Exercise Three 
I. Choose the best answer.
1. John Donne is a poet of peculiar _______, which are clever or unusual metaphors or comparisons.
A. sonnets      B. parables      C. conceits      D. ballads
2. The _______ in The Pilgrim’s Progress is the vision of an ideal happy society of John Bunyan.
A. Christian        B. Appollyon      C. Vanity Fair    D. Celestial City
3. _______ is regarded as the founder of the English realistic novel. 
A. Jonathan Swift  B. Daniel Defoe  C. Charles Dickens  D. Henry Fielding
4. _______’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a remarkable product of the Enlightenment and the greatest historical work in English literature.
A. Oliver Goldsmith  B. Tobias Smollett  C. Edward Gibbon    D. Laurence Sterne
5. _______ by Richard Sheridan has been called a great comedy of manners.
A. The Rivals             B. The Good-natured Man
C. The School for Scandal   D. She Stoops to Conquer
6. Samuel Richardson’s _______ was the first English psycho-analytical novel.
A. Robinson Crusoe  B. Pamela  C. Clarissa Harlowe  D. Sir Charles Grandison
7. Robert Burns is the national poet of _______.
A. the USA    B. Scotland    C. Ireland  D. Wales
8. William Blake was a precursor of _______ in English poetry.
A. Romanticism    B. Imagism    C. Classicism  D. Neoclassicism
II. Fill in the following blanks.
1.               is the masterpiece of John Milton, in which Satan is a real hero.
2.               is the founder of the metaphysical poems.
3.               is undoubtedly the greatest poet Scotland has ever produced.
comparisons4.                   (name of the person) ranks among the greatest satirists of England, and of the world. A Modest Proposal is one of his satirical works. 
5. William Blake’s most famous works are Songs of Innocence and                   , which reflect two widely different views of the human soul.
6.           wrote some patriotic poems, in which he expressed his deep love for his motherland , such as “My Heart’s in the Highland”.
7. Daniel Defoe’s masterpiece is             .
8. Henry Fielding’s masterpiece is              .
9.               is Sheridan’s masterpiece which has been known as a great comedy of manners.
10. “Pamela” written by             is the first psycho-analytical novel in English literature.

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