Important English Literature Terms

*IMPORTANT ENGLISH LITERATURE TERMS*

 ⏩Melodrama:-A highly sensational drama with happy ending. Example ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ –Kyd.

 ⏩Metaphysical Poetry:-Meta means beyond and physical is related to body .

 ⏩Mock-epic:-It is a long satirical poem dealing with a trivial theme. Example: “The rape of the lock”-Alexander Pope.

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

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

 ⏩Novel:-is a long prose narrative fiction with plot characters etc.

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

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

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

 ⏩Octave:-is the firs part of Italian sonnet.

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

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

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

 ⏩Prosody:-Prosody is the mechanics or grammar of verse.

 ⏩Protagonist:-Protagonist is the main character in a literary work

 ⏩Plot:-The arrangement of incidents is called plot.

 ⏩Pun:-A pun is playing with words.

 ⏩Periods of English literature:-The Anglo-Saxon, Middle English Renaissance, Restoration, Neoclassical Romantic, Victorian, Modern, Post-Modern.

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

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

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

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

 ⏩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.

 ⏩Short-story:-A short story is a prose narrative considerable length. It is shorter than a novel.

 ⏩Stanza:-is a group of verses having a rhyme scheme pattern.

 ⏩Subjectivity:-We find subjectivity in a literary work in which the writer’s personal intrusion takes place.

 ⏩Soliloquy:-It means speaking alone when in a play a character is found speaking alone on the stage it is called soliloquy.

 ⏩Ballad= a kind of short narrative poem.

 ⏩Blank verse= Having no rhyming end.

 ⏩Blue print= final documents having received finished touches.

 ⏩Canto= A subdivision of an epic or narrative poem.

 ⏩Elegy= Song of lamentation.

 ⏩Epic= A long poem

 ⏩Epilogue= A poem or speech at the end of play.

 ⏩Epitaph= words that are said about dead person.

 ⏩Eulogy= Speech or writing i praise of a person.

 ⏩Fairy talk= folk literature.

 ⏩Fantasy = an imaginary story.

 ⏩Hymn=song praise of god.

 ⏩Jargon= A mixture of two or more language .

 ⏩Lyric= A poem that could be sung.

 ⏩Opera= A musical drama.

 ⏩Parody= Imitation of a poem or writings.

 ⏩Sonnet= A poem of fourteen lines.