英美文学名词解释最全版
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01. Humanism(人文主义)
1>Humanism is
the essence of the Renaissance.
2> it
emphasizes 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.
02. Renaissance(文艺复兴)
1>The word “Renaissance” means “rebirth”, it
meant the reintroduction into
western Europe
of the full 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.
3> the real mainstream of the
English Renaissance is the Elizabethan drama with
William Shakespeare being the leading
dramatist.
03. Metaphysical poetry(玄学派诗歌)
1>Metaphysical poetry is commonly used to name
the work of the 17th century
writers who wrote
under the influence of John Donne.
2>with a
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 echoes the words
and cadences of common speech.4>the imagery is
drawn from actual life.
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04. Classicism(古典主义)
Classicism refers to a movement or tendency in
art, literature, or music that reflects
the
principles manifested in the art of ancient Greece
and Rome. Classicism
emphasizes the
traditional and the universal, and places value on
reason, clarity,
balance, and order.
Classicism, with its concern for reason and
universal themes, is
traditionally opposed to
Romanticism, which is concerned with emotions and
personal themes.
05. Enlightenment(启蒙运动)
1>Enlightenment movement was a progressive
philosophical and artistic
movement which
flourished in France and swept through western
Europe in the
18th century.
2> the
movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance from
14th century to the
mid-17th century.
3>its purpose was to enlighten the whole world
with the light of modern
philosophical and
artistic ideas.
4>it celebrated reason or
rationality, equality and science. It advocated
universal
education.
5>famous among the
great enlighteners in England were those great
writers like
Alexander pope. Jonathan Swift.
etc.
ssicism(新古典主义)
1>In the field of
literature, the enlightenment movement brought
about a revival of
interest in the old
classical works.
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2>this tendency is known as neoclassicism. The
Neoclassicists held that forms of
literature
were to be modeled after the classical works of
the ancient Greek and
Roman writers such as
Homer and Virgil and those of the contemporary
French
ones.
3> they believed that the
artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained
emotion
and accuracy, and that literature
should be judged in terms of its service to
humanity.
07. The Graveyard School(墓地派诗歌)
1>The Graveyard School refers to a school of
poets of the 18th century whose
poems are
mostly devoted to a sentimental lamentation or
meditation on life. Past
and present ,with
death and graveyard as themes.
2>Thomas Gray
is considered to be the leading figure of this
school and his Elegy
written in a country
churchyard is its most representative work.
08. Romanticism(浪漫主义)
1>In the mid-18th
century, a new literary movement called
romanticism came to
Europe and then to
England.
2>It was characterized by a strong
protest against the bondage of neoclassicism,
which emphasized reason, order and elegant
wit. Instead, romanticism gave
primary concern
to passion, emotion, and natural beauty.
3>In
the history of literature. Romanticism is
generally regarded as the thought
that
designates a literary and philosophical theory
which tends to see the individual
as the very
center of all life and experience. 4> The English
romantic period is an
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age of poetry which prevailed in England from
1798 to 1837. The major romantic
poets include
Wordsworth, Byron and Shelley.
09. Byronic
Hero(拜伦式英雄)
1>Byronic hero refers to a proud,
mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.
2>
with immense superiority in his passions and
powers, this Byronic Hero would
carry on his
shoulders the burden of righting all the wrongs in
a corrupt society.
And would rise single-
handedly against any kind of tyrannical rules
either in
government, in religion, or in moral
principles with unconquerable wills and
inexhaustible energies.
3> Byron’s chief
contribution to English literature is his creation
of the “Byronic
Hero”
10. Critical
Realism(批判现实主义)
1>Critical Realism is a term
applied to the realistic fiction in the late 19th
and early
20th centuries.
2> It means the
tendency of writers and intellectuals in the
period between 1875
and 1920 to apply the
methods of realistic fiction to the criticism of
society and the
examination of social issues.
3> Realist writers were all concerned about
the fate of the common people and
described
what was faithful to reality.
4> Charles
Dickens is the most important critical realist.
11. Aestheticism(美学主义)
1>The basic theory
of the Aesthetic movement--- “art for art’s sake”
was set forth
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by a
French poet, Theophile Gautier, the first
Englishman who wrote about the
theory of
aestheticism was Walter Pater.
2> aestheticism
places art above life, and holds that life should
imitate art, not art
imitate life.
3>
According to the aesthetes, all artistic creation
is absolutely subjective as
opposed to
objective. Art should be free from any influence
of egoism. Only when
art is for art’s sake,
can it be immortal. They believed that art should
be
unconcerned with controversial issues, such
as politics and morality, and that it
should
be restricted to contributing beauty in a highly
polished style.
4> This is one of the
reactions against the materialism and
commercialism of the
Victorian industrial era,
as well as a reaction against the Victorian
convention of art
for morality’s sake, or art
for money’s sake.
美学运动的基本原则”为艺术而艺术”最初由法国诗人西奥费尔
.高缔尔提出,英国运用该美
学理论的第一人是沃尔特.佩特.美学主义崇尚艺术高于生活,认为生活应
模仿艺术,而不是艺
术模仿生活.在美学主义看来,所有的艺术创作都是绝对主观而非客观的产物.艺术
不应受任
何功利的影响,只有当艺术为艺术而创作时,艺术才能成为不朽之作.他们还认为艺术不应只<
br>关注一些热点话题如政治和道德问题,艺术应着力于以华丽的风格张扬美.这是对维多利亚工
业发
展时期物质崇拜的一种回应,也是向艺术为道德或为金钱而服务的维多利亚传统的挑战.
Victorian period(维多利亚时期)
1>In this period, the
novel became the most widely read and the most
vital and
challenging expression of
progressive thought. While sticking to the
principle of
faithful representation of the
18th century realist novel, novelists in this
period
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carried their
duty forward to criticism of the society and the
defense of the mass.
2> although writing from
different points of view and with different
techniques,
they shared one thing in common,
that is, they were all concerned about the fate of
the common people. They were angry with the
inhuman social institutions, the
decaying
social morality as represented by the money-
worship and Utilitarianism,
and the widespread
misery, poverty and injustice.
3>their
truthful picture of people’s life and bitter and
strong criticism of the society
had done much
in awakening the public consciousness to the
social problems and
in the actual improvement
of the society.
4> Charles Dickens is the
leading figure of the Victorian period.
13.
Modernism(现代主义)
1>Modernism is comprehensive
but vague term for a movement , which begin in
the late 19th century and which has had a wide
influence internationally during
much of the
20th century.
2> modernism takes the
irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-
analysis as
its theoretical case.
3> the
term pertains to all the creative arts. Especially
poetry, fiction, drama,
painting, music and
architecture.
4> in England from early in the
20th century and during the 1920s and 1930s, in
America from shortly before the first world
war and on during the inter-war period,
modernist tendencies were at their most active
and fruitful.
5>as far as literature is
concerned, Modernism reveals a breaking away from
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established rules,
traditions and conventions. fresh ways of looking
at man’s
position and function in the universe
and many experiments in form and style. It is
particularly concerned with language and how
to use it and with writing itself.
14. Stream
of consciousness(意识流)(or interior
monologue)
In literary criticism, Stream of consciousness
denotes a literary technique which
seeks to
describe an individual’s point of view by giving
the written equivalent of
the character’s
thought processes. Stream of consciousness writing
is strongly
associated with the modernist
movement. Its introduction in the literary
context,
transferred from psychology, is
attributed to May Sinclair. Stream of
consciousness
writing is usually regarded as a
special form of interior monologue and is
characterized by associative leaps in syntax
and punctuation that can make the
prose
difficult to follow, tracing as they do a
character’s fragmentary thoughts and
sensory
feelings. Famous writers to employ this technique
in the English language
include James Joyce
and William Faulkner.
学术界认为意识流是一种通过直接描述人物思
维过程来寻求个人视角的文学写作技巧。意识
流是现代主义运动的体现,它首先出现在心现学领域,由梅
.辛克拉提出的,后引进文学领
域。意识流写作通常被认为是一种特殊形式的内心独白.它的特别是联想
性,以句法和标点的
跳跃,文章的晦涩难懂为特征.来表现人物的片断思维和感官性直觉.比较著名的使
用此技巧
的有乔伊斯.福克纳.
15. American
Puritanism(美国清教主义)
Puritanism was a religious
reform that arose within the Church of England in
the
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late 16th
century. Under siege from church and crown, it
sent an offshoot in the
third and fourth
decades of the 17th to the northern English
colonies in the new
world---a migration that
laid the foundation for the religious,
intellectual, and
social order of New England.
Puritanism, however, was not only a historically
specific phenomenon coincident with the
founding of new England, it was also a
way of
being in the world---a style of response to lived
experience---that has
reverberated through
American life ever since. Doctrinally, puritans
adhered to the
five points of Calvinism as
codified at the synod of dort in 1619:
1)
Unconditional election: the idea that God had
decreed at the synod of damned
and who was
saved from before the beginning of the world;
2) limited atonement: the idea that Christ
died for the elect only;
3) Total depravity:
humanity’s utter corruption since the fall;
4)
Irresistible grace: regeneration as entirely a
work of God, which cannot be
re3sisted and to
which the sinner contributes nothing;
5) The
perseverance of the saints: the elect, despite
their backsliding and faintness
of heart,
cannot fall away from grace.
