the ____ is a long narrative poem of great scale and grand style, typically a recounting of history or legend or of the deeds of a national hero.
____ is the repetition of the same sounds—usually initial consonants of words or of stressed syllables—in any sequence of neighboring words.
____ is used when one word or phrase is substituted for another to which it is closely related.
____ refers to the poet or the imaginary speaker’s attitude toward his subject, his reader or himself. it could be happy or sad, gloomy or light, serious or satiric, calm or excited, etc.
____ refers to the repetition of certain sound in words, usually at the end of poetic lines.
the epoch of renaissance witnessed a particular development of english drama. it was ____ who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.
christopher marlowe’s best plays include the following except ____.
choose the one which is not edmund spenser’s work.
the faerie queene is an epic written in ____.
“shall i compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of william shakespeare’s ____.
in 1593 and 1594, william shakespeare published his two narrative poems, which are venus and adonis and ____.
ben jonson’s comedies are “comedies of ____”. every character in his comedies personifies a definite “humour”.
the following are ben jonson’s main works except ____.
choose the poet who does not belong to the cavalier group: ____.
as an important critic, jonson was an ardent supporter of ____ and took a firm stand for the “three unities” in play-writing.
in 1648 herrick published his poems in a thick volume with the two titles of ____ and ____.
as a core component of the so-called “ cavalier poets”, herrick’s poetry mainly falls on the traditional theme of ____.
metaphysical poetry is notable for its surprising _________ (奇喻).
george herbert is called "the __________ of the metaphysical school".
"but though the whole world turn to coal, / then chiefly lives" allude to __________.
in the line "only a sweet and virtuous soul, /like seasoned timber, never gives", the poet uses not only allusion but __________ to convey his idea.
milton's poetry has a __________ style, noted for its sublimity of thought and majesty of expression.
milton's masterpiece paradise lost is written in __________.
"methought i saw my late espoused saint" is written in __________ sonnet form with the rhyme scheme of abba abba cdcdcd.
"the old law" in milton's sonnet "methought i saw my late espoused saint" refers to the __________ law.
the reversed conception of day and night in milton's sonnet "methought i saw my late espoused saint" is a famous __________.
____ is a far-fetched metaphor in which a very unlikely connection between two things is established. john donne employs them extensively in his poetry.
the following were the important metaphysical poets except ____.
william blake was a representative of pre-romantic school, who was often called “the most _____ artist”.
the rhythm of the poem "the tiger" is very strong and forceful, thus often called the "__________ music".
"the tiger" is a symbolic poem with many implicaitons, in which the __________ may be taken as a symbol of violence and rebellion.
"the lamb" in the twentieth line of blake's poem "the tiger" refers to __________, usually a symbol of obedience and peace.
which of the following works was not written by robert burns? ____.
____ is the greatest poet scotland has ever produced. his poems chiefly in the scottish dialect is of great significance in english literature.
william blake and robert burns are the representative poets of ____.
in the victorian age, poetry was not a major art intended to change the world. the main poets of the age include the following except____.
_________ and george gordon byron are regarded as the two great poets of the revolutionary romantici in england.
“___________” is one of shelley’s great lyrics written in italy in 1819.
“ode to the west wind” is an __________ written in a complicated fusion of the sonnet and terza rima with an interlocking rhyme scheme (aba bcb cdc ded ee) of four 3-line groups and a final couplet.
"ode to the west wind" is a symbolic poem in which __________ symbolize/symbolizes the great power of english revolution and the poet’s revolutionary spirit.
"a song" is a song written in two quatrains rhyming ___________.
____ is a long poem based on baccaccio’s decameron, in which john keats shows sympathy for the oppressed and indignation at the cruelty of the rich.
the unfinished long epic ____ has been regarded as john keats’s greatest achievement in poetry.
the preface to the lyrical ballads served as the manifesto of the english romantic movement in ____.
william wordsworth succeeded in depicting the naivety of simple peasant children in his poems, such as ____.
in the victorian age, poetry was not a major art intended to change the world. the main poets of the age include the following except____.
which of the following is william butler yeats’s poem?
robert browning achieved his greatest success in the poetic form — the __________.
robert browning is thought to be the most important __________ poet after tennyson.
the word “hark” attracts our special attention to the ___________ images in browning's "home-thought from abraod", together with the repetition of the word “sings”, one in each stanza.
"home-thoughts from abroad" reveals the poet's __________ sentiment while he was staying abroad.
"meeting at night" is sometimes taken as a whole with another lyric "__________".
william cullen bryant is famous as the first american __________ poet of distinction.
bryant's greatest poem is "___________" in which he developed a view of death representing a sharp break from the puritan attitude toward man's final destiny.
"to a waterfowl" is a lyric of __________ meditation.
the rhyme scheme of "to a waterfowl" is __________.
in the sixth stanza of bryant's "to a waterfowl", "soon" is repeated three times at the beginning of the lines. here __________ is used to lay emphasis on the idea that the waterfowl's long, tired journey is coming near.
edgar allan poe has often been considered as the father of the modern __________.
poe believes that poetry must concern itself only with "__________ beauty," not with the narration of the story, nor even with the beauty of particular things.
