- D. H. Lawrence is a prolific writer, his works include ______.
- Among the writers of the theatre of the absurd are______.
- George Orwell secured his reputation largely for ____.
- The three most notable Shakespearean critics of the Romantic period are ______.
- Joyce is best known literary works are_____________.
- H. G. Wells is famous for producing____.
- Lawrence’s major novels include ___.
- Wystan Hugh Auden was an Anglo-American poet, his major works include_____________.
- Maugham was noted for his novels such as ______.
- Maugham occupies a paradoxical position in the British literary history. He is indeed a ___ writer at his time.
- Beckett secured his position as a master dramatist on April 3, 1957 when his second masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, premiered (in French) at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
- In the history of British drama, the audience also exercises an influence on the content of a performance.
- Stevenson's popularity is based primarily on the exciting subject matter of his adventure novels and fantasy stories.
- Jane Austen portrayed the harsh, day-to-day life of the lower class in London.
- Wordsworth’s “Preface” to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads became the manifesto of the English Romantic Movement in poetry.
- Henry James’s fundamental theme was the innocence of the New World and the corruption of the Old.
- In Renaissance literature, the major movement was humanism, which imitated the Greeks and Romans and focused on human beings rather than the gods.
- Sheridan is the bridge between W. Shakespeare and G. B. Shaw.
- Lawrence’s characters are continually experiencing transformations driven by unconscious processes rather than by conscious intent, thought, or ideas.
- In “The Forsyte Saga,” John Galsworthy tells the story of the bourgeois Forsyte family through the Victorian to the Edwardian Age.
- John Milton’s career as a writer of poetry spans two distinct eras: Stuart England and the Civil War.
- In 1938, a film version of Pygmalion earned Shaw an Academy Award for his screenplay.
- For much of the twentieth-century, the historical novel’s status as a vehicle for idealism was relegated to the sub-status of popular fiction.
- Edward Morgan Forster was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet.
- The Importance of Being Earnest was considered the highest achievement of Wilde as a playwright.
- Today, Henry James is regarded as the pioneer of the “stream of consciousness” novels.
- Shakespearean sonnet has three quatrains and a couplet, being in a predominantly iambic metre rhyming ababcdcdefefgg.
- Thomas Hardy’s novels reflect the conflicts between the traditional and the modern, between the old rural value of respectability and honesty and the new utilitarian commercialism, between the old, false social moral and the natural human passion.
- What is Byron’s most famous and hugely successful satiric epic .Don Juan.
- In The Innocent (1990) Ian McEwan offers a serious recall of Second World War.
- The term “Metaphysical” was used to describe some poets’ work by the 18th-century critic Samuel Johnson.
- E. M. Forster published the book Aspects of the Novel in 1927.
- Jim Dixon is the hero of __________.
- Seamus Heaney was a Nobel Prize winner and one of the most important English poets in the_______.
- Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare’s romantic love comedies?
- ______ shows a particular concern for the destiny of women, especially those with great intelligence, potential and social aspirations.
- In many of Hardy’s novels, the fate of the characters is always driven by________.
- Which of the following is Edmund Spenser’s work?
- Peter Ackroyd’s first novel, The Great Fire of London (1982), is a reworking of Dickens’s _______.
- Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook contains ______ colored notebooks.
- “To err is human, to forgive, divine” comes from ______.
- In her novels, Jane Austen presents the quiet, day-to-day country life of _____.
- Daniel Defoe’s novels mainly focus on .
- Sour Sweet is written by ______.
- In 1925, with ______, Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Among the pioneers of the 18th century novelists were Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry fielding and _______.
- V. S. Naipaul won the Nobel Prize in ______.
- ______’s gift of analysis and philosophical reflection created a new kind of drama that has sometimes been named after him — Shavian.
- The novel The History of Mr. Polly is a _____.
- Metaphysical poets are characterized by ______in content and fantasticality in form.
- Which of the following are written by David Lodge?
- Shakespeare wrote a lot of romantic comedies like ________.
- The best of Ben Jonson’s “comedies of humors” include ______.
- In the 1930s and 1940s, the Great Britain witnessed the emergence of such realists as ____.
