Part One English Poetry

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1、单选题:
‏1. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. It was ____ who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama. ‎‏‎
选项:
A: Christopher Marlowe
B: Thomas Lodge
C: Edmund Spenser
D: Thomas More
答案: 【 Christopher Marlowe

2、单选题:
‎2. Choose the one which is not Edmund Spenser’s work. ‎‎‎
选项:
A: The Shepherd’s Calendar
B: Astrophel and Stella
C: The Faerie Queene
D: Amoretti
答案: 【 Astrophel and Stella

3、单选题:
‍3. Elizabethan poetry is remarkable. England then became “a nest of singing birds”. The famous poets of that period included Edmund Spenser and the following except ____. ‏‍‏
选项:
A: Thomas Wyatt  
B: Henry Howard
C: Philip Sidney
D: John Lyly
答案: 【 John Lyly

4、单选题:
‎4. ____ and the Authorized Version of the English Bible are the two great treasuries of the English language. ‌‎‌
选项:
A: Geoffrey Chaucer 
B: Edmund Spenser
C: William Shakespeare
D: Ben Jonson
答案: 【 William Shakespeare

5、单选题:
‌‎‌5. The Faerie Queene is an epic written in ____.‎‌‎
选项:
A: Spenserian stanza  
B: blank verse
C: heroic couplet  
D: sonnet
答案: 【 Spenserian stanza  

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1、单选题:
​Ben Jonson’s comedies are “comedies of ____”. Every character in his comedies personifies a definite “humour”.‎​‎​‎
选项:
A: humours  
B: manners
C: characters
D: errors
答案: 【 humours  

2、单选题:
‍The following are Ben Jonson’s main works except ____. ‍‍‍‍‍
选项:
A: Every Man in His Humour  
B: Volpone
C: The Alchemist  
D: The Merchant of Venice
答案: 【 The Merchant of Venice

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1、单选题:
‍1. ____ is the first important religious poet in English literature.‍‍‍
选项:
A: John Donne     
B: George Herbert
C: Caedmon  
D: John Milton
答案: 【 Caedmon  

2、单选题:
‌2. ____ is a far-fetched metaphor in which a very unlikely connection between two things is established. John Donne employs them extensively in his poetry.‏‌‏
选项:
A: conceit  
B: Metonymy
C: The Baroque 
D: An allegory
答案: 【 conceit  

3、单选题:
‌3. The following were the important metaphysical poets except ____. ‌‌‌
选项:
A: John Donne 
B: George Herbert
C: Andrew Marvell
D: Richard Lovelace
答案: 【 Richard Lovelace

4、单选题:
4. ____ is the founder of the Metaphysical school of poetry. ‏‏‏‏
选项:
A: John Donne   
B: George Herbert
C: Andrew Marvell      
D: Henry Vaughan
答案: 【 John Donne   

5、单选题:
‎5. ____ wrote the lives of John Donne, George Herbert and other personages to his liking, which marked a new departure in the development of English biography, based on observation and research and containing records of personal traits. ‌‎‌
选项:
A: Robert Burton 
B: Sir Thomas Browne
C: Jeremy Taylor 
D: Izaak Walton
答案: 【 Izaak Walton

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1、单选题:
‎Choose the poet who does not belong to the Cavalier group: ____. ​‎​‎​
选项:
A: Sir John Suckling 
B:  Richard Lovelace
C: George Herbert   
D: Robert Herrick
答案: 【 George Herbert   

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1、填空题:
‌In 1648 Herrick published his poems in a thick volume with the two titles of ____ and ____.‌‌‌
答案: 【 Hesperides Noble Numbers

2、填空题:
‏As a core component of the so-called “ Cavalier Poets”, Herrick’s  poetry mainly falls on the traditional theme of  ____.‏
答案: 【 carpe diem

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1、单选题:
‌Metaphysical poetry is notable for its surprising _________ (奇喻).‏
选项:
A: paradoxes
B: conceits
C: imagery
D: symbols
答案: 【 conceits

