哈尔滨师范大学,英国文学期末考试题

Romanticism: is an assertion of independence, a departure from the neo-classic rules.

A work of art must be original.

Modernism: is used to apply to the works of a group of poets, novelists, painters, and musicians between 1910 and the early years after the world war2.The term includes various trends or schools, and it means a departure from the conventional criteria or established values of the Victorian age.

The Theatre of the Absurd: It refers to the technique which seeks to depict the multitudinous and feelings which pass through the mind.

Ode: is a rhymed lyric expressing noble feeling, often addressed to a person of celebrating an event.

Stream of Consciousness: It refers to the technique which seeks to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind.

Angry Young Men: During the fifties there appeared a group of young writers who were fiercely critical of the established order. They were called ***.

Wessex Novels: The ** were written by Hardy who vividly and truthfully described the tragic lives of the tenants in the last decade of 19th century.

Interior Monologue: It refers to the technique which seeks to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass trough the mind.

The Lakes Poets: It refers to Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey who lived in the Lake area and wrote poems to express their love of nature.

Lyrical Ballads: It was publishedin1798 written by Wordsworth and Coleridge. The preface to this collection of poem is an important piece of literary criticism in English literature. It can be read as a declaration of romanticism, in which W* openly expresses his theory of poetry.

Neo-Classicism: It emphasizes reason rather than emotion, form rather than content. It stresses elegance, correctness, appropriateness and restraint.

Heroic Couplet: It is a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter lines.

Sentimentalism: It craves for something more natural and spontaneous in thought and language. It stresses emotions and sentiments. It is the reawakening of an interest in nature and in natural relations between man and man.

Symbol: A * is something that represents or stands for something else.

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