literature roughly dated from________.
a. 1660 - 1798 b. 1798 - 1832 c. 1483 - 1546 d. 1836 - 1901
8. A number of poems from Songs of Innocence find a counterpart in Songs of Experience. Infant Joy is matched with Infant Sorrow, and the pure Lamb is paired with the flaming________. a. The Chimney Sweeper b. London c. Sheep d. Tyger 9. The unifying principle in________written by George Gordon Bryon is the basic ironic theme of appearance and reality.
a. Child Harold' s Pilgrimage b. Cain c. Don Juan d. Hours of Idleness
10. Jane Austen' s main literary concern is about human beings in
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their________relationships.
Because of this, her novels have a universal significance.
a. personal b. natural c. satisfied d. hostile
11. Returning to England from Germany in 1799, William Wordsworth and his sister settled at Dove Cottage in Grasmere, Westmoreland. The
poet________as well as________lived nearby, and the three became known as the \
a. Samuel Taylor Coleridge / George Gordon Byron
b. Robert Southey / Samuel Taylor
Coleridge c. John Keats / Robert Southey
d. George Gordon Byron / Percy Bysshe Shelley
12. Percy Bysshe Shelley is one of the leading________poets, an intense and original 1yrical poet in the English
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language.
a. realistic b. symbolic e. romantic d. imagist
13. In his________ , Shelley eulogized the powerful west wind and expressed his eagerness to
enjoy the boundless freedom from the reality. a. Promethus Unbound b. Ode to the West Wind c. Adonais d. In Defence of Poetry
14. The novel Pride and Prejudice mainly deals with the five Bennet sisters and their search for
suitable husbands, centering on the love story between________and________. a. Jane / Bingley b. Lydia / Wickham c. Elizabeth d. Jane / Rochester
15. Ode on a Grecian Urn shows the contrast between the ________of art and
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the________ of human passion. a. glory / ugliness b. permanence / transience c. transience / sordidness d. glory / permanence
16. The English Romantic period produced two major novelists. They are________. a. Lamb and Hazlitt . b. Byron and Shelley c. Scott and Austen d. Keats and Coleridge
17. As a novelist Jane Austen writes within a very narrow sphere. The subject matter, the
character range, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the provincial life of the late________
a. 18th b. 19th e. 17th d. 20th
18. Among the________group of Samuel Taylor Coleridge' s Poems, Frost at
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Midnight is the most important.
a. demonic b. conversational c. pastoral d. optimistic 19. It is said that the poem________written by S. T. Coleridge was composed in a dream after
the poet took the opium. But when he was writing the lines down, a stranger interrupted him
and only 54 lines survived.
a. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner b. Frost at Midnight c. Kubla Khan d. Don Juan
20. ________puts into Don Juan his rich knowledge of the world and the wisdom gained from
experience. It presents brilliant pictures of life in its various stages of love, joy, suffering,
hatred and fear.
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