- Shakespeare’s fourth period is notable for the grave, serene romances like ______.
- ______belong to the second generation of Romantic poets.
- Which of the following works were written by John Ruskin ?
- Which of the following qualities endeared The Spectator to readers?
- Of Maugham’s 40 novels, the best ones include ___.
- The influential Welsh novels include _______.
- Charles Lamb’s diction is always ordinary, for he wrote essays in order to communicate with real life people.
- According to aesthetics of realism, literature aims for the truthful, accurate, and objective description of the ordinary and observable world.
- James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are the two best-known novelists of the “stream of consciousness” school.
- Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language was the first English dictionary.
- As one of Doris Lessing’s finest essays, “My Father” is collected in the book The Grass is Singing.
- Carlyle’s prose was emotional and forceful, notable for irony, humour, pathos, eloquence, metaphor and picturesque expression, and it contained clearness and ease.
- The period from 1945 to 1980 saw a great deal of experimentation with theatrical forms and techniques.
- The story of Tess is filled with a feeling of dismal foreboding and doom.
- In fact, the intention of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook is the questioning of “the true meaning of feminism”.
- Blake makes extensive use of symbolism in his poetry.
- Christopher Marlowe wrote some important plays, including Tamburlaine, The Jew of Malta, Hamlet, and Doctor Faustus.
- Oliver Goldsmith was famous for, the novel The Vicar of Wakefield.
- The Irish traditions of the power of the spoken word, especially in matters of religion, are present in Dylan’s poetry.
- During the early part of the Middle Ages there were no traces of theatrical activity.
- Fictionality is most commonly cited as distinguishing novels from historiography.
- John Gay’s fame mainly came from the delightful ballad-opera The Beggar’s Opera.
- The subjects of English romances are dealing with two types of historical material.
- In terms of its structure, Ulysses bears a resemblance to the Greek epic Odyssey.
- The heroine Tess in Tess of the D'urbervilles seems to be led to her final destruction step by step by ______, as Hardy says at the end of the novel: "Justice was done, and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess."
- _____ is a best example of metrical romance of the Anglo-Norman period which is a story of a compact made between a knight under king Arthur and a magic giant whose cut-off head can still speak and headless body can still mount the horse.
- Small World is ______’s novel.
- The modern English novel came into being in .
- In Victorian Age, ______became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.
- ______________ is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.
- Crusoe is the hero in The life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner by___________.
- Which of the following can't be included in the critical realists of the Victorian Period?
- The social significance of Gulliver's Travels lies in _____.
- Which of the following plays were written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan?
- Shakespeare’s great tragedies include ______.
- ____ had a far-reaching influence on the modern people’s mode of thinking and perception.
- Beowulf can be read as______.
- John Ruskin’s social and aesthetic thoughts have exerted deep influence on such writers as ______.
- _________literature is used to describe certain characteristics of________ literature and a reaction against___________ implicit in Modernist literature.
- The three characteristics of Maugham’s writing style are ______.
- Doris Lessing’ works include_____________.
- Which of the following works were written by Thomas Carlyle?
- Which of followings are the ends of The French Lieutenant’s Woman?
- Altogether, Yeats wrote eleven volumes of poetry, twenty-six plays, nine books of prose, five autobiographical volumes, and four volumes of philosophy. His chief poetic works include__________.
- In “The Garden Party,” the main characters include ___.
- Which of the following novels were written by Jane Austen?
- The famous plays of the Theatre of the Absurd are ______.
- Most of Thomas Hardy's novels are set in Wessex, .
- Fateful circumstances and tragic coincidences abound in the book of Jude the Obscure.
- Beowulf is one of the five early English poets whose names are known.
- The novel Of Human Bondage can’t be regarded as an initiation story at all.
- William Shakespeare and many dramatists of the time wrote tragedies, inspired by revenge plays such as Thomas Kid’s Spanish Tragedy.
- Iris Murdoch A. S. Byatt and Doris Lessing followed the tradition of “Novels of Ideas”.
- Samuel Johnson is regarded as the greatest man of letters in English history.
- Scott enlarged the novel's horizons by turning to romance as direct source material.
