英美文学名词解释

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 successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete 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 literary composition 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 most common 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 most common 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 (抒情诗)

A poem, usually a short one, that expresses a speaker‘s personal thoughts or feelings.

抒情诗：一种用来抒发作者感情或思想的短诗。

Naturalism (自然主义)

The practice of describing precisely the actual circumstances of human life in literature, it is the extreme form of realism. 自然主义：在文学中精确地描述人类现实环境的实践,现实主义的最高表现形式。

Neoclassicism (新古典主义)

A revival in literature in the late 17th and 18th centuries, characterized by a regard for the classical ideals of reason, form, and restraint styles.

新古典主义：17、18世纪晚期的文学复兴，以尊重古代典型的推理形式和严谨文体为特征 Novel (小说)

A book length fictional prose narrative, having many characters and often a complex plot.

小说：虚构的叙述性文章，有一定长度，较多的人物，和思想复杂的情节。

Pastoral (田园诗)

A kind of poem, that deals in an idealized way with shepherds and rustic life.

田园诗：一种用理想的手法来体现牧羊人的乡村生活的诗歌。 Plot (情节)

Plot is the first and most obvious quality of a story. It is

the sequence of events or actions in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem. For the reader, the plot is the underlying pattern in a work of fiction, the structural element that gives it unity and order. For the writer, the plot is the guiding principle of selection and arrangement.

Realism (现实主义)

The representation in art or literature of objects, actions, or social conditions as they actually are, without idealization or presentation in abstract form.

现实主义：在艺术或文学中将事物，行为或社会状况按其起初情况进行的表现，而不用模糊的形式来表现或理想化 Rhyme (压韵)

The repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem.

压韵：音在两个或两个以上的词汇或短语中的重复。 Rhythm (格律)

The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern.

重读音节和非重读音节的固定排列模式。 Romanticism (浪漫主义)

An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in

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