what is the dominant theme of renaissance literature?
realist fiction becomes popular in english literature in the ____.
what is the common concern of realist writers?
which of the following is a romantic poet?
which of the following can be identified as internal research?
poetry and ____ are the two major genres of literature.
which of the following is defined as “the pattern of events and situations in a narrative or dramatic work”?
the description of the weather condition belongs to _____.
when readers discuss whether hamlet should take a revenge, they discuss the ____ of the play.
the greatest of the pioneers of english drama was ____ who reformed that genre in england and perfected the language and verse of dramatic works.
the term ____ originally indicated a revival of classical (greek and roman) arts and sciences after the dark ages of medieval obscuranti.
during the 16th century, the progressive humanists held their chief interest in ____, their environment and doings and brave fight for the emancipation of themselves from the tyranny of the church and religious dogmas.
there is a total number of 156 ____ written by william shakespeare.
shakespeare’s hamlet is mainly concerned with the theme of _____.
who kills hamlet’s father?
hamlet enumerates ____ types of miseries in his famous soliloquy.
hamlet carries forward the spirit of _____.
shakespeare’s plays are written in the poetic form of ____.
which of the following is not true about john milton’s family background?
as a young man, milton toured europe. which country interested him most?
which of the following is true about puritans in england?
which among the following miltonic works is a full-length epic?
according to paradise lost, who led the rebellion against god?
most of milton’s lines in paradise lost are written in _________.
which of the following was considered a very bold decision when milton published his paradise lost?
“milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: england hath need of thee.” who made the above comment on john milton?
why did the nineteenth-century victorians commend milton’s satan?
how did crusoe keep reckoning of time? ____
crusoe had with him ____.
how long did it take crusoe to build the “pale or surrounded habitation”? ____
why did he “draw up the state of my affairs in writing”? ____
the island is located in ____ climate.
robinson crusoe seemed to have great faith in ____.
which of the following is not among the things that crusoe made himself? ___
what will probably follow this chapter? ___
which of the following is among the dangers crusoe had? ____
what did he do shortly after he got to shore? ____
blank-verse poems do not have stanzas; they are organized into verse-paragraphs marked with indentions. ____
wordsworth believes the beauty in nature is all, orderly, and tranquil; it effects pleasure in the observer and is associated with love. ____
for wordsworth, unity in a landscape cannot produce in the observer a sense of the sublime. ____
of the following four english poets, which one does not belong to the second generation of romantic poets? _______
who published the sonnet “o solitude” written by john keats? ____
which literary device is used in the line “what mad pursuit? what struggle to escape” (in stanza 1)? ____
the speaker praises that the “unheard (melodies) are sweeter” (in stanza 2) because ____.
what does citadel (in stanza 4) mean in the context of the poem? ____
in a defence of poetry, which century was described by shelley as a golden age of culture? ____
generally speaking, what previous literary movement did english romantici, which came to prominence in the late 18th century in england, reject? ____
in late 18th and early 19th century england, a group of female writers appeared in the english literary world, which one of the following writers is not one of them. ____
though jane austen never put the political and social upheavals in her age into her writing, as she said, “let other pens dwell on guilt and misery”. her keen observation and perspicacious ysis of human nature based on characters ____ from classes set her apart from her contemporaries.
although in her short lifetime jane austen wrote six novels, all of them turned out to be timeless classics, which include sense and sensibility, pride and prejudice, _______________, mansfield park, emma, and persuasion.
jane austen was born in 1775 in the __________ village of steventon.
it was in this world—landed gentry and the country clergy, in the village and the country town, with occasional visits to __________ and london—that she found her characters the settings and subject matter for her stories.
which of the following best describes the tone of jane eyre? ____
who wrote a famous biography of charlotte bronte? ____
what was st johns planning to do? ____
what did jane eyre decide to do, after she found that mr. rochester was a married man? ____
in the novel jane eyre, the protagonist was sent to ____ by her aunt.
besides jane eyre, which of the following novels was also written by charlotte bronte? ____
which of the following is not true about the bronte siblings? ____
charles dickens had to move from place to place when he was young, because ______ .
young dickens started to work at a shoe polish factory at the age of ____.
in 1859, dickens started his own magazine, ____, which first published his historical novel, a tale of two cities.
