判断题-英国文学

判断题-英国文学

1. The progress of bourgeois economy made England a powerful state and

enabled her in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible Armada. T

2. The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a

political guise. F

3. Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by the

Catholic churches. F

4. Shakespeare’s sonnets are divided into three groups: Numbers 1—17,

Numbers 18—126, and Numbers 127—154. T

5. Shakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of virtues. T

6. Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time. T

7. To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majestic with the

funny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with the comic. T

8. Utopia is More’s masterpiece, written in the form of letters between More

and Hythloday, a voyage. F

9. Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But the

upper class was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre. T

10. From Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took a

great interest in the political questions of his time. T

11. Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing a

process of prosperity. F

12. English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age

of prose. F

13. Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist society. F

14. English literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish on the whole. F

15. The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it produced a

great poet whole name is William Milton. F

16. The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama. F

17. Among the English poets during the Revolution Period, John Donne was the

greatest one. F

18. The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lost, is written in heroic

couplets. F

19. The 18th century was an age of poetry. A group of excellent prose writers,

such as Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, were produced.

F

20. Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. The main characters in

the novels were no longer common people, but the kings and nobles. F

21. The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two

groups: the sentimentalist novelists and the realist novelist. F

22. Robert Burns is remembered mainly for his songs written in the English

dialect on a variety of subjects. F

23. My Heart’s in the Highlands is one of the best known poems written by

Robert Burns in which he pored his unshakable love for his homeland. T

24. Many of Goldsmith’s poems were put to music. F

25. Pre-romanticism is ushered by Burns and Blake and represented by Percy,

Macpherson and Chatterton. F

26. English Romantic literature started from mid-18th to the early 19th century. F

27. Jane Austen is one of the greatest romantic woman novelists. T

28. After composing the Lucy poems, Wordsworth began his The Prelude . T

29. P.B. Shelley gained his nickname, “Mad Shelley” because of his independent

and rebellious attitude. T

30. Lyrical Ballads begins with Coleridge’s long poem, “Tintern Abbey”. F

31. Many of the subjects of the poems in Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of

nature. T

32. Coleridge wrote the majority of poems in Lyrical Ballads. F

33. Wordsworth’s “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud” has another name, Growth of

a Poet’s Mind. F

34. The Prelude is a long and autobiographical poem considered as Coleridge’s

masterpiece. F

35. Some romantic writers stood on the side of the feudal forces and even

combined themselves with those forces. T

36.

37. Fateful circumstances and tragic coincidences abound in the book of Jude the

Obscure. F

38. James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are the two best-known novelists of the

“stream of consciousness” school. T

56. With the establishment of the Jacobin dictatorship in France, Wordsworth’s

attitude toward revolution changed into active. ( F )

57．In the revised version of Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge held that poetry is the

“spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”. ( F )

58. Romanticism is a literary trend. It prevailed in England in the period

(1798---1832) ( F )

59. The ideals of French Revolution are liberty, democracy, and equality. ( F )

6. The brilliant literary criticism “Biographia Literaria” is written by

Wordsworth. ( F )

60. A Tale of Two Cities belongs to the first writing phase of Dickens’s career,

and the two cities are London and Paris. ( F )

61. Symbolism, Surrealism, Imagism, Expressionism, etc, all belong to School of

Modernism. ( T )

62. The Rainbow is D. H. Lawrence’s autobiographical work. ( T )

63. Chaucer employed the heroic couplet in writing his greatest work The

Canterbury tales. T

64. Shakespeare’s plays have been traditionally divided into four categories

according to dramatic type: histories, comedies, tragedies and romances. T

65. John Milton’s Paradise Lost opens with the description of a meeting among

the fallen angels, and ends with the departure of Adam and Eve from the

Garden of Eden. T

66. “ Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, / And the rocks melt wi’ the sun: / I will

luve thee still, my dear, / While the sands of life shall run.” The above lines

are taken from the famous poem “Scots Wha Hae”. F

67. In Gulliver’s Travels, Yahoos are the creatures living in Houyhnynms. T

68. As an age of romantic enthusiasm, the Romantic Age began in 1789 when

Wordsworth and Coleridge published Lyrical Ballads. F

69. Odes are generally regarded as Keats’ most important and mature works. T

70. Wuthering Heights is written by Ann Bronte. It is a morbid story of love, but

a powerful attack on the bourgeois marriage system. F

71. The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle

between Protestant and Catholicism. T

72. The Bible was notably translated into English by the Protestants. T

73. Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has had a great

influence on English language and literature. T

74. Rationalism is the theme of the English Renaissance, which emphasized the

capacities of human mind and the achievements of human nature. F

75. Sonnets contain Italian sonnets and Shakespeare sonnets. T

76. The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its novel.

F

77. In the 16th century, London became the centre of English drama. T

78. In the Elizabethan Theater, there were no actress and women’s parts were

always taken by boys. T

79. Shakespeare’s drama becomes a monument of the English neo-classicism. F

80. The Pilgrim’s Progress gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which

is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration. T

81. John Milton’s masterpiece, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegory, a narrative

in which general concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are represented as

people or as aspects of the natural world. F

82. Satan is the hero in Milton’s masterpiece The Pilgrim’s Progress. F

83. English enlighteners believed in the emmotion. F

84. English enlighteners believed that social problems could be dealt with by

human intelligence. T

85. Sameul Johnson’s A Dictionary of English Language also marked the end of

English writers’ reliance on the patronage of noblemen for support. T

86. In describing Robinson’s life on the island, Defoe glorifies human labor. T

87. In a sense, in English Romantic Age, literature equaled poetry. T

88. William Wordsworth was influenced by the American Independence War. F

89. Many subjects of Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of nature. T

90. Lyrical Ballads a joint work of Wordsworth and his friend Southey. F

91. The publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 marks the beginning of the

Romantic Movement in England. T

92. The publication of Lyrical Ballads marked the break with classcism. T

93. The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer

Robert Soughey died. F

94. The English Romantic period produced two major novelists: Walter Scott

and Jane Austen. T

95. In 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge finished his literary criticism, Biographia

Literaria. T

96. Wordsworth’s poetry is distinguished by the simplicity of his language. T

97. The first poem in the collection The Lyrical Ballads is Coleridge’s masterpiece.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. T

98. On the death of Robert Southey in 1843, Wordsworth was made poet laureate.

T

99. George Gordon Byron is chiefly known for his two long poems: One is Childe

Harold’s Pilgrimage, the other is Don Juan. T

100. Dickens’ writings from 1836 to 1841 show the characteristic of youthful

optimism. T

101. Dickens’ writings from 1842 to 1850 show the character of excitement

and irritation. T

102.

Dickens’ writings from 1852 to 1870 show the feature of optimism. F