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British Literature
I. Multiple Choice.
The Middle Age
1. When we speak of the Old English prose, the first name that comes into our minds is_______, who is the first scholar in English literature and has been regarded as father of English learning.
A. William Shakespeare
B. Beowulf
C. Julius Caesar
D. V enerable Bede
2. The most important work of Alfred the Great is _______, which is regarded as the best monument of the Old English prose.
A. The Song of Beowulf
B. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
C. The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
D. Brut
3. _______ is the first important religions poet in English literature.
A. John Donne
B. George Herbert
C. Caedmon
D. Milton
4. In Anglo-Saxon period, Beowulf represented the _______ poetry.
A. pagan
B. religious
C. romantic
D. sentimental
5. Prose literature did not show its appearance until the ______ century.
A. 6th
B. 7th
C. 8th
D.10th
6.Beowulf describes the exploits of a hero, Beowulf, in fighting against the monster Grendel, his revengeful mother, and a fire-breathing dragon.
A. Danish
B. Scandinavian
C. English
D. Norwegian
7. English literature began with these settlements in England. Of old English literature, Beowulf, the national epic of the English people, is an example of the mingling of nature myths and heroic legends.
A. Anglo-Saxon
B. Roman
C. Norman
D. Britain
8. In 1066, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating English.
A. William the Conqueror
B. Julius Caesar
C. Alfred the Great
D. Claudius
9. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is .
A. Lang land
B. Wyclif
C. Gower
D. Chaucer
10. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the .
A. novel
B. drama
C. romance
D. essay
11. The story of is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.
A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
B. The Story of Beowulf
C. Piers the Plowman
D. The Canterbury Tales
12. William Langland‘s is written in the form of a dream via-ion.
A. Kubla Khan
B. Piers the Plowman
C. The Dream of John Bull
D. Morte d’ Arthur
13. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the author dreamed, through which, we can see a picture of the life in the England.
A. primitive
B. feudal
C. bourgeois
D. modern
14. The theme of to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.
A. loyalty
B. revolt
C. obedience
D. mockery
15. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legenda ry outlaw called.
A.Morte d’ Arthur
B. Robin Hood
C. The Canterbury Tales
D. Piers the Plowman
16. In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called .
A. heroic couplet
B. quatrain
C. Spenserian stanza
D. terza rima
17. , the ―father of English poetry‖ and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London about 1340.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Sir Gawain
C. Francis Bacon
D. John Dryden
18. Chaucer died on the 25th October 1400, and was buried in .
A. Flanders
B. France
C. Italy
D. Westminster Abbey
19. Chaucer‘s earliest work of any length is his, a translation of the French Roman de la Rose by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, which 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.
A. The Romaunt of the Rose
B. A red, Red Rose
C. Piers the Plowman
D. The Book of the Duchess
20. The second period of Chaucer‘s literary career includes mainly the three longer poems written prior to The Canterbury Tales. Choose the three from the following.
A. The House of Fame
B. Troilus and Criseyde
C. The Legend of Good Women
D. The Book of the Duchess
21. creative work vividly reflected the changes which had taken root in English culture of the second half of the 14th century.
A. Chaucer‘s
B. Byron‘s
C. Shelley‘s
D. Eliot‘s
22. Apart from original poems, Chaucer translated various works of French authors, 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
23. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named based on Boccaccio‘s poem Filostrato.
A. The Legend of Good Woman
B. Troilus and Criseyde
C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
D. Beowulf
24. Generally speaking, Chaucer‘s works fall into three main groups corresponding roughly to the three period of his adult life. Which period is wrong? .
A. The period of French influence (1359-1372)
B. The period of Italian influence (1372-1386)
C. The period of English period (1386-1400)
D. The period of American period (1371-1382)
25. Chaucer‘s diplomatic missions to Italy enabled him to study the poems of, famous Italian writers of the Renaissance period, which were later to have profound influence upon his own writing.
A. Dante
B. Petri arch
C. Homer
D. Boccaccio
26. Chaucer was the first important poet of a royal court to write in after the Norman Conquest.
A. French
B. Latin
C. English
D. Greek
The Renaissance
27. was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.
A. Thomas Wyatt
B. William Shakespeare
C. Philip Sidney
D. Thomas Camp ion
28. was the first to give the sonnet its English form. And his metrical innovations are very important in English poetry.
A. Thomas Wyatt
B. William Shakespeare
C. Philip Sidney
D. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
29. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. It was who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.
A. Christopher Marlowe
B. Thomas Loge
C. Edmund Spencer
D. Thomas More
30. Thanks to Surrey, English prosody has gained a magnificent instrument blank verse, which was used by many writers, such as .
A. Marlowe
B. Shakespeare
C. Milton
D. Byron
31. Sir Philip Sidney is known both as a poet and as a .
A. essayist
B. dramatist
C. a critic of poetry
D. novelist
32. Great popularity was won by John Lily‘s prose romance which gave rise to the term ―euphuism‖, designating an affected style of court speech.
A. Cymbeline
B. V enus and Adonis
C. Lucrece
D. Euphues
33. In the conclusion of the prose , the author points out that the root of poverty is the private ownership of social wealth.
A. Advancement of Learning
B. Utopia
C. Tamburlaine
D. Henry IV
34. From the following, choose the one which is not Edmund Spencer‘s work: .
A. The Shepherd‘s Calendar
B. Epithalamion
C. The Faerie Queen
D. Amoretti
35. Euphues of John Li ly was written in a peculiar style known as ―Euphuism‖, which consists on the use of .
A. balanced sentences
B. words alliterating
C. riming or identical
D. precision
36. The intellectual energy of the English Renaissance showed itself in the achievement of
Francis Bacon，.
A. the founder of English materialist philosophy
B. the founder of modern science in English
C. the first English essayist
D. the most gifted of the ―university wits‖
37.English Renaissance Period was an age of ___________.
A. prose and novel
B. poetry and drama
C. essays and journals
D. ballads and songs
38. The greatest and most distinctive achievement of Elizabethan literature is drama. Thus appeared a group of excellent dramatists. Mainly they are _______.
