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单元测验
1、【填空题】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.
A、
2、【填空题】____ is the repetition of the same sounds—usually initial consonants of words or of stressed syllables—in any sequence of neighboring words.
A、
3、【填空题】____ is used when one word or phrase is substituted for another to which it is closely related.
A、
4、【填空题】____ 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.
A、
5、【填空题】____ refers to the repetition of certain sound in words, usually at the end of poetic lines.
A、
单元测验
1、【单选题】The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. It was ____ who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.
A、Christopher Marlowe
B、Thomas Lodge
C、Edmund Spenser
D、Thomas More
2、【单选题】Christopher Marlowe’s best plays include the following except ____.
A、The Jew of Malta
B、The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
C、Cymbeline
D、Tamburlaine the Great
3、【单选题】Choose the one which is not Edmund Spenser’s work.
A、The Shepherd’s Calendar
B、Astrophel and Stella
C、The Faerie Queene
D、Amoretti
4、【单选题】The Faerie Queene is an epic written in ____.
A、Spenserian stanza
B、blank verse
C、heroic couplet
D、sonnet
5、【单选题】“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of William Shakespeare’s ____.
A、songs
B、plays
C、comedies
D、sonnets
6、【单选题】In 1593 and 1594, William Shakespeare published his two narrative poems, which are Venus and Adonis and ____.
A、Arcadia
B、Stella
C、The Rape of Lucrece
D、Volpone
单元测验
1、【单选题】Ben Jonson’s comedies are “comedies of ____”. Every character in his comedies personifies a definite “humour”.
A、humours
B、manners
C、characters
D、errors
2、【单选题】The following are Ben Jonson’s main works except ____.
A、Every Man in His Humour
B、Volpone
C、The Alchemist
D、The Merchant of Venice
3、【单选题】Choose the poet who does not belong to the Cavalier group: ____.
A、Sir John Suckling
B、Richard Lovelace
C、George Herbert
D、Robert Herrick
4、【填空题】As an important critic, Jonson was an ardent supporter of ____ and took a firm stand for the “three unities” in play-writing.
A、
5、【填空题】In 1648 Herrick published his poems in a thick volume with the two titles of ____ and ____.
A、
6、【填空题】As a core component of the so-called “ Cavalier Poets”, Herrick’s poetry mainly falls on the traditional theme of ____.
A、
单元测验
1、【单选题】Metaphysical poetry is notable for its surprising _________ (奇喻).
A、paradoxes
B、conceits
C、imagery
D、symbols
2、【单选题】George Herbert is called the __________ of the Metaphysical school.
A、founder
B、pioneer
C、saint
D、hero
3、【单选题】At the beginning of the poem“Virtue”, the poet compares the sweet day to the wedding of the earth and sky. Here, __________ is used.
A、metaphor
B、simile
C、personification
D、hyperbole
4、【单选题】But though the whole world turn to coal, / Then chiefly lives allude to __________.
A、the Greek myth
B、John Donne's poetry
C、William Shakespeare's plays
D、the Bible
5、【单选题】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.
A、simile
B、metaphor
C、understatement
D、parodox
6、【单选题】Milton's poetry has a __________ style, noted for its sublimity of thought and majesty of expression.
A、mighty
B、gentle
C、grand
D、exquisite
7、【单选题】Milton's masterpiece Paradise Lost is written in __________.
A、terza rima
B、heroic couplet
C、blank verse
D、sonnet
8、【单选题】Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint is written in __________ sonnet form with the rhyme scheme of abba abba cdcdcd.
A、English
B、Italian
C、Shakespearean
D、Spenserian
9、【单选题】The Old Law in Milton's sonnet Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint refers to the __________ law.
A、Venetian
B、Criminal
C、Mosaic
D、civil
10、【单选题】The reversed conception of day and night in Milton's sonnet Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint is a famous __________.
A、parodox
B、oxymoron
C、hyperbole
D、allusion
11、【单选题】____ is a far-fetched metaphor in which a very unlikely connection between two things is established. John Donne employs them extensively in his poetry.
A、conceit
B、Metonymy
C、The Baroque
D、An allegory
12、【单选题】The following were the important metaphysical poets except ____.
A、John Donne
B、George Herbert
C、Andrew Marvell
D、Richard Lovelace
单元测验
1、【单选题】William Blake was a representative of Pre-romantic school, who was often called “the most _____ artist”.
A、artificial
B、spiritual
C、outstanding
D、professional
2、【单选题】The famous lines To see a world in a grain of sand/And a heaven in a wild flower, / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand / And eternity in an hour are chosen from Blake's long poem __________.
