2、The Shepherds Calendar 3、The Advancenient of Learning 4、King Midas 5、
The Jew of Malta
6、As You Like It 7、Othello 8、Julius Caesar
9、Every Man in His Humour 10、The Alchemist 11.Songs and Sonnets 12.The Temple 13.Lycidas
14、Samson Agonistes
15、Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners 16、The Pilgrim's Progress 17、Absalom and Achitophel 18、Annus Mirabilis 19、Paradise Regained 20、The Hind and the Panther
1、Anglo-Saxon conquest happened in the 5th century2、The first Englishmen are Anglo-Saxons
、
、
3、The history of English literature began with Anglo-Saxon settlement in
Britain、
4、Beowulf is the most important specimen of Old English literature
、
5、The main stories of Beowulf are based on the folk legends of the primitive northern tribes
、
、
6、Beowulf presents an all-round life picture of the tribal society7、The use of alliteration, metaphors, understatements strong stresses and predominance of consonants is a notable feature of Beowulf8、The first known religious poet in England is Caedmon
、
、
9、When we talk about the Old English prose the first name that comes into our mind is Venerable Bede
、
the Great's most important 、
10、The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is Alfred contribution to the Old English prose literature
11、The Norman Conquest brought the body of customs and ideals known as chivalry into England
、
12、After the Norman Conquest, the knightly code, the romantic interest in women tenderness and reverence paid to Virgin Mary were reflected in English literature
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、
13、The prevailing literary form in the feudal England was the romance14、Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the culmination of the romances about King Arthur
、
15、William Langland wrote about social discontent and preached the equality of men and dignity of labour
、
、
16、Piers Plowman describes the narrator's dream visions
17、Chaucer is acclaimed not only as the father of English poetry but
、
also as the father of English fiction
18、The Romaunt of the Rose, the most popular poem of Middle Ages, was one of Chaucer translations from French’ｓ
、
19、Being one of the forerunners of modernism, Chaucer praises man's energy, intellect, quick wit and love of life
、
to English poetry is his 、
、
freshness,
20、One of Chaucer's great contributions introduction of French poems to English poetry
31、The keynote of English Renaissance was humanism32、
Elizabethan
poetry
is remarkable
、
for its variety,
youthfulness and its romantic feeling
33、One of the great contributions made by Thomas Wyatt to English poetry is the introduction of the sonnet
、
34.Henry Howard is credited with introducing the blank verse into English poetry、
35、Three cycles of sonnets were produced in the Renaissance periodThe first one is Astrophel and Stella
、
、
36、The Faerie Queene contains six stories about the adventures of knights, who are made to be allegorical characters by Edmund Spenser
、
37、The dominating thoughts of The Faerie Queene are nationalism, humanism and Puritanism、38、
It is likely that when writing
、
Hamlet Shakespeare
borrowed
something from The Spanish Tragedy
39、When Shakespeare wrote King Lear and Macbeth, he mainly relied on Holinshed's Chronicles
、
40、In writing plays, Ben Jonson insisted on adherence to the three unities、
ine IILCrarure of 41、The literature
of the Revolution Period is different
、
from the
literature of Elizabethan Period
42、The works of the Metaphysical Poets are characterised by mysticism in content and fantasticality in form
、
poets are full of farfetched
43、The poems by the Metaphysical conceits、
44、John Milton wrote the finest pastoral elegy in English, Lycidas, to memorialise the tragic death of a Cambridge friend and classmate45、The stories of Paradise Lost were taken from the Old Testament46、Paradise Lost was written in blank verse
、
、
、
47、Milton’s poetry is noted for sublimity of thought and majesty of expression、48、In The Pilgrimidea of a journey
、
’s Progress, the allegorical narrative is based on the
49、In describing the Vanity Fair, Bunyan draws a satirical picture not only of London at the time of the Restoration but of the whole bourgeois society、
50、Dryden's greatest work of literary criticism is An Essay of Dramatic Poesy、T1、After Britain
Anglo-Saxon conquest, seven small kingdoms appeared in
and later they were combined into a united kingdom named
England、
F 2、Anglo-Saxon literature is exclusively a prose literature in oral form
、
T3、English poetry in the Anglo-Saxon period falls into two groups: non-religious and religious
、
、
T 4、Beowulf is the oldest surviving epic in the English languageT5、Beowulf reflects nature、
F6、Caedmon's legendary life story is described Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
、
how people in the tribal society fought against
by Bede in The
F7、Historia Ecclesiastica describes how religion was introduced and spread in England、
T 8、Venerable Bede is the first scholar in English literature and has been regarded as the father of English learningF9、The Ecclesiastical
History
、
、
of the English People is the best
monument of the Old English prose
T 10、Cynewulf took his poetical subject matter partly from the church liturgy, but more largely from the homilies of Gregory the GreatF 11、After Norman Conquest, three
languages were used
、in England、
They were French used by the Normans, Latin used by scholars and
clergymen, and English used by Anglo-Saxons、
