英国文学简史术语解释总结(英文)整理版.docxVIP

Beowulf: national epic of the English people; Denmark story; alliteration, metaphors and un derstateme nts. Romance （名词解释）a story of adventure-fictitious, frequently marvelous or supernatural--in verse or prose. Ballad民谣（名词解释） Popular Ballads 大众民谣 ：a story hold in 4-1 ine stanzas with second and fourth line rhymed（ 笔 记） Ballads are anonymous narrative songs that have been preserved by oral transmission（书上）.4, Heroic couple,名词解释） heroic couplet 英雄双韵体： a verse unit consisting of two rhymed（押韵）lines in iambic pentameter（五步抑扬格） 5 . Renaissance（名词解释） Ren aissa nee the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and lear ning in Europe begi nning in the 14th cen tury and exte nding to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world. humanism 人文主义： admire human beauty and human achievement The Enlightenment was an expression of struggle of the then progressive class of bourgeoisie aga inst feudalism 6，. Sonnet （名词解释） The sonnet is a poem in 14 lines with one or the other rhyme schme,a form much in vogue in Ren aissa nee Europe, expecially in Italy ,Fra nee and En gla nd. 7， Blank verse（名词解释）：written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. 8，Spenserian Stanz（名词解释） Stanza form developed by Edm und Spen ser and almost certai nly in flue need by rhyme royal and ottava rima Spen sers sta nza has nine lines and is rhymed a-b-a-b-b-c-b-c-c. The first eight lines of the stanza are in iambic pentameter and the last line in iambic hexameter. He used this form in his epic poem The Faerie Queene. John Keats, a great admirer of Spen ser, used this sta nza in his poeThe Eve of St. Agn es. ,9 Enlightenment （1650-1800）名词解释）A revival of interest in the old classical works, order, logic, restrained emotion抑制情感）and accuracy Individualism-emphasized the importa nce of the in dividual and his inborn rights Rationalism-- the conv icti on that with the power of reas on, huma ns could arrive at truth and improve the world. Relativism-- was the concept