English Literary Terms । এই টপিকস থেকে আসবে ।

 

Ballad= a kind of short narrative poem.
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Blank verse= Having no rhyming end.
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Blue print= final documents having received finished touches.
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Canto= A subdivision of an epic or narrative poem.
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Elegy= Song of lamentation.
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Epic= A long poem
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Epilogue= A poem or speech at the end of play.
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Epitaph= words that are said about dead person.
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Eulogy= Speech or writing i praise of a person.
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Fairy talk= folk literature.
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Fantacy = an imaginary story.
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Hymn=song praise of god.
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Jargon= A mixture of two or more language .
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Lyric= A poem that could be sung.
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Opera= A musical drama.
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Parody= Imitation of a poem or writings.
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Sonnet= A poem of fourteen lines.
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Other Literary Terms
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1. Allegory: - is a literary work that has an implied meaning.
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2. Act: - is the major division of a drama.
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3. Antithesis: -is contrast or polarity in meaning.
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4. Allusion: -is a reference to an idea, place, person or text existing outside the literary work.
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5. Auto-Biography: -is the history of one’s life written by one self.
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6. Alliteration:-the repetition of a consonant in two or more words.
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7. Ballad: -is a song which tells a story.
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8. Biography: -is the history of a person’s life by one else.
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9. Blank Verse: -Verses written in iambic pentameter without any rhyme pattern is called blank verse.
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10. Comedy:-is a play written to entertain its audience ends happily.
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11. Classical:-means any writing that conforms to the rules and modes of old Greek and Latin written.
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12. Canto:-is a sub-division of an epic or a narrative poem comparable to a chapter in a novel.
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13. Chorus:-is a group of singers who stand alongside the stage in a drama.
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14. Catharsis:-is emotional release of pity and fear that the tragic incidences in a tragedy arouse to an audience.
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15. Comic relief:-a humorous scene in a tragedy to eliminate the tragic effect from audience.
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16. Couplet:-To lines of the same material length usually found in Shakespearean sonnet.
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17. Catastrophe:-Catastrophe is the downfall of the protagonist in a tragedy.
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18. Didactic:-is a literary work which aims at teaching and instructing it readers.
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19. Dirge:-is a short functional terms.
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20. Diction:-is the selection of words in literary work.
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21. Dialect:-is the language of particular district; class or a group of people.
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22. Dramatical Monologue:-In a poem when a single person speaks along with or without an audience is called drammatical monologue.
.Example “My last Duchess”-----Browning.
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23. Difference between drama and novel:-A drama is meant to perform whereas a novel is meant to read.
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24. Difference between stanza and paragraph:-A stanza contains verses whereas a paragraph contains prosaic lines.
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25. Epic:-is a long narrative poem composed on a grand scale and is exalted style. Example “Paradise Last”-------Milton.
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26. Epilogue:-is the concluding part of a longer poem or a novel or a drama.
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27. Fable:-is a brief story illustrating a moral.
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28. Farce:-A form of low comedy designed to provoke laughter.
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29. Foot:-A basic unit of meter.
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30. Fiction:-A fiction is an imaginative narrative in prose e.g. Lord of the fly—by Golding.
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31. Elegy is a poem mourning to the death of an individual or a lament for a tragic event.
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32. Genre:-means category or types of literature-epic, ode, ballad etc.
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33. Hyperbole:-An overstatement or exaggeration.
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34. Image:-is the mental picture connected with metaphor, smile and symbol.
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35. Limerick:-is a short poem of a five-line stanza rhyming aaba.
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36. Lyric:-A lyric is a short poem expressing a simple mood. It is usually personal and musical e.g. Keats’s odes.
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37. Linguistic:-is the scientific and systematic study of language.
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38. Melodrama:-A highly sensational drama with happy ending. Example ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ –Kyd.
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39. Metaphysical Poetry:-Meta means beyond and physical is related to body . . . . . . . . .
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40. Mock-epic:-It is a long satirical poem dealing with a trivial theme. Example: “The rape of the lock”-Alexander Pope.
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41. Metaphor:-A metaphor is an implicit comparison between two different things.
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42. Metre:-The recurrence of similar stress pattern in some lines of a poem.
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43. Novel:-is a long prose narrative fiction with plot characters etc.
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44. Novelette:-is longer than a short story and shorter than a novel.
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45. Ode:-is a long narrative poem of varying, line length dealing with serious subject matter.
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46. Objectivity:-We have objectivity in a literary piece when the author focuses on an object from broadened point of view.
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47. Octave:-is the firs part of Italian sonnet.
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48. Oxymoron:-is apparently a physical contrast which oddly makes sense on a deeper level.
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49. Prologue:-is the beginning part of a novel or a play or a novel.
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50. Prose:-Any material that is not written in a regular meter like a poetry.
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51. Prosody:-Prosody is the mechanics or grammar of verse.
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52. Protagonist:-Protagonist is the main character in a literary work
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53. Plot:-The arrangement of incidents is called plot.
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54. Pun:-A pun is playing with words.
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55. Periods of English literature:-The Anglo-Saxon, Middle English
Renaissance, Restoration, Neoclassical Romantic, Victorian, Modern, Post-Modern.
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56. Romanticism:-was a literary movement. It stands Opposite to reason and focuses on emotion.
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57. Rhetoric:-Rhetoric is the art of persuasive argument through writing.
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58. Symbol:-A symbol is anything that stands for something else.
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59. Sonnet:-is a lyric poem consisting of fourteen rhymed lines dealing with a lofty theme.
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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.
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61. Short-story:-A short story is a prose narrative considerable length. It is shorter than a novel.
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62. Stanza:-is a group of verses having a rhyme scheme pattern.
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63. Subjectivity:-We find subjectivity in a literary work in which the writer’s personal intrusion takes place.
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64. Soliloquy:-It means speaking alone when in a play a character is found speaking alone on the stage it is called soliloquy