《英国文学史及选读》第一册复习要点1
Beowulf: national epic of the English people; Denmark story; alliteration, metaphors and understatements (此处可能会有填空,选择等小题)2
Romance (名词解释)3
“ Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” : a famous roman about King Arthur’ s story4
Ballad(名词解释)5
Character of Robin Hood 6
Geoffrey Chaucer: founder of English poetry; The Canterbury Tales (main contents; 124 stories planned, only 24 finished; written in Middle English; significance; form: heroic couplet) 7
Heroic couplet ( 名词解释 )8
Renaissance(名词解释) 9
Thomas More —— Utopia 10
Sonnet(名词解释) 11
Blank verse (名词解释) 12
Edmund Spenser “ The Faerie Queene” 13
Francis Bacon “ essays ” esp
“ Of Studies”(推荐阅读, 学习写正式语体的英文文章的好参照,本文用词正式优雅,多排比句和长句,语言造诣非常高,里面很多话都可以引用做格言警句,非常值得一读)14
William Shakespeare 四大悲剧比较重要,此外就是罗密欧与朱立叶了,这些剧的主题,背景,情节,人物形