英国文学史名词解释
Ode 颂诗is adignified and elaborately structured lyric poem of some length, praising and glorifying an individual, commemorating an event or describing nature intellectually rather than emotionally.
Elegy挽歌: it eks for "lament". It is a poem on death or on a rious loss; characteristically a sustained meditation expressing sorrow and, frequently, an explicit or implied consolation
Anapt短短长格: a metrical foot of three syllables, the first two short, the last long
Caesura 停顿a break or pau in a line of poetry, dictated by the natural rhythm of the language and sometimes enforced by punctuation.
Epic摩什么接踵史诗:It’s a long narrative poem celebrating the great deeds of one or more legendary heroes, majestic in theme and style.普通的英语
Romance 传奇a type of literature that was popular in the Middle Ages, usually containing adventures and reflecting the spirit of chivalry. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was a great ver romance, but its author remains unknown.
Alliteration押头韵 is the u in speech or writing of veral words clo together that all begin with the same letter or sound.
Ballad民谣: It is a story in poetic form, often about tragic love and usually sung. Ballads were pasd down from generation to generation by singers. The medieval ballads are ballads of Robin Hood. Coleridge’s "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a 19th century English ballad.
Heroic couplet英雄体: They are poetry compod in iambic pentameter. In this form of poetry, lines consisting of five iambic feet rime together in pairs. The rime scheme :aa bb cc …..
poet’s corner 诗人角a part of Westminster Abbey, London, which contains the tombs or monuments of some famous English poets, such as Geoffrey Chaucer and John Milton.安全管理工作计划
Renaissance文艺复兴: Renaissance marks the transition from the medieval to the modern world. It first started in Italy in the 14th century and gradually spread all over Europe. The word “Renaissance” means rebirth or revival.
Sonnet十四行诗: A lyric poem of fourteen lines who ryhme scheme is fixed. The rhyme scheme in the Italian form as typified in the sonnets of Petrarch is abbaabba cdecde.
Blank ver无韵诗: A poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Spenrian Stanza斯宾塞诗体: It’s a ver from that consists of eight iambic pentameter lines followed by a ninth line of six iambic feet, with the rhyme scheme ababbbccdd.
琼浆的意思Enlightenment启蒙运动 : The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century. It was an expression of struggle of the bourgeoisie against feudalism.
Sentimentalism感伤主义: Sentimentalism appeared in the middle of the 18th century, as
a reaction against commercialism and the cold rationalism.
Pre-romanticism:创新驱动发展战略前浪漫主义 The Romantic Movement was marked by a strong protest against the bondage of Classicism, by a renewed interest in medieval literature.----reprentatives ---William Blake and Robert Burns
Romanticism浪漫主义 : Romanticism was in effect a revolt of the English imagination against the neoclassical reason, which prevailed from the days of Pope to tho of Johnson.
Neo-classicism新古典主义: A revival in the venteenth and eighteenth centuries of classical standards of order, balance and harmony in literature.
Elegy挽歌: it eks for "lament". It is a poem on death or on a rious loss; characteristically a sustained meditation expressing sorrow and, frequently, an explicit or implied consolation
Realism现实主义: A term ud in literature and art to prent life as it really is without
ntimentalizing or idealizing it.
Epigram诙谐短诗：an epigram is a brief, celver, and usually memorable statement.
Allegory寓言: A story illustrating an idea or a moral principle in which objects take on symbolic meanings.孝和睿皇后
Lake Poets湖畔诗人我的母亲教案: Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey have often been mentioned as the "Lake Poets" becau they lived in the lake district in the northwestern part of England. The three traverd the same path in politics and in poetry, beginning as radicals and closing as conrvatives.
Metaphysical Poetry玄学派诗歌: is characterized by verbal wit and excess, ingenious structure, irregular meter, colloquial language, elaborates imagery, and a drawing together of dissimilar ideas.
Humanism人文主义: it refers to the main literary trend and is the keynote of English Renaissance. Humanists took interest in human life and human activities and gave expre
ssion to the new feeling of admiration for human beauty, human achievement.
Mystery play神秘剧王乔治: The Mystery plays of the Middle Ages were bad on the bible and were particularly concerned with the stories of man’s creation, Fall and Redemption.
