奥鹏远程教育北京语言大学《英美文学选读》在线作业二

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20春《英美文学选读》作业2

Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of his novel ______.
A:Great Expectations
B:A Tale of Two Cities
C:Bleak House
D:Oliver Twist
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"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both …"In the above two lines of Robert Frost＇s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.
A:a travel experience
B:a marriage decision
C:a middle-age crisis
D:one＇s course of life
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Which of the following is NOT written by Defoe?
A:Captain Singleton
B:Sailor
C:Moll Flanders
D:Rubinson Crusoe
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Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?
A:Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.
B:F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.
C:Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.
D:Most writers were politically radical.
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Which 奥鹏教育北京语言大学平时在线作业of the following is not written by Robert Frost?
A:To Autumn
B:Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
C:Mending Wall
D:A Boy＇s Will
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The term tone in literature means__________.
A:sound effect such as rhyme and metrical device
B:the pitch of a word used to determine its meaning in the given context
C:the manner of expression to indicate the speaker＇s attitude towards the subject
D:a shade of colour to reflect the change of the light
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Defoe＇s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the ______ century.
A:17th
B:18th
C:19th
D:20th
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Whitman＇s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ______ .
A:the strict poetic form
B:the free and natural rhythm
C:the easy flow of feelings
D:the simple and conversational language
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The Victorian Age was largely an age of___ , eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.
A:poetry
B:drama
C:prose
D:epic prose
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Which of the following is taken from John Keats＇Ode to a Nightingale?
A:"Beauty is truth, truth beauty."
B:"Earth has not anything to show more fair."
C:"They are both gone up to the church to pray."
D:"was it a vision, or a waking dream?"
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In the conversation with his wife in Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a(n) ______ 　　tone with sarcastic humor.
A:solemn
B:harsh
C:arrogant
D:teasing
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Auld Lang Syne was written by
A:William Wordsworth
B:John Keats
C:Walt Whiteman
D:Robert Burns
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Charles Dickens was born in___
A:1765
B:1889
C:1812
D:1870
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How many periods are divided into in the creation years of Shakespeare?
A:three
B:four
C:two
D:five
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In Fitzgerald＇s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______.
A:emptiness of life
B:the corruption of the upper class
C:contrast of the rich and the poor
D:the happy days of the Jazz Age
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Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
A:bland verse
B:heroic couplet
C:free verse
D:iambic pentameter
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The poem Ode to a Nightingale was written by___
A:William Wordsworth
B:John Keats
C:Shelley
D:Coleridge
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Which of the following is a tragedy?
A:Antony and Cleopatra
B:Twelfth Night
C:Julius Caesar
D:Much ado about Nothing
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How many groups are there in Hardy＇s novels?
A:two
B:three
C:four
D:five
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When Robert Frost was 87, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President___
A:Bush
B:Kennedy
C:Clinton
D:Fort
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