Review

1. Literary Glossary

Question: What is the definition of each literary term below?

Heroic couplet Byronic hero stream-of-consciousness

Metaphysical poetry/poet Romance comedy

tragedy soliloquy Sentimentalism/Sentimental novel

Gothic novel foil

Romanticism/Romantic era sonnet blank verse

stanza

Iambic pentameter

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2. Selected reading.

(1). The first twelve lines in the General Prologue in Canterbury

Tale.

(2). Shakespeare: sonnet 18(The main theme of this poem.)

Act3 scene3, Hamlet’s monologue (main idea, major themes,

meter and rhyme)

(3). Milton, Paradise Lost Book 1, excerpt, lines describing Satan’s

unyielding spirit (line50--75) (Satan’s character)

(4). Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal (For whom was this essay

written?) Gulliver’s travels (the name of each place Gulliver visits)

(5). William Blake: Tyger (central image, main theme)

(6). Robert Burns: My heart’s in the highlands (theme, does the

speaker love the highlands? How does he show his love in the

poem?)

(7). William Wordsworth: I wondered lonely as a cloud (the central

image, rhyme scheme, main idea of each stanza)

(8). Shelley: Ode to the west wind. First stanza. (why is the west

wind both destroyer and preserver?)

(9). Jane Austen: chapter 1, first and second paragraph: “It is truly

universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good

fortune must be in want of life” (Is there any irony? What does this

sentence imply?)

(10). Jane Eyre: Chapter 5 and chapter 4 (Jane Eyre’s personality

and Mr Rochester’s character)

(11). Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles (subtitle of the novel, Tess’

character)

3. Key characters.

Hamlet, Shylock, Satan, Robinson Crusoe, Jane Eyre… 4. Literary stages

What are the main themes and dominating literary genres(文学体裁) in each of the following historical periods?

Medieval age, the Renaissance, the Restoration and Revolution,

The age of Enlightenment, Romantic era, the Victorian age (the

age of realist critical realism, modernism.