1. How many groups of early settlers came to Britain? (Please provide their names, time and place as to when and where they were from)
2. How many languages were spoken at the same time in Norman England? And on what occasions were they spoken?
3. From which early settlers’ languages is the modern English language derived? Anglo- Saxon
4. Who was the father of English history? And what book did he wrote? 5. What are King Alfred the Great’ contributions to English literature? 6. Pls make a brief summary of the story of Beowulf.
7. What’s the metrical feature of the Anglo-Saxon poetry; take the epic Beowulf for example? 8. What’s the significance of Beowulf? 9. Explain the following terms. Alliteration
Kenning (provide some examples)
10. Scan the meter of the following lines and underline the alliterative letters in the following lines.
Condemned to agony. The door gave way,
Toughened with iron, at the touch of those hands. The foe then stepped onto the unstained floor, Angrily advanced: out of his eyes stood. An unlovely light like that of fire.
11. Read part II on your own and find as many kennings as possible.
Homework week 2 Assignment 2
1. Explain the following terms: Knights / romance
2. Please summarize the story of Sir Gawain and Green Knight. 3. Pls describe the feudal system of hierarchy in Norman England. 4. What are the main themes of religious literature? 5. What are the subject matters of romance?
6. What conclusion can we draw about the chivalric spirit from the story of Sir Gawain? 7. What’s the metrical feature of Sir Gawain and Green Knight? 8. Scan the last five lines of the second stanza. Our knight And at that holy tide
He prays with all his might That Mary maybe his guide Till a dwelling comes in sight 9. pls recite the second stanza of the poem.
Homework Week 3
1. Explain : allegory
2. What is John Wycliff’s contribution to English literature? 3. What is heroic couplet? 4. Scan the following lines:
And the small fowls are making melody That sleeps away the night with open eye
5. pls sum up the life story and writing career of Chaucer. 6. What is the significance of The Canterbury Tales? 7. What kind of book is The Canterbury Tales?
8. In what way does Chaucer contribute to the English language?
8. Pls point out the lines that present Chaucer’s mild satire upon the Prioress. 9. what kind of person is the woman of Bath?
Assignment 4 1. What is ballad?
2. What are the characteristics of popular ballad? 3. Explain ‘The ballad meter’
4. Please scan the third stanza of Robin hood.
5. pls explain the war of roses and Henry VIII’s reformation of the church. 6. Please recite The Three Ravens.
Assignment 5
1. Explain [ the English renaissance] 2. [humanism] 3. [gentleman]
4. [religious reformation]
5. What is Spenserian stanza? What is his writing style? 6. Pls briefly summarize the story of Faerie Queene. 7. Pls Scan stanza 17 of canto iv of the Faerie Queene.
8. What are the six virtues presented in the six books of Faerie Queene?
9. What are the seven sins? Also pls sum up the features of each sin described by Spencer? 10. Please recite the first two stanzas. Assignment 6
1. What are the reasons for the flouring of drama in Renaissance England? 2. Describe the English theater (take the Globe for example) . 3. Who are the University wits?
4. What renaissance spirit does Tamberline the great represent? And what spirit does Dr. Faustus represent?
5. What is the writing style of Christopher Marlowe?
6. What is blank verse? Scan the first four lines of Dr. Faustus. Homework week 7:
1. What are the famous four tragedies of Shakespeare? And the famous comedies? 2. Into how many periods is Shakespeare’s writing career divided?
3. What are the great achievements of Shakespeare?
4. What is Shakespearean sonnet? Pls recite sonnet 18!
5. Is Shylock a cruel usurer or a persecuted Jew? Pls analyze Shylock’s character.
6. Pls recite Portia’s famous speech on mercy versus justice; and Hamlet’s famous soliloquy. Homework week-8
1. What are the two main reasons for the British Bourgeois revolution? 2. What is the significance of “the Glorious revolution”?
