英国文学简史术语解释总结（英文）[模版]
第一篇：英国文学简史术语解释总结(英文)[模版]
1.Beowulf: national epic of the English people;Denmark story;alliteration, metaphors and understatements.2.Romance（名词解释）a story of adventure--fictitious, frequently marvelous or supernatural--in ver or pro.3，Ballad民谣（名词解释）
Popular Ballads 大众民谣 ：a story hold in 4-line stanzas with cond and fourth line rhymed(笔记)
Ballads are anonymous narrative songs that have been prerved by oral transmission(书上).4，4，Heroic couplet(名词解释)
heroic couplet 英雄双韵体：a ver unit consisting of two rhymed(押韵)lines in iambic pentameter(五步抑扬格).Renaissance（名词解释）
Renaissance: the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in
Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.555 humanism 人文主义： admire human beauty and human achievement
556 The Enlightenment was an expression of struggle of the then progressive class of
bourgeoisie against 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 Renaissance Europe, expecially in Italy ,France and England.7，Blank ver（名词解释）: written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.8，Spenrian Stanza（名词解释）
Stanza form developed by Edmund Spenr and almost certainly influenced by rhyme royal and ottava rima.Spenr's stanza 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 he
xameter.He ud this form in his epic poem The Faerie Queene.John Keats, a great admirer of Spenr, ud this stanza in his poem The Eve of St.Agnes.,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
