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5 English Literature in the Romantic Period

Ⅰ. Essay questions.
1。 In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen explored three kinds of motivations of marriage the middle-class people had in the second half of the 18th century. Try to make a brief discussion about them with specific examples from the novel. Make comments on Austen’s attitude towards these motivations。
2。 What are the general features of English Romanticism?
3. Tell the story of Pride and Prejudice and make a comment on it.
4. Make a comment on Wordsworth concerning his contribution to poetry.
5。 Irony abounds in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. Please illustrate it with reference to some examples。
6. Make a general comment on Walter Scott。’
Ⅱ。 Define the following terms。
1. Romanticism
2。 Ode
3. Byronic hero
4. Ottava rima
5。 Terza rima
6. Irony
7. Lyric
8。 Motif
9。 Theme
10。 Symbol
11。 Imagery
12。 Foil
13. Synaesthesia
14。 Character
15。 Flat character
16。 Round character
17. Negative capacity
Ⅲ Fill in the blanks。
1. As an age of romantic enthusiasm， the Romantic Age began in 1798 when ______and ______published _______ and ended in 1832 when ______died.
2. In the Preface of the 2nd and 3rd editions of __________， Wordsworth laid down the principles of poetry composition.
3. The English Romantic Age produced two major novelists, _________ and ______。
4. _____， ________， and_________ are referred to as the “Lake Poets” because they lived in the Lake District in the northwestern part of England.
5. In 1805, Wordsworth completed his long autobiographical poem entitled__________。
6. Scott’s historical novels depicted Scotland, England， and the Continent covering a period ranging from _______ up to, and including， _______。
7. _______ mourned for _______’s premature death in an elegy “Adonais", writing “He is made one with Nature。”
8。 “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” is a long poem created by ________。It contains four cantos in the_______ stanza, namely a 9—line stanza rhymed ababbcbcc, in which the first eight lines are in iambic pentameter while the ninth in iambic hexameter,
9。 _______ is Byron’s masterpiece， written in the prime of his creative power。 He called it an “epic satire”, “a satire on abuses of the present state of society。”
10. The great novelist in the Romantic period_______ marked the transition from Romanticism to the period of Realism which followed it。
11. The plot of Shelley's lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound is borrowed from _______， a play of the Greek tragedian Aeschylus.
12. In “To Autumn", Keats writes，” Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, / Clise bosom—friend of the maturing sun； / Conspiring with him how to load and bless / With fruit the vines that round the thatch—eves run； / …" The figure of speech used in the lines is _______。
13。 “Ode to a Nightingale" expresses the contrast between _______ and _______.
14。 The unifying principle in Don Juan is the basic ironic theme of _______, i。e。, what things seem to be and what they actually are。
15。 Byron employed _______ from Italian mock—heroic poetry. His first experiment was made in Beppo。 It was perfected in Don Juan in which the convention flows with ease and naturalness。
16._______ was memorized and honored as “the heart of all hearts" after his death。
17。 Many critics regard Shelley as one of the greatest of all English poets. They point especially to his_______。
18。 Romanticism was in effect a revolt of the English _______against the neoclassical _______, which prevailed from the days of pope to those of Johnson.
19。 _______ are generally regarded as Keats’s most important and mature works。
20. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” shows the contrast between _______and _______.
21。 Among the Romantic figures, _______has a fundamental conviction of the health of the social system， of its ability to reform itself, and of the assurance of social well-being and the likelihood of a reasonable personal happiness。
22。 Scott is considered “the father of _______” which open（s） up to fiction the rich and lively realm of history.
23。 Two prevailing themes of Pride and Prejudice are _______ and _______.
24。 _______ was composed in a dream after the poet Coleridge took the opium.
25。 All such works of Coleridge as “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, “Christable” and “Kubla Khan” revealed his keen interest in_______,
26。 _______ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.
27. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, “An Evening Walk”， “My Heart Leaps up” and “Tintern Abbey” are all masterpieces on _______.
28. The main idea running through the dramatic poem Prometheus Unbound is that of _______。
29. _______, with a triumphant praise of the imagination， highly exalts the role of poetry， thinking that poetry alone could free man and offer the mind a wider view of its powers。 He holds that poetry “is a more direct representation of the actions and passions of our internal being”。
30。 The Romantic period is an age of poetry。 The major Romantic poets such as Blake, Wordsworth， Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, which was later regarded as _______。
31. _______ and _______ gave great impetus to the rise of the Romantic Movement.
