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1、I.Eachofthefollowingbelowisfollowedbyfouralternativeanswers.Choosetheonethatwouldbetcompletethestatement.1.   Thelongpoem______inAnglo-SaxonperiodwastermedEngland’snationalepic.A.  TheCanterburyTales    B.  ParadiseLost   C.TheSongofBeowulf  D.TheFairyQueen2. Romance,whichusesverseorpr

2、osetodescribetheadventuresandlifeoftheknights,isthepopularliteraryformin______.A.Romanticism B.  Renaissance C.  medievalperiod  D.  Anglo-Saxonperiod3.  AmongthegreatMiddleEnglishpoets,GeoffreyChaucerisknownforhisproductionof____.A.  PiersPlowmanB. SirGawainandtheGreenKnight  C.Confes

3、sioAmantis  D. TheCanterburyTales4.  _______isregardedasthefatherofEnglishpoetry.A. GeoffreyChaucer  B.  EdmundSpenser  C. JohnMiltonD.  W.Wordsworth 5.  Itis_____alonewho,forthefirsttimeinEnglishliterature,presentedtousacomprehensiverealisticpictureoftheEnglishsocietyofhistimeandcreat

4、edawholegalleryofvividcharactersfromallwalksoflife.A. GeoffreyChaucer  B.MartinLutherC.  WilliamShakespeareD.  JohnGower6.  OneofChaucer’smaincontributionstoEnglishpoetryis______.A.  heintroducedtherhymedstanzasfromFrancetoEnglishpoetryB. hecreatedstrikingbrilliantpanoramaofhistimeandh

5、iscountry  C.  hewroteinblankverse  D. hewasthefirsttowritesonnet7.   DuringtheRenaissance,_______wasthefirstonetointroducethesonnetintoEnglishpoetry.A. Chaucer  B.  JohnDonne C.  ThomasWyatt  D. EarlofSurrey8. DuringtheRenaissance,_______wrotethefirstEnglishblankverse.A. Chaucer  B.Ed

6、mundSpencer  C. ThomasWyatt  D. EarlofSurrey Blankverse is poetry writteninunrhymed iambicpentameter.[1] ThefirstdocumenteduseofblankverseintheEnglishlanguagewasby HenryHoward,EarlofSurrey inhistranslationofthe Æneid (composedc.1540;published1554-1557[4]).Hewaspossiblyinspiredbythe Lat

7、in original,asclassicalLatinverse(aswellasGreekverse)didnotuserhyme;Theplay Gorboduc wasthefirstEnglishplayinblankverse. ChristopherMarlowe wasthefirstEnglishauthortomakefulluseofthepotentialofblankverse.ThemajorachievementsinEnglishblankverseweremadeby WilliamShakespeare,whowrotemuc