东师《英美文学》2023年春学期在线作业1【标准答案】

英美文学19春在线作业1-0005

试卷总分:100 得分:100

一、单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 50 分)

1.Howells , Henry James and Mark Twain are representatives of American ______ .

A.romanticism

B.realism

C.naturalism



2.Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms - the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse - with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.

A.Southern

B.Western

C.New Hampshire

D.New England



3.Dubliners is writing of

A.realism

B.modernism

C.stream of consciousness

D.none of the above



4.The Idylls of the King is written by

A.Browning

B.Tennyson

C.George Eliot

D.Carlyle



5.Metaphysical Poetry is characterized by fantastical

A.mysticism

B.romanticism

C.lyricism

D.decadence



6.______ was written by James Joyce.

A.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

B.Portrait of a Lady

C.Picture of Dorian Gray

D.To the Lighthouse



7.Le Mort D’ Arthur deals with the following story except

A.search for Cup

B.life of King Arthur

C.fight against Roman invasion

D.illicit love



8."If honest labor be unremunerative and difficult to endure; if it be the long, long road which never reaches beauty, but wearies the feet and the heart; if the drag to follow beauty be such that one abandons the admired way, taking rather the despised path leading to her dreams quickly, who shall cast the first stone?" Where is the underlined phrase taken from?

A.The Bible.

B.Milton.

C.Shakespeare.

D.Hawthorne.



9.Mr. Spectator stands for the ideas of

A.the 16th century

B.17th century

C.the 18th century

D.the19th century



10.The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as the _______ period .

A.modern

B.naturalist

C.romantic



11.In his poem“Tyger,Tyger，”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful Symmetry”of the big cat．The phrase“fearful Symmetry”Suggests____.

A.the tiger‘s two eyes Which are dazzlingly bright and Symmetrically set

B.the poet‘s fear of the predator

C.the analogy of the hammer and the anvil

D.the harmony of the two opposte aspects of God’s creation



12.Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was the first to introduce rationalism to England ?

A.John Bunyan

B.Daniel Defoe

C.Alexander Pope

D.Jonathan Swift



13.Here are four lines from a long poem: “Others for language all their care express, / And value books, as women men , for dress.” The poem must be

A.Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

B.John Milton’s Paradise Lost

C.Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism

D.Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream



14.For quite sometime after its appearance , Catch–22 was seen as a structural ______ despite its narrative power .

A.success

B.failure

C.miracle



15.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out，both in theory and practice，to write specifically a“____in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.

A.tragic epic

B.comic epic

C.romance

D.lyric epic



16.The theme of Austen’ s novels can be expressed by the following except

A.marriage

B.love

C.domestic duty

D.personal growth



17.One of the following events played an important part in Chaucer’s writing:

A.his marriage with a girl of noble family

B.his visit to Italy

C.his duty as a controller of the Customs

D.his participation in the Hundred Years’ War



18.The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day ?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s .

A.comedies

B.tragedies

C.histories

D.sonnets



19.Christoper Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a (n) .

A.pastoral lyric

B.elegy

C.eulogy

D.epic



20.Macbeth is Shakespeare’s_______.

A.sonnet

B.comedy

C.history play

D.tragedy



二、判别题 (共 20 道试题,共 50 分)

21.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn reflects the moral growth of Tom Sawyer .



22.Beowulf was created in England.



23.Wuthering Heights deals with a story of love and violence.



24.The Rape of the Lock gives an account of an anecdote of the court.



25.One of the most important features in Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice is the use of dramatic languages.



26.The most gifted of the University Wits was Shakespeare.



27.The poetry of Sentimentalism is characterized by sympathy for the French Revolution .



28.Romanticism rose and grew under the impetus of the French Revolution.



29.Neo-classicism saw its decline in Dryden.



30.The poetry of Sentimentalism is characterized by sympathy for the French Revolution.



31.The “dark comedy” refers to those written by Jonson in his third period of dramatic career.



32.Native Son was considered the best book after WWⅡ in 1965 .



33.The most striking similarities between Milton and Samson Agonistes are their blindness and unhappy marriage.



34.Beowulf was brought by Anglo-Saxon people from the Continent to England.



35.The Neo-classicism saw its decline in Johnson.



36.All My Sons is the masterpiece of Arthur Miller .



37.Stephen Crane was also a poet who influenced Imagist poetry .



38.Morrison is the first black writer to win the Nobel Prize .



39.The Joy Luck Club is a group of separate stories happening in men‘s club located in San Francisco Chinatown .



40.The short story “The Rocking Horse Winner” was written by Lawrence.