General Knowledge for Literature in TEM8 （ 2014— 1998）
(2014）
35. “Grace under pressure”is an outstanding virtue of_____ heroes.
A. Scott Fitzgerald ’s C. Ernest Hemingway ’s A. John Galsworthy C. William Butler Yeats A. Geoffrey Chaucer C. John Donne
B. William Faulkner ’s
D. Eugene O'Neill ’s B. George Bernard Shaw
D. T. S. Eliot
B. William Shakespeare D. William Blake
36. Widowers ’House was written by_____.
37. Who wrote The Canterbury Tales ?
(2013）
35. Which of the following clusters of words is an example of
A. A weak seat.
36. Who wrote Mrs. Warren ’sProfession?
alliteration ?
D. Coat and boat.
B. Safe and sound. C. Knock and kick.
B.William Butler Yeats.
.
C. T.S.Eliot
A. John Galsworhty. A. novel
D. George Bernard Shaw.
37. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser is a(n)
B. short story
C. poem D. autobiography
(2012）
35. Who is the author of The Waste Land? 36. Which of the following novelists wrote
A. George Bernard Shaw B. W. B.Yeats C. Dylan Thomas
The Sound and the Fury?
C. Scott Fitzgerald
A.William Faulkner A. exaggeration
D. T.S.Eliot
B. Ernest Hemingway D. John Steinbeck
.
37. “The lettuce was lonely without tomatoes and cucumbers for company ”is an example of
B. understatement
C. personification
th
D.synecdoche
(2011）
35. Virginia Woolf was an important female in the 20 -century England.
A. poet B. biographer C. playwright D. novelist 36.
refers to a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero in a nation
history .
’s
A. Ballad B. Romance C. Epic D. Elegy
37. Which of the following best explores American myth in the 20
th
century?
A. The Great Gatsby B. The Sun Also Rises
D. Beyond the Horizon
C. The Sound and the Fury
(2010） 35.
is best known for the technique of dramatic monologue in his poems. A. William Blake A. Mark Twain
B. W. B. Yeats
.
C. Robert Browning
D. William Wordsworth
36. The Financier is written by
B. Henry James
B. sonnet
C. William Faulkner
D. rhyme
D. Theodore Dreiser
.
37. In literature a story in verse or prose with a double meaning is defined as
A. allegory
(2009)
C. blank verse
35. Ode to the West Wind was written by
A. William Blake. B. William Wordsworth.
D. Percy B. Shelley. B. Walt Whitman
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A. Ralph Waldo Emerson. C. Herman Melville A. Thomas Hardy
36. Who among the following is a poet of free verse?
D. Theodore Dreiser B. John Galsworthy D. James Joyce
37. The novel Sons and Lovers was written by
C. D. H. Lawrence (2008)
35. The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to
Canterbury is an important poetic work by
A. William Langland C. William Shakespeare A. Herman Melville C. Henry James A. George Eliot C. Doris Lessing
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Alfred Tennyson
36. Who wrote The American?
B. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Theodore Dreiser B. Iris Jean Murdoch D. Muriel Spark
37. Which of the following are well-known female writers in 20th-century Britain Except
(2007)
35. Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bronte?
A. Oliver Twist C. Jane Eyre A. American C. Irish
B. Middlemarch
D. Wuthering Heights
poet and playwright.
B. Canadian
36. William Butler Yeats was a(n)
D. Australian
37. Death of a Salesman was written by
A. Arthur Miller C. Ralph Ellison
B. Ernest Hemingway D. James Baldwin
(2006)
35. Which of the following writers is a poet of the 20th century?
A. T.S. Eliot
B. D.H. Lawrence
C. Theodore Dreiser
D. James Joyce
36. The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is written by ______.
A. Scott Fitzgerald C. Eugene O ’ Neill A. Free Verse
B. William Faulkner D. Ernest Hemingway
C. ode
37. ______ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into 14 lines.
B. Sonnet
D. Epigram
(2005)
35. The novel Emma is written by _______ .
A. Mary Shelley
B. Charlotte Bronte D. Jane Austen
B. George Elliot
D. Percy Bysshe Shelley .
C. Elizabeth C. Gaskell A. William Wordsworth C. George C. Byron.
36. Which of the following is NOT a romantic poet?
37. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous for______ .
A. his poems
B. his plays
C. his short stories
D. his novels
(2004)
35. Of all the 18th century novelists, ______ was the first to set out , both in theory and practice ,
to write specifically a “ comic epic in proseth first to”give,andthe modern novel its structure
and style.
A. Daniel Defoe
B. Samuel Johnson C. Oliver Goldsmith D. Henry Fielding
36. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ______.
A. International theme B. waste-land imagery C. local color D. symbolism
37. Hemingway ’ s writing style, together with his theme and the hero, is greatly and permanently
influenced by his experiences______.
A. in his childhood
B. in the war
C. in America
D. in Africa
(2003)
35. Which of the following writings is not the work by Charles Dickens?
A. A Tale of Two Cities . B. Hard Times. C. Oliver Twist.
D. Sons and Lovers. 36. _____ is a dramatist who holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period.
A. Sinclair Lewis
B. Eugene O ’ Neill C. Arthur Miller D. Tennessee Williams
37. ______ is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. William Faulkner
D. Ezra Pound
(2002)
35. The 18th century England is known as the ______ in the history.
A. Romanticism
B. Classicism
C. Renaissance
D. Enlightenment
36. Which of the following figures does not belong to
“ The? Lost Generation
A. Ezra Pound B. William Carlos Williams. C. Robert Frost D. Theodore Dreiser 37. Who, one of the most important poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “ Imagist
Movement ”?
A. J.D. Salinger B. Ezra Pound C. Richard Wright D. Ralph Ellison
(2001)
35. The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced
so far, Emerson and ______. A. Henry David Thoreau B. Washington Irving
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Walt Whitman
36. Of the following poems by T. S. Eliot, which is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th
century English poetry? A. Poems 1909-1925.
B. The Hollow Men . C. Prufrock and Other Observations. D. The Waste Land.
37. The book from which
“ all modern American literature comes
” refers to ______ .A. The Great Gatsby
B. The Sun Also Rises C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D. Moby-Dick
(2000)
35. ______ is not the representative writer in the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States.
A. Henry James
C. William Dean Howells
B. Emily Dickinson
D. Mark Twain
”
36. Ezra Pound
C. Don Juan
’ s long poem contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.
A. The Waste Land 37. Of the following writings by literature? A . Ulysses C. Dubliners (1999) 35.
B. The Cantos D. Queen Mab
James Joyce, which is a prime example of modernism in
B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man D. Finnegans Wake
not only continued to express and criticize all sorts of social iniquities, but finally came A. George Eliot C. D. H. Lawrence
B. Thomas Hardy
D. Charles Dickens B. love and marriage
to question and attack the Victorian conventions and morals.
36. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is following except______ .
A. religion
C. life and death modern narration”. A. T.S. Eliot
C. John Steinbeck (1998)
35. In the first part of Gulliver s Travels,’ Gulliver told his experience in ______ .
A. Lilliput C. Houyhnhnm A. Adultery C. Amiable
A. John Steinbeck. C. F. Scott Fitzgerald.
B. Angel
D. All the above
B. Eugene O ’ Neil.
D. Theodore Dreiser.
B. Brobdingnag D. England
B. Ernest Hemingway D. William Faulkner
D. war and peace
37. In 1954,______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his “ masteryof the art of
36. In Hawthorne The’ sScarlet Letter , “ A” may stands for ______ .
37. Who is the author of the work The Grapes of Wrath ?
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