A. John Lily
B. Thomas Kyd
C. George Peele
D. Christopher Marlowe
E. William Shakespeare
39. Elizabethan poetry is remarkable. England then became‖ a nest of singing birds‖. The famous poets of that period were ___.
A. William Shakespeare
B. Edmund Spencer
C. Philip Sidney
D. Thomas Wyatt
40. Sidney is well—known as a poet and a critic of poetry. He is known mainly for his three principal works. They are_____.
A. Arcadia
B. Artrophel and Stella
C. Apology for Poetry
D. Utopia
41.‖Liberty, Fraternity and Equality‖ were first uttered in the book_______.
A. The Shepherd‘s Calendar
B. Utopia
C. The Rights of Man
D. The Declaration of Independence
42. Marlowe‘s best plays include______.
A. Tamburlaine the Great
B. The Jew of Malta
C. The Tragically History of Doctor Faustus
D. Cymbeline
43. Which are Ben Johnson‘s main comedies?________.
A. Every Man in His Humor
B. Vulpine
C. The Alchemist
D. The Silent Woman
E. The Merchant of V enice
F.T he Winter‘s Tale
44. In 1593 and 1594, William Shakespeare published his two narrative poems, which are______.
A. V enus and Adonis
B. Atrophic and Stella
C. The rape of Lucerne
D. Vulpine
45. The heroines of William Shakespeare‘s great c omedies, ______are the daughters of the Renaissance, whose images and stories will remain a legacy to readers and audience of all time.
A. Portia
B. Roseland
C. Viola
D. Beatrice
46. Choose the four great tragedies of Shakespeare from the following: ______.
A. Hamlet
B. Othello
C. Macbeth
D. King Lear
E. Timmons of Athens
47. Shylock is a character in the play______.
A. Tamburlaine written by Marlowe
B. Othello written by Marlowe
C. The Jew of Malta written by Marlowe
D. The Merchant of V enice written by Shakespeare
48. Which historical plays were written by Shakespeare? ___.
A .Henry VI B. Henry IV
C. Richard III
D. Henry V
E. Richard II
F. Charles I
G. One the Great
49.‖Denmark is a prison‖. In which play does the hero summarize his observation of his world into such a bitter sentence? _______.
A. Charles I
B. Othello
C. Henry VIII
D. Hamlet
50. The works of _____and the Authorized V ersion of the English Bible are the two great treasuries of the English language.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Edmund Spencer
C. William Shakespeare
D. Ben Johnson
51. In which play does the hero show his profound reverence firm man through the sentence:‖What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! ‖_____.
A. Romeo and Juliet
B. Hamlet
C. Othello
D. The Merchant of V enice
52. Sir Philip Sidney‘s Arcadia was a long ____written in an elaborately artful prose.
A. pastoral eclogue
B. pastoral lyric
C. pastoral romance
D. pastoral drama
53. Which of following poetic forms is the principal form of Shakespeare‘s dramas? ______.
A. lyric
B. sonnet
C. blank verse
D. quatrain
54. ______is the most common foot in English poetry.
A. The iamb
B. The anapest
C. The trochee
D. The dacty1
55. The Tragically History of Doctor Faustus is one of Christopher Marlowe‘s best works in which Dr. Faustus seeks _____no matter at what cost and finally meets his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.
A. money
B. immorality
C. knowledge
D. political power
The Period of Revolution and Restoration
56. Who of the following were the important metaphysical poets? _________.
A. John Donne
B. George Herbert
C. John Milton
D. Richard Lovelace
57. John Milton wrote a number of pamphlets defending the English People. Choose them from the following______.
A. Defiance of the English People
B. Second Defiance of the English People
C. L‘ Allegro
D. Il Ponderosa
58. Which works were written by John Milton?____.
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonists
D. Vulpine
59. Paradise Lost is________.
A. John Milton‘s masterp iece
B.A great epic in 12 books
C. written in blank verse
D. about the heroic revolt of Satan against God‘s authority
60. John Milton wrote his best-known prose work, _____, in the form of a speech addressed to the House of Parliament, I n which he appealed for the freedom of the press.
A. Of Reformation in English
B. Lucida
C. Areopagitica
D. L‘ Allegro
61. From Old Testament, John Milton took his stories of Paradise Lost, i.e.________.
A. the creation
B. the rebellion in Heaven of Satan and his fellow-angels
C. their defeat and expulsion from heaven
D. the creation of the earth and of Adam and God
E. the fallen angels in hell plotting against God
F. Satan‘s temptation of Eve
G. the departure of Adam and Eve from Eden
63. Ben Johnson_______.
A. was the first poet laureate in the history of English literature
B. was a productive playwright
C. wrote a great number of comedies
D. was the author of Vulpine
64. In his blindness, Milton wrote his most important poetic works, such as______.
A. Paradise Lost
B. Samson Agonists
C. Paradise Regained
D. The Pilgrim‘s Progress
E. Paradise Regained
65. The main literary form of the seventeenth century was poetry. Among the poets, John Milton was the greatest. Besides him, there were two groups of poets. They are ______.
A. the lake poets
B. the university wits
C. the Metaphysical poets
D. the Cavalier poets
E. the Active Romantic poets
66. Choose the poets who belong to the Cavalier group._______.
A. Sir John Suckling
B. Richard Lovelace
C. Thomas Carew
D. Robert Herrick
E. Andrew Marvell
F. George Herbert
67. To His Coy Mistress is one of_ ____‘s famous poems.
A. John Donne
B. George Herbert
C. Andrew Marvell
D. Richard Crashaw
68. Another school of poetry prevailing in 17th century was that of _______, I . e . those verse-writers, often knights and squires, who sided with the King against the Parliament and Puritans.
A. Metaphysical Poets
B. Cavalier Poets
C. John Milton
D. John Dryden
69. During this period of revolution and counter-revolution, _____ turned with the tide and always placed himself on the winning side. Thus, he has been called a time-saver by some critics.
