LITERARY TERMS

1. Tragedy:
HAMLET – William Shakespeare
Tells how Prince Hamlet took revenge on his uncle Claudius, who murdered his
father, the king married his mother Gertrude, is perceived in the mind about the
prince of deep pain to excessive anger. It also explores the themes of betrayal,
revenge, incest, and moral corruption.
2. Comedy
A Midsummer Night's Dream – William Shakespeare
It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus,
and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a
group of six amateur actors (mechanical), who are controlled and manipulated
by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set.
3. Epic
Iliad – Homero
Nine years after the start of the Trojan War, the Greek (“Achaean”) army sacks
Chryse, a town allied with Troy. During the battle, the Achaeans capture a pair
of beautiful maidens, Chryseis and Briseis. Chryseis’s father, Chryses, who serves
as a priest of the god Apollo, offers an enormous ransom in return for his
daughter, but Agamemnon refuses to give Chryseis back. Chryses then prays to
Apollo, who sends a plague upon the Achaean camp.
4. Satire
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
He uses satire as a tool to share his ideas
Here warn’t anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn’t
any lock on the door, and hogs like a puncheon floor in summer-time because it’s
cool. If you notice, most folks don’t go to church only when they’ve got to; but a
hog is different.
5. Lyric
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they
will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
6. Biography
STEVE JOBS – Walter Isaacson
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years, as well
as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries,
competitors and colleagues, Walter Isaacson has written a fascinating story about
the life of a creative
businessman…
- Short Story