2012文学史大纲

2012文学史考试题型及范围

一题型

Part One: Multiple Choice 25 % 【25个】

Part Two: Define the Literary Terms 15% 【5 个】

Part Three: Match the Writers with their Work 10 % [10 个]

Part Four: General Questions 20% 【2 个】

Part Five: Reading 30 %

二范围

I. Definition

1)Dramatic monologue

2)Sentimentalism

3)Transcendentalism

4)Puritanism

5)Byronic Hero

6)Local Colorism

7)Classicism

8)Harlem Renaissance

9)Stream of consciousness

10)The beat generation

II. General Questions 20% 【2 个】

1.What are the factors that lead to the development of novels in the 18th century England?

2.English critical realism: definition, its features, novelists writing in this trend.

3.Pre-romanticism: definition, its features, ushered in by whom? Represented by whom? their

contributions

4.Features of Burns of Poetry

5.What is the modern wasteland? Who are the writers that have painted the modern waste land? What

is their purpose in painting such a wasteland?

III. Reading

1.The Melancholy of Hamlet p.87

2.The Traveller, p. 184-185; The Deserted Village, p. 185-186

Break, Break, Break p.338

3. Robert Frost, 198-199

3.

Poetry Appreciation 样题

IV. Critical Analysis

(1)Study the following poem and answer the questions given.

In a Station of the Metro

Ezra Pound

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough.

*Apparition: 幽灵, 突然景象，

Petal: 花瓣

1. This poem is written in ___free verse____. The writer Ezra Pound is a strong proponent and

advocator of the ___imagist ____movement as an opposition to the strict conventions of

__Romantic and Victorian __ poetry. Ezra Pound’s poetic language is usually_ rhythmic ____

and it often bears the quality of __music_. In this poem, Ezra Pound appeals to _visual sense_ to

create the image of the fleeting faces of the passengers in a station of the metro. (0.5×6) 3%

选择题:共100题【匹配题目也从该部分出】

1.____________, a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded as the national epic of the

Anglo-Saxons

A. The Wife’s Complaint

C. The Dream of the Rood

D. The Seafarer

2.The Elizabethan ______________, in its totality, is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance

A. Poetry

B. novel

C. humanism

3.______________Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for

knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the devil.

B. Ben Johnson

C. William Shakespeare

D. Sheridan

4.Shakespeare’s most read historical play is the first and second part of ____________.

A. Henry V

B. Richard II Richard III

5.________________, the best of his final romances, is a typical example of Shakespeare’s pessimistic

view toward human life and society in his late years.

B. King Lear

C. Cymbeline

D. Pericles

6._____________ is the leading figure of the metaphysical school.

A. John Milton C. John Bunyan D. John Keats

7._____________ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.

A. Paradise Regained

C. Samson Agonistes

D. The Faerie Queence

8.____________________ is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.

A. Genesis A

B. Exodus D. The Holy War

9.___________had perfected the heroic couplet and __________ had successfully used it in his plays.

B. Dryden, Alexander Pope

C. Shakespeare, Alexander Pope

D. Edmund Spencer, Dryden

10.____________ has been regarded as “Father of the English novel” for his contribution to the

establishment of the form of the modern novel.

A. John Bunyan C. Daniel Defoe D. Jonathan Swift

11.______________brings Henry Fielding the name of the “Prose Homer”.

A. The Pilgrim’s Progress C. Robinson Crusoe D. Colonel Jack

12._____________ was the only important dramatist of the 18th century for his The School for Scandal

A. Alexander Pope

C. Samuel Johnson

D. George Bernard Shaw

13.____________ is generally regards as an important link between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and

those of Bernard Shaw.

B. The Duenna

C. Widowers’ Houses

D. The Doctor’s Dilemma

14.Which of the following is not written by Oliver Goldsmith? _________

B. The Deserted Village

C. The Citizen of the World

D. The Vicar of Wakefiled

15.Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is regarded as the most representative work of______________.

A. the Metaphysical School

C. the Gothic School

D. the Romantic School

16.Pope was one of the first to introduce________ to England during the Enlightenment Movement.

