英国文学复习题
单选
1. The Renaissance Period was an age of ____ .
A. prose and novel
B. poetry and drama
C. essays and journals
D. ballads and songs
2. The first place visited by Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travel is ______.
A. The kingdom of the Houyhnhnms
B. Laputa
C. Brobdingnag
D. Lilliput
3. Which poet belongs to the Radical Romantic group?
A. Wordsworth
B. Milton
C. Shelley
D. Coleridge
4. Which of the following is one of William Shakespeare's history plays?B
A. Macbeth
B. Henry IV
C. Romeo and Juliet
D. King Lear
5. Which of the following historical events did NOT directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement?C
A. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.
B. The new discoveries in geography and astrology.
C. The Glorious Revolution.
D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.
6. The one who tempts Eve to eat an apple from the forbidden tree is _____.
A. God
B. Satan
C. Adam
D. Raphael
7. Daniel Defoe describes _______ as a typical English middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire-builder or the pioneer colonist.
A. Tom Jones
B. Lemuel Gulliver
C. Moll Flanders
D. Robinson Crusoe
8. The sentence ―Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?‖ is the beginning line of
one of Shakespeare's ________ .
A. comedies
B. tragedies
C. sonnets
D. histories
9. _________ was NOT written by Jane Austen.
A. Pride and Prejudice
B. Jane Eyre
C. Emma
D. Mansfield Park
10. The Canterbury Tales consists of three parts: they are: _______, 24 tales (two of which were left unfinished) and separate prologues to each tale with links, comments, quarrels etc. in between.A
A. The General Prologue
B. The Foreword
C. The Preface
D. The Nun‘s Tale
11. _____was the first buried in the Poet‘s Corner of Westminster Abbey.
A. Robert Southey
B. Francis Bacon
C. William Shakespeare
D. Geoffrey Chaucer
12. In the last twenty years of the 18th century, England produced two great romantic poets. They are _____.
A. Johnson and Blake
B. Gray and Young
C. Pope and Goldsmith
D. Blake and Burns
13. Hamlet is a man of genius, highly accomplished, educated and ______.A
A. hesitant
B. dynamic
C. purposeful
D. optimistic
14. _______ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the author‘s early life.B
A. Tom Jones
B. David Copperfield
C. Oliver Twist
D. Great Expectations
15. Hardy is one of the representatives of English ________ at the turn of the 19th
century.
A. critical realism
B. pre-romanticism
C. neo-classicism
D. new romanticism
16. Oscar Wilde‘s character who magically stays forever young and beautiful is named _______.
A. Jos Sedley
B. Paul Morel
C. Angel Clare
D. Dorian Gray
17. The Romantic Period began with the publication of the Lyrical Ballads which was written by _______.
A. William Wordsworth
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. Wordsworth and Coleridge
18. The epic poem Beowulf is the oldest surviving work of English Literature. It was written in _______.D
A. sonnets
B. ballads
C. heroic couplets
D. alliteration
19. The father of the school of Metaphysical poets is _______.
A. Thomas More
B. Edmund Spenser
C. John Donne
D. Thomas Wyatt
20. Which group of poets did not come from the same country ?
A. Li Bai , Wang Wei , and Su Dongpo
B. William Wordsworth , Robert Frost and William Shakespeare B
C. John Keats , John Donne , and John Milton
D. Lord Byron, William Shakespeare and John Keats
1. _____ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.A
A. Thomas Wyatt
B. William Shakespeare
C. Phillip Sidney
D. Thomas Campion
2. The Renaissance was a period of ____ .
A. prose and novels
B. poetry and drama
C. essays and journals
D. ballads and songs
3. _____was the first buried in the Poet‘s Corner of Westminster Abby.
A. Robert Southey
B. Francis Bacon
C. William Shakespeare
D. Geoffrey Chaucer
4. What was George Eliot‘s real name?
A. Hannah More
B. Anna Laetitia Barbauld
C. Julia Kristeva
D. Mary Ann Evans
5. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.
