- The active Romantic poets are also called the "Lake Poets".
- The publication of Lyrical Ballads marked the break with classicism and the beginning of Pre-romanticism.
- The dominant feature of Robin Hood's character is his hatred for the cruel oppressors and his love for his fellow outlaws.
- "What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!" These words are uttered by the hero in Shakespeare's Othello.
- In Jonathan Swift's _______, the two political parties of the Whigs and Tories are satirized.
- James Joyce’s novel _______ is the prime example of a novel whose events are really the happenings of the mind.
- As the 17th-century English literature was represented by the genre of poetry, the 18th-century English literature was mainly an age of _______.
- The following writers are the members of the Active Romanticists except _______.
- After the Norman Conquest, _______ became the dominant language in England which was spoken by the royal class.
- The novel written by D. H. Lawrence with the theme of Oedipus Complex is _______.
- _______ reflects the sterility and chaos of the western civilization after World War I.
- Who is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature among the following writers?
- _______ is considered the "father of English poetry" and the "founder of English realism".
- Different from Englightenment in France which aimed at abolishing the dictatorship of monarchy, Englightenment in Britain tried to remould social life by wiping out the remnants of _______.
- William Butler Yeats is all the following except _______.
- The following novels are written by Virginia Woolf except ______.
- The finest thing in Paradise Lost is the depiction of the hell, in which ______ is characterized as the real hero.
- The prevailing form of English literature in the medieval period was ______, which represents a courtly type of literature.
- Edmund Spenser adopted a special type of poetic style in his works. That is the Spenserian Stanza.
- The plot of Prometheus Unbound takes its origin from The Bible.
- The Christian literature in Old English period is represented by Caedmon and Adam Bede.
- A ballad is a form of verse, often a story, told in the oral form.
- The theme of ______ to the king, the lord and love is repeatedly emphasized in medieval romances.
- Lawrence Sterne's masterpiece ______ is one of the most original works in English literature,
- _______ was an intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.
- The Canterbury Tales is written by Geoffrey Chaucer in _______.
- The romance is a type of literature composed chiefly by, of and for ______.
- The term "Metaphysical Poets" was given by ______, who was an 18th-century English writer and biographer and who made the first English dictionary.
- The British Bourgeois Revolution resulted from the conflicts between _______ and bourgeoisie.
- Walte Scott is thought to be the father of the _______ which opens up the rich and lively realm of history.
- During the English Renaissance, there appeared a group of dramatists called ______ among whom Christopher Marlowe was the most gifted.
- Paradise Lost is based on the story in the _______ of the Bible as the source of its themes and characterization.
- The following works are not written by William Makespeace Thackeray except ______.
- There are three cycles of Romance in Medieval English literature. They are matters of France, matters of Rome and matters of Denmark.
- There appeared two groups of English Enlighteners. One is the moderate group and the other is the revolutionary group.
- During his lifetime, Shakespeare wrote altogether 154 sonnets.
- Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams through which we can see a picture of the life in primitive England.
- The major poets in the Victorian Age include the following except _______.
- The British Bourgeis Revolution ended in 1688 with the Glorious Revolution that marked the establishment of _______.
- _______ is the most representative poem of the Anglo-Saxon literature which is regarded the national epic of the English people.
- The Norman Conquest started in 1066 under the leadership of _______.
- The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its _______.
- In Byron's poetic works, he characterizes "a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow and misery in his heart, capable of deep and strong affection" called ______.
- The Waste Land belongs to the symbolist school of poetry.
- Samuel Richardson's novels are mainly epistolary novels.
- In contrast to rationalism of the Enlighteners and classicists of the 18th-century English literature, Romanticisism was characterized by its emphasis on the social life of man.
- When Cromwell is said to be "the man of action" in the British Civil Wars, _______ is regarded as "the man of thought".
- The dominant literary genre of the 17th-century British literature is _______.
- The Romantic Age came to an end with the death of _______.
- Geoffrey Chaucer's early works are mainly _____ of French works.
- The central character of romance is the knight, who follows the code of behavior called chivalry.
- In the works of the Romantic writers, there is a strong sense of dissatisfaction with the bourgeois society.
- The following writers belong to the moderate group of Enlighteners except _____.
- It was _____ who made blank verse the principal vehicle of English drama.
- William Blake and Robert Burns are the representative poets of _______.
- Prometheus Unbound is a _______ written by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
- The dominant genre of English literature in the 18th century was the novel.
- The key-note of Hamlet's character is adventurousness.
- Jonathan Swift madde himself known with his merciless satire on the British society of his age such as that in his work The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.
- Of Human Bondage is an autobiographical novel of W. S. Maugham.