____ is a masterly bildungsroman largely based on dickens’ only life experiences from infancy to maturity.
in great expectations, ____ came to pip’s village and announced that he had “great expectations”.
“it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of increty, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” this is the beginning of ____.
which of the following is not true about england in the victoria era? ____
what was magwitch’s lifelong goal in great expectations? ____
publishing novels in serial form can affect novels in significant ways. which of the following is not true? ____
the word bildungsroman comes from ____, meaning a coming-of-age story.
where does the story take place? ____
why is the girl not planning to attend the bazaar? ____
how does the narrator get to araby? ____
what does the narrator buy at the bazaar? ____
the narrator (叙述人) “i” seems to be attracted to ____.
the narrator lives with ____.
the place where the story takes place is described as ____.
the story in araby takes place around ____.
like other western literature, apart from its colonial period, american literature has also gone through the age of romantici, the age of ____ and modern american literature.
___, is credited with initiating american literature. his chief books included a description of new england (1616) and general history of virginia, new england, and the summer isles (1624).
to the pious puritan, the physical world was spiritual, nothing but a symbol of god. the world, therefore, was one of multiple meanings. this idea was later distinguishable in the works of emerson, ____, melville and edgar allan poe.
with ____, henry james and mark twain active on the scene, reali became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.
mark twain’s preference for his own region and people at the forefront of his stories made him well known as “local colorist”, then ___________ became a unique variation of american literary reali.
as a genre, naturali emphasized ______________ and environment as important determining forces shaping inidualized characters, who were presented in special and detailed circumstances. (heredity)
the most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the 20th century modern american literature, or the second american renaissance, is the ______________ movement.
though the scene of american drama was not so promising as fiction and poetry, playwrights like eugene o’neill, arthur miller and ______________ received worldwide recognition and were to hold the central position in american drama till today.
the defining formal characteristics of the modernistic works are discontinuity and _______________.
emerson’s writing style is modeled only on the polarity in nature.
the same new england that nurtured the hopeful visions of ____ also gave birth to the black visions of nathaniel hawthorne.
to understand nathaniel hawthorne’s works we have to know the very influence of ____ on him and how he related himself to this tradition in his fictional world.
which one of the following works was not written by nathaniel hawthorne? ____
on the fourth of july 1804, in __________ massachusetts, nathaniel hawthorne was born into a prominent puritan family.
in hawthorne’s works emerson’s doctrines of __________ and thoreau’s appreciation of nature can be easily found.
walden as a nature book has been praised for its pleasant and truthful description of nature.
walden can only be read as a nature book, as a work of deliberate literary art, and as a spiritual guidebook. there are no other ways of reading it.
mark twain, one of the greatest 19th century american writers, is well known for his ____.
the first american writer of local color to achieve wide popularity in the 1860s was ____.
with howells，henry james，and mark twain active on the literary scene，____ became the major trend in american literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.
________ combined his writing with public lecturing and foreign traveling, becoming american ambassador at large, and acquiring an international reputation as humorist-frontier-philosopher.
which writer has no naturalist tendency? ____
during the period after the civil war, the american society entered in what mark twain referred to as _____.
mark twain wrote most of his literary works with a ____ language.
____ was mark twain’s masterpiece from which, as hemingway noted, “all modern american literature comes.”
william faulkner wrote all of the following except_____
by idealizing the past william faulkner highlights in his the sound and the fury _______.
william faulkner’s works mainly concern the american _____.
of the following american writers, _____ has not won the nobel prize for literature.
the southern renaissance was the reinvigoration of american southern literature in the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of writers except_______.
which of the following is not a novel by william faulkner?
william faulkner often _______.
_____wrote about the disintegration of the old social system in the american southern states, and its effect on the lives of modern people, both black and white.
what was tennessee williams’ first major hit? ____
the play a streetcar named desire is set in ____.
blanche lost her job back home when ____.
blanche has a phobia of ____.
stanley comes from a background that would best be described as ____.
stanley and stella's relationship could best be described as ____.
which music motif appears when blanche talks about her former huand allan? ____
the dubois' plantation, lost by blanche, is called elysian fields. ____
robert frost, living in the 20th century, deliberately rejected the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries ______.
which is of the following poems is not composed by robert frost?
in “after apple-picking”，robert frost wrote：”for i have had too much / of apple-picking：i am overtired /of the great harvest i myself desired.” from these lines we can conclude that the speaker is_____.
