Modal Test 1

 

Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks. (20%)

1.The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is ________________ .

2.________________ was famous for The Canterbury Tales.

3.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” is from Shakespeare’s________________ .

4.Walt Whitman was born and brought up in a family of a ______________.

5. works mainly focus on the landscape and people in New England.

6.Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the _______________.

7.In Frost’s poems, images and metaphors in his poems are drawn from ___________.

8.The well-known soliloquy by Hamlet “________________ ’ shows his inner- strife.

9.In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the _______ devices in narration.

10.As a novelist, Emily Bronte was also good at writing________________.

Ⅱ.Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F). (10%)

( ) 1. Wordsworth is a poet in memory of the past . To him , life is a cyclical journey . His philosophy of life is presented in his masterpiece The Prelude .

( ) 2. The most important contribution Wordsworth has made is that he has not only stared the modern poetry , but also changed the course of English poetry.

( ) 3. The Jazz Age is written in collaboration with Warner , the novel explored the scrupulous individualism.

( ) 4. William Faulkner shared the popular image of the American funny man . However , his humor is not only of witty remarks , but a kind of artistic style used to criticize the social injustice and satirize the decayed romanticism .

( ) 5. In Robert Lee Frost’s poems, profound ideas are delivered under the disguise of the plain language and the simple form.

( ) 6. In his novels, William Faulkner exploits the modern steam-of –consciousness technique to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.

( ) 7. The Romantic Age began in 1789 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work "The Lyrical Ballads".

( ) 8. Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. the main characters in the novels were no longer common people, but the kings and nobles.

( ) 9. Shakespeare's prime creating period lies in his third period when his greatest tragedies were written.

( ) 10. Love is another subject Dickinson dwelt on. One group of her love poems treats the suffering and frustration love can cause. The other group of love poems focuses on the physical aspect of desire. However, it is those poems dealing with marriage that have aroused critical attention first .

Ⅲ. Answer the following questions briefly. (30%)

1.Who are the“Lake Poets”in English literature? To which literary movement do they belong? 

 

2.Write an introduction of Shakespeare, his life and his literary achievements.

 

3.What, after all, makes people lose their determination to take action? Please explain in relation to the so-called hesitation of Hamlet.

 

4.What is the Jazz Age?

 

5.What are the features of Dickinson’s poetry? 

 

6.What are the basic elements in Fiction?

 

Ⅳ. Questions and Answers. (40%)

1.Give a brief analysis on the character Hamlet.

 

2.A Red, Red Rose

O,my love is like a red, red rose,

That's newly spring in June.

O,my love is like the melody, 　

That's sweetly played in tune,

As fair are you ,my bonie lass,

So deep in love am I,

And I will love you still ,my dear,

Till all the seas go dry,

Till all the seas go dry, my dear.

And the rocks melt with the sun.

And I will love you still, my dear,

While the sands of life shall run,

And farewell to you, my only love,

And fare you awhile; 　　

And I will come again, my love. 　

Though it were ten thousand mile!

Questions:

1) How does the narrator in the love song express his love?

2) Why is this poem so touching to the readers?