- “Lycidas” is one of several elegies in English.
- Hughes’s work is marked by a mythical framework.
- H. G. Wells never treated novels as vehicles of conveying thoughts.
- Woolf can be called a feminist modernist.
- Katherine Mansfield is a New Zealand-born writer.
- As a prose writer, Arnold was distinguished for his clear and polished style and his sober, scientific spirit, here and there enlivened by humour.
- Among Auden’s highly regarded skills was the ability to think in terms of both symbols and reality at the same time.
- John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman set the example for much of the writing of historical fiction from 1970s to 1990s.
- Chaucer is considered the “Father of English literature”.
- Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of human-analysis as its theoretical base.
- The female parts in Elizabethan plays were played by young apprentice boys.
- The period of Anglo-Saxon extended from about 449-1064, the year of the Norman-French conquest of England.
- According to Fowles, when writing historical novels, the author should pretend to live in that historical era.
- Chaucer is also credited with pioneering the regular use of iambic pentameter.
- In Keats’s work the struggle with aesthetic form becomes an image of a struggle for meaning against the limits of experience.
- John Bunyan (1628-1688) is a master of prose in the 17th century. His prose is formal in language and strange in style.
- Arcadia is a pastoral romance.
- Queen Elizabeth was an amateur linguist and at the heart of the English Renaissance in literature and arts was theatre.
- Joyce isn’t a scrupulous writer.
- Wordsworth’s poetry is concerned with the mysterious, supernatural and extraordinary world.
- The 19th century was not an age of great dramatists but of great stage performance and popular theatre.
- John Fowles designed five different endings for The French Lieutenant’s Woman for readers to choose.
- Postcolonial literature was at first labeled __________.
- Of Human Bondage is ___.
- Matthew Arnold’s reputation as a great prose writer mainly rests on his work ______.
- Which of the following plays written by Shakespeare is history play?
- The ______ in Europe began with the collapse of the Roman Empire.
- _____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.
- Sir Philip Sidney was best known for his poetry as well as his critical essay on poetry which entitled ______.
- The novel Sons and Lovers tells mainly about the complicated relations of ___ with his mother and his two sweethearts.
- Thomas De Quincey remains best known for a single work: ______.
- ______ was the only important playwright in the 18th century.
- Imaginary Homelands was written by ______.
- Richard Steele founded the first journal in England, namely, ______ , on 12 April 1709.
- In 1789 Blake created his first poetical works for which he is chiefly remembered: ______.
- In her novels, Jane Austen is particularly preoccupied with the relationship between_____
- All of the following are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England except______.
- Henry Fielding has been regarded as “______” for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern ______.
- In depiction of his characters, Dickens is famous for _______.
- ______’s style of prose is known as “Euphuism”.
- The time that women’s consciousness was consciously taken as the theme and literary works after _______.
- A. S. Byatt in Possession makes two Victorian poets Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte after the architypes of ______.
- Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize for Literature in ____.
- Britain began to build a “welfare state” after 1954.
- Most of “The Angry Young Men” are from ________.
- Malcolm Bradbury’s novels include ______.
- Which of following is regarded as the representative of “The Angry Young Men”?
- John Wayne and Kingsley Aymis’s novels became the precursors of “angry young men”.
- The novels of the “Angry Young Men” are also called “Social Satirical Comedy”.
- Iris Murdoch’s philosophical books include ______.
- Which of the following won Novel Prize for Literature?
- In 1990, _________ followed Margaret Thatcher as the Prime Minister.
- At the peak of British modernist fiction, there appeared such masters as ____.
- The three literary giants in the Edwardian Period include Herbert George Wells, Arnold Bennett, and ___.
- In the Edward Period, the Victorian values totally diminished.
- Virginia Woolf’s major novels include ___.
- Animal Farm isn’t an anti- Utopian novel.
- In the transition of British fiction from realism to modernism, major figures included ____.
- ____ proposed that both clock and psychological time should be measured.
- In the short lifetime, Mansfield produced more than 70 short stories, among which, ___ may be the best one.
- H. G. Wells is a prominent social satirist.
- Most of Henry James’ novels deal with the clashes between ____.
