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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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Shakespeare‘s tragedies include all the fOllowing except____.
A:Hamlet and King lear
B:Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth
C:julius Caesar and Othello
D:the Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night`s Dream
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“Justice was done ; and the president of the Immortals had ended his sport” is a part of the quotation from
A:The Forsyte Saga
B:Jude the Obscure
C:The picture of Dorian Gray
D:Tess of D’ Urbervilles
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In Hardy‘s Wessex novels，there is an apparent____touch in his description of the
simple though primitive rural life．
A:nostalgic
B:humorous
C:romantic
D:ironic
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’s best known novels, portrays
man as ________.
A:being hereditarily either good or bad
B:being self-sufficient
C:having no control over his own fate
D:still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion
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“When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table.”
(T. s. Eliot, “The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”)
What does the image in the quoted lines suggest?
A:Violence.
B:Horror.
C:Inactivity.
D:Indifference.
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Of the below poets, has not been awarded Poet Laureate.
A:William Wordsworth
B:Thomas Gray
C:Alfred Tennyson
D:Ben Jon son
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Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of venice：“NOt on thy Sole，but on thy soul，harsh Jew /thou mak‘st thy knife keen．”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines?
A:Simile．
B:Metonymy．
C:Pun．
D:Synecdoche．
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“For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking
for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room
…”(Dickens, Oliver Twist) What did Oliver ask for?
A:More time to play.
B:More food to eat.
C:More book to read.
D:More money to spend.
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A typical Forsyte，according to John Galsworthy,is a man with a strong sense of ____，who never pays any attention to human feelings．
A:morality
B:justice
C:property
D:humor
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In Chapter III of Oliver Twist, Oliver is punished for that “impious and profane offence of asking for more” . What did Oliver ask for more?
A:More time to play
B:More food to eat
C:More books to read
D:More money to spend
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The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as the _______
period .
A:modern
B:naturalist
C:romantic
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The most original playwright of the Theater of Absurd is Samuel Beckett and his first play, _______, is regarded as the most famous and influential play of the Theater of Absurd.
A:Waiting for Godot
B:Murder in the Cathedral
C:Too True to Be Good
D:Mrs. Warren’s Profession
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Prometheus Unbound is Shelley’s greatest achievement. Prometheus, according
to the Greek mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the
vulture’s feeding on his liver for_________.
A:planning a revolt to dethrone God
B:misinterpreting God’s decree to reconcile man and nature
C:prophesying the arrival of spring in a winter season
D:stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man
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Dickinson’s poems include poems of _________.
A:nature
B:love
C:death
D:all the above
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Christoper Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a (n) .
A:pastoral lyric
B:elegy
C:eulogy
D:epic
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Macbeth is Shakespeare’s_______.
A:sonnet
B:comedy
C:history play
D:tragedy
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The statement “A demanding mother turns away from奥鹏教育东北师范大学在线作业 her husband and gives all
her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence′s .
A:Lady Chatterley’s Lover
B:Women in love
C:Sons and Lovers
D:The Plumed Serpent
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The Idylls of the King is written by
A:Browning
B:Tennyson
C:George Eliot
D:Carlyle
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Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms – the sonnet, rhyming couplets,
blank verse – with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______
farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.
A:Southern
B:Western
C:New Hampshire
D:New England
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With Bellow and Singer as Nobel Prize winners , the status of Jewish Literature as an important part of American Literature has been firmly established .
A:错误
B:正确
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn reflects the moral growth of Tom Sawyer .
A:错误
B:正确
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The poetry of Sentimentalism is characterized by sympathy for the French Revolution .
A:错误
B:正确
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Pope established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse forms.
A:错误
B:正确
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Blake is often regarded as a symbolist and mystic.
A:错误
B:正确
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The style of Lambs essays is characterized by its humor, familiarity and archaism.
A:错误
B:正确
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Shakespeare was born in April 1564 and died in 1616.
A:错误
B:正确
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Whitman is granted the honor of being ‘‘ the American Goldsmith ‘‘ for his literary craftsmanship .
A:错误
B:正确
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All My Sons is the masterpiece of Arthur Miller .
A:错误
B:正确
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The Rape of the Lock gives an account of an anecdote of the court.
A:错误
B:正确
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Dreiser‘s novels usually have little detailed descriptions of characters and events .
A:错误
B:正确
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Human goodness is one of the most familiar themes in American naturalism .
A:错误
B:正确
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Both Hawthorne and Shakespeare influenced Melville‘s writing of Moby Dick .
A:错误
B:正确
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Morality play presents the conflict of good and evil with allegorical characters
A:错误
B:正确
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Native Son was considered the best book after WWⅡ in 1965 .
A:错误
B:正确
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Wilder demanded his audience to accept the fact that they were watching actors on the stage .
A:错误
B:正确
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The pasture is the setting for the work of Dr. Faustus.
A:错误
B:正确
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The most gifted of the University Wits was Shakespeare.
A:错误
B:正确
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King Lear distributed his territory among his three daughters.
A:错误
B:正确
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Hardy had written and published many poems before he achieved a reputation with his novels.
A:错误
B:正确
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