清教主义是16世纪晚期在英国教会内
进行的一场宗教改革.在教会和皇权的双重压力之下,
清教的一个分支于17世纪30,40年代迁至美
洲新大陆的北方殖民地,他们为新英格兰奠定了
宗教、知识和社会秩序的基础。清教主义不仅符合新英格
兰成立的特定历史,而且一直反映
了美国生活的一种生活方式。从教义上说,清教徒遵循加尔文派于16
19年多特宗教会议上
制定的五条信条:1)无条件拣选:神没有任凭人在罪中灭亡,而是在创世以前就
拣选了一
群人旅行拯救; 2)有限救赎: 基督的死只是为了特定数目的选民而死; 3)
完全堕落:
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自从亚当偷吃善恶果后,整个人类都
堕落了;4)不可抗拒的恩典:圣灵的能力在罪人心里
运行,一直到他认罪悔改方休;5)圣徒的坚守:
圣徒是神所挑选的,无论他们如何退步,
始终在神的感召下。
16. American
Romanticism(美国浪漫主义)
Romanticism refers to an
artistic and intellectual movement originating in
Europe
in the late 18th century and
characterized by a heightened interest in nature,
emphasis on the individual’s expression of
emotion and imagination, departure
from the
attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion
against established social
rules and
conventions. The romantic period in American
literature stretches from
the end of the 18th
century through the outbreak of the civil war. It
was an age of
great westward expansion, of the
increasing gravity of the slavery question, of an
intensification of the spirit of embattled
sectionalism in the south, and of a
powerful
impulse to reform in the north. In literature it
was America’s first great
creative period, a
full flowering of the romantic impulse on American
soil. Although
foreign influences were strong,
American romanticism exhibited from the very
outset distinct features of its own. First,
American romanticism was in essence the
expression of “a real new experience”and
contained “an alien quality” for the
simple
reason that “the spirit of the place” was
radically new and alien. Second,
puritan
influence over American romanticism was
conspicuously noticeable.
Emerging as new
writers of strength and creative power were the
novelists
Hawthorne, Melville, the poets
Dickinson, Whitman, the essayists Thoreau,
Emerson.
These American writers had made a
great literary period by capturing on their
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pages the enthusiasm
and the optimism of that dream.
浪漫主义是于18世纪晚期发
起于欧洲的一场艺术性及思想性的运动,它注重自然,强调
个人情感表达与想像力,向既定的社会制度和
传统挑战,与古典主义形式相分离。美国的浪
漫主义时期从18世纪末一直延续到内战爆发前。这个时期
发生了大规模的西迁运动,日益
严峻的奴隶问题,南部各州的地方保护主义的是益盛行以及北部呼声愈演
愈烈火的革新运
动。在文学上,这个时期是美国第一次伟大的创作时期,浪漫主义的种子在北美的土壤里
生
根发芽。尽管受到欧洲浪漫主义运动的影响,美国浪漫主义文学仍然呈现出自己的独特风格。
第一,美国浪漫主义在本质上是一个“全新的经历“的表达,因这个新大陆充满着生机和活
力而使美国的
浪漫主义蕴含异国的气质;第二,清教主义对美国浪漫主义有着显著的影响,
作为新生创作力量的有小说
家霍桑,麦尔维尔。诗人狄金森和惠特曼,散文家梭罗,爱默生。
这些美国作家充满热情地记录下这个伟
大时代的乐观主义精神。
17. Transcendentalism(超验主义)
Transcendentalism is literature, philosophical
and literary movement that flourished
in new
England from about 1836 to 1860. it is the summit
of American Romanticism.
it originated among a
small group of intellectuals who were reacting
against the
orthodoxy of Calvinism and the
rationalism of the Unitarian Church, developing
instead their own faith centering on the
divinity of humanity and the natural world.
Transcendentalism derived some of its basic
idealistic concepts from romantic
German
philosophy, and from such English authors as
Coleridge and Wordsworth.
Its mystical aspects
were partly influenced by Indian and Chinese
religious
teachings. Although
Transcendentalism was never a rigorously
systematic
philosophy, it had some basic
tenets that were generally shared by its
adherents.
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The
beliefs that God is immanent in each person and in
nature and that individual
intuition is the
highest source of knowledge led to an optimistic
emphasis on
individualism, self-reliance, and
rejection of traditional authority. The ideas of
Transcendentalism were most eloquently
expressed by Ralph waldo Emerson in
such
essays as Nature, and by Henry David Thoreau in
his book Walden.
超验主义是从1836至1860于新英格兰发起的一场文学,哲
学以及艺术运动.即浪漫主义的
顶点.由于一小群知识分子反对加尔文教派和唯一神论教派理性的形式主
义,他们从而提出人
与自然的神圣这一信念.超验主义受到德国浪漫主义哲学以及英国浪漫主义作家柯勒
律治和
沃兹华斯的影响,还在一定程度上受到东方古典哲学和宗教的影响.尽管超验主义思想并不能算是严格意义上的哲学, 但是它还是有一些基本原则的.超验主义者认为人人都有内在的神
性,只
有通过接触自然才能使神性与人的天性相互融合.从而超验主义十分强调个人主义,自
立,拒绝传统权威
思想.超验主义思想在爱默生的<论自然> 和梭罗的<瓦尔登湖>等书中表
现得淋漓尽致.
18. the Age of Realism(现实主义时期)
1).Realism
was a reaction against Romanticism and paved the
way to Modernism;
2).During this period a new
generation of writers, dissatisfied with the
Romantic
ideas in the older generation, came
up with a new inspiration. This new attitude was
characterized by a great interest in the
realities of life. It aimed at the interpretation
of the realities of any aspect of life, free
from subjective prejudice, idealism, or
romantic color. Instead of thinking about the
mysteries of life and death and heroic
individualism, people’s attention was now
directed to the interesting features of
everyday existence, to what was brutal or
sordid, and to the open portrayal of class
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struggle;
3) so
writers began to describe the integrity of human
characters reacting under
various
circumstances and picture the pioneers of the far
west, the new immigrants
and the struggles of
the working class;
4) Mark Twain Howells and
Henry James are three leading figures of the
American
Realism.
19. American
Naturalism(美国自然主义文学)
The American naturalists
accepted the more negative interpretation of
Darwin’s
evolutionary theory and used it to
accout for the behavior of those characters in
literary works who were regarded as more or
less complex combinations of
inherited
attributes, their habits conditioned by social and
economic forces.2)
naturalism is evolved from
realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes
less
serious and less sympathetic but more
ironic and more pessimistic. It is no more
than a gloomy philosophical approach to
reality, or to human existence.3>Dreiser is
a
leading figure of his school.
20.
Naturalism(自然主义)
Naturalism is a literary
movement related to and sometimes described as an
extreme form of realism but which may be more
appropriately considered as a
parallel to
philosophic Naturalism. 2) as a more deliberate
kind of realism
Naturalism usually involves a
view of human beings as passive victims of natural
forces and social environment. In Naturalism a
more documentary-like approach is
in evidence,
with a great stress on how environment and
heredity shape people. 3)
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As a literary movement, Naturalism was
initiated in France. 4) Naturalist fiction
aspired to a sociological objectivity,
offering detailed and fully researched
investigations into unexplored concerns of
modern society.
21. Local Colorism(乡土文学)
1>Generally speaking, the writings of local
colorists are concerned with the life of a
small, well-defined region or province. The
characteristic setting is the isolated
small
town.
2) Local colorists were consciously
nostalgic historians of a vanishing way of life,
recorders of a present that faded before their
eyes. Yet for all their sentimentality,
they
dedicated themselves to minutely accurate
descriptions of the life of their
regions,
they worked from personal experience to record the
facts of a local
environment and suggested
that the native life was shaped by the curious
conditions of the local.
3) major local
colorists is Mark Twain.
22. Imagism(意象主义)
1>Imagism came into being in Britain and U.S
around 1910 as a reaction to the
traditional
English poetry to express the sense of
fragmentation and dislocation.
2>the imagists,
with Ezra Pound leading the way, hold that the
most effective
means to express these
momentary impressions is through the use of one
dominant image.
3>imagism is characterized
by the following three poetic principles:A. direct
treatment of subject matter;B. economy of
expression;C. as regards rhythm, to
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compose in the sequence of the
musical phrase, not in the sequence of
metronome.
4> pound’s In a Station of the
Metro is a well-known imagist poem.
23. The
Lost Generation(迷惘的一代)
1>The lost generation
is a term first used by Stein to describe the
post-war I
generation of American writers: men
and women haunted by a sense of betrayal
and
emptiness brought about by the destructiveness of
the war.
2>full of youthful idealism, these
individuals sought the meaning of life, drank
excessively, had love affairs and created some
of the finest American literature to
date.
3>the three best-known representatives of lost
generation are F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Hemingway
and John dos Passos.
24. Expressionism(表现主义)
1>Expressionism refers to a movement in
Germany early in the 20th century. In
which a
number of painters sought to avoid the
representation of external reality
and
,instead, to project a highly personal or
subjective vision of the world.
2>
expressionism is a reaction against realism or
naturalism, aiming at presenting a
post-war
world violently distorted.
3> in a further
sense, the term is sometimes applied to the belief
that literary works
are essentially
expressions of their authors’ moods and thoughts;
this has been the
dominant assumption about
literature since the rise of romanticism.
25.
The Beat Generation(垮掉的一代)
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1>The members of The Beat
Generation were new bohemian libertines, who
engaged in a spontaneous, sometimes messy,
creativity.
2> The Beat writers produced a
body of written work controversial both for its
advocacy of non-conformity and for its non-
conforming style.
3> the major beat writings
are Allen Ginsberg’s Howl. Howl became the
manifesto
of The Beat Generation.