A. John Milton
B. John Bunyan
C. John Donne
D. John Dryden
70. Which work was not written by John Dryden?_____.
A. Absalom and Acidophil
B. Annuls Mirabilis
C. Alexander‘s Feast
D. Devotion upon Emergent Occasions
71. _____is shown in John Bunyan‘s The Pilgrim‘s Progress.
A. Utopianism
B. Idealism
C. Realism
D. Puritanism
72. The Pilgrim‘s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for_______.
A. material wealth
B. spiritual salvation
C. universal truth
D. self-fulfillment
The Age of Enlightenment in England
73. ______was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.
A. The Renaissance
B. The Enlightenment
C. The Religious Reformation
D. The Chartist Movement
74. Most of the English writers in the 18th century were enlighteners. They fell into two groups; one is ______, and the other is_____.
A. the moderate group; the radical group
B. the passive Romantic poets; the active Romantic poets
C. the Metaphysical poets; the Cavalier poets
D. the Lakers; the sentimentalists
75. Which of the following writers belong to the moderate group of enlighteners?_______.
A. Alexander Pope
B. Daniel Defoe
C. Joseph Addison
D. Richard Steel
E. Samuel Richardson
F. Jonathan Swift
76. The 18th century was an age of prose. A group of excellent prose writers, such as ______were produced.
A. Joseph Addison
B. Richard Steel
C. Jonathan Swift
D. Henry Fielding
77.In the 18th century, satire was much used in writing, English literature of this age produced some excellent satirists, such as_______.
A. Alexander Pope
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Henry Fielding
D. Daniel Defoe
E. William Blake
78. The main literary stream of the 18th century was _____.What the writers described in their works were mainly social realities.
A. naturalism
B. romanticism
C. classicism
D. realism
E. sentimentalism
79Joseph Addison‘s chief contribution to literature lies in his essa ys written for ____and____. A. The Spectator B. The Review
C. The Tattler
D. Cato
80. ______was the most important English poet in the first half of the 18th century.
A. Richard Steele
B. Joseph Addison
C. Alexander Pope
D. Samuel Richardson
81.‖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 Unclad
D. Essay on Criticism
82. The Eighteenth century was the golden age of the English____. The novel of this period spoke the truth about life with an uncompromising courage.
A. drama
B. poetry
C. essay
D. novel
83.In series of pamphlets Jonathan Swift denounced the cruel and unjust treatment o f Ireland by the English government. Two of most famous ones are ______.
A. Gulliver‘s Travels B .The Draper‘s Letters
C. The Battle of the Books
D.A Modest Proposal
84.‖Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style‖, this sentence is said by______, one of the greatest masters of English prose.
A. Alexander Pope
B. Henry Fielding
C. Daniel Defoe
D. Jonathan Swift
85. _____ was the real founder of the realistic novel in England. His novels unfold a panorama of life in all sections of English society.
A. Alexander Pope
B. Henry Fielding
C. Daniel Defoe
D. Jonathan Swift
86.______‘s best-known pamphlet was The trueborn Englishman A Satire, which contained a caustic exposure of the aristocracy and the tyranny of church.
A. Alexander Pope
B. Henry Fielding
C. Daniel Defoe
D. Jonathan Swift
87. Which of following books are written by Samuel Richardson?_____.
A. Pamela
B. Clarissa Marlowe
C. Sir Charles Grandson
D. Don Quixote in England
88. Henry Fielding‘s first novel____ was written in connection with Pamela of Samuel Richardson. But after the first ten chapters, Henry Fielding became as interested and absorbed in his own novel as to forget his original plan of ridiculing Pamela.
A. Tom Jones
B. Joseph Andrew
C. Jonathan Wild
D. Amelia
89.______, the first important work by Tobias Smollett, is based on his own experience as a naval doctor and in part autobiographical.
A. Roderick Random
B. Humphrey Clinker
D. Peregrine Pickle D.A Sentimental Journey
90. Among Samuel Johnson‘s works, the best-known are______.
A. The dictionary of the English Language
B. The Idler
C. The V anity of Human Wishes
D. Lives of the poets
91. Which of the following works are not written by Oliver Goldsmith? ______.
A. The Traveler
B. The Deserted Village
C. The Vicar of Wakefield
D. The School for Scandal
E. She Stoop to Conquer
F. The Good-natured Man
G. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
92.______ are written by William Black.
A. Poetical S ketches
B. Songs of Innocence
C. Songs of Experience
D. Auld Lang sync
E. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
F. Prophecies
G. Visions of the Daughter of Albion and America, a Prophecy
93.‖In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy‖. This proverb is cited from William Blake‘s______.
A. Songs of Experience
B. Songs of Innocence
C. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
D. Poetical Sketches
94. Which of the following works are written by Robert Burns?
_________.
A. A Red, Red Rose
B. Bruce at Bannockburn
C. The Jolly Beggars
D. The Slave‘s Lament
E. Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
95. In the 18th century English literature, the representative writer of neoclassicism is_____.
A. Alexander Pope
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Daniel Defoe
D. John Milton
96. In the 18th century English literature, the representative poets of pre-romanticism were____.
A. Alexander Pope
B. William Blake
C. Robert Burns
D. Jonathan Swift
97. _______was Alexander Pope‘s poem which satirized the idle and artificial life of the aristocracy.
A. The Rape of the Lock
B. The Rape of Licorice
C. The School for Scandal
D. Every Man in His Humor
98. In the middle decades of the 18th century, _____became the leader of the classic school in English poetry and prose.
A. Alexander Pope
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Robert Burns
D. William Blake
99. Which are the two periodical started by Richard Steele and Joseph Addison? ______.
A. The Tattler
B. The Rambler
C. The Idler
D. The Spectator
100. ______compiled The Dictionary of the English Language which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.
