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（0091）《英国文学史》复习思考题答案 I. Write out the authors’ names of the following works. (20) 1 William Shakespeare《Romeo and Juliet》 2 Henry Fielding《Tom Jones》 3 Charlotte Bronte《Jane Eyre》 4 Daniel Defoe《Robinson Crusoe》 5 Robert Burns《A Red Red, Rose》 6 Oscar Wilde《The Importance of Being Earnest》 7 George Bernard Shaw 《Mrs. Warren’s Profession》8 Virginia Woolf《To the Lighthouse》 9 Lord Byron《Don Juan》 10 John Keats《Ode to the Nightingale》 11 William Shakespeare 《Macbeth》 12 Jonathan Swift《Gulliver’s Travels》 13 William Thackery《Vanity Fair 》 14 Emily Bronte《Wuthering Heights》 15 Charles Dickens 《A Tale of Two Cities》 16 Thomas Hardy《Tess of the D’Urberviles》 17 James Joyce《Ulysses》 18 George Eliot《Silas Marner》 19 Lord Byron《Don Juan》 20 Percy Shelley《Ode to the West Wind》 II. Define the following literary terms. (20) 1、Iambic pentameter is a meter in poetry, consisting of an unrhymed line with five iambs or feet (hence pentameter), felt by many to be the most powerful of all metrical forms in English poetry. Shakespeare excelled in the use of iambic pentameter (as in his famous Sonnet XVIII, beginning Shall I compare thee to a summers day?” 2、Heroic couplet: a rhyming couplet in iambic pentameter. It is also called riding rhyme, rhymed 5-beat lines, or rhymed decasyllables. It is one of the most popular metrical forms in English poetry. Though its origin is uncertain, heroic couplet is generally assumed to be introduced by Chaucer. Characteristics exhibited by heroic couplet include epigrammatic expression, balanced sentences, parallel construction, concise diction, use of antithesis, and medial pause. Two types of heroic couplets can be distinguished: closed heroic couplet and open heroic couplet. The former is a complete sentence with a full stop at the end of the second rhyme. The latter is one in which a sentence extends from one couplet to another. 3、Courtly love: an idealized love in some medieval literature and chivalric society. It has