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2. Classical:-means any writing that conforms to the rules and modes of old Greek and Latin writings.
4. Allusion: -is a reference to an idea, place, person or text existing outside the literary work.
9. Blank Verse: -Verses written in iambic pentameter without any rhyme pattern are called blank verse.
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.
18. Didactic:-is a literary work which aims at teaching and instructing its readers.
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.
31. Elegy:- is a poem mourning to the death of an individual or a lament for a tragic event.
34. Image:-is the mental picture connected with metaphor, smile and symbol.
36. Lyric:-A lyric is a short poem expressing a simple mood. It is usually personal and musical e.g. Keats’s
odes.
40. Mock-epic:-It is a long satirical poem dealing with a trivial theme. Example: “The rape of the lock”-
Alexander Pope.
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.
50. Prose:-Any material that is not written in a regular meter like a poetry.
55. Periods of English literature:-The Anglo-Saxon, Middle English Renaissance, Restoration, Neoclassical
Romantic,
56. Romanticism:-was a literary movement. It stands Opposite to reason and focuses on emotion.
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.