1. The sentence “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s_____.! M2 c2 [! b1 @- t# d: X
A comedies
0 t/ h7 Y: Y y) P; [ B tragedies. H; p2 F) ^" J0 U8 r" a3 J% d7 K
C sonnets0 G: P3 v3 q' U
D histories
/ P8 v4 f( K1 U# }' a: z1 F: B& S 2. The three dialects spoken by____ _____and _____mixed into a single language called Anglo-Saxon, or old English.' N6 Q( B/ d! D* i" h) t$ k
A Anglos, Saxons jutes. N) T% b& K: y' q2 i, k, D% G
B Anglos, Saxons, Irish
: S) E+ I% H# n$ n9 v. ` C Anglos, Saxons, Scottish
$ o3 @+ t' w! V3 V% t# U: H D Anglos, Saxons, welsh+ C& f4 i% l- s% C5 \
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.6 m7 `. u: u6 H. X: P# B" B
A William Shakespeare’s
% x( Q* X5 V9 C9 s$ `* N* B# g B Geoffrey Chaucer’s
& `8 S1 n1 d' K0 J/ g( Q4 z' B C Thomas more’s
3 d9 \! _6 u8 x. G5 j# K, m9 w D Edmund Spenser’s% N5 d- l% p, g8 _9 x
4. Spenserian stanza is a form of poetry first employed by Edmund Spenser in his long poetry_____.9 P) y' [& n! B( o0 {- U% B
A the faerie queene
. k$ P! H5 [7 _; b4 b+ I B the shepherd’s calendar3 K' |& D9 y9 S+ w7 N
C epithalamion
) P3 j1 J1 Y* C* Z ^) c+ A" n D amoretti
* j* Z( [4 ~, C4 y; p; u 5. Francis bacon is a ____.. V! n0 _! s8 Y1 \4 E, M4 M
A poet
4 ^' _# P" l# R# n9 s" R" ]1 A" O ~ B playwright, i2 `5 K' J( ?- |0 p# s/ p/ X" J
C essayist
( B& a! `* W3 s9 Y. U D novelist
& ]+ C) q& u* D6 e e4 R 6. We can perhaps describe the west wind in shelly’s poem “ode to the west wind” with all the following terms except_____.9 Q# h% c+ R, J( s
A tamed
* m9 M1 m# m$ j B swift* z' J1 x% {( E! F# @ M. {
C proud
" t8 _8 ^( M q% ]& x; }' i; n D wild- w: @% I& K7 ^2 _3 j4 _) v# W& E C& V2 Z
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’____.! c' T8 r! [3 C w! s
A Emma' `+ z. [, L t- u" r
B persuasion
6 q2 B1 s3 v' { @2 J$ I8 r C sense and sensibility" _% O1 v, w" E7 {. u7 f
D pride and prejudice
/ m3 o, p2 l, z* i) h7 N8 J 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.; c! L. e2 w& c
A Charles dickens’s
& f$ d0 m1 J* v9 z B D.H .Lawrence’s0 N; X. |- x) s) Z0 k
C Thomas hardy’s- t# x3 M0 p6 O. M
D john Galsworthy’s0 m1 z2 d, ~3 s) N" r
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_______.
/ C6 l! o5 Q0 i+ D3 T+ t, m1 Y A pride and prejudice' K& z' o" f% K) y
B Jane Eyre
8 a' I1 ?) c6 }9 ?4 m C Wuthering heights
% v9 S8 m7 a( V5 |7 k P D great expectations2 M) y6 x9 _. D; W0 u3 I. p# F
10. Which of the following is not one of the Bronte sisters?
6 g2 j6 f4 P8 Y7 a/ z A charlotte Bronte
* U% A* u1 d% k$ T3 W! G B Anne Bronte
7 Y' [! @ r, K$ c/ P C jenny Bronte
# h0 p" O# }" R D Emily Bronte |