- In many Native American cultures, the entire earth and all of the living things that inhabited it were sacred. This reverence for the earth and its creatures was passed down in various books from generation to generation. （ ）
- William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote poems in the simple verse form of folk ballads or hymns and with informal vocabulary, not ornate language. （ ）
- Although James Joyce was born and grew up in London, England, and set all of his work there, he found the voice to write about the city only in exile. （ ）
- In 1794 Blake published a volume of lyric poems called Songs of Innocence and Experience. Blake described this work as “shewing the two contrary states of the human soul.” （ ）
- Martin Luther, one of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation in England, followed William Tyndale’s example by translating the Bible into English. （ ）
- The European exploration, conquest, and settlement of the Americas led to the founding of many new nations, including the United States. （ ）
- An emphasis on self-improvement through education was an important factor in the maturing of American colonial society was. （ ）
- Traditional sonnets have fourteen lines, each of which is written in iambic pentameter. （ ）
- Robert Frost followed Modernist poetics and his lyric poetry revolutionized the traditional poetry in form and language. （ ）
- Beowulf is the oldest of the surviving national epics produced in Western Europe after the fall of Rome. （ ）
- _______ usually was regarded as the first American writer. （ ）
- The Victorian literature is essentially __________. （ ）
- Though Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were romantic poets in theme and technique, they differ from each other in a variety of ways. For one thing,Whitman likes to keep his eye on human society at large, whereas Dickinson often addresses such issues as ________, immortality, ________, love and nature. （ ）
- Which of the following cannot describe “Byronic hero”? （ ）
- Which of the following novels is the first stream of consciousness novel to appear in English literary history? （ ）
- Paradise Lost. This epic relates the story of ________ and ________ as told in the biblical book of Genesis. （ ）
- Three of the most typical Victorian ideals were ________, ________, and ________. （ ）
- The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature EXCEPT ________. （）
- Which of the following is (are) the typical feature(s) of Henry James' writing style? （ ）
- The two areas on which the modern American writers concentrated their criticism were ________. （ ）
- “This is my letter to the World” is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson’s ________ about her communication with the outside world. （ ）
- The Romantic period is an age of _______. （ ）
- The English colonies in North America rose in arms against their parent country and the Continental Congress adopted _________ in 1776. （ ）
- What’s William Wordsworth’s notion of nature? （ ）
- Romanticism emphasizes __________. （ ）
- Which of the following works is Jane Austen’s? （ ）
- Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in ________ and Henry David Thoreau. （ ）
- In After Apple-picking, Robert Frost wrote: “For I have had too much / of apple-picking: I am overtired / Of the great harvest I myself desired.” From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is ________. （ ）
- Who is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”? （ ）
- Which one of the following figures does NOT belong to "Imagism"? （ ）
- In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of the Enlightenment. ________ was the dominant spirit. （ ）
- ________ is the one who dares to deal with themes such as violence, sex, and homosexuality in the stage in the postwar period. （ ）
- As an autobiographical play, Eugene O’Neill’s ________ (1956) has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama. （ ）
- Which book is NOT written by Jane Austen? （ ）
- “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ________. （ ）
- ________ composed Don Juan, a verse satire that describes the adventures of a licentious, though naive, young man. （ ）
- A great event that shook the religious faith in Victorian age in Britain is __________. __________ expresses the poet’s melancholy view of the event. （ ）
- Henry James experimented with different themes in his literary career, the most influential one being _________. （ ）
- It was not until January 1776 that a widely heard public voice demanded complete separation from England. The voice was that of ________, whose pamphlet Common Sense, with its heated language , increased the growing demand for separation. （ ）
- ________ is Hemingway's first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of "The Lost Generation". （ ）
- In American literature the first important writer who earned an international fame on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean is ________. （ ）
- William Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about nature and poems about ________. （ ）
- Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the “________” who appeared in America. （ ）
- Chaucer, in his Canterbury Tales, gives coverage to the prominence of two groups of people of the 14th century England: ________ and the middle-class. （ ）
- In Henry James’ Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of _________. （ ）
- The Transcendentalists believe that, first , nature is ennobling and second, the individual is ________. （ ）
- Which may NOT be one of the causes for the rise of American Romantic Movement? （）
- Although ________ derived inspiration from the rich legacy of Elizabethan verse, their poetry was in part a reaction against the stylized conventions of the sixteenth-century sonnet sequence. （ ）
- The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their _______. （ ）
- Thomas Hardy’s novels are generally set in a fictional southern England region called __________. （ ）
- In Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Crusoe’s servant on the island is __________. （ ）
- Most of Thomas Hardy’s novels are set in Wessex, ________. （ ）
- In his poems, Walt Whitman sang praise of all of the following values EXCEPT ________. （ ）
- Which of the following is NOT one of the main ideas advocated by Ralph Waldo Emerson , the chief spokesman of American Romanticism? （ ）
- The two lines “It was you that broke the new wood,/ Now is a time for carving” in Ezra Pound’s poem A Pact show that Pound believed that ________. （ ）
- The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: ________. （ ）
- Which terms can best describe the modernists concern of the human situation in their fiction? （ ）
- _______ carries the voice not of an individual but of a whole people. It is more than writing of the Revolutionary period, it defined the meaning of the American Revolution. （ ）
- Which of the following is James Joyce’s masterpiece? （ ）
- William Blake is concerned with two themes in writing poems including his concern with social events and __________. （ ）
- Unlike the local colorists of the late 1800s, the Regionalists of the mid-twentieth century were less concerned with peculiarities of local dialect or dress than with the deeper impact of setting on character. （ ）
- O’Neill’s plays, including ________ reflect his New England background, his Irish American heritage, his reading of the Scandinavian playwrights Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, and his fascination with the theories and discoveries of modern psychology. ( )
- Faulkner’s style often makes his writing difficult to follow because he experimented with repetition, ________, and ________. （ ）
- The 1916 performance of Eugene O’Neill’s Bound East for Cardiff by the Provincetown Players marked the rise of American drama. （ ）
- Along with William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, and Tennessee Williams, ________ is sometimes classified as a Southern Gothic writer because of her detailed renderings of small town Southern life and her flair for creating eccentric—even grotesque—characters. （ ）
- While people in the United States were ________ in the economic recovery effort, Europe was about to ________ to another deadly war. （ ）
- The wild, ________ music and style of dress during the 1920s gave way to the desperate and ________ days of the 1930s. ( )
- The ______ rations of many families during the Great Depression led to near-starvation conditions in both urban and rural areas. （ ）
- In order to analyze the effects that Southern history had on its people, Faulkner wrote stories based on his hometown Yoknapatawpha County. （ ）
- Steinbeck’s greatest work, ________, was among the most widely read novels of the twentieth century. （ ）
- ________ and ________ were central figures in the Imagist movement. （）
- Frost relied largely on free verse, and his language is frequently colloquial. （ ）
- With the spread of jazz came a great deal of ________ and disapproval among older people, who felt it was corrupting the youth. （ ）
- Ezra Pound believed that modern poetry should be built on the literature of the past and yet also _____. （ ）
- In their writing, Imagists often tried to transform elements from the ________, everyday world into something remarkable. （ ）
- American poet Gertrude Stein remarked to a new American expatriate, F. Scott Fitzgerald, that young people of the time were a “lost generation.” （ ）
- Many African Americans felt ________ and alienated from the mainstream culture in the United States. （ ）
- The writers of the Harlem Renaissance refused to ________ themselves to second-class citizenship. （ ）
- Much of the U.S. public was ________ to the conflict in Europe until the United States entered the war. （ ）
- Many critics were unimpressed by the bold declarations and ________ of some of the Modernist writers. （ ）
- Naturalists denied the existence of the supernatural and saw human beings as alone in the universe. Transcendentalists believed people could shape their lives through intuition, self-reliance, and inspiration. （ ）
