[例] Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unit.
2. genre 类型 流派
[例] His six String Quartets were regarded as the most important works in the genre since Beethoven's.
3. satire 讽刺文学
[例] The political satire was censored by the government.
4. fable 寓言 传说
[例] Many fables were first told by an old Greek story teller named Aesop.
5. byword 格言 谚语
[例] The general's name had become a byword for cruelty in war.
6. comedy 喜剧
[例] The candidate's campaign turne dout to be a political comedy.
7. tragedy 悲剧
8. masterpiece 杰作 名著
9. author 作家 创造者
10. profound 深刻的 意义深远的
[例] We had a profound lesson in ideological education yesterday.
11. contemporary 当前的 现代的
[例] the composer Salieri had the misfortune o f being contemporary with Mozart.
12. classic 杰作 名著
[例] Her daughter particularly likes reading the classics of English literature.
13. diction 措辞 用语
14. manuscript 手稿 原稿
15. analects 文选 论集
16. literatus 文学界 学者
17. renaissance 复兴
18. criticism 批评 批判
19. essay 散文 小品文
[例] The other day I came an interesting essay on the war with Napoleon.
20. preliterate 文字出现以前的
[例] It is difficult to study preliterate societies.
21. mainstream 主流
[例] You need not accept the nominee's ideology, only to be able to locate it in the American mainstream.
22. nostalgia 思乡病 乡愁
23. connoisseur 鉴赏家 鉴定家
[例] He is a connoisseur of fine wines.
24. editorial 社论 编辑上的
25. column 专栏
[例] He writes for the column of that newspaper.
26. circulation 发行量
[例] This magazine has a circulation of over a million.
27. feature 特写
[例] Did you read the frontpage feature on coal-mining.
28. drama 戏剧 戏剧艺术
[例] The old man is fond of the Elizabethan drama.
29. playwright 剧作家