- One of the pioneers of modern fiction is D. H. Lawrence, who is well-known for his stream-of-consciouseness novels.
- Thomas More is well-known for Utopia in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people's sufferings and put forward his ideas of an ideal society.
- "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" This is the first sentence of Shakespeare's Sonnet 29.
- The rhyme scheme of Shakespearean sonnets is abba abba cde cde.
- The dominant theme of the Robin Hood Ballads is to help the poor and right the wrongs for a life free from injustice and tyranny.
- In the 18th-century English literature, satire was much adopted by many writers. Among them, ______ is no doubt the greatest.
- Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and _______ are generally regarded as Shakespeare's four great tragedies.
- English literature began with the _______ settlement in England.
- _______ is written by Thomas Gray which established his position as a representative sentimentalist poet.
- Walter Scot's historical novels depict the histories of Scotland, ______ and othe European countries.
- Chaucer's contribution to English poetry lies chiefly in his adoption of rhymed couplet to take the place of the Anglo-Saxon _______.
- The Metaphysical Poets are adroit at the use of _______.
- Oscar Wilde's only novel is ______.
- Many of the English writers in the 18th century were Enlighteners. They fell into two groups: _______.
- The langugage spoken by _______ is known as the Old English.
- The first period of Charles Dickens's literary career is marked by youthful ______.
- ______ is the key-note of the Renaissance.
- For the romantics, ______ is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.
- The following are all Alexander Pope's works except ______.
- Epistolary novel is one that takes the form of _______.
- The Norman Conquest marks the beginning of ________ in England.
- Paradise Lost is John Milton's masterpiece which is a great epic written in _______.
- English Renaissance was an age of ______.
- The ______ of The Canterbury Tales provides a framework for the tales in the work.
- A(n) _______ is a far-fetched metaphor in which an unlikely connection between two drastically different things is made.
- The theme of ______ written by Christopher Marlowe is an insatiable thirst for knowledge.
- Robert Burns is a great poet in Scotish history, who wrote in Scotish dialect.
- Morte d'Arthur is written by Thomas Malory in the 15th-century England.
- Sentimentalism marked the transition of English literature from neo-classicism to critical realism.
- Ben Johnson is specially known for his adoption of the genre of humor in his plays.
- According to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a collaborator of Lyrical Ballads, poetry should begin as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings."
- Christopher Marlowe is the forerunner of neo-classical tradition in English drama.
- Daniel Defoe's masterpiece is Robinson Crusoe, which characterizes an enterprising Englishman, typical of the big capitalists of the 18th-century Britain.
- Walter Scot is the founder and representative writer of the historical novel in the Romantic Age.
- The 18th-century European history was represented by an intellectual movement called Romantic Movement.
- The most important part of romances in Medieval English literature is about Robin Hood.
- The following are Shakespeare's comedies except ______.
- ( ), the greatest realist novelist of the 18th-century English literature, is also considered the father of the English novel.
- Walter Scott is the only novelist of the romantic literature of the 19th-century England and his novels are mainly ( ) novels as far as genre is concerned.
- The story _______ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances
- Christopher Marlowe's representative works include the following except _______.
- The Old English literature can be found in two groups: _______ and Christian.
- Shakespeare is hailed by ( ), contemporary with Shakespeare, as "not of an age, but for all time".
- The Edwardian era of British history covers the brief reign of King Edward VII, following the death of ______.
- The theme "Where there is oppression, there is revolution" is found in _____.
- As a most important writer of the English classical poetry, Alexander Pope was at his best in satire and ______.
- In the English literature of the 17th century, the _______ period is traditionally called "Age of Dryden".
- Chaucer's three periods of life correspond to the three stages of his literary career except _______.
- "The Metaphysical Poets" refer to the loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterized by the inventive use of ( )
- In English modernist literature, James Joyce and ______ are the two representatives of the "stream-of-consciousness" novel.
- The British Bourgeois Revolution was a political revolution in religious cloak, with _______ representing the religious stand of the bourgeoisie.
- In “The Solitary Reaper”, the feeling of ( ) is clearly conveyed to the reader, especially in the first stanza.
- The following writers belong to the school of sentimentalism except _____.
- Walter Scot's literary career marked the transition of English literature from romanticism to _______.
- The following writers are Irish-born except _____.
- ( ) writers in the 18th-century English literature modelled themselves on the Greek and Roman writers in their dramatic writings.
- The Bronte sisters refer to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, with the elder two represented by Jane Eyre and ( ) respectively.
- John Milton wrote the following works except _______.
- _______ is thought to be the founder of the Metaphysical Poets.
- Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield conveys his reflections on the relations between sentimentalism and ( ) in the 18th-century English literature.
