Literary Terms
Literary Terms
Literary Terms
Literary Term
a dramatic Fetechniquu of
Soliloqy
speaking alone to give charaters
owh houghts and
feeiras
A monoloque by a eharatker talkinq
to himself wih no istener aroun&
exampuk
To be or not tp be ha is Hha question
Yet. art hou stilI but Faustus and a Man
legy
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Lamentaliom
and mournir
It is a poem OF
On tha dedh
Writer Elegy of
Sir Philip Sydney
Edmund Spence Astrophel
Lycidas (PAstora Eleqy
Miltons riend
John Mílton
3ohn Keats
P1 Shelly Adonais
Arthur lHugh Clo
Mathew Armold Thyrsis
In mem0rium Ar thur Henry Ha
5 Alfred Tenyson
stTA
Drge ar lamantahsn
and
ATTfas tsArf4h
as the
Homophones A word may Sound Hhe samt
Knw, NeW
exampu
Right, Write
etár a fanat 1
Osymoron
is p a i n t u pleasure
fr
He is an hones rogua
She is irregularreyulas
Porado comes togeher
A stadement where Conhradictory
deoths
eamp Cowards die many
Hmes before heir
am a nobody.
Youp ememy's Tiend is your enamy,
wasted on he
What a pity hat youth must be
G8 Shaw
young
Digre ssion -
of Somcbody
Eulogy Expresing gh Praise
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t - X-1.
English Líteraturte
iterary Terms
The Com|pous isonf uniKa hings
using thu words (as)orlike)
Smile
-My e a sínging bird
hart is
wonderced lonaly as a cloud
Re is as eun ning as a tox
lom
Our Soldiers ore as brave as
The Soul was like a star dwelt apor
a fiqure 8- speedh d
in which as,suh, lie 2TIA
a phras or ab Nord
is applied fo a n Metapho
un objeut or ahion
to which it is not 7y metophor 27TA
li feraly appli cabl
Lite is but a walking shados k Nazrul is She lly 4T qoh-
My brother was boiling mod
was a breete
- n o t metaphor
Th assignmenF
is Kind of wild jsia, Life is a dream - ( rdhu
Revcnge a
Metaphor
He is Hhe only hope of his fanily
he repitHon o f
9 ' n n i g c o n s o n a n t s u n d
On he s2a shobre
-Birds of
a
beter
b e t t e
a
But b a t e r
a
makes
Prda-rks
BABA
t z a i a mtgra
Climax
Climax Aeigh- of heplot
The
tuwnirq
turnmy pom
w}r
ASTP AAÍED
TA AA
Vini,
v*Vidi, Vi
( and he
ro
r oa
arrs
s
laughs
He srmileshe
He
non ving
The Techniqut of treatimg personiicahs
is called
Personn human
Hhings
hings as
a s
Death lays
not a polite old
was
Mr Pneumonia
gentteman
Hyperbole 4ENr
Hyperbole RaggeraHn
now
a m so hungry hat I evuld eat a cow
meet
2. I am nobody
3 Yours enemy's friend i your enamy
words
Punl A pke thot makes a
pla on
Ondmato poeiauazTa
words and
in which the Sound of
A figue otspeech
phrases suggest he sense.
Side
nampls Look a your right
You are aht
Lt
English Literalure
Literary terms
Euphemís
A
Hgure o speech which stands for a pleasant wa of
referring to some Hhinq unpleasart
ampe
You are becoming a itte thing on he top- (oald)
Our teacher is in the famila way (Preqnant
Absurd Pla
Sornue) Beke
tor Caodot -
h234Waiinq
Paul Serte
m ara es)A7a =
Jeon
Names THes
rose
ACFred Hhe Gineat| Th Foundert of English
Prose
Fatherr of English
John Wycliffl ínto
Translated the Bible
Engllsh
English itenatup
Faltherr oF
Seoffruy Chautur Faher of Enqlish
drama poery
Fadhen or English Lanquaal
Mock
Hernoi
Falhen ot Modorun |Alexanden Pope| poe
nitiasm
John Drtyden Enqish
The Girat Masten Metaphysical
of verse Tohn Donne pae
John Miltom P Epte P o The poerof
Love
SensuDusnes
Joho ea-Poek obeauty,- Poet o
Lord Byron Rebel poe
P. Shelly - Revolutionary poe
Ppe ohope and negenaratibn
Loke poet
Lak poer
T Coleridae
Poet oSpernaturalism
pium Oater
Henrik ben
T3HAArA plajwTant
fothar of modern dama
T - A doll's house Grra nig
Literature r
English
Pepiods of
eriod
S a x o n
Anglo
-
0
-
1oGE
150
Old English Peniod
Anglo Saxon Peniod
5o0
l 0 6LOG6
6 -
Peribd
h e Midde English 1066-1340
=
Perubd
Narunan
Th Anglo 1 3 4 0 - 1 4 0 0
Chacen
1500-16
6660
0
1745- 1195/
Age of Sensibilíty= 1798
1832
Romantic Period-
Victorian Period
The Pre Rophaelites
1848-1860
1932-1901
T h e Aesthetcism Deadenc
1880-19OL
An Apology
or
poery
TaayT G1D Ar eadia
Moral
poliH cau
Spirl tual 1590 (yrayp
Chivalric
Aris totelior J
T519 AT( ADA
The Shepherds alendee
LAMu
ncer pastotal 215 gTA JRS15
Giorbodu
Ferrex and Porrex Thomas Sakille
Thomas Norton
Gorbedus
Ferres Porrex
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inner tep
Htohalas
Fahr of English oynedy ueen Ezob
Nicholas Udal Ei2obeHh ga
4 G Toa Rakph Roister Doister
Henry Howarde
Earl o Surrey
Regarcled as Hhe
Tottel's Miscellany Fother oF lank vers e
irst fruit of
Renalssane
Sir Thomas Wyat
Firs Sonte Feer in English lteratur
oFEli2ooethan period
Queen Eli2ahetm 9 sa
uo quote
te
A good tace
A ood
is He best lcer 6F reeema4
ecommend aH n
Quotaion
thing of
A hing
A beauty is a lhoy torever (Endyman)
ends in
in delight and
2 A pcem begins
wisdom
vaiy to what
opimion of aurselves, and we would hae
would
Silt things do
Sily cease. to be silly they art don by
senslblu Po in an impudent wNO
plo pu (Emma)
-AA ladys imaginatiom ver ropid , ik garps from
akmirotton to love, from love to matrím ony in amomnt