英国文学试题库8
1. The Preface to Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge served as the manifesto of Romanticism.
2. As an essayist and critic, Charles Lamb’s best-known work is his two volumes of the Essays of Elia (together with his sister, Mary Ann Lamb).
3. Charles Lamb and his sister Mary Lamb adapted Shakespeare’s plays into stories for children, titled Tales from Shakespeare, the former reproducing the tragedies, and the latter the comedies.
4. Mr. Bennet’s favorite daughter is Elizabeth.
5. The chief bus iness of Mrs. Bennet’s life was to ___________.
6. The Chartist Movement appeared between the 30’s and the early 50’s of the 19th century.
7. The critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties and in the beginning of fiftie
s.
8. The 19th realists set themselves the task of criticizing capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and delineated the crying contradictions of bourgeois social reality.
9. One of the greatest English realist in the Victorian Age was ______, who created in his works the pictures of bourgeois civilization, describing the misery and sufferings of common people.
10. William Makepeace Thackeray was another important writer in the 19th century, whose novels mainly contained a satirical portrayal of _______.
11. The two often-used writing styles in the realistic novels of the 19th century are humor and satire, and the former was used to portray _____ while the latter to _____.
12. Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton described the inhuman conditions of the life of English workers and the birth of Chartist movement.
13. The second half of the 19th century in England produced such outstanding poets as Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Charles A. Swinburne, of whom Robert Browning was the greatest, whose masterpiece was An Italian in England.
14. In the novel A Tale of Two Cities, Dr. Manette is a typical bourgeois intellectual. He sympathizes with the poor and defends the oppressed people, but feels terrified before the fire of revolution.
worship15. The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities written by Charles Dickens are London and Paris.
16. A Tale of Two Cities was his historical novel about the French Revolution.
17. The delightful fairy-tale The rose and the Ring was written by ______.
18. The main female character in Vanity Fair written by ______ is Rebecca Sharp.
19. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was borrowed by ____ from The Pilgrims Progress written by ____.
20. The subtitle of Vanity Fair is _______.
21. The subtitle of Vanity Fair—“A Novel without a Hero” emphasizes the fact that the writer’s intention was not to portray individuals but the society as a whole.
22. The title of the novel Vanity Fair is suggestive of that Vanity Fair in John Bunyan’s masterpiece The Pilgrim’s Progress, where all sorts of vanities are on sale.
23. The central characters of The Mill on Floss written by are Tom and his sister Maggie.
24. The Mill on Floss tells of the love, estrangement, and eventually reconciliation of the daughter and son of a country miller.
25. Adam Bede was rural tragedy written by .
26. Silas Marner, last and shortest rustic novel written by ______ was set before the Industrial Revolution.
27. Both Jane Eyre by _____ and Wuthering Heights _____ brought to the novel an introsp
ection and an intense concentration on the inner life of emotion.
28. Wuthering Heights deals with a story of love and violence.
29. "The Song of the Shirt", one of the best poems written by_____ was on the hard life of the labors under capitalism in English literature.
30. "The Bridge of Signs" by ______was a poem on the miserable fate of the women of the poor.
31. In the "The Idylls of the King", the poet Alfred Tennyson painted the first English hero, King Arthur, and gave a new meaning to the legends about the knights of the Round Table.
32. “In Memoriam”, written by Alfred Tennyson in memory of his friend Arthur Hallam, interpenetrates the theme—the question of immortality of the soul.
33. In Alfred Tennyson's “The Idylls of the King”, King Arthur’s attempt to bring civilization to his realm through the devotion of his knights fails because of sins which the poet felt to be the peculiar danger of his own age.
34. “Break, Break, Break” and “Crossing the Bar” are two famous lyric poems written by___.
35.“Dramatic monologue” was created by Robert Browning.
36. In his An Italian in England, Robert Browning portrayed an Italian revolutionary fighting for the freedom of the country.

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