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John Donne is the most outstanding representative of the 17th century dramas. ____ 2. A Modest Proposal by Swift shows the writer’s irony towards the projectors. ____ 3. In a poetic line, a foot with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable is trochic. ____ 4. The turn of the 18th century and the 19th century in England saw the appearance of a new literary current—Preromanticism. ____ 5. The Tiger by William Blake is a poem in The Songs of Innocence. ____ 6. The glory of the Romantic Age lies in the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats etc.. ____ 7. The Satanic School includes Byron, Shelley and William Wordsworth. ____ 8. Don Juan made John Keats famous overnight. ____ first poem in The Lyrical Ballads is Wordsworth’s masterpiece The Rime of Ancient Mariner. ____10. In his poems Byron aimed at simplicity and purity of the language, fighting against the conventional forms of the 18th century poetry. III. Blank Filling. (10%=1*10) 1. The line “Shall I pare thee to a summer’s day?” is taken from by William Shakespeare. 2. The 18th century was distinctively an age of . 3. The later enlighteners of England in the 18th century found the power of reason to be insufficient and therefore appealed to sentiments as a means of achieving social justice, which led to the appearance of the new literary current— . 4. She Stoops to Conquer is a rollicking edy by . 5. is the most independent and the most original of all the romantic poets of the 18th century. image of an enterprising Englishman of the 18th century was created by in his famous novel Robinson Crusoe. the political tempests led to a confusion in English literature in the 17th century, the peaceful development of the 18th century made a prevailing literary current. two representatives of PreRomanticism are William Blake and . 9. The most outstanding figure of English Sentimentalism is . 10. Romanticism in England ended in 1832, with the death of . 3 試卷紙 第 3 頁 IV. Define or explain the following. (15%=5*3) 1. Blank Verse 2. Conceit 3. The Graveyard School V. Identify.(20%=10*2) Passage I The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly over the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. …… Ques