27. The short story ________ is taken from Irving ''s work named The Sketch Book .

　　A. Young Goodman Brown

　　B. The legend of sleepy Hollow

　　C. Rip Van Wrinkle

　　D. Nature

　　28. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne ''s novel _______________ .

　　A. The House of the Seven Gables

　　B. The Scarlet Letter

　　C. Moby Dick

　　D. Daisy Milly

　　29. American writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a “_______________” .

　　A. Lost Generation

　　B. Broken Generation

　　C. Optimist

　　D. Pessimist

　　30. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel _______ .

　　A. This Side of Paradise

　　B. Tender Is the Night

　　C. The American Dream

　　D. The Great Gatsby

　　31. _________ ， the first important English essayist ， is best known for his essays which greatly influenced the development of this literary form .

　　A. John Donne

　　B. John Milton

　　C. Francis Bacon

　　D. Edmund Spenser

　　32. Pope''s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in ________ .

　　A. blank verse

　　B. heroic couplets

　　C. free verse

　　D. dramatic monologue

　　33. According to Edmund Spenser''s own explanation ， his The Faerie Queene is a “________” ， but it is also an allegory .

　　A. imaginary poem

　　B. historical poem

　　C. romantic poem

　　D. poetic drama

　　34. Sheridan''s plays ， especially The Rivals and The school for Scandal ， are generally regarded as important links between the masterpiece of Shakespeare and those of ________.

　　A. Christopher Marlow

　　B. John Galsworthy

　　C. Bernard Shaw

　　D. James Joyce

　　35. Shelley''s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama —— __________ .

　　A. Promethus Unbound

　　B. Ode to the West Wind

　　C. Adonais

　　D. In Defense of Poetry

　　36. Charlotte Bronte''s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization ， about some lonely and neglected _______ .

　　A. young man

　　B. young woman

　　C. children

　　D. old people

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