- Novel in the modern era usually makes use of a literary prose style .
- Thomas Hardy’s novel can be divided into three groups: Romances and Fantasies, Novels of Ingenuity and Novels of Character and Environment. The most important ones were the third group, among which Tess and ____ were very famous.
- Oliver Goldsmith was famous for his novel A Sentimental Journey.
- Daniel Defoe was regarded as the farther of epistolary novel.
- Which of the following novels were written by George Eliot?
- What are Thackeray’s greatest achievement in novel writing?
- Which of the following statements is true about Bronte sisters?
- Sir Walter Scott was among the first to draw upon religion as source material for his fiction and is generally cited as the father of the critical realism.
- Distinct achievements of Charles Dickens’ novels are the following EXCEPT________.
- What kind of elements should be taken into consideration when we analyze a novel?
- Which of the following prose works were written by Thomas Carlyle?
- ______ is sometimes called the third great Victorian poet, along with Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning.
- According to what we have discussed about English essay, which of the following genre can NOT be understood as Essay?
- Thomas Carlyle handled the English language as if it were completely raw material that he had to recast from the ground up.
- The 18th century witnessed the rising of magazines and the increasing popularity of essays.
- The reason why Maugham is so popular among the readers might be that his writting is complicated and confusing.
- Which of the following has been considered as the best specimen of the Old English prose？
- Senecan style of English prose emphasizes ______ and ______.
- Jonathan Swift shows his support for the rich English in A Modest Proposal.
- John Milton’s ______ (1644) is the first great plea in English for the freedom of the press.
- Morality plays used religious characters and religious themes to teach a moral lesson.
- ________ was considered the highest achievement of Oscar Wilde as a playwright.
- Macbeth has been the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays in the last 400 years. It was the firstof Shakespeare’s plays to be translated into Chinese.
- George Bernard Shaw’s plays include ________.
- Shakespeare is marked by his romantic comedies like ________.
- Beckett secured his position as a master dramatist on April 3, 1957 when his second masterpiece, _________, premiered (in French) at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
- In 1938, a film version of ________ earned Bernard Shaw an Academy Award for his screenplay.
- The first half of the 20th century also saw the attempted revival of drama in verse.
- The Rivals is generally recognized as one of the masterpieces of British Drama and the greatest of the 18th-century English comedy of manners.
- Christopher Marlowe wrote some important plays, including ________.
- The first professional non-dramatic poet in English is Alexander Pope.
- The author of Piers Plowman is ______.
- In 1923 Yeats was awarded______.
- “The Big Three” of Victorian poets are Tennyson, Browning and Keats.
- Beowulf is ______.
- Milton’s fame and reputation derive chiefly from______.
- Shakespearean sonnet is imported from______.
- The Canterbury Tales is the only work of Chaucer.
- ______ was the keystone of Shelley’s poetic achievement.
- What is the oldest literary form?Poetry.
- Which of the following is Not written by D. H. Lawrence?
- Shakespeare’s plays written between _____ are sometimes called “romances” and all end in reconciliation and reunion.
- Of the following poets, which is not regarded as “Lake Poets” ?
- Who wrote Waiting for Godot ?
- Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.
- Shakespeare's greatest tragedies include _____.
- The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.
- Joseph Conrad’s novels have groups: jungle novels, sea novels and political novels.
- Utopia was written in the form of _____.
- ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in about 1340.
答案:The Rainbow###Sons and Lovers###Women in Love###“Insouciance”
答案:Among the writers of the theatre of the absurd are______.###Harold Pinter###Jean Genet###Eugéne Ionesco
答案:1984###Animal Farm
答案:W. Schlegel###Coleridge###A. William Hazlitt
答案:Finnegans Wake###Ulysses###Dubliners###A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
答案:novel of ideas###social satires###science fiction
答案:Women in Love###The Rainbow###Lady Chatterley’s Lover###Sons and Lovers
答案:For the Time Being###The Age of Anxiety###The Sea and the Mirror
答案:The Painted Veil###The Moon and Sixpence###B.Of Human Bondage
答案:popular###prolific###high-paid
答案:错
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