26. Jazz
Age(爵士时代)
The Jazz Age describes the period of
the 1920s and 1930s, the years between World
War I and World War II. Particularly in North
America. With the rise of the great
depression, the values of this age saw much
decline. Perhaps the most
representative
literary work of the age is American writer
Fitzgerald’s The Great
Gatsby. Highlighting
what some describe as the decadence and hedonism,
as well
as the growth of individualism.
Fitzgerald is largely credited with coining the
term”
Jazz Age”.
27. Surrealism(超现实主义)
An anti-rational movement of imaginative
liberation in European in art and
literature
in the 1920s and 1930s, which launched by Andre
Breton after his break
from the Dada group in
1922. Surrealism seeks to break down the
boundaries
between rationality and
irrationality, exploring the resources and
revolutionary
energies of dreams,
hallucinations and sexual desire. Influenced both
by the
symbolists and by Sigmund Freud’s
theories of the unconscious, the surrealists
experimented with automatic writing and with
the free association of random
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images brought in surprising
juxtaposition.
超现实主义是20世纪20年代和30年代在欧洲文艺和文学界发起的
一场反对理性提倡思想
解放的运动.这场运动由安德烈.布里多尼和达达派决裂后发起.超现实主义试图
打破理性和
非理性之间的界限.探讨梦.幻觉以及性欲的源头和动力.由于受到象征主义和弗洛伊德无意
思理论的影响,超现实主义将自由联想和自由写作以不可思议的形式并置合并在一起.
28.
Metaphysical poets(玄学派诗人)
It is the name given
to a diverse group of 17th century English poets
whose work is
notable for its ingenious use of
intellectual and theological concepts in
surprising
conceits, strange paradoxes and
far-fetched imagery. The leading Metaphysical
poet was John Donne, whose colloquial,
argumentative abruptness of rhythm and
tone
distinguishes his style from the conventions of
Elizabethan love lyrics.
29. New
Criticism(新批评主义)
New Criticism is a movement
in American literary criticism from the 1930s to
the
1960s, concentrating on the verbal
complexities and ambiguities of short poems
considered as self-sufficient objects without
attention to their origins or effects.
The
name comes from John Chrisom’s book The New
Criticism.
30. Feminism(女权主义)
1> Feminism
incorporates both a doctrine of equal rights for
women and an
ideology of social transformation
aiming to create a world for women beyond
simple social equality.
2>in general,
feminism is ideology of women’s liberation based
on the belief that
women suffer injustice
because of their sex. Under this broad umbrella
various
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feminisms
offer differing analyses of the causes, or agents,
of female oppression.
3> definitions of
feminism by feminists tend to be shaped by their
training,
ideology or race. So, for example,
Marxist and socialist feminists stress the
interaction within feminism of class with
gender and focus on social distinctions
between men and women. Black feminists argue
much more for an integrated
analysis which can
unlock the multiple systems of oppression.
31.
Hemingway Code Hero(海明威式英雄)
1>Hemingway Code
Hero, also called code hero, is one who, wounded
but strong
more sensitive, enjoys the
pleasures of life (sex, alcohol, sport) in face of
ruin and
death, and maintains, through some
notion of a code, an ideal of himself.
2>
barns in the sun also Rises, Henry in a Farewell
to arms and Santiago in the old
man and the
sea are typical of Hemingway Code Hero
32.
Impressionism(印象主义)
Impressionism is a style
of painting that gives the impression made by the
subject
on the artist without much attention
to details. Writers accepted the same
conviction that the personal attitudes and
moods of the writer were legitimate
elements
in depicting character or setting or
action.2>briefly, it is a style of
literature
characterized by the creation of general
impressions and moods rather
that realistic
mood.
33. Postmodernism(后现代主义)
It is a
disputed term that has occupied much recent debate
about contemporary
culture since the early
1980s. in its simplest and least satisfactory
sense it refers
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generally to the phase of 20th century western
culture that succeeded the reign of
hign
modernism, thus indicating the products of the
“space age” after some time in
the 1950s. More
often, though it is applied to a cultural
condition prevailing in the
advanced
capitalist societies since the 1960s,
characterized by a superabundance of
disconnected images and styles. In this sense,
post modernity is said to be a culture
of
fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia,
disposable simulacra, and
promiscuous
superficiality, in which the traditionally valued
qualities of depth,
coherence, meaning
originality and authenticity are evacuated or
dissolved amid
the random swirl of empty
signals.
这个具有争议的名字概念是从20世纪80年代早期开始应用于近几十年的现代文化
领域.最
简单也最难说服人的说法是后现代主义是20世纪西方文明继高度现代主义之后的一个阶段.<
br>后现代主义是50年代太空时代的产物.通常它被用来解释自60年代起先进资本主义社会主
要的
社会文化现象.从这个意义上说.后现代主义被认为是片断构建的编织.折衷的怀旧主义,
滥用的仿物以
及混杂的浅浮,而传统所强调的深度.连贯.意义的原创性,真实性都在空洞信号
的随意泛滥中消失瓦解
.
34. Confessional poetry(自白派诗歌)
It is an
autobiographical mode of verse that reveals the
poet’s personal problems
with unusual
frankness. The term is usually applied to certain
poets of the United
states from the late 1950s
to the late 1960s, notably Robert Lowell. The
term’s
distinctive sense depends on the candid
examination of what were at the time of
writing virtually unmentionable kinds of
private distress. The genuine strengths of
confessional poets, combined with the pity
evoked by their high suicide rate,
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encouraged in the reading public
a romantic confusion between poetic excellence
and inner torment.
自白诗歌是一种自传体诗歌.诗歌主要用不寻常的坦
白展示诗人的个人内心问题.自白诗歌是
指50年代后期到60年代后期出现的诗人.特别是罗伯特.洛
厄尔.此概念有时在广义上指任
何个人或自传的诗歌,但自白诗歌最明显的特征,是坦诚揭露写作时的所
思所想,个人心里忧
伤的流露.自白派诗人杰出的文学才华和他们由于痛苦而引起的高自杀率,以及诗歌
中处处流
露着痛苦,迷茫,悲观,隐晦的气氛,让读者们阅读时产生一种诗歌精妙和内心痛苦的迷茫感.
35. The New York School(纽约派)
The New York
School was an informal group of American poets and
painters active
in 1950s New York City,
critics argued that their work was a reaction to
the
confessional’s movement in contemporary
poetry. Their poetic subject matter was
often
light, violent, or observational, while their
writing style was often described as
cosmopolitan and world-traveled. the poets
often drew inspiration from surrealism
and the
contemporary avant-garde art movement, in
particular the action painting
of their
friends in the New York City art circle. there are
also commonalities between
the New York School
and the earlier Beat Generation poets active in
1940s and
1950s New York City.
纽约派诗人是50年代活
跃在纽约的美国诗人和画家的非正式群体。评论家认为他们是对同
时代自白派诗歌运动的反抗。他们作品
的主题通常轻快,激烈或者观察入微。他们的写作风
格是全球性的。他们接受了超现实主义和先锋艺术运
动,特别是纽约画界的朋友的影响创作
诗。他们与40,50年代纽约的垮掉一代诗人有一定共同点.
36. The Absurd (荒谬派)
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It is a term derived from the existentialism
of Albert Camus, and often applied to
the
modern sense of human purposelessness in a
universe without meaning or
value. Many 20th
century writers of prose fiction have stressed the
absurd nature of
human existence: notable
instances are the novels and stories of Franz
Kafka, in
which the characters face alarmingly
incomprehensible predicaments.
37. The Black
Mountain Poets(黑山派诗人)
1>The Black Mountain
Poets refer to a group of poets active on the
contemporary
scene, as these people were
either associated with Black Mountain college, or
with
Black Mountain Review, they have become
known as “The Black Mountain Poets”
2> the
leading figure of this school of poetry was
Charles Olson.
38. Realism(现实主义)
Realism
was a loosely used term meaning truth to the
observed facts of life
(especially when they
are gloomy). Realism in literature is an approach
that
attempts to describe life without
idealization or romantic subjectivity.
39.
Meditative Poetry(冥想派诗歌)
40. Allegory(寓言)
1>Allegory is a story told to explain or teach
something. Especially a long and
complicated
story with an underlying meaning different from
the surface meaning
of the story itself.
2>allegorical novels use extended metaphors to
convey moral meanings or attack
certain social
evils. characters in these novels often stand for
different values such
as virtue and vice.
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3>Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s
Progress, Melville’s Moby Dick are such examples.
41. Alliteration(头韵)
1>Alliteration means
a repetition of the initial sounds of several
words in a line or
group.
2>alliteration
is a traditional poetic device in English
literature.
3>Robert Frost’s Acquainted with
the Night is a case in point:” I have stood still
and
stopped the sound of feet”
42.
Ballad(民谣)
1>Ballad is a story in poetic from
to be sung or recited. in more exact literary
terminology, a ballad is a narrative poem
consisting of quatrains of iambic
tetrameter
alternating with iambic
trimester.(抑扬格四音步与抑扬格三音步诗行交替出
现的四行叙事诗)
2>.ballads were passed down from generation to
generation. 3>Coleridge’s The
Rime of the
Ancient Mariner is a 19th century English ballad.
43. epic(史诗)
1>Epic, in poetry, refers to
a long work dealing with the actions of goods and
heroes.
2>Epic poems are not merely
entertaining stories of legendary or historical
heroes;
they summarize and express the nature
or ideals of an entire nation at a significant
or crucial period of its history.
3>Beowulf is the greatest national Epic of
the Anglo-Saxons.
44. Lay(短叙事诗)
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It is a short poem, usually a
romantic narrative, intended to be sung or recited
by a
minstrel.
45. Romance(传奇)
1>Romance is a popular literary form in the
medic England.
