英美文学名词解释总结

Romance: Any imagination literature that is set in an idealized world and that deals with a
heroic adventures and battles between good characters and villains or monsters.
传奇故事：指以理想 化的世界为背景并且描写主人公的英雄冒险事迹和善与恶的斗争的想象
文学作品。
Alliteration: The repetition of the initial consonant sounds in poetry.
头韵：诗歌中单词开头读音的重复。
Couplet: It is a pair of rhyming verse lines, usually of the same length; one of the
most widely used verse-forms in European poetry. Chaucer established the use of
couplets in English, notably in the Canterbury Tales, using rhyming iambic
pentameters later known as heroic couplets
Blank verse: Verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
素体诗：用五音步抑扬格写的无韵诗。
Conceit: A kind of metaphor that makes a comparison between two startlingly different
things. A conceit may be a brief metaphor, but it usually provides the framework for an
entire poem. An especially unusual and intellectual kind of conceit is the metaphysical
conceit.
新奇的比喻：将两种截然不同的食物进行对比的一种隐喻。它虽被视为是一 种隐喻，但是它
往往构建了整首诗的框架，最为奇特的应属玄学诗里面的。
Dramatic monologue: A kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to one or
more listeners whose replies are not given in the poem. The occasion is usually a crucial
one in the speaker’s personality as well as the incident that is the subject of the poem.
戏剧独白：在一种叙事诗里面，一个人物 对其他的人物讲话但并没有交代他们的回答，这种
场合往往对反映说话人的性格特征和诗歌的主题是至关 重要的。
Epic: A long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflecting the
values of the society from which it originated. Many epics were drawn from an oral
tradition and were transmitted by song and recitation before they were written down.
史诗：讲 述英雄事迹并反映出这些英雄事迹的社会价值观的长篇叙事诗。在成为之前，很多
史诗都来自于口头传统 并通过歌唱和背诵流传。
Free Verse: Verse that has either no metrical pattern or an irregular pattern.
自 由诗：按照语言的抑扬顿挫和意象模式，而不是按照固定韵律写出的诗。它的韵律建立在
音素、语词、短 语、句子和段落等形式的基础上，而不是建立在音步传统格律单位上。因此，
自由诗消除了很多不自然的 成分和诗体表现的某些审美差距。20世纪初，在英国诗法中自
由诗已经流行。
Iamb: It is the most commonly used foot in English poetry, in which an unstressed syllable
comes first, followed by a stressed syllable.
抑扬格：在英 语诗歌中使用最广泛的一种音步，抑扬格往往是一个非重度音节后跟一个重度
音节。
Irony: A contrast or an incongruity between what is stated and what is really meant, or
between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.
反讽：反讽指所叙述的事情和真正的所指之间或期待发生的事情 和实际发生的事情之间的对
比或不一致
Lyric: A poem, usually a short one, that expresses a speaker’s personal thoughts or
feelings. The elegy, ode, and sonnet are all forms of the lyric.
抒情诗：一种比较短小的 用来表达作者个人思想或感情的诗。挽歌、颂歌、和十四行诗都是