A. Piers Plowman
B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C. Confessio Amantis
D. The Canterbury Tales
6. ?I Travelled Among Unknown Men‘ by William Wordsworth gives an account of the poet‘s .C
A. disillusionment with English life
B. lasting commitment to revolutionary ideals
C. rejection of revolutionary ideals
D. sympathy with the English working class
7. In which of the following works can you find the proper names ―Lilliput,‖ ―Brobdingnag,‖ ―Houyhnhnm,‖ and ―Yahoo‖?
A. James Joyce's Dubliners
B. Charles Dickens's Bleak House
C. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love
8. Which of the following is one of William Shakespeare's history plays?
A. Macbeth
B. Henry IV
C. Romeo and Juliet
D. King Lear
9. Which of the following is NOT a part of Thomas Hardy‘s fictional region of Wessex?B
A. Somerset
B. Glasgow
C. Wiltshire
D. Devonshire
10. ―To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield‖ is the last line of which poem?D
A. Browning‘s ?My Last Duchess‘
B. Hardy‘s ?At Castle Boterel‘
C. Byron‘s ?She Walks in Beauty‘
D. Tennyson‘s ?Ulysses‘
11. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray presents a world in which nobody is heroic and there is very little good to be said about anyone. We would describe this novel as______.A
A. cynical
B. lyrical
C. optimistic
D. didactic
12. The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare's ________.
A. comedies
B. tragedies
C. sonnets
D. histories
13. “And where are they? And where art thou,
My country? On thy voiceless shore
The heroic lay is tuneless now-
The heroic bosom beats no more!‖
In the above stanza, ―art thou‖ literally means _______ .
A. ―are you‖
B. ―art though‖
C. ―are though‖
D. ―art you‖
14. The most prominent writers of the Romantic period, such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats and Byron, are most famous for having produced .
A. plays
B. poetry
C. novels
D. short stories
15. A novel that ends with all the good characters rewarded and all the bad characters punished is an example of .D
A. naturalism
B. modernism
C. stream-of-consciousness writing
D. poetic justice
16. ―Water, water everywhere / Nor any drop to drink.‖ These lines by Samuel Taylor Coleridge are________.B
A. comical
B. ironic
C. elegiac
D. allegorical
17. What historical event directly inspired Percy Bysshe Shelley‘s poem ?The Masque of Anarchy?‘C
A. The abolition of the slave trade
B. The Declaration of American Independence
C. The Peterloo Massacre
D. Queen Victoria‘s Coronation
18. Oscar Wilde‘s character who magically stays forever young and beautiful is named _______.
A. Jos Sedley
B. Paul Morel
C. Angel Clare
D. Dorian Gray
19. The father of the school of Metaphysical poets is _______.
A. Thomas More
B. Edmund Spenser
C. John Donne
D. Thomas Wyatt
20. The epic poem Beowulf is the earliest surviving work of English Literature. It was written in _______.C
A. sonnets
B. ballad form
C. alliteration
D. heroic couplets
判断
21. Chaucer‘s plan for The Canterbury Tales was an ambitious one. Each pilgrim was to tell two stories on the way to Canterbury and two on the return journey to London. The poet died, however, before his plan was realized and instead of the proposed 128 stories, he wrote only 24.
22. Shakespeare is the first person who made the London vernacular the language of his work, thus making it the foundation for modern speech and establishing English as the literary language of his country.
23. Bunyan‘s The Pilg rim’s Progress is the first important novel in English Literature.
24. Beowulf eulogized the heroic deeds of Teutonic people and the best of their qualities—valor, the love of glory, honor, and duty.
25. Currer Bell, Ellis Bell and Acton Bell were the men‘s names under which Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte and Anne Bronte first published their works.
26. A sonnet is a poem that celebrates in the form of a continuous narrative the achievements of one or more heroic personages of history or tradition.
27. Samuel Taylor Coleridge suffered from a serious drug addiction, which made him
a difficult man to be friends with.