2>it sings knightly adventures
or other heroic deeds.
3> chivalry is the
spirit of the romance.
46. Alexandrine(亚历山大诗行)
1>The name is derived from the fact that
certain 12th and 13th century French
poems on
Alexander the Great were written in this meter.
2>it is an iambic line of six feet, which is
the French heroic verse.
47. Blank
Verse(无韵诗或素体广义地说)
Blank verse is unrhymed
poetry. Typically in iambic pentameter, and as
such, the
dominant verse forms of English
dramatic and narrative poetry since the mid-16th
century.
48. Comedy(喜剧)
Comedy is a
light form of drama that aims primarily to amuse
and that ends happily.
Since it strives to
provoke smile and laughter, both wit and humor are
utilized. In
general, the comic effect arises
from recognition of some incongruity of speech,
action, or character revelation, with
intricate plot.
49. Essay(随笔)
The term
refers to literary composition devoted to the
presentation of the writer’s
own ideas on a
topic and generally addressing a particular aspect
of the subject.
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Often
brief in scope and informal in style, the essay
differs from such formal forms
as the thesis,
dissertation or treatise.
50. Euphuistic
style(绮丽体)
Its principle characteristics are
the excessive use of antithesis, which is pursued
regardless of sense, and emphasized by
alliteration and other devices; and of
allusions to historical and mythological
personages and to natural history drawn
from
such writers as Plutarch(普卢塔克), Pliny(普林尼), and
Erasmus(伊拉兹马斯).2> it
is the peculiar style of
Euphues(优浮绮斯)
51. History Plays(历史剧)
History plays aim to present some historical
age or character, and may be either a
comedy
or a tragedy. They almost tell stories about the
nobles, the true people in
history, but not
ordinary people. the principle idea of
Shakespeare’s history plays is
the necessity
for national unity under a mighty and just
sovereign.
52. Masques or Masks(假面剧)
Masques (or Masks) refer to the dramatic
entertainments involving dances and
disguises,
in which the spectacular and musical elements
predominated over plot
and character. As they
were usually performed at court, often at very
great expense,
many have political overtones.
53. Morality plays(道德剧)
A kind of medic
and early Renaissance drama that presents the
conflict between
the good and evil through
allegorical characters. The characters tend to be
personified abstractions of vices and virtues,
which can be named as Mercy.
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Conscience, etc. unlike a mystery
or a miracle play, morality play does not
necessarily use Biblical or strictly religious
material because it takes place internally
and
psychologically in every human being.
(十四行诗)
1>It is a lyric poem of 14 lines with a formal
or recited and characterized by its
presentation of a dramatic or exciting episode
in simple narrative form.
2>it is one of the
most conventional and influential forms of poetry
in Europe.
3>Shakespeare’s sonnets are well-
known.
55. Spenserian Stanza(斯宾塞诗节)
Spenserian Stanza is the creation of Edmund
spenser.2>it refers to a stanza of nine
lines,
with the first eight lines in iambic
pentameter(五音步抑扬格) and the last line
in iambic
hexameter(六音步抑扬格),rhyming ababbcbcc. 3> Spenser’s
the Faerie
Queen was written in this kind of
stanza.
56. Stanza(诗节)
Stanza is a group
of lines of poetry, usually four or more, arranged
according to a
fixed plan.2>the stanza is the
unit of structure in a poem and poets do not vary
the
unit within a poem.
57. Three
Unities(三一原则)
1>Three rules of 16th and 17th
century Italian and French drama, broadly adapted
from Aristotle’s Poetics<诗学>:
2> the unity
of time, which limits a play to a single day; the
unity of place, which
limits a play’s setting
in a single location; and the unity of action,
which limits a play
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to a single story line.
58. Tragedy(悲剧)
In general, a literary work in which the
protagonist meets an unhappy or disastrous
end. Unlike comedy, tragedy depicts the
actions of a central character who is
usually
dignified or heroic.
t(奇特比喻)
1>Conceit is
a far-fetched simile or metaphor, a literary
conceit occurs when the
speaker compares two
highly dissimilar things.
2>conceit is
extensively employed in John Donne’s poetry.
(格律)
1>
The word”meter” is derived from
the Greek word”metron” meaning”measure”.
2>in
English when applied to poetry, it refers to the
regular pattern of stressed and
unstressed
syllables.
3> the analysis of the meter is
called scansion(格律分析)
61. University
Wits(大学才子)
University Wits refer to a group of
scholars during the Elizabethan Age who
graduated from either oxford or Cambridge.
They came to London with the
ambition to
become professional writers. Some of them later
became famous poets
and playwrights. They were
called” University Wits”
adowing(预兆)
Foreshadowing, the use of hints or clues in a
novel or drama to suggest what will
happen
next. Writers use Foreshadowing to create interest
and to build
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used to
build suspense by providing hints of what is to
come.
63. Soliloquy(独白)
Soliloquy, in
drama, means a moment when a character is alone
and speaks his or
her thoughts aloud..2>the
line “to be, or not to be, that is the question”,
which
begins the famous soliloquy from
Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
ive Poem(叙述诗)
1>Narrative Poem refers to a poem that tells a
story in verse,
2>three traditional types of
narrative poems include ballads, epics, metrical
romances.
3>it may consist of a series of
incidents, as John Milton’s paradise lost.
Hood(罗宾.豪)
1>Robin hood is a legendary hero of
a series of English ballads, some of which date
from at least the 14th century.
2>the
character of Robin Hood is many-sided. Strong,
brave and intelligent, he is at
the same time
tender-hearted and affectionate.
3> the
dominant key in his character is his hatred for
the cruel oppression and his
love for the poor
and downtrodden.4>another feature of Robin’s view
is his
reverence for the king, Robin Hood was
a people’s hero.
66. Beowulf(贝奥武甫)
1>Beowulf, a typical example of old English
poetry, is regarded as the greatest
national
epic of t he Anglo-Saxons.
2> the epic
describes the exploits of a Scandinavian hero,
Beowulf, in fighting
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against the monster Grendel, his revengeful
nother, and a fire-breathing dragon in
his
declining years. While fight against the dragon,
Beowulf was mortally wounded,
however, he
killed the dragon at the cost of his life, Beowulf
is shown not only as a
glorious hero but also
as a protector of the people.
67.
Baroque(巴罗克式风格)
This is originally a term of
abuse applied to 17th century Italian art and that
of other
countries. It is characterized by the
unclassical use of classical forms, in a literary
context; it is loosely used to describe highly
ornamented verse or prose, abounding
in
extravagant conceits.
这原本是用来指17世纪的意大利艺术和其他国家艺术
滥用的一个术语.这种风格主要是指
对古典形式的非古典运用.在文学领域,这种风格松散地用来指十分
雕饰的,大量运用奇思妙
想的诗歌或散文.
68. Cavalier
poets(骑士派诗人)
A name given to supporters of
Charles I in the civil war. These poets were not a
formal group, but all influenced by Ben Jonson
and like him paid little attention to
the
sonnet. Their lyrics are distinguished by short
lines, precise but idiomatic
diction, and an
urbane and graceful wit.
69. Elegy(挽歌)
Elegy has typically been used to refer to
reflective poems that lament the loss of
something or someone, and characterized by
their metrical form.
70. Restoration
Comedy(复辟时期喜剧)
Restoration Comedy, also the
comedy of manners, developed upon the reopening
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of the theatres after
the re-establishment of monarchy with the return
of Charles II..
Its predominant tone was
witty, bawdy, cynical, and amoral. Standard
characters
include fops, bawds, scheming
valets, country squires, and sexually voracious
young widows and older women. The principle
theme is sexual intrigue, either for
its own
sake or for money.
复辟时期的喜剧,又称社会习俗讽刺喜剧,是在查理二世君主
复辟后剧院重新开业的基础上发
展起来的,其主要的基调是诙谐,淫秽,挖苦和非道德.标准的角色包括
花花公子,鸨母,诡计多端
的仆人,乡绅,性欲旺盛的年轻寡妇和老女人.主要的主题是奸情,有的是为
了性,有的是为了钱.
71. Action(情节)
A real or
fictional event or series of such events
comprising the subject of a novel,
story,
narrative poem, or a play, especially in the sense
of what the characters do in
such a narrative.
72. Adventure novel(探险小说)
The adventure
novel is a literary genry that has adventure, an
exciting undertaking
involving risk and
physical danger, as its main theme, in which
exciting events and
fast paced actions are
more important than character development, theme,
or
symbolism.
73. Archaism(古语)
A word,
expression, spelling, or phrase that is out of
date in the common speech of
an era, but still
deliberately used by writer, poet, or playwright
for artistic purposes.
74. Atmosphere(基调)
The prevailing mood or feeling of a literary
work. Atmosphere is often developed,
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at least in part, through
descriptions of setting. Such descriptions help to
create an
emotional climate for the werrors to
establish the reader’s expectations and
attitudes.
75. Didactic literature(说教文学)
Didactic literature is said to be didactic if
it deliberately teaches some moral lesson,
the
use of literature for such teaching is one of its
traditional justifications.2>most
modern
literary works during the enlightenment period
tended to be didactic.
76. Epigram(警句)
A
short, witty, pointed statement often in the form
of a poem.
77. Farce(闹剧)
Farce refers to a
play full of ridiculous happenings, absurd
actions, and unreal
situations, meant to be
very funny.
78. The Heroic Couplet(英雄对偶句)
The Heroic Couplet means a pair of lines of a
type once common in English poetry,
in other
words, it means iambic pentameter rhymed in two
lines.
