英国文学史期末复习重点总结

English Literature

Review

Types of questions

●Ⅰ. Choose from the given choices the correct one. (2’X15=30’)

●Ⅱ. Define the following terms. (10’X3=30’)

●Ⅲ. III. Answer one of the following questions. (20’X1=20’)

●Ⅳ. Write no less than 100 words on one of the following topics in English. (20’

X1=20’)

What we’ve learned?

Beowulf

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

●The Anglo-Saxon Period

●The Anglo-Norman Period

●The 14th century

●The Renaissance

●The 17th century

●The 18th century

●The 19th century

●The 20th century

Geoffrey Chaucer

William Shakespeare

4 Johns: John Milton & John Bunyan

Neo-classicism; Realistic Novel; Sentimentalism，Pre-romanticism

Romanticism; Critical Realism

Stream of Consciousness

Anglo-Saxon 449-1066

●Three pagan Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, from Denmark and northern Germany came

around 450---600 AD

●England’s natinal epic:

●The song of Beowulf

●Alliteration is a device with certain accented words in a line beginning with the same

consonant sound.

●p3

Anglo-Norman Period

●1066, The Norman Conquest

● the battle of Hastings

● William, Duke of Normandy win

● P17-18

●Metrical Romance:

●the culmination of the Arthurian romances

●Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Geoffrey Chaucer

●The Middle Class Author

●“Father of English poetry”: Chaucer introduced from France the rhymed

stanzas---heroic couplet.

●heroic couplet: is a rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter.

●Forerunner of English Renaissance and humanism

●The founder of English realism/ The first realistic writer

●first to be buried in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey

●The Canterbury Tales p43-45

English Renaissance

(1520s---1620s) P67

●Poet: Thomas Wyatt, Edmund Spenser

●Thomas Wyatt was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.

●Edmund Spenser: (epic) The Fairy Queen

●Essayist: Francis Bacon

●Playwright: Christopher Marlowe

●William Shakespeare

●Christopher Marlowe is the greatest o the pioneers of English drama. He

makes blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.f

●P67-68

The Renaissance and humanism

●was an intellectual movement. It sprang from first in Italy in the 14th century and

gradually spread all over Europe. Two features are striking. The one is a thirsting curiosity for the classical literature of the Greek and Latin. Another feature is the keen interest in the activities of humanity.

●Humanism is the key-note of the Renaissance.

● Blank verse is a verse with unrhymed (rhymeless) iambic pentameter.

● Sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter with a carefully

patterned rhyme scheme.

William Shakespeare

●Great comedies: ?

●Great tragedies: ?

●p71-72