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I. Complete the following statements with a proper word or a phrase. (20=1*20)
1. Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the most important figures in English literature, achieved his fullest artistic power in his masterpiece __________.
2. Shakespeare wrote his sonnets in iambic pentameter, with the rhyming scheme of ___________.
3. A________ is a far-fetched and ingenious extended comparison used by metaphysical poets to find unusual analogies for the poet’s ideas in the startlingly esoteric or the shockingly commonplace – not the usual stuff of poetic metaphor.
4. “Nine times the space that measures day and night / To mortal men, he with his horrid crew / Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf / Confounded though immortal.” Here the “he” refers to ______, the evil angel who defies the authority of God in heaven.
5. _______ is remembered to be the father of English novel.
6. Johnson Swift’s masterpiece, Gulliver’s Travels, is divided into ______ parts according to the different remote places that he goes.
7. With the publication of William Wordsworth’s ________in collaboration with S. T. Coleridge, romanticism began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of English Literature.
8. Byron is chiefly known for his two poems, one of which is “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” and the other is _______.
9. ______is Shelley’s well-known political lyric which sings highly of the revolutionary force.
10. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend, __________, appeared after the romantic poetry.
11. The greatest English realist of the 19th century was ____________who pictures bourgeois civilization, and shows the misery and sufferings of the common people.
12. The Victorian Age in English literature was largely an age of prose, especially of the ________.
13. The most important poet of the Victorian Age was ________. Next to him were Robert Browning and his wife.
14. In The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde portrays 2 “_______” who leads a double life or otherwise engages in an elaborate deception that allows them to misbehave and seem virtuous at the same time.
15. The Masterpiece of Joseph Conrad is ______, which has been seen as a scathing indictment of colonialism and which gazes unflinchingly into the depths of despair, human exploitation and suffering.
16. The Waste Land has been hailed as __________’s masterpiece—the supreme triumph of the poetic art in modern times.
17. There are altogether _________ languages are used in The Waste Land, which makes the poem all the more different to comprehend.
18. Araby, as most other short stories by James Joyce, has ________ as the setting of the story.
19. ________tells the story of a boy’s gift for picking the winners in horse rac
es. An omniscient narrator relates the tale of a boy whose family is always short of money.
20. A (An) _______is a literary work in which characters, events, objects, and ideas have secondary or symbolic meanings.
II. Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Make your choice by writing the corresponding letter A，B, C or D on the answer sheet. (20=2*10)
1. According to the general prologue of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims go to Canterbury to ___________
A. To meet King Henry III B. To see a medieval mystery play
C. To worship the relics of Saint Thomas Becket D. have an outing in the spring time.
2. “To be or not to be – that is the question”, is a line taken from ____________.
A. Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest B. John Milton’s Paradise Lost
C. George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion D. William Shakespeare’s Hamlet
3. The following statements about Paradise Lost are true EXCEPT __________.
A. It is Milton’s masterpiece; B. It is a great epic in 12 books;
C. It is written in free verse; D. The stories were taken from the Old Testament.
4. In Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver arrives on his last journey an unknown land which is populated by ________, rational-thinking horses who rule, and by _______, brutish humanlike creatures who serve the_________.
A. Houyhnhnms…Yahoos…Houyhnhnms; B. Yahoos…Houyhnhnms…Lilliputians
C. Yahoos…Houyhnhnms…Yahoos D. Lilliputians…Houyhnhnms…Lilliputians
5. “The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, / If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” This is taken from ________.
A. Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind B. Keat’s Ode to a Nightingale
C. Byron’s The Isles of Greece D. Milton’s Paradise Lost
6. The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ______.
A. prose B. drama C. novel D. poetry
7. The following poets belong to the Active Romantic group except ____________.
A. George Gordon Byron B. William Wordsworth C. Percy Bysshe Shelley D. John Keats
8. William Wordsworth, Coleridge and ________ are known as the “Lake Poets”.
A. George Gordon Byron B. William Wordsworth C. Robert Southey D. John Keats
9. The statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is quoted from _____________
A. Ode on Melancholy B. Ode to Psyche C. Ode on a Grecian Urn D. To Autumn
10. The following plays belong to Bernard Shaw’s The Unpleasant volume EXCEPT __________
A. Arms and the Ma
e. The Professor
6. ( )Charlotte Bronte f. Children of Violence
7. ( )Oscar Wilde g. Lord Jim
8. ( )Bernard Shaw h. Persuasion
9. ( )D. H. Lawrence i. Captain Singleton
10. ( )Joseph Conrad j. Major Barbara
Ⅳ. Read the following and answer the questions below. (40=10*4)
Passage 1:
O my luve is like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my luve is like the melodie
That’s sweetly played in tune.
As fair thou art , my bonie lasso,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.
Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear ,
An the rocks melt wi’ the sun;
And I will luve thee still , my dear,
While the sands o’life shall run.
And fare thee weel,my only luve,
And fare thee weel awhile;
And I will come again, my luve,
tho’it were ten thousand mile!
Questions:
1. The poem is entitled____________, written by ______________. (2 points)
2. The theme of the poem is about ________. (2 points)
3. The poem is written in _________dialect. (2 points)
4. The odd-numbered lines are iambic tetrameters while the even-numbered lines are iambic __________. (2 points)
5. The rhyme scheme of the poem is _________. (2 points)
Passage 2:
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“She’s stark naked,” said Stanley, sounding annoyed.
Harry, the oldest, a man of about forty-five, said: “Looks like it.”
Young Tom, seventeen, said nothing, but he was excited and grinning.
Stanley said: “Someone’ll report her if she doesn’t watch out.”
“She thinks no one can see," said Tom, craning his head all ways to see more.
At this point the woman, still lying prone, brought her two hands up behind her shoulders with the ends of her scarf in them, tied it behind her back, and sat up. She wore a red scarf tied around her breasts and brief red bikini pants. This being the first day of the sun she was white, flushing red. She sat smoking, and did not look up when Stanley let out a wolf whistle. Harry said: “Small things amuse small minds,” leading the way back to their part of the roof, but it was scorching. Harry said: “Wait, I’m go
emed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
…
Questions:
1. Identify the author and the work. (2 points)
2. What is the meaning of “being blind”? (2 points)
3. “Her image” refers to the image of ______. (2 points)
4. In the underlined part, “my chalice” refers to ________, and “a throng of foes” refer to __________. (2 points)
5. What is the tone of the writing? (2 points)
V. Provide answers to the following questions. (10=2.5*4)
1. What is “stream of consciousness”? Give examples to illustrate. (2.5 points)
2. What is “blank verse”? Give examples to illustrate. (2.5 points)
3. What is “allegory”? Give examples to illustrate. (2.5 points)
4. Make comment on the sentence in Hardy’s Tess of the D’urbervilles: “‘Justice’ was done, and the President of the immortals had ended his sport with Tess”. (2.5 points)