Materiale utile per esame letteratura inglese, prof. Della Valle

Domande di letteratura inglese

46) La religione di Thomas More: Cristiano

47) Il Globe è: il teatro di Shakespeare

48) Plot of Moll Flanders: she became a thief and prostitute

49) University wits: men of letters schooled in the great seas of learning

50) Moralities: a genre of medieval play

51) Quale delle seguenti opera è di Jonson?: Volpone

52) Quante sillabe e accenti ha il pentametro giambico?: 10 sillabe, 5 accenti

53) Cosa è successo nel 1660?: Restauration

54) Romantic comedy: As You Like it, Midsummer

55) Chi introduce il sonetto in Inghilterra?: Wyatt

56) Quale non è una caratteristica del 18 secolo?: monarchia più forte del parlamento

57) A cosa si riferisce il titolo "The Rape of lock"?: taglio di una ciocca di capelli

58) Nome della figlia prediletta di King Lear: Cordelia

59) Capolavoro di Fielding: Tom James

60) Genere di Gullivers Travels: Satire/parody

61) Data della costruzione del primo teatro: 1576

62) Caratteristica dell'Old English: 6 dialetti

63) James

Macpherson: translated an epic poem by Gaelic (Ossian)

Not a metaphysical poet: Herrik

Parents of Elizabeth I: Henry VIII and Anne Bolena

Not a restauration dramatist: Middleton (author of city comedy)

“The Spectator”: a magazine

The rape of lock is NOT:

1. A mock-epic
2. A satire on society
3. An attack on the manners of aristocrats
4. A critique of false or inverted values
5. An elegiac poem

Samuel Richardson did NOT write:

1. The Apparentice’s Vade Mecum
2. Clarissa
3. The Familiar Letters on Important Occasions
4. Roxana
5. Pamela

A picaresque novel is NOT:

1. A story of adventures on the road
2. A story of a petty criminal
3. A genre coming from the Spanish tradition
4. An allegory of a journey
5. One of H. Fielding’s favourite genres

Samuel Richardson was NOT:

1. A puritan
2. A printer
3. A classicist
4. A novelist
5. The inventor of the “write the moment” technique

The theatres were closed by the Puritans (Bertinetti, p. 97):

a) From 1650 to 1660

1. From 1660 to 1700
2. From 1564 to 1616
3. From 1642 to 1660
4. From 1215 to 1300

Pearl is:

1. An 18 century novel
2. A medieval dream poem
3. A medieval romance
4. A Restoration comedy
5. An Elizabethan play

Who wrote "Love for Love"? (Bertinetti, p.107):

1. Congreve
2. Shakespeare
3. Jonson
4. Dryden
5. Etherege

"All for Love" is (Bertinetti, p.100):

1. A restoration comedy
2. Heroic tragedy
3. An Elizabethan comedy
4. A version of Antony and Cleopatra's vicissitudes
5. A comedy on the institution of marriage

Which of the following was NOT an Elizabethan playwright? (Bertinetti, p.120):

1. T. Middleton
2. F. Beaumont
3. J. Gay
4. J. Webster
5. J. Ford

Who was Bede? (Bertinetti, p.4):

1. The discover of Ireland
2. The first great English historian
3. An English missionary who converted the Germans
4. The first great English poet
5. The author of Beowulf

Astrophil and Stella is (p.23):

1. An epic poem
2. A Medieval Fabliau
3. A pastoral romance
4. A collection of love sonnets