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1、英国文学期末复习资料大三下 英教四班张旭 整理第 1 页 共 14 页大三下 英国文学期末复习资料 张旭一、名词解释 5 题/10 分1. apostrophe: a figure of speech in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an animal, object or abstract idea.2. dramatic monologue: a kind of poem in which a single fictional or historical character other than the
2、poet speaks to a silent listener, revealing unwittingly things about himself or herself.3. satire: a kind of writing that expresses the vices and follies of individuals, institutions, or societies to ridicule and scorn. 4. ode: a rhymed lyrical poem which expresses noble feelings often addressed to
3、a person, an object or celebrating an event.5. terza rima: a poetic form consisting of a series of units of three lines rhyming aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc.6. Byronic hero: a rebel or outlaw who is strong-willed, disillusioned, friendless, always at war with the conventional world. 7. parody: the imitat
4、ive use of words, style, attitude, tone and ideas of an author in such a way as to make them ridiculous.8. epistolary novel: a novel written in the form of a series of letters exchanged among the characters of the story, with extracts from their journals sometimes included. 英国文学期末复习资料大三下 英教四班张旭 整理第
5、2 页 共 14 页二、文学史常识：作家作品，相关流派 10 题/10 分1William Wordsworth (华兹华斯 1770-1850)【1】作品特点 P6：Close to naturehe had a profound love for nature. He thought that nature had a moral value and has its philosophical significance.【2】相关作品 P6： The Recluse: long poem which illustrated his thinking of life, but it rema
6、ins unfinished. The Prelude (1850): long poem which tells the growth of his mind. Lyrical Ballads (1798): an important piece of literature criticism in English literature. It can be read as a declaration of romanticism.【3】代表作品 P17：I Wandered Lonely As a CloudI wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats o
7、n high oer vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle on the milky way,They stretched in never-ending lineAlong the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw
8、I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.The waves beside them danced; but theyOut-did the sparkling waves in glee:A poet could not but be gay,In such a jocund company:I gazed-and gazed-but little thoughtWhat wealth the show to me had brought:For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or i
9、n pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.2George Gordon Byron (拜伦 1788-1824) 【1】作品特点：He is interested in democracy【2】关于作者P41-42： Born of a noble blood both on paternal and maternal lines. He was
10、good friends with Shelly英国文学期末复习资料大三下 英教四班张旭 整理第 3 页 共 14 页 In the style of Pope, he satirically attacked Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, and the Edinburgh critics. After he attained his M.A. degree, he stayed for some time on his estate and led a dissipated(奢靡的) life From 1809 to 1811, he made a
11、 grand tour of the Continent.【3】相关作品：（1） English Bards and Scotch Reviewers: his first important poem （2） Hours of Idleness：a collection of lyrical verse（3） Childe Harolds Pilgrimage: first two cantos(篇章)（4） Oriental Tales: a series of romantic narrative verses（5） Prometheus, Sonnet on Chillon, and
12、the Prisoner of Chillon.（6） Childe Harolds Pilgrimage: his third and fourth cantos.【4】代表作品 P59：She Walks in BeautyShe walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudlee climes and starry skies: And all thats best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes:Thus mellowed to that tender lightWhich heave
13、n to gaudy day denies.One shade the more, one ray the less,Had half impaired the nameless graceWhich waves in every raven tress,Or softly lightens oer her face;Where thoughts serenely sweet expressHow pure, how dear their dwelling place.And on that cheek, and oer that brow,So soft, so charm, yet elo
14、quent,The smiles that win, the tints that glow,But tell of days in goodness spent,A mind at peace with all below,A heart whose love is innocent!3Percy Bysshe Shelley (雪莱 1792-1822) 【1】关于作者 P61-62： He eloped with a young girl, Harriet, at last she was committed suicide. She met Godwin and fell in lov
15、e with his daughter Mary Godwin. Her mother was 英国文学期末复习资料大三下 英教四班张旭 整理第 4 页 共 14 页Mary Wollstonecraft(1759-1797), a champion for womens rights and the authoress of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman(1792) He was drowned in a tempest while sailing in a boat along the coast of Italy.【3】相关作品：(1) Alastor (1816), The Revolt of Islam(1818), The Mask of Anarchy(1819): allegorical（讽喻的）poems(2) Prometheus Unbound(1820), Hellas（1822） ，and The Cenci(1819): lyrical dramas.(3) Adonis(18
