1、一、名词解释 1. 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
2、 of bourgeois against feudalism. They fought against 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 peopl
3、e.（启蒙运动） 2. 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.（赋；颂歌；颂诗） 3. Romanticism: A movemen
4、t that flourished in literature, philosophy, music, and art in Western culture during most of the 19th century, beginning as a revolt against classicism.（浪漫主义） 4. Epic: A long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflecting the values of the so
5、ciety 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） 5. Romance: Any imagination literature that is set in an idealized world and that deals with a heroic adventur
6、es and battles between good characters and villains or monsters.（冒险故事；传奇） 6. Sonnet: A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. A sonnet generally expresses a single theme or idea.（十四行诗） 7. Iambic pentameter: A poetic line consisting of
7、 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.（抑扬格五音步） 8. Couplet: Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. A heroic couplet is an iambic
8、 pentameter couplet.（两行诗；对句） 9. Conceit: A kind of metaphor that makes a comparison between two startlingly different things. A conceit ma