32。 _______ is a great critic of the romantic period on Shakespeare， Elizabethan drama， and English poetry。 He is also a maser of the familiar essays.
33。 With _______, the essay is no longer chiefly a mode of intellectual inquiry and moral address。 Rather， the essay becomes a medium for a delightful literary treatment of life's small pleasures and reassurances。
Ⅳ. Choose the best answer
1。 “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by _______。
A。 Kohn Keats B。 William Blake
C。 William Wordsworth D. Percy Bysshe Shelley
2。 William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following EXCEPT _______.
A。 Normal contemporary speech patterns
B。 Humble and rustic life as subject matter
C。 Elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
D。 Intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience
3。 In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's “Kubla Khan”, “A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice “_______.
A。 Refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once lived
B. Vividly describes a building of poor quality
C. Is the gift given to a beautiful girl called Abyssinian
D. Symbolizes the reconciliation of the conscious and the unconscious
4。 _______is one of the first generation of English Romantic poets。
A。 Keats
B. Shelley
C. Byron
D。 Wordsworth
5. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" is taken from _______.
A. The Solitary Reaper
B。 Ode to the West Wind
C. To Autumn
D。 Song to the Man of England
6。 _______is NOT among the representative essayists in the romantic times。
A. Charles Lamb
B。 William Hazlitt
C。 Thomas De Quincey
D. Walter Scott
7. In_______， _______set forth his principles of poetry， “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling".
A. The Preface to Lyrical Ballads； Wordsworth
B. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”; Coleridge
C. “A Defence of Poetry”; Shelley
D。 “Lectures on the English Poets"； Hazlitt
8。 _______is NOT a lyric written by Wordsworth。
A. My Heart Leaps Up
B. Intimations of Immortality
C。 Love’s Philosophy
D. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
9。 All the poems were written by Byron EXCEPT_______.
A. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
B。 Don Juan
C。 The Isle of Greece
D. The Masque of Anarchy
10。 Keats wrote five long poems。 _______ is NOT among them.
A。 Endymion
B。 Isabella
C. The Eve of St。 Agnes
D。 Annabel Lee
11. It is said that all Keats’s personality seems to be breathed into his odes， of which the more famous odes are “de to Autumn”, “Ode on Melancholy", "Ode on a Grecian Urn” and “Ode to Nightingale”， all with the praise of _______ as their general theme.
A。 love
B。 beauty
C。 nature
D。 art
12。 The first poem in The Lyrical Ballads is Coleridge’s masterpiece_______.
A. The Prelude
B. Kubla Khan
C。 The Time of the Ancient Mariner
D. Tintern Abbey
13。 _______can be found among Shelley’s love lyrics。
A。 One Word is Too Often Profaned
B. When We Two Parted
C. A Red， Red Rose
D。 Song to Celia
14. Among the following， _______is an elegy。
A。 Lamis
B. Isabella
C. Adonais
D。 Queen Mab
15。 _______is NOT a historical novel written by Scott。
A。 Rob Roy
B。 Ivanhoe
C。 Marmion
D. Waverly
16. In Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, the mariner suffers the horror of death, because _______.
A。 He experiences a shipwreck
B。 He is tortured with starvation
C. He undergoes much suffering
D。 He kills an albatross
17。 _______ is the poetic drama written by Byron.
A。 Hours of Idleness
B。 Prometheus Unbound
C。 Cain
D。 Oriental Tales
18。 The following statements are about “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage"。 Among them which one is NOT true？
A。 It is about a young aristocrat whose “world-weariness” bespeaks his loathing for English high society。
B。 Besides Harold’s impressions of the countries he visits, the poem is interspersed with Lyrical outbursts which give utterance to the poet’s own philosophical and political views。
C。 The first canto deals with Albania and Greece。
D. The last canto sings of Italy and the Italian people who have given the world great writers and thinkers like Dante.
19。 All the following are novels written by Jane Austen EXCEPT_______.
