英国文学诗歌术语解释.doc

A Glossary of Poetic Terms
Accent(重音) Another word for stress. The emphasis placed on a syllable. Accent is frequently used to denote stress in describing verse.
Aestheticism(唯美主义) A literary movement in the 19th century of those who believed in “art for art’s sake” in opposition to the utilitarian doctrine that everything must be morally or practically useful. Key figures of the aesthetic movement were Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde.
Alexandrine(亚历山大诗体)The mon meter in French poetry since the 16th century: a line of twelve syllables. The nearest English equivalent is iambic hexameter. The Alexandrine being a long line, it is often divided in the middle by a pause or caesura into two symmetrical halves called hemistiches. Alexander Pope’s “Essay on Criticism” offers a typical example.
Allegory(讽喻) A pattern of reference in the work which evokes a parallel action of abstract ideas. Usually allegory uses recognizable types, symbols and narrative patterns to indicate that the meaning of the text is to be found not in the represented work but in a
body of traditional thought, or in an extra-literary context. Rrepresentative works are Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress.

Alliteration(头韵) A rhyme-pattern produced inside the poetic line by repeating consonantal sounds at the beginning of words. It is also called initial rhyme.
Allusion(引喻) A passing reference in a work of literature to something outside itself. A writer may allude to legends, historical facts or personages, to other works of literature, or even t
o autobiographical details. Literary allusion requires special explanation. Some writers include in their own works passages from other writers in order to introduce implicit contrasts parisons. . Eliot’s The Waste Land is of this kind.
Analogy(类比) The invocation of a similar but different instance to that which is being represented, in order to bring out its salient features through parison.
Anapest(抑抑扬格) A tr