A. Ben Johnson
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Alexander Pope
D. John Dryden
101. Choose Samuel Johnson‘s works from the following._______.
A. Lives of the Poets
B. The Dictionary of the English Language
C. Every Man of His Humor
D. The V anity of Human Wishes
E. An Essay on Criticism
102. Choose the representative poets of the 18th century pre-romanticism and the forerunners of romanticism _____.
A. Thomas Gray
B. Edward Y oung
C. James Thomason
D. William Blake
E. Robert Burns
103. The realist novelists of the 18th century include_____.
A. Daniel Defoe
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Henry Fielding
D. Tobias Smollett
E. William Blake
104. Henry Fielding was a versatile man. He was _____.
A. a novelist
B. a dramatist
C. an essayist
D. a political pamphleteer
E. a political economist
105. ______ is a satirical novel, in which the author Henry Fielding exposes the English bourgeois aristocratic society and mocks at its political system.
A. A Modest Proposal
B. Gulliver‘s Travels
C. V olpone
D. Jonathan Wild the Great
106. Which of the following novels are epistolary novels? ____.
A. Clarissa Harlowe
B. Pamela
C. Sir Charles Grandison
D. Tom Jones
107. Which play is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare? ______.
A. She Stoops to Conquer
B. The Rival
C. The School for Scandal
D. The Conscious Lovers
Romanticism in England
108. The publication of _____ marked the beginning of Romantic Age.
A. Don Juan
B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
C. The Lyrical ballads
D. Queen Mab
109. The prose writing of the Romantic Period was represented by ______.
A. Charles Lamb
B. William Hazlitt
C. Thomas De Quincey
D. Leigh Hunt
E. John Keats
110. Which poets belong to the Active Romantic group? ____.
A. George Gordon Byron
B. William Wordsworth
C. Percy Bysshe Shelley
D. John Keats
E. John Milton
111. Which poets belong to the Lakers? ______.
A. William Wordsworth
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. John Keats
D. Robert Southey
E. Walter Scott
112. Choose the poems written by Wordsworth with the theme on nature and country life. _____.
A. To the Cuckoo
B. We Are Seven
C. Lucy Poems
D. The Solitary Reaper
E. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
113. ______ was the first critic of the Romantic school.
A. William Wordsworth
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. Wordsworth and Coleridge
114. George G ordon Byron was a staunch champion of the people‘s cause. He raised his voice in defence of the oppressed workers in his well-known_____.
A. Song for the Luddites
B. The Prisoner of Chillon
C. The Vision of Judgment
D. The Revolt of Isalm
115. Which of following statements is (are) not true about Don Joan? _______.
A. Don Juan was written in Italy during the years 1818-1823.
B. The story describes Don Juan‘s an English young of noble birth, life and adventures in many countries.
C. In Greek island , Don Juan met his sweetheart, Haidee, and fell in love with her.
D. The last cantos are taken up with a satirical description of the English ruling classes, whose reactionary policy has aroused the hatred from the other nations.
E. In Don Juan Byron displayed his genius as a romanticist and a realist simultaneously.
116. Which short lyrics were written by George Gordon Byron? ________.
A. She Walks in Beauty
B. When We Two Parted
C. Hebrew Melodies
D. One Word Is Too Often Profaned
E. A Red, Red Rose
117. Choose the poetic plays written by George Byron. _______.
A. Hours of Idleness
B. Mansfred
C. Cain
D. Oriental Tales
E. Prometheus Unbound
118. For his pamphlet ______ , Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from Oxford a nd disowned by his father.
A. Address to the Irish People
B. Vindication of Right of Women
C. Masque of Anarchy
D. The Necessity of Atheism
119. Which of the following poems are written by Percy Bysshe Shelley on the death of John Keats? ______.
A. Peter Bell the Third
B. Hellas
C. Adonais
D. The Cenci
120. Which poem shows Percy Bysshe Shelley‘s attitude towards the position of women in society, besides the theme of revolutionary? ______.
A. The Revolt of Islam
B. Prometheus Unbound
C. Songs to Man of England
D. Ode to the West Wind
121. ______ is regarded as the most wonderful lyricist England has ever produced mainly for his poems on nature, on love, and on politics.
A. William Wordsworth
B. John Keats
C. George Gordon Byron
D. Percy Bysshe Shelley
122. Which of the following statements is (are) not true about Percy Bysshe Shelley? ________.
A. Prometheus Unbound is Percy Bysshe‘s masterpiece, a long epic poem.
B. At Eton Percy Bysshe Shelley was known as ―Mad Shelley‖, for his obstinate opposition to the brutal fagging system, according to which the younger school –boy were obliged to obey the older boys the bear a great deal of cruel treatment.
C. George Gordon Byron called Percy Bysshe Shelley ―the best and l east selfish man I ever knew‖.
D. Percy Bysshe Shelly loved the people and hated their oppressors and exploiters.
123. John Keats‘s fondness for sensuous beauty and his ability of paining exact word-pictures find their best expression in the poem of ______.
A. Isabella
B. The Eve of St. Agnes
C. Endymion
D. Lamia
124. The unfinished long epic _____ has been regarded as John Keats‘s greatest achievement in poetry.
A. Endymion
B. Isabella
C. Hyperion
D. When I Have Fear
125. Which are Percy Bysshe Shelley‘s lyric on nature? ____.
A. Ode to the West Wind
B. To a Skylark
C. The Cloud
D. Ode to the Nightingale
E. I Wandered Lovely as a Cloud
126. Which are Percy Bysshe Shelley‘s politic a l lyrics? _____.
A. A Defense of Poetry
B. To a Skylark
C. Song to the Men of England
D. England in 1819
127. Which is Percy Bysshe Shelley‘s work of literary criticism?
A. An Essay an Criticism
B. A Defense of Poetry
C. On the Necessity of Atheism
D. Of Studies
128. Choose the historical novels written by Walter Scott. _______.
A. Rob Roy
B. Ivanhoe
C. Marmon
D. The Lady of the Lake
E. Waverly
129. Choose the four immortal odes written by John Keats. ____.
A. Ode to the West Wind
B. Ode to the Nightingale
C. To Autumn
D. Ode on Melancholy
E. Ode on a Grecian Urn
130. Which works are based on ancient Greek Mythology? _____.
A. Prometheus Bound
B. Prometheus Unbound
C. Endymion
D. Paradise Lost
E. The Rime of Ancient Mariner
131. Which works have employed the subjects from the Bible? ________.
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Sanson Agnistes
D. Cain
E. Prometheus Unbound
132. Choose the works written by Jane Austen. ________.
A. Pride and Prejudice
B. Sense and Sensibility
C. Northanger Abbey
D. Emma
E. Mansfield Park
F. Persuasion
133. Charles Lamb‘s ______made Shakespeare a familiar author to the general readers.
A. Notes and Lectures on Shakespeare
B. Tales from Shakespeare
C. The Characters of Shakespeare‘s Plays
D. On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
134. At 20, William Hazlitt met Coleridge and Wordsworth when the two poets were in the prime of their literary career. He described it in his famous essay_______.
