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The Ren aissa nee is actually a moveme nt stimulated by a series of historical eve nts.

which one of the followi ng is not such an eve nt

Which of the following is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the En glish Ian guage.

A.The Pilgrim's Progress

B. Grace Abo unding to the Chief of Sinners

C. The Life and Death of Mr. Badma n

D. The Holy War

It is alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.

A.Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Martin Luther

C. William Langland

D. John Gower

All of the following four except are the most eminent dramatists in the Ren aissa nee En gla nd.

A.Francis Baco n

B. Christopher Marlowe

C. William Shakespeare

D. Ben Jonson

It is gen erally regarded that Keats's most importa nt and mature poems are in the form of .

A.elegy

B. ode

C. epic

D. sonnet

Daniel Defoe's no vels mainly focus on

A.the struggle of the un fortun ate for mere existe nd

B.the struggle of the shipwrecked pers ons for security

C.the struggle of the pirates for wealth

D.the desire of the crimi nals for property

In Beowulf, fought aga inst the mon ster Gren del and a five breath ing drag on.

A. the An glo-Sax ons

B. Beowulf

C. the Scandin avia n

D. the Win ter Drago n Fran cis Bac on is best known for his which greatly in flue need the developme nt of this literary form.

A. essays

B. poems

C. works D plays

Most of Thomas Hardy's no vels are set in Wessex .

A. a crude region in England

B. a fictional primitive region

C. a remote rural area

D. Hardy's hometow n

We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley's poem "Ode to the West Wind" with all the followi ng terms except .

A. swift

B. proud

C. tamed

D. wild

"Blindness", "partiality", "prejudice", and "absurdity" in the novel "Pride and Prejudice" are most likely the characteristics of .

A. Elizabeth

B. Darcy

C. Mr. Be nnet

D. Mrs. Bennet

The moder n En glish no vel came into being |n

A. the middle of the 17th cen tury

B. the 17th ce ntury

C. the late 18th cen tury

D. the middle of the 18th ce ntury Who is not the major figure of modernist moveme nt

A. Eliot

B. Joyce

C. Charles Dicke ns

D. Pou nd

Who is con sidered to be the best known En glish dramatist since Shakespeare

A. Oscar Wilde

B. Joh n Galsworthy

C. . Yeats

D. George Bernard Shaw Of the

follow ing poets, which is not regarded as "Lake Poets"

A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Robert Southy

C. William Words worth

D. William Shakespeare

In the first part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in .

A. Lilliput

B. Brobdi ngnag

C. Houyh nhnm

D. En gla nd

Which of the following cannot describe "Byronic hero"

In the history of literature, Roma nticism is gen erally regarded as .

A.the thought that desig nates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the in pidual as the very cen ter of all life and all experie nce.

B.the thought that desig nates man as a social ani mal

C.the orie ntatio n that emphasizes those features which men have in com mon

D.the modes of thi nking

The term "metaphysical poetry" is commonly used to name the work of the 17th cen tury writers who wrote un der the in flue nce of .

A. Joh n Milt on

B. Joh n Do nne

C. Joh n Keats

D. Joh n Bunyan

"The Vanity Fair" is a well-k nown part in .

A. The Pilgrim's Progress

B. Grace Abo unding to the Chief of Sinners

C. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman

D. The Holy War

In Oliver Twist, Charles criticizes .

A. money worshipp ing tendency

B. dehuma nizing of workhouse system

C. hypocrisy of the upper society

D. distorti on of huma n heart Which of the followi ng plays by Shakespeare is history play

A. Julius Caesar

B. The Merry Wives of Win dsor

C. Henry IV

D. King Lear Who is regarded as a "worshipper of n ature".

A. Joh n Keats

B. William Blake

C. William Wordsworth

D. Jane Austen

Which of the followi ng writ ing is not the work by Charles Dicke ns

A. A Tale of Two Cities

B. Hard Times

C. Oliver Twist

D. Sons and Lovers The 18th cen tury En gla nd is known as the in the history.

A. Romanticism

B. Classicism

C. Renaissance

D. Enlightenment 专八人文：美国文学部分精选习题

In America n literature, the eightee n cen tury was the age of the En lighte nment.

was the dominant spirit.

A. Huma nism

B. Rati on alism

C. Revoluti on

D. Evoluti on

Which stateme nt about Fran kli n is not true

A. He in structed his coun tryme n as a prin ter.

B. He was a scie ntist.

C. He was a master of diplomacy.

D. He was a Purita n. Who is regarded as the first America n prose epic.

A. Nature

B. The Scarlet Letter

C. Walden

D. Moby-Dick

The Romanic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washi

ngton Irvi ng's and en ded with Whitema n's Leaves of Grass.

A. The Sketch Book

B. Tales of a Traveler

C. The Alhambra

D. A history of New York In Hawthor ne's The Scarlet Letter, "A" may sta nd for .

A. Adultery

B. An gel

C. Amiable

D. All the above

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