英美文学选读练习题

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1、EnglishLiteratureQuestionsonTheCanterburyTales1.Lines1-18aretheintroductiontotheweather.Whydidtheauthorwritesomanywordstodescribeit?ToanswerwhysomanypilgrimgototheCanterburyatthesametime.2.Summarizethemainideaoflines19-34.AgroupofpilgrimscameacrossattheCanterburyan

2、dgotogether.3.Howmanypeoplearethereinthegroupofpilgrims?Thirty4.BasedonPrioress’sportrait,canyougiveapossiblereasonwhysheisundertakingthispilgrimage?Shewantstolookfortheworldlylove.5.WhatdetailsdoesthenarratoruseindescribingthePrioress,andinwhatorder?1,Facialexpres

3、sion2,voice3,etiquette4，sympathyandcharity5，appearance6，dress7，personalaccessories..6.WhydoestheWifeofBathgoonpilgrimage?Forhusband.7.Whatisthe“framingdevice”thatChaucerusesforhiscollectionofstories?Framework:anarrativewhichwascomposedforthepurposeofintroducingandc

4、onnectingaseriesoftales8.TheGeneralProloguewaswritteninheroiccouplet,analyzesomeofthelines.9.PleasenameanddefinefivespecificmethodsofcharacterizationChaucerusesinthe“GeneralPrologue”.Appearancedescription：hernosewaselegant,hereyesglass-gray;hermouthwasverysmall，but

5、softandred.Facialdescription：herwayofsmilingwassimpleandcoy.behaviordescription：Colordescription夸张QuestionsonSonnet181.Whatarethethemesofthesonnet18?2.WhatimagesdoesShakespeareuseinordertostrengthenthetheme?Andwhatkindsoffiguresofspeechareusedinthesonnet?1.Analyzet

6、hemeterandrhymeofthepoem.QuestionsonParadiseLost1.Thepoemopenswithalongsentence.Analyzethefirstsentenceandidentifythewriter’sconceptionaboutthepoem.2.Whofirstseducedthemotherofmankindtotherevolt?3.HowlongdoesSatanandhispeerssufferthepenalfire?4.HowdoesSatanfeelabou

7、tbeinginHellaccordingtothepoem?5.DescribetheconditionoftheHellinyourownwordsaccordingtothepoem.6.WriteanessayabouttheimageofSatan.QuestionsonThePilgrim’sProgress1.Whyisthemarketcalled“VanityFair”?2.Whatistheoriginalofthefair?3.WhatdidpeopleinthefairdotoChristianand

8、hisfriend?4.Whatdoesthisepisodesymbolize?QuestionsonWilliamWordsworth’spoems1.Identifythemeterofthefirstpoem.1.Whatmooddoestheopeningsimilesugges