Literary Terms English Literature

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English Literature 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 is the downfall of the protagonist in a tragedy.
18. Didaction 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
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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..