英国文学

I choose the relevant match form from column B for each item in column A. (作品与作家作品与主要人物) 15%

II complete each of the following statements with a proper word or phrase according to the textbook 5%

III provide a brief definition for each of the following terms (专业定义) 20%

IV interpretation （read the selections and then answer the question）20%

V give a brief answer to each of the questions (2题例如古典主义的含义)) 20% VI writes a comment on one of the following literary works 20%

I Thomas Gray----《Elegy Written in a country churchyard》

William Crabbe----《The Task》

James Thompson----《The village》

Edward Young----《Night thoughts》

William Collins----《To Simplicity》《The Passions》《To evening》

Thomas as Percy----《Religues of Ancient English Poetry》

James Macpherson----《Fungal》

Thomas Chatterton----《The Rowley Papers》

Blake----《Poetical sketches》《Songs of Innocence》《Songs of Experience》《The Marriage of Heaven Hell》《Prophecies》《The French Revolution》《Visions of the Daughters of Albion and America》

III 1.the Spenserian stanza------The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verse form invented by Edmund Spenser for his epic poem The Faerie Queene. Each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'Alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter.

2.The Shakespearean sonnet------- Sonnet means "little song" and consists of 14 lines set to a specific rhyme scheme. A Shakespearean sonnet is set to iambic pentameter. It has three four line stanzas and a couplet at the end. Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets during his time!

3.The Popular ballade------

4.Blank Verse----- is any verse comprised of unrhymed lines all in the same meter, usually iambic pentameter.

5.Alliteration------ the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables —called also head rhyme, initial rhyme

6.IambicPentameter-----

Iambic pentameter is a meter in poetry. It refers to a line consisting of five iambic feet . The word "pentameter" simply means that there are 5 feet in it.

7.The Gothic novel----Gothic novel as one branch of the English literature and the father of horror movies origins from The Castle of Otranto(1764). More importantly,

it leads habitually with darkness and horror.

8.The Heroic Couplet------ A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used for epic and narrative poetry; it refers to poems constructed from a sequence of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines. The rhyme is always masculine.

9.The Epic ------- An epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation IV Henry Fielding‟s major contributions to English literature.

Walter Scott called Henry Fielding the “father of the English novel,”and the phrase still indicates Fielding‟s place in the history of literature. Though not actually the first English novelist, he was the first to approach the genre with a fully worked-out theory of the novel; and in Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones, and Amelia, which a modern critic has called comic epic, epic comedy, and domestic epic, respectively, he had established the tradition of a realism presented in panoramic surveys of contemporary that dominated English fiction until the end of the 19th century.

Jane Austen‟s major concern in literary

Her main literary concern is about human beings in the relationships. She makes trivial daily life as important as the concerns about human belief and career and salient social events. This is what makes her important in English literature. She has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior and her accurate portrayal of human individuals.

V the Romantic Movement

The Romantic Movement: The Romantic Movement, also known as Romanticism, began in Western Europe in the later half of the 18th century and remained popular well into the early 19th century. It was considered a change in the thought processes of the time, from reason and science to use of imagination and respect for nature. Romantics expressed their views mainly within the arts; literature, poetry, music and painting. The ideals behind the Romantic Movement were rooted in politics and allowed artists to allow people to consider the world in a different way. The impact of the Romantic Movement allowed people to change the way they were thinking from the more or less pre-determined mindset of a person's role in the world to the consequences of exploiting nature to the expression of a person's imagination as the supreme value one can add to society. The Romantic Movement marked a shift in the use of language.

Neo-classicism

Neo-classicism: a revival in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries of classical