#Literary_Terms:

🐦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.