A. My First Acquaintance With Poets
B. Lectures on the English Poets
C. The Spirit of the Age
D. Table Talk
135. As a poet, Leigh Hunt is chiefly remembered for________.
A. About Ben Adhem
B. Jenny Kissed Me
C. The Liberal
D. The Story of Rimini
136. The confession of an English Opium-Eater made of‖ the Opium- Eater ‖ .
A. Walter Scott
B. William Hazlitte
C. Thomas De Quincey
D. Leigh Hunt
The Victorian Age
137. In the 19th century English Literature, a new literary trend called ______ appeared . And it flourished on the forties and in the early fifties.
A. romsnticism
B. naturalism
C. realism
D. critical realism
138. ____‘s The Cry of the Children contains concrete description of the miserable life of child-workers in the factories and mines.
A. Thomas Hood
B. Robert Browning
C. Elizabeth Barret Browning
D. Ernest Jones
139. In the 19th century, the social contradictions were reflected in the prose writing. The important prose writers who criticized the evils of the capitalist society were _____.
A. Thomas Carlyle
B. John Ruskin
C. Matthew Arnold
D. Charles Lamb
E. John Dryden
140. ______ described the life of the laboring people and criticized the the privileged classes, but the power of exposure became much weaker in her work. The significance of her work lies in rather in the portrayal of the pettiness and stagnancy of English provincial life.
A. Emily Charlotte
B. Emily Bronte
C. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
D. George Eliot
141. In the _____ period, Charles Dickens believed that all the evils of the capitalist word would be remedies of only men behaved to each other with kindliness, justice, and sympathetic understanding.
A. first
B. second
C. third
D. fourth
142. _____ has been called ―the supreme epic of English life‖.
A. A Tales of Two Cities
B. David Copperfield
C. Pickwick Papers
D. Oliver Twist
143. All the traits of _____ enliven the pages of Pickwick Papers.
A. the native, youthful optimism
B. the joy of living
C. the lightness of heart
D. the genuine sympathy for the workers
144. The pride of wealth, or ―pu rse-pride‖, is the theme of the novel _____.
A. Dombey and Son
B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Little Dorrit
D. Oliver Twist
145. Which of the following statements about David Copperfield are true? _______.
A. In parallel with the main line, there is a sub-plot of Uriah Heep, Mr.Wickfield‘s clerk and less polished, more hypocritical, and even more villainous Carker.
B .The portrait of Uriah Heep ranks high in Dickens‘s list of villains.
C .The novel is not merely a personal record b ut a broad picture of the society of the author‘s day.
D. In this novel Dickens lost his old na? ve optimism about bourgeois society.
E. Dickens‘s democratic viewpoint shows itself in the class-orientation of the novel.
146. _____is a novel with imprisonment, both matter-of-fact or symbolic, as its central theme. A. David Copperfield B. A Tale Of Two Cities
C. Little Dorrit
D. Bleak House
147. The theme underlying_____is the idea ―Where is oppretssion, there is revolution‖.
A. A Tale of Two Cities
B. David Copperfield
C. Pickwick Papers
D. Oliver Twist
148. Which of the following works are not written by William Makepeace Thackeray?_____.
A. V anity Fair
B. Pendennis
C. Our Mutual Friend
D. Henry Esmond
E. Adam Bede
149. Which of the following statements about V anity Fair are true? _____.
A. In this novel William Makepeace Thackeray describes the life of the ruling classes of England in the early decades of the 19th century, and attacks the social relationship of the bourgeois world by satirizing the individuals in the different strata of the upper society.
B. The character of Becky Sharp is drawn with admirable skill. The unprincipled adventuress is a gifted woman, with a keen sense of humor and deep understanding of people.
C. Of course Amelia Sedley has her vanity also of out-rivaling other women in beauty and in her power over men, and of gaining admittance into high society, but all such vanity is inseparably bound up with the greed for wealth.
D. There are no common people in the novel.
150. In Victorian age, poetry was not a major art intended to change the world. The main poets of the age were____.
A. Alfred Tennyson
B. Robert Browning
C. Mrs. Browning
D. Robert Burns
151. The story of _____deals with the adventures of a retired old merchant.
A. A Tale of Two Cities
B. David Copperfield
C. Pickwick Papers
D. Oliver Twist
152. Which novel makes a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education and bourgeois utilitarianism?_____.
A. Oliver Twist
B. Hard Times
C. Great Expectation
D. A Tale of Two Cities
153. Which novel is great satire upon the society and those society and those people who dream to enter the higher society regardless of the social reality?____.
A. A Tale of Two Cities
B. David Copperfield
C. Great Expectation
D. Dombey and Son
154. Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as background of the novel _____.
A. A Tale of Two Cities
B. Great Expectation
C. Hard Times
D. David Copperfield
155. _____ is often regarded as semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the author‘s early life.
A. Tome Jones
B. David Copperfield
C. Oliver Twist
D. Great Expectation
156. The sub-title of V anity Fair is _____.
A. A Pure Woman Faithfully Portrayed
B. The Spirit and the Flesh
C. A Novel Without a Hero
D. Sense and Sensibility
157. In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte_____.
A. pours a great deal of her own experience
B. criticizes the bourgeois system of education
C. shows that true love is the foundation of marriage
D. shows that women should have equal rights with men
158. Mrs. Gaskell was the friend of Charlotte Bronte. Her ____
is one of the best biographies in English Literature.
