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The belief of the eighteenth-century neoclassicists in England led them to seek the following EXCEPT______.

"Graveyard School" writers are the following sentimentalists of______.

A．James Thomson and William Collins
B．William Collins and William Blake
C．Robert Burns and James Thomson
D．Thomas Jackson and James Thomson

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The most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English is Samson Agonistes by______.

A．John Milton
B．William Blake
C．Henry Fielding
D．William Wordsworth

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The first period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and ______.

A．Elizabethan drama
B．poetry
C．reformation
D．assimilation

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It is generally believed that the most important play among Shakespeare’ s comedies is______.

A．A Midsummer Night’s Dream
B．As You Like It
C．Twelfth Night
D．The Merchant of Venice

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____, an elaborate and fantastic story, is known as the best of the final romances written by William Shakespeare.

A．The Tempest
B．Venus and Adonis
C．Henry IV
D．Romeo and Juliet

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_____is not written by John Milton.

A．Samson Agonistes
B．Paradise Lost
C．Paradise Regained
D．Dr. Faustus

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The 18th-century England is known as the Age of______in the history.

A．Romanticism
B．Classicism
C．Renaissance
D．Enlightenment

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_____described by Daniel Defoe is 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．Gulliver
C．Robinson
D．Moll Flanders

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In which of the following works can you find the proper names "Lilliput, " " Brobdingnag, " "Houyhnhnm" and "Yahoos"

A．The Pilgrim’s Progress.
B．The Faerie Queene.
C．Gulliver’s Travels.
D．The School of Scandal.

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Tom Jones, the full title being The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, is generally considered the masterpiece of______.

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

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The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic period is______.

A．drama
B．prose
C．poetry
D．novel

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______novel, a type of romantic fiction that predominated in the late eighteenth century, was one phase of the Romantic movement. Its principal elements are violence, horror, and the supernatural, which strongly appeal to the reader’ s emotion.

A．Gothic
B．Sentimental
C．Pastoral
D．Romantic

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The tone of literature in "Songs of Experience" by William Blake is______.

A．melancholy
B．lovely
C．plain
D．utter

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The English Romantic Age began with the publication of Lyrical Ballads which was written by______.

A．William Wordsworth
B．Wordsworth and Coleridge
C．George Gordon Byron
D．Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Wordsworth thinks that______is the only subject of literary interest.

A．nation
B．past experience
C．common life
D．nature

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In his lyrics such as "Ode to Liberty, " "Ode to Naples, " Percy Bysshe Shelley expressed his love for______and his hatred toward tyranny.

A．the middle class
B．the poor
C．freedom
D．the proletariat

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In______’ s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, the speaker literally stops his horse in the winter twilight to observe the beauty of the forest scene, and then is moved to continue his journey.

A．Robert Lee Frost
B．William Faulkner
C．Ezra Pound
D．Percy Bysshe Shelley

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______mainly tells of the love story between a rich, proud young man Darcy and the beautiful and intelligent Elizabeth Bennet.

A．Jane Eyre
B．Wuthering Heights
C．Pride and Prejudice
D．Oliver Twist

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Among the famous novelists of the Victorian period were the critical realists like ______, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Mrs. Gaskell and Anthony Trollope, etc.

A．Jonathan Swift
B．Charles Dickens
C．John Keats
D．Jane Austen

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In 1925 Dreiser’ s greatest work______appeared. But it was banned in Boston in 1927.

A．An American Tragedy
B．The Stoic
C．The Financier
D．The Titan

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"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless — You think wrong! —I have as much soul as you—and full as much heart! ..." This part of quotation comes from______.

A．G.B. Shaw’ s Mrs. Warren’ s Profession
B．John Galsworthy’ s The Man of Property
C．Charlotte Bronte’ s Jane Eyre
D．Jane Austen’ s Pride and Prejudice

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Tess of the D’ Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’ s best known novels, portrays man as______.

A．being hereditarily either good or bad
B．having no control over his own fate
C．being self-sufficient
D．still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion

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______among "the Angry Young Men" novelist in the mid-1950s and early 1960s was the first to start the attack on middle-class privileges and power in his novel Lucky Jim.

A．John Wain
B．Kingsley Amis
C．John Braine
D．Alan Sillitoe

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In 1948, ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

A．W. B. Yeats
B．D. H. Lawrence
C．Hemingway
D．T. S. Eliot

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______is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.

A．Ulysses
B．The Waste Land
C．The Confidential Clerk
D．Dubliners

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Of the following works by D. H. Lawrence, ______established his position as a prominent novelist.