79. Satire(讽刺)
1>Satire means a
kind of writing that holds up to ridicule or
contempt the
weakness and wrongdoings of
individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in
general.
2> the aim of satirists is to set
a moral standard for society, and they attempt to
persuade the reader to see their point of view
through the force of laughter.
3> Swift’s
Gulliver’s Travels is a great satire of the
English society from different
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aspects.
80.
Sentimentalism(感伤主义文学)
1>Sentimentalism is a
pejorative term to describe false or superficial
emotion,
assumed feeling, self-regarding
postures of grief and pain,
2> in literature
it denotes overmuch use of pathetic effects and
attempts to arouse
feeling by “pathetic”
indulgence.
81. Aside(旁白)
1>Aside refers
to words spoken by an actor which the other actors
are supposed no
to hear,
2> an actor’s
asides are usually spoken to the
audience.3>Hamlet’s very first line is
an
aside.
ment(戏剧结局)
Denouement, pronounced
Dee-noo-na, is that part of a drama which follows
the
climax and leads to the resolution.
e(寓言)
A parable is a very short narrative
about human beings presented so as to stress
the tacit analogy, or parallel, with a general
thesis or lesson that the narrator is
trying
to bring home to his audience.
84.
Genre(流派)
A type or category of literature
marked by certain shared features or customs. The
three broadest categories of genre include
poetry, drama, and fiction.
85. Irony(反讽)
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1>It refers to some
contrast or discrepancy between appearance and
reality. It is a
discrepancy between what is
expected and what is revealed. It may be found
either
in language usage or in the working out
of the action of a story.
2> surprise endings
always depend on some sort of irony, often crude.
Irony may
appear in the difference between a
character’s understanding of his or her situation
and the reader’s estimate of it .
(抒情诗)
1>Lyric is a short poem wherein the poet
expresses an emotion or illustrates some
life
principle.
2>Lyric often concerns love.
3>the elegy, ode and sonnet are all forms of
the lyric.
87. Mock Epic(诙谐史诗)
A mock epic
is a long poem that burlesques the classical epic
by treating a trivial
subject in the lofty
style. The poet often takes an elevated style of
language, but
incongruously applies that
language to mundane or ridiculous objects and
situations. Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the
Lock is perhaps the finest mock epic
poem in
English.
88. Ode(颂歌)
1>Ode is a
dignified and elaborately structured lyric poem of
some length, praising
and glorifying an
individual, commemorating an event, or describing
nature
intellectually rather than emotionally.
2> John Keats wrote great Odes, his Ode on a
Grecian Urn is a case in point.
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89. Picaresque Novel(流浪汉小说)
A
humorous novel in which the plot consists of a
young knave’s adventures and
escapades
narrated in comic or satiric scenes. The
picaresque novel is usually in
nature and
realistic in its presentation of the all around
aspects of society.
90. Pastoral(田园诗)
A
literary work dealing with and often celebrating a
rural world and a way of life
lived close to
nature. It usually idealized shepherds’ lives in
order to create an
image of peaceful and
uncorrupted existence. Typically, pastoral liturgy
depicts
beautiful scenery, carefree shepherds,
seductive nymphs, and rural songs and
dances.
A good example of pastoral poetic conventions
occurs in Marlowe’s The
Passionate Shepherd to
His Love.
Rima(三行诗)
1>Terza Rima is an
Italian verse that consists of a series three-line
stanzas in which
the middle line of each
stanza rhymes with the first and third lines of
the following
stanza with the rhyming scheme a
b a, b c b , c d c, d e d….
2>Shelly’s Ode to
the west wind is a case in point.
92. Ottava
Rima(八行诗)
Ottava Rima is a form of eight-line
iambic stanza rhyming abababcc.2>Byron’s Don
Juan are outstanding examples.
93.
Canto(诗章)
1>Canto is a section of division of
an epic or narrative poem comparable to a
chapter in a novel. 2>the most famous cantos
in literature are those that make up
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century epic.
94. High Comedy(正统喜剧)
High
comedy is a comedy that deals with polite society
and depends more on witty
dialogue and well-
drawn characters that on comic situations.
Poets(湖畔诗人)
In English literature Lake Poets
refer to such romantic poets as William
Wordsworth,
Coleridge and Southey who lived in
the Lake District. They came to be known as the
lake school or Lakers.
96. Imagery(比喻)
A rather vague critical term covering those
uses of language in a literary work that
evoke
sense impressions by literal or figurative
reference to perceptible or
“concrete”
objects, scenes, actions, or state as distinct
from the language of
abstract argument or
expositon.2> the imagery of a literary work thus
comprises
the set of images that it uses,
these need not be mental” pictures” but may appeal
to senses other than sight.
97. Dramatic
monologue(戏剧独白)
Dramatic monologue is a kind
of poem in which a single fictional or historical
character other than the poet speaks to a
silent “audience” of one or more persons.
Such
poems reveal not the poet’s own thoughts but the
mind of the impersonated
character, whose
personality is revealed while the implied presence
of an auditor
distinguishes it from a
soliloquy, have also been called Dramatic
monologue. But to
avoid confusion it is
preferable to refer to these simply as monologues
or as
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monodramas.2>Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess
is a case in point.
98. Pre-Raphaelites(先拉菲尔派)
A mid-19th century self-styled brotherhood of
London artists, all young, who
united to
resist current artistic conventions and to create
,or recreate, art forms in
use before the
period of Raphel.2>the poetry of the Pre-
Raphaelites showed a
distinct liking for
medism, 18th century ballads, archaic diction,
symbolism and
sensuousness. The poets were
considerably under the influence of Spenser.
先
拉菲尔派是19世纪中叶旅居在伦敦的一群年轻艺术家自发组成的兄弟会,他们联合起来
抵制当时的艺术
传统,主张创造或再创造拉菲尔艺术时期之前的艺术形式.先拉菲尔派的诗歌
明显对中世纪艺术,18世
纪歌谣,古老的修辞手法,象征主义及感官享受表示青睐.
99. Psychological
novel(心理小说)
Psychological novel refers to a
kind of novel that dwells on a complex
Psychological
development and presents much of
the narration through the inner workings of the
character’s mind.
of View(叙述角度)
Point
of view can be divided by the narrator’s
relationship with the character,
represented
by the grammatical person: the first-person
narrative, the third-person
narrative, and
omniscient narrator.
101. plot(情节)
Plot
refers to the structure of a story,2> the plot of
a literary work includes the
rising action,
the climax, the falling action and the resolution.
It has a protagonist
who is opposed by an
antagonist ,creating what is called conflict.
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102. Allusion(典故)
Allusion means a reference to a person, a
place, an event, or a literary work that a
writer expects the reader to recognize and
respond to. 2> an Allusion may be
drawn from
history, geography, literature, or religion.
3>allusion is a device that
allows writer to
compress a great deal of meaning into a very few
words.
103. Protagonist and
Antagonist(正面人物与反面人物)
In literary work
protagonist refers to the hero or central
character who is often
hindered by some
opposing force either human or animan. Antagonist
is a person
or force opposing the protagonist
in a narrative; a rival of the hero or heroine.
104. Flashback(倒叙)
1>A device by which the
writer presents scenes or incidents that occurred
prior to
the beginning of a story or play.
2> various devices may be used, among them
recollections of the characters,
narration by
the characters, dream sequence and reveries. This
is a break in the
chronological sequence of a
story made to deal with earlier events.
105.
Narration
1>It is a synonym for story-telling.
2> in fiction, narrative passages are to be
distinguished from descriptions and
scenes, in
narrative passages the chronology is condensed so
that relatively few
words will encompass the
events of an extended period of time. Most writers
use
narrative passages to fill in the links
between events. There were two types of
narration, first-person narration and third-
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Ambiguity means two or more simultaneous
interpretations of a word, phrase,
action, or
situation, all of which can be supported by the
context of a work.2>
deliberate ambiguity can
contribute to the effectiveness and richness of a
work,
however, unintentional ambiguity
obscures meaning and can confuse readers.
107.
Pragmatism(实用主义)
A doctrine which tests truth
by its practical consequences. Truth is therefore
held to
be relative and not attained by
metaphysical speculation.2> it was first
formulated
by and was developed by William
James.
108. Symbolism(象征主义)
Symbolism
works under the surface to tie the story’s
external action to the theme.
It was often
produced through allegory, giving the literal
event and its allegorical
counterpart a one-
to-one correspondence.
109. Dadaism(达达主义)
Dadaism refers to an international nihilistic
movement amone European artists and
writers
that lasted from 1916-1922. it originated in the
widespread disillusionment
engendered by world
war 1. Dada attacked conventional standards of
aesthetics
and behavior and stressed absurdity
and the role of the unpredictable in artistic
creation. Dada principles were eventually
modified to become the basis of
surrealism in
1924.
110. The Angry young men(愤怒的青年)
In
the mid-1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a
group of young novelists and
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playwrights with lower-middle-
class or working-class background, who were
known as “The Angry young men”2> they
demonstrated a particular disillusion
over the
depressing situation in Britain and launched a
bitter protest against the
outmoded social and
political values in their society.3> kingsley Amis
is a leading
figure of this group.
111.
Existentialism(存在主义)
Existentialism is a
philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and
isolation of the
individual experience in a
hostile or indifferent universe, regards human
existence
as unexplainable, and stresses
freedom of choice and responsibility for the
consequences of one’s acts.2>its famous motto
is “existence precedes essence”
(存在先于本质)
112. Anti-hero(反面人物)
1>Anti-hero is a
character who lacks the qualities needed for
heroism.
2>an anti-hero does not posses
nobility of life or mind and does not have an
attitude marked by high purpose and lofty aim.