- In _____, Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background.
- The most representative work of Francis Bacon is ( ), which is the first collection of English essays.
- As the forerunner of the English classical school of literature, John Dryden established the standards of _______ in English drama which advocated the "three unities" modelled on ancient Greek and Roman plays.
- Alexaner Pope was a master of poetry in heroic couplet. He strongly advocated ( ), emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules.
- In response to the social, political and economic problems associated with industrialisation, ( ) novel becomes the leading genre of the Victorian literature.
- English literature began with the ( ) settlement in England.
- Rober Browning's literary achievement can be found in his introduction into English literature the new form of _____.
- Daniel Defoe is an early proponent of the ( ) novel whose masterpiece Robinson Crusoe tells about the adventures of a sailor on the sea and on an island.
- The ________ Age is one of great development in economy, culture, politics and geographical exploration.
- George Eliot produced the following novels except ______.
- The 18th century is also called "the Age of _____".
- Piers the Plowman written by William Langland in the form of ( ) represents the achievements of popular literature of Medieval England.
- The Pilgrim's Progress is written in the form of ( ) .
- ______ was one of the first English writers to depict the class struggle between the workers and the capitalists.
- Different from other romantic poets, _____ is the writer who is in pursuit of beauty in his poetic writings.
- Sentimentalism turns from urban life to rurual life and from representation of reason to ______.
- Of the women writers in the 19th century English literature, ( ) is the only one that deals with the life of the working-class people, represented by her novel Mary Barton.
- Puritan poetry in the 17th-century English literature is represented best by ( ), who produced Paradise Lost as his representative work.
- D. H. Lawrence's works represent a reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and ______.
- Thomas Hardy is the most representative realist in the later decades of the Victorian era, whose principal works are the ( ) novels, i.e., the novels describing the characters and environment of his native countryside.
- In addition to the Puritan poets represented by John Milton, there were also the _______ poets who sided with the King agaisnt the Puritans during the British Civil Wars.
- _______ gives a vivid and satirical description of Vanity Fair which refers to London at the time of the Restoration.
- ______ is a modern retelling of Homer's Odyssey.
- Sentimentalism turned to the countryside for materials, which made it different from ______.
- The works of _______ are characterized, generally speaking, by mysticism in content and fantasticallity in form.
- The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories strung together and told by 30 pilgrims on their way to pilgrimage, is written in the form of ( ).
- ( ) is admittedly an autobiographical novel which draws much on Maugham’s own experience.
- ( ) is a distinctive verse form adopted by Edmund Spenser in his works incluiding his masterpiece The Faerie Queene. It has 9-line stanzas, rhyming in ababbcbcc.
- The Pilgrim's Progress is written in _______, a literary form in which abstract concepts are represented as people.
- In 1649, Charles I was beheaded, monarchy was abolished, and Britain became a _________.
- The technical innovations which started in the 18th century and produced new tools and rapid development in industry and commerce finally led to _______.
- Throughout his life, Milton showed strong rebellious spirit agaisnt many things he thought unjust and acted as the voice of ( ) of England under Oliver Cromwell.
- Francis Bacon won for himself the first English ( ) for his achievements in English literature of the Renaissance.
- ______ is the real founder of the realist novel in the history of English literature. In his novels, he gives a panaramic view of the life in the English society of his age.
- Henry Fielding's first novel _______ was written as a challenge to Samuel Richardson's Pamela.
- The following writers are all critical realists except ______.
- "The Waste Land" is written by T. S. Eliot in which the theme of the ( ) of the post-World War I generation is declared to the reader.
- D. H. Lawrence is a modernist novelist who makes reflections upon the dehumanizing effects of ( ) in his representative work Sons and Lovers.
- Ulysses, written by James Joyce and considered the most representative of the Egnlish stream-of-consciousness novels, is set in ( ), Ireleand .
- Because of his Irish background, ( ) is thought to be the driving force of the Irish Literary Revival.
- The only female writer of the stream-of-consciousness novel is ( ), who produced such novels as To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, The Waves, etc. .
- Writers, artists and composers we consider “modern” had their roots in the ( ) era which produced such writers as Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, W. S. Maugham, etc.
- A Passage to India is set on Joseph Conrad's own experience in India which deals with the theme of ( ) in addition to persoal relationships.
- ( ) is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character whose spiritual world is conveyed to the reader through the author's subtle psychological analysis.
- In his Culture and Anarchy, ( ) showed his deepest contempt for and most frequent attack on the middle-class Philistines who he thought lacked culture.
- Thomas Carlyle's non-fiction The French Revolution: A History was the inspiration for Charles Dickens' s novel ( ).
