武汉大学英美文学考试资料整理.docx

美国文学 Blank verse: Verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Local Colorism: Local Colorism or Regionalism as a trend first made its presence felt in the late 1860s and early seventies in America. It may be defined as the careful attegogoms in speech, dress or behavior peculiar to a geographical locality. The ultimate aim of the local colorists is to create the illusion of an indigenous little world with qualities that tell it apart from the world outside. The social and intellectual climate of the country provided a stimulating milieu for the growth of local color fiction in America. Local colorists concerned themselves with presenting and interpreting the local character of their regions. They tended to idealize and glorify, but they never forgot to keep an eye on the truthful color of local life. They formed an important part of the realistic movement. Although it lost its momentum toward the end of the 19th century, the local spirit continued to inspire and fertilize the imagination of author. Ode: A complex and often lengthy lyric poem, written in a dignified formal style on some lofty or serious subject. Odes are often written for a special occasion, to honor a person or a season or to commemorate an event. Modernism:?refers?to?a?form?of?literature?mainly?written?before?WWII.It?is?characterized?by?a?high?degree?of?experimentation.It?can?be?seen?as?a?reaction?against?the?19th?century?forms?of?Realism.Modernist?writers?express?the?difficulty?they?see?in?understanding?and?communicating?how?the?world?works.Often?,Modernist?writing?seems?disorganized,hard?to?understand.It?often?portrays?the?action?from?the?viewpoint?of?a?single?confused?individual,rather?than?from?the?viewpoint?of?an?all-knowing?impersonal?narrator?outside?the?action.One?of?the?most?famous?English?Modernist?writers?is?Virginia?Woolf. Renaissance: The term originally indicated a revival of classical (Greek and Roman) arts and sciences after the dark ages of medieval obscurantism. Symbolism: Symbol