英国文学选读 第三版 第一到第七单元重要名词解释

A heroic couplet is an iambic pentameter couplet , commonly used in epic and narrative poetry. The form was introduced into English by Chaucer, and widely used subsequently, reaching a height of popularity in the works of Alexander Pope by the closed couplet（封闭韵体）, i.e. A couplet in which the two lines form a complete unit of thought.

The metaphysical poets is a term coined by the poet and critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century, whose work was characterized by the inventive use of conceits, and by speculation about topics such as love or religion. These poets were not formally affiliated; most of them did not even know or read each other.

A soliloquy is a device often used in drama when a character speaks to himself or herself, relating thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience.

Conceit : In literature, a conceit is an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem. Or far-fetched 牵强附会的comparisons. A comparison becomes a conceit when we are made to concede likeness while being strongly conscious of unlikeness.

A sonnet is a poetic form which originated in Italy; the Sicilian poet Giacomo Da Lentini is credited with its invention.[1] The term sonnet derives from the Italian word sonetto (from Old Proven?al sonet a little poem, from son song, from Latin sonus a sound). By the thirteenth century it signified a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure. One of the best-known sonnet writers is William Shakespeare, A Shakespearean, or English, sonnet consists of fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter, a pattern in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable five times. The rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet is a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g; the last two lines are a rhyming couplet.

An essay is generally a short piece of writing written from an author's personal point of view. Neoclassicism: the late 18th- and early 19th-century revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation.

The Lake Poets are a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of England at the turn of the nineteenth century. They are considered part of the Romantic Movement. The three main figures of what has become known as the Lakes School are William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey.