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Basic knowledge concerning literature

Romantic Age – Essay and Novel

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1、单选题:
​Most of the English writers in the 18th century were Enlighteners. They fell into two groups, one is ______, and the other is ______.‎
选项:
A: the moderate group, the radical group  
B: the lake poets, the younger generation
C: the Metaphysical poets, the cavalier poets
D: the lake poets; the sentimentalists
答案: 【 the moderate group, the radical group  

2、单选题:
‎ “To err, is human, to forgive, divine” and “A little learning is a dangerous thing.” are taken from the poems written by ______.‌
选项:
A: John Milton   
B: Francis Bacon
C: William Shakespeare  
D:  Alexander Pope
答案: 【  Alexander Pope

3、单选题:
‌The “three units” is a literary principle used by the neo-classics in their works of _______.‍
选项:
A: poetry 
B: drama
C: essay       
D: novel
答案: 【 drama

4、单选题:
‎Under his pen, Defoe usually depicts _____ as main characters.‎
选项:
A: criminals
B: prisoners
C: thieves and prostitutes 
D:   All the above of A, B and C
答案: 【   All the above of A, B and C

5、单选题:
‎Robinson Crusoe is a ______.‌
选项:
A: historical novel 
B: satirical novel
C: realistic novel 
D: allegorical novel
答案: 【 realistic novel 

6、单选题:
‎Gulliver’s Travels is a ______.‌
选项:
A: sentimental novel
B: novel of satire and allegory
C: Gothic novel  
D: novel of stream of consciousness
答案: 【 novel of satire and allegory

7、单选题:
‏In which of the following works can you find the proper names of “Lilliput” “Brobdingnag” “Houyhnhnm” and “Yahoo”? ‎
选项:
A: James Joyce’s Ulsses. 
B: Charles Dickens’s Bleak House.
C: Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. 
D: D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love.
答案: 【 Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. 

8、单选题:
‌Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “_____ in prose,” the first to give the modern novel its structure and style. This is his contribution to novel writing.‍
选项:
A: tragic epic  
B: comic epic
C: romance  
D: lyric epic
答案: 【 comic epic

9、单选题:
‌Gulliver’s attitude toward the horse can be described as______.‎
选项:
A: criticizing       
B: disliking
C: praising 
D: all of the above
答案: 【 praising 

10、单选题:
‍Choose the novel which is not written by Henry fielding.‍
选项:
A: Joseph Andrews               
B: The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great
C: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
D: Pamela
答案: 【 Pamela

11、单选题:
‏______ found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Young and Gray, but it manifested itself in the novels of Sterne and Goldsmith.‏
选项:
A: Pre-romanticism  
B: Romanticism
C: Sentimentalism  
D: Naturalism
答案: 【 Sentimentalism  

12、单选题:
‌The School of Scandal is a ______.‎
选项:
A: tragedy
B: comedy of manners
C: novel   
D: romance
答案: 【 comedy of manners

13、单选题:
‌“The curfew tolls the knell of parting day;/The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea;/The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,/And leaves the world to darkness and to me” are poetic lines chosen from An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard, a famous poem written by _____, a representative poet of Graveyard School.‎
选项:
A: Thomas Gray
B: Edward Young
C: Laurence Sterne
D: Richardson
答案: 【 Thomas Gray

14、单选题:
‍As for the features of Sterne’s novels, _____ of the statements is not right.‌
选项:
A: He holds sentiment is more important than reason.
B: He gives detailed descriptions of the characters’ inner thought and feeling.
C: His characters are ordinary persons.
D: He likes to describe important people of upper classes.
答案: 【 He likes to describe important people of upper classes.

15、单选题:
‏“O MY Luve's like a red, red rose/ That's newly sprung in June:/O my Luve's like the melodie/ That's sweetly play'd in tune!” are poetic lines written in _____ dialect.‎
选项:
A: Scotch  
B:  Greek 
C: Welsh  
D: French
答案: 【 Scotch  

16、单选题:
​A Red, Red Rose is a______.‍
选项:
A: lyric ballad 
B: satirical poem
C: epic  
D: ode
答案: 【 lyric ballad 

17、单选题:
​Songs of Experience is a much maturer and the most important work of Blake. The poems show that the poet’s eyes are opened to the evils and vices of the world. Through symbolic method, Blake expresses his progressive democratic ideas. The best-known poems in the collection are _____.‎
选项:
A: The Tyger
B: London
C:  The Sweeper
D: All the above of A, B and C.
答案: 【 All the above of A, B and C.

18、单选题:
​The Romantic Age began with the publication of The Lyrical Ballads which was written by _____.‍
选项:
A: Wordsworth and Samuel Johnson
B: Wordsworth and Coleridge
C: Wordsworth and Southey
D: Wordsworth and Shelley
答案: 【 Wordsworth and Coleridge

19、单选题:
​The English Romantic Age produced two major novelists. They are _____.‍
选项:
A: George Gordon Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley
B: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C: Jane Austen and Walter Scott
D: Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
答案: 【 Jane Austen and Walter Scott

20、单选题:
‏The term "Lakers" is commonly used to name those romantic poets, such as Wordsworth, Coleridge and _____.‌
选项:
A: Southey
B: Thomas Kyd
C: Shelley 
D: Laurance Sterne
答案: 【 Southey

21、多选题:
‌Joseph Addison’s chief contribution to English literature lies in his essays written for ____.‏
选项:
A: The Tatler
B: The Spectator
C: The Evening 
D: The Morning
答案: 【 The Tatler;
The Spectator

22、多选题:
​Which of the following works are written by Daniel Defoe? _____‏
选项:
A: Captain Singleton 
B: Moll Flanders  
C: Colonel Jacque  
D:  Robinson Crusoe
答案: 【 Captain Singleton ;
Moll Flanders  ;
Colonel Jacque  ;
 Robinson Crusoe

23、多选题:
‍____ are written by William Blake.‌

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