英国文学选读复习重点

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nd you, we are met, And cloistered in these living walls of jet. Though use make you apt to kill me, Let not do that, selfmurder added be, And sacrilege, three sins in killing three. Questions What extraordinary metaphors (conceits) do you find in this stanza? Give an example and explain it. What is the central idea in this stanza? 4. Paraphrasing (about 15 points) Example 1 Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity。 and single men, they e many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet on the other side, they are more cruel and hardheated (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon. Example 2 Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou her maid art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious. Her vestal livery is but sick and green, And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off. Example 3 Thus conscious does make coward of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry 4 And lost the name of action. More Examples Allusion: A reference to an object, an event, a place, or a person, etc, outside of a text itself. . the title of . Yeats’s Second Coming” has a biblical allusion, which refers to the second ing of Jesus Christ. Symbol: In a literary work, it refers to an object, , action or animal, that stands for something more than its literary meaning. . the “Lamb” in William Blake’s poem “Lamb” is a symbol of innocent and humility. Example Her image acpanied me even in places the most hostile to rom。