Test Renesance

2   English Literature in the Renaissance Period

Ⅰ. Essay questions.
1. Comment on the theme of Thomas More’s Utopia.
2. Comment on Christopher Marlowe’s contribution to English literature.
3. What is your opinion about the moral expressed in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus?
4. What is the theme of The Merchant of Venice?
5. What gives Shakespeare the unwavering reputation for greatness in age after age?
Ⅱ. Define the following terms.
1. Renaissance                     2. Elizabethan period
3. Drama                         4. Jacobean age
5. Sonnet                         6. Essay 7soliloquy
7. Soliloquy                       8. Eclogue
9. Hymn                         10. Spenserian stanza
11. Miracle play                   12. Interlude
13. Euphuism                     14. Revenge tragedy
15. Comedy                     16. Dirge
17. Farce                       18. Tragedy
19. Tragicomedy                 20. History play
21. Caroline age
Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks.
1. The second period of English renaissance is also called the __________period or the age of __________.
2. Soon after the __________ was introduced by the earl of surrey in his translation lf Virgil’s The Aeneid, and it became the standard meter for Elizabethan and later poetic drama.
3. Shakespeare’s plays have been traditionally divided into four categories according to dramatic type: histories, __________, tragedies and __________.
4. William Caxton is important to the development of English literature in that he introduced __________ into England.
5. Thomas Wyatt is usually regarded as the first great English sonneteer. It is he who first used a __________ for the conclusion of Sonnet practice followed by Shakespeare.
6. Edmund Spenser is often referred as “the poets’ __________”because of his considerable influence on later poets.
7. There are two kinds of allegory: those that use __________, as in john Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, and those... [continues]

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