*💫Most Important Terms in Literature🔥*
🌷Comedy
it is a type of drama in which characters amuse the audience and it ends happily .
🌷Classical
Classical means a piece of literature that shows the traditions and modes of Greek and Latin writings.
🌷Antithesis
It means reversal of something It describes the opposite of something or someone.
🌷Allusion
It is used for direct reference it can be an idea,person or piece of text.
🌷Allegory
It is used to reveal the true story or hidden meanings.In this type of term characters stand for an abstract idea.Its purpose is to moralize people.
🌷Alliteration
It is a stylistics device used to describe the the repetition of a consonant in 2 or more words.
🌷Ballad
It is a form of verse.It is a poem or song which describes the story in stanzas.
🌷Biography
It is the type of literature genre in which history of a person’s life written by one else.
🌷Blank Verse
It is the type of verse written in iambic pentameter.there is no any rhyme pattern that is why it is called Blank verse.
🌷Auto-Biography
It is bio data of one’s life written by the same person.
●Act
It is the important division of a play .In which we can see rising action, climax and resolution of the play.
●Canto
It is the type of poetic term in which long poems divided into many sections .
●Chorus
Chorus were very important in Greek plays they were stand for group of singers who narrates the circumstances and used to comment on the pathetic conditions of a tragic hero.
●Catharsis
It is the purification of feelings and emotions in tragedy and arouses the elements of pity and fear in audience.
●Catastrophe
It is the end of the hero or downfall of the tragic hero in a tragedy.
●Didactic
It is the type of poetry used to aim at teaching something instructional to its readers.
●Dirge
It is the kind of song that expresses mourning or grief.
●Diction
It is the use or choice of words,selection of words in literary work
●Dialect
It can be a language of specific area or a group of people .
》Difference between drama and novel
Drama is for performance while a novel is for reading.
●Epic
It is long poem.It has grand style and always have supernatural characters.Paradise Los by Milton.
●Epilogue
It can be the concluding part of a play novel or poem .
●Fable
It is the kind of story that describes the story based on morality.
●Farce
It is a comic work aim to provoke laughter in audience.
●Foot
It is the basic unit of meter in poem.It is usually contains one stressed syllable .
●Fiction
It is the type of prose fiction in which imaginations plays an important part.
●Genre
it refers to a classification of English literature.
●Hyperbole
It is taken from Greek word which means over-casting .It is a figure of speech writers used to exaggerate thing.
●Limerick
It is the kind of poem which has five line stanza.
●Metaphysical Poetry
It is highly philosophical poetry.it discusses the maters of love and existence of life.It was first coined by Samuel Johnson.
●Metaphor
Metaphor is a figure of speech that describes the things or objects,actions that is not true literally true .
●Novelette
It is extensive than a short story and less than a novel.
●Ode
It is a lyric poem which deals with serious matters.
●Prologue
it is the beginning of a fiction or a drama.
●Romanticism
It was movement in literature which stands for reason and focuses on emotions and feelings.
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