SHL版名词解释

Unit1

The commonwealth:

William the Conqueror:

William of Normandy

King Arthur':

The Anglo Saxon

Ronin hood

Unit 2

Home Rule:

The Easter Rising of 1916:

IRA:

The Sinn Fein:(Ourselves Alone):

Bloody Sunday

The bullet and the ballot box

Downing street Declaration:

The good Friday Agreement(the Belfast Agreement):

The Anlgo Irish Agreement:

Unit3

Magna Carta:

The Civil war

The Roundheads:

The Bill of Rights of 1689:

In 1688,King James 2's daughter Mary and her husband William were invited by the politicians and church authorities to take the throne,on condition that they would respect the rights of Parliament .the Bill of Rights was passed in 1689 to ensure that the King would never be able to ignore Parliament.

Cabinet:

Stature Law:

The house of Lords:The house of Lords consists of the Holds Spiritual,who are the Archbishops and most prominent bishops of the Church of England; and the Lords Temporal,which refers to those lords who either have inherited the seat from their forefathers or they have been appointed.The lords mainly represent themselves instead of the interests of the public.

The house of Commons:the house of commons commons is the real center of british political life because if is the place where about 650 elected representatives(Members of Parlianment)make and debate policy.These MPs are elected in the General Elections and should represent the interests of the people who vote for them.

The functions of Parliament:

The constitution:

UNIT 4 Politics,class,and Race

The General Elections:

The electoral campaign:

Class system in British society:

Unit 5

The City：the city refers to the historic area at the center of London.It is one of the biggest financial centers in the world with the greatest concentration of banks ,insurance companies and businesses dealing in commodities .At the heart of the city the London stock Exchange.

Unit 6

Norman Conquest

The renaissance:：

The Romantic Period:

Realism:

Postmodernism:

Elizabethan Drama: The general flowering of cultural and intellectual life in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries is know ad the Renaissance. In British culture, one of the most successful and long－lasting expressions of this development lay in drama. That was the period of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The first professional theatre in London opened in 1576,and others followed, performing the plays of many notable playwrights, including Christopher Marlowe ,Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare.

Romanticism: Roughly the first third of the 19th makes up English literature’s romantic period .Writers of romantic literature are more concerned with imagination and feeling than with the power of reason.. A volume of poems called Lyrical Ballads written by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge is regarded as the romantic poetry’s’’ Declaration of Independence’’. Keats, Byron and Shelley, the three great poets, brought the Romantic Movement to its height. The spirit of Romanticism also occurred in the novel

Modernism: Modernism refers to a form of literature mainly written before World War 2.It is characterized by a high degree of experimentation. It can be seen as a reaction against the 19th century of forms of Realism. Modernist writers express the difficulty they see in understanding and communicating how the world works .Often, Modernist writing seems disorganized, hard to understand. It often portrays the action from the viewpoint of a single confused individual, rather than from the viewpoint of an all－knowing impersonal narrator outside the action. One of the most famous English Modernist writers is Virginia Woolf.

American history

Mayflower Compact: Indentured servitude: Many Navigation Acts:

The Great Awakening: Albany Plan of Union: The Sugar Act：

The Stamp Act:

Sons of Liberty: Townshend Acts:

Boston Massacre: Redcoat:

The Boston Tea Party；Galloway Plan of union: