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英新古典主义时期　　1. 识记Definitions of literary terms 　　1） The Enlightenment Movement 　　The 18th-century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason. The Enlightenment Movement was a progressive intellectual movement which flourished in France swept through the whole Western Europe at the time. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th 16th centuries. Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modem philosophical artistic ideas. The enlighteners celebrated reason or rationality， equality science. They called for a reference to order， reason rules advocated universal education. Famous among the great enlighteners in England were those great writers like John Dryden， Alexander pope so on. 　　2） Neoclassicism 　　In the field of literature， the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works. This tendency is known as neoclassicism. According to the neoclassicists， all forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek Roman writers （Homer， Virgil， so on） those of the contemporary French ones. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order， logic， restrained emotion accuracy， that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity. This belief led them to seek proportion， unity， harmony grace in literary expressions， in an effort to delight， instruct correct human beings， primarily as social animals. Thus， a polite， urbane， witty， intellectual art developed. 　　3） The heroic couplet英雄双行诗 　　It means a pair of lines of a type once common in English poetry， which rhyme are written with five beats each…… 　　4） the Realistic Novel 　　The mid-century was， however， predominated by a newly rising literary form， the modern English novel， which， contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats， gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people. This-the most significant phenomenon in the history of the d