William Shakespeare’ s greatest traged...

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John Milton’ s______is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.

A．Paradise Lost
B．Paradise Regained
C．Samson Agonistes
D．Areopagitica

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As the best of Shakespeare’ s final romances, ______is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.

A．The Tempest
B．The Winter’ s Tale
C．Cymbeline
D．The Rape of Lucrece

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_____writings paved the way for the use of scientific method.

A．George Bernard shaw
B．T. S. Eliot
C．Francis Bacon
D．Alexander Pope

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With classical culture and the______humanistic ideas coming into England, the English Renaissance began flourishing.

A．French
B．German
C．Italian
D．Greek

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In the early stage of the English Renaissance, poetry and______were the most outstanding literary forms and they were carried on especially by William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.

A．fiction
B．dramatic fiction
C．poetic drama
D．novel

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Shakespeare’ s ______ are mainly written under the principle that national unity under a mighty and just sovereign is a necessity.

A．history plays
B．tragedies
C．comedies
D．plays

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William Shakespeare’ s greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, , King Lear and.

A．Romeo and Juliet; Othello
B．Othello; Macbeth
C．The Tempest; Macbeth
D．Othello; Henry IV

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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．history plays

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"The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune"is an example of______.

A．metaphor
B．simile
C．irony
D．personification

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______’ s literary achievements can be divided into three groups: the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last great poems.

A．William Shakespeare
B．Christopher Marlowe
C．John Donne
D．John Milton

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The neoclassical period in English literature refers to the one between the return of the Stuarts to the English throne in 1660 and the full assertion of______ which came with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798.

A．Realism
B．Humanism
C．Romanticism
D．Neoclassicism

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English enlighteners in the 18th century held ______as the yardstick for the measurement of all human activities and relations.

A．war
B．history
C．reason
D．love

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Robinson Crusoe by ______ is universally considered as his masterpiece.

A．John Bunyan
B．Jonathan Swift
C．Henry Fielding
D．Daniel Defoe

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The best fictional work of Jonathan Swift is ______.

A．A Tale of a Tub
B．The Battle of the Books
C．A Modest Proposal
D．Gulliver’ s Travels

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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.

A．tragic epic
B．comic epic
C．romance
D．lyric epic

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______paints a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy tone.

A．Oliver Twist
B．A Tale of Two Cities
C．Songs of Innocence
D．Songs of Experience

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The three poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey once lived in the English Lake District, and became known as the "______. "

A．University Wits
B．Metaphysical Poets
C．Lake Poets
D．Lost Generation

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The Romantic Age began with ______published by Wordsworth and Coleridge.

A．Leaves of Grass
B．The Cantos
C．Nature
D．Lyrical Ballads

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Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth

A．I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
B．Composed upon Westminster Bridge.
C．The Solitary Reaper.
D．The Chimney Sweeper.

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Best of all the well-known lyric pieces written by P.B. Shelley is the poet’ s ______, here his rhapsodic and declamatory tendencies find a subject perfectly suited to them.

A．To a Skylark
B．The Cloud
C．Ode to the West Wind
D．Ode to a Nightingale

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Shelley’ s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama______.

A．Adonais
B．7b a Skylark
C．A Song: Men of England
D．Prometheus Unbound

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"Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;/Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!" The two lines are found in ______.

A．Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne
B．Ode to the West Wind by Shelley
C．Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
D．Ulysses by Joyce

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As a______writer, Jane Austen considers it her duty to express in her works a discriminated and serious criticism of life, and to expose the follies and illusions of mankind.

A．romantic
B．sentimental
C．pessimistic
D．realistic

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______is regarded as "worshipper of nature. "

A．Coleridge
B．Wordsworth
C．T. S. Eliot
D．Robert Browning

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Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques, writers in the Victorian Period shared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about______.

A．the fate of the upper class
B．the reformation of the government
C．the fate of the common people
D．the future of their family class

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Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the ______

A．Romantic Period
B．Renaissance Period
C．Neoclassical Period
D．Victorian Period

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All of the later works written by Charles Dickens, with the exception of______, present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England.

A．Bleak House
B．A Tale of Two Cities
C．Little Dorrit
D．Hard Times

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The novel Oliver Twist presents Oliver Twist as Charles Dickens’ first______hero.

A．female
B．male
C．child
D．imaginary

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Which of the following women does not belong to the famous Bronte Sisters

A．Mary Bronte.
B．Charlotte Bronte.
C．Emily Bronte.
D．Anne Bronte.

