英國文学史期末复习重点总结.docVIP

English Literature Review Types of questions Ⅰ. Choose from the given choices the correct one. (2’X15=30’) Ⅱ. Define the following terms. (10’X3=30’) Ⅲ. III. Answer one of the following questions. (20’X1=20’) Ⅳ. Write no less than 100 words on one of the following topics in English. (20’ X1=20’) What we’ve learned? Beowulf Sir Gawain and the Green Knight The Anglo-Saxon Period The Anglo-Norman Period The 14th century The Renaissance The 17th century The 18th century The 19th century The 20th century Geoffrey Chaucer William Shakespeare 4 Johns: John Milton John Bunyan Neo-classicism; Realistic Novel; Sentimentalism，Pre-romanticism Romanticism; Critical Realism Stream of Consciousness Anglo-Saxon 449-1066 Three pagan Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, from Denmark and northern Germany came around 450---600 AD England’s natinal epic: The song of Beowulf Alliteration is a device with certain accented words in a line beginning with the same consonant sound. p3 Anglo-Norman Period 1066, The Norman Conquest the battle of Hastings William, Duke of Normandy win P17-18 Metrical Romance: the culmination of the Arthurian romances Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Geoffrey Chaucer The Middle Class Author “Father of English poetry”: Chaucer introduced from France the rhymed stanzas---heroic couplet. heroic couplet: is a rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter. Forerunner of English Renaissance and humanism The founder of English realism/ The first realistic writer first to be buried in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey The Canterbury Tales p43-45 English Renaissance (1520s---1620s) P67 Poet: Thomas Wyatt, Edmund Spenser Thomas Wyatt was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature. Edmund Spenser: (epic) The Fairy Queen Essayist: Francis Bacon Playwright: Christopher Marlowe