- ________ became the master chronicler of the inner lives of his characters, and he used his subtle innovations in narrative point of view to probe the complex relationship between wealth and culture. （ ）
- Stephen Crane’s novels include _________. （ ）
- In his novel The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed the ________ conditions in the meat-packing industry. ( )
- Naturalists were strongly influenced by Charles Darwin’s scientific theory of evolution by natural selection, and adopted the view that people had little control over their own lives. （ ）
- In his work, Crane embraced a pessimistic realism that undermined earlier, romanticized visions of human experiences. （ ）
- Sinclair wanted to change public ________ and arouse empathy for the workers’ plight to inspire concrete action. ( )
- Which of the following writers is not an American colorist? ( )
- Ernest Hemingway stated that “all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Tom Sawyer.” （ ）
- ________ was the first female writer in the United States to portray frankly the passions and discontents of women confined to traditional roles as wives and mothers. （ ）
- When Walt Whitman first published Leaves of Grass in 1855, it marked the beginning of a revolution in poetry. ( ）
- Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth both fought to ______ slavery. （ ）
- Dickinson’s poems could be categorized in conventional terms—________—but she brought irony and keen observation to these common topics. ()
- Emily Dickinson’s poetry could turn the ordinary into the deeply meaningful. （ ）
- The ‘great war’, according to no less an admirer than Abraham Lincoln himself, was started by Harriet Beecher Stowe with her anti-slavery novel, ________. （ ）
- In the end, the South could not ________ with the North’s overwhelming force. （ ）
- A common ________ of slave owners was that they were “civilizing” the people they held in bondage. （ ）
- Whitman wrote in ________, which revolutionized the form of poetry. ( )
- Whitman was nurtured by the transcendentalists, and he took great delight in the quiet joys of nature. （ ）
- Which of the following is not the feature of Dickinson’s distinctive style? ( )
- In their writings, Poe and Hawthorne often deal with evil, or iniquity. （ ）
- The size and clamor of the cities drove ________ into nature and a quiet life of seclusion. （ ）
- Hawthorne was drawn to the moral ______ of the Puritan’s past. （ ）
- Ralph Waldo Emerson was a ________ writer and philosopher, known as “The Sage of Concord.” （ ）
- Poe crafted his ________ stories of the ________ in order to convey a sense of horror to the reader. （ ）
- For the writers of the era, Romanticism was a way to ______ political and literary values. ( )
- ________, the perennial concern of the Transcendentalists, remains an important issue to this day. （ ）
- The agrarian South had few cities, whereas the myriad cities in the North were heavily industrialized. （ ）
- Known primarily as a master of horror and suspense tales, Nathaniel Hawthorne is also credited with inventing the detective story and contributing to the development of science fiction. （ ）
- Thoreau’s life at Walden Pond was a response to his own inquiry to live ________ and ________. （ ）
- Persuasion is often based on three types of appeal: ________. （ ）
- The rhetorical device used in the following sentence is ________. “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” （ ）
- Thomas Jefferson hoped to protect America’s prosperity from tyranny when he drafted ________. （ ）
- Persecution in England motivated the Pilgrims to ______ on a very ______ voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. （ ）
- Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation, is one of the most important narratives of early colonial life. （ ）
- The Native American oral tradition is populated with powerful ______ , animals, and ancestral spirits. （ ）
- During his lifetime, Benjamin Franklin created many ______ things. （ ）
- The Puritans’ elaborate style showed in their writing, which employed elevated language and often focused on secular life. （ ）
- Native Americans saw animals, plants, and the forces of nature as part of a great sacred cycle of life that human beings must treat with deep respect. （ ）
- Walter Whitman was the first published poet in America. （ ）
- The dominant poetic technique used in The waste land is ________. ( )
- ____ was a leader of the modernist movement in English poetry and a great innovator of verse technique. ()
- Which is not written by Virginia Woolf? ()
- James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT __________. ( )
- In Which poem are the sterility and chaos of the contemporary world after 1st World War expressed? ( )
- Henry James is the forerunner of the _____. ( )
- Whose works are characterized by stream-of-consciousness? ( )
- ____ is a great novel spending James Joyce seven years of hard working to complete. ( )
- Which of the following works is NOT written by D.H. Lawrence? ( )