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Charlotte Bronte’ s works are all about the stmggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization , about some lonely and neglected______with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.

A．young man
B．young women
C．children
D．old people

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The success of the novel______is due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine.

A．Wuthering Heights
B．Pride and Prejudice
C．Jane Eyre
D．Sister Carrie

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Thomas Hardy’ s novels are all Victorian in date. Most of them are set in ______, the fictional primitive and crude rural region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.

A．Sussex
B．Wessex
C．Casterbridge
D．Oxford

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______ believes that man’ s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of "nature, " both inside and outside.

A．Charles Dickens
B．Thomas Hardy
C．Bernard Shaw
D．T. S. Eliot

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The French______, appearing in the late 19th century, heralded modernism.

A．romanticism
B．realism
C．modernism
D．symbolism

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______takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base.

A．Symbolism
B．Romanticism
C．Realism
D．Modernism

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In his novels of social satire, ______made realistic studies of the aspirations and frustrations of the "Little Man."

A．Arnold Bennett
B．H. G. Wells
C．John Galsworthy
D．George Bernard Shaw

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______is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since William Shakespeare.

A．George Bernard Shaw
B．Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C．Christopher Marlowe
D．John Donne

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Which of the following best describes the speaker of T. S. Eliot’ s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

A．He is a man of inactivity.
B．He is a man of kindness.
C．He is a man of action.
D．He is a man of ambition.

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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, " in a form of dramatic monologue, presents the meditation of an aging______man over the business of proposing marriage.

A．grown
B．lunatic
C．old
D．young

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The statement "A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons" sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence’ s______.

A．Women in Love
B．Sons and Lovers
C．Lady Chatterley’s Lover
D．The Plumed Serpent

William Shakespeare’ s greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, ______, King Lear and______.

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John Milton’ s______is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.

As the best of Shakespeare’ s final romances, ______is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.

_____writings paved the way for the use of scientific method.

With classical culture and the______humanistic ideas coming into England, the English Renaissance began flourishing.

In the early stage of the English Renaissance, poetry and______were the most outstanding literary forms and they were carried on especially by William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.

Shakespeare’ s ______ are mainly written under the principle that national unity under a mighty and just sovereign is a necessity.

William Shakespeare’ s greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, ______, King Lear and______.

The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer’ s day" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’ s ______.

"The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune"is an example of______.

______’ s literary achievements can be divided into three groups: the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last great poems.

The neoclassical period in English literature refers to the one between the return of the Stuarts to the English throne in 1660 and the full assertion of______ which came with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798.

English enlighteners in the 18th century held ______as the yardstick for the measurement of all human activities and relations.

Robinson Crusoe by ______ is universally considered as his masterpiece.

The best fictional work of Jonathan Swift is ______.

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.

______paints a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy tone.

The three poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey once lived in the English Lake District, and became known as the "______. "

The Romantic Age began with ______published by Wordsworth and Coleridge.

Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth

Best of all the well-known lyric pieces written by P.B. Shelley is the poet’ s ______, here his rhapsodic and declamatory tendencies find a subject perfectly suited to them.

Shelley’ s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama______.

"Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;/Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!" The two lines are found in ______.

As a______writer, Jane Austen considers it her duty to express in her works a discriminated and serious criticism of life, and to expose the follies and illusions of mankind.

______is regarded as "worshipper of nature. "

Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques, writers in the Victorian Period shared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about______.

Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the ______

All of the later works written by Charles Dickens, with the exception of______, present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England.

The novel Oliver Twist presents Oliver Twist as Charles Dickens’ first______hero.

Which of the following women does not belong to the famous Bronte Sisters

Charlotte Bronte’ s works are all about the stmggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization , about some lonely and neglected______with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.

The success of the novel______is due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine.

Thomas Hardy’ s novels are all Victorian in date. Most of them are set in ______, the fictional primitive and crude rural region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.

______ believes that man’ s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of "nature, " both inside and outside.

The French______, appearing in the late 19th century, heralded modernism.

______takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base.

In his novels of social satire, ______made realistic studies of the aspirations and frustrations of the "Little Man."

______is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since William Shakespeare.

Which of the following best describes the speaker of T. S. Eliot’ s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, " in a form of dramatic monologue, presents the meditation of an aging______man over the business of proposing marriage.

The statement "A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons" sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence’ s______.

William Shakespeare’ s greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, , King Lear and.

William Shakespeare’ s greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, , King Lear and.