. S. Eliot, John Galsworthy
C. W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Thomas Hardy
D. Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce
13. Christopher Marlowe first made the principal instrument of English drama.
A. blank verse
B. heroic couplet
C. free verse
D. monologue
14. William Langland’s is written in the form of a dream vision.
A. Kubla Khan
B. Piers the Plowman
C. The Dream of John Bull
D. The Faerie Queene
15. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from .
A. Gulliver’s Travels
B. The Pilgrim’s Progress
C. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
D. The Canterbury Tales
16. In the chaos of the contemporary world and the despair and despondency among the westerners after the First World War are expressed.
A. Ode to the West Wind
B. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
C. The Waste Land
D. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
17. Which of the following is NOT true about The Canterbury Tales?
A. It is written in the form of a dream.
B. Chaucer chose a pilgrimage as the framework for the stories involved in it.
C. It is written for the greater part in heroic couplet.
D. “The General Prologue” introduces the pilgrims and the time and occasion of the pilgrimage.
18. Robert Louis Stevenson is the representative of the literary school .
A. aestheticism
B. neo-romanticism
C. euphuism
D. sentimentalism
19. Which of the following is a Gothic novel?
A. Northanger Abbey
B. The Mysteries of Udolpho
C. Tristram Shandy
D. Robinson Crusoe
20. Which is correct according to the time when they appeared?
A. romanticism, neo-classicism, humanism, critical realism
B. humanism, neo-classicism, romanticism, critical realism
C. romanticism, humanism, realism, naturalism
D. realism, critical realism, romanticism, humanism
Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks. (15%)
1. wrote under the influence of Scottish folk traditions and old Scottish poetry.
2. The slogan of aesthetic literature is .
3. The Romantic Age is said to have begun in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work .
4. In “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, John Donne compares the souls of lovers to .
5. A play presents the conflicts between good and evil with allegorical personages such as Mercy, Peace and Hate.
6. The narrator in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is a(n) one.
7. is the oldest poem in the English language and also the national epic.
8. The dominant influence over modernist poetry came from two traditions: and .
9. The three unities followed by neo-classical dramatists are the unity of , the unity of time and the unity of place.
10. The most famous English ballads of the 15th century is the Ballads of , a legendary outlaw.
11. The Rape of the Lock takes the form of a , which describes the triviality of high society in a grand style.
12. is usually taken as the Father of English Prose.
13. Modernism upholds a new view of time by emphasizing the time over the chronological time.
14. written by Charles Dickens is generally taken as a semi-autobiographical novel.
Ⅳ. Define the following terms. (16%)
1. Omniscient narrator
2. Heroic couplet
3. Allegory
4. Metaphysical poetry
5. Naturalism
6. Sonnet
7. Comedy of manners
8. Byronic hero
Ⅴ. Short-answer questions. (24%)
1. What are the major themes of modernist literature?
2. Analyse the character of Tom Jones in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.
3. What are the essential features of Medieval Romance?
4. Name three Romantic poets and state their chief characteristics.
5. Make a comparison between the two volumes of William Blake: The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience.
6. How many groups does Old English poetry fall into? Briefly explain.
7. What are the general features of English Romanticism?
8. Make a comparison between James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence.
Ⅵ. Essay question. (10%)
Write an essay on the following poem so as to demonstrate your understanding as well as your English
proficiency. You’re expected to write a well-organized essay in about 150 words, with your thesis clearly stated, effectively developed and properly concluded.
The Garden of Love
I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And “Thou shalt not” writ over the door;
So I turn’d to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore.
And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And Priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
Notes: 1. shalt: shall
2. writ: written
3. Chapel: 小教堂
4. bind: 束缚
Part IV. Short questions (20 points).
1.What does the story “The Garden Party” tell you about the class system?
2.How might the plot structure of “The Dead” best be described?
3.The sub-title of “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” is “A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented”. What is your
opinion about the heroine?
4.Mention one example of symbolism in Tess, and explain.
5.What is the symbolic significance of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange in the novel?
6.What is the main idea of the poem “The Second Coming”? How does it reflect Yeats’view of the
civilization of his time?
7.In what way is the west wind in The West Wind by Shelley both a destroyer and a preserver?
8.What are the major themes of Pride and Prejudice? List at least two and elaborate them in a few
sentences.
9.What significances have Clarissa attached to her parties?
10.What purpose does the rain shower serve in the first act of Pygmalion?
