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1、BritishWritersandWorksI.?Old?English?Literature?&?The?Late?Medieval?Ages???1、貝奧武夫:the?national?epic?of?the?Anglo-Saxons???????Epic:?long?narrative?poems?that?record?the?adventures?or?heroic?deeds?of?a?hero?enacted?in?vast?landscapes.?The?style?of?epic?is?grand?and
2、?elevated.?????e.g.?Homer’s?Iliad?and?Odyssey???????Artistic?features:??1.?Using?alliteration??Definition?of?alliteration:?a?rhetorical?device,?meaning?some?words?in?a?sentence?begin?with?the?same?consonant?sound（頭韻）??Some?examples?on?P5??2.?Using?metaphor?and?understateme
3、nt??Definition?of?understatement:?expressing?something?in?a?controlled?way?Understatement?is?a?typical?way?for?Englishmen?to?express?their?ideas??2、?Geoffrey?Chaucer?杰弗里?喬叟1343~1400?(首創(chuàng)“雙韻體”，英國文學(xué)史上首先用倫敦方言寫作。約翰·德萊頓（John?Dryden）稱其為“英國詩歌之父”。代表作《坎特伯雷故事集》。)?The?father?of?Englis
4、h?poetry?It?is?____alone?who,?for?the?first?time?in?English?literature,?presented?to?us?a?comprehensive?realistic?picture?of?the?English?society?of?his?time?and?created?a?whole?gallery?of?vivid?characters?from?all?walks?of?life.?(?A?)???A.?Geoffrey?Chaucer???B.?Matin?Luthe
5、r??C.?William?Langland??D.?John?Gower?Writing?Style:?wisdom,?humor,?humanity.?His?Works：?①?坎特伯雷故事集：?first?time?to?use??heroic?couplet?(英雄雙韻體)?by?middle?English?②特羅伊拉斯和克萊希德③?聲譽之宮?④??公爵夫人
6、之書?????百鳥議會?Medieval?Age?s?popular?Literary?form:?Romance(傳奇故事)????????Famous?three：King?Arthur?????????????????????Sir?Gawain?and?the?Green?Knight?????????????????????Beowulf?II.?The?Renaissance?Period（15世紀(jì)末-17世紀(jì)初）?A?period?of?drama?and?poetry.?Th
7、e?Elizabethan?drama?is?the?real?mainstream?of?the?English?Renaissance.?Renaissance:?the?activity,?spirit,?or?time?of?the?great?revival?of?art,?literature,?and?learning?in?Europe?beginning?in?the?14th?century?and?extending?to?the?17th?century,?marking?the?transition?from?th
8、e?medieval?to?the?modern?world.?Three?historical?events?of?the?Renaissance?–?rebirth?or?r
