[D]Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones

18. “To wage by force or guile eternal war,

Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.” （ John Milton, Paradise lost)

By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God?

[A]By planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.

[B]By turning into poisonous snakes to threaten man’s life.

[C]By removing God from His throne.

[D]By corrupting man and woman created by God.

19. “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.

20.Which of the following is NOT typical of metaphysical poetry best represented by John Donne’s works?

[A]Common speech.                               [B]Conceit.

[C]Argument.                                         [D]Refined language.

21.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following except    .

[A]normal contemporary speech patterns

[B]humble and rustic life as subject matter

[C]elegant wording and inflated figures of speech

[D]intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience

22.In Samuel Taylor Coleridge ′ s “Kubla Khan,” “A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice”     .

[A]refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once lived

[B]vividly describes a building of poor quality

[C]is the gift given to a   beautiful girl called Abyssinian

[D]symbolizes the reconciliation of the conscious and the unconscious

23.The hightide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around     .

[A]1820              [B]1850         [C]1880                 [D]1920

24.The subject matter of Robert Frost’s Poems focuses on       .

[A] ordinary country people and scenes

[B]battle scenes of ancient Greek and Roman legends

[C]struggling masses and crowded urban quarters