1. The sentence “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s_____.* ?0 D& ?$ N. Q' N0 M* s2 q
A comedies3 u; Q8 G1 Z' F* C. F
B tragedies
: w5 c% ?# k( X C sonnets- [' K! u9 r5 g# c" P! E
D histories
* b0 ?0 M9 l( P( p' b 2. The three dialects spoken by____ _____and _____mixed into a single language called Anglo-Saxon, or old English.
7 l% G8 y1 `# B# \: \% [. I A Anglos, Saxons jutes0 X. T) ]- r8 K' [6 s
B Anglos, Saxons, Irish1 X1 g0 ^4 A1 Z' G
C Anglos, Saxons, Scottish
# W' C) i; A3 x8 J! v# j7 B D Anglos, Saxons, welsh: a6 \ F" E8 Y' C+ [
3. 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.
% _7 i! V6 e% G! e2 s. ^# m" o A William Shakespeare’s/ G7 P8 q! e# j/ e5 A& Z. Z; h% b9 ~; Y
B Geoffrey Chaucer’s
3 K, K! ]& u: d- a7 S* F0 W$ Z C Thomas more’s
6 V& L% A) r" S+ C7 _: X9 o6 E) A D Edmund Spenser’s
' G3 F( ^( X# k, ^& } ^2 w0 F1 v( w 4. Spenserian stanza is a form of poetry first employed by Edmund Spenser in his long poetry_____.% J: Z9 T& O& Y4 X D" a
A the faerie queene
: @6 w; k) Q8 ?. E; b+ g B the shepherd’s calendar5 \: X9 B: f& M: d( h" V- ^
C epithalamion. G7 G6 R- j% M! Y. ^
D amoretti) e6 d; N* f2 |% z
5. Francis bacon is a ____.- E [* S' \* P9 G$ n" g+ I
A poet' P" y! |- z* {
B playwright# B2 s: L! l2 V
C essayist9 L6 ]$ Y; o4 d. p, R7 g
D novelist3 Q" c9 D" O4 s, B8 z
6. We can perhaps describe the west wind in shelly’s poem “ode to the west wind” with all the following terms except_____.9 J2 n% j( X- Y+ T3 l! e
A tamed
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C proud
* L" g+ M& T: x& y2 U. A) H3 } D wild
+ D- V& T3 m) e3 \: f 7. 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.” The novel is Jane Austen’____. B$ ~0 J5 v: M
A Emma" D8 O7 s1 j6 D5 E) y
B persuasion0 q; E' E# e% v$ ]; |
C sense and sensibility
3 X0 m7 l, ~* {8 C7 Z C1 h D pride and prejudice
" D- c% \, `0 V3 Q 8. 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.6 q2 j) {7 i$ O! j
A Charles dickens’s1 f3 f% M* v$ [$ |) U- t: `6 Y
B D.H .Lawrence’s
+ L* ^) f d0 ?2 `2 J) J C Thomas hardy’s) C- n- e! l8 P
D john Galsworthy’s9 R. t# T7 ?6 K
9. “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 Is quoted from_______.
/ l: \* Y! F/ C/ |" i4 E A pride and prejudice' |8 i3 v$ N5 i5 m) k/ l2 z
B Jane Eyre
1 n- W# p5 R6 n$ A W C Wuthering heights
" ^+ c4 x4 T2 u% f( N8 [ v; g D great expectations7 r$ j9 r: s% G1 g
10. Which of the following is not one of the Bronte sisters?
& l$ Z# j4 U0 @+ q0 d8 S* }6 `8 V A charlotte Bronte4 m/ j, h; T9 B
B Anne Bronte
+ W( _- R9 x' S2 ^ C jenny Bronte
5 S! p$ h* f4 p7 B4 Y0 t2 R D Emily Bronte |