Literary Term Meaning Where dd the Renaissance start from?

Satire The literary art that uses honour Ans. ltaly

and wit lo attack and cxpose The main feature of the Renaissance is
buman folly and weakness. Ans. Humanism
Setting Elements of time, placc and Elizabethan tragedy is centred on
actor. Ans. revenge
Sonnct |A poem of fourteen lines.
Who is the 'University wits' in the following
Soliloquy JA dramatic technique of
speaking alone on the stage.
list?
Ans. Rebert Greene
Neology Bringing into usc of new
words. Which period is known as 'the golden age
|Stanza |A division of a pocm. of English Lietature?
Thrillers Sensational stories. Ans, the Elizabethan age
Who wrote the plays "The Tempest" and
Which is the oldest period in English "The mid summer Night's Dream"?
literature? Ans. William Shakespeare
Ans. Anglo-saxon
Which one of the following is first long Shakespeare is known mastly for bis
poem in English? Ans. plays
Ans. Beowulf
Which of the following is a play by
Choose the right answer : Choucer s the Shakespeare
representative poct of Ans. king hear
Ans. 14h century William Shakespeare was and English
Who is known as the btehr of Engish dramatist and poet of the century.
Ans. sixtecnth
poety?
Ans. Choucer 'Shakespeare' is the writter of-
Who is the father of Moder Englisb poctry? Ans. The Tempest
Ans. Geofrey Chaucer A sonnet is alyric poem o f
Ans. 14 lines
"The canterbury tales' are told by
Ans. Geoffirey Chaucer Wiliam Shakespeare is the author o f
The canterbury tales is as alive and Ans. King Hear
today as it was nearly 600 years ago. Twelth Night' is
Ans. appealing Ans. a comedy
GeofTrey Chaucer wrote Which book is a Tragedy?
Ans. Canterbury Tales Ans. Hamlet
Who is considered to be the father of Macbenth is
English Poem? Ans. a play
Ans. william Langland Wiliman Shakespeare s the author of
Who transiated the Bible into English for Ans. King Hear
the first time? Which is not true ofan English soneet?
Ans. John Wycliffe Ans. It has fourtcen syllables in cach lincs
Who translated 'The New Testameat'?
Ans. John Wycliffe Wiliman Shakespeare sa fomous
Ans. dramatist
'Renaissance' means The play 'Remeo and Juliet' was written by
Ans. rcbirth Ans. Williamn Shakespeare
'RenaisSance' means Romoe and Juliet is a
Ans. the revival ofhearning Ans. TGragedy
'Renaissance' o T Wiliman Shakespeare is not the author of
Ans, A Ans. White devil
The beginning of the Renaissance may be The poem 'Under the Greea Wood Tree'
traced to the city o f was written by
Ans. Florence Ans. William Shakespeare
Renaissance is-word. Wmacbeth ifa-by Shakespeare.
Ans. an llalian
Ans. play
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Oxymoron Literary Term Meaning
TINM sfvrs Oxymoron. Example: Fable Avery short and allcgorical
Open secret. story using animal characters
which tcacbes a moral for
Antithesis:
human being
Genre |Classification of literature
such as drama, novel, pocm
Exumple: Man proposes, God disposes. short story ctc.
Literary Term Meaning Blue print Final documents having
Lyric (feafre) Ashort pocm of songlike quality. received finished touches.
Canto A subdivision of an cpic or
Ode (iNrefre) |A pocm writien lo a peron or thing.
narrative pocm/a part of a
Hymm (R ) A song of praise
|long pocm.
hanksgiving to God. Asong Jargon A mixture of two or more
emboding resinous and sacred languagc.
emotions Lumpoon JA picce of satire against a
Commedy of Humors Connscted With Medical theory person.
Autobiogaphy A Person Who Writes aboutLimerick
his own life
A funny pocm of five lines. A
kind of short narrative pocm.
Conccit An exaggeralcd or far- fetchedLyric Apocm thal could be sung.
metaphor or simile. Machirvellian A selfish person with violent
Comic papers Humorous storics. character
melodrma
characier.
Catastrophe Thetragic ead ef dramatie cvents |Violenl and sensational themes
Caricature Ridiculous or CxaggeratedMctaphor A word or phrase uscd lo
style. parody. deseribe in a way that
diferent from its normal usc.
Dirge song expressing gnel,Hymn
lamentation and mourning/a Song in praise of Goda song
funeral hymn. embodying religious and
Two lines of verse Sacred emotions.
Couplet rhymingHvperbole Exaggerated statement.
together. ldyll A short pocm describing
Elegy Song of lamentation. simple, runl nd pastoral
Epic |A long pocm. scencs.
Epilogue A poem or specch al the end|rony The deliberate use of words
|of a play. whose iteral mcaning is
|Allegory ( ) |If one story is told in the guise opposite of the meaning the
of another story or if a story spcaker
or writer intends.
has double mcanings, then it isOde |A lyric poem, ofen in the
called allegory. form of an address.
|Aphorism JA shorn phrase that says |Opera Amusical drama
something true of wise Parody IImiation of a pocm or
Ballud (ofs) Akind of sbort aarrative pocm. writing.
Words that arc said about Penny bloods Talcs of blood curdling
Epitaph odventures
dead person. Penny dreadful Blood and thunder tales.
Eulogy Specch or writing in praise of Plagiarism
a person.
JAct of stcaling rom the
writings of others.
Euphemism Lnoffensive expression. Poet laurcate Court poct of England.
Blank vense Having no rhyming end. Prologue Preface Introduction of a play or
Black Comcdy a kind of drama which or Dark literary work.
Comedy portrays theProtagonist The leading character in a
meaninglessncss of human Jplay/oovel.
existence Rhetoric The art of persutsive impressive
Fairy tale Folk literature. speaking or writing
Fantasy An imaginary story. Rhyme Short pocm in samne sound
27. "Swect are the uses of
28. "Some books arc toAdversity."(Shakespcare)
be tested others to be Literary Terms
digested." (Francis Bacon) swallowed, and some Aliteration: (T)
few to bc chewcd and
29. To be or not to be." (W. Shakespcarc) S MI (Repetition of beginning
30. Thc good of the people is the chicf law"(Cicero) consonant sound) [ew Rt)
31. "Corruption wins no more than honcsty." Ibo "She sells seashels by the sca-shore."
Assonance :
32. "To Er is human, to forgive is divine. (Pope) The repetition of beginning vowel sound. hRt
I w f s Assonance IAlone, alonc, all, all, aonc.
33. "Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise." Anaphora
(Thomas Gray) (Sonali Bank (SO) 10) The repctition of the same word/phrase.
34. "Veni, Vidi. Vici" (w. Shakespearc) (Cu (E) II-121 Eanple : Watct, waler everywihere.
35. "When wisdom brings no profit To be wise is to
suffer." (Kings ocdipus) r P NSN Simile

