;    Dramatic monologue: A kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to one or more listeners whose replies are not given in the poem. The occasion is usually a crucial one in the speaker’s personality as well as the incident that is the subject of the poem.
45.        Elegy: A poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual. An elegy is a type of lyric poem, usually formal in language and structure, and solemn or even melancholy in tone.
46.        Emblematic image: A verbal picture or figure with a long tradition of moral or religious meaning attached to it.
47.        Enlightenment: With the advent of the 18th century, in England, as in other European countries, there sprang into life a public movement known as the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment on the whole, was an expression of struggle of the then progressive class of bourgeois against feudalism. The egogo inequality, stagnation, prejudices and other survivals of feudalism. The attempted to place all branches of science at the service of mankind by connecting them with the actual deeds and requirements of the people.
48.        Epic: A long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflecting the values of the society from which it originated. Many epics were drawn from an oral tradition and were transmitted by song and recitation before they were written down.
49.        Epigram: A short, witty, pointed statement often in the form of a poem.
50.        Epigraph: A quotation or motto at the beginning of a chapter, book, short story, or poem that makes some point about the work.
51.        Epilogue收场白: A short addition or conclusion at the end of a literary work.
52.        Epiphany主显节: A moment of illumination, usually occurring at or near the end of a work.
53.        Epitaph: An inscription on a gravestone or a short poem written in memory of someone who has died.
54.        Epithet称号: A descriptive name or phrase used to characterize someone or something.
55.        Era of Modernism: The years from 1910 to 1930 are often called the Era of Modernism, for there seems to have been in both Europe and America a strong awareness of some sort of “break” with the past. The new artists shared a desire to capture the complexity of modern life, to focus on the variety and confusion of the 20th century by reshaping and sometimes discarding the ideas and habits of the 19th century. The Era of Modernism was indeed the era of the New.
56.        Essay: A piece of prose writing, usually sho

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