B. criticism

C. romanticism

D. realism

17.English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of a joint volume of poetry, Lyrical Ballads written by Wordsworth and _________.

A. Keats C. Southey D. Byron

18.__________ defines the poet as “a man speaking to men” and poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”.

A. William Blake C. Coleridge D. John Keats

19.The two major novelists of the English Romantic Period are _________ and Walter Scott.

A. Washington Irving C. Herman Melville D. Charles Dickens

20.The principle elements of ________ novel are violence, horror, and the supernatural, which strongly appeal to the reader’s emotion.

B. Romantic

C. Sentimental

D. Realistic

21.__________ is generally regarded as the national poet of Scotland who wrote about the ordinary Scottish people in Scottish dialect.

A. William Wordsworth

B. William Blake D. Coleridge

22.____________is central to Blake’s concern in Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.

A.Poverty

B. Life in London D. Nature

23._____________is the leading figure of the English Romantic poetry, the focal poetic voice of the period.

A.William Blake C. Yeats D. Milton

24.Byron’s ______________ is a poem based on a traditional Spanish legend of a great lover and seducer of women.

A. Adonais Prometheus Unbound D. The Revolt of Islam

25.Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, __________.

A. Antony and Cleopatra

B. Measure for Measure

C. Too True to Be Good

26._____________is the most delightful of Jane Austen’s works.

A. Sense and Sensibility C. Emma D. Mansfield Park

27.Which of the following is not written by Oscar Wilde

B. The Ballad of Reading Gaol

C. An Ideal Husband

D. The Picture of Dorian Gray

28.____________ is one that introduces to the English novel the first governess heroine.

B. Wuthering Heights

C. Middlemarch

D. Agnes Grey

29._____________ is an elaborate and powerful expression of Alfred Tenny son’s philosophical and religious thoughts.

A. Idylls of the King

B. “Ulysses”

C. Poems, Chiefly Lyrical

30.____________ is based on the Celtic legends of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table

A. In Memoriam

B. “Ulysses” D. The Princess

31.______________ is Robert Browning’s best-known dramatic monologue.

A. C. “Parting at Morning” D. “Pippa Passes’

32._____________ initiates a new type of realism and sets into motion a variety of developments, leading in the direction of both the naturalistic and psychological novel.

A. Charles Dickens C. Charlotte Bronte D. Thomas Hardy

33.Most of Hardy’s novels are set in ________, the fictional primitive and crude region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.

A. London

B. Yoknaptawpha D. Paris

34.____________ works are known as “novels of characters and environment”.

A. Charles Dickens’s C. Jane Austens D. George El iot’s

35.____________ could be classified to be both a naturalistic and a critical realistic writer.

A.Charles Dickens

B. George Eliot D. T. S. Eliot

36.____________ believes that man’s fate is pre-determinedly tragic, driven by a combined force of nature, both inside and outside.

A. Charles Dickens C. Bernard Shaw D. T. S. Eliot.

37.The three trilogies of______ Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.

A. D. H. Lawrence C. James Joyce D. Thomas Hardy’s

38.___________- is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist.

B. John Galsworthy

C.

D. H. Lawrence D. George Bernard Shaw

39.The most celebrated dramatists in the last decade of 19th century were _____- and George Bernard Shaw.

A. T. S. Eliot

B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

C. James Joyce

40.___________, with its purely dramatic power, remains the most popular of T. S. Eliot’s verse plays.

B. The Lady’s Not for Burning

C. Juno and Paycock

D. The Family Renuion

41.The most original playwright of the Theater of Absurd is Samuel Beckett and his first play, _____, is regarded as the most famous and influential play of the Theater of Absurd.

B. Murder in the Cathedral

C. Too True to be Good

D. Mr.s. Warren’s Profession

42.___________________ is a poem by Yeats about the cyclical development of human history.

B. The Wandering Oision

C. The Wind among the Weeds

D. The Wild Swans at Coole

43.________ is a volumes of Chinese translations by Pound

A. Cantos

C. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

D. Paterson

44.___________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 C. The Confidential Clerk D. Dubliners

45.The Rainbow and ___________ are generally regarded as D. H. Lawrence’s masterpieces.