A. Life of Charlotte Bronte
B. Life of Johnson
C. Tales of Shakespeare
D. Adonais
159. The novel Mary Barton _____.
A. is about the class struggle between the works and the capitalists.
B. is one of the most important social of that period.
C. reflects something about Chartist Movement
D. contains such characters as John Barton, Mary, Wilson and Cleson
160. George Eliot produces three remarkable novels which made her famous. They are ____. A. Adam Bede B. The Mill on the Floss
C. Silas Marner
D. Mary Barton
E. Pamela
161. Women novelists began to appear in England during the second half of the _____ century.
A. 17th
B. 18th
C. 19th
D. 20th
162. Which of the following statements are true about Jane Eyre?_____.
A. One of the central themes of the book is the criticism of the bourgeois system of education.
B. Another problem raised in the novel is position of women in society.
C. This book is Charlotte Bronte‘s best literary production.
D. In this book, the author attacked the greed, pretty tyranny and lack of culture among the bourgeoisie and sympathized with the sufferings of the poor people. Her realism was colored by petty-bourgeois philanthropy.
163. Which of the following statement are true about Wuthering Heights?____.
A. Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Earnshaw‘s house in North England, remote from the outside world and amidst gloomy surroundings.
B. The pure love between Heathcliff and Catherine has been crushed by the class prejudice of the bourgeoisie.
C. Heathcliff is at first the oppressed and decides to have his revenge on his oppressor, but in the end, hav ing had his revenge, the oppressed turns into the oppressor. Here lies the novel‘s theme that ―a full human life in a capitalist society was impossible of attainment‖.
D. In the writing of it, the author drew a great deal from her own life-experience.
164. _____ written by George Eliot is largely autobiographical in its early chapters.
A. Adam Bede
B. The Mill on the Floss
C. Felix Holt the Radical
D. Mary Barton
165. Most of Robert Browning‘s important works, including___,
Are written in the form of dramatic monologue.
A. Dramatic Lyrics
B. Dramatic Romances
C. Men and Women
D. Dramatic Personae
166. _____has been praised as a ―gallant, courageous and high- hearted figure ‖, well-known for buoyant optimism.
A. Robert Louis Stevenson
B. Laurence Sterne
C. Robert Browning
D. Percy Bysshe Shelley
167. The theory of ―art for art‘s sake‖ was first put forward by the poet ____.
A. Oscar Wilde
B. Walter Pater
C. Robert Louis Stevenson
D. Theophile Gautier
168. Thomas Hardy is one of the representatives of English ___ at the turn of the 19th century. A. critical realism B. pre-romanticism
C. neo-classicism
D. new romanticism
169. Which statement is true?_____.
A. Thomas Hardy is a famous novelist
B. Thomas Hardy is also a poet
C. Thomas Hardy is a critical realist
D. Fatalism is strongly reflected in Thomas Hardy‘s novels
170. According to Thomas Hardy‘s own classification, his novels divide themselves into three groups. They are ____.
A. Novels of character and Environment
B. Romances and Fantasies
C. Novels of Ingenuity
D. Working class literature
171. Novels of character and Environment are also called Wessex novels, taking the southwest countries of England for their setting. They include:_____.
A. Under the Greenwood Tree
B. Take Return of the Native
C. Tess of the D‘ Urbervilles
D. Jude the Obscure
172. ____ is the representative of New Romanticism in novel writing at the end of the 19th century.
A. Robert Louis Stevenson
B. Laurence Sterne
C. Robert Browning
D. Percy Bysshe Shelley
173. Oscar Wilde was the representative among the writers of ____.
A. aestheticism
B. decadence
C. critical realism
D. pre- romanticism
174. Which of the following works concern the story of King Arthur?_____.
A. Idylls of the King
B. Morte d‘ Arthur
C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
D. The History if the King of Briton
E. Brut
175. The Last Duchess is _____.
A. a dramatic monologue
B. a short lyric
C. a novel
D. an essay
The Twentieth-Century Literature
176. The late 19th century saw an upsurge of workers‘ movements in England. V arious labor organizations came into being:_____.
A. the Social-Democratic Federation
B. the Fabian Society
C. the Independent Labor Party
D. the Labor Representation Committee
177. ____ , ―the bard of imperialism‖, glorified the colonial expansion of Britain in his poems, stories and novels.
A. Rudyard Kipling
B. Arnold Bennett
C. Joseph Conrad
D. Herbert George Wells
178. Arnold Bennett‘s novelist and critic, is best known for his____.
A. Kim
B. Novels of the Five Towns
C. The Old Wives‘s Life
D. Lord Jim
179. ____ are genera lly regarded as Joseph Conrad‘s finest novels.
A. Lord Jim
B. Nostromo
C. Y outh
D. The Old Wives‘s Tale
180. ____ tells the tale of a young Englishman who serves as mate on the steam ship ―Patna‖. A. Lord Jim B. Nostromo
C. Y outh
D. The Old Wives‘s Tale
181. Which are the representative works by Henry James?____.
A. Daisy Miller
B. The Portrait of a Lady
C. The Wings of the Dove
D. The Ambassadors
E. The Golden Bowl
182. Who is regarded as a forerunner of the ―stream of consciousness‖ literature in the 20th century?____.
A. John Galsworthy
B. Henry James
C. Thomas Steams Eliot
D. Katherine Mansfield
184. _____ marks the summit of critical realism in all Jo hn Galsworthy‘s works.
A. The Man of Property
B. The Indian Summer of a Forsyte
C. In Chancery
D. Awakening
185. ―The Man of Property‖ is represented by ____ , the central figure in The Man of Property. A. Soames Forsyte B. Irene
C. Bosinney
D. Heathcliff
E. Shylock
186. It is interesting to note that nearly all the important English dramatists of the 18th and 19th centuries were Irish-born, as ____.
