比较重要的名词解释有：所有以-ism结尾的名词，各个时期的文学运动，heroic couplet, Gothic novel, Byronic hero, Lost Generation, dramatic monologue, stream of consciousness, metaphysical poets等等



最常考作家 Emily Dickinson F. Scott Fitzgerald Henry James Mark Twain Nathaniel Hawthorne Thomas Hardy Washington Irving William Shakespeare

次常考作家 Alexander Pope Charles Dickens Daniel Defoe Emily Bronte Eugene O''Neill Ezra Pound Heminway Jane Austen John Keats John Milton Melville Percy Bysshe Shelly Robert Browning Theodore Dreiser Whitman William Faulkner William Wordsworth

一般作家 Charlotte Bronte Emerson Enlightenment Francis Bacon Henry Fielding James Joyce John Bunyan Jonathan Swift Robert Frost Samuel Johnson Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Blake

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