（）employed the heroic couplet with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English Literature. 

Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of（）adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.

（）, a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.

The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely（ ）. 

The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT （）.

Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for prose EXCEPT（）.

Questions and Answers：Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. 

List at least two leading neoclassicists in England. What did Neoclassicists celebrate in literary creation?

Topic Discussion: Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English.

Under the influence of the leading romantic thinkers like Kant and the Post-Kantians, Romanticists demonstrated a strong reaction against the dominant modes of thinking of the 18th century's Neo-classicists. Discuss, in relation to the works you know, the difference between Romanticism and Neo-classicism.

Question and Answer

Give brief answers to the following question in English.

Neoclassicists had laws and rules for almost every genre of literature. How should poetry be？

Which of the following descriptions of Enlightenment Movement is NOT true?（）

（）, a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.

William Shakespeare is one of the giants of（）

During the reign of（ ），England started its Religious Reformation and broke away from Rome.

Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe and Francis Bacon are the few literary giants in（ ）period.

It was（ ）who first introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into England.

 (p7)ln Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following except （  ）​.

What is the Renaissance？

The Renaissance refers to the period between the （ ） and mid-17th centuries.

The Renaissance first started in （ ）, with the flowering of painting, sculpture and literature.

The most significant idea of the Renaissance is（ ）.