英美文学名词解释.doc

英美文学名词解释
Alliteration (头韵)
Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound within a line or a group of words.
头韵:在一组词的开头或重读音节中对相同辅音或不同元音的重复。
Classicism (古典主义)
A movement or tendency in art, literature, or music that reflects the principles manifested in the art of ancient Greece and Rome.
古典主义:一种在文学,艺术,音乐领域体现古代希腊,罗马风格的运动。
Comedy (喜剧)
A dramatic work that is often humorous or satirical in tone and usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.
喜剧:轻松的和常有幽默感的或在调子上是讽刺的戏剧作品,常包括主题冲突的愉快解决
Conflict (冲突)
A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem.
冲突:故事,小说,戏剧中相对的力量和人物之间的对立。
Couplet (双韵体)
A unit of verse consisting of two essive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming plete thought or syntactic unit.
双韵体:包括两个相连的诗行的一种诗的单位,通常压韵并具有同样的格律,经常组成一个完整的意思和句法单位
Heroic couplet (英雄双韵体)
A couplet written in iambic pentameter is called a heroic couplet.
英雄双韵体:五步抑扬格的双韵体称英雄双韵体。
Essay (散文)
A short position on a single subject, usually presenting the personal view of the author.
散文:内容通常论及一个主题的短小文章,通常表达作者个人的观点
Figure of Speech
A word or an expression that is not meant to be interpreted in literal sense. The mon kinds of figures of speech—simile, metaphor, personification, and metonymy.
比喻:不能直接按照字面意义理解的词语或表述方法。常见的手法有明喻,暗喻,拟人,借喻。
Flashback(倒叙)
A literary device in which an earlier event is inserted into a narrative.
倒叙,闪回镜头:一种文学或电影的表现手法,往往在一段按正常时间顺序记叙的叙事中插入一件以前发生过的事情
Free verse (自由诗体)
Verses that has neither a metrical pattern or an regular pattern.
自由诗体:既不具格式韵律又不具常规格律的诗体
Iambic pentameter (五步抑扬格)
A poetic line consisting of five verse feet, with each foot an iamb--that is, an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Iambic pentameter is the mon verse line in English poetry.
五步抑扬格:一种诗句形式,每行诗句包含五个抑扬格音步。五步抑扬格是英语诗歌最常见的诗行。
Imagery(意象)
Words or phrases that create pictures, or images, in readers‘ mind.
意象:用来在读者的思维中唤起某种图示或形象的词汇。
Lyric