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

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The desire for a return to______became a permanent convention of American literature.

A．the family life
B．nature
C．the ancient time
D．fantasy of love

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Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’ s novel______.

A．The House of the Seven Gables
B．The Scarlet Letter
C．Moby-Dick
D．Daisy Miller

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Beside symbolism, all the following qualities EXCEPT ______ are fused to make Melville’ s Moby-Dick a world classic.

A．narrative power
B．optimistic view of life
C．speculative agility
D．psychological analysis

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______ shaped the world ’ s view of America and made a more extensive combination of American folk humor and serious literature than previous writers had ever done.

A．Henry James
B．Washington Irving
C．Theodore Dreiser
D．Mark Twain

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In his The Art of Fiction, ______clearly indicates that the aim of the novel is to present life.

A．Henry James
B．Mark Twain
C．Theodore Dreiser
D．William Dean Howells

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In general, the 19th-century American woman poet______wanted to live simply as a complete independent being.

A．Emily Bronte
B．Emily Dickinson
C．Anna Dickinson
D．Emily Shaw

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______possessed none of the usual aids to a writer’ s career; no money, no friend in power, no formal education worthy of mention, no family tradition in letters.

A．Theodore Dreiser
B．W.D. Howells
C．Nathaniel Hawthorne
D．Henry James

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In______, Robert Frost compares life to a journey, and he is doubtful whether he will regret his choice or not when he is old, because the choice has made all the difference.

A．After Apple-Picking
B．The Road Not Taken
C．Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
D．Fire and Ice

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The "iceberg" analogy is______’ s style.

A．T. S. Eliot
B．Ernest Hemingway
C．John Steinbeck
D．William Faulkner

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Faulkner once said that ______ is a story of "lost innocence, " which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.

A．Intruder in the Dust
B．The Sound and the Fury
C．A Rose for Emily
D．Go Down, Moses

It is generally believed that the most important play among Shakespeare’ s comedies is______.

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It is generally believed that the most important play among Shakespeare’ s comedies is______.

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_____described by Daniel Defoe is a typical English middle-class man of the eighteenth-century , the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.

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Tom Jones, the full title being The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, is generally considered the masterpiece of______.

The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic period is______.

______novel, a type of romantic fiction that predominated in the late eighteenth century, was one phase of the Romantic movement. Its principal elements are violence, horror, and the supernatural, which strongly appeal to the reader’ s emotion.

The tone of literature in "Songs of Experience" by William Blake is______.

The English Romantic Age began with the publication of Lyrical Ballads which was written by______.

Wordsworth thinks that______is the only subject of literary interest.

In his lyrics such as "Ode to Liberty, " "Ode to Naples, " Percy Bysshe Shelley expressed his love for______and his hatred toward tyranny.

In______’ s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, the speaker literally stops his horse in the winter twilight to observe the beauty of the forest scene, and then is moved to continue his journey.

______mainly tells of the love story between a rich, proud young man Darcy and the beautiful and intelligent Elizabeth Bennet.

Among the famous novelists of the Victorian period were the critical realists like ______, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Mrs. Gaskell and Anthony Trollope, etc.

In 1925 Dreiser’ s greatest work______appeared. But it was banned in Boston in 1927.

"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless — You think wrong! —I have as much soul as you—and full as much heart! ..." This part of quotation comes from______.

Tess of the D’ Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’ s best known novels, portrays man as______.

______among "the Angry Young Men" novelist in the mid-1950s and early 1960s was the first to start the attack on middle-class privileges and power in his novel Lucky Jim.

In 1948, ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

______is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.

Of the following works by D. H. Lawrence, ______established his position as a prominent novelist.

The desire for a return to______became a permanent convention of American literature.

Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’ s novel______.

Beside symbolism, all the following qualities EXCEPT ______ are fused to make Melville’ s Moby-Dick a world classic.

Most of the poems in______sing of the "en-masse" and the self as well.

______provides the main source of influence on American naturalism.

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______ shaped the world ’ s view of America and made a more extensive combination of American folk humor and serious literature than previous writers had ever done.

In his The Art of Fiction, ______clearly indicates that the aim of the novel is to present life.

In general, the 19th-century American woman poet______wanted to live simply as a complete independent being.

______possessed none of the usual aids to a writer’ s career; no money, no friend in power, no formal education worthy of mention, no family tradition in letters.

In______, Robert Frost compares life to a journey, and he is doubtful whether he will regret his choice or not when he is old, because the choice has made all the difference.

The "iceberg" analogy is______’ s style.

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