28. Classical myth is one of the sources for Milton‘s Paradise Lost.
29. The modern novel took shape in the early 18th century. Defoe, Fielding and Richardson belong to the first generation of novelists.
30. James Joyce was inspired by Virginia Woolf‘s pioneering use of the stream-of -consciousness technique, and he went on to use it on his own writing.
T21. Samuel Taylor Coleridge suffered from a serious drug addiction, which made him a difficult man to be friends with.
F22. The poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley portrays a flourishing empire ever-growing in strength and greatness, symbolizing Shelley‘s own patriotic pride in Britain‘s status as a mighty world power.
F23. A sonnet is a poem that celebrates, in the form of a continuous narrative, the
achievements of one or more heroic personages of history or tradition.
F24. Shakespeare is the first person who made the London vernacular the language of his work, thus making it the foundation for modern speech and establishing English as the literary language of his country.
F25. James Joyce was inspired by Virginia Woolf‘s pioneering use of the stream-of -consciousness technique, and he went on to use it on his own writing.
T26. Currer Bell, Ellis Bell and Acton Bell were the men‘s names under which Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte and Anne Bronte first published their works.
T27. The modern novel took shape in the early 18th century. Defoe, Fielding and Richardson belong to the first generation of novelists.
T28. A poem about the simple beauty and peace of countryside life is called a pastoral.
T29. Beowulf eulogized the heroic deeds of Teutonic people and the best of their qualities—valour, the love of glory, honour and duty.
T30. Robert Browning‘s ?My Last Duchess‘ and Oscar Wilde‘s The Picture of Dorian Gray both tell stories in which a painted portrait plays a central part.
名词解释
1.Realism: The attempt in literature and art to represent life as it really is, without sentimentalizing or idealizing it. Realism shows the ills of society as the product of human choice or conscious human agency, and understands good and evil as presences that exist and act upon us. In this way it is different from naturalism, which emerged from realism and sees all human behaviour as the result of forces which man cannot change and over which he holds no influence. Realist writing often depicts the everyday life and speech of ordinary people.
2 Sonnet: A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. A sonnet generally expresses a single theme or idea, though it may build to it by first proposing a counter-argument which is then refuted. This turning-point in a sonnet is called a volta. Sonnets began in Renaissance Italy and were introduced to England by Sir Thomas Wyatt, whereupon they enjoyed immense popularity during the Elizabethan era. They have come into fashion again at several other stages in literary history, such as in the nineteenth century. There are two principal forms of sonnets: the Petrachan or Italian, and the English of Shakespearean.
3. Poetry: The most distinctive characteristic of poetry is form and music. Poetry is concerned with not only what is said but how it is said. Poetry evokes emotions as much as it expresses facts. Imagination is also an essential quality of poetry. Poetry often leads us to new perceptions, new feelings and experiences of which we have not previously been aware.
4. Renaissance: Literally meaning ―rebirth,‖ this term originally indicated a revival of classical (Greek and Roman) arts and sciences after the dark ages of medieval obscurantism. The movement began in Italy in the 16th century and spread across Europe, bringing with it new ideas about art, literature and culture. In England the Renaissance coincided with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and the career of William Shakespeare, two of the greatest figures in that country‘s history, and so it is considered a golden age for English Literature.
41. Enlightenment: With the advent of the 18th century, in England as in other European countries there sprang into life a public movement known as the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment on the whole was an expression of struggle of the then progressive class of the bourgeoisie against inequality, stagnation, prejudices and the other relics of feudalism. This class attempted to place all branches of science at the service of mankind by connecting them with the actual deeds and requirements of the people.
42. Romanticism: A movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music and art in Western culture during the 19th century.
43. Dramatic monologue: A kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to one or more listeners whose replies are not given in the poem. The incident that is the subject of the poem is usually one that defines the speaker‘s personality.
