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5. With violence, horror, and the supernatural as its major elements, ________ is a type of romantic fiction that predominated in the late 18th century.
6. American fiction in the 1960s and 1970s proves to be different from its predecessors and is always referred to as
“
________ fiction.
”
7. ________ is the most representative Victorian poet. His poetry voices the doubt and the faith, the grief and the joy of the English people in an age of fast social changes.
8. ________ is regarded as the first American prose epic. Although it is presented in the form of a novel, at times it seems like a prose poem.
9. As a most representative figure of the 1920s, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote much of his own experience into the novel________.
10. Almost all of James Joyce
’
s literary works have the same setting: ________.
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. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. Please write your answer on the Answer Sheet.(40 points, 2 for each)
1. ________ employed the heroic couplet with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English Literature.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. George Gordon Byron
C. Edmund Spender
D. Robert Browning
2. Which of the following is William Shakespeare
’
s history play?
A. Macbeth
B. Henry IV
C. Romeo and Juliet
D. King Lear
3. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ________ has been regarded as
“
Father of the English Novel
”
.
A. Henry Fielding
B. Daniel Defoe
C. John Bunyan
D. James Joyce
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