1.Beowulf: national epic of the English people; Denmark story; alliteration, metaphors and un derstateme nts.
2.Romance （名词解释）a story of adventure-fictitious, frequently marvelous or supernatural--in verse or prose.
3,Ballad民谣（名词解释）
Popular Ballads 大众民谣 ：a story hold in 4-1 ine stanzas with second and fourth line rhymed（ 笔 记）
Ballads are anonymous narrative songs that have been preserved by oral transmission（书上）.4,
4,Heroic couple,名词解释）
heroic couplet 英雄双韵体：    a verse unit consisting of two rhymed（押韵）lines in iambic
pentameter（五步抑扬格）
5 . Renaissance（名词解释）
Ren aissa nee the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and lear ning in Europe begi nning in the 14th cen tury and exte nding to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
555humanism 人文主义： admire human beauty and human achievement
556The Enlightenment was an expression of struggle of the then progressive class of bourgeoisie aga inst feudalism
6，. Sonnet （名词解释）
The sonnet is a poem in 14 lines with one or the other rhyme schme,a form much in vogue in Ren aissa nee Europe, expecially in Italy ,Fra nee and En gla nd.
7， Blank verse（名词解释）：written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
8，Spenserian Stanz（名词解释）
Stanza form developed by Edm und Spen ser and almost certai nly in flue need by rhyme royal and ottava rima Spen ser's sta nza has nine lines and is rhymed a-b-a-b-b-c-b-c-c. The first eight lines of the stanza are in iambic pentameter and the last line in iambic hexameter. He used this form in his epic poem The Faerie Queene. John Keats, a great admirer of Spen ser, used this sta nza in his poeThe Eve of St. Agn es.
,9 Enlightenment （1650-1800）名词解释）A revival of interest in the old classical works, order, logic, restrained emotion抑制情感）and accuracy Individualism-emphasized the importa nce of the in dividual and his inborn rights Rationalism-- the conv icti on that with the power of reas on, huma ns could arrive at truth and improve the world.
vaguelyRelativism-- was the concept that different cultures, beliefs, ideas, and value systems had equal merit.
Gothic novel（哥特式小说）：mystery, horror, castles（from middle part to the end of cen tury）
10，Classicism（名词解释）
In the arts, historical tradition or aesthetic attitudes based on the art of Greece and Rome in an tiquity. In the context of the tradition, Classicism refers either to the art produced in antiquity or to later art inspired by that of antiquity; Neoclassicism always refers to the art produced later but inspired by antiquity.
11 Sen time ntalism    （名词解释）Sen time ntalism 感伤主义 no belief    没有信仰
The represe ntatives of sen time ntalism con ti nued to struggle aga inst feudalism but they vaguely sensed at the same time the contradictions of bourgeois progress that brought with it en slaveme nt and ruin to the people.
12Graveyard School / Poets: A term applied to eightee nth-ce ntury poets who wrote meditative poems, usually set in a graveyard, on the theme of human mortality, in moods which range from elegiac pen sive ness to profo und gloom.
13Romanticism
14Lake Poets （名词解释）
The Lake Poets all lived in the Lake District of England at the turn of the nineteenth century.
15Aestheticism唯美主义（名词解释）
The Aesthetic Movement is a loosely defined movement in literature, fine art, the decorative arts, and interior design in later nineteenth-century Britain. It represents the same tenden cies that symbolism or decade nee stood for in France and may be considered the British branch of the same movement. It belongs to the anti-Victorian reacti on and had post-Roma ntic roots, and as such an ticipates moder ni sm. It took place in the late Victoria n period from around 1868 to 1901, and is gen erally con sidered to have en ded with the trial of Oscar Wilde.
16Stream-of-c on scious ness（名词解释）
The stream of consciousness is a psychological term indicating fhe flux of con scious and
subc on scious thoughts and impressi ons moving in the mind at any given time independently of the perso'will ”.

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