A、Songs of Experience
B、Songs of Innocence
C、Auguries of Innocence
D、Poetical Sketches
3、【单选题】The rhythm of the poem The Tiger is very strong and forceful, thus often called the __________ music.
A、folk
B、Blacksmith
C、hitting
D、anvil
4、【单选题】The Tiger is a symbolic poem with many implicaitons, in which the __________ may be taken as a symbol of violence and rebellion.
A、tiger
B、lamb
C、night
D、forest
5、【单选题】The Lamb in the twentieth line of Blake's poem The Tiger refers to __________, usually a symbol of obedience and peace.
A、English Revolution
B、Satan
C、Jesus
D、Adam
6、【单选题】Which of the following works was not written by Robert Burns? ____.
A、Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
B、Bruce at Bannockburn
C、The Jolly Beggars
D、The Traveller
7、【单选题】____ is the greatest poet Scotland has ever produced. His Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect is of great significance in English literature.
A、William Blake
B、Robert Burns
C、Oliver Goldsmith
D、Thomas Percy
8、【单选题】William Blake and Robert Burns are the representative poets of ____.
A、Pre-romanticism
B、Romanticism
C、Sentimentalism
D、Naturalism
9、【单选题】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____.
A、Alfred Tennyson
B、Robert Browning
C、Mrs. Browning
D、Robert Burns
单元测验
1、【单选题】_________ and George Gordon Byron are regarded as the two great poets of the revolutionary romanticism in England.
A、Percy Bysshe Shelley
B、John Milton
C、William Wordsworth
D、John Keats
2、【单选题】“___________” is one of Shelley’s great lyrics written in Italy in 1819.
A、Ode to the West Wind
B、To the Skylark
C、One Word is Too often Profaned
D、How Do I Love Thee
3、【单选题】“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.
A、ode
B、elegy
C、sonnet
D、epic
4、【单选题】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、the west wind
B、 the dead leaves
C、the trumpet
D、the seeds
5、【单选题】A Song is a song written in two quatrains rhyming ___________.
A、abab
B、abcb
C、aabb
D、abba
6、【单选题】____ 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.
A、Isabella
B、The Eve of St. Agnes
C、Endymion
D、Lamia
7、【单选题】The unfinished long epic ____ has been regarded as John Keats’s greatest achievement in poetry.
A、Endymion
B、Isabella
C、Hyperion
D、When I Have Fears
8、【单选题】The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads served as the manifesto of the English Romantic Movement in ____.
A、poetry
B、drama
C、novel writing
D、prose
9、【单选题】William Wordsworth succeeded in depicting the naivety of simple peasant children in his poems, such as ____.
A、Simon Lee
B、We Are Seven
C、Lucy Poems
D、The Solitary Reaper
单元测验
1、【单选题】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____.
A、Alfred Tennyson
B、Robert Browning
C、Mrs. Browning
D、Robert Burns
2、【单选题】 Alfred Tennyson’s poetic output was vast and varied. His ____ is a collection of elegies for the death of his friend Hallam.
A、The Princess
B、Maud
C、In Memoriam
D、Idylls of the King
3、【单选题】Which of the following is William Butler Yeats’s poem?
A、Swan Song
B、The Wild Swan at Coole
C、To the Cuckoo
D、Ode to a Nightingale
4、【单选题】Robert Browning achieved his greatest success in the poetic form — the __________.
A、dramatic monologue
B、sonnet
C、blank verse
D、ode
E、heroic couplet
5、【单选题】Robert Browning is thought to be the most important __________ poet after Tennyson.
A、Victorian
B、Romantic
C、Elizabethan
D、Revolutionary
6、【单选题】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.
A、aural
B、visual
C、guatatory
D、olfactory
7、【单选题】Home-Thoughts from Abroad reveals the poet's __________ sentiment while he was staying abroad.
A、nostalgic
B、revolutionary
C、romantic
D、realistic
8、【单选题】Meeting at Night is sometimes taken as a whole with another lyric __________.
A、Parting at Morning
B、Home-Thoughts from Abroad
C、Dover Beach
D、Break, Break, Break
单元测验
1、【单选题】William Cullen Bryant is famous as the first American __________ poet of distinction.
A、lyric
B、narrative
C、dramatic
D、folk
2、【单选题】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.
A、Thanatopsis
B、To a Waterfowl
C、The Embargo
D、I died for Beauty
3、【单选题】To a Waterfowl is a lyric of __________ meditation.
