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Do the matching. Chart 4
Match the two halves of the books’ names.
1. The Forsyte
a) And Son
2. Canterbury
b) Heights
3. Lord
c) New World
4. Childe Harolds’s
d) Fair
5. Brave
e) Saga
6. Dombey
f) Man
7. Vanity
g) Faustus
8. Wuthering
h) of the Flies
9. The Invisible
i) Tales
10. Doctor
j) Pilgrimage
Match the names of the authors to the books they wrote (A–J) in the chart
above.
Herbert George Wells
William Golding
William Makepeace Thackeray
Christopher Marlowe
Emily Bronte
George G. Byron
Charles Dickens
John Galsworthy
Aldous Huxley
Geoffrey Chaucer
Fill in the missing words in the names of the books.
1. The Jungle _______ by Rudyard Kipling.
2. Animal _______ by George Orwell.
3. _______ Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
4. The _______ of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wild.
5. The _______ and Sixpence by William Somerset Maugham.
6. Treasure ______ by Robert Louis Stevenson.
7. Sense and _______ by Jane Austen.
8. Jude the ______ by Thomas Hardy.
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Do the matching. Chart 5
Match the characters and the literary pieces.
1. Angel Clare
a) An Ideal Husband
2. Pip an Estella
b) Pygmalion
3. Winston Smith
c) Hamlet
4. Sir Robert Chiltern and Lord Goring
d) The Quiet American
5. Frederic Clegg and Miranda Grey
e) 1984
6. King Claudius
f) Lord of the Flies
7. Thomas Fowler, Alden Pyle
g) Tess of the d'Urbervilles
8. Professor Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle
h) The Invisible Man
9. Griffin
i) Great Expectations
10. Ralph, Jack, Piggy, Simon
j) The Collector
Do the matching. Chart 6
Match the characters and the literary pieces.
1. Becky Sharp
a) The Forsyte Saga
2. Basil Hallward
b) Vanity Fair
3. Soames and Irene
c) The Moon and Sixpence
4. Charles Strickland
d) The Last Inch
5. Ben, a pilot, and his son Davy
e) The Picture of Dorian Gray
6. Satan
f) Wuthering Heights
7. Mr. Rochester
g) Ivanhoe
8. Heathcliff and Catherine
h) Brave New World
9. Richard the Lionheart
i) Paradise Lost
10. Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowne
j) Jane Eyre
Do the matching. Chart 7
Match the settings and the literary pieces.
1. An isolated island after a nuclear explosion
a) The Quiet American
2. Denmark
b) Tess of the d'Urbervilles
3. Vietnam
c) Lord of the Flies
4. A rural area in Wessex
d) Hamlet
5. An isolated house on the outskirts of London
e) Ivanhoe
6. England in the XII century
f) The Collector
7. Verona
g) The Last Inch
8. Heaven, Hell, Earth
h) Beowulf
9. London, Paris, Tahiti
i) Romeo and Juliet
10. Scandinavian Peninsula
j) The Moon and Sixpence
11. Egypt
k) Paradise Lost
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Do the tasks, answer the questions
1. Define the genre of Beowulf.
2. What does the word renaissance mean in French?
3. Why did Doctor Faustus sell his soul to the devil?
4. What does the word utopia mean in Greek?
5. Why was Thomas More beheaded in 1535?
6. What literary and artistic movement was Oscar Wilde influenced by? What
principles did this movement propose?
7. Name the main literary movement of the first half of the XX century in Britain.
8. What literary movement evolved in Britain in the second half of the
XIX century?
9. Give examples of the works of the English literature in the Middle Ages (at
least two).
10. Name representatives of the Renaissance in English Literature (at least two).
11. Name representatives of Romanticism in English poetry.
12. Name the main artistic and literary movement of the Renaissance in Britain.
13. There are three types of the Romantic novel. What are they and who are
their exponents?
14. Name representatives of critical realism in English Literature.
15. Name representatives of modernism in English Literature.
16. Name representatives of postmodernism in English Literature.
17. What two concepts governed the knight’s behavior in Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight?
18. What is Geoffrey Chaucer’s attitude to clergymen and members of
religious orders? Does he admire them? How does he express it?
19. What genres did Shakespeare prefer during the first period of his literary
work?
20. Name the main literary movement in Britain at the end of the XX century?
21. Define the genre of W. Shakespeare’s Othello
22. Define the genre and style of Paradise Lost.
23. What literary movement evolved in Britain in the first half of the
XIX century?
24. What literary movement do the novels written by Virginia Woolf belong to?
25. What literary movement does The Collector belong to? Who is its author?
26. What animals symbolize childhood and adulthood in William Blake’s
poetry? What are his two collections of poems called?
27. What are the key features of modernism in English literature?
28. What are the features of Charles Dickens’s style?
29. Why do Thomas Hardy’s novels all have tragic endings?
30. What were morality plays based on? (name a literary term).
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CONCLUSION
Dear students!
The authors hope that this textbook has inspired you to read fiction in English,
given you a key to understanding the positions and viewpoints of writers, and helped
you overcome difficulties in mastering literary analysis and systematizing your
knowledge of the periodization of the literary process. The issues raised in this
material are relevant. We believe that this textbook, which is based on the works of
leading critics and literary scholars, has helped you draw parallels between fiction
and the realities of modern life. To ensure the clarity and practical usefulness of the
study guide, we have included excerpts from the works discussed, explanations for
them, questions, and sample tests for self-control and self-correction. We have strived
to make the use of this study guide enjoyable and beneficial, and to ensure that the
goals and objectives set at the beginning are achieved.
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