Final Examination Paper for Grade 2002
History of English Literature
Date: January 10, 2005
Ⅰ. Identification (10%)
1. Identify each writer on the left column with what is written on the right column.
1) Jonathan Swift A. Neo-romanticism
2) John Donne B. Euphuism
3) Alexander Pope C. Historical novel
4) Anne Radcliff D. Lake poet
5) John Lyly E. English satire
6) R. L. Stevenson F. Gothic novel
7) Walter Scott G. Neoclassicism
8) Thomas Gray H. Metaphysical poetry
9) Southey I. Epistolary novel
10) Pamela J. Sentimentalism
2. Identify the author with his or her work.
1) William Langland A. Utopia
2) Thomas More B. Paradise Lost
3) Daniel Defoe C. “Of Studies”
4) Francis Bacon D. Piers, the Plowman
5) John Milton E. The Faerie Queen
6) Byron F. Sentimental Journey
7) Laurence Sterne G. Don Juan
8) Edmund Spencer H. Mary Barton
9) D. H. Lawrence I. Sons and Lovers
10) Elizabeth Gaskell J. Robinson Crusoe
Ⅱ.Choose the best answer for each blank. (20%)
1. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from .
A. The Pilgrim’s Progress
B. Gulliver’s Travels
C. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
D. The Canterbury Tales
2. The story of is the highest point of the Arthurian romances.
A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
B. The Song of Beowulf
C. Piers, the Plowman
D. The Canterbury Tales
3. is the only novel written by Oscar Wilde.
A. The Importance of Being Earnest
B. The Picture of Dorian Gray
C. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
D. The Picture of a Lady
4. was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature .
A. Thomas Wyatt
B. William Shakespeare
C. Henry Howard
D. John Lyly
5. eulogized imperialism in his works, esp. in his poems.
A. John Galsworthy
B. Joseph Conrad
C. Rudyard Kipling
D.
E.M. Foster
6. English Renaissance Period was an age of .
A. prose and novel
B. poetry and drama
C. romance and ballad
D. essay and drama
7. The major form of Chcrtist literature is in .
A. prose
B. drama
C. verse
D. novel
8. “ Shall I compare thee to a summer’s eay”`is the opening line of one of Shakespeare’s .
A. songs
B. plays K. sonnets D. tragedies
9. In Gulliver’s Travels, Yahoos are the creatures living on .
A. Lilliput
B. Brobdingnag
C. Laputa
D. Houyhnhnms
10. List the following terms according to the time when they appeareD.
A. romanticism , neoclassicism , humanism , critical realism
B.humanism , neoclassicism , romanticism , critical realism
C.romanticism , humanism , realism , naturalism
D.r ealism , critical realism , romanticism , humanism
11. wrote under the influence of Scottish folk tradition and old Scottish poetry.
A. Jonathan Swift
B. Robert Burns
C. William Blake
D. Geoffrey Chaucer
12. first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama in the Renaissance perioD.
A. William Shakespeare
B. Thomas Wyatt
C. Christopher Marlow
D. Henry Howard
13. The greatest English critical realist novelist was , who criticized the
bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people .
A. Emily Bronte
B. Charles Dickens
C. W.M. Thackeray
D. Charlotte Bronte
14. were made poets Laureates in the 18th and 19th century .
A. Wordsworth and Browning
B.Byron and Shelley
C.Keats and Browning
D.W ordsworth and Tennyson
15. The principal elements of novel are mystery, horror and suspense.
A. Gothic
B. Romantic
C. Sentimental
D. Realistic
16. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in .
A. essay
B. drama
C. poetry
D. novel
17. Which of the following is NOT true about The Canterbury Tales?
A. It is written for the great part in heroic couplets.
B. It is written in the form of a dream vision.
C. Chaucer chose a pilgrimage as the framework for the stories involved in it.
D. “The General Prologue” introduces the pilgrims and the time and occasion of the pilgrimage.
18. John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress is a(n) .
A. allegory
B. romance
C. comedy of manners
D. realistic novel
19. Friday is a character in the novel .
A. Tom Jones, a Foundling
B. Robinson Crusoe
C. Gulliver’s Travels
D. Rob Roy
20. The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into English literature, the struggle of the for its
rights.
A. soldiers
B. peasants
C. bourgeoisie
D. proletariat
Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks. (20%)
1. Old English poetry can be divided into two groups: poetry and
poetry.
2. and are the two factors that had large influence on contemporary English literature.
3. The slogan of aesthetic literature is .
4. Modern English novel is a natural product of the Industrial Revolution and a symbol of the growing importance of the English class.
5. The Romantic Age began in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work .
6. “And I will luve thee still, my dear./ Till a’ the seas gang dry.” is taken from the famous poem .
7. The central character in a romance is usually a .
8. A play is chiefly based on the biblical stories or the stories of the saints.
9. is called the father of English poetry.
10. It is in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling that Henry Fielding succeeds best in creating a in prose.
11. Dickens takes the French revolution as the background of the novel .
11. In “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, John Donne compares the souls of lovers to .
12. Bacon’s Essays has been recognized as an important landmark in the development of English (genre).
13. The most important poet in the Victorian age is . Next to him was Robert Browning.
14. Three kinds of irony are verbal irony, and .
15. Popular ballad is an important stream of English medieval literature. Of all the ballads, those of are of paramount importance.