A、religious
B、Buddhist
C、Yoga
D、Transcendental
4、【单选题】The rhyme scheme of To a Waterfowl is __________.
A、abab
B、abcb
C、abba
D、aabb
5、【单选题】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.
A、anaphora
B、alliteration
C、assonance
D、allusion
6、【单选题】Edgar Allan Poe has often been considered as the father of the modern __________.
A、short story
B、novel
C、poetry
D、prose
7、【单选题】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.
A、supernal
B、superficial
C、inner
D、outer
8、【单选题】To My Mother is written in a/an ________ sonnet with its typical rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefefgg.
A、Shakespearean
B、Italian
C、Petrarchan
D、French
9、【单选题】To My Mother is written to Maria Clemm, Poe's __________.
A、mother-in-law
B、birth mother
C、foster mother
D、stepmother
10、【单选题】Virginia in Poe's poem To My Mother is Poe's __________.
A、dead wife
B、sister
C、foster mother
D、birth mother
11、【单选题】With the appearance of ____ in 1855, which is about American Indians, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetical reputation was established.
A、Evangeline
B、The Courtship of Miles Standish
C、Song of Hiawatha
D、Michael Angelo
12、【单选题】Longfellow’s writings belong to the milder aspects of____.
A、the Renaissance Movement
B、the Revolution Movement
C、the New Criticism Movement
D、the Romantic Movement
单元测验
1、【单选题】Emily Dickinson was regarded as a chief poet, as great as __________, in the turbulent America of the late 19th century.
A、Walt Whitman
B、William Cullen Bryant
C、Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
D、Edgar Allan Poe
2、【单选题】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.
A、new poetry
B、modern poetry
C、imagist poetry
D、postmodernist
3、【单选题】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.
A、ballad
B、heroic
C、Spenserian
D、Shakespearean
4、【单选题】The __________ rhyme or the slant rhyme is a type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds.
A、imperfect
B、perfect
C、end
D、full
5、【单选题】I died for Beauty — but was scarce reveals Emily Dickinson's aesthetic idea that beauty and __________ are one.
A、truth
B、kindness
C、goodness
D、honesty
6、【填空题】In his cluster of poems called Leaves of Grass, Walt ____ gave America its first genuine epic poem.
A、
7、【填空题】The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ____, that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
A、
8、【填空题】Walt Whitman’s touching poem “O, Captain! My Captain!” is written in memory of ____ who was assassinated on April 14, 1865.
A、
单元测验
1、【单选题】What didn’t Carl Sandburg win three Nobel Prizes for?
A、The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
B、Corn Huskers
C、Abraham Lincoln
D、The Chicago Race Riots
2、【单选题】What does Carl Sandburg personify fog into in his poem Fog?
A、cat
B、cloud
C、person
D、air
3、【单选题】 What doesn’t Carl Sandburg want to tell the readers by his poem Fog?
A、The poem implies city mystery and desolation.
B、The poem tells the readers about life.
C、The poem indicates the relationship between man and nature.
D、The poem shows the benefits of the fast development of modern society.
4、【单选题】What do “the bodies” in line 1 in the poem Grass by Carl Sandburg refer to?
A、the corpses of soldiers off the battlefield
B、the corpses of all dead people
C、the dead animals
D、the dead plants
5、【单选题】 How did Hilda Doolittle illustrate the imagist principles:
A、by taking specific iamges
B、by direct diction, economical expression
C、by taking advantage of the interrelationship between music and verse
D、by strong sense of humor
6、【单选题】 What does“Oread” refer to in the poem Oread by Hilda Doolittle?
A、the goddess of forests in Greek mythology
B、the waves in the sea
C、the mountains
D、pointed pines.
7、【单选题】Which of the following is not a work of imagist poems written by Hilda Doolittle?
A、Sea Garden
B、Walls Do Not Fall
C、Tribute to Angels
D、Bid Me to Live Freud
8、【单选题】When looking at the whirling sea in Oread, what does the poet take in her mind?
A、the images of a roaring forest
B、the momentary change of weather
C、the images of angry people
D、the struggle of depressed mind
9、【填空题】Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the ____ movement.
A、
10、【填空题】Ezra Pound’s major work of poetry is the long poem called The ____.
A、
11、【填空题】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.
A、
12、【填空题】Thomas Stearns Eliot’s classic expression of the temper of his age is The Waste ____.