____ read his poetry at the inauguration of president john f. kennedy.
robert frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the _____.
robert frost’s first book, ________, brought him to the attention of influential critics, among them the american expatriate ezra pound, who praised frost as an authentic poet.
_________ received honorary degrees from forty-four colleges and universities and won four pulitzer prizes.
________had rejected the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries, choosing instead “the old-fashioned way to be new.”
of the following writers, _______ did not serve in world war i?
which of the following is not a poem by robert frost?
which of miller’s plays was once staged in chinese at the beijing people's art theatre in 1983? ____
what is willy in death of a salean constantly dreaming about? ____
what is unusual about the way in which willy relates to reality? ____
how did willy "mess up" his children? ____
which of the following does not describe linda loman? ____
what is the play's greatest technical innovation? ____
in beloved, morrison’s novel about the unspeakable pains of a woman sethe from ____, womanhood, motherhood and selfhood come together to restore the historical truth to us.
set in a all ohio town in the years following the american civil war, the story beloved explores the hardships endured by a former slave woman, sethe, during the ____ era.
beloved further demonstrates that freedom of language is controlled by ____________ and racist’s authority.
in beloved morrison’s dedication—“sixty million and more” asks readers to reconsider the traumatic past of american ____________.
to the pious puritan, the physical world was spiritual, nothing but a symbol of god. the world, therefore, was one of multiple meanings. this idea was later distinguishable in the works of emerson, ______ , melville and edgar allan poe.
realist fiction becomes popular in english literature in the ____.
what is the common concern of realist writers?
which of the following is a romantic poet？
which of the following can be identified as internal research?
poetry and ____ are the two major genres of literature.
during the 16th century, the progressive humanists held their chief interest in ____, their environment and doings and brave fight for the emancipation of themselves from the tyranny of the church and religious dogmas.
there is a total number of 156 ____ written by william shakespeare.
shakespeare’s hamlet is mainly concerned with the theme of _____.
to the pious puritan, the physical world was spiritual, nothing but a symbol of god. the world, therefore, was one of multiple meanings. this idea was later distinguishable in the works of emerson, , melville and edgar allan poe.
like other western literature, apart from its colonial period, american literature has also gone through the age of romantici, the age of and modern american literature.
which one of the following works was not written by nathaniel hawthorne?
which of the following novels was not written by toni morrison?
the first american writer of local color to achieve wide popularity was .
which one of the following statements is not true of william faulkner?
read his poetry at the inauguration of president john f. kennedy.
one of mark twain’s contributions to american literature is that he made ______ an accepted standard literary medium.
william faulkner’s works mainly concern the american _____.
robert frost is generally considered to be a regional poet in the sense that his subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in _____.
which of the following is not a poem by robert frost?
which of the following is a novel from mark twain?
since he received the 1949 nobel prize for literature, ________reputation and influence have spread to every part of the world.
which one is not written by faulkner?
in “ode on a grecian urn”, all of the following are images that keats described on the urn, except a _____.
what was tennessee williams first major hit?
stanley and stella’s relationship could best be described as
which of these is not one of the words blanche uses to describe stanley?
what is willy constantly dreaming about?
why is willy so excited in act two of death of a salean?
which of the following is not true about john milton’s family background?
according to paradise lost, who led the rebellion against god?
which of the following was considered a very bold decision when milton published his paradise lost?
besides jane eyre, which of the following novels was also written by charlotte bronte?
what did jane eyre decide to do, after she found that mr. rochester was a married man?
who wrote a famous biography of charlotte bronte?
which of the following best describes the tone of jane eyre?
___________ is a masterly bildungsroman largely based on dickens’ only life experiences from infancy to maturity.
“it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of increty, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” this is the beginning of ___________.
what was magwitch’s lifelong goal in great expectations?
charles dickens’ novel great expectations can be read as a _________, which is a word from german, meaning a coming-of-age story.
_____wrote about the disintegration of the old social system in the american southern states, and its effect on the lives of modern people, both black and white.
mark twain’s preference for his own region and people at the forefront of his stories made him well known as “local colorist”, then______became a unique variation of american literary reali.
in beloved, toni morrison shows the effects of raci on its victims and its perpetrators. what do you think the “chokecherry tree” on the back of the black slave woman sethe told us about raci?