英美文学
《英美文学》作业
Unit 1
1. What year was Shakespeare Born?
A 1562 B1564 C 1616 D 1617
2. What was the name of Shakespeare's theatrical company?
A The King’s man
B The Queen’s man
C The Chess man
D The Lords man
3. All of the following plays are tragedies by Shakespeare except
A、Othello
B、Hamlet
C、 The Tempest
D、 Macbeth
4. English Renaissance Period was an age of
A. prose and novel
B. poetry and drama
C. essays and journals
D. ballad and songs
5. Shakespeare’s four tragedies are___________, ______________, ____________ and_____________.
6. Please read the famous monologue and answer the following questions.
To be, or not to be ─ that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in 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 heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to.
'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wishd
To die ─ to sleep,
To sleep ─ perchance to dream;
ay, there's the rub!
For in that sleep of death what 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 these fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death
The undiscovered 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 pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
1.Which famous play is the speech taken from? Who is the author of the play?
2.Who gives the speech in the play?
3.What does the speech indicate?
4.What is the story of the play?
7. Explain the term “Renaissance”.
Answer
1. B
2. D
3. C
4. B
5. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth
6 1). Hamlet; William Shakespeare
2) the main character of the play- Hamlet
3) “to be or not to be” indicates to live or end one’s life. The whole drift of the speech shows his belief in a future life. This speech shows Hamlet’s melancholy and his delay and describes he faced the dilemma of action and mind.
4).
7.The term Renaissance refers to a great bourgeois cultural movement in Europe which began in the 14th century and continued to the mid-17th century. It first started from Italy and then spread all over Europe. Originally, the term means “rebirth” or “revival”. And the movement seems to be a rebirth or revival of ancient Greek and Roman culture, caused by a series of historical events, such as the new discoveries in geography and astrology, the religious reformation and the economic expansion.
Unit 2
1.Please summarize the story of Robinson Crusoe.
2.What does the image of Robinson Crusoe represent?
3.What are the features of Daniel Defoe’s fictions?
4.___is considered the father of the English novel.
A. Defoe
B. Fielding
C. Richardson
D. Goldsmith
Answer
1. The story was based on the experience of a Scottish Sailor named Alexander Selkirk who had been marooned on
a desert island off the coast of Chile and lived there in solitude for four or five years. After his return to Europe, his adventures became known. Defoe wrote this novel in the first person singular.
This novel begins with Crusoe’s career as a sailor and a merchant, and then as a plantation owner and a slave trader. On a voyage to Africa to buy slaves he meets with the most unfortunate shipwreck. Then he finds himself cast by the sea waves upon the shore of an uninhabited island. He has to state there alone and manage the livelihood for himself. First of all, he gets back some food and clothes, a few guns and some ammunition from the wretched ship. He builds a shelter to protect himself. Then he grows barley and rice, domesticated goats and fight against cannibal savages coming from the neighboring islands, later he saves a savage from death and named him Friday, who becomes his faithful servant. In the hope of returning to Europe, he builds a boat. Finally an English ship comes and takes him back. Thus Robinson Crusoe ends his twenty-eight years’life in the deserted island. 2. In this novel, Defoe created the image of a true empire-builder, a colonizer and a foreign trader, who has the courage and will to face hardships, and who has determination to preserve himself and improve his livelihood by struggling against nature. There is also a glorification of labor, which enables the hero gradually to produce a favorable condition for himself. His resourcefulness in building a home, dairy, grape arbor, country house, and goat stable from practically nothing is clearly remarkable, which is applauded by Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This image is a criticism of the lazy and parasitic feudal nobles and a praise of the bourgeois.
3. Though most of his works are written in the picaresque tradition, Defoe is an anti-romantic, anti-feudal realistic writer. His stories are all real concerns of his time: people in their struggle to overcome the natural or social environment. All his works have a very strong verisimilitude. To convince the reader of the truth of his stories, Defoe adopted the autobiographical form and made full use of his long trained journalistic skill by describing things in great detail and by using specific time and space. The following excerpt shows how Robinson makes a raft with concrete description
Defoe’s style is characterized by a plain, smooth, easy, direct, and almost colloquial but never coarse language. His words are much closer to the vernacular of rambling sentences without strong pauses to give his style an urgent, immediate, breathless quality, but the units of meaning are small and clear with frequent repetition so that the writing gives an impression of simple lucidity. In his novels, as in his own life, actions or people in action are stressed; there is not much plot or portrayal of characters, except the exact journalistic account of the daily, trivial happenings. In all, Defoe is not an artist, but he is definitely an excellent storyteller. He is the first important novelist in English literary history with his realistic views on novel writing that has influenced many generations.
