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( )2. Romantics also tend to be nationalistic, defending their own literary heritage against the advocates of classical rules.
( )3. Coleridge has been rewarded as Poet Laureate.
( )4. Keats is one of the “Lake Poets.”
( )5. Jane Austen is a typical Romantic writer.
IV. Name the
author of each of the following literary work.
1.“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
2.Songs of Innocence
3.“Ode to a Nightingale”
4.“A So

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ng: Men of England”
5.The Prelude
V. Define the literary terms listed below
1.Romanticism
2.Ode
VI. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.
1….Be through my lips to unawakened Earth.
The trumpet of a prophecy! O, Wind,
If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
2. 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.
Keys:
I. 1.A 2.B 3.D 4.B 5.C 6.C 7.B 8.D 9.A 10.A
II.1.individual 2. human life 3.nature 4.human life
5.the demonic 6.Byronic hero 7. Ode to the West Wind
8. The odes 9. Ode on a Grecian Urn 10. Pride and Prejudice
III. 1.T 2.T 3.F 4.F 5.F
IV. 1.Coleridge 2. Blake 3. Keats 4. Shelley 5. Wordsworth
V. 1. Romanticism is a movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music and art in western culture during most of the nineteenth century, beginning as a revolt against classicism. There have been many varieties of Romanticism in many different times and places. The leading features of Romantic movements are Wordsworth, Shelley, etc.
2. Ode is a complex and often lengthy lyric poem, written in a dignified formal style on some lofty or serious subject. Odes are often written for a special occasion, to honour a person or a season or to commemorate an event.
VI. 1. It is taken from Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind. In this poem, Shelley eulogizes the powerful west wind and expresses his eagerness to enjoy the boundless freedom from the reality. In these last lines, the poet shows his optimistic spirit for the future.
2. It is taken from Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” The poet thinks that it is a bliss to recollect the beauty of nature in his mind while he is in solitude. He expresses his strong affecting for nature in the poem.
II.维多利亚时期
I. Each of the statement below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets
1. The Victorian period roughly began at the enthronement of Queen Victoria in_____.
A. 1835 B. 1836 C. 1837 D. 1838
2. The critical realists like Charles Dickens in the Victorian period wrote novels_____.
A. representing the 18th century realist novel
B. criticizing the society
C. defending the mass
E.all the above
3. _____is not a Victoria novelist.
A. Charles Dickens
B. George Eliot
C. William Makepeace Thackeray
D. D. H. Lawrence
4. _____ is not a work by Charles Dickens.
A. Oliver Twist B. David Copperfield
C. Middlemarch D. A Tale of Two Cities
5. Wut
hering Heights is a masterpiece written by_____.
A. Charlotte Bronte B. Emily Bronte
C. Anne Bronte D. Branwell Bronte
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Thomas Hardy’s work.
A. The Mill on the Floss
B. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
C. Jude the Obscure
D. The Mayor of Casterbridge
7. “My Last Duchess” is _____.
A. a dramatic monologue B. a short lyric
C. a novel D. an essay
8. Tennyson’s “Ulysses” gets its inspiration from the following works or writers except_____.
A. Homer’s Odessey B. Joyce’s Ulysses
C. Dante D. Greek Mythology
9. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend _____ appeared. And it flourished in the 1840s and in the early 1950s.
A. romanticism B. naturalism
C. realism D. critical realism
10. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from_____.
A.The Pilgrim’s Progress
B.Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
C.Gulliver’s Travels
D.The Canterbury Tales
II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook
1. The aestheticists such as Oscar Wilde in the Victorian period advocated the theory of “_____.”
2. In the Victorian period, _____became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.
3.Charles Dickens is one of the greatest _____ writers of the Victorian Age.
4.Tennyson’s poem “_____” is in memory of his bosom friend Arthur Hallam.
5.Robert Browning is famous for his _____.
6.George Eliot’s _____ is one of the most mature works in English literature.
7.Tennyson’s famous dramatic monologue based on the story in Greek Mythology is “_____.”
8._____ is Dickens’ first child hero.
9.Jane Eyre represents those_____-class working women who are struggling for recognition of their basic rights and equality as a human being.
10.The most important poet of the Victorian Age was_____. Next to him were Robert Browning and his wife.
III. Decide whether the following statements are true of false and write your answers in the brackets.
( )1. The Victorian period has been generally regarded as one of the most glorious in the English history.
( )2. Tennyson is famous for his aesthetic viewpoint of “art for art’s sake.”
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