B. Sons and Lovers

C. Lady Chatterley’s Lover

D. The Plumed Serpent

46.Structurally and thematically, George Bernard Shaw follows the great tradition of ____.

A. modernism

B. romanticism D. naturalism

47. D. H. Lawrence’s autobiographical novel is entitled___________.

A. Women in Love

C. Lady Chatterley’s Lover

D. The Plumed Serpent

48.The Romantic period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving’s __________ and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.

Tales of a Traveler C. The Alhambra D. A History of New York

49.Washington Irving’s social conservation and literary preference for the past is revealed, to some extent, in his famous story, ____________.

A.“The Legend of Sleepy Hallow”

C.“The Custom House”

D.“The Birthmark”

50.The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is___________.

A.Nathaniel Hawthorne

C. Henry David Thoreau

D. Washington Irving

51.In his essays, _________________ put forward his philosophy of the oversoul, the importance of the Individual and Nature.

A.Nathaniel Hawthorne

C. Henry David Thoreau

D. Mark Twain

52.________________ literary world turns out to be a most disturbed and tormented one, which has much to do with his black vision of life and human beings.

A. Herman Melville

B. Washington Irving D. Walt Whitman

53.Most of the poems in _____ sing of the “en-masse” and the self as well.

B. Drum Taps

C. North of Boston

D. The Cantos

54.In_____________, Whitman airs his sorrow at President Lincoln’s death.

A. Cavalry Crossing a Ford

B. A Pact

D. There was a Child Went Forth

55.In __, Whitman’s own early experien ce may well be identified with the childhood of a young growing America.

A. Cavalry Crossing a Ford

B. Leaves of Grass

C. A Pact

56._______________is regarded as the first American prose epic.

A. Nature

B. The Scarlet Letter

C. Walden

57.The three dominant figures of the American Realistic Period are William Dean Howells , Mark Twain, and _________.

A.Emily Dickinson D. Ezra Pound

58.___________ is called by Hemingway the one from which all modern American literature comes.

B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

C. The Gilded Age

D. Life on the Mississippi

59.Theodore Dreiser’s forgiving treatment of the career of h is heroine in ______also draws heavily on the naturalistic understanding of sexuality.

A. McTeague

B. An American Tragedy D. The Genius

60.__________________ is a great giant of American, whom H. L. Mencken considers the true father of

our natural literature.

A. Henry James

B. Washington Irving D. Theodore Dreiser

61.______________--- is an account of American tourists in Europe which poke fun at the pretentious, decadent and undemocratic Old World in a satirical tone.

A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

C. Innocents Abroad

D. Life on the Mississippi

62.______________-- was the first American writer to conceive his career in international terms.

A. Washington Irving

B. T. S. Eliot

C. Ezra Pound

63.________________is considered as Theodore Dreiser’s greatest work.

Sister Carrie C. The Financier D. The Titan

64._______________, disregarding grammar and punctuation, alway s used “i” instead of “I’ to refer to himself as a protest against self importance.

A. Wallace Stevens C. Robert Frost D. William Carlos Williams

65.Sherwood Anderson explores the motivations and frustrations of his fictional characters in terms of Freud’s theory of psychology, particularly in one book____________.

B. Babbit

C. The Grapes of Wrath

D. The Catcher in the Rye

66.The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all his experiments, is _______.

A. Arthur Miller

B. Tennessee William

C. George Bernard Shaw

67.As he is a leading spokesman of the Imagist Movement, ________ famous one-image poem “In a Station of the Metro” would serve as a t ypical example of the imagist ideas.

A. T. S. Eliot

B. Robert Frost D. Wallace Stevens’s

68.In his masterpiece, _____________Pound traces the rise and all of eastern and western empires, the moral and social chaos of the modern world, especially the corruption of American after the heroic time of Jefferson.

A. Make it New C. Confucius D. Polite Essays

69.Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet in the sense that his subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in _________.

B. New York

C. Southern America

D. the West

70.____________-stems from the ambiguity of the speaker’s choice between safety and the unknown.

