英国文学选读期末考试复习知识点(共3页)

1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上考点一：The Canterbury Tales 参考A: 13: spring rain 4: spring flower 5: spring wind 67: spring grass 89: spring sun 1018: the celebration of spring (1013: birds singing; 1418: peoples pilgrimages) 参考B: Structure beauty: The 18 lines form a coherent whole which is a sentence that composes of t

2、wo adverbial clauses of time (line 111) and a main clause (1218), expressing the essential idea of the whole work.考点二：Why is spring compared to a king? (4)1. As the first season of a year, spring is as powerful as the king because it gives life to everything.2. The use of the “king” can rime with “s

3、pring” and “sing”.考点三：Whats the effect of repeating “come live with me and be my love”?1. For the speakers part, he can strengthen his passion to his love, he sounds more confident than ever and the plea becomes more persuasive with each repetition.2. For the listeners part, we can understand speake

4、r intention much more clearly. The listener will feel that shepherds love is strong and sincerely.3. It makes the ending match up with the beginning so as to make the poem a complete whole.考点四：Whats the effect of repeating the calls of the birds in each stanza?1. A good poem is usually like a beauti

5、ful song, the calls of the birds are pleasing to the ear. The repeated songs can give people pleasure and make this poem have a beautiful rhyme.2. The repetition of this line make three stanzas from a united whole.3. The sweat songs of the birds describe their happiness in spring and express their l

6、ove of spring. Their songs can also create a happy and peaceful atmosphere for people to enjoy spring.4. To emphasize the coming of spring.考点五：Compare these two poem: （讲义第7和第8面）1. On one hand, they share the same structure, meter, rhyme pattern and subject matters. They were written in iambic pentam

7、eter with six quatrains, each rhyming aabb. Both poems are about love and nature.2. On the other hand, they have obvious differences. Marlowe was young, he idealized nature and love. So his poem was romantic and imaginative. But Raleigh was old, and his attitude was jaded. He shows the reality of li

8、fe and presents and opposite and negative view towards love and nature described in Marlowes poem.考点六：（可能会考选择题）Script(剧本): the written work from which a drama is produced; contains stage directions and dialogue.Stage directions（舞台说明）: notes provided by the playwright to describe how something should

9、 be performed on stage. Stage directions often describe elements of the spectacle: lighting, music, sound effects, costumes, properties, and set designs.Soliloquy（独白）: a long speech given by a character while alone on stage to reveal his or her private thoughts or intentions.Aside（旁白）: a statement i

10、ntended to be heard by the audience or by a single other character but not by all the other characters on stage.Act(幕): a major division of a drama.Scene(场景)： a division of an act; it begins with the entrance of one or more characters and ends with the exit of one or more characters.考点七：Why Juliet i

11、s a sun not a beautiful flower?1. There is only one sun in the world and Juliet is the only woman Romeo loves.2. Juliet is more beautiful and warm than the moon and the stars, so Juliet is the sun.考点八：What we can learn from Romeo and Juliet?1. We should believe true love.2. be brave to pursuer true

12、love and happiness.3. be firm to your love.4. the more I give to you, the more I have.考点九：Problems troubling Hamlet:Hamlets endurance has reached the breaking point.1. His father has been murdered by his uncle.2. His mother, who he loves dearly, is married to his uncle right after his fathers death.

13、3. Then his former friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dispatched by claudius to spy on him.4. Moreover, his sweetheart, Ophelia, is sent as a tool to find out whether or not he is really mad. This is some thing he can no longer endure.5. One incident after another seems to reveal to him that t

14、he time is “out of joint”, and man is not so good as he had imagined.6. Now, hes all alone. The world that he knew is shattered. His black mood of despair is deepened by his inability to act -to do something to change the situation. Now he ponders whether to continue living or to take his own life.考

15、点十：对to be, or not to be: that is the question的理解。To live, or to die, that is a question.或者To take action or to do nothing but suffering.考点十一：与哈姆雷特有关的Importance: It reveals Hamlets inner contradiction about life and death as well as the poets comments on the social reality of his time.考点十二：Why is it

16、a great play of Shakespeare? (威尼斯商人)1. The plot is ingeniously developed. Shakespeare built his play on a double plot.2. The play was written in beautiful poetic language.3. Shakespeare created many vivid characters in this play.考点十三：The winning of a Bride by choosing the right casket. (选宝箱)The gold

17、 one: who choose me should gain what many men desire.The silver one: who choose me should get as much as he deservers.The lead one: who choose me must give and hazard all he has.考点十四：“as stiff twin compasses are two”中的“compasses”: husband and wife are as firm as the legs of compasses.考点十五：划押韵的韵脚。（有可能考韵法，如：abba abba acde cde/cdc