41786 test 1 literatura brytyjska

BRITISH LITERATURĘ

EXAMINATION, 19^,h of JUNE 2013

A.    Indentify thc sources for the following fragments...

1.    'The Wanderer", author unknown, Old English

a)    lt's after the battle in which the king and speaker^ friends died. He i$ remembering them.

b)    "Ubi sunt" - where are there

2.    "The Canterbury Tales" (The Nuns' Priest's Tale) by Geoffrey Chaucer, Middle Age

a) The morał of the speaker's story is that you have to be clever in every situation and also teach us the truth of life.

3.    "The Daffodils" by William Wordsworth, Romanticism

a) 'That inward eye" refers to happy and joyful days which the speaker sees in his mind.

4.    "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde, Fin de si&cle, 1890

a) The speaker is Dorian Gray. After he said his wish he become as young and beautiful as the Picture but the picture start growing old and shows his soul which has changed with every crime which Dorian committed.

5.    "O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare:

A spring of love gushed from my heart,

And l blessed them unaware"

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel T. Coleridge, Romanticism a) In what situation does the speaker say these words, and what is their effect?

B.    Uzupełnianie zdań

1.    'The Dream of the Rood'\ attributed to...........................................is the first English poem

written in the convention of....................................

2.    In "The Flea" by John Donnę the speaker uses the image of a flea with the intention to make his beloved woman consume their love.

3.    The main slogan of Aestheticism is ArtforArt's Sake, and the aspects of this movement is reflected in a work of fiction by Oscar Wilde, entitled "The Picture of Dorian Gray".

4.    'Conceit' is a distinctive characteristic of metophysical poetry, and can be described as extended metaphor.

5.    John Milton is the author of the great epic poetry of the 17^łhcentury, known as the English religious epic/and entitled "Paradise Lost".

6.    Romantics, unlike the poets of the Augustan period, stress the significance of:

1)    beauty ofart 2) strong feelings 3) love imagination

7.    The 18^th century is a great period of satire. which ridicules the failing of individuals and institutions; in

prose it is represented by such work of fiction as Jonathan Swift's "Gullwer^s Travels", and in poetry .......................................................................by.......................................................................

8.    "Ullysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson is a poem which reflects the Victorian attitude of didacticism, realism and utilitarianism.

9.    William Blake is considered the precursor of Romanticism.

10.    The Romantic poem.................................................by................................................is a poetic

reflection as the op(coś tam) of art over life.

11.    Victorian novel, represented by such novelist as e.g.: 1)....................................................

2) ............................................is mostly connected with........................................................................