T 12、The knight is described as the central character in the romance that is devoted to the church, the king and a fair lady
、
F 13、The cycle of romances about Rome mainly deals with the exploits and adventures of Charles the Great, King of the Franks and Emperor of the West EmpireF 14、Geoffrey
、
Chaucer was a scholar, a lawyer, a businessman and a
、
courtier, who shared all the stirring life of his age in his writings
F 15、Chaucer intended to write about 100 tales told by the 30 pilgrims in his masterpiece、
T 16、The portraits of the 30 pilgrims drawn by Chaucer in the Prologue of The Canterbury society、
F 17、Being a rebel of the society of his time, Chaucer affirms man's right to pursue happiness and opposes the dogma of asceticism
、
Tales supply a miniature of the medieval English
F 18、Chaucer made a great contribution to making the dialect of London the foundation of modem English speech and establishing English as the literary language of the countryF 19、
The 15th century
、
has traditionally
、
been described
as the
prosperous period in English literature
T 20、Le Morte d'Arthur reflects the social scene of the transitional period when feudalism was dying and capitalism was risingT 21、English literature
、
of the Revolution Period witnessed a conflict
between the two antagonistic camps、
、In this period
F 22、The Revolution Period is also called Puritan Ageliterary works show much romantic ardour
、
T 23、Cavalier Poets mostly wrote about the flitting expressed the spirit of pessimism
、
joys of life and
T 24、In Milton's life and literary career the two dominant historical
movements: Renaissance and Reformation combine and receive their most intense and intelligent expression
、
T 25、Many critics have noted that in Paradise Lost the picture of God
surrounded by his angels resembles the court of an absolute monarch, while Satan and his followers bear close resemblance to a parliament
、
F 26、Samson’s miserable blind servitude among his enemies, his agonising longing for sight and freedom, and the last terrible allusions to Satan's story
、
triumph are all
T 27、John Milton is the glorious pioneer to introduce blank verse into non-dramatic poetry
、
been the
T 28、Since its first appearance, The Pilgrim s Progress has
most widely read book and one of the most popular pieces of Christian writing that have appeared in EnglishT 29、In The Pilgrim
、
’s Progress, the figures and places which the hero
meet with on his joumey stand for the various experiences that l、Portia 2、Hamlet
3、Volpone 4、John Falstaff 5、Henry V 6、Iago 7、Shylock 8、Doctor Faustus
1、 What are the characteristics of Anglo-Saxon literature? Anglo-Saxon literature
is almost exclusively a verse literature
in oral
form、Most of its creators remain unknown、It is written down long after
、The
its composition、Two groups of poetry are found in Anglo-Saxon periodBefore
Christianity
was introduced,
After
there was pagan poetry、the introduction
representative is Beowulf、of Christianity,
Christian poetry appeared、The representatives are the poems composed
、It appeared the Great are
by Caedmon and Cynewulf、Prose arrived later than poetryin about the 8th century、Venerable Bede and Alfred famous prose writers of that period2、 Briefly tell the story of Beowulf
、、
The story of Beowulf consists of two parts、The first deals with the heroic deeds of Beowulf through describing
how Beowulf fights against
、The second part
the monster Grendel, and finally kills him and his mother
celebrates the heroic spirit and bravery of Beowulf through describing his fight against a fire dragon that has done a lot of destruction kingdom and people、Beowulf dragon and dies a heroic death
、
to his
3、 What are the writing features of Beowulf?
1) Beowulf is a pagan poem though it has Christian flavour that the monastery scribe gave it when he wrote it down
、It is the result of pagan
、2) It uses
civilisation、It shows an all-round picture of the tribal societya lot of strong stresses
、Each line has four stresses, with two in each half
、Three stresses of each line are made
、4) Metaphors 、
and
line、3) Alliteration is much used
more emphatic through the use of alliterationunderstatements are much used in the whole poem4、 What is the theme of Beowulf? Beowulf indicates
how the people in primitive
society conquer the
、Beowulf,
disasters and misfortunes that nature makes for human beings
the hero of the story stands for man's energy and power, and man's indomitable spirit and bravery
、It also shows the struggle between virtue
、
and vice、Beowulf's triumph embodies the victory of virtue and goodness
5、 In what aspects did the Norman Conquest affect English language and literature?
6、 Give an introduction of Chaucer's masterpiece The Canterbury Tales、7、 What is the social significance of The Canterbury Tales? 8、 Discuss Chaucer's writing features9、
What does William
、
in his masterpiece
Piers
Langland satirise
Plowman?
10、 What are the characteristics of Spenser's poetry? 11、 What does Thomas More's Utopia describe?
12、 What style do Francis Bacon's essays have? 13、 What is the theme of Marlowe's tragedies?
14、 What did Shakespeare write about in his early comedies? 15、 Why is Hamlet regarded as the representative of humanism?
16、 Why is Shakespeare considered to be one of the founders of realism in English literature?
8、In what aspects Shakespeare's
are Ben Jonson's plays sharp contrast to
in
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