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1. After St. Augustine and his monks landed on Kent, ____ was Christianized gradually in the 7th
century.( England)
2. The three types of medieval dramas include miracle plays, ______ plays and
interludes.(morality)
3. G. Chaucer’s excellent poetry was an important factor in establishing English as the____
language of the country. (literary)
4. Renaissance literature emphasizes the dignity of ___, affirms and eulogizes the value of
man.( man)
5. After the death of Queen Elizabeth, James I ascended the throne, thus, the ______Dynasty was
set up. (Stuart)
6. After the _____ Revolution, which took place in 1688, Mary and William of Orange of Holland
became the co-monarch of England. ( Glorious)
7. English literature of the Age of Dryden was influenced by the ______ literature. (French)
8. In writing_____, the neoclassicists adhered to the three unities, regularity in construction, and
the presentation of types rather than individuals. (dramas / plays)
9. Generally speaking, a stanza or an individual poem of ____ lines is called quatrain.( four)
10. Dialogue in plays typically has three major functions：to advance the plot, to establish _____
and to reveal character. (setting)
11. The Old English literature, or the Anglo-_____ literature, is almost a verse literature in oral
form. (Saxon)
12. The Norman Conquest, under the leadership of William the Conqueror, marks the
establishment of _____ in England. (feudalism)
13. Renaissance means “_______”, which was marked by a reawakening of interest in learning, in
the individual and in the world of nature.(rebirth)
14. ____ is the key-note of Renaissance. (Humanism)
15. It was Henry VII who founded the ____ dynasty after the War of Roses.(Tudor)
16. Plot in a play usually includes exposition, rising action, ______, falling action and
resolution.(climax)
17. ______was the dominant literary theory of the late 17th century and early 18th century in
England. (Neo-classicism)
18. During the Restoration period, the English literature was greatly influenced by the literature of
_____. (France)
19. The enlighteners fought against class inequality, stagnation, prejudices and other survivals of
_______.(feudalism)
20. The rise and growth of the realistic novel is the most significant development of the ____
century English literature. (18th)
21. Renaissance was a great cultural and intellectual movement against ______ and hierarchy that
swept the whole Europe in the 14th century. (feudalism)
22. It was Henry VIII who declared the break with the Church of _____and started the
Reformation, thus Protestantism came into being.(England)
23._____, character, dialogue, staging and theme are the basic elements of drama. (plot)
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24. King James Bible is also called the Authorized Version (1611), whose ______ and dignified
language had a great influence on English language, literature, life.(simple)
25. In English history, the reestablishment of the _______ on the accession of Charles II from
1660 to 1688 is called the Restoration. (monarch)
26. The general tendency of neoclassical literature was to look at social and political life critically,
to emphasize intellectual rather than imagination, the form rather than the _____ of a
sentence.(content)
27. The _____ was an intellectual movement, which swept Europe in the 18th century, and was an
expression of the bourgeoisie against feudalism. (Enlightenment)
28. The main literary stream of 18th century was ＿＿.What the writers described were mainly
social realities. (realism)
29. ＿＿is undoubtedly the greatest poet Scotland has ever produced. His “Poem Chiefly in the
Scottish Dialect” is of great significance.( Burns)
30. ＿＿found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Edward Young and Thomas
Gray ,but it manifested itself chiefly in the novels of Laurence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.
(Sentimentalism)
31. In the 18th century , ＿＿found its expression chiefly in poetry .The most important
representative poets are William Blake and Robert Burns. (Pre-romanticism)
32. The name of sentimentalism came form Sterne’s novel “A＿＿Journey”(Sentimental)
33.＿＿was the most important playwright of the 18th century.(Sheridan)
34.The Romantic Age began in 1798 when ___ and Coleridge published their joint work Lyrical
Ballads.(Wordsworth)
35.The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer ＿＿died.(Scott)
36. The publication of “The Lyrical Ballads” marked the break with classicism and the beginning
of the＿.(Romanticism)
37. The English Romantic period produced two major novelists: W. Scott and J.＿＿.(Austen)
38. On the death of Robert Southey in 1843, ＿＿was made poet laureate.( Wordsworth)
39. In 1824, the Revolutionary Romantic poet ＿＿went to Greece to help that country in its
struggle for liberty against Turks. Not long, he died of fever there.(Byron)
40. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend critical ＿＿appeared after the
romantic poetry.(realism)
41. The ＿＿Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century. (Chartist)
42. The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into literature: the struggle of the ＿＿for its
rights. (proletariat)
43. Hardy’s novels of character and environment ,which are also called ＿＿novels, are of great
significance.( Wessex)
44.＿＿is the representative among the writers of aestheticism and decadence.” The Picture of
Dorian Gray” is a typical decadent novel written by him. (Wilde)
45. “In Memoriam” is a collection of 131 short poems by ___intended as a lament for the death of
his friend. (Tennyson)
46.＿＿was one of the most prominent of the 20th century English realistic writers. “The Man of
Property” is one of his works. (Galsworthy)
47. ＿＿is the founder of the “Stream of Consciousness” school of novel writing. (Joyce)
48. Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers was positively taken as a typical example of____ Complex
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in fiction. (Oedipus)
49. ＿＿was a friend of progressive mankind. He lived a long life and wrote 51 plays in all.
“Major Barbara” is one of his plays. (Shaw)
50. In 1923, ＿＿was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. (Yeats)
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