英美文学复习提纲英文学复习提纲.doc

Outline for Review 复习提纲 I. Fill in the blanks. Robinson Crusoe, ________(an adventure) story, is universally considered as Daniel Defoe s masterpiece. Beowulf is a ____________( pagan) poem, describing an all-round picture of the tribal society. Beowulf describes the exploits of a ____________(Scandinavia) hero, Beowulf, in fighting against the monster Grendel, his revengeful mother, and a fire-breathing dragon. The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely _________ (Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales ) ___________（Alfred the Great）is not only a prose writer but also a king of Wessex. The hero in the romance is usually the ____________.(knight) In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called ________ ( quatrain). _________, (Geoffery Chaucer) the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poetry of England, was born in London about 1340. “Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man” is one of the epigrams found in” is one of the epigrams found in __________ (Francis bacon’s Of studies). Of all the 18the century novelists, __________( Henry Fielding) was the first to set out in theory and practice, to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style. Modern English novel arose in the _________(18th) century. In 1765, because Britain had accumulated large debts from the war with France, Parliament passed the _______(Stamp Act) in order to generate revenues that would help pay for the cost of maintaining a permanent force of British troops in North America. __________(The Enlightenment) was a progressive intellectual movement going on throughout Europe in the 18th century. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” is taken from _______( Ode t