2021知到答案 英语文学导论 Introduction to English Literature 智慧树网课章节测试答案

第一章 章节测试

1、选择题:Decide True or False: Literature as writing is “imaginative” or fictive, as opposed to factual, true, or historical.
选项：
A:Ture
B:False
答案: 【False】
2、选择题:What are the Primary Elements of a Plot?
选项：
A:exposition
B:rising action
C:climax
D:falling action and resolution
答案: 【exposition ;
rising action;
climax ;
falling action and resolution】
3、选择题:Which of the following can be regarded as a theme statement?
选项：
A:The theme of “The Egg” might be “Disillusionment is necessary to the process of maturing”.
B:Disillusionment and psychological paralysis in “The Dead”.
C:Bernard Shaw might suggest in his Widowers’ Houses that “Even the most idealistic young man must compromise his principles”
D:The protagonist Gabriel suffered a psychological breakdown in the end of the story.
答案: 【The theme of “The Egg” might be “Disillusionment is necessary to the process of maturing”. ;
Bernard Shaw might suggest in his Widowers’ Houses that “Even the most idealistic young man must compromise his principles”】
4、选择题:What are the possible themes of Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path”?
选项：
A:selfless love
B:racism
C:compassion and courage
D:ability of the human spirit to endure conflict and poor circumstances
答案: 【selfless love ;
racism;
compassion and courage;
ability of the human spirit to endure conflict and poor circumstances】
5、选择题:Decide True or False: Style is concerned not with “what to say” but “how to say it”.
选项：
A:Ture
B:False
答案: 【Ture
】
6、选择题:What does the narrative voice in Hemingway’s “In Another Country” sound like?
选项：
A:disillusioned and cynical
B:isolated and detached
C:cold and relentless
D:objective and calm
答案: 【disillusioned and cynical;
isolated and detached】
7、选择题:In Aspects of the Novel, E.M. Foster classifies characters into …? 
选项：
A:major characters
B:round characters
C:minor characters
D:flat characters
答案: 【minor characters;
flat characters】
8、选择题:What’s true about “indirect characterization”?
选项：
A:the author tells us what he or she wants us to know about the character
B:the author shows us the traits of the character by describing his/her appearance, actions
C:the author reveals character’s personality through its effect on other characters
D:the author state explicitly the character’s traits
答案: 【the author shows us the traits of the character by describing his/her appearance, actions;
the author reveals character’s personality through its effect on other characters】
9、选择题:What’s true about Gabriel in “The Dead”?
选项：
A:He loves his country and is proud of its culture.
B:His character is shaped by frustration, rancor, and disappointment.
C:He finds no genuine joy or pleasure in life.
D:He is obsessed with the past
答案: 【His character is shaped by frustration, rancor, and disappointment.;
He is obsessed with the past 】
10、选择题:What does the image of “eggs” symbolize in “The Eggs”?
选项：
A:love and happiness
B:hope and aspiration
C:the fragile American Dream
D:ambition
答案: 【hope and aspiration;
the fragile American Dream;
ambition】

第二章 章节测试

1、选择题:The earliest theoretical work on drama is Plato’s Poetics.

选项：
A:Ture
B:False
答案: 【False】[$]
2、选择题:________________ is the reasoning aspect of drama.      
选项：
A:Diction
B:Thought
C:Spectacle
答案: 【Thought】
3、选择题:Negative capability refers to the capability of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
选项：
A:Ture
B:False
答案: 【Ture
】
4、选择题:Which word did Portia use to address Shylock?
选项：
A:citizen
B:civilian
C:alien
答案: 【alien】
5、选择题:Kristine Linde is a round character.

选项：
A:Ture
B:False
答案: 【False】
6、选择题:In what is the theme of love presented?
选项：
A:Carnivalesque
B:realism
C:optimism
D:fantasy
答案: 【Carnivalesque 】
7、选择题:What type of woman is Vivie?
选项：
A:A traditional woman in most aspects
B:A New Woman in some aspects
C:A radical feminist
D:An angel in the house
答案: 【A New Woman in some aspects】
8、选择题:To what does Waiting for Godot owe part of its success?
选项：
A:The linear plot  
B:The coherent language
C:The mysterious Godot
D:The characterization of tramps
答案: 【The mysterious Godot 】
9、选择题:Since it was produced, The Last Night of Ballyhoo has gotten a great reputation and it was performed in ______ during the Olympic Games.   
选项：
A:New York
B:Atlanta
C:Boston

D: Los Angeles
答案: 【Atlanta 】
10、选择题:It was Lala’s ______ identity that led her self-conflict. 
选项：
A:Jewish 
B:Japanese
C:European
D:African
答案: 【Jewish  】

第三章 章节测试

1、选择题:Which of the following tropes is the most central to the art of poetry?
选项：
A:metaphor
B:metonymy
C:irony
答案: 【metaphor】
2、选择题:Which of the following statements about tone in poetry is NOT True?
选项：
A:The speaker’s tone may indicate her attitude toward her audience.
B:The speaker’s tone has nothing to do with the author’s personality.
C:The speaker’s tone may indicate her attitude toward herself.
答案: 【The speaker’s tone has nothing to do with the author’s personality.】
3、选择题:Emily Dickinson’s poems involve perceptions of life, mainly about the traditional themes in literature, such a (             ).
选项：
A:death
B:love
C:religion
D:nature
答案: 【death;
love;
religion;
nature】
4、选择题:
Decide True or False: “The jar” in Wallace Stevens’s “Anecdote of the Jar” is a symbol of beauty.
选项：
A:Ture
B:False
答案: 【False
】
5、选择题:Decide True or False: Wallace Stevens is the author of the well-known imagistic poem “The Red Wheelbarrow”.
选项：
A:Ture
B:False
答案: 【False
】
6、选择题:Decide True or False: William Blake is the author of “London”.
选项：
A:Ture
B:False
答案: 【Ture
】
7、选择题:Who insists that, “the end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing”?
选项：
A:Aristotle
B:Samuel Johnson
C:William Wordsworth
D:T. S. Eliot
答案: 【Samuel Johnson】
8、选择题:In “Nothing gold can stay”, what are the symbolic meanings of “gold”?
选项：
A:Gold represents something priceless.
B:Gold represents something beautiful.
C:Gold represents beauty that implicates the state of excitement deep inside your innermost heart.
答案: 【Gold represents something priceless.;
Gold represents something beautiful.;
Gold represents beauty that implicates the state of excitement deep inside your innermost heart.】
9、选择题:Decide True or False: Assonance refers to the repetition of the same vowel sound within one line of a poem.
选项：
A:Ture
B:False
答案: 【Ture】
10、选择题:In which poem Longfellow used very symmetrical syntax with passion to express his optimistic attitude towards life?
选项：
A:The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
B:A Psalm of Life
C:The Slave’s Dream
答案: 【A Psalm of Life】[/$]