16. The Pickwick Papers takes the form of a novel.
Ⅳ. Define the following terms. (12%)
1. Epic
2. Iambic pentameter
3. Intrusive narrator
4. Bildungsroman
5. Naturalism
6. Conceit
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Final Examination Paper for Grade 2003
History of English Literature
Ⅰ. Identification. (15%)
1. (10%) f a g c b e j i h d
2. (5%) b g h I c j g d e a
Ⅱ.Choose the best answer for each blank. (20%)
1-5: B C B B A 6-10: A B C D A
11-15: C B A B B 16-20: C A B B B
Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks. (15%)
1. Robert Burns
2. art for art’s sake
3. Lyrical Ballads
4. compasses
5. morality
6. intrusive
7. Beowulf8. Metaphysical poetry; French symbolism
9. action 10. Robin Hood 11. mock epic
12. John Dryden 13. psychic 14. David Copperfield
Ⅳ. Define the following terms. (16%)
1.Omniscient narrator is a third-person narrator, who is not a character in the story. The narrator is “all-knowing”, who can describe and comment on all the characters and actions in the story.
2. Heroic couplet is the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter.
3. Allegory is a tale in verse or prose in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities. Thus, an allegory is a story with two meaning, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.
4. Metaphysical poetry: the poetry of John Donne and other 17th-century poets who wrote in
a similar style. It is characterized by verbal wit and excess, ingenious structure, irregular meter, colloquial language, elaborate imagery, and a drawing together of dissimilar ideas .
5. Naturalism is a post—Darwinian movement of the late 19th century that tried to apply the laws of scientific determinism to fiction. The naturalists went beyond the realists’ insistence on
the objective presentation of the details of everyday life to insist that the materials of literature should be arranged to reflect a deterministic universe in which a person is a biological creature controlled by environment and heredity.
6. Sonnet is a verse form of fourteen lines, in English characteristically in iambic pentameter and most often in one of the two rhyme schemes: the Italian(or Petrarchan) or Shakespearean ( or English ).
7. Comedy of manners is a kind of comedy representing the complex and sophisticated code of behavior current in fashionable circles of society, where appearances count for more than true moral character. Its humor relies chiefly on elegant verbal wit and repartee. In England, the comedy of manners flourished as the dominant form of Restoration comedy in the works of Etheredge, Wycherley and Congreve. It was revived in a more subdued form in the 1770s by Goldsmith and Sheridan, and later by Oscar Wilde.
8. Byronic hero is a character-type found in Byron’s narrative Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. He is a boldly defiant but bitterly self-tormenting outcast, proudly contemptuous of social norms but suffering for some unnamed sin. Emily Bronte’s Heathcliff is a later example.
Ⅴ. Short-answer questions. (24%)
1. The distorted, alienated and ill relationship between man and nature, man and society, man and man, and man and himself.
2. Tom Jones is the pattern of the good-natured unheroic hero of the age. He is a very handsome young man of manly virtues: kind, frank, generous, high-spirited, loyal and courageous, but impulsive, wanting prudence and full of animal spirits and sensuality. He represents everyman. (He is of manly virtues and yet not without fault.)
3. 1) The hero is usually a knight using sword, who sets out on a journey to seek adventures and accomplish some goal. He is devoted to the church and the king.
2) It lacks general resemblance to truth or reality. (liberal use of the improbable or even the supernatural things)
3) It exaggerates the vices of human nature and idealizes the virtues. (standardized
characterization)
4) It lays emphasis on the supreme devotion to a fair lady. (Romantic love is an important part of the plot.)
4. Wordsworth:the great theme remains the world of simple, natural things, in the countryside or among people.
Coleridge: his interest is towards the strange, the exotic, and the mysterious things. Shelley: expresses two main ideas --- the external tyranny is the main enemy; the inherent human goodness will eliminate evil form the world.
Byron: example of a personality in tragic revolt against society; prototype of romantic hero. Keats: his poetry is a response to sensuous impressions; cares about beauty.
5. The two books hold the similar subject matter, but the tone, emphasis and conclusion differ.
1) Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world, though not without its evils and sufferings.
2) Songs of Experience paints a different world, a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy tone.
6. Religious (Christian) poetry and secular (pagan) poetry.
1) Religious poetry is mainly on biblical themes and saints’ lives, represented by Caedmon and Cynewulf.
2) Secular poetry emphasizes the harshness of the circumstance and the helplessness of humans before the power of fate, represented by Beowulf.
