True or False Questions.

True or False Questions.
1.Chaucer’s plan for The Canterbury Tales was an ambitious one.Each pilgrim was to tell 2 stories on the way to Canterbury and 2 on the return journey to London.The poet died,however,before his plan was realized and instead of the proposal 124 stories,he wrote only 24.
2.Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress is the first important novel in British literature.
3.Henry Fielding’s An Apology for the life of Mrs.Shamela Andrews (published in 1741) is a parody on Samuel Richardson’s Pamela.
4.The Song of Beowulf eulogized the heroic deeds of Teutonic people and the best of their qualities—valor,the love of glory,honor,and duty.
5.The rhyme scheme of Petrarchan sonnet is abba abba cde cde（cdc cdc）
6.Sonnet is a poem that celebrates in the form of a continuous narrative the achievements of one or more heroic personages of history or tradition.
7.In the preface to Joseph Andrews,Henry Fielding named his new writing style “comic epic in prose”.
8.Classical myth is one of the sources for Milton’s Paradise Lost.
9.Modern novel took shape in the early 18th century.Defoe,Fielding and Richardson belong to the first generation of novelists.
10.Daily Express ＆The Spectator were two important newspapers in the 18th century.
11.The poem ‘Ozymandias’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley portrays a flourishing empire ever-growing in strength and greatness,symbolizing Shelley’s own patriotic pride in Britain’s status as a mighty world power.
12..Shakespeare is the first person who made the London vernacular the language of his work,thus making it the foundation for modern speech and establishing English as the literary language of his country.
13.James Joyce was inspired by Virginia Woolf’s pioneering use of the stream-of -consciousness technique,and he went on to use it on his own writing.
14.Currer Bell,Ellis Bell and Acton Bell were the men’s names under which Charlotte Bronte,Emily Bronte and Anne Bronte first published their works.
15.The modern novel took shape in the early 18th century.Defoe,Fielding and Richardson belong to the first generation of novelists.
16.A poem about the simple beauty and peace of countryside life is called a pastoral.
17.Robert Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’ and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray both tell stories in which a painted portrait plays a central part.

1.Wrong. Chaucer's original plan was to write 120 stories. But he completed only 22.
2. Correct
3.Correct
4.Correct
5.Wrong. The rhyme scheme of Petrarchan sonnet is abba abba cde cde (or cdc dcd)
6. Wrong.把Sonnet改成Epic
7.Correct
8.Correct
9.Correct
10. The Tatler ＆The Spectator were two important newspapers in the 18th century.
11.Wrong. The central theme of "Ozymandias" is the inevitable decline of all leaders, and of the empires they build, however mighty in their own time.
12 Wrong. Not Shakespeare, but Christopher Marlowe
13.Wrong. Virginia Woolfe and Henry James were the two key figures who made the stream of conciousness novel known to the world.
14.Wrong. The three sisters chose pen names (urrer Bell, Ellis Bell and Acton Bell )which were not obviously masculine.
15.Correct
16. Correct
17. Correct