英语文学导论Introduction to English
Literature（湖南师范大学）智慧树知到网课章节测试答案
第一章测试
1.Decide True or False: Literature as writing is “imaginative” or fictive, as
opposed to factual, true, or historical.
A:False
B:Ture
答案:A
2.What are the Primary Elements of a Plot?
A:falling action and resolution
B:climax
C:exposition
D:rising action
答案:ABCD
3.Which of the following can be regarded as a theme statement?
A:The protagonist Gabriel suffered a psychological breakdown in the end of the
story.
B:Bernard Shaw might suggest in his Widowers’ Houses that “Even the most
idealistic young man must compromise his principles”
C:Disillusionment and psychological paralysis in “The Dead”.
D:The theme of “The Egg” might be “Disillusionment is necessary to the process
of maturing”.
答案:BD
4.What are the possible themes of Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path”?
A:ability of the human spirit to endure conflict and poor circumstances
B:racism
C:selfless love
D:compassion and courage
答案:ABCD
5.Decide True or False: Style is concerned not with “what to say” but “how to
say it”.
A:False
B:Ture
答案:B
6.What does the narrative voice in Hemingway’s “In Another Country” sound like?
A:cold and relentless
B:disillusioned and cynical
C:isolated and detached
D:objective and calm
答案:BC
7.In Aspects of the Novel, E.M. Foster classifies characters into ...?
A:flat characters
B:minor characters
C:major characters
D:round characters
答案:AB
8.What’s true about “indirect characterization”?
A:the author state explicitly the character’s traits
B:the author tells us what he or she wants us to know about the character
C:the author shows us the traits of the character by describing his/her
appearance, actions
D:the author reveals character's personality through its effect on other
characters
答案:CD
9.What’s true about Gabriel in “The Dead”?
A:He loves his country and is proud of its culture.
B:He is obsessed with the past
C:His character is shaped by frustration, rancor, and disappointment.
D:He finds no genuine joy or pleasure in life.
答案:BC
10.What does the image of “eggs” symbolize in “The Eggs”?
A:ambition
B:the fragile American Dream
C:hope and aspiration
D:love and happiness
答案:ABC
第二章测试
1.The earliest theoretical work on drama is Plato’s Poetics.
A:False
B:Ture
答案:A
2.________________ is the reasoning aspect of drama.
A:Thought
B:Diction
C:Spectacle
答案:A
3.Negative capability refers to the capability of being in uncertainties,
mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
A:Ture
B:False
答案:A
4.Which word did Portia use to address Shylock?
A:alien
B:citizen
C:civilian
答案:A
5.Kristine Linde is a round character.
A:False
B:Ture
答案:A
6.In what is the theme of love presented?
A:fantasy
B:optimism
C:realism
D:Carnivalesque
答案:D
7.What type of woman is Vivie?
A:A New Woman in some aspects
B:An angel in the house
C:A radical feminist
D:A traditional woman in most aspects
答案:A
8.To what does Waiting for Godot owe part of its success?
A:The mysterious Godot
B:The linear plot
C:The characterization of tramps
D:The coherent language
答案:A
9.Since it was produced, The Last Night of Ballyhoo has gotten a great
reputation and it was performed in ______ during the Olympic Games.
A:Boston
B:Atlanta
C: Los Angeles
D:New York
答案:B
10.It was Lala’s ______ identity that led her self-conflict.
A:European
B:Jewish
C:Japanese
D:African
答案:B
第三章测试
1.Which of the following tropes is the most central to the art of poetry?
A:metonymy
B:irony
C:metaphor
答案:C
2.Which of the following statements about tone in poetry is NOT True?
A:The speaker’s tone may indicate her attitude toward her audience.
B:The speaker’s tone may indicate her attitude toward herself.
C:The speaker’s tone has nothing to do with the author’s personality.
答案:C
3.Emily Dickinson’s poems involve perceptions of life, mainly about the
traditional themes in literature, such a ( ).
A:death
B:nature
C:love
D:religion
答案:ABCD
4.Decide True or False: “The jar” in Wallace Stevens’s “Anecdote of the Jar” is
a symbol of beauty.
A:Ture
B:False
答案:B
5.Decide True or False: Wallace Stevens is the author of the well-known
imagistic poem “The Red Wheelbarrow”.
A:Ture
B:False
答案:B
6.Decide True or False: William Blake is the author of “London”.
A:Ture
B:False
答案:A
7.Who insists that, “the end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to
instruct by pleasing”?
A:William Wordsworth
B:T. S. Eliot
C:Aristotle
D:Samuel Johnson
答案:D
8.In “Nothing gold can stay”, what are the symbolic meanings of “gold”?
A:Gold represents something beautiful.
B:Gold represents something priceless.
C:Gold represents beauty that implicates the state of excitement deep inside
your innermost heart.
答案:ABC
9.Decide True or False: Assonance refers to the repetition of the same vowel
sound within one line of a poem.
A:False
B:Ture
答案:B
10.In which poem Longfellow used very symmetrical syntax with passion to express
his optimistic attitude towards life?
A:The Slave’s Dream
B:The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
C:A Psalm of Life
答案:C