4. A
1. Romantic age is the age of the following statements except
A humanitarian idealism
B radical individualism
C age of reason
D age of imagination
2. Lake poets are the following poets except
A Keats
B Wordsworth
C Coleridge
D Southey
3. Although lived in a remote rural country in Scotland, he is the real forefather of English Romanticism, he is
A. Burns
B. Keats
C. Byron
D. Shelly
4. William Wordsworth wrote a preface expounding his theories of what made good poetry. These theories contain the following principles except:
A. All good poems should be “the spontaneous overflow feeling.”
B. The poems should be the reflection of feelings, thoughts, and experiences of the other people.
C. Poetry should be in high degree of imagination.
D. Poetry should “takes all its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”
5._____defines the poet as "man speaking to men," and poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility."
A. William Blake
B. William Wordsworth
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. John Keats
6._____is regarded as a "worship of nature".
A. John Keats
B. William Blake
C. William Wordsworth
D. Jane Austen
7.Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about nature and poems about________.
A. love
B. human life
C. freedom
D. social activities
8. Answer the questions concerned with William Wordsworth’s I wondered lonely as a cloud.
1)In what sense are “cloud” and “ I” comparable?
2)Why does the poet repeat “ dance” for several times?
3)What does the shift of tense suggest?
Answer
1-5 B A A B B 6-7 C B
8.1) we are joyful. We both move and express ourselves freely.
2) It suggests the harmony between man and nature.
3) the tense shifts from past to present and then to future. It suggests the poetic process from
nature to imagination and then to poetic production.
1. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about herself in the process of judging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point of hers?
A. Blindness.
B. Partiality.
C. Snobbishness.
D. Prejudice.
2. In the conversation with his wife in Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a(n) ______ tone with sarcastic humor.
A. solemn
B. harsh
C. arrogant
D. teasing
3. Choose the one from the four immortal odes which is not written by Keats .
__________
A. Ode to the West Wind
B. Ode to a Nightingale
C. Ode to Autumn
D. Ode on a Grecian Urn
Answer CDA
Unit 7 &8
1. As a literary figure, John Rivers appears in _______.
A. Fielding’s Tom Jones
B. Dickens’s Oliver Twist
C. Bronte’s Jane Eyre
D. Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
2. This novel is autobiographical to some extent, because it is known to embody many of the early experiences of Dickens, although it is not an exact autobiography, it is
A. Oliver Twist
B. Great Expectations
C. David Copperfield
D. Bleak House
3. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’s works lies in his ______.
A. social criticism
B. optimism
C. character-portrayal
D. social setting
4. The author of the work “Dombey and Son” is _________.
A. Charles Dickens
B. Henry James
C. Robert Lee Frost
D. Ezra Pound
5. Pip, Estella, Havisham, Magwitch, and Joe Gargery are most likely names of characters in _______.
A. Oliver Twist
B. David Copperfield
C. Bleak House
D. Great Expectations
6. Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of his novel
______.
A. Great Expectations
B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Bleak House
D. Oliver Twist
Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers
(F or T) in the brackets.
1.The greatest English critical realist is Charles Dickens . ( )
2. Both Charlotte Bronte and her sister Emily Bronte were well known novelists. ( )
3.Jane Austen is one of the male novelists who drew vivid and realistic pictures of everyday life of the country society in her novels.( )
4. Jane Austen’s masterpiece is Pride and Prejudice . ( )
Analyze the characters:
David Copperfield
Answer
C C C A B B T T F T
David Copperfield David Copperfield narrates his story as an adult yet relays the impressions he had from a youthful point of view. Readers can see how David’s perception of th e world deepens as he comes of age. David, for instance, is ignorant of Steerforth’s treachery at the beginning, but later readers can feel that David does not think Steerforth deserves David’s adulation. Though David always keeps the virtue of honesty, kindliness, and so on, which are considered as good virtues of human beings, he also has moments of cruelty, like the scene in which he intentionally distresses Mr. Dick by explaining Miss Betsey’s dire situation to him. David, especially as a young man in l ove, can be foolish and romantic. As he grows up, however, he develops a more mature point of view and searches for a lover who will challenge him and help him grow. David fully matures as an adult when he expresses the sentiment that he values Agnes’s calm tranquility over all else in his life. In a word, in David’s first-person narration, Dickens conveys the wisdom of the older man’s implicitly through the eyes of a child.
