[单项选择]The recent literary representations of the North－East of England have been concerned with life after the death of______．
A. farming and spinning
B. ducking and diving
C. wheeling and dealing
D. coalmining and shipbuilding

[单项选择]In contrast to Goya's various representations of sincere tears, then, are a series of representations of insincerity and emotional______.


A. confusion
B. machination
C. probity
D. fortuitousness
E. (E) boldness

[单项选择]The Romantic writers in the American literary history focused on all the following issues EXCEPT


A. divinity of man.
B. human bestiality.
C. noble savages.
D. Puritan beliefs.

[单项选择]Romanticism as a literary movement came into being in England early in the latter half the ______ century.


A. 16th
B. 17th
C. 18th
D. 19th

[单项选择]The literary artist, concerned solely with the creation of a book or story as close to perfection as his powers will permit, is generally a quiet individual, contemplative and ______.
A. effuse
B. drowsy
C. retiring
D. poetic

[单项选择]Despite an overlay of quasi-literary French vocabulary stemming from the Norman Invasion of 1066, the daily vocabulary of English remained Germanic, ______ its grammatical structure.
A. the same as
B. and so are
C. as did
D. and so were

[单项选择]Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ______ language.
A. grand
B. pompous
C. simple
D. vernacular

[单项选择]Is the literary critic like the poet, responding creatively, intuitively, subjectively to the written word as the poet responds to human experience Or is the critic more like a scientist, following a series of demonstrable, verifiable steps, using an objective method of analysis
For the woman who is a practitioner of feminist literary criticism, the subjectivity versus objectivity, or critic-as-artist-or-scientist, debate has special significance; for her, the question is not only academic, but political as well, and her definition will provoke special risks whichever side of the issue it favors. If she defines feminist criticism as objective and scientific--a valid, verifiable, intellectual method that anyone, whether man or woman, can perform--the definition not only makes the critic-as-artist approach impossible, but may also hinder accomplishment of the utilitarian political objectives of those who seek to change the academic establishment and its thinking, especially about se
A. How Theories of Literary Criticism Can Best Be Used
B. Problems Confronting Women Who Are Feminist Literary Critics
C. A Historical Overview of Feminist Literary Criticism
D. Literary Criticism: Art or Science

[单项选择]Mark Twain's full literary career began to blossom in 1869 with a travel book ______, an account of American tourists in Europe.
A. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B. The Gilded Age
C. Innocents Abroad
D. An American Tragedy

[单项选择]As a literary figure, Sophia appears in Henry Fielding’s ______.
A. Tom Jones B. Amelia
C. Joseph Andrews D. Jonathan Wild the Great

[单项选择]A monument can be a piece of literary work of lasting （　）.
A. prize
B. worth
C. price
D. value

[单项选择]Allegory is a literary device（）another level of meaning is concealed within what is usually a story.
A. which
B. by which
C. which is
D. for that

[单项选择]Toward the novel literary idea, the author's attitude seems to be that of
A. Disapproval.
B. Neutrality.
C. Appreciation.
D. Suspicion.

[单项选择]A reference in a literary work to a person, a place or a thing in history or another work of literary is an ______.
A. allegory
B. archetype
C. analogy
D. allusion

[单项选择]The 18th century Witnessed a new literary form--the modem English novel, which is contrary to the medieval romance, gives a ______ presentation of life of the common people.


A. romantic
B. realistic
C. prophetic
D. idealistic