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英美文学期末复习资料1 (20%) 题型为选择题。 参考邮箱课件后选择题。 英美文学选读期末复习资料2 (30%) 题型为填空和名词解释 Literature refers to writings that are valued as works of art, esp. fiction, drama and poetry. Beowulf, a typical example of Old English poetry with over 3,000 lines, is regarded today as the national epic of the english people. Romance which uses narrative verse or prose to sing knightly adventures or other heroic deeds is a popular literary form in the medieval period. Popular subjects for romances: King Arthur of Britain and the knights of the Round Table. A sonnet is a lyric invariably of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter , restricted to a definite rhyme scheme . The 14th century is called 揂ge of Chaucer? His masterpiece is The Canterbury Tales. st An extended metaphor is often called a conceit. Soliloquy is a speech in a play which the character speaks to himself or herself or to the people watching rather than to the other characters. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy about two young “star-cross‘d lovers” whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. Francis Bacon introduced the essay as a literary form into the English language. John Donne is the leading figure of the 搈etaphysical n?school.? All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. In 1797 Wordsworth met Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the two poets became very good friends. They collaborated on a book of poems entitled Lyrical Ballads, first published in 1798 The poet Robert Southey as well as Coleridge lived nearby, and the three men became known as the “Lake Poets.” Jane Austen is the only important female author in the 18-19th century 英美文学选读期末复习资料3 (30%) 指出作者，作品名及选文大意 To be，or not to be：that is the question： “To be” is to continue to live, or to take action. “not to be” is to die, or to do nothing but suffering, to end one’s life by self- destruction. It is a dilemma of trying to determine the meaning of life and death It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of