A. Mansfield Park
B。 Shirley
C。 Emma
D。 Persuasion
20. Which one of the following statements about Don Juan is true?
A。 Byron began its writing in Italy in 1818， and finished it in 1823。
B. It is in 10 cantos.
C。 The story of the poem takes place in the latter part of the 16th century。
D. It displayed Byron’s genius as a romanticist and a realist simultaneously.
21. In 1843, _______was made poet laureate.
A. Southey B. Shelley
C。 Wordsworth D. Keats
22. The revolutionary Romantic poet went to Greece to help that country in its struggle for liberty and died of fever there。
A. Shelley B. Byron
C。 Keats D. Burns
23。 is Shelley's well—known political lyric, which calls upon the working class to fight against their rulers and exploiters。
A。 Don Juan B. The Cenci
C. Prometheus Unbound D. Song to the Men of England
24. is Byron's poetic drama with the material taken from Biblical story or stories.
A 。Cain B。 Don Juan
C. Song for the Luddites D. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
25。  ’s poetry is always sensuous， colorful and rich in imagery, which expresses the acuteness of his senses。 In his poetry， sight, sound, scent， taste and feeling are all taken into give an entire understanding of an experience.
A。 Keats B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth D。 Byron
26。 All the following statements about “Ode on a Grecian Urn” are true EXCEPT 。
A. In this poem Keats shows the contrast between the permanence of art and the transience of human passion.
B。 The poem presents Keats’ ambivalence about time and the nature of beauty.
C. It has often been celebrated， together with “Ode to a Nightingale", as the height of Keats’ achievement in poetry。
D。 In this poem, the poet spoke as bitterly of human woes as he did in “Ode to a Nightingale"。
27. Pride and Prejudice is noted for its vividly depicted characters who are revealed through comparison and contrast with each other。 Among the following pairs of characters are NOT in contrast。
A. Darcy and Wickham
B. Elizabeth and Charlotte
C。 Elizabeth and Jane
D. Lady Catherine and Mr。 Collins
28. At the beginning of Pride and Prejudice, the attitude of Darcy and Elizabeth toward each other is that of .
A. mutual affection B. mutual repulsion
C。 mutual hatred D。 mutual indifference
29. All the sonnets were written by Keats EXCEPT 。
A. London 1802 B。 When I Have Fears
C。 Bright Star D。 On the Grasshopper and Cricket
30。 The Romantic Movement expressed a attitude toward the existing social and political conditions that came with industrialization and the growing importance of the bourgeoisie.
A. negative B. neutral
C. positive D. indifferent
31. The prevailing tone in Pride and Prejudice is 。
A。 bitter satire B。 mild satire
C. strong approval D。 strong disapproval
32.”Ode to the West Wind” is concluded with mood.
A。 triumphant and hopeful B. pessimistic and skeptical
C。 desperate and sad D。 indifferent
33。 Which one of the following does NOT describe the characteristics of Scott’s writing?
A。 The central heroes of his novels are young men of valor， who， taken as a whole， are rather superficial, lacking in virility and lacking depth of psychological characterization。
B. His works display his marvelous command of the Scottish dialect.
C。 His plotting is often closely knitted。
D. He has an eye for the telling detail.
34. Of the following statements about Lyrical Ballads， which is NOT true?
A. The poems are noted for the uncompromising obscurity of much of the language.
B。 The poems show the strong sympathy not merely with the poor in general but with particular, dramatized examples of them。
C。 The poems Wordsworth added to the1800 edition of the Lyrical Ballads are among the best of his achievements.
D. The natural description and expressions of inward states of mind fused into one in most of the poems.
35。”You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves， which perhaps will be still better， for as you are as handsome as any of them， Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the party。” The figure of speech used in the sentence is .
A。 simile B. irony
C。 antithesis D. metaphor
36。 All the following about Romanticism are true EXCEPT 。
A。 Where their predecessors saw man as a social animal, the Romantics saw him essentially as an individual in the solitary state。
B. Where the Augustans emphasized those features that men have in common, the Romantics emphasized the special qualities of each individual's mind。
C。 Romanticism constitutes a change of direction from attention to the inner world of human spirit to the outer world of social civilization。
D. Romantics also tended to be nationalistic， defending the great poets and dramatists of their own national heritage against the advocates of classical rules who tended to glorify Rome and Rational Italian and French neoclassical art as superior to the native traditions。
37。 The Romantic period is a great age of all literary genres EXCEPT .
A 。poetry B。 prose
C。 drama D。 novel
38. Romantic writers employ all the following EXCEPT as their poetic materials.
A. the commonplace B。 the natural
C. the simple D. the abstract
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