英美文學常考名詞解釋（1）

　　【摘要】英美文學考試中，名詞解釋是一種?？嫉念}型。在此為大家整理了一些解釋，希望可以給你的復習帶來便利！

　　1.Allegory (寓言)

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

　　寓言，諷喻：一種文學、戲劇或繪畫的藝術(shù)手法，其中人物和事件代表抽象的觀點、原則或支配力。

　　2.Alliteration (頭韻)

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

　　頭韻：在一組詞的開頭或重讀音節(jié)中對相同輔音或不同元音的重復。

　　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：作者對某些讀者熟悉并能夠作出反映的特定人物，地點，事件，文學作品的引用。

　　4.Analogy (類比)

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

　　類比：為了在兩個事物之間找出差別而進行的比較。

　　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：敘事文學或戲劇中與男女主人公或英雄相對立的主要人物。

　　6. Antithesis (對仗)

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

　　對仗：兩組相對的思想，言辭，詞句的平衡。

　　7. Aphorism (警句)

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

　　警句：蘊含關(guān)于人生真理的明智的看法的精練的語句。

　　8. Aside (旁白)

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

　　旁白：只說給觀眾而認為不會讓臺上其他演員聽到的一段對話。

　　9.Apostrophe (呼語)

　　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.

　　呼語：直接稱呼不在場或虛構(gòu)的人物或稱呼擬人的事物，尤指作為演講或作文過程中的離題話。

　　10.Assonance (類韻)

　　The repetition of similar vowel sounds, especially in poetry.

　　類音，類韻：相同或相似元音的重復，尤其指在詩歌中的重復。

　　11.Atmosphere (氛圍)

　　The prevailing mood or feeling of a literary work.

　　12. Autobiography (自傳)

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

　　13. Ballad (民謠)

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

　　14. Ballad Stanza (民謠詩節(jié))

　　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 (傳記)

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

　　傳記：由他人篆寫的關(guān)于某人生平的詳細記錄。

　　16.Blank Verse (無韻體詩)

　　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.

　　詩章：一首長詩的主要部分之一。

　　19. Caricature (夸張諷刺)

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

　　夸張諷刺：為了使文中的人物顯得可笑而使用的夸張或扭曲人物形象的手法。

　　20. Characterization (人物刻畫)

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

　　人物刻畫：作者表現(xiàn)作品中人物性格的方法。

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