What to study for the final exam of British literature
1.Get familiar with all of the literary periods in English literature
along with their dates and significant events that mark the beginning and the ending of each period.
2.Learn about the main historical events that happened in the Old
English period, The Middle English Period, the Renaissance period, the Restoration, Romantic, Victorian and Modern Eras. 3.Know the main authors and their literary works (notes: you don’t
have to know the dates when the authors lived or the dates when their literary works were published.)
4.Be able to write a short essay on the following authors or their
works:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Francis Bacon, Jonathan Swift, Robert Burns, John Dryden, Daniel Defoe, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, etc.
5.Be able to understand and define the following terms:
Epic, Shakespeare Sonnet, ballad, heroic couplet, Spencerian form, Renaissance (humanism), neoclassicism, Romanticism, critical realism, the Lake Poets, the metaphysical poetry, Luddite movement, Comedy of Manners, soliloquy, ode, Utilitarianism, the Gothic fiction, the Byronic Hero, Aestheticism, stream-of –consciousness, etc.
6.Be able to identify some quotations from…
●“Paradise Lost” by John Milton
●The “to be or not to be”soliloquy by William
Shakespeare
●“Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare
●“A Velediction: Forbidding Mourning” by John Donne ●“Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats
●“Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Shelley
●“She walks in Beauty”, “When we two parted” & “The
isles of Greece”by Byron
●“I wander lonely as a cloud” & “She Dwelt among the
Untrodden Ways” by William Wordsworth,
●Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
●Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
●etc.
Test Items
1.Multiple choice: 40分(2′×20)
2.Making true or false judgement: 10分(1′×10)
注：机读卡答题，正确选A，错误选B
3.Term definition: 20分(5′×4)
4.Essay writing: 30分(30′×1)
P. S.
According to the provision of the School of Foreign Languages, the final score of this course shall be made up with two parts:
Part 1: Evaluation of students’ usual performance: 30%.
Part 2: Final exam: 70%.。