英国文学简史术语解释总结(英文)

2. Romance （名词解释）a story of adventure--fictitious, freuently marvelous or supernatural--in verse or prose.

3，Ballad民谣（名词解释）

Popular Ballads 大众民谣 ：a story hold in 4-line stanzas with second and fourth line rhymed(笔记)

Ballads are anonymous narrative songs that have been preserved by oral transmission(书上). 4， 4，Heroic couplet (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）

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 verse（名词解释）: written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

8，Spenserian Stanza（名词解释）

Stanza form developed by Edmund Spenser and almost certainly influenced by rhyme royal and ottava rima. Spenser'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 hexameter. He used this form in his epic poem The Faerie ueene. John Keats, a great admirer of Spenser, used 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

Individualism--emphasized the importance of the individual and his inborn rights Rationalism-- the conviction that with the power of reason, humans could arrive at truth and improve the world.

Relativism-- was the concept that different cultures, beliefs, ideas, and value systems had eual merit.

Gothic novel(哥特式小说)：mystery, horror, castles(from middle part to the end of century)

10，Classicism（名词解释）

In the arts, historical tradition or aesthetic attitudes based on the art of Greece and Rome in antiuity. In the context of the tradition, Classicism refers either to the art produced in antiuity or to later art inspired by that of antiuity; Neoclassicism always refers to the art p