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主要题型 作家作品对应 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 作家时代、身份、特点 35. Virginia Woolf was an important female ________ in the 20th-century England. A. poet B. biographer C. playwright D. novelist 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 术语解释 36. ______ refers to a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero in a nations history. A. Ballad B. Romance C. Epic D. Elegy 2011 2010 2006 作品特点 37. Which of the following best explores American myth in the 20th century? A. The Great Gatsby. B. The Sun Also Rises. C. The Sound and the Fury. D. Beyond the Horizon.5th-15th century) 1066 1. Beowulf oldest English epic 2. medieval romance Arthurian romances, knight 3. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales in heroic couplet 4. popular ballads Robin Hood stories and the ballad meter The English Renaissance—Humanism, drama (16th century) 1. Edmund Spenser Faerie Queene in the Spenserian stanza, allegorical romance Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine the Great William Shakespeare Major tragedies: Hamlet; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth Major comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Merchant of Venice; As You Like It; The Twelfth Night; Romeo and Juliet Sonnet 18 Francis Bacon Essays “Of Studies” some quotes from the essay King James’s or The Authorized Bible (1604) The 17th Century—Turbulent and gloomy John Donne and Metaphysical Poetry “The Flea”, “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” John Milton: Paradise Lost rebellious spirit, Miltonic style, blank verse John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress allegory, satire, Vanity Fair The 18th Century—Age of Reason and common sense Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels, “A Modest Proposal” Neoclassicism and Alexander Pope Samuel Johnson Letter to the Right Honourable The Earl of Chesterfield Henry Fielding The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling Robert Burns: “A Red, Red Rose” “Auld Lang Syne” William Blake: Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experien