- The Waste land was mainly encouraged by the author’s study of_____. ( )
- Who of the following writers dose not belong to the Bronte sisters? They were all talented writers all of them died young. ( )
- William Makepeace Thackeray’s most famous work is _________. ( )
- The greatest English novelist in 19th century was ________, who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people. ( )
- The following are all Dickens’ works EXCEPT ________. ( )
- The Bronte Sisters published the following novels EXCEPT __________. ( )
- The Victorian Age was largely an age of __________, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray. （ ）
- “________” is often regarded as the semi autobiography of the author in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the author’s early life. ( )
- English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ________. ( )
- Which doesn’t belong to Hardy’s Wessex novels or Novels of character and environment? ()
- The sub-title of “Vanity Fair” is “________”. ( )
- “The Lake School ” includes all the following members except _____.( )
- The first poem in “The Lyrical Ballads” is Coleridge’s masterpiece “___________”. ( )
- The poet of the peasants” is a title given to_____.( )
- It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poems are in the form of __________.( )
- The Romantic Age began with the publication of “The Lyrical Ballads” which was written by ________. ( )
- Which of the following poems is NOT written by George Gordon Byron? ( )
- Choose the historical novel written by Scott. ( )
- William Wordsworth is an English __________.（ ）
- The Romantic Age came to an end with the death of the last well-known romantic writer ________. ( )
- Robert Burns is a poet from _________.( )
- The ‘English’ that Milton created for Paradise Lost is heavily, at times overpoweringly, ‘Latinised’ – it’s almost as if he never could shake off the intention of writing the poem in the antique language. （ ）
- Enlightenment thinkers rejected irrational and unsound ideas while embracing the modern works of Western civilization. （ ）
- The Restoration led to a reversal of the ban on theater, music, and other ________ that were popular at the time. （ ）
- Slowly it became clear that the Puritan Commonwealth was not a benevolent purveyor of liberty but instead was ________ and oppressive. （ ）
- The Enlightenment sprang, in part, from a newfound veneration of the power of ________ by writers and philosophers. （ ）
- Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe marks the emergence of realistic novel in English literature. （ ）
- The harsh ten years after the end of the English Civil War were marked by zealous ________ rule. （ ）
- The violent discord of the English Civil War ended with the execution of ________. （ ）
- John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress can be seen as an English “proto-novel”. （ ）
- As a Neoclassic poet, Alexander Pope strove to revolutionize English poetry and wrote poems in experimental forms. （ ）
- There is nearly ________ recognition of Shakespeare’s literary ________ among scholars. ( )
- Before the beginning of the Renaissance, the classics of ancient Greece and Rome had ________ in near obscurity. （ ）
- To the humanists, human endeavor had dignity and worth in its own right. （ ）
- Shakespeare’s tragic masterpieces include ________. （ ）
- There was almost ________ violence between Catholics and Protestants in England and Europe throughout the Reformation. （ ）
- Some poets of the period, including Donne, attempted to strike a balance between the impermanent, ________ world and the divine. （ ）
- Although many were executed for treachery in Tudor England, their actual crime was holding religious beliefs different from those of the monarch. （ ）
- If Shakespeare is the dazzling sun of English Renaissance, Spenser is the morning star. （ ）
- Though barely able to endure the grief he felt after his wife’s death, Donne transformed his sorrow into powerful ________ and ________. （ ）
- Many Renaissance thinkers believed that _________ and quiet ________ would prevail in the effort to completely remake society. （ ）
- Anglo-Saxon poetry is filled with ________ imagery that conveys the themes of loss and misery. ( )
- Knights during the Medieval period were expected to be gallant and to aspire to attain ________. ( )
- Those who ________ in Europe’s monasteries dedicated their lives to work and prayer. ( )
- The power of the ________ flourished during the Medieval period like at no other time. ( )
- During England’s Anglo-Saxon period, seafaring was filled with ________ and ________. ( )
- The last monster Beowulf killed was Grendel. ( ）
- The ________ Viking raiders were known throughout Europe for their unmerciful violence. ( )
- The two ________ causes of death during the 1300s were war and the bubonic plague. ( )
- The Canterbury Tales depicts people from all walks and contains over 100 stories. （ ）
- Geoffrey Chaucer is regarded as the father of English poetry. （ ）
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