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英美文学常考名词解释(1)

  【摘要】英美文学考试中,名词解释是一种常考的题型。在此为大家整理了一些解释,希望可以给你的复习带来便利!

  1.Allegory (寓言)

  A tale in verse or prose in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities.

  寓言,讽喻:一种文学、戏剧或绘画的艺术手法,其中人物和事件代表抽象的观点、原则或支配力。

  2.Alliteration (头韵)

  Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound within a line or a group of words.

  头韵:在一组词的开头或重读音节中对相同辅音或不同元音的重复。

  3.Allusion (典故)

  A reference to a person, a place, an event, or a literary work that a writer expects the reader to recognize and respond to.

  典故:作者对某些读者熟悉并能够作出反映的特定人物,地点,事件,文学作品的引用。

  4.Analogy (类比)

  A comparison made between two things to show the similarities between them.

  类比:为了在两个事物之间找出差别而进行的比较。

  5. Antagonist (反面主角)

  The principal character in opposition to the protagonist or hero or heroine of a narrative or drama.

  反面主角:叙事文学或戏剧中与男女主人公或英雄相对立的主要人物。

  6. Antithesis (对仗)

  The balancing of two contrasting ideas, words, or sentences.

  对仗:两组相对的思想,言辞,词句的平衡。

  7. Aphorism (警句)

  A concise, pointed statement expressing a wise or clever observation about life.

  警句:蕴含关于人生真理的明智的看法的精练的语句。

  8. Aside (旁白)

  A piece of dialogue intended for the audience and supposedly not heard by other actors on stage.

  旁白:只说给观众而认为不会让台上其他演员听到的一段对话。

  9.Apostrophe (呼语)

  The direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction, especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition.

  呼语:直接称呼不在场或虚构的人物或称呼拟人的事物,尤指作为演讲或作文过程中的离题话。

  10.Assonance (类韵)

  The repetition of similar vowel sounds, especially in poetry.

  类音,类韵:相同或相似元音的重复,尤其指在诗歌中的重复。

  11.Atmosphere (氛围)

  The prevailing mood or feeling of a literary work.

  12. Autobiography (自传)

  A person‘s account of his or her own life.

  13. Ballad (民谣)

  A narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung.

  14. Ballad Stanza (民谣诗节)

  A type of four-line stanza, the first and the third lines have four stressed words or syllables; the second and fourth lines have three stresses.

  15. Biography (传记)

  A detailed account of a person‘s life written by another person.

  传记:由他人篆写的关于某人生平的详细记录。

  16.Blank Verse (无韵体诗)

  Verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

  17. Caesura (休止)

  A break or pause in a line of poetry.

  18. Canto (章)

  One of the principal divisions of a long poem.

  诗章:一首长诗的主要部分之一。

  19. Caricature (夸张讽刺)

  The use of exaggeration or distortion to make a figure appear comic or ridiculous.

  夸张讽刺:为了使文中的人物显得可笑而使用的夸张或扭曲人物形象的手法。

  20. Characterization (人物刻画)

  The means by which a writer reveals the personality of a character.

  人物刻画:作者表现作品中人物性格的方法。

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