A. William Congreve
B. Oliver Goldsmith
C. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
D. Oscar Wilde
187. H.G.Wells is one of the most famous writers of ____ fiction.
A. romantic
B. realistic
C. classical
D. science
188. In the play ____ George Bernard Shaw deals with the theme of rivalry between the U.S.A. and England in the political arena and criticizes bourgeois parliamentarism.
A. Widowers ‘ House
B. Mrs. Warren ‘ s Profession
C. The Apple Cart
D. The Quintessence of Ibsenism
189. ____ , the representative of ―war poets‖, is remember ed chiefly for his 5 war sonnets called 1914, in which The Solder is the famous one.
A. Thomas Steams Eliot
B. John Masefield
C. Alfred Edward Housman
D. Rupert Brooke
190. ____ is a manifesto of modernist poetry, demanding ‖breaking through t he barriers of 19th century‖.
A. The Sacred Wood
B. Tradition and the individual Talent
C. Four Quartets
D. The Waste Land
191. In English literature, ____ and ____ are the two best-known novelists of the ―stream of consciousness‖ school.
A. David Herbert Lawrence
B. Thomas Steams Eliot
C. James Joyce
D. William Bulter Y eats
192. ____ was the biographer, critic and editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.
A. Virginia Woolf
B. Thomas Steams Eliot
C. James Joyce
D. William Bulter Y eats
193. To the Lighthouse is divide into 3 part, separately entitled____.
A. The Window
B. Time Passes
C. The Lighthouse
D. The Waves
194. ____ is the climax of Virginia Woolf‘ s experiments in novel form.
A. The Window
B. Time Passes
C. The Lighthouse
D. The Waves Tune
195. Virginia Woolf was also a well-known critic. Her best critical essays were collected in two volumes,_____.
A. The Common Reader
B. Time Passes
C. The Second Common R eader
D. A Room oimpef One‘s Own
196. Rudyard Kipling was the spokesman for imperialist sentiment. Choose his works from the following:_____.
A. Kim
B. The Jungle Book
C. The Second Jungle Book
D. Plain Tales from the Hills
197. J ohn Galsworthy ?s first trilogy The Forsyte Sage consists of _____.
A. The Man of Property
B. The Indian Summer of a Forsyte
C. Awakening
D. To Let
198. John Galsworhty ‘ s second trilogy A Modern Comedy consists of _____.
A. The White Monkey
B. A Silent Wooing
C. The Silver Spoon
D. Passers-By
E. Swan Song
199. ____ was much concerned about the crying contradictions of bourgeois civilization and made protests against imperialism and Fascism, but he believe in the possibilities of improving capitalism with a system of ―technocracy ‖. The First Men in the Moon is one of his novels.
A. Herbert George Wells
B. Ralph Ellison
C. Thomas More
D. Thomas Steams Eliot
200. Which of the following novels belong(s) to the ―stream of consciousness‖ school f novel writing?_____
A. Ulysses
B. Finnegans
C. To the Lighthouse
D. The Waves
E. Mrs. Dalloway
201. Davis Herbert Lawrence‘s representative work ____ was positively taken as a typical example and lively manifesta tion of the Oedipus Complex in Fiction, as the result of Lawrence‘s long-range study of the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud.
A. Sons and Lovers
B. The Waste Land
C. Lady Chatterley‘s Lover
D. Women in Love
203. Which of the characters are in the novel Sons and Lovers?____.
A. Mrs. Morel
B. Paul
C. Miriam
D. Clara
E. Walter Morel
204. William Somerset Maugham ?s best-known novel is ____.
A. The Human Bondage
B. The Good Companions
C. The stars Look Down
D. Our Betters
205. John Bull‘s Other Island is a play written by _____.
A. Henrik Ibsen
B. George Bernard Shaw
C. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
D. William Shakespeare
206. Which is/are true?____
A. George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland.
B. George Bernard Shaw was a humorist
C. George Bernard Shaw was a critical realist dramatist
D. George Bernard Shaw was a friend of progressive people.
E. George Bernard Shaw once visited China.
207. William Butler Y eats was ____
A. an Irish poet
B. a dramatist
C. a critic
D. a senator in the Irish Free State in 1921
208. Thomas Steams Eliot defined his belief as ____.
A. classicist in literature
B. royalist in politics
B. Anglo-Catholic in religion D. all of the above
209. Which of following statement is not true?____
A. Thomas Steams Eliot was born in America.
B. Thomas Steams Eliot became a British subject in 1927
C. Thomas Steams Eliot was educated in Harvard University and Oxford University.
D. Thomas Steams Eliot was a poet , a critic and playwright.
E. Thomas Steams Eliot was also a great novelist.
210. Which poem concerns Thomas Stearns Eliot‘s faith and emotional satisfaction in the church?____
A. Murder in the Cathedral
B. The Solitary Reaper
C. Ash Wednesday
D. The Waste Land
211. Ralph Fox was a progressive English____.
A. writer
B. critic
C. journalist
D. historian
212. The Novel and the People is ____ in which Fox gives a critical survey of European literature.
A. a novel
B. an essay
C. a drama
D. a poem
II True or False
The Middle Age
1.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Pearl, Piers the Plowman and Canterbury Tales are considered the four great contributions to poetry during the Middle English Period.
2.King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table was first written in Anglo-Saxon.
3.The first English version of the Arthurian legend is Layamon‘s Brut.
4.In the 14th century, the two most importantwriters are Langland and Tomas Malory.
5.The fifteenth century has been traditionally described as the barren age in English literature. But it is the spring tide of English Ballads.
6.Thomas Malory wrote an important word called Morte d‘Arthur.
7.Geoffrey Chaucer is the father of English poetry, and the founder of English language and fiction.
8.Chaucer‘s literary career is conventionally divided into three periods: the French, the American, and the English.
9.In French Period, Chaucer wrote The House of Fame.
10.Chaucer‘s work symbolized the beginning of English literary history led by vernacular literature as main stream.
The Renaissance
11.U topia is More‘s masterpiece,written in the form of letters between More and Hythloday,a voyager.
12.Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.
13.Engels commented highly on More‘s U topia and mentionde it in his great work, T he C apital.
