1. leading actor (actress): protagonist
2. rotate the sheet : if a job rotates, or if people rotate a job, they regularly change the job or regularly change who does the job / to move or turn around a central fixed point; to make something do this
3. What is somebody’s occupation? = What does somebody do?
4. Fairytale:
a. fairy / b. magic / c. supernatural
5. John Keats:
ohn Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was the last born of the English Romantic poets and, at 25, the youngest to die. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic movement, despite the fact that his work had been in publication for only four years before his death. During his life, his poems were not well generally received by critics, however his reputation grew and he held significant posthumous influence on many later poets, including Alfred Tennyson and Wilfred Owen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats
6. ballad: a song or poem that tells a story (narrative, poetry) → 四行一組
7. ode lyrical + narrative = poetry
8. ode = lyrical poetry (no story)
9. If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
10. ode to a nightingale
"Ode to a Nightingale" is a poem by John Keats written in May 1819 in either the garden of the Spaniards Inn, or, as according to Keats' friend Charles Armitage Brown, under a plum tree in the garden of Keats House Hampstead, London. According to Brown, a nightingale had built its nest near his home in the spring of 1819. Inspired by the bird's song, Keats composed the poem in one day. It soon became one of his1819 odes and was first published in Annals of the Fine Arts the following July. "Ode to a Nightingale" is a personal poem that describes Keats's journey into the state of Negative Capability. The tone of the poem rejects the optimistic pursuit of pleasure found within Keats's earlier poems, and it explores the themes of nature, transience and mortality, the latter being particularly personal to Keats.
W. J. Neatby's illustration for Ode to a Nightingale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_to_a_Nightingale
11. Bacchus (Dionysius)
Dionysus or Dionysos is the ancient Greek god of wine and grapes, the god who inspires ritual madness, joyful worship, and ecstasy, carnivals, celebration and a major figure of Greek mythology. He is included as one of the twelve Olympians in some lists. Dionysus is typical of the god of theepiphany, "the god that comes". He was also known as Bacchus, the name adopted by the Romans and the frenzy he induces,bakkheia. In addition to winemaking, he is the patron deity of agriculture and the theater.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus
12. thee: a word meaning ‘you’, used when talking to only one person who is the object of the verb
13. Tender is the night. = The night is long.
14. love labor lost (go nowhere)
15. Ruth:
Ruth is a common female given name, from Ruth the Moabite in the Book of Ruth, possibly from the Hebrew for "companion." In Israel, "Ruti" is a common nickname for Rut (Ruth) in the same way Bill is for Williamin English.[1]. In the Biblical story, Ruth tells her mother-in-law, Naomi, "Whither thou goest, I will go."
16. persuade the career
17. duckling: a young duck; the meat of a young duck
18. How to deal with yourself when you can’t find the company and recognition?( Aesop's fables)
19. soprano: a singing voice with the highest range for a woman or boy; a singer with a soprano voice
20. scrooge: If you call someone a Scrooge
21. Oliver twist: Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress (commonly known as Oliver Twist) (1838) is Charles Dickens' second novel. It is about a boy named Oliver Twist, who escapes from a workhouse and meets a gang of pickpockets in London. The novel is one of Dickens's best-known works, and has been the subject of numerous film and television adaptations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Twist
22. get it real
23. Chronological: arranged in the order in which they happened
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