3>anti-hero typically distrust conventional
values and are unable to commit
themselves to
any ideals. they generally feel helpless in a
world, over which they
have no control. Anti-
heroes usually accept succumb to, and often
celebrate, their
positions as social outcasts.
113. Round Character(丰满的人物)
A Round
Character is complex and undergoes development,
sometimes reaches
the point that the reader is
surprise.
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114. Flat
character(平淡的人物)
Flat character is relatively
uncomplicated and does not change throughout the
course of a literary work.
115. Oedipus
complex(俄狄浦斯情结 蛮母厌父情结)
1>Oedipus complex is a
term coined by Sigmund Freud to designate a son’s
subconscious feeling of love toward his mather
and jealousy and hatred toward his
father.
2>D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and lovers is a case in
point.
ience(无所不知的)
1>The narrator is
capable of knowing, seeing and telling all the
actions of the
character. And the narrator
feels free to make comments on the meaning of
actions.
2> it is characterized by freedom in
shifting from the exterior world to the inner
selves of a number of characters and by a
freedom in movement both in time and
space.
117. Poetry(诗歌)
Poetry is one of the three
types (or genres) of literature. The others being
prose and
drama. Poems are often divided into
lines and stanzas. Many poem emply regular
rhythmical patterns, or meters. However, some
are written in free verse. Most
poems make use
of highly concise, musical, and emotionally
charged language.
118. Rhyme(押韵)
Rhyme is
the repetition of sounds at the ends of words. End
rhyme occurs when
rhyming words appear at the
ends of lines. internal rhyme occurs when rhyming
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words fall within a
line.
119. Iambic pentameter(五音步诗)
Iambic
pentameter is the most common English meter, in
which each foot contains
an unaccented
syllable and an accented syllable.
120. Rhyme
royal
Rhyme royal is a poetic pattern with
seven iambic pentameters rhyming ababbcc
which
pronounce a final short e, and often end in an
11th, unstressed syllable.
121. Shakespearean
sonnet(莎士比亚十四行诗)
Shakespearean sonnet
consisting of three quatrains and a couplet (
rhyming abab
cdcd efef gg).
122. Italian
or petranrchan sonnet(意大利十四行诗)
Italian or
petranrchan sonnet, composed of an octave and s
sestet( rhyming
abbaabba cdecde).
123.
Alliteration and assonance(头韵和半韵)
Alliteration
and assonance are said to rhyme only today when
the sound of the final
accented syllable of
one word( paced usually at the end of a line of
verse) agrees
with the final accented syllable
of another word so place.
124. Poetic
license(诗的破格)
Poetic license means such
liberties a poet adopts as “approximate rhymes”,
or
“eye-rhymes”. (Words which are spelled
alike but not pronounced alike)
125.
Epiphany(主显节?)
Epiphany is an appearance or
perception of the essential nature or meaning of
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something, which is
adapted by James Joyce to describe the sudden
revelation of
whatness of a thing, the moment
in which the soul of the commonest object seems
to us radiant.
126. Psychological
penetration(心理透视)
Psychological penetration is
a writing device that involves such psychological
elements as “Id”, “ego”, “superego” in the
depiction of characters’ inner thinking or
mental activities.
127. Legend(传说)
Legend is a widely told story about the past
that may or may not be based in fact. A
legend
often reflects a people’s identity or cultural
values, generally with more
historical and
less emphasis on the supernatural things in a
myth.
128. Myth(神话)
Myth is a fictional
tale originally with religious significance, which
explains the
actions of gods or heroes, the
causes of natural phenomena, or both. Allusions to
characters and motifs from Greek, Roman,
Celtic myths are common in English
literature.
129. Pessimism(悲观主义)
Pessimism denotes an
attitude of hopelessness towards life, a vague
general
opinion that pain and evil predominate
in human affairs.
130. Jacobean age(英王詹姆斯一世时期)
Referring to the reign of King James I of
England, the term came from the Latin
form of
James, Jacobus. It is generally applied to the
literature(especially drama) of
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that period.
131.
Tragicomedy(悲喜剧)
Tragicomedy is a play in
which the action, though apparently leading to a
catastrophe, is reversed to bring about a
happy ending.2> the typical tragicomedy
concerns noble characters involved in
improbable situations. Love, frequently seen
as a contrast of the pure and the sensual, is
the central motive of the elaborate plot,
in
which both hero and heroine are rescued from
imminent disaster so that the play
may
conclude happily.
132. Comedy of manners(风俗喜剧)
Popular during the Restoration period, these
plays are concerned with the manners
and
conventions of an artificial and “highly
sophisticated” society. A hundred years
later,
Goldsmith and Sheridan also wrote plays of the
same nature.
133. Gothic novel(哥特式小说)
1>Gothic novel is a type of romance very
popular late in the 18th century and at
the
beginning of the 19th century.
2> Gothic
novel emphasizes things which are grotesque,
violent, mysterious,
supernatural, desolate
and horrifying.
3> Gothic, originally in the
sense of “medic, not classical”, with its
descriptions of
the dark, irrational side of
human nature, Gothic novel has exerted a great
influence
over the writers of the Romantic
period.
134. Historical novel(历史小说)
A
novel in which the action takes place during a
specific historical well before the
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time of writing,(often one or two
generations before, sometimes several centuries).
And in which some attempt is made to depict
accurately the customs and mentality
of the
period. The central character---real or
imagined--- is usually subject to
divided
loyalties within a larger historic conflict of
which readers know the outcome,
the pioneers
of this genre were Walter Scott and cooper.历史小说指故事
发生在特定
历史时期的一类小说,(通常相隔一代或两代,有时几个世纪),这类小说试图准确描述当时
那个
时期的风俗以及人的思想情况,主人公或虚构或真实,通常被置于历史冲突中,而这个事件的
结局早已为读者所熟知,历史小说的开创者是沃尔特.司格特和库珀.
135.
Unitarianism(上帝一位论)
Unitarianism is, in
general, the form of Christianity that denies the
doctrine of the
trinity. Believing that God
exists only in one person, modern Unitarianism
originated in the period of the protestant
Reformation.
上帝一位论从总体上说是基督教的一派,反对上帝三位一体说,相信上帝只
存在于一个人身上,
现代的上帝一位论起源于新教改革时期.
136.
Calvinism(加尔文主义)
1>Calvinism refers to the
religious teachings of John Calvin and his
followers.
2>Calvin taught that only certain
persons, the elect, were chosen by God to be
saved, and these could be saved only by God’s
grace.
3>Calvinism forms the basis for the
doctrines and practices of the Huguenots,
puritans, Presbyterians, and the reformed
churches.
137. Assonance(类韵)
The
repetition of similar vowel sounds, especially in
poetry. Assonance is often
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employed to please the ear or
emphasize certain sounds.
138. Consonance(和音)
It refers to the repetition of identical or
similar consonants in neighboring words
whose
vowel sounds are different in a line of poetry.
139. Free Verse(自由体诗歌)
1>Free verse means
the rhymed or unrhymed poetry composed without
paying
attention to conventional rules of
meter.
2> free verse was originated by a group
of French poets of the late 19th century.
3>their purpose was to free themselves from
the restrictions of formal metrical
patterns
and to recreate instead the free rhythms of
natural speech.
4>Walt Whitman’s leaves of
grass is, perhaps, the most notable example.
(象征)
Symbol means an act ,a person, a
thing, or a spectacle that stands for something
else, usually something less palpable than the
named symbol.2>the relationship
between the
symbol and its referent is not often one of simple
equivalence.
Allegorical symbols usually
express a neater equivalence with what they stand
for
than the symbols found in modern realistic
fiction.
141. Theme(主题)
1>Theme means t he
unifying point or general idea of a literary work.
2>it provides an answer to such question as
“what is the work about”
3>each literary work
carries its own theme or themes.
142. First-
person narrative(第一人称小说)
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First person narrative is also called first
person point of view. Which is used in the
analysis and criticism of fiction of describe
the way in which the writer presents the
reader with the materials of the story.
143. Harlem Renaissance(哈姆莱复兴)
1>Harlem
Renaissance refers to a period of outstanding
literary vigor and creativity
that occurred in
the United states during the 1920s.
2> the
Harlem Renaissance changed the images of
literature created by many black
and white
American writers. New black images were no longer
obedient and docile.
Instead they showed a new
confidence and racial pride.
3> the center of
this movement was the vast black ghetto of
Harlem. In New York
City.
4> the leading
figures are Langston Hughes, James W. Johnson、etc
144. Black humor(黑色幽默)
1>Black humor is
also known as black comedy. It is a kind of
writing that places
grotesque elements side by
side with humorous ones in an attempt to shock the
reader, forcing him or her to laugh at the
horrifying reality of a disordered world. it
is humor out of despair and laughter out of
tears.
2> black humor conveys anguish and fury
at conditions in which institutionalized
absurdity gets the upper hand. It intends to
satirize hypocrisy, materialism, racial
prejudice, and above all, the dehumanization
of the individual by a modern society.
Black
humor prevails in Modern American literature.
145. Theatre of the Absurd(荒谬剧)
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1>The absurd is a kind of drama
that explains an existential ideology and presents
a view of the absurdity of the human condition
by the abandoning of usual or
rational devices
and the use of nonrealistic form.
2>the most
original playwright of the theater of absurd is
Samuel beckett, who
wrote about human beings
living a meaningless life in a alien, decaying
world.
146. Darwinism(达尔文主义)
1>Darwinism
is a term that comes from Charles Darwin’s
evolutionary theory.
