英美文学

Milton is the master of blank verse, the first to use blank verse in non-dramatic works.

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The chief force that motivated Bunyan to write The Pilgrim’s Progress was his .

religious fervency

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B. C. D.

long suffering in the prison political commitment artistic pursuit

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In Milton’s Paradise Lost,the snake took revenge by tempting Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit.

is not one of the metaphysical poets.

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Grashaw Milton Herbert Vaughan

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is not Milton’s work.

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Paradise Lost

Paradise Regained Areopagitica

Gulliver’s Travels

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Metaphysical poetry is characterized by verbal wit and excess, ingenious structure, irregular meter, colloquial language, elaborate imagery, and metaphysical conceits and a drawing together of dissimilar ideas.

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After the Puritan Revolution there established a kind of military dictatorship under which the people suffered greatly.

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The Revolution Period produced one of the most important poets in English literature, whose name is William Shakespeare.

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Which of the following statements about Paradise Lost is true?

A. Satan, as a rebel to God, was finally defeated and

surrendered.

B. Adam and Eve were driven out of Paradise

for their conspiracy with Satan.

C. Satan was finally reconciled with God. D. The writer intended to expose the ways of

Satan and to justify the ways of God to men.

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The general features of the 17th century are the transition and the spirit of doubt and scientific analysis.

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In John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve are forbidden to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of _________.

A. Sense and Sensibility

B. Love and Hate C. Good and Evil D. Faith and Betrayal

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Which of the following works is a good example to illustrate the idea that a man gains the whole world but loses his own soul?

A. Milton’s Paradise Lost

B. Shakespeare’s Hamlet C. Marlowe’s Doctor

Faustus

D. Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

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As a result of the conscientious study he made of the Bible, Bunyan’s language was .

A. concrete, living and colloquial

B. general, Latinate and polysyllabic

C. D.

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satiric, concise well-balanced

comic, neat and decent

and

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The Pilgrim’s Progress tells of the spiritual pilgrimage of Christian, who flies form City of Destruction, and finally comes to the Delectable Mountains and the CelestialCity.

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John Donne is the founder of the school of Metaphysical poetry. His works are characterized by mysticism in content and fantasticality in form.

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In the 17th century the Bible became the one book of the people. The Puritan influence in general tended to suppress literary art.

Metaphysical poetry has gained new recognition because of their seriousness of art, their spirit of revolt, and their realism, and it has greatly influenced the modernist poetry of the 20th century.

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John Donne is the leading figure of .

A. B. C. D.

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Lake Poets Satanic Poets

Metaphysical School Graveyard School

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One school of poetry prevailing in the 17th century is that of _____Cavalier _____ Poets, who were sided with the King against the Parliament and Puritans.

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The following comments on John Bunyan are wrong EXCEPT that.

A. B. C. D.

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A Modest Proposal is his masterpiece. Bunyan’s style is different from that of the English Bible.

he was a stout Puritan

Bunyan’s works belong to Gothic novels

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The prevalent mood that enveloped literary works in the 17th century was one of gloom, pessimism,decadence , and frivolity.

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Paradise Lost is a long epic. The stories are taken from the Old Testament.

“To wage by force or guile eternal war, // Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.” (Milton, Paradise Lost) Who is the “grand foe” the speaker is referring to?

A. Satan

B. God C. Beelzebub D. Adam

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The most important poet in the 17th century was .John Donne

Christopher Marlowe is the most gifted of the “University Wits”. It is Marlowe who first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama.

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The 17th century witnessed at least two revolutions: Puritan Revolution (1640-1660) and glorious revolution (1688).

The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for ________.

A. self-fulfillment

B. C. D.

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spiritual salvation material wealth universal truth

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The Pilgrim’s Progress has generally been read and appreciated as a religious book.

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In The Pilgrim’s represents .everyman

Progress, Christian, the hero

“To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grad Foe.” (John Milton, Paradise Lost) By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God?

A. By planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden

of Eden.

B. By corrupting man and woman created by

God.

C. By removing God from His throne. D. By turning into poisonous snakes to threaten

man’s life.

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The most distinguished literary figure of the Restoration Period was John Dryden, poet, __critic______, and playwright.

By making the truth-seeking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of Vanity Fair, John Bunyan intends to show the prevalent political and religious _______of his time.

A. prosperity

B. improvement C. disillusionment D. persecution

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All the following about metaphysical poetry are true EXCEPT that .

Ametaphysical poetry has gained new recognition

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B.

C.

D.

because of their seriousness of art, their spirit of revolt, and their realism in the poetry of 19th century

metaphysical poetry is characterized by verbal wit and excess, ingenious structure, irregular meter, colloquial language, elaborate imagery, and metaphysical conceits and a drawing together of dissimilar ideas

generally, in metaphysical poetry, the diction is simple and echoes the words and cadences of common speech

metaphysical poetry is commonly used to name the work of the 17th –century writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne

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After the Glorious Revolution, there brought to England a constitutional monarchy, within which the king’s power was greatly restricted.

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______ is one of the most remarkable passages in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress.

A. Holy Living

B. Holy Dying C. Lycidas D. Vanity Fair

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John Milton’s Paradise Lost opens with the description of a meeting among the fallen angels, and ends with the departure of Adam and __Eve______from the Garden of Eden.

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Paradise Lost is full of classical and literary allusion.

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Paradise Lostwas to justify the ways of God to man, i.e., to advocate submission to the Almighty.

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Because of the success of Paradise Lost, John Milton produced in 1671 another epic, ___Paradise Regained______.

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In the Revolution Period John Milton towers over his age as William Shakespeare towers over the Elizabethan Age and as ChaucerTowers over the Medieval Period.