Unit 9
Unit 11
1. I n Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usua lly appear as________.
A. saviors
B. villains
C. commentators
D. observers
2. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except_______.
A. The House of the Seven Gables
B. White Jacket
C. The Marble Faun
D. The Blithedale Romance
3.The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is____, therefore, self-reliant.
A. insignificant
B. vicious by nature
C. divine
D. forward-looking
Answer B B C
Unit 14
1.______is considered by H.L. Mencken as "the true father of our national literature."
A. Hemingway
B. Poe
C. Irving
D. Twain
2.Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a _______language.
A. grand
B. pompous
C. simple
D. vernacular
Answer D D
Unit 15
1.As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by _______.
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Charles Darwin
C. Henry James
D. Ralph Waldo Emerson
2.The following belong to “The Lost Generation” except _______.
A. Ezra Pound
B. Robert Frost
C. Theodore Dreiser
D. William Carlos Williams
Answer B C
《英美文学资料》word版
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失乐园>>选短
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2．乔叟及其代表作《坎特伯雷故事集》对英国文学做出的贡献。3．名词解释“骑士抒情诗” 第二章: 文艺复兴时期： 1.文艺复兴时期的时间界定 2.“文艺复兴”的名词解释 3.“人文主义” 的名词解释 4.莎士比亚的“Sonnet 18”的主题 5.哈姆雷特的性格分析 6.英语解释《论学习》中的句子 第三章: 十七世纪英国文学： 1.英语解释弥尔顿《失乐园》选段中的句子 2.《失乐园》的主要内容和意义 3.《失乐园》中撒旦的人物分析 第四章: 启蒙运动时期： 1.启蒙运动时期的界定 2.新古典主义的基本主张和特色 3.伤感主义的名词解释 4.《鲁滨逊漂流记》中鲁滨逊的人物分析 5.蒲伯的《论批评》的主题
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英美文学 作家作品
Beowalf:the only organic whole poem to come out of the period. the first major English poem and the greatest work of literature of the period; the first long epic poem in Europe written in the vernacular language. (probably) the greatest epic left by the ancient Germanic tribes; The most ancient epic since the demise of the Greek and Roman literatures. Definition:A Ballad is a narrative poem that tells a story.(The Robin Hood Ballads) Chaucer:the founder of English poetry. Chaucer’s contribution to English poetry lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanzas of various types, especially rhymed couplet of iambic pentametre to English poetry, instead of the old Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. He is the first great poet who wrote in the current English language. His production of so much excellent poetry was an important factor in establishing English as the literary language of the country. The significance of the The Canterbury T ales:1.it gives a comprehensive picture of Chaucer’s time2.the dramatic structure of the poem has been highly commended by critics .stories are cleverly woven together by links between the stories .stories are related to the personalities of the tellers3.Chaucer’s humour .Chaucer “the smyler with the knyf under the cloke”4.Chaucer’s contribution to the English language .He wrote in the London dialect to prove that English language is a beautiful language and can be handled to express different moods .Thus increased the prestige of eh English language. T omas More:Utopia. Edmund Spencer:The Shepherds Calendar/The Fairy Queen. Christopher Marlowe:The most prominent of the university wits. (Tamburlaine the Great/The tragic history of doctor Faustus) Francis Bacon:founder of English materialist philosophy. (Conciseness、Brevity、clearness、precision、Forcefulness) John Donne:the founder of the Metaphysical school of poetry.(The Flea). Comments on John Donne:1)In his life time, he exerted a measure of influence that none of his contemporaries ever dreamt of having.2)He was to Ben Johnson “the first poet f the world in some things”3)His poems are uneven in quality. John Milton:(Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained/Samson Agonistes.) God: somewhat ruthless and tynnical.Satan: The real hero of the poem. Satan represented the spirit of rebellion against unjust authority. Adam and Eve: embodying Milton’s belief in the powers of man.The Importance of John Milton:1) He was the third greatest English poet after Chaucer and Shakespeare, and the greatest to come out of the 17th century. He made a strong influence on the later English poetry. Every progressive English poet since Milton has drawn inspiration from him.2) He wrote the greatest epic in English literature.3) He was a master of the blank verse, first used blank verse in non-dramatic works. 