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《英美文学史及选读》习题 I Define the following literary terms: Blank verse Epic Mmetaphysical school of poetry Cavalier poets Alliteration Realistic novels Augustan Age Sentimentalism Humanism Puritan Age Anglican Church Allegory Alexanderine Ballad Mystery play Carpe Dime Tradition Characterization Oxford Reformers Comedy Conceit Couplet Elegy Epigram Essay Iambic Pentameter Irony Lyric Miracle Play Mock Epic Morality Play Narrative Poem Neo-classicism Octave Ode Pastoral Point of view Refrain Romance Romanticism Satire Sonnet Spenserian Stanza ? Renaissance ? Enlightenment Run-on Line Comedy of Manner Mock-Heroic/ Mock-epic The Augustan Poets Assonance Caesura II. Choose one or more than one suitable answers to each statement. 1 _____ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature. a. Thomas Wyatt b. William Shakespeare c. Phillip Sidney d. Thomas Campion 2At the beginning the 16th century the outstanding humanist_____ wrote his Utopia in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s suffering and put forward his ideal of a future happy society. a. Christopher Marlowe b. Thomas More c. Phillip Sidney d. Edmund Spencer 3Choose the “University Wits ” from the following writers. a. John Lyly b. Robert Greene c. Christopher Marlowe d. Shakespeare 4From the following choose the one______ that is not by Francis Bacon. a. The Advancement of Learning b. The New Instrument c. Of Studies d. The rape of the Lock 5Which play is not a comedy? a. The Jew of Malta b. Every One in His Humor c. A Midsummer Night’s Dream d. Much Ado about Nothing 6The name “the father of English poetry” was given to the greatest poet born in London about 1340 and the one who did much in making the dialect of London (Midland dialect the language of the court, the learned a