44. Stream of consciousness: ―Stream-of-Conscio usness‖ or ―interior monologue‖ is a modernist literary technique. It is a style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character‘s thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories and mental images as the character experiences them. It was first used in 1922 by the Irish novelist James Joyce, whose novels broke through the bounds of time and space and depicted vividly and skillfully the unconscious activity of the mind fast changing and flowing, particularly the hesitant, misted, distracted and illusory psychology of people forced to face reality. The American writer William Faulkner successfully advanced this technique. In his stories, action and plot were less important than the reactions and inner musings of the narrators. Time sequences were often dislocated. The reader feels himself to be a participant in the stories, rather than an observer. A high degree of emotion can be articulated by this technique.
3. Rhythm: It is one of the three basic elements of traditional poetry. It is the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern. Rhythm often gives a poem a distinct musical quality. Poets also use rhythm to echo meaning.
4. Tragedy: In its original meaning, a play that ends with the death of the hero or heroine (the opposite of ―comedy,‖ whose original meaning is a play that ends in a marriage). The more general meaning of ―tragedy‖ today is similar: any literary work in which the protagonist meets an unhappy or disastrous end. Unlike comedy, tragedy depicts the actions of a central character who is usually dignified or heroic.
文学评论
1 Directions: Describe the Victorian period in English literature.
Historical background: Queen Victoria was born in 1819 and came to the throne in 1837, when she was only eighteen. She died in 1901 after ruling for 63 years and seven months, which is the longest reign of any British monarch and also the longest of any female ruler in history.
1) On the one hand, Britain was powerful during Victoria‘s reign, enjoying a vast flourishing of empire and colonies all around the world.
2) The poor in Victorian times suffered greatly, however, with widespread disease, starvation and mistreatment by the authorities. Living and working conditions were very hard, especially in industrial areas. Many realist narratives by the likes of Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell were intended to teach readers about the plight of the industrial poor, and to emphasize the urgent need to better their situation. These are known as ―Condition of England‖ novels.
3) The Victorians also observed a damaging policy of sexual repression, where sex was considered proper only within matrimony and was a taboo subject for discussion even there. Predictably, this did not eradicate the sexual urge but drove it underground, with the result that prostitution, sexually transmitted disease and sex-related crimes ran rampant throughout the Victorian period.
4) Inequality between the genders was rife. Women were so undervalued as citizens that many female writers, including George Eliot and the Bronte sisters, had to use male pseudonyms in order to secure publication.
5) Rigid class distinctions existed, with upper-class ―ladies and gentlemen‖ enjoying great wealth, living by hidebound customs and displaying arrogant pomposity. The working classes meanwhile suffered greatly under poverty, and were treated with amusement and contempt.
6) Religious hypocrisy caused great suffering among the lower classes.
2 Directions: Analyze the following paragraph.
45. A Tale of Two Cities（2‘）
46. Charles Dickens（2‘）
47. The French Revolution. （2‘）
48. Charles Dickens was the greatest English critical realist novelist in England. (14‘)
(a) The critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the 1840s and in the beginning of the fifties. The realists first and foremost set themselves the task of criticizing capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and delineated the crying contradictions of bourgeois reality.
(b) Dickens‘novels offer the most complete and realistic picture of the English bourgeois society of his age. They reflect the protest of the people against capitalist exploitation and criticize the vices of capitalist society.
(c) Dickens was a petty bourgeois intellectual. He could not overstep the limits of his class. He believed in the moral self-perfection of the wicked propertied classes. He failed to see the necessity of a bitter struggle of the oppressed against their oppressors. He displays a definite favour towards a reconciliation of the contradictions of capitalist society.
(d) Almost all his novels have happy endings. He is one of the most famous proponents of poetic justice.
(e) His novels tell much of the experiences of his childhood.
(f) Dickens is a great humorist. His novels are full of comedy and laughter. Directions: Analyze the following poem.
1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2‘); ?Sonnet 43‘ /―How Do I Love Thee?‖ (2‘)
2. Robert Browning (2‘)
3. Sonnets from the Portuguese (2‘)
4. This poem is a sonnet. A sonnet is a 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme and meter (usually iambic pentameter). This poetry format–which forces the poet to wrap his thoughts in a small, neat package–originated in Sicily, Italy, in the 13th Century with the sonnetto (meaning little song), which could be read or sung to the accompaniment of a lute.