36. "The Govemment is the best which governs least" SIE Simile
(Henry David Thorew) [CU(E) I|-12] (The comparison of unlike thing using the word like or
37. "You may fool some of the poople some of the as) lossr fran)
timc: youcan even fool some of the people all the "My heart is like a singing bird."
time, but you cannot fool all the people all time." " "As happy as a calm."
(Abraham Lincoln) afGo
38. "All at once I saw a crowd. a host of goldent ffca Metaphor
S AS, Like, Such tusfir gIM
daffodils." (Wordsworth) I
(Wordsworth)A I N SISE Metaphor
39. Tcn thousand saw 1 at a glance"
rer RBOTfM os) (Shakespcare)
"My brother was boiling mad."
40. There is a divinity that shapcs our ends.
carth,
"Her voice is music to his cars.
41. "There arc more things in heaven and
philosophy
Horatio, than are dreamt of in your fen: Personifcation
(Shakespcare) fR l
42. "Water water cverywherc, lnot a drop to drink." I personification MI
(John Miton) rtweT:
43. "Justice is truth in action." (Henjamin
Disaraeli) "The Nowers danced in the gentle breeze.*"The Sky Weeps'
The Fire swallowed the entire forest."
she?"
44. "I have not secn in
Himalsyas. But I have scen "Look at my car. She is a beauty, isn't
courage his
and in
Sheikh mujib. In personalityI have CHmax( R P )
Himalayas. thus had the
man is the T gffs
cxpericnce of witness the Himalayes." (Fidel
Castro) (99T f ) Climax happens in the height ofa
plot.

"I disapprovc of what you

say. but I will defend to Hyperbole ( )
45. lr.
dcath your right to say it." (Voltaire) "Ten Thousands a glance.
saw Iat locur
Digression frd
world is hc who stands writing brcaks the theme.
man in the
46. The stongest(Henrik lbsen) Ifa part Paradox or
of speech(TS frAT MO e )
most alonc." cacsar's wife should be above I
47. "Judges like
el Paradox ( N a fo enemy.
t:
suspicion." (Bowen U) Eworld cnemy's fricnd is yourbiter."
man in the is bc who stands *Your honcy, which is
VTruth is wilde]
48. The strongest lbscn) [IU B: 13-14] but temptation." [Oscar
most alone." (Henrik "lcan resist anything Monologue
nonc vOu, for there is noninslioguy
49. "Why thenm, Its makes it so."
or bad, but hinking
cither good Shakespcare) leuff speaks lo Speakers
speaks to audicnce
will to Speakers
(Hamlet, W. strong (AIfredhimscl
and falc, butyield." hcrself. Browning os
"Made weak by time
to Hamet by Shakespcare. V Robert
50. fink, and not to be, Thatrs
strive, to seck, to / To be or not vfru:My last Duchess.
Tennyson) (8 f I song in is the qucstion
green and dying. Though o TI
SI. "Time held me sca." (Fem Hill, Dylan |Shakespcare
my chains like the
Thomas) (ssur f
 Some
Das Kapital Important Books &
English Literature
Animal Farm Karl Marx Writers Some Poet Laureates:
DiMainalogues
Kemp
George Orwell
Plato
1. Ben Jonson
2.John Dryden
MotherKarenina Adolf Hinler 3.Robert Southey
4. William Wordsworh
|Anna
Asian Drama Maxim Gorky
Lco Tolstoy
S. Lord Tennyson
Blue Bird Gunner Myrdal
India wins Frccdom Lord Alfred Tennyson Some Important Quotaiton
Marriage and Moral Abul Kalam Azad 1.
2. "Child
(Ata glance]
is father of
God of he Small things Bertrand Russel "A littlethelearning man."
is a(W.
Wealth and Nation Arundati Roy (Alexander Pope)
3. "be
Wordsworth)
dangerous thing."
Prince Adam Smith you ever so high, the law is
Dunning) above you." (Lord
Republic
Frecdom
Machivalli
|Plato
4. "AlI the world's a
stnge and all the mcn
Bertrand Russel women