英美文学部分选择题及问答题整理小抄
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1. The first mass movement of the English
working class and the early sign of the
awakening of the poor, oppressed people
is__D___.
D. The Chartist Movement
2.
Daniel Defoe's works are all the following
EXCEPT___B__.
B. A Tale of a Tub
3.
Poetryrefers to the works
of the 17th -
century writers who wrote under
the influence
of ___A__.
A. John Donne
4. The most
important play among
Shakespeare's comedies is
___B__.
B. The Merchant of Venice
5. The
most perfect example of the verse
drama after
Greek style in English is Milton's
__C___.
C. Samson Agonistes
6. Which of the
following descriptions of
Enlightenment
Movement is NOT true?D
A. It was a progressive
intellectual movement
that flourished in
France.
B. It was a furtherance of the
Renaissance of
the 15th and 16th centuries.
C. The purpose was to enlighten the whole
world with moderu philosophical and artistic
ideas.
D. The Enlighteners advocate
individual
education.
7. Neoclassicists
had some fixed laws and
rules for prose
EXCEPT__D___.
D. being satiric
8. A good
style of proseproper works in
proper
places
C. Jonathan Swift
9. The major
theme of Jane Austen's novels
is____D_.
D.
love and marriage
10. Wordsworth's___B__ is
perhaps the most
anthologized poem in English
literature.
B.
11. William Blake's work
__B___ marks his
entry into maturity.
B.
Marriage of Heaven and Hell
12. Best of all
the Romantic well- known
lyric pieces is
Shelley's__D___.
D.
13. In the Victorian
Period __B___ became
the most widely read and
the most vital and
challenging expression of
progressive thought.
B. novel
14. In
Charles Dickens'early novels, he
attacks one
or more specific social evils,
___B__is a good
example of describing the
dehumanizing
workhouse system and the
dark, criminal
underworld life.
B. Oliver Twist
15.
Thomas Hardy's most cheerful and idyllic
work
is__C___.
C. Under the Greenwood Tree
16.
The rise of __B___ and new science
greatly
incited modernist writers to make new
explorations on human natures and human
relationships.
B. the irrational
philosophy
D. social Darwinism
17. In
Modern English literature, the literary
interest of _____ lay in the tracing of the
psychological development of his characters
and in his energetic criticism of the
dehu-manizing effect of the capitalist
industrialization on human nature.D
D.D.H.
Lawrence
18. George Bernard Shaw's __A__ is a
better
play of the later period, with the
author's
almost nihilistic bitterness on the
subjects of
the cruelty and madness of WWI and
the
aimlessness and disillusion of the young.
A. Too True to Be Good
19. Renaissance
first started in Italy, with the
flowering of
the following fields
EXCEPT___A_.
A.
architecture
B. painting
C. sculpture
D. literature
20. English Romanticism,as a
historical phase
of literature,is generally
said to have begun
with the publication of
Wordsworth and
Coleridge's___C__.
C.
Lyrical Ballads
21. Charlotte Bront's work
_A__ is famous
for the depiction of the life
of the middle -
class working women,
particularly
governesses.
A. Jane Eyre
22. The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot is a poem
concerned with the ___A__ breakup of a
modern civilization in which human life has
lost its meaning, significance and purpose.
A. spiritual
23. Perhaps Emily
Dickinson's greatest
interpretation of the
moment of ___D_ is to
be found in heard a Fly
buzz--when I
died—a poem universally regarded
as one
of her masterpieces.
D. death
24. The fiction of the American ___A__
period ranges from the comic fables of
Washing-ton Irving to the social realism of
Rebecca Harding Davis.
A. Romantic
25. The modern __A___ technique was
frequently and skillfully exploited by
Faulkner to emphasize the reactions and inner
musings of the narrator.
A. stream - of -
consciousness
26. By means of
he has
turned the poem into an open
field, an area of
vital possibility where the
reader can allow
his own imagination to play.
B. free verse
27. In 1954, _A___ was awarded the Nobel
Prize for powerful style -forming mas
tery
of the art
A. Ernest Hemingway
28. The
period ranging from 1865 to 1914
has been
referred to as the Age of ___C__ in
the
literary history of the United States,
which
is actually a movement or tendency
that
dominated the spirit of American
literature.
C. Realism
29. When he was eighty - seven
he read his
poetry at the inauguration of
President John F.
Kennedy in 1961. This poet
was__B___.
B. Robert Frost
30. The
renowned American critic H. L.
Mencken
regarded __D___ as
of our national literature.
D. Mark Twain
31. We can easily find in
Theodore Dreiser's
fiction a world of jungle,
where
killedwas the law. Dreiser's __A___
found
expression in almost every book he
wrote.
