1. Hamlet, , King Lear and Macbeth are generally regarded as Shakespeare's four great tragedies.
2.___________ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.
3. Of Bacon‟s literary works, the most important are the ___________.
4. Milton gave us the only _________ since Beowulf, and Bunyan gave us the only great _________.
5. Defoe's masterpiece ___________ is based upon the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, who had been marooned in the island of Juan Fernadez off the coast of Chile and who had had lived there in solitude for five years.
6. Alexander Pope was called the representative poet in the ________ Age.
7. ________is regarded as the “father of English prose”, who was the first to write essays in the English language.
8. In the 17th century, John Donne, Andrew Marvell, and George Herbert were the typical poets in the school of .
9. Name three types of sonnet in English literature. They are , , . 10. As a whole, the 18th century is an age of _________ rather than of _________, and in this respect it differs from all the preceding ages of English literature.
III. Explain the following literary terms in your own words. (20%)
A. 1. epic
2. romance
3.Blank verse
4.Sonnet
5.Allegory
B. C-E translation:
1. 人文主义
2. 喜剧
3．感伤主义 4 史诗5．十四行诗
IV. Identify the names of the works from which the characters come: (15%):
1. Christian and Faithful from___________________
2. Portia, Bassanio and Shylock from___________________
3. Robinson and Friday from____________________
4. The Nun and Wife of Bath from____________________
5. Satan, Adam and Eve from____________________
6. Ophelia and the Prince of Denmark from__________________
7. Beowulf and Grendal, the monster from__________________
IV. Identify the following quotations by indicating the FULL NAMES of the authors and the WORKS from which they are taken. (15%)
1. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.
Author Work
2.When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide
Author Work
3. Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of the town is Vanity; Author Work
4. Shall I compare thee to a summer‟s day?
Thou are more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer‟s lease hath all too short a date:
Author Work
5.Go and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft the Devil‟s foot,
Author Work
6. As soon as April pierces to the root
The drought of March, and bathes each bud and shoot
Author Work
7. All is not lost: the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to be submit or yield:
And what is else not to be overcome?
Author Work
V.(20%)
A)The following stanza is taken from Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
Rewrite them in your own words and tell briefly the main idea conveyed in these lines.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether …tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them.
B) The following lines are taken from Sonnet 18 by William
Shakespeare. Rewrite them in your own words and tell briefly the main idea conveyed in these lines.
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow‟st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wand‟rst in his shade,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.。