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1、Epic （史诗）（1） Epic, in poetry, refers to a long work dealing with the actions of gods and heroes.（2） Beowulf is the greatest national epic of the Anglo-Saxons, John Milton wrote three great epics: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes.Romance（罗曼史/骑士文学）（1）Romance is a popular literary

2、form in the medieval England. （2）It sings knightly adventures or other heroic deeds.（3）Chivalry （such as bravery, honor, generosity, loyalty and kindness to the weak and poor） is the spirit of romance.Alliteration（押头韵）（1） Alliteration means a repetition of the initial sounds of several words in a li

3、ne or group.（2） Alliteration is a traditional poetic device in English literature.（3） Robert Frosts poem Acquainted with the Night is a case in point：“I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet ”.40Name of the WriterWorksBrief Description（1） Beowulf, a typical example of OldEnglish poetry, is

4、regarded as thegreatest national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.（2）The epic describes the heroicBeowulfdeedsofaScandinavianhero,unknown贝奥武甫Beowulf,infightingagainstthemonsterGrendel,hisrevengefulmother, and a fire-breathing dragon.（3）The poem conveys a hope that therighteous will triumph over the evil.Geo

5、ffrey Chaucer （乔叟）（1） He is regarded as the father of English poetry.（2） The Canterbury Tales is his masterpiece.（3） He presents, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and creates a whole .of life.（5） Chaucer introduced from Franc

6、e rhymed stanzas of various types （heroic couplet） into English poetry to replace the Old English alliterative verse.（6） It was Chaucer who made London dialect the foundation for modern English speech.（7） His characterization is vivid.TheCanterburyTales坎特伯雷故事集Troilusand Criseyde特罗勒斯和科丽西德Rose玫瑰罗曼史The

7、 House of Fame声誉之堂（1） The Canterbury Tales is Chaucers monumental success.（2） It is a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury.（3） It was influenced by Boccaccios（薄伽丘） Decameron （十日谈）.（4） In the poem, Chaucer presents, for the first time in English literature, . m

8、edieval English society and creates a whole gallery of vivid characters from all works of life.（5） The poem shows Chaucers humanism and anticipates a new era to come.（1） Piers Plowman is a poem thatgives a picture of the life in feudalWilliam LanglandPiers PlowmanEngland.（威廉兰格伦）农夫皮尔斯（2） It is a prot

9、est against the thensocial injustice.Literary TermsRenaissance （文艺复兴）（3） The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is the Elizabethan drama with William Shakespeare being the leading dramatist.（1） The word “Renaissance” means “rebirth”. It meant the reintroduction into Western Europe of the ful

10、l cultural heritage of Greece and Rome.（2） The essence of the Renaissance is humanism. Attitudes and feelings which had been characteristic of the 14th and 15th centuries persisted well down into the era of Humanism and Reformation.Humanism （人文主义）（1） Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance.（2） It

11、 emphasized the dignity of human beings and the importance of the present life. Humanists voiced their beliefs that man was the center of the universe and man did not only have the right to enjoy the beauty of the present life, but had the ability to perfect himself and to perform wonders.Spenserian

12、 stanza （斯宾塞诗节）（3） Spensers The Faerie Queene was written in this kind of stanza.（1） Spenserian stanza in the creation of Edmund Spenser.（2） It refers to a stanza of nine lines, with the first eight lines in iambic pentameter and the last line in iambic hexameter（六音步）, rhyming ababbcbcc.Conceit （奇特的

13、比喻）（2） Conceit is extensively employed in John Donnes poetry.（1） Conceit is a far-fetched simile or metaphor, a literary conceit occurs when the speaker compares two highly dissimilar things.（1） Metaphysical poetry is commonly used to name the work of the 17th century writers who wrote under the inf

14、luence of John Donne.（2） With the rebellious spirit, the metaphysical poets tried to break away from the conventional fashion of the Elizabethan love poetry.（3） The diction is simple as compared with that of the Elizabethan or the Neoclassical periods, and echos the words and cadences of common speech. （4） The imagery is drawnfrom actual life.Metaphysical poetry （玄学派诗歌）Name