A. naturalism
32. A preoccupation
with the Calvinistic view
of __C___ and the
mystery of evil marked the
works of Hawthorne,
Melville and a host of
lesser writers.
C.
original sin
33.
writer' s career:
no money, no friend in power,
no formal
education worthy of mention, no
family
tradition in letters. This is a
description
most suitable to the American
writer__B___.
B. Theodore Dreiser
34. People generally
considered __C___ to be
Henry James'
masterpiece, which incar nates
the clash
between the Old World and the New
in the life
journey of an American girl in a
European
cultural environment.
C. The Portrait of A
Lady
35. The Jazz Age of the 1920s
characterized
by frivolity and carelessness is
brought
vividly to life in____A__.
A. The
Great Gatsby
36. Guided by the principle of
adhering to the
truthful treatment of life,
the American
____D___ introduced industrial
workers and
farmers, ambitious businessmen and
vagrants,
prostitutes and unheroic soldiers as
major
characters in fiction.
D. realists
37. The American literary spokesman of the
Jazz Age is often acclaimed to be__D_____.
D.F. Scott Fitzgerald
38. By writing Moby
- Dick, ____A___
reached the most flourishing
stage of his
literary creativity.
A.
Herman Melville
39. Faulkner once said that
__B___ is a story
of
an intensification of
the theme of
imprisonment in the past.
B.
The Sound and the Fur y
40. Hawthorne was not
a Puritan himself, but
his view of man and
human history origina
ted, to a great extent,
in___B____.
B. Puritanism
41. Behold
her, single in the field,
Yon solitary
Highland lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts
and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy
strain;
O listen! For the Vale profound
Is
overflowing with the sound.
Questions:
A.
Identify the poet.
B. What' s the rhyme scheme
for the stanza?
C. What's the theme of the
poem?
答案 A. The poet of this poem is William
Wordsworth.
B. It’s an iambic verse, the
rhyme scheme for
the stanza is ababccdd.
C. This poem uses rural figures to suggest the
timeless mystery of sorrowful humanity and
its radiant beauty.
43. My little horse
must think it queer
To stop without a
farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen
lake
The darkest evening of the year.
Questions:
A. Identify the poet and the
title of the poem
from which this stanza is
taken.
B. What figure of speech is used in
this
stanza?
C. Briefly interpret the
meaning of this
stanza.
答案 A. The poet is
Robert Lee Frost and the
title of the poem is
“Stopping by Woods on a
Snowy Evening”.
B. personification
C. My little horse would
be very surprised
to find that I stopped in
the place where there
is no place to live in
and no food to eat, just
the woods and the
frozen lake.
44.
lady very sick.
Across the bay they found the other boat
beached. Uncle George was smoking a cigar
in the dark. The young Indian pulled the boat
way up on the beach. Uncle George gave both
the Indians cigars.
Questions :
A.
Identify the author and the title of the
work
from which the passage is taken.
B. What does
Dad imply when he says
C. Why is Dad going
to the Indian camp?
答案. A. The author is
Ernest Hemingway;
the title of the passage is
Indian Camp
B. Dad implies that we have to go
to the
Indian camp, because the patient is
heavily
sick.
C. Because there is a
woman who will give
birth to a baby in the
Indian Camp.
45. What' s the literary
style of Shelley as a
Romantic poet?
答：1).
Shelley expressed his love for freedom
and his
hatred toward tyranny in several of
his
lyrics.2). Shelley’s greatest achievement
is
his four-act poetic drama.3). Shelley is one
of the leading romantic poets, an intense and
original lyrical poet in the English Language.
He has a reputation as a difficult poet:
erudite,
imagistically complex, full of
classical and
mythological allusions. His
styles abound in
personification and metaphor
and other
figures of speech which describe
vividly what
we see and feel, or express what
passionately
moves us.
46. What are
the main features of Bernard
Shaw's plays with
regard to the theme,
charac-terization and
plot?
答：1). Structurally and thematically,
Shaw
followed the great traditions of realism.
As a
realistic dramatist, he took the modern
issues
as his subjects with the aim of
directing social
reforms.2). One feature of
Shaw’s
characterization is that he makes the
trick of
showing up one character vividly at
the
expense of another. Another feature is
that
Shaw’s characters are the representatives
of
ideas, points of view, that shift and alter
during the play, for Mr. Shaw is primarily
interested in doctrines. Presenting a
conventional hero as a villain, or a
conventional villain as a hero, Shaw intends
to give a shocking impression to his audience
and challenge the conventional way of
thinking. 3). Shaw’s plays have plots, but
they do not work by plots, the plot is usually
the disregarded backbone to one long,
unbroken conversation. It’s the vitality of
the
talk that takes primacy over mere story.
