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题型为填空和名词解释

Literature refers to writings that are valued as works of art, esp. fiction, drama and poetry.

Beowulf, a typical example of Old English poetry with over 3,000 lines, is regarded today as the national epic of the english people.

Romance which uses narrative verse or prose to sing knightly adventures or other heroic deeds is a popular literary form in the medieval period. Popular subjects for romances: King Arthur of Britain and the knights of the Round Table.

A sonnet is a lyric invariably of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter , restricted to a definite rhyme scheme .

The 14th century is called “Age of Chaucer”. His masterpiece is The Canterbury Tales.

An extended metaphor is often called a conceit.

Soliloquy is a speech in a play which the character speaks to himself or herself or to the people watching rather than to the other characters.

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy about two young “star-cross‘d lovers”whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families.

Francis Bacon introduced the essay as a literary form into the English language.

John Donne is the leading figure of the“metaphysical school.”

All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.

In 1797 Wordsworth met Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the two poets became very good friends. They collaborated on a book of poems entitled Lyrical Ballads, first published in 1798

The poet Robert Southey as well as Coleridge lived nearby, and the three men became known as the “Lake Poets.”

Jane Austen is the only important female author in the 18-19th century

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指出作者，作品名及选文大意

To be，or not to be：that is the question：

“To be” is to continue to live, or to take action. “not to be” is to die, or to do nothing but suffering, to end one’s life by self- destruction. It is a dilemma of trying to determine the meaning of life and death

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

it briskly introduces the arrival of Mr. Bingley at Netherfield—the event that sets the novel in motion—this sentence also offers a miniature sketch of the entire plot, which concerns itself with the pursuit of “single men in possession of a good fortune”by various female characters. The preoccupation with socially advantageous marriage in nineteenth-century English society manifests itself here, for in claiming that a single man “must be in want of a wife,”the narrator reveals that the reverse is also true: a single woman, whose socially prescribed options are quite limited, is in (perhaps desperate) want of a husband.

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament , is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.

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分析以下诗歌，见邮箱！

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Death Be Not Pride

The Sick Rose

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

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分析以下小说

Jane Eyre

Analysis of the work

The work is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian age. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e. g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions such as Lowood School where poor girls are trained, through constant starvation and humiliation, to be humble slaves, the social discrimination Jane experiences first as a dependent at her aunt's house and later as a governess at Thornfield, and the false social convention as concerning love and marriageAt the same time, it is an intense moral fable. Jane, like Mr. Rochester, has to undergo a

series of physical and moral tests to grow up and achieve her final happiness.

The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine.

Analysis of the Heroine

Jane Eyre, an orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing to love and be loved, a poor, plain, little governess who dares to love her master, a man superior to her in many ways, and even is brave enough to declare to the man her love for him, cuts a completely new woman image. She represents those middle-class working women who are struggling for recognition of their basic rights and equality as a human being. The vivid description of her intense feelings and her thought and inner conflicts brings her to the heart of the audience.

Robinson Crusoe

Characterization

Robinson is a real hero: a typical eighteenth-century English middle-class man, with a great capacity for work, inexhaustible energy, courage, patience and persistence in overcoming obstacles, in struggling against the hostile natural environment. He is the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist .

Artistic Features

Defoe was a very good story-teller. Defoe had a gift for organizing minute details in such a vivid way that his stories could be both credible，and fascinating. His sentences are sometimes short, crisp and plain, and sometimes long and rambling, which leave on the reader an impression of casual narration. His language is smooth, easy, colloquial and mostly vernacular. There is nothing artificial in his language: it is common English at its best.

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