2> Darwinists think that
those who survive in the world are the fittest and
those
who fail to adapt themselves to the
environment will perish. They believe that man
has evolved from lower forms of life. Humans
are special not because God created
them in
his image. But because they have successfully
adapted to changing
genetically.
3>
influenced by this theory, some American
naturalist writers apply Darwinism as
an
explanation of human nature and social reality.
147. American Dream(美国梦)
1>American Dream
refers to the dream of material success. In which
one,
regardless of social status, acquires
wealth and gains success by working hard and
good luck.
2> in literature, the theme of
American Dream recurs in The Great Gatsby comes
from the west to the east with the dream of
material success. the novel tells the
shattering of American Dream rather than its
success.
148. Anti-novel(反小说)
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1>A term coined by French critic
J.P. Sartre. It refers to any experimental work of
fiction that avoids certain traditional
elements of novel-writing like the analysis of
characters’ states of mind.
2> the anti-
novel usually fragments and distorts the
experience of its characters,
forcing the
reader to construct the reality of the story from
a disordered narrative.
ism(漩涡派)
Vorticism
is a short-lived 20th century art movement related
to futurism. Its
members sought to simplify
forms into machinelike angularity.
150.
Metafiction(元小说)
Metafiction, fiction about
fiction; or more especially a kind of fiction that
openly
comments on its own fiction status. The
term is normally used for works that
involve a
significant degree of self-consciousness about
themselves as fictions, in
ways that go beyond
occasional apologetic addresses to the reader. A
notable
modern example is john fowler’s The
French lieutenant’s woman, in which fowles
interrupts the narrative to explain his
procedures, and offers the reader alternative
endings.元小说就是关于小说的小说,即小说公开开它自身的文学地位.它既沿用小说这种体
裁
的现实主义原则,同时又竭力破坏这些原则,它以彻底的自我观照形式,关注小说自身的虚
构和纪实的过
程而非其结果.著名的现代例子是约翰.福尔斯的<法国中尉的女人>,在这部小
说中福尔斯就打破了小
说叙事.其间穿插解释他的写作过程,让读者选择不同的结局.
151. Parody(滑稽模仿)
It is a mocking imitation of the style of a
literary work or works, ridiculing the
stylistic habits of an author or school by
exaggerated mimicry, parody is related to
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burlesque in its
application of serious styles to ridiculous
subjects, to satire in its
punishment of
eccentricities, and even to criticism in its
analysis of style. In English,
two of the
leading parodists are Henry Fielding and James Joy
ce.是指文学作品中以讽
刺嘲笑为目的的模仿,通过夸张的模仿来讽刺某个作家或流派的写作风格,戏
讽常用一种严
肃的风格来描述一个滑稽的主题,以它的古怪来进行讽刺。甚至是通过风格分析批评来进行
讽刺,英语文学中主要的讽刺作家是菲尔丁和乔伊斯.
152. Magic
realism(魔幻现实主义)
It is a kind of modern fiction
in which fabulous and fantastical events are
included
in a narrative that otherwise
maintains the “reliable” tone of objective
realistic
report. the term has been extended
to works from very different cultures,
designating a tendency of the modern novel to
reach beyond the confines of
realism and draw
upon the energies of fable, folktale and myth
while retaining a
strong contemporary social
relevance.
153. Analogy(类比)
(a figure of
speech) A comparison made between tow things to
show the
similarities between them. Analogies
are often used for illustration or for argument.
154. Anapest(抑抑扬格)
It’s made up of two
unstressed and one stressed syllables, with the
two unstressed
ones in front.
155.
Antagonist(次要人物)
A person or force opposing
the protagonist in a narrative; a rival of the
hero or
heroine.
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156. Antithesis(对立)
(a figure of speech)
The balancing of two contrasting ideas, words
phrases, or
sentences. An antithesis is often
expressed in a balanced sentence, that is, a
sentence in which identical or similar
grammatical structure is used to express
contrasting ideas.
157. Aphorism(格言)
A
concise, pointed statement expressing a wise or
clever observation about life.
158.
Apostrophe(顿呼法)
A figure of speech in which an
absent or a dead person, an abstract quality, or
something nonhuman is addressed directly.
159. Argument(论据)
A form of discourse in
which reason is used to influence or change
people’s idea or
actions. Writers practice
argument most often when writing nonfiction,
particularly
essays or speeches.
160.
Autobiography(自传)
A person’s account of his or
her own life. An autobiography is generally
written in
narrative form and includes some
introspection.
161. Ballad stanza(歌谣段)
A
type of four-line stanza. The first and third
lines have four stressed words or
syllables;
the second and fourth lines have three stresses.
Ballad meter is usually
iambic. The number of
unstressed syllables in each line may vary. The
second and
fourth lines rhyme.
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162. Biography(传记)
A detailed
account of a person’s life written by another
person.
163. Caesura(诗间休止)
A break or
pause in a line of poetry.
164. Caricature(漫画)
The use of exaggeration or distortion to make
a figure appear comic or ridiculous.
A
physical characteristic, an eccentricity, a
personality trait, or an act may be
exaggerated.
165. Character(人物)
In
appreciating a short story, characters are an
indispensable element. Characters
are the
persons presented in a dramatic or narrative work.
Forst divides characters
into two types: flat
character, which is presented without much
individualizing
detail; and round character,
which is complex in temperament and motivation and
is represented with subtle particularity.
166. Characterization(性格描绘)
The means by
which a writer reveals that personality.
167.
Climax(高潮)
The point of greatest intensity,
interest, or suspense in a gadgetry’s turning
point.
The action leading to the climax and
the simultaneous increase of tension in the
plot are known as the rising action. All
action after the climax is referred to as the
falling action, or resolution. The term crisis
is sometimes used interchangeably with
climax.
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168. Conflict(冲突)
A struggle between two opposing forces or
characters in a short story, novel, play,
or
narrative poem. Usually the events of the story
are all related to the conflict, and
the
conflict is resolved in some way by the story’s
end.
169. Connotation(隐含意义)
All the
emotions and associations that a word or phrase
may arouse. Connotation is
distinct from
denotation, which is the literal or “ dictionary”
meaning of a word or
phrase.
170.
Couplet(对偶)
Two consecutive lines of poetry
that rhyme. A heroic couplet is an iambic
pentameter couplet.
171. Dactyl(扬抑抑格)
It’s made up of one stressed and two
unstressed syllables, with the stressed in
front.
172. Denotation(意义)
The literal
or “dictionary” meaning of a word.
173.
Denouement(结局)
The outcome of a plot. The
denouement is that part of a play, short story,
novel, or
narrative poem in which conflicts
are resolved or unraveled, and mysteries and
secrets connected with the plot are explained.
174. Description(叙述)
It is a great part of
conversation and of almost all writing. It is a
part of
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autobiography, storytelling. With description,
the writer tries terror, feel, and hear
by
showing rather than by merely telling. It’s
through the use of specific details and
concrete language that abstract ideas and
half-formed thoughts are make vividly
real. We
have objective and subjective description.
175. Diction(措词)
A writer’s choice of
words, particularly for clarity, effectiveness,
and precision.
176. Dissonance(不协和音)
A
harsh or disagreeable combination of sounds;
discord.
177. Emblematic image(象征比喻)
A
verbal picture or figure with a long tradition of
moral or religious meaning
attached to it.
178. Epigraph(题词)
A quotation or motto at
the beginning of a chapter, book, short story, or
poem that
makes some point about the work.
179. Epilogue(收场白)
A short addition or
conclusion at the end of a literary work.
180.
Epitaph(碑文)
An inscription on a gravestone or
a short poem written in memory of someone who
has died.
181. Epithet(称号)
A
descriptive name or phrase used to characterize
someone or something.
182. Exemplum(说教故事)
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A tale, usually
inserted into the text of a sermon that
illustrates a moral principle.
183.
Exposition(解释说明)
1>That part of a narrative or
drama in which important background information is
revealed.
2> It is the kind of writing
that is intended primarily to present information.
Exposition is one of the major forms of
discourse. The most familiar form it takes is
in essays. Exposition is also that part of a
play in which important background
information
is revealed to the audience.
184. Fable(寓言)
A fable is a short story, often with animals
as its characters, which illustrate a moral.
185. Figurative language(比喻语言)
Language
that is not intended to be interpreted in a
literal sense. By appealing to
the
imagination, figurative language provides new ways
of looking at the world.
Figurative language
consists of such figures of speech as hyperbole,
metaphor,
metonymy, oxymoron(矛盾修饰法),
personification, simile, and synecdoche.
186.
Figure of speech(修辞特征)
A word or an expression
that is not meant to be interpreted in a literal
sense. The
most common kinds of figures of
speech—simile, metaphor, personification, and
metonymy—involve a comparison between unlike
things.
187. Foil(衬托)
A character who sets
off another character by contrast.
188.
Foot(脚注)
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It is a
rhythmic unit, a specific combination of stressed
and unstressed syllables.
189. Hyperbole(夸张)
A figure of speech using exaggeration, or
overstatement, for special effect.
190.
Iamb(抑扬格)
It is the most commonly used foot in
English poetry, in which an unstressed syllable
comes first, followed by a stressed syllable.
191. Image(影像)
We usually think with
words, many of our thoughts come to us as pictures
or
imagined sensations in our mind. Such
imagined pictures or sensations are called
images.
192. Incremental repetitio(递增重复)
The repetition of a previous line, or lines
but with a slight variation each time that
advances the narrative stanza by stanza. This
device is commonly used in ballads.
193. In
medias res(中间部分)
A technique of plunging into
the middle of a story and only later using a
flashback
to tell what has happened
previously. In medias res is Latin for “in the
middle of
things”.