4) H e was a great stylist, and famous for his grand style. John Bunyan: Puritan writer of prose.(The Pilgrim’s Progress(Allegory)) Jonathan Swift:(Gulliver’s Travels).Comments on Jonathan Swift:1)Swift is one of the realist writers. His realism is quite different from Defoe's. Defoe's stories are based upon the reality of human life, while Swift's come from imagination.2)Swift is a great satirist. His satire is apparent and powerful.3)Swift is one of the greatest masters of English prose. His language is simple, clear and vigorous. Daniel Defoe:The forerunner of English realistic novel.(Robinson Crusoe/Moll Flanders)
英美文学选读试题详解4
英美文学选读-阶段测评4 成绩：30分 一、Multiple Choice 共40 题 题号: 1 本题分数:2.5 分 ( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th—century “stream—of—consciousness” novels and the founder of psychological realism. A、Theodore Dreiser B、William Faulkner C、Henry James D、Mark Twain (P498.para.2)亨利.詹姆斯是美国现实主义文学大师，他的作品往往涉及美国之外的主题，其作品的风格是“心理活动”。被誉为20世纪美国意识流文学的先驱。 标准答案：C 考生答案：D 本题得分：0 分 题号: 2 本题分数:2.5 分 Closely related to Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning( ),ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death. A、love and nature B、death and universe C、death and immortality D、family and happiness （P518para2）迪金森的诗歌涉及宗教和爱情两方面，而其涉及宗教的诗歌往往是以死亡和永恒为主题的，所以答案是C。 标准答案：C 考生答案：A
英美文学论文(英文)
A Analysis of the Women Characters in David Copperfield Class:09商务Name: 唐东No.0907030044 Abstract:David Copperfield was written by Charles Dickens,who is the greatest representative of English critical realism in the nineteenth century. One of Dickens's favorite novels,David Copperfield is known all over the world for the well-portrayed characters based on the writer's own life.In David Copperfield,dozens of women characters are portrayed ranging from rich women to poor servants.This paper analyzes some of the women characters in the novel,through which Dickens reveals his attitude toward marriage. . Key words:women characters love family marriage Ⅰ、The goddess The representative figure of The goddess are Peggotty,the loyal maidservant and David’aunt Miss Betsey Trotwood. Peggotty is Dav id’s first goddess,she is not beautiful and fat.But she is loyal.She treated David as her own son,and David regards her as his mother or maybe his father.She treats David full of sympathy and cherish.She see through Mr Murdstone’s conspiracy,and give David help and protect when he was in danger.In an other hands,Peggotty was lack of culture so she only tell David in emotional .Let David know there also love in the world althought his mother was died. ‘Master David ,my love. But don't forget，I'll take care of your mother. She needs her cross old Peggotty！I'll stay with her，although I hate these Murdstones. And remember，David, I love you as much as I love your mother，and more. And I'll Write to you.’ Miss Betsey Trotwood,David’s aunt is another goddess in his life.She meet David’s mother at the night which David born,but go away never look back.Maybe she is a little eccentric. ‘You were talking about the baby．I'm sure it'll be a girl．Now，as soon as she’ s born…’ ‘He，perhaps，’ said my mo ther bravely．‘Don’ t be stupid，of course it’
英美文学史(作家及作品)
English Literature Geoffrey Chaucer: the Father of English Poetry the Founder of English Realism the Master of modern English language The pioneer of the English Renaissance Beowulf: National epic of the Anglo-Saxons The story of Beowulf is a folk legend which reflects the feature of the tribal world.