英国文学练习题II

英国文学练习题（第二册）

Exercise 1

I. Fill in the blanks

1. The Romantic Age began in 1798 when William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published their joint work _________.

2. The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer ____died.

3. Women as ________ appeared in the romantic age. It was during this period that women took, for the first time, an important place in English literature. 4. The greatest historical novelist ______ was produced in the Romantic Age.

5. The English Romantic period produced two major novelists: _____ and _______. 6. ______ is regarded as the best essayist during the Romantic Age.

7. At the turn of the 18th and 19th century _______ appeared in England as a new trend in literature.

8. Wordsworth’s poetry is distinguished by the ________ of his language.

9. After his second book Endymion appeared in 18181, _____ gave up medicine for poetry.

10. _____’s grave bears the epitaph: “Here lies one whose name is writ in water.”

11. The first poem in the collection The Lyrical Ballads is __________’s masterpiece The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

12. On the death of Robert Southey in 1843, __________ was made poet laureate. 13. George Gordon Byron’s masterpiece is _____________.

14. ___________ was expelled after only six months at Oxford, because he had written the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism. 15. Ode to a Nightingale was written by __________.

16. Ivanhoe is the masterpiece of the historical novelist _________.

17. _________ has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of the historical novel.

18. The publication of _____________ marked the beginning of Romantic Age. 19. The Active Romantic poets include __________________________. 20. The Lake Poets include ______________________________________.

II. Error Correction.

1. The Romantic Age began in 1798 when William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published their joint work Kubla Khan.

2. The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last romantic writer Jane Austen died.

3. The publication of The Lyrical Ballads marked the beginning of the Age of Reason.

4. The Romantic Age is emphatically an age of novel. Many young enthusiastic writers turned to poetry.

5. The glory of the Romantic Age lies in the prose of William Wordsworth, Samuel

6. 7. 8. 9.

Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. Women as poets appeared in the Romantic Age, such as Jane Austen.

Romantic novel of the Romantic Age was represented by Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Thomas de Quincey and Hume.

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

The first poem in The Lyrical Ballads is William Wordsworth’s masterpiece The Rime of Ancient Mariner.

Answer the following questions:

1. What are William Wordsworth’s principles of poetry?

2. Why does William M. Thackeray give his novel the title Vanity Fair and the subtitle A Novel without a Hero?

3. Please make a comment on Austen’s writing features.

5. Please make a comment on the two female characters of Vanity Fair.

6. How do you understand the ending of Shelly’s Ode to the West Wind, “If Winter comes, can spring be far behind?”

7. How do you understand the ending of Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” that is all, Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” 8. What are the main features of Dickens’ novels? 9. What are the characteristics of Romanticism? 10. What is the narrowness of Jane Austen’s novels? Terms

Ode Dramatic Monologue Romanticism Byronic Hero Modernism Oedipus complex Stream-of-consciousness technique Art for Art’s Sake

Identify the author and work of the lines, and answer the questions. 1. A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.

1). Author_______ work _________

2) What are the two images in these lines to describe the girl? What do they imply about Lucy’s quality?

2. I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once i saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. 1). Author _______ Work _________

2) What kinds of figure of speech are used in the stanza?

3)What kind of emotion is revealed in this poem? What kinds of devices does the poet use to achieve this?

3. For oft, when on my couch i lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.

1) Author __________ Work _________

2) Please paraphrase this stanza in your own words.

3) What is revealed from these lines about the poet’s theory about poetry?

4 The music in my heart i bore, Long after it was heard no more. 1) Author _______ Work ________

2) What does the poet focus on in the final two lines of the poem.

5. In secret we met ---- In silence i grieve,

That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If i should meet thee After long years,

How should i greet thee? With silence and tears.

1) Author_________ Work __________ 2) Translate this stanza into Chinese.

6. The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent! 1) Author _______ Work _______

2) What is the implied meaning of the last two lines?

7. Wild Spirit, Which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear! 1) Author _______ Work ________

2) What art the two characteristics of the west wind and why?

8. Oh! Lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! 1) Author ________ Work _________

2) What does the poet refer to in the second line?

9. The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,

If Winder comes, can Spring be far behind? 1) Author ________ Work _________

2) How do you understand the ending of the poem?

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