英国文学知识120题(3)

英国文学常识,备考专八用。

21. 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. sonnets D. histories

22. The three dialects spoken by _____ _____ and _____ mixed into a single language called Anglo-Saxon, or old English.

A. Anglos, Saxons, Jutes B. Anglos, Saxons, Irish

C. Anglos, Saxons, Scottish D. Anglos, Saxons, Welsh

23. _____ contribution to English lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in Iambic meter--- the Heroic couplet-to English poetry.

A. William Shakespeare’s B. Geoffrey Chaucer’s

C. Thomas More’s D. Edmund Spenser’s

24. Spenserian Stanza is a form of poetry first employed by Edmund Spenser in his long poetry _____.

A. The Faerie Queene B. The Shepherd’s Calendar

C. Epihalamion D. Amoretti

25. Francis Bacon is a _____.

A. poet B. playwright C. essayist D. novelist

26. We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley’s poem “Ode to the West Wind” with all the following terms except _____.

A. tamed B. swift C. proud D. wild

27. The novel starts with “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” This novel is Jane Austen’s _____.

A. Emma B. Persuasion

C. Sense and Sensibility D. Pride and Prejudice

28. The major concern of _____ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.

A. Charles Dickens’s B. D. H. Lawrence’s

C. Thomas Hardy’s D. John Galsworthy’s

29. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.”

The above quoted passage is most probably taken from _____.

A. Pride and Prejudice B. Jane Eyre

C. Wuthering Heights D. Great Expectations

30. Which of the Following is not one of the Bronte Sisters?

A. Charlotte Bronte B. Anne Bronte

C. Jenny Bronte D. Emily Bronte

21-30 C A B A C A D B B C