Browning's Sonnet Series
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) wrote a series of 44 sonnets, in secret, about the intense love she felt for her husband-to-be, poet Robert Browning. She called this series Sonnets from the Portuguese, a title based on the pet name Robert gave her: "My Little Portuguese." "Sonnet 43" was the next-to-last sonnet in this series. Rhyme Scheme and Divisions
The rhyme scheme of "Sonnet 43" is as follows: Lines 1 to 8–ABBA, ABBA; Lines 9 to 14–CD, CD, CD. Lines 1-8 draw analogies between the poet's love and religious and political ideals; lines 9-14 draws analogies between the intensity of love she felt while writing the poem and the intensity of love she experienced earlier in her life. Then it says that she will love her husband-to-be even more after death, God permitting.
Meter ："Sonnet 43" is in iambic pentameter
Theme: Intense Love
"Sonnet 43" expresses the poet‘s intense love for her husband-to-be, Robert Browning. So intense is her love for him, she says, that it rises to the spiritual level (Lines 3 and 4). She loves him freely, without coercion; she loves him purely, without expectation of personal gain. She even loves him with an intensity of the suffering (passion: Line 9) resembling that of Christ on the cross, and she loves him in the way that she loved
saints as a child. Moreover, she expects to continue to love him after death. (12‘)
英国文学期末考试题目(英语专业必备)
.. ;.. 一．中古英语时期 Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language, and the most important specimen (范例、典范)of Anglo-Saxon literature, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language. The romance is a popular literary form in the medieval period（中世纪）. It uses verse or prose to sing knightly a dventures or other heroic deeds. Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the greatest English poets, whose masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales（《坎特伯雷故事集》）,was one of the most important influences on the development of English literature. Chaucer is considered as the father of English poetry and the founder of English realism. 二．文艺复兴Renaissance Renaissance r efers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It marks a transition(过渡) from the medieval to the modern world. It started in Italy with the flowering of painting, sculpture（雕塑）and literature, and then spread to the rest of Europe. Humanism is the essence of Renaissance -----Man is the measure of all things. This was England’s Golden Age in literature. Queen Elizabeth r eigned over the country in this period. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance i s the Elizabethan drama. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance E ngland are Christopher Marlowe and W illiam Shakespeare. The greatest of the pioneers of English drama was Christopher Marlowe. Francis Bacon was the best known essayist of this period. “Of Studies” is the most popular of Bacon’s 58 essays. Thomas More ——Utopia Edmund Spenser——The Faerie Queene 相关练习 1. Which is the oldest poem in the English language? A. Utopia B. Faerie Queene C. Beowulf D. Hamlet 2. _____ is the father of English poetry. A. Edmund Spenser B. William Shakespeare C. Francis Bacon D. Geoffrey Chaucer 3. ____ is not a playwright during the Renaissance period on England. A. William Shakespeare B. Geoffrey Chaucer C. Christopher Marlowe D. Ben Johnson 三．莎士比亚William Shakespeare “All t he world 's a stage, a nd all the men and women merely p layers.”——William Shakespeare William Shakespeare is considered the greatest playwright in the world and the finest poet who has written in the English language. Shakespeare understood people more than any other writers. He could create characters that have
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考试课程：英国文学史及选读考核类型：A 卷 考试方式：闭卷出卷教师: XXX 考试专业：英语考试班级：英语xx班 I.Multiple choice (30 points, 1 point for each) select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. 1._____，a typical example of old English poetry ,is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons. A.The Canterbury Tales B.The Ballad of Robin Hood C.The Song of Beowulf D.Sir Gawain and the Green Kinght 2._____is the most common foot in English poetry. A.The anapest B.The trochee C.The iamb D.The dactyl 3.The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event? A.The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture. B.England’s domestic rest C.New discovery in geography and astrology D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion 4._____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language. A.The Pilgrims Progress B.Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners C.The Life and Death of Mr.Badman D.The Holy War 5.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is _____. A.science B.philosophy C.arts D.humanism 6.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets18)What does“this”refer to ? A.Lover. B.Time. C.Summer. D.Poetry. 7.“O prince, O chief of my throned powers, /That led th’ embattled seraphim to war/Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds/Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual king”In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton’s Paradise Los t, the phrase“thy conduct”refers to _____conduct. A.God’s B.Satan’s C.Adam’s D.Eve’s
