英美文学选读复习资料

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1、英美文学期末复习资料1(20%)题型为选择题。参考邮箱课件后选择题。英美文学选读期末复习资料2(30%)题型为填空和名词解释Literaturereferstowritingsthatarevaluedasworksofart,esp.fiction,dramaandpoetry.Beowulf,atypicalexampleofOldEnglishpoetrywithover3,000lines,isregardedtodayasthenationalepicoftheenglishpeople.Romancewhichusesnarrativeverseorprosetosingk

2、nightlyadventuresorotherheroicdeedsisapopularliteraryforminthemedievalperiod.Popularsubjectsforromances:KingArthurofBritainandtheknightsoftheRoundTable.Asonnetisalyricinvariablyoffourteenlines,usuallyiniambicpentameter,restrictedtoadefiniterhymescheme.The14thcenturyiscalled“AgeofChaucer”.Hismast

3、erpieceisTheCanterburyTales.Anextendedmetaphorisoftencalledaconceit.Soliloquyisaspeechinaplaywhichthecharacterspeakstohimselforherselfortothepeoplewatchingratherthantotheothercharacters.RomeoandJulietisatragedyabouttwoyoung“star-cross‘dlovers”whosedeathsultimatelyunitetheirfeudingfamilies.Franci

4、sBaconintroducedtheessayasaliteraryformintotheEnglishlanguage.JohnDonneistheleadingfigureofthe“metaphysical school.”Allgoodpoetryisthespontaneousoverflowofpowerfulfeelings.In1797WordsworthmetSamuelTaylorColeridge,andthetwopoetsbecameverygoodfriends.TheycollaboratedonabookofpoemsentitledLyricalBa

5、llads,firstpublishedin1798ThepoetRobertSoutheyaswellasColeridgelivednearby,andthethreemenbecameknownasthe“LakePoets.”JaneAustenistheonlyimportantfemaleauthorinthe18-19thcentury3英美文学选读期末复习资料3(30%)指出作者，作品名及选文大意Tobe，ornottobe：thatisthequestion：“Tobe”istocontinuetolive,ortotakeaction.“nottobe”istodi

6、e,ortodonothingbutsuffering,toendone’slifebyself-destruction.ItisadilemmaoftryingtodeterminethemeaningoflifeanddeathItisatruthuniversallyacknowledged,thatasinglemaninpossessionofagoodfortune,mustbeinwantofawife.itbrisklyintroducesthearrivalofMr.BingleyatNetherfield—theeventthatsetsthenovelinmoti

7、on—thissentencealsooffersaminiaturesketchoftheentireplot,whichconcernsitselfwiththepursuitof“singlemeninpossessionofagoodfortune”byvariousfemalecharacters.Thepreoccupationwithsociallyadvantageousmarriageinnineteenth-centuryE