04本英美文学C卷.doc

重庆教育学院外语系函授复习试题(C) I. Understand Literary Terms (15%) Directions: Define and exemplify the literary terms listed below. 1. wit-- 2. graveyard school-- 3. lake poets-- 4. ode-- 5. blank verse-- II. Recognize important historical and literary background information (20%) Directions: Choose the best answer to complete each of the following The Tabard Inn is the setting for important parts of _____. A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight B. The Canterbury Tales C. The Merchant of Venice D. The School for Scandal The sonnet form, originally Italian, was introduced into English verse by _____. A. Sir Thomas Wyatt B. George Chapman C. Sir Philip Sidney D. John Lyly The experience which William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, and Edmund Spencer had in common was the following: A. They all wrote tragedies B. They all wrote sonnet sequences C. They all used Cleopatra as a subject for a major work. D. They all wrote poems on the subject of Venus and Adonis Bacon’s essays are marked by a(n) _____. A. aphoristic brevity B. character sketching C. elegance and correctness D. oratorical profoundness The indomitable Puritan spirit finds its noblest expression in _____. A. John Donne B. John Milton C. John Bunyan D. John Dryden The distinctiveness of the metaphysical poets is their use of the so-called _____. A. conceits B. imageries C. euphuism D. imagination Which one of the following is not known as a dramatist? A. Oliver Goldsmith B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan C. Robert Burns D. Henry Fielding Character and novel are correctly matched in each of the following except _____. A. Sophia Western—Tom Jones B. Christian—The Pilgrim’s Progress C. Friday—Robinson Crusoe D. Sneerwell—The Vicar of Wakefield The prevailing meter in Gray’s Elegy is _____. A. trochaic B. dactylic C. anapestic D. iambic Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give hi