英国文学史可能出到的考题,按以下所列做一下
Part One:Early and Medieval English Literature
1.Beowulf:national epic of the English people; Denmark story; alliteration,metaphors and understatements
3.“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”:a famous roman about King Arthur’s story
4.Ballad（名词解释）
5.Character of Robin Hood
6.Geoffrey Chaucer:founder of English poetry; The Canterbury Tales (main contents; 124 stories planned,only 24 finished; written in Middle English; significance; form:heroic couplet)
7.Heroic couplet (名词解释)
Part Two:The English Renaissance
8.The Authorized Version of English Bible and its significance9.Renaissance（名词解释）
10.Thomas More?Utopia
11.Sonnet（名词解释）
12.Blank verse（名词解释）
13.Edmund Spenser
“The Faerie Queene”; Amoretti (collection of his sonnets)
Spenserian Stanza（名词解释）
15.Christopher Marlowe (“Doctor Faustus” and his achievements)