- In the aesthetic movement of the 19th century, "Art for Art's Sake" can simply mean the focus on ( ) rather than on deep meaning of literary works.
- The first period of Charles Dickens’s literary career is characterized mainly by ( ) and the novels are filled with moral teachings.
- John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era. In his Modern Painters, he argued that the principal role of the artist is ( ).
- "Break, Break, Break" is a short lyric poem written by Alfred Tennyson which is a(n) ( ) for the poet to reveal his grief over the death of his friend.
- The novels of George Eliot mostly deal with ( ) problems and contain psychological studies of the characters.
- Jane Austen's novels mainly concern such issues as the ( ) of young women. Because of the use of satire and criticism of social prejudices, she is considered as a realist novelist rather than a romantic writer.
- The joint publication of ( ) in 1798 by Wordsworth and Coleridge marked the beginning of the Romantic movement in England.
- Scott's historical novels touch upon the subject matters of the history of ( ), the history of England and the history of European countries.
- ( ) is Shelley's bestknown lyric in which he calls forth the overthrowing of the old social system and bringing destruction to it.
- In "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", "the inward eye" refers to ( ), which is a metaphor to appeal to the reader's imagination of the author's inner feelings.
- To Wordsworth, the theme of poetry should be concerned with ( ), the language of peotry should be plain, and the people poetry should deal with are country folk.
- Romanticism preferred ( ) to reason and rationalism. To William Wordsworth, poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley belongs to the school of ( ) romantic poets, whose masterpiece Prometheus Unbound owes much to the Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound.
- Tom Jones shows Fielding's philosophical view of "return to ( )". Thus, in characterization, a contrast is made between Tom Jones, the good-nautured though flawed man, and Bilfil, the hypocritical villain.
- Robert Burns is the best known of the poets who have written in the ( ) dialect.
- The latter half of the 18th century English literature was marked by a strong protest against the bondage of classicism and a recognition of the claims of passion and emotion which is later known as ( ).
- Sentimetalism is also found in Samuel Richardson's ( ) novels which convey female characters' feelings and sentiments.
- Sentimentalism of English literature got its name from Lawrence Stern's novel ( ) in which Sterne tries to catch the actual flow of human mind and sentiment.
- The only poet of the sentimentalist school of literature is Thomas Gray, whose well-known "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" earned for him the name of a "( ) Poet".
- Gulliver' s Travels tells about the adventures of Gullliver through the fairy tale of fantasy which is a great satire on ( ).
- As a distinctive way, ( ) are adopted by the neo-classicist playwrights in the 18th-century English literature.
- The Tatler, a British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in 1709, featured cultivated essays on ( ).
- Among the English Enlighteners of the 18th century, there were chiefly two groups: the ( ) group and the radical group.
- The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century which was an expression of the struggle of bourgeoisie against ( ).
- As one of the greatest satirists in the 18th century, ( ) made use of satire to attack social evils and call for social changes in his Gulliver's Travels.
- The central theme of Paradise Lost is ( ).
- The 17th century of English history was marked mainly by the English Bourgeois Revolution which ended with the establishment of ( ) as a compromise between the bourgeoisie and the monarchy.
- In his "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", John Donne makes a most impressive comparison between love and ( ) as the dominant conceit of the poem.
- ( ) is regarded as the greatest prose writer in the English literature of the 17th century, who is best known for his work The Pilgrim's Progress.
- “On his Blindness” and “On his Deceased Wife” are the two best-known of Milton's ( ).
- Milton’s Paradise Lost employs the themes taken from ( ) of the Christian Bible.
- ( ) was the religious cloak of the English Bourgeois Revolution which advocated God's supreme authority over human beings.
- Hamlet is characterized as a(an) ( ) on that, he loves good and hates evil; he is a man free from prejudice and superstition; he has unbounded love for the world and firm belief in the power of man.
- Edmund Spenser was considered the ( ) for his achievements in poetry.
- Great writers of the English Renaissance who are known for humanism, took ( ) as the centre of the world and voiced the human aspirations for freedom and equality.
- It was ( ) who first introduced and reformed the English drama which reached its climax in the hands of William Shakespeare.
- The stories of ( ) are the most well-known ballads, songs of stories told orally in 4-line stanzas.
- The medieval period is often called the Dark Age for the dominating power of ( ) over everything in the society.
- ( ) is considered the father of English poetry, whose most representative work is The Canterbury Tales.
- The central character of a romance is ( ), who follows the code of behavior called chivalry.
- The key-note of the Renaissance is ( ).
- Beowulf, written about the life of England in the ( ) society, is said to be the national epic of the English people.
- Beowulf is written in the form of ( ), a popular form of poetry in Anglo-Saxon literature.
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答案:Gulliver's Travels
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