47. Henry James' literary criticism is an
indispensable part of his contribution to
literature. What's his outlook in literary
criticiam?
答：Henry James’s literary
criticism is an
indispensable part of his
contribution to
Literature. It’s both
concerned with form and
devoted to human
values. The theme of his
essay “The Art of
Fiction” clearly indicates
that the aim of the
novel is to present life, so
it is not
surprising to find in his writings
human
experiences explored in every possible
form:
illusion, despair, reward, torment,
inspiration, delight, and so on. He also
advocates the freedom of the artist to write
about anything that concerns him, even the
disagreeable, the ugly and the commonplace.
The artist should be able to “feel” the life,
to
understand human nature, and then to record
them in his own art form.
48.
Local colorism is a unique variation of
American literary realism. Who is the most
famous local colorist? What are local
colorists most concerned?
48. 答：Mark Twain
is the most famous local
colorist. Mark Twain
preferred to have his
own region and people at
the forefront of his
stories. He is
particularly concerned about the
local
character of a region. Mark Twain is not
the
only one whose works are characterized
with
local colors. There are also some other
people
whose works are characterized with
local
color. Generally, their writings are
concerned
with the life of small, well-defined
region or
province. The characteristic setting
is the
isolated small town. Local colorists
were
consciously nostalgic historians of a
vanishing way of life. Recorders of a present
that faded before their eyes, yet for all
their
sentimentality, they dedicated
themselves to
minutely accurate descriptions
of the life of
their regions. They worked from
personal
experience; they recorded the facts
of a
unique environment and suggested that the
native life was shaped by the curious
conditions of the locale. Their materials were
necessarily limited and topics disparate, yet
they had certain common artistic concerns.
49. Define modernism in English literature.
Name two major modernistic British writers
and list one major work by each.
49. 答：1). Modernism rose out of skepticism
and disillusion of capitalism. It takes the
irrational philosophy and the theory of
psycho-analysis as its theoretical base.
Modernism is, in many aspects, a reaction
against realism. It rejects rationalism. It
advocates a free experimentation on new
forms and new techniques in literary creation.
It casts away almost all the traditional
elements in literature. All the works created
by the modernist writers are often labeled as
anti-novel, anti-poetry, and anti-drama.
2). George Bernard Shaw and D. H.
Lawrence
both belong to this period and they
both made
great contributions to the English
Literature.
The masterpiece of George
Bernard Shaw is Mrs.
Warren’s Profession,
which is a play about the
economic
oppression of women. The major work
written by D. H. Lawrence is his
autobiographical novel “Sons and Lovers”. In
this play, the conflict between the earthy
coarse, energetic but often drunken father and
the refined, strong-willed and up-climbing
mother is vividly presented.
50. Briefly discuss the term Lost
Generationname the leading figures of
this
literary movement (Give at least three).
50.
答：In the Modern Period of
American Literature,
there was a
spiritual crisis. When the First
World
War broke out, many young men
volunteered to take part in “the war to
end wars” only to find that modern
warfare
was not as glorious or heroic
as they thought
it to be. Disillusioned
and disgusted by the
frivolous, greedy,
and heedless way of life in
America,
they began to write and they wrote
from their own experiences in the war.
Among the young writers were the
most
prominent figures in American
Literature,
especially in modern
American Literature. They
were
basically expatriates who left America
and formed a community of writers
and
artists in Paris, involved with other
European
novelists and poets in their
experimentation
on new modes of
thought and expression. These
writers
were later named by an American
writer, Gertrude Stein, also an
expatriate, “The Lost Generation”
Among
those greatest figures in “The
Lost
Generation” or modern American
literature are
famous poets such as
Ezra Pound, William
Carlos Williams,
and Robert Frost.
42. The following quotation is
from Mrs.
Warren's Profession:
VIVIE: [
intensely interested by this time] No;
but why
did you choose that business?
Saving money and
good management will
succeed in any business.
MRS. WARREN: Yes, saving money. But
where
can a woman get the money to save in
any other
business? Could you save out of
four shillings
a week and keep yourself
dressed as well? Not
you. Of course, if you'
re a plain woman and
cant earn anything
more or if you have a
turn for music, or the
stage, or newspaper -
writing that's
different...
Questions :
A. Identify the playwright of the above
quotation.
B. What business do you think
Mrs. Warren
is involved in?
C. What's the
theme of the play?
答案 A. The playwright of the
quotation is
George Bernard Shaw.
B. The
business in which she was involved
was to
provide sex services for others,
especially
for those men who have money.
C. The play is
concerned about the
economic oppression of
women.