A. “Mending the Wall”

B. “Home Burial”

C. “The Road Not Taken’

71.______________marks the climax of Eugene O’Neil’s literary career and the coming of the age of American drama.

A. The Hairy Ape

C. The Iceman Cometh

D. The Emperor Jones

72._______________is a play that concerns the problem of modern man’s identity.

B.Long Day’s Journey Into Night

C. Desire Under the Elm

D. The Emperor Jones

73._______________is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.

A. C. William Faulkner D. Ezra Pound

74._______________ is Hemingway’s first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of the “the lost generation’.

B. A Farewell to Arms

C. In Our Times

D. For Whom the Bell Tolls

75.In a tragic sense, ___ is a representation of life as a struggle against unconquerable forces in which

only a partial victory is possible.

A. For Whom the Bell Tolls

B. In Our Times

D. A Farewell to Arms.

76.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. B. Light in August C. Do Down, Moses D. Absalom, Absalom!

77. The Romantic period in English literature began with the publication of____________.

A. William Blake’s Song of Innocence

B. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

D. Sir Water Scott’s Ivanhoe

78. ________ wrote a te tralogy of “Rabbit” the third of which makes him win the Pulitzer Prize.

B. John Steinbeck

C. John Bath

D. John Donne

79. The Magic Barrel is written by_______.

A. Saul Bellow C. Philip Roth D. J. D. Salinger

80. Small World is a novel written by _________.

A. John Bath

B. Daphne Du Maurier

C. Donald Barthelme

81. Their Eyes Were Watching at God is a novel by ___________.

A. Alice Walker

B. Toni Morrison D. Maya Angelou

82. Rip Van Winkle is a short story written by _____.

A James Fenimore Cooper

83. The Legend of Sleeping Hollow is a short story written by ____.

84. The Romantic Period in American Literary history started with the publication of ____.

Irving’s Tales of A Traveler

C Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

D James Fenimore Cooper’s Leather Stocking Tales

85. The American Renaissance” is the period of ____in the history of American literature.

86.Edgar Allan Poe is known as a poet and critic but most famous as the first master of the form of ______.

87. Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination of serious literature and _______.

B. English folklore

C. American traditional values

D. funny jokes

88.Theodore Dreiser is generally acknowledged as one of America’s literary ________________.

A. realists C. romantists D. modernists

89. Scott Fitzgerald never spared an intimate touch in his fiction to deal with the bankruptcy of the _______________________________.

B. ruling classes

B. American Capitalists D. American bourgeoisie

90.Eugene O’Neill is regarded as the fou nder of American _____________________.

A. poetry C. fiction D. literature

91.___________________ is Hemingway’s masterpiece, which tells a story about the tragic love of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse.

B.The Sun Also Rises

C. For Whom the Bell Tolls

D. In Our Time

92. In his essays, ______ put forward his philosophy of the over soul, the important of the Individual and Nature.

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

B. Washington Irving

C. Mark Twain

93.The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is __________

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

C. Henry David Thoreau

D. Washington Irving

94. ______ literary world turns out to be a most disturbed, tormented and problematical one, which has much to do with his “black” vision of life and human beings.

A. Herman Melville’s

B. Washington Irving’s

D. Walt Whitman’s

95.In _____, Whitman airs his sorrow at President Lincoln’s death.

A. “Cavalry Crossing a Ford”

B. “A Pact”

D. There was a Child Went Forth”

96.Theodore Dreiser’s forgiving treatment of the career o f his heroine in ______ also draws heavily upon the naturalistic understanding of sexuality.

A McTeague B. An American Tragedy D. The Genius

97._______ is usually regarded as a classic book written for boys about their particular horrors and joys.

B. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

C. Innocents Abroad

D. Life on the Mississippi

98.The only dramatist ever to win a Nobel Prize was ___________.

A. Bernard Shaw C. Richard Brinsley Sheridan D. William Shakespeare

99._________ is considered to be Theodore Dreiser’s greatest work.

B. Sister Carrie

C. The Financier

D. The Titan

100.Which of the following is not written by Julian Barnes________

A. Flaubert’ C. England, England D. A World History in 10 1/2 Chapters