英国文学复习.doc

What to study for the final exam of English Literature (for Grade 06) Know all of the literary periods in English literature along with their dates and significant events that mark the beginning and the ending of each period. Know the main historical events that happened in the Old English period, The Middle English Period, the Renaissance period, the Restoration, Romantic, Victorian and Modern Eras. Know the main authors and their literary works (notes: you don’t have to know the dates when the authors lived or the dates when their literary works were published.) Be able to write a short one-paragraph biography of Geoffrey Chaucer, William shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, James Joyce Be able to define the terms… the Spenserian Stanza, Shakespeare Sonnet, humanism, neoclaccism, Romanticism, critical realism, naturalism, modernism, the Lake Poets, the metaphysical poetry, Comedy of Manners. sololiquy, ode, the Gothic fiction, the Byronic Hero, irony, metaphor,personification, iamb Aestheticism Be able to identify some quotations from… “Paradise Lost” by John Milton The “to be or not to be” sololiquy by William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare “To his Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell “A Velediction: Forbidding Mourning” by John Donne “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats “Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Shelley “She walks in Beauty” by Byron “The isles of Greece” by Byron “I wander lonely as a cloud” by William Wordsworth, “She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways” by William Wordsworth Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. P. S. English literary Periods Periods of English Literature: Old English or Anglo-Saxon Literature (449-1066CE) When the Romans withdrew from England in 409∕410, it left England unprotected. This opened the way for the first wave of invasions of Germanic tribes (Angles, Saxons, and Jutes). The period ends with the Norman conquest of England (when William I defeats