194. Inversion(倒置)
The technique of reversing, or inverting, the
normal word order of a sentence.
Writers may
use inversion to create a certain tone or to
emphasize a particular word
or idea. A poet
may invert a line so that it fits into a
particular meter or rhyme
scheme.
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195. Invocation(祈祷)
At the
beginning of an epic (or other poem) a call to a
muse, god, or spirit for
inspiration.
196.
Kenning(代称)
In Old English poetry, an
elaborate phrase that describes persons, things,
or events
in a metaphorical and indirect way.
197. Melodrama(通俗剧)
A drama that has
stereotyped characters, exaggerated emotions, and
a conflict that
pits an all-good hero or
heroine against an all-evil villain. The good
characters
always win and the evil ones are
always punished. Also, each character in a
melodrama had a theme melody, which was played
each time he or she made an
appearance on
stage.
198. Metaphor(暗喻)
A figure of
speech that makes a comparison between two things
that are basically
dissimilar. Unlike simile,
a metaphor does not use a connective word such as
like, as,
or resembles in making the
comparison.
199. Metonymy(转喻)
A figure of
speech in which something very closely associated
with a thing is used
to stand for or suggest
the thing itself.
200. Miracle play(奇迹剧)
A
popular religious drama of media England. Miracle
plays were based on stories of
the saints or
on sacred history.
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201. Motif(主题)
A recurring feature (such
as a name, an image, or a phrase) in a work of
literature. A
motif generally contributes in
some way to the theme of a short story, novel,
poem,
or play. At times, motif is used to
refer to some commonly used plot or character
type in literature.
202. Motivation(动机)
The reasons, either stated or implied, for a
character’s behavior. To make a story
believable, a writer must provide characters
with motivation sufficient to explain
what
they do. Characters may be motivated by outside
events, or they may be
motivated by inner
needs or fears.
203. Multiple Point of
View(多视角)
It is one of the literary techniques
William Faulkner used, which shows within the
same story how the characters reacted
differently to the same person or the same
situation. The use of this technique gave the
story a circular form wherein one event
was
the center, with various points of view radiating
from it. The multiple points of
view technique
makes the reader recognize the difficulty of
arriving at a true
judgment.
204.
Narrator(叙述者)
One who narrates, or tells, a
story. A story may be told by a first-person
narrator,
someone who is either a major or
minor character in the story. Or a story may be
told by a third-person narrator, someone who
is not in the story at all. The word
narrator
can also refer to a character in a drama who
guides the audience through
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the play, often commenting on the
action and sometimes participating in it.
205.
Nonet
the nine-line stanza. Spenserian stanza:
ababbcbcc.
206. Nonfiction(写实文学)
It refers
to any prose narrative that tells about things as
the actually happened or
that presents factual
information about something. The purpose of this
kind of
writing is to give a presumably
accurate accounting of a person’s life. Writers of
nonfiction use the major forms of discourse:
description (an impression of the
subject);
narration (the telling of the story); exposition
(explanatory information);
persuasion (an
argument to influence people’s thinking). Forms:
autobiography,
biography, essay, story,
editorial, letters to the editor found in
newspaper, diary,
journal, travel literature.
207. Novel(小说)
A book-length fictional
prose narrative, having may characters and often a
complex
plot.
208. Octave(八行体诗)
the
eight-line stanza. 2 quatrains 2 triplets + 1
couplet.
209. Onomatopoeia(拟声法构词)
The use
of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or
suggests its meaning.
210. Oxymoron(矛盾修辞法)
a figure of speech that combines opposite or
contradictory ideas or terms. An
oxymoron
suggests a paradox, but it does so very briefly,
usually in two or three
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words.
211. Paradox(自相矛盾)
A statement
that reveals a kind of truth, although it seems at
first to be
self-contradictory and untrue.
212. Parallelism(平行)
(a figure of speech)
The use of phrases, clauses, or sentences that are
similar or
complementary in structure or in
meaning. Parallelism is a form of repetition.
213. Pathos(哀婉)
The quality in a work of
literature or art that arouses the reader’s
feelings of pity,
sorrow, or compassion for a
character. The term is usually used to refer to
situations
in which innocent characters suffer
through no fault of their own.
214.
Persuasion(说服)
It’s the type of speaking or
writing that is intended to make its audience
adopt a
certain opinion or perform an action
or do both. Persuasion is one of the major
forms of discourse.
215. Pictorialism(图像)
It’s an important poetic device characterized
by efforts to achieve striking visual
effects.
Among its features are irregularity of line,
contrast or enchantment of light,
color and
image. Other means of pictorialism include
personification, juxtaposition
and the
matching of colors with verbs of action.
216.
Pre-Romanticism(先浪漫主义)
It originated among the
conservative groups of men and letters as a
reaction
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against
Enlightenment and found its most manifest
expression in the “Gothic
novel”. The term
arising from the fact that the greater part of
such romances were
devoted to the medi times.
217. Protagonist(正面人物)
The central
character of a drama, novel, short story, or
narrative poem. The
protagonist is the
character on whom the action centers and with whom
the reader
sympathizes most. Usually the
protagonist strives against an opposing force, or
antagonist , to accomplish something.
218.
Psalm(圣歌)
A song or lyric poem in praise of
God.
219. Psychological Realism(心理现实主义)
It
is the realistic writing that probes deeply into
the complexities of characters’
thoughts and
motivations. Henry James is considered the founder
of psychological
realism. His novel The
Ambassadors is considered to be a masterpiece of
psychological realism.
220. Pun(双关语)
The use of a word or phrase to suggest tow or
more meaning at the same time.
Puns are
generally humorous.
221. Quatrain(四行诗)
Usually a stanza or poem of four lines. A
quatrain may also be any group of four
lines
unified by a rhyme scheme. Quatrains usually
follow an abab, abba, or abcb
rhyme scheme.
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in(五行诗)
the five-
line stanza.
223. Refrain(叠句)
A word
phrase, line or group of lines repeated regularly
in a poem, usually at the
end of each stanza.
Refrains are often used in ballads and narrative
poems to create
a songlike rhythm and to help
build suspense. Refrains can also serve to
emphasize
a particular idea.
224.
Rhythm(韵律)
It is one of the three basic
elements of traditional poetry. It is the
arrangement of
stressed and unstressed
syllables into a pattern. Rhythm often gives a
poem a
distinct musical quality. Poets also
use rhythm to echo meaning.
225.
Scansion(诗的韵律分析)
The analysis of verse in
terms of meter.
226. Septet(七重唱)
the
seven-line stanza. Chaucerian stanza: ababbcc.
227. Sestet(六重唱)
the six-line stanza.
3couplets a quatrain + a couplet 2 triplets.
228. Setting(背景)
The time and place in
which the events in a short story, novel, play or
narrative
poem occur. Setting can give us
information, vital to plot and theme. Often,
setting
and character will reveal each other.
229. Short Story(短篇小说)
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A short story is a brief prose
fiction, usually one that can be read in a single
sitting.
It generally contains the six major
elements of fiction—characterization, setting,
theme, plot, point of view, and style.
230. Simile(明喻)
(a figure of speech) A
comparison make between two things through the use
of a
specific word of comparison, such as
like, as than, or resembles. The comparison
must be between two essentially unlike things.
231. Skaz
It’s a Russian word used to
designate a type of first person narration that
has the
characteristics of the spoken rather
than the written word. In this kind of novel, the
narrator is a character who refers to himself
as “I” and addresses the reader as
“you”. He
or she uses vocabulary and syntax characteristic
of colloquial speech, and
appears to be
relating the story spontaneously rather than
delivering a carefully
constructed and
polished written account.
232. Song(歌)
A
short lyric poem with distinct musical qualities,
normally written to be set to
music. In
expresses a simple but intense emotion.
233.
Speech(说话能力)
It was defined by Aristotle as
the faculty of observing all the available means
of
persuasion.
234. Spondee(扬扬格)
It
consists of two stressed syllables.
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235. Sprung Rhythm
A term
created by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins to
designate a variable kind of
poetic meter in
which a stressed syllable may be combined with any
number of
unstressed syllables. Poems with
sprung rhythm have an irregular meter and are
meant to sound like natural speech.
236.
Stereotype(老套模式)
A commonplace type or
character that appears so often in literature that
his or her
nature is immediately familiar to
the reader. Stereotypes, also called stock
characters, always look and act the same way
and reveal the same traits of
character.
237. Style(风格)
An author’s characteristic
way of writing, determined by the choice of words,
the
arrangement of words in sentences, and the
relationship of the sentences to one
another.
238. Suspense(悬念)
The quality of a story,
novel, or drama that makes the reader or audience
uncertain
or tense about the outcome of
events.
239. Synecdoche(举隅法)
A figure of
speech that substitutes a part for a whole.
240. Tone(格调)
The attitude a writer takes
toward his or her subject, characters, or
audience. The
tone of a speech or a piece of
writing can be formal or intimate; outspoken or
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reticent; abstruse or
simple; solemn or playful; angry or loving;
serious or ironic.
241. Triplet(三行联句)
The
three-line stanza. Tercet: aaa, bbb, ccc, and so
on; terza rima: aba, bcb cdc, and
so on.
242. Trochee(扬抑格)
the reverse of the
iambic foot.
243. Villanelle(维拉内拉诗)
An
intricate verse form of French origin, consisting
of several three-line stanzas and
a concluding
four-line stanza.
244. Wit(才智)
A
brilliance and quickness of perception combined
with a cleverness of expression.
In the 18th
century, wit and nature were related-nature
provided the rules of the
universe; wit
allowed these rules to be interpreted and
expressed
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