"to my mother" is written in a/an ________ sonnet with its typical rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefefgg.
"to my mother" is written to maria clemm, poe's __________.
"virginia" in poe's poem "to my mother" is poe's __________.
with the appearance of ____ in 1855, which is about american indians, henry wadsworth longfellow’s poetical reputation was established.
longfellow’s writings belong to the milder aspects of____.
emily dickinson was regarded as a chief poet, as great as __________, in the turbulent america of the late 19th century.
dickinson's poetry possesses the appeal that moves the 20th-century readers and exerted a great impact upon the so-called “__________” of the early 20th century.
the stanzaic form of "i died for beauty — but was scarce" is the _________ stanza that dickinson most often employs, which is the usual form of the folk ballad and its literary imitations.
the __________ rhyme or the slant rhyme is a type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds.
"i died for beauty — but was scarce" reveals emily dickinson's aesthetic idea that beauty and __________ are one.
in his cluster of poems called leaves of grass, walt ____ gave america its first genuine epic poem.
the poetic style walt whitman devised is now called ____, that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
walt whitman’s touching poem “o, captain! my captain!” is written in memory of ____ who was assassinated on april 14, 1865.
what didn’t carl sandburg win three nobel prizes for?
what does carl sandburg personify fog into in his poem fog?
what doesn’t carl sandburg want to tell the readers by his poem fog?
what do “the bodies” in line 1 in the poem grass by carl sandburg refer to?
how did hilda doolittle illustrate the imagist principles:
what does“oread” refer to in the poem oread by hilda doolittle?
which of the following is not a work of imagist poems written by hilda doolittle?
when looking at the whirling sea in oread, what does the poet take in her mind?
ezra pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the ____ movement.
ezra pound’s major work of poetry is the long poem called the ____.
the imagist poets approved the use of free verse, direct common speech, creation of new rhythms, absolute freedom in choice of subject matter, and the evocation of ____ in hard, clear poetic works.
thomas stearns eliot’s classic expression of the temper of his age is the waste ____.
thomas stearns eliot’s last important work was ____ quartets, a profound meditation on time and timelessness, written in four parts.
the poem the waste land is broadly acknowledged as one of the most recognizable landmarks of ____.
what is the first published book written by robert frost?
robert frost read his poem at an american president’s inauguration. who was that president?
in which volume was stopping by woods on a snowy evening was written?
how many stanzas are there in stopping by woods on a snowy evening? and which stanza is different from others in rhyming scheme?
what does “promises” in stopping by woods on a snowy evening imply?
what is the most important image in to brooklyn bridge?
which is not one of the features of hart crane’s poetry?
what does the writer want to describe the brooklyn bridge as in the poem?
____ was the first to give the sonnet its english form. and his metrical innovations are very important in english poetry.
____ refers to poetry written in unrimed iambic pentameter.
john milton is famous for his ____, which is the result of his lifelong classical and biblical study.
____ is a far-fetched metaphor in which a very unlikely connection between two things is established. john donne employs them extensively in his poetry.
lives of poets was one of ____’s main works, which consists of some of the best-known pictures of the early english poets.
____ is the most important representative of the english classical poetry. he was at his best in satire and epigram.
____ was made poet laureate in 1813. but most of his works, according to modern critics, are “the product of literary industry, not of literary creation.”
___ is a poem of 4,000 lines, “inscribed to the memory of thomas chatterton”, the young forerunner of the romantic movement.
which poem tells a story similar to william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet? ____.
the best of puritan poets was ____, whose complete edition of poems appeared in 1960, more than two hundred years after his death.
who was considered as the “poet of american revolution”?
the imagist writers followed the following three principles except ____.
____ showed great interest in chinese literature and translated the poetry of li po into english, and was influenced by confucian ideas.
edmund spenser is often referred to as “the poets’ ____” because his influence on later poets is considerable.
shakespearean sonnet is made up of three quatrains followed by a couplet. the rhyme scheme is _____.
about the beginning of the 17th century appeared a school of poets called “____” by samuel johnson, an 18th-century writer.
the main literary stream of the 18th century was ____. what the writers described were mainly social realities.
____ wrote some patriotic poems, in which he expressed his deep love for his motherland, such as my heart’s in the highlands.
as a poet, william blake’s fame has been chiefly resting upon two volumes of poems, songs of ____ and songs of experience.
the appearance and development of sentimentalist poetry marks the midway in the translation from classici to ____ in english poetry.
the poem childe harold’s pilgrimage is written in ____ stanza.
the passive romantic poets have also been called lake poets or ____ because they had lived in the lake district in the northwest of england.
the two greatest victorian poets are alfred ____ and robert browning. they both began writing poetry in emulation of the major romantic poets, such as george gordon byron, percy bysshe shelley and john keats.
the poem the waste land is broadly acknowledged as one of the most recognizable landmarks of ____.
in 1845, henry david thoreau began a two-year residence at ____ pond.
henry wadsworth longfellow and james russell ____ are the only two american poets commemorated in the poet’s corner of westminster abbey.
ezra pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “____” movement.
____ has been called the “father of american poetry.”