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Ⅰ. Multiple Choices:1.Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______.A. realismB. RenaissanceC. EnlightenmentD. feudalism2.The main literary stream is ____.A. poetryB. novelsC. proseD. periodicals3.____ has a another name called “The Daffodils”.A. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”B. “Tintern Abbey”C. “Revolution”D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”4.Coleridge’s _____ is a “conversation” poem.A. Frost at MidnightB. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”C. ChristabelD. Biographia Literaria5.Byron’s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.A. Childe Harold’s PilgrimageB. Hours of IdlenessC. LaraD. Don Juan6.Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.A. Wordsworth’sB. Byron’sC. Shelley’sD. Keats’7.____ lived the longest life.A. WordsworthB. ByronC. ShelleyD. Keats8.Keats’ first poem is ____.A. O SolitudeB. On First Looking into Chapman’s HomerC. PoemsD. Endymion9.Keats’ best ode is ____.A. “On a Grecian Urn”B. “To Autumn”C. “To Psyche”D. “To a Nightingale”10.The best works of William Hazlitt is ____.A. The Spirit of the AgeB. Table TalkC. The Characters of Shakespeare’s PlaysD. On the English Poets11.The publication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement inEngland.A. “Tintern Abbey”B. Lyrical BalladsC. Frost at NightD. “The Daffodils”12.The Prelude has also been called _____.A. The Last BrazilB. The First ImpressionC. Growth of a Poet’s MindD. The Spirit of the Age13.Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” has also been called _______.A. “The Solitary Reaper”B. “The Daffodils”C. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”D. “O Solitude”14._____ is considered Wordsworth’s masterpiece.A. The PreludeB. EndymionC. Don JuanD. Biographia Literaria15.The prose writers in the English Romantic Age developed a kind of _______.A. models of classicismB. familiar essayC. rules of neo-romanticismD. ways of modernism16.The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is _____.A. KeatsB. Walter ScottC. Charles LambD. William Hazlitt17.The themes of Pride and Prejudice are _____.A. pride and prejudiceB. the writer’s own personalitiesC. love and marriageD. Both A and C18._____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.A.Jane AustenB. Charles LambC. William HazlittD. Waler Scottmb’s writings are full of ______for he is especially fond of old writers.A. romanticismB. conversationsC. inspirationsD. archaismsmb is a romanticist of ______.A. the cityB. the countrysideC. natureD. imagination21._____ is based on Boccaccio’s Decameron.A. EndymionB. Isabella D. Hyperion D. Lamia22.Critics agree that ____ is a great romantic poet, standing with Shakespeare,Milton and Wordsworth in the history English literature.A. KeatsB. WordsworthC. ColeridgeD. William23.The reader can get a broad panorama of the social life of the English RomanticAge from _____.A. Dun JuanB. The PreludeC. Kubla KhanD. Isabella24.Some critics think that some of Byron’s poems show his _____.A. individual heroism and pessimismB. love of nature and optimismC. love of old writersD. hatred for the imperialism25.One of Coleridge’s best “conventional” poems is _____.A. Kubla KhanB.Frost at NightC. ChristabelD. Biographia Literaria26.Coleridge’s best literary criticism is _________.A. Kubla KhanB.Frost at NightC. ChristabelD. Biographia Literaria27.____ is Shelley’s masterpiece.A. ZastrozziB. The Necessity of AtheismC. Queen MabD. Prometheus Unbound28._____ is a joint book by Charles Lamb and his sister.A. John WoodvilB.Essays of EliaC. Mr HD. Tales from Shakespeare29.Because of _______, Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University.A. The Masque of AnarchyB. A Defence of PoetryC. The Necessity of AtheismD. The Triumph of Life30.______ is Shelley’s first book written in ____.A. Zastrozzi; EtonB. The Necessity of Atheism; ItalyC. Queen Mab; GreeceD. Prometheus Unbound; Italy31.The Romantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____.A. 1789...1821 B. 1778...1823 C. 1798...1832 D. 1768 (1819)32.Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.A. the firstB. the secondC. the thirdD. the forth33.The Examiner is a famous _____ in the English Romantic Age.A. novelB. poemC. periodicalD. newspaperⅡLiterary Terms:1. Romanticism2. Ode3. Pastoral4. Satire5. ImageKey to the multiple choices:1-5 CADAD 6-10 CACDA 11-15 BCBAB16-20 CDDDA 21-25 BAAAB 26-30 BDDCA31-33 CBCKey to the literary terms:1. A movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music, and art in Western culture during most of the nineteenth century, beginning as a revolt against classicism. The romanticist portrays people, scenes and events as they impress himor as he imagines them to be. A Romantic work has one or more of the following characteristics: an emphasis on feeling and imagination; a love of nature; a belief in individual and common man; and interest in the past, the unusual, the unfamiliar,the bizarre or picturesque, a revolt against authority or tradition. It expresses the ideology and sentiment of the classes and strata that were dissatisfied with the development of capitalism. There have been many varieties of romanticism in many different times and places. Some ideas of English Romanticism were expressed bythe poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and some were showed by Shelley, Byron and Keats.2. A long, stately lyric poem in stanzas of varied metrical pattern, written in a dignified formal style on some lofty or serious subject. Odes are often written for a special occasion, to honor a person or a season or commemorate an event. Two famous odes are Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “ Ode to the West wind” and John Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn.”3. From Latin pastor, a shepherd. The first pastoral poet was Theocritus, a Greekof the 3rd century B.C. The pastoral was especially popular in Europe from the 14th through the 18th centuries, with some fine examples still written in England in the19th century. The pastoral mode is self-reflexive. Typically the poet echoes the conventions of earlier pastorals in order to put "the complex into the simple," as William Empson observed in Some Versions of Pastoral (1935). The poem is notreally about shepherds, but about the complex society the poet and readers inhabit.4. A kind of writing holds up to ridicule or contempt the weaknesses and wrongdoings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general. The aim of satirists is to set a moral standard for society, and they attempt to persuade the reader to see their point of view through the force of laughter. The most famous satirical work in English literature is Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.5. A concrete picture, either literally descriptive, as in "Red roses covered the white wall," or figurative, as in "She is a rose," each carrying a sensual and emotive connotation. A figurative image may be an analogy, metaphor, simile, personification, or the like. Impressionism, a literary style conveying subjective impressions rather than objective reality, taking its name from the movement in French painting in the mid-19th century, notably in the works of Manet, Monet, and Renoir. The Imagists represented impressionism in poetry; in fiction, writers like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.。

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