【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 us in : A tale, usually inserted into the text of a sermon that illustrates a moral :(1)That part of a narrative or drama in which important background information is revealed.(2)It is the kind of writing that is intended primarily to present is one of the major forms of most familiar form it takes is in is also that part of a play in which important background information is revealed to the : A fable is a short story, often with animals as its characters, which illustrate a : A type of edy based on a ridiculous situation, often with stereotyped humor in a farce is largely slapstick—that is, it often involves crude physical characters in a farce are often the butts of practical 第二篇：英美文學(xué)名詞解釋名詞解釋（英國）Epic（敘事詩）: Epic is a narrative poem on the grand scale and in majestic style concerning the exploits and adventures of a superhuman hero(or heroes)engaged in a quest or some serious noted epics areHomer’s Iliad and Odyssey, old English Beowulf and Milton’s Paradise a long position, in verse or in prose, describing the life and adventures of a noble generally concerns knights and involves a large amount of fighting as well as a number of miscellaneous adventures and a series of love narrative song, usually in 4line stanzas, with the second and the fourth lines word “Renaissance” means “rebirth”(of learning).The Renaissance period was marked by a reawakening of interest in learning, in the individual and in the world of revival of learning led scholars back to the culture of Greece and rebirth of interest in theindividual gave rise to a new appreciation of beauty, to a desire for selfexpression in varied activities and to the creation of great works of renewal of curiosity about the natural world ultimately drew men to discover new lands and new scientific was a literary and philosophic system of thought which attempted to place the affairs of mankind at the centre of its to humanists, man should mould the world according to his own desires, and attains happiness by removing all external checks by the exercise of the human （十四行詩）：A sonnet is a fourteenline poem in iambic pentameter with a carefully patterned rhyme was the religious doctrine of revolutionarybourgeoisie during the English preached thrift, sobriety, hard work and unceasing labor, with no extravagant enjoyment of the fruits of pleasures were condemned as opposedchurches,squandering （啟蒙運動）：The movement, on the whole, an expression of the struggle of the bourgeoisie against feudalism, class inequality, stagnation and enlighteners believed in the power of reason and the watchword was Common （新古典主義）：Modeling itself on the literature of ancient Greece and Rome, neoclassicism exalts the virtues of proportion, unity, harmony, grace, taste, manners, and values realism and reason over imagination and and satire flourished in this period, as did the ode and verse written in heroic is a movement prevailing the Western world in the 19th century in literature, art, music and philosophy, beginning as a reaction and protest against the bondage of rules and customs ofneoclassicism to unfetter human returned to nature and plain humanity for is a movement of expression of individual is highlighted and a dream of golden age is required against stern ）：Critical realistsdescribed with much vividness and artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticized the capitalist system from a democratic their best works, the greed and hypocrisy of the upper classes are contrasted with the honesty and goodheartedness of the obscure “simple people” of the lower and satire finding a way of solution, they do not point toward revolution but rather evolution orreformism with happy theory of the Aesthetic movement“art for art’s sake”.Aestheticism places art above life, and holds that life should imitate art, not art imitate to the aesthetes, all artistic creation is absolutely subjective as opposed to when art is for art’s sake, can it be of Consciousness（意識流小說）：First, it reveals the action or plot through the mental processes of the, character development is achievedthrough revelation of extremely personal and often typical thought , the action of the plot seldom corresponds to realchronological time, but moves back and forth through present time to memories of pastevents and dreams of the , it replaces narration, description, and mentary with interior monologue and free ）：feminism is a belief in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes, and a movement organized around the conviction that biological sex should not be thepredeterminant factor shaping a person39。s social identity or sociopolitical or economic ）：In Greek myth, Oedipus is the king who is said to kill his father and marry his to Freud, children may have sexual drives subconsciously toward the opposite , Oedipus plex refers to that boy’s obsession to his English literature, Lawrence is the first to introduce male characters’ impotence to females because of mother’s excessive love.（美國）清教）The settlements grew out of religious controversy, out of an urge for religious freedom and determination, out of fleeing from religious and political oppression and persecution, out of human thirst for greatereconomic opportunity, for land, and for Puritans stressed predestination, original sin, total depravity and limited atonement from God’s built a way of stressed hard work, diligence and thrift, piety and sobriety, rigid sense of morality, （超驗主義）Transcendentalism is a philosophical and literarymovement centered in Concord and Boston, which wasprominent in the intellectual and cultural life of NewEngland from 1836 until just before the Civil stresses mode of knowledge grounded in feeling and intuition。selftrust, selfreliance and selfsufficiency。a turn away from modern society。a faith in a divine “Principle”, or “Spirit”, or “Soul”.In gothic novel, there is usually a gloomy castle furnished with