英国文学 in the Romantic Period.doc

5 English Literature in the Romantic Period Ⅰ. Essay questions. 1. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen explored three kinds of motivations of marriage the middle-class people had in the second half of the 18th century. Try to make a brief discussion about them with specific examples from the novel. Make comments on Austen’s attitude towards these motivations. 2. What are the general features of English Romanticism? 3. Tell the story of Pride and Prejudice and make a comment on it. 4. Make a comment on Wordsworth concerning his contribution to poetry. 5. Irony abounds in Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice. Please illustrate it with reference to some examples. 6. Make a general comment on Walter Scott.’ Ⅱ. Define the following terms. 1. Romanticism 2. Ode 3. Byronic hero 4. Ottava rima 5. Terza rima 6. Irony 7. Lyric 8. Motif 9. Theme 10. Symbol 11. Imagery 12. Foil 13. Synaesthesia 14. Character 15. Flat character 16. Round character 17. Negative capacity Ⅲ Fill in the blanks. 1. As an age of romantic enthusiasm, the Romantic Age began in 1798 when ______and ______published _______ and ended in 1832 when ______died. 2. In the Preface of the 2nd and 3rd editions of __________, Wordsworth laid down the principles of poetry composition. 3. The English Romantic Age produced two major novelists, _________ and ______. 4. _____, ________, and_________ are referred to as the “Lake Poets” because they lived in the Lake District in the northwestern part of England. 5. In 1805, Wordsworth completed his long autobiographical poem entitled__________. 6. Scott’s historical novels depicted Scotland, England, and the Continent covering a period ranging from _______ up to, and including, _______. 7. _______ mourned for _______’s premature death in an elegy “Adonais”, writing “He is made one with Nature.” 8. “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” is a long poem created by ________.It contains four cantos in the_______ stanza, namely a 9-line stanza rhymed ababbcbcc, in which the first