Important literary Terms

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1. #Auto_Biography: -is the history of one’s life written by one self.

2. #Act: - is the major division of a drama.

3. #Antithesis: -is contrast or polarity in meaning.

4. #Allusion: -is a reference to an idea, place, person or text existing outside the literary work.

5. #Allegory: - is a literary work that has an implied meaning.

6. #Alliteration:-the repetition of a consonant in two or more words.

7. #Ballad: -is a song which tells a story.

8. #Biography: -is the history of a person’s life by one else.

9. #Blank_Verse: -Verses written in iambic pentameter without any rhyme pattern are called blank verse.

10. #Comedy:-is a play written to entertain its audience, ends happily.

11. #Classical:-means any writing that conforms to the rules and modes of old Greek and Latin writings.

12. #Canto:-is a sub-division of an epic or a narrative poem comparable to a chapter in a novel.

13. #Chorus:-is a group of singers who stand alongside the stage in a drama.

14. #Catharsis:-is emotional release of pity and fear that the tragic incidences in a tragedy arouse to an audience.

15. #Comic relief:-a humorous scene in a tragedy to eliminate the tragic effect from audience.

16. #Couplet:-To lines of the same material length usually found in Shakespearean sonnets.

17. #Catastrophe:-Catastrophe is the downfall of the protagonist in a tragedy.

18. #Didactic:-is a literary work which aims at teaching and instructing its readers.

19. #Dirge:-is a short functional term.

20. #Diction:-is the selection of words in literary work.

21. #Dialect:-is the language of particular district; class or a group of people.

22. #Drammatical_Monologue:-In a poem when a single person speaks along with or without an audience is called drammatical monologue. Example “My last Duchess”-----Br

owning.

23. #Difference_between_drama_and_novel:-A drama is meant to be performed whereas a novel is meant to be read.

24. #Difference_between_stanza_and_paragraph:-A stanza contains verses whereas a paragraph contains prosaic lines.

25. #Epic:-is a long narrative poem composed on a grand scale and is exalted style. Example “Paradise Lost”-------Milton.

26. #Epilogue:-is the concluding part of a longer poem or a novel or a drama.

27. #Fable:-is a brief story illustrating a moral.

28. #Farce:-A form of low comedy designed to provoke laughter.

29. #Foot:-A basic unit of meter.

30. #Fiction:-A fiction is an imaginative narrative in prose e.g.

Lord of the fly—by Golding.

31. #Elegy:- is a poem mourning to the death of an individual or a lament for a tragic event.

32. #Genre:-means category or types of literature-epic, ode, ballad etc.

33. #Hyperbole:-An overstatement or exaggeration.

34. #Image:-is the mental picture connected with metaphor, smile and symbol.

35. #Limerick:-is a short poem of a five-line stanza rhyming aaba.

36. #Lyric:-A lyric is a short poem expressing a simple mood. It is usually personal and musical e.g. Keats’s odes.

37. #Linguistic:-is the scientific and systematic study of language.

38. #Melodrama:-A highly sensational drama with happy ending.

Example ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ –Kyd.

39. #Metaphysical_Poetry:-Meta means beyond and physical is related to body . . . . . . . . .

40. #Mock_epic:-It is a long satirical poem dealing with a trivial theme. Example: “The rape of the lock”-Alexander Pope.

41. #Metaphor:-A metaphor is an implicit comparison between two different things.

42. #Metre:-The recurrence of similar stress pattern in some lines of a poem.

43. #Novel:-is a long prose narrative fiction with plot, characters, etc.

44. #Novelette:-is longer than a short story and shorter than a novel.

45. #Ode:-is a long narrative poem of varying, line length dealing with serious subject matter.

46. #Objectivity:-We have objectivity in a literary piece when the author focuses on an object from broadened point of view.

47. #Octave:-is the firs part of Italian sonnet.

48. #Oxymoron:-is apparently a physical contrast which oddly makes sense on a deeper level.

49. #Prologue:-is the beginning part of a novel or a play or a novel.

50. #Prose:-Any material that is not written in a regular meter like a poetry.

51. #Prosody:-Prosody is the mechanics or grammar of verse.

52. #Protagonist:-Protagonist is the main character in a literary work

53. #Plot:-The arrangement of incidents is called plot.

54. #Pun:-A pun is playing with words.

55. #Periods_of_English_literature:-The Anglo-Saxon, Middle English Renaissance, Restoration, Neoclassical Romantic,

Victorian, Modern, Post-Modern.

56. #Romanticism:-was a literary movement. It stands Opposite to reason and focuses on emotion.

57. #Rhetoric:-Rhetoric is the art of persuasive argument through writing.

58. #Symbol:-A symbol is anything that stands for something else.

59. #Sonnet:-is a lyric poem consisting of fourteen rhymed lines dealing with a lofty theme.

60. #Satire:-is ridiculing the vices and follies of an individual or a society with a corrective design. E.g. “The rape of the lock”---Pope.