練習題：
1.____refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.
A Allegory
B Conflict
C Irony
D Flashback
2.___was recognized as the greatest poet of Victorian England.
A Tennyson
B Robert Browning
C Mrs.Browning
D Robert Burns
3.James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT____
A Dubliners
B A Potrait of the Artist as a Young Man
C Jude the Obscure
D Ulysses
4.Which of the follwing poets is different from the others?
A John Donne
B John Keats
C Lord Byron
D Percy Bysshe Shelley
5.William Wordsworth is an English ____
A poet
B novelist
C playwright
D critic
6.The compiler of A Dictionary of the English Language is _____
A Joseph Addison
B Richard Steele
C Samuel Johnson
D Laurence Stern
7.My Last Duchess is a monologue poem written by ____
A William Shakespeare
B Robert Browing
C Ben Jonson
D Robert Herrick
8. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" is an epigrammatic line by ____
A John Keats
B William Blake
C William Wordsworth
D Percy Bysshe Shelley
9.Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by ____
A Christopher Marlow
B John Miltom
C William Shakespeare
D Ben Johnson
10. James Joyce mostly wrote about his hometown ____
A London
B Dublin
C New York
D Edinburgh
答案：
1.D irony 是指“反諷”，揭示事物表面與真相的差別。
2.A Aflred Tennyson 被稱為維多利亞時代最杰出的英國詩人。他的主要作品為：The Princess，Maud 和短詩 Break，Break，Break。
3.C Jude the Obscure是Thomas Hardy的作品。
4.A 除了John Donn是玄學派詩人外，另外三位為浪漫主義派詩人。
5.A William Wordsworth是英國前浪漫主義詩人。
6.C Samuel Johnson(1709-1784)編寫的《英語字典》是之后所有英語字典的基石。
7.B Robert Browning(1812-1889)擅于寫獨角劇，他的代表作是My Last Duchess和Meeting at Night。
8.A Beauty is truth, truth beauty是John Keats的寫作宗旨，他用盡畢生精力追求能夠表達一切美麗事物的詩篇。
9.B 《失樂園》和《復樂園》均為John Milton所做。
10.B James Joyce出生于愛爾蘭的首都都柏林，主要作品有：A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man，Ulysses。故事合集Dubliners。