A、
13、【填空题】Thomas Stearns Eliot’s last important work was ____ Quartets, a profound meditation on time and timelessness, written in four parts.
A、
14、【填空题】The poem The Waste Land is broadly acknowledged as one of the most recognizable landmarks of ____.
A、
Final examination
1、【单选题】____ was the first to give the sonnet its English form. And his metrical innovations are very important in English poetry.
A、Thomas Wyatt
B、William Shakespeare
C、Philip Sidney
D、Henry Howard
2、【单选题】____ refers to poetry written in unrimed iambic pentameter.
A、Spenserian stanza
B、Blank verse
C、Heroic couplet
D、Sonnet
3、【单选题】John Milton is famous for his ____, which is the result of his lifelong classical and biblical study.
A、grand style
B、euphemism
C、mighty lines
D、lucid style
4、【单选题】Another school of poetry prevailing in the 17th century was that of ____, i.e. those verse-writers, often knights and squires, who sided with the King against the Parliament and Puritans.
A、Metaphysical Poets
B、Cavalier Poets
C、John Milton
D、John Dryden
5、【单选题】____ is a far-fetched metaphor in which a very unlikely connection between two things is established. John Donne employs them extensively in his poetry.
A、A conceit
B、Metonymy
C、The Baroque
D、An allegory
6、【单选题】Lives of Poets was one of ____’s main works, which consists of some of the best-known pictures of the early English poets.
A、Samuel Johnson
B、James Boswell
C、Henry Fielding
D、Ben Jonson
7、【单选题】____ is the most important representative of the English classical poetry. He was at his best in satire and epigram.
A、Jonathan Swift
B、Samuel Richardson
C、Samuel Richardson
D、Joseph Addison
8、【单选题】____ 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.”
A、William Wordsworth
B、Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C、Robert Southey
D、George Gordon Byron
9、【单选题】As to the language used in poetry, ____ “endeavoured to bring his language near to the real language of men.”
A、Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B、William Wordsworth
C、Percy Bysshe Shelley
D、John Keats
10、【单选题】___ is a poem of 4,000 lines, “inscribed to the memory of Thomas Chatterton”, the young forerunner of the Romantic Movement.
A、Issabella
B、The Eve of St. Agnes
C、Endymion
D、 Lamia
11、【单选题】Which poem tells a story similar to William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet? ____.
A、Isabella
B、The Eve of St. Agnes
C、Lamia
D、All for Love
12、【单选题】The best of Puritan poets was ____, whose complete edition of poems appeared in 1960, more than two hundred years after his death.
A、Edward Taylor
B、Roger Williams
C、Thomas Hooker
D、John Smith
13、【单选题】Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?
A、Michael Wigglesworth
B、Edward Taylor
C、Anne Bradstreet
D、Philip Freneau
14、【单选题】The Imagist writers followed the following three principles except ____.
A、direct treatment
B、economy of expression
C、clear rhythm
D、blank verse
15、【单选题】____ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.
A、Ezra Pound
B、Robert Frost
C、Thomas Stearns Eliot
D、E. E. Cummings
16、【填空题】Edmund Spenser is often referred to as “the poets’ ____” because his influence on later poets is considerable.
A、
17、【填空题】Shakespearean Sonnet is made up of three quatrains followed by a couplet. The rhyme scheme is _____.
A、
18、【填空题】About the beginning of the 17th century appeared a school of poets called “____” by Samuel Johnson, an 18th-century writer.
A、
19、【填空题】The main literary stream of the 18th century was ____. What the writers described were mainly social realities.
A、
20、【填空题】____ wrote some patriotic poems, in which he expressed his deep love for his motherland, such as My Heart’s in the Highlands.
A、
21、【填空题】As a poet, William Blake’s fame has been chiefly resting upon two volumes of poems, Songs of ____ and Songs of Experience.
A、
22、【填空题】The appearance and development of sentimentalist poetry marks the midway in the translation from classicism to ____ in English poetry.
A、
23、【填空题】The poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is written in ____ stanza.
A、
24、【填空题】The passive Romantic poets have also been called Lake Poets or ____ because they had lived in the Lake District in the northwest of England.
A、
25、【填空题】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.
A、
26、【填空题】The poem The Waste Land is broadly acknowledged as one of the most recognizable landmarks of ____.
A、
27、【填空题】In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at ____ Pond.
A、
28、【填空题】Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and James Russell ____ are the only two American poets commemorated in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.
A、
29、【填空题】Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “____” movement.
A、
30、【填空题】____ has been called the “Father of American Poetry.”
A、
