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练习题5

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1. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend called __critical realism____ appeared after the romantic poetry.

2. Critical realism found its fine expression in the form of ___novels____.

3. The English critical realists of the 19th century not only gave a satirical portrayal of the bourgeoisies and all the ruling class, but also showed profound sympathy for the __common people_______.

4. As the novel Martin Chuzzlewit describes, in the United States, young Martin meets with all sorts of adventures and suffered many hardships, the narration of which gives the author a good chance to expose the social vices prevalent in that country, especially the worship of _money_______.

5. The Victorian Age in English literature was largely an age of prose, especially of the __novel_______.

6. The novel __martin chuzzlewit____________ attacks the worship of money in England and America. In England the money motive was concealed beneath the outward show of morality and so turned into hypocrisy; while in America the cult of the dollar was openly acknowledged and it led to shameless display of motives and actions with money grubbing as the only objective.

7. The most important poet of the Victorian Age was _alfred tennyson_______. Next to him were Robert Browning and his wife.

8. __charles dickens________ was the greatest representative of English critical realism.

9. The novel __the pickwick papers________ deals with the adventures of Mr. Pickwick, a retired old merchant, who is the founder and chairman of the Pickwick Club.

10. The novel __nicholas nickleby_______ touches upon a burning question of Dickens’s time: the education of children in the private school.

11. Of all of Dickens’s novels, __david copperfield_______ is regarded as his masterpiece.

12. The novel Hard Time makes a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education and the bourgeois philosophy __utilitarianism_________.

13. In A Tale of Two Cities, the two cities are __paris and london__________ in the time of revolution.

14. The Bronte sisters are Charlotte Bronte, _emily bronte________ and Anne Bronte. 15. Charlotte Bronte’s masterpiece is _jane eyre_________.

16. Emily Bronte’s masterpiece is __wuthering heights________.

17. Thomas Hardy’s novels of character and environment, which are also called __wessex novels_______, are of great significance.

18. Among Thomas Hardy’s novels, the best-known are _ tess of the D’urbervilles__________ and Jude the Obscure.

19. Thomas Hardy’s novel ___jude the obscure_________ tells a story about poor villager’s love affaires with a married school mistress named Sue.

20. Tess is seduced by a squire named Alec before she marries the clergyman’s son

named ___angel clare__________.

21. In Victorian poetry, the “Brownings” refers to Robert Browning and his wife _elizabeth barret________ Browning.

22. Maud is a long poem by _alfred tennyson________ in the form of monodrama. 23. Tennyson’s Idylls of the King consist of 12 metrical tales telling the stories of ___king arthur_______ and his knights.

24. In Memoriam is a collection of 131 short poems intended as a lament for the death of his friend __Hallam_________.

25. _the ring and the book___________is Robert Browning’s masterpiece which tells a horrible story of a man’s murder of his beautiful young wife. T/F

1. In the period of Victorian Age, a new literary trend call pre-romanticism (critical realism)appeared, which flourished in the forties and the early fifties. F

2. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of drama(novel). F

3. The Pickwick Papers(oliver twist), written in 1837-1838, tells a story of an orphan boy, whose adventures provided a description of the lower depths of London. F 4. Besides the cult of money, corruption (hypocrisy) is also the target of bitter satire in Martin Chuzzlewit. F

5. In A Tale of Two Cities, the “two cities” are Paris and Manchester (london)in the time of the French revolution. F

6. The greatest English critical realist was Charles Dickinson(dickens). F

7. The most important poet of the Victorian Age was William Wordsworth. (alfred tennyson)F

8. Both Charles (charlott)Bronte and her sister Emily Bronte were well-known poets. F

Questions

1. Summarizes the three periods of Charles Dickens’s literary career. 2. Tell the story of Tess of the D’Urbervilles.

3. what are the characteristics of Thomas Hardy’s novels?