3. What God created on the first six days? God’s creation of man?
4. What do you know about Francis Bacon’s Philosophical view and the style of his essays? 5. Pls recite Of Study. Homework week 9:
1. What is metaphysical poetry? Its main theme? Its representatives? 2. What is cavalier poetry? Its main theme? Representatives? 3. What are the main features of John Donne’s poetry?
4. What is feminine ending? And what is masculine ending? 5. Recite Virtue.
6. What is Miltonic style? (written/ oral)
7. In what kind of genre is Milton’s Paradise Lost written?
8. What main theme does Paradise Lost deal with? What is the purpose of Milton’s in writing this poem?
9. What sentiment is expressed in the image of Satan? And what kind of attitude should we take towards Satan in paradise Lost?
10. What is the significance of the love story between Adam and Eve? Homework week 10
1. In what kind of genre is Milton’s Paradise Lost written?
2. What main theme does Paradise Lost deal with? What is the purpose of Milton’s in writing this poem?
3. What sentiment is expressed in the image of Satan? And what kind of attitude should we take towards Satan in paradise Lost?
4. What is the significance of the love story between Adam and Eve? 5. What is Miltonic style?
6. What is the genre of Pilgrim’s Progress?
7. Who is the man in Bunyan’s dream And what book in his hand? What the burden is?
8. What kind of journey did the pilgrim make? And adventure he underwent through what city? 9. What is the significance of the story? And the city?
10. What is Bunyan’s style? What does he criticize through his satire/ Homework week 12 & Revision:
1. What are the six features of 18th century English cultural life? 2. What are the five characteristics of neo-classicism?
3. What class and class spirit are embodied in the figure “Robinson Crusoe”?
4. Please state the reasons why Defoe is regarded as a great artist (with his Moll Flanders’s entering the serious literature)?
5. Why was Jonathan Swift respected by the Irish people as their National hero? 6. Why is Swift’s A Modest Propsal regarded as a bitter satire?
Homework week 13
1. Addison and Steel launched several periodicals together. What are their aims? 2. What do they mainly deal with in their essays? 3. What methods do they adopt in writing the essays? 4. What is Addison’s writing style?
5. The Royal Exchange: how many important roles did the merchants play in Addison’s time? 6. What is genre of the Rape of the Lock by A Pope? 7. What is it about?
8. What is the significance of An Essay on Man? What are Pope’s achievements? 9. Pls explain Augustan Age.
10. Pls recite An essay on Man: Whatever Is, Is Right; and Know Then Thyself. P.S.
1 pls read carefully the Royal Exchange and An Essay On man
2 pls preview Johnson’s The Preface to Shakespeare; and Fielding’s Tom Jones.
Homework week 14
1. How many periodicals did S Johnson publish?
2. How did he compile A Dictionary of English Language? what is the significance of A Letter to the Right Honorable The Earl of Chesterfield?
3. How many careers did Henry Fielding go in for? And what are his achievements for each career?
4. How many novels did Fielding write altogether?
5. What is the special genre did Fielding create in Tom Jones?
6. How many parts can Tom Jones be divided into? And what does each part mainly deal with? And What aspect of English society does each part represent ? Homework week 15:
1. Of what school was Thomas Gray a representative poet?
2. In what way do the poets of this school deviate from the neo-classic rules? 3. In What tradition is Sheridan’s masterpiece the School of Scandal written? 4. What does Sheridan mainly expose in this play?
5. Pls recite the first four stanzas of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Homework week 16:
1. What are the features of Burns’s poems?
2. Please read Is There for Honest Poverty and answer: What kind of feeling is conveyed in this poem? And what is Burns’s attitude towards both the rich and the poor respectively? 3. Please recite A Red, Red Rose.
4. In what way(s) do the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience reflect the world respectively?
5. What are the features of William Blake’s poetry?
6. What kind of picture of the society has been drawn in London? 7. pls recite The Lamb and The Tiger.
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