抒情诗。
Metaphor: A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are
basically dissimilar. Unlike simile, a metaphor does not use a connective word such as like,
as, or resembles in making the comparison.
隐喻：在修辞中把两种不同的食物进行对比的一种方法，与明喻不同，隐喻不 会使用像“like”、
“as”、或“resemble”这样的词。
Ode: A complex and often lengthy lyric poem, written in a dignified formal style on some
lofty or serious subject. Odes are often written for a special occasion, to honor a person or
a season or to commemorate an event.
颂诗：一种风格优雅、诗 节复杂且通常篇幅较长的抒情诗，以崇高或严肃的事物为主题。颂
诗通常都是为某个特殊的场合而作，为 了赞美某个人或事物，或某个季节或纪念某个事件。
Quatrain: Usually a stanza or poem of four lines. A quatrain may also be any group of four
lines unified by a rhyme scheme. Quatrains usually follow an abab, abba, or abcb rhyme
scheme.
四行诗：四行诗通常是四行成段的诗或诗节。四行诗 通常是通过押韵组合成的四行诗节的诗，
亚运形式一般为abab, abba,或abcb。
Satire: A kind of writing that holds up to ridicule or contempt the weaknesses and
wrongdoings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general. The aim of
satirists is to set a moral standard for society, and they attempt to persuade the reader to
see their point of view through the force of laughter.
以取笑或蔑视某个个人、团体、组织、或全人类的弱点或错误行为的一种文 学作品。批评的
目的是为了为社会树立一种道德标准，他们也是为了劝读者通过笑声理解他们的观点
Soliloquy: In drama, an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage. The character
reveals his or her innermost thoughts and feelings directly to the audience, as if thinking aloud.
独白：独白是戏剧中一个人物单独做的台词，这个人物通过他 或她直接跟观众说话来表白自
己的心声，就好像是自己在大声的思考。
Enlightenment: With the advent of the 18th century, in England, as in other European
countries, there sprang into life a public movement known as the Enlightenment. The
Enlightenment on the whole, was an expression of struggle of the then progressive class
of bourgeois against feudalism. The social inequality, stagnation, prejudices and other
survivals of feudalism. They attempted to place all branches of science at the service of
mankind by connecting them with the actual deeds and requirements of the people.
启蒙主义：启蒙主 义是在18世纪在英国发生的。总体上，启蒙主义是当时的资产阶级对封
建主义，社会的不平等、死寂、 偏见和其他的封建残余的一种反对。通过将科学的各个分支
与人民的日常生活和需要联系起来，启蒙主义 者们努力将他们变成为人民大众服务的工具
Realism: The attempt in literature and art to represent life as it really is, without
sentimentalizing or idealizing it. Realistic writing often depicts the everyday life and
speech of ordinary people. This has led, sometimes, to an emphasis on sordid details.
现 实主义：在文学和艺术中按照生活的本来面目去反映生活，不把它感伤化也不把它完美化，
现实主义文学 作品往往展现日常生活和普通大众，这就会导致了现实主义文学通常会反映社
会的阴暗面。

Symbolism: Symbolism is the writing technique of using symbols. It’s a literary movement
that arose in France in the last half of the 19th century and that greatly influenced many

English writers, particularly poets, of the 20th century. It enables poets to compress a very
complex idea or set of ideas into one image or even one word. It’s one of the most
powerful devices that poets employ in creation.
象征主义：使用象征来写作的一种技巧。象征主义在19世纪后半页在法国兴起， 对英国作
家产生了很大的影响，尤其是在20世纪诗歌方面。它让诗人把非常复杂的思想浓缩成一个意象甚至一个词。它是诗人在创作中使用的最有力的手段
Critical Realism: The critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties and in the
beginning of fifties. The realists first and foremost set themselves the task of criticizing
capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and delineated the crying contradictions of
bourgeois reality. But they did not find a way to eradicate social evils.
批判现实主义：批判现实主义在19世纪40年代达到高潮。批判现实主 义作家们往往把从
民主的角度批评和揭露资本主义社会的丑恶视为己任，但他们并没有找到治疗社会弊病 的良
方。
Humanism（人文主义）Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance. it
emphasizes the dignity of human beings and the importance of the present life.
Humanists voiced their beliefs that man was the center of the universe and man
did not only have the right to enjoy the beauty of the present life， but had the
ability to perfect himself and to perform wonders.
Renaissance（文艺复兴） The word “Renaissance”means “rebirth”， it meant the
reintroduction into westerm Europe of the full cultural heritage of Greece and
Rome, the essence of the Renaissance is Humanism. Attitudes and feelings
which had been characteristic of the 14th and 15th centuries persisted well
down into the era of Humanism and reformation, the real mainstream of the
english Renaissance is the Elizabethan drama with william shakespeare being
the leading dramatist.