2、单选题:
‎George Herbert is called "the __________ of the Metaphysical school".‏
选项:
A: founder
B: pioneer
C: saint
D: hero
答案: 【 saint

3、单选题:
‌At the beginning of the poem, the poet compares the sweet day to the wedding of the earth and sky. Here, __________ is used.​
选项:
A: metaphor
B: simile
C: personification
D: hyperbole
答案: 【 metaphor

4、单选题:
​"But though the whole world turn to coal, / Then chiefly lives" allude to __________.‏
选项:
A: the Greek myth
B: the Bible
C: Shakespeare's plays 
D: John Donne's poetry
答案: 【 the Bible

5、单选题:
‍In the line "Only  a sweet and virtuous soul, /Like seasoned timber, never gives", the poet uses not only allusion but __________ to convey his idea.‍
选项:
A: metaphor
B: simile
C: paradox
D: understatement
答案: 【 simile

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1、单选题:
‎Milton's poetry has a  __________ style, noted for its sublimity of thought and majesty of expression.‎
选项:
A: mighty
B: gentle
C: exquisite
D: grand
答案: 【 grand

2、单选题:
​Milton's masterpiece Paradise Lost is written in __________.‍
选项:
A: blank verse
B: sonnet
C: heroic couplet
D: terza rima
答案: 【 blank verse

3、单选题:
‍"Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint" is written in __________ sonnet form with the rhyme scheme of abba abba cdcdcd.‏
选项:
A: English
B: Italian
C: Shakespearean
D: Spenserian
答案: 【 Italian

4、单选题:
‎"The Old Law" in the sixth line refers to the __________ law.​
选项:
A: Venitian
B: criminal
C: Mosaic
D: civil
答案: 【 Mosaic

5、单选题:
‌The reversed conception of day and night in the last line is a famous __________.‌
选项:
A: oxymoron
B: parodox
C: hyperbole
D: allusion
答案: 【 parodox

随堂测验16

1、单选题:
​William Blake was a representative of Pre-romantic school, who was often called “the most  __________ artist”.‌
选项:
A: spiritual
B: professional
C: outstanding
D: artificial
答案: 【 spiritual

2、单选题:
‍The famous lines "To see a world in a grain of sand/And a heaven in a wild flower, / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand / And eternity in an hour" are chosen from Blake's long poem __________.‍
选项:
A: Songs of Experience
B: Songs of Innocence
C: Auguries of Innocence
D: Poetical Sketches
答案: 【 Auguries of Innocence

3、单选题:
‌The rhythm of the poem "The Tiger" is very strong and forceful, thus often called the "__________ music".‍
选项:
A: blacksmith
B: folk
C: hitting
D: anvil
答案: 【 anvil

4、单选题:
‍"The Tiger" is a symbolic poem with many implicaitons, in which the __________ may be taken as a symbol of violence and rebellion.‎
选项:
A: tiger
B: Lamb
C: night
D: forest
答案: 【 tiger

5、单选题:
‌"The Lamb" in the twentieth line refers to __________, usually a symbol of obedience and peace.‎
选项:
A: English revolution
B: Satan
C: Jesus
D: Adam
答案: 【 Jesus

随堂测验17

1、单选题:
‌__________ and George Gordon Byron are regarded as the two great poets of the revolutionary romanticism in England.‎
选项:
A: Percy Bysshe Shelley
B: John Keats
C: William Wordsworth
D: John Donne
答案: 【 Percy Bysshe Shelley

2、单选题:
‌“___________” is one of Shelley’s great lyrics written in Italy in 1819.‍
选项:
A: To the Skylark
B: Ode to the West Wind
C: One Word is Too often Profaned
D: How Do I Love Thee
答案: 【 Ode to the West Wind

3、单选题:
​“Ode to the West Wind” is an __________ written in a complicated fusion of the sonnet and terza rima with an interlocking rhyme scheme (aba bcb cdc ded ee) of four 3-line groups and a final couplet. ‌
选项:
A: elegy
B: sonnet
C: ode
D: bla

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