14.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its drama.
15.The miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories, such as the creation of the world,Noah and the flood,and the birth of Christ.
16.After Shakespeare‘s death, Ben Johnson collected and published his plays in 1623.
17.From Shakespeare‘s historical plays,it can be seen that Shakespeare took great interest in the political questions of his time.
18.In Shakespeare‘s historical plays, historical accuracy is not strictly regarded.
19.K ing L ear is a tragedy of ambition,which drives a brave soldier and national hero to degenerate into bloody murderer and despot right to his doom.
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Instructions： This examination consists of 5 parts， and the total time for the examination is 2 hours. All the answers should be entered onto the Answer Sheet. Part I：Multiple Choices （10%） Choose the best answer to the following sentences. 1.Which of the following is NOT a feature of Beowulf？ A. Alliteration B. Anglo-Saxons’ early life in England C. Germanic language D. The national epic of Anglo-Saxon people 2.English Renaissance Period was an age of. A. prose and novel B. poetry and drama C. essays and journals D. ballads and songs 3.The main literary form of the early 17th century was poetry. John Milton was acknowledged as the greatest. Besides him， there were two groups of poets. They were the Cavalier poets and. A. the lake poets B. the university wits C. the Metaphysical poets D. the Romantic poets 4. Pamela is widely considered to be the first novel and was written by ___________. A. Thomas Hardy B. James Joyce C. Samuel Richardson D. Henry Fielding 5.The publication of， which was the joint work of William Wordsworth and Samuel T. Coleridge， marked the beginning of the Romantic Age in England. A. Don Juan B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner C. Lyrical Ballads D. Queen Mab 6.Among the most famous realistic novelists of the Victorian age are， W. M. Thackeray， Bronte sisters， etc. A. Joseph Conrad B. Henry Fielding C. Charles Dickens D. D. H. Lawrence 7.In James Joyce’s ____________ the story “Eveline” paints a portrait of a young woman from Dublin deciding whether or not to leave her hometown. A. Ulysses B. Orlando C. Dubliners D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 8.In the 18th century England， satire was much used in writing. Literature of this age produced some excellent satirists， such as Jonathan Swift， Henry Fielding and.
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1.The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is ____. A Robin Hood B Sir Gawain and the Green Knight C The Canterbury Tales D Beowulf 2. ____was the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written in alliterative verse. A The Canterbury Tales B Piers the Plowman C Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D Beowulf 3. ____was famous for The Canterbury Tales. A Geoffrey Chaucer B John Milton C William Shakespeare D Francis Bacon 4. Most of the ballads of the 15th century focused on the legend about ____ as a heroic figure. A Green Nights B Gawain C Robin Hood D Hamlet 5.In the 16th century, Thomas More’s work ____became immediately popular after its publication. A Paradise Lost B A Pleasant Satire of the Three Estates C Of Studies D Utopia 6. ____was Edmund Spencer’s masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the grea t poems in the English language. A Amoretti B The Shepherd’s Calendar C The Faerie Queene D Four Hymns 7. ____ is from Shakespeare’s sonnet No.18. A “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” B “To be or not to be: that is the question” C “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” D “No longer mourn for me when I am dead” 8. _____, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London about 1340. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden 9.The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and ___ _. A. Antony and Cleopatra B. Julius Caesar C Twelfth Night D King Lear 10. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare’s romantic love comedies? A Twelfth Night B The Tempest C As You Like It D The Merchant of Venice D C A C D C C A D B 1. All of the following are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England except______.
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1．{The Isles of Greece} QUESTIONS: 1. Who is the writer of these lines? Byron 2. It is taken from the writer's masterpiece entitled ___ "Don Juan"_________. 3. Who is "Sappho" in line 2? Sappho is an ancient Greek poetess , known for her passionate love lyrics. 4. Who is "Phoebus" in line 4? It's Apollo, the Greek Sun-god. 5. Whom does the "Scian muse" refer to? Homer, because Scio claimed to be the birthplace of Homer. 6. What does the whole section "The Isles of Greece" write about? The section "The Isles of Greece" is among Byron's most effective poetical utterances on national freedom. All the 16 stanzas are supposed to have been sung by a Greek singer at the wedding feast of Don Juan and Haidee on the isle of Greece. In the song, by contrasting the freedom enjoyed by the Greek ancient people with the enslavement of the early 19th century Greeks under the Turkish rule, the poet calls on the Greeks to struggle for their national freedom and liberation. 7. This selection consists of two six-lined stanzas of iambic tetrameter, with a rime scheme of ___ Ababcc__________ What does the poem mainly write about? This poem is about the beauty of nature. There is a vivid picture of the daffodils, mixed with the poet’s philosophical and somewhat mystical thoughts. What is the rime scheme in each stanza? ababcc 2．I wandered lonely as a cloud 1.What does the poem mainly write about? This poem is about the beauty of nature. There is a vivid picture of the daffodils, mixed with the po et’s philosophical and somewhat mystical thoughts. 2.What is the rime scheme in each stanza? ababcc 3. What is the poet’s view on nature? And how is that view shown in this poem? Wordsworth’s conception of nature is that nature has a lot to do with man, it can not only refresh one’s soul and fill one with happiness, but it can also be reduced into a beautiful memory which will comfort one’s heart when in solitude. In the narrative poem, the poet successfully compared his loneliness with the happy daffodils. The daffodils, the symbol of the nature, bring great joy and relief to the speaker. The diction of this poem is, in general, simple, direct, and clear. The image of the daffodils conveys qualities of movement and radiance through carefully chosen words. At first sight, the flowers are seen as “fluttering and dancing”; then the poet compares the flowers to the “stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way”, and then to the “sparkling waves” of a nearby lake. The daffodils are described as “golden”, not yellow, because “golden” suggests more than a color; it connotes light. These words of movement and radiance create a picture of nature as vital, animated, and glowing. Words for joy (glee, sprightly, gay, jocund, bliss) are used in a crescendo that suggests the intensity of the speaker’s happiness.