英国文学期末复习题目
I. Each of the following below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would bet complete the statement. 1. The long poem ______ in Anglo-Saxon period was termed England’s national epic. A. The Canterbury Tales B. Paradise Lost C. The Song of Beowulf D. The Fairy Queen 2. Romance, which uses verse or prose to describe the adventures and life of the knights, is the popular literary form in ______. A. Romanticism B. Renaissance C. medieval period D. Anglo-Saxon period 3. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of____. A. Piers Plowman B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight C. Confessio Amantis D. The Canterbury Tales 4. _______ is regarded as the father of English poetry. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Edmund Spenser C. John Milton D. W. Wordsworth 5. It is _____ alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Martin Luther C. William Shakespeare D. John Gower 6. One of Chaucer’s main contributions to English poetry is ______. A. he introduced the rhymed stanzas from France to English poetry B. he created striking brilliant panorama of his time and his country C. he wrote in blank verse D. he was the first to write sonnet 7. During the Renaissance, _______ was the first one to introduce the sonnet into English poetry. A. Chaucer B. John Donne C. Thomas Wyatt D. Earl of Surrey 8. During the Renaissance, _______ wrote the first English blank verse. A. Chaucer B. Edmund Spencer C. Thomas Wyatt D. Earl of Surrey 9. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement？ A. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture B. The new discoveries in geography and astrology C. The Glorious revolution D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion 10. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events. Which one of the following is NOT such an event? A. The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture. B. England’s domestic rest C. New discovery in geography and astrology. D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion. 11. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ______ and ______ centuries. A. 14th...mid-17th B. 14th...mid-18th C. 16th...mid-18th D. 16th...mid-17th 12. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is_______. A. science B. philosophy C. arts D. humanism 13. _______ frequently applied conceits in his poems. A. Edmund Spenser B. John Donne C. William Blake D. Thomas Gray 14. _______ is known as “the poet’s poet”. A. William Shakespeare B. Christopher Marlowe C. Edmund Spenser D. John Donne 15. Romance，which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of____ adventures or other heroic deeds，is a popular literary form in the medieval period. A. Christian B. knightly C. pilgrims D. primitive 16. ________ and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanism. A. Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe B. Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe
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英国文学问答题Shakespeare: Questions: I.1. Why sleep is so frightening, according to Hamlet, since it can “end” the heartache and the thousand natural shocks”? 2. Why would people rather hear all the sufferings of the world instead choosing death to get rid of them, according to Hamlet? 3. What, after all, makes people lose their determination to take action? Please explain in relation to the so-called hesitation of Hamlet. II. 1. What does Romeo compare Juliet to in the beginning passage of the selection? 2. What is Romeo and Juliet’s attitude toward being a Montague or a Capulet? 3. What does Romeo mean when he says “Look thou but sweet, /And I am proof against their enmity”? Answers for reference: I. 1. Nobody can predict what he will dream of after he falls asleep. 2.Death is so mysterious that nobody knows what death will bring to us. Maybe bitter sufferings, great pains, heartbreaking stories… 3.1) Conscience and over-considerations. 2) He wants to revenge, but doesn’t know how; 2) He wants to kill his uncle, but find it too risky; 3) He lives in despair and wants to commit suicide, 4)however, he knows if he dies, nobody will comfort his father’s ghost. He is in face of great dilemma.
英国文学期末考试题目(英语专业必备)
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