夜大英国文学复习0
1.John Bunyan 《Pilgrim’s Progress》天路历程
2.Geoffrey Chaucer 《the Canterbury Tales》坎特伯雷故事集
3.John Milton《Paradise Lost》失乐园
4.John Donne《Death be not proud》
5.Edmund Spense《The Fairy Queen》仙后《The Shepherd’s Calender》
6..William Shakespeare 《Hamlet》《Othello》《King Lear》《Macbeth》
7..Francis Bacon ：《New Sitte Liens Island》《New Tool》《Academic Progress》
8..Thomas More 《Utopia》
9..JohnLyly 《Euphues》尤弗依斯《Euphuse and his England》
10.Christopher Marlowe《Tamburlaine the Great》帖木耳大帝《The Jew of Malta》马尔他岛的犹太人
II. Multiple Choice (40%)
1.In Anglo-Saxon period, Beowulf represented the__ A. pagan __poetry.
2. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and B. Macbeth are generally regarded as Shakespeare's four great tragedies. 4. In 1649, _ C. Charles I______ was beheaded. England became a commonwealth.
5. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the
14th and mid-17th centuries, and its essence is D.
humanism .
6. “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives lif e to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets 18) What does “this” refer to D. Poetry
8. Milton’ s Paradise Lost took its material from _____ A. the Bible __.
10. Milton and Bunyan, representing the extreme of English
life in the 17th.c, wrote two works that stand today for the mighty _ C. Puritan ______ spirit. III. Explain the following terms 20%
Epic：A long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflection the values of the society from which it originated.
Romance：（骑士传奇）any imaginative literature that is set in an idealized world and that deals with
heroic adventures and battles between good
characters and villains or monsters. It is the most
popular form of literature in the Anglo-Norman
period
Renaissance：（文艺复兴）The great intellectual and cultural movement of the revival of interest in classical
Greek and Roman learning and culture that
occurred in Europe in the 14th, 15th, 16th, and
early 17th centuries, -- a period which saw the
transition from the Middle Ages to modern
times.
Humanism：（人文主义）the essence of the Renaissance. A fundamental intellectual current in the
Renaissance, it originated in the study of
classical culture and emphasized the dignity
and worth of the individual in contrast to the
medieval emphasis on God and contempt for
the things of this world.
Soliloquy：（独白）A dramatic convention by means of which,
a character, either alone on the stage or unheard
by the other characters, utters his or her own
thoughts aloud.
Conceit：（奇想）A conceit is a figure of speech which makes an unusual and sometimes elaborately精巧地
sustained comparison between two dissimilar
things.
Allegory：（寓言）A narrative in prose or verse that conveys a symbolic meaning that lies outside the narrative
itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social,
religious or political significance and characters
are often personifications of abstract ideas.
IV . Answer the following questions briefly. 30% 1. Give a brief introduction of The Song of Beowulf
.
The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons
The oldest surviving epic in British literature about
tribal life and rites of ancient days
Nothing Anglo-Saxon in setting or people
in oral form originally; written down in the 10th
century
Written in Anglo-Saxon or Old English in alliterative verse, full of elaborations 详尽的细节, but lacking in
unity.
Structure: episodic; constructed around three encounters with the monsters
2. What are the typical features of romance?
It lacks general resemblance to truth or reality
It exaggerates the vices of human nature and idealizes the virtues.
It contains dangerous adventures more or less remote from ordinary life
It is often involved with romantic love
The central character is a knight seeking adventures, or fighting for his lord in battles
3. What is Chaucer's Role in British Literature?
The father of English literature:
The first person to be associated to English literature The forerunner of the Renaissance
The English poet best loved after Shakespeare 4. What are the characteristics of Metaphysical Poetry?
*. Intellectuality 理性化:intellectual, analytical and psychological rather than emotional 感性 *. Leading Figurative Device: CONCEIT
*. Argumentative structure: argument with the poet's lover, with God, with oneself
*. Theme: love, death and religion
*. Dramatic and colloquial mode of utterance: monologues 独白or dialogues, colloquial and homely language, conversational idiom
*. Elements of WIT 巧智: paradox 自相矛盾的话, pun 双关, antithesis 直接对照, startling contrast
*. Meter: often rugged 不文雅的, unmetrical 不讲究格律的, not "sweet" or smooth like Elizabethan verse
5. What are the features of John Bunyan’s works ? What is the theme of his masterpiece Pilgrim’s Progress ?
He is known for his simple and lively prose style.
His prose is modeled on the Bible, and his biblical language enabled him to narrate his stories and reveal his ideas in a direct and straightforward way.
Major theme: to urge people to abide by Christian
doctrines and seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils.
IV . Identify the author and the work of the quoted lines. 10%
William Shakespeare
Francis Bacon
John Donne