7. 1) the emphasis on imagination
2) the idealization of nature
3) the praise of individualism
4) the glorification of the commonplace
5) the lure of the exotic
8. Both are modernist novelists. James Joyce is interested in technical innovation. He introduced three new techniques into English literature: the use of myth, stream-of
consciousness and epiphany. Lawrence is interested in the tracing of the psychological development of his major characters and the criticism of the dehumanizing effect of industrialization on human nature.
Ⅵ. Essay question. (10%)
Part IV. Short questions. (20 points)
1.The story shows strict class system, the differences and lack of communication between the rich and the
poor.
2.The story is comprised of four episode, which are quite unified with Gabriel’s frustration, and each
episode witnesses more serious conflict than the previous, thus, it is a climaxing order in terms of structure.
3.Tess is a pure woman, although society and other people believed otherwise. She has done nothing
wrong. She is seduced, but does not have sex of her own accord with Alec. She is sacrificed to society, yet she has no evil intensions when she go across the threshold of her parents’ and enters the world. She is a victim.
4.An example of symbolism would be the ribbon Tess wears at the may day dance, the read spot of blood
on the ceiling at the Herons, Sandbourne, that the landlady sees, the Stonehenge, the black flag at Tess’s hanging, the spoiled milk by garlic, or the dying pheasants Tess sees in the woods.
5.a). The two houses embody the two major principles of life in the book: storm and calm. Wuthering
Heights is located on a hill and is constantly attacked by wild winds. The inhabitants are constantly being torn by strong passions and violence is their natural language. Thrushcross Grange is comparatively sheltered from the wild elements. It is delicate and refined. The people of the Grange are gentle and seek not so much wild sparkle and dance of life. b). They also represent nature and culture.
6.The poem expresses Yeats’ thought that modern civilization is in a state of decay, and that a long cycle
of history is ending while another is approaching. But the new historical age might be led by a monster.
It expresses his disillusionment of the civilization of his time.
7.The west wind is both a destroyer and a preserver because it destroys in autumn (blowing the leaves off
the trees and bury them beneath the earth) in order to revive in the spring (the seeds grow and bring new life to the Earth). It marks the cycle of the seasons. It is around this image the poem weaves various cycles of death and regeneration—vegetational, human, and divine.
8.marriage and women’s fate, self-acknowledge, manners, virtue and sense of responsibility
9.Richard thinks the party childish and he thinks that it is foolish of Clarissa to like excitement in spite of
her heart; Peter thinks her snobbish, liking to have famous people around her. But to Clarissa, the party is an offering, to combine and to create. The parties are her effort to create some human connection and dialogue. She hopes to be remembered even after her death.
10.It helps to create a chaotic world of confusion. The crowd gather under the portico to seek shelter; they
represent slice of society of people from different social strata. It also provides a opportunity for the
main characters to meet in an unlikely circumstance.
Keys
Final Examination for Grade 2002
History of English Literature
Ⅰ. Identification (10%)
1. 1) e2) h3) g4) f5) b
6) a7) c8) j9) d10) c
2. 1) d2) a3) j4) c5) b
6) g7) f8) e9) i10) h
Ⅱ.Choose the best answer for each blank. (20%)
1—5 : a a b a c 6—10 : b c c d b
11—15 : b c b d a 16—20 : d b a b d
Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks. (20%)
1. pagan, Christian
2. Imperialism, demand for social reform
3. art for art’s sake
4. (bourgeois) middle
5. The Lyrical Ballads
6. “A Red Red Rose”
7. knight 8. miracle
9. Geoffrey Chaucer 10. comic epic
11. A Tale of Two Cities12. a pair of compasses
13. essay 14. Alfrd Tennyson
15. situational, dramatic 16. Robin Hood
17. picaresque
Ⅳ. Define the following terms. (12%)
1.Epic: a long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflecting the values of the society from which it originated. The two most famous English epics are Beowulf and John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
2.Iambic pentameter: a poetic line consisting of five verse feet, with each foot an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Iambic pentameter is the most common verse line in English poetry.
3.Intrusive narrator: an omniscient narrator who, in addition to reporting the events of a novel’s story, offers further comments on characters and events, and who sometimes reflects more generally upon the significance of the story.
4.Bildungsroman: a novel that traces the initiation, development, and education of a young person. Examples are Dickens’s David Copperfield and James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
5.Naturalism: a post--Darwinian movement of the late 19th century that tried to apply the laws of scientific determinism to fiction. The naturalists went beyond the realists’ insistence on the objective presentation of the details of everyday life to insist that the materials of literature should be arranged to reflect a deterministic universe in which a person is a biological creature controlled by environment and heredity.
6. Conceit: a kind of metaphor that makes a comparison between two startlingly different things. A conceit usually provides the framework for an entire poem. An especially unusual and intellectual kind of conceit is the metaphysical conceit, used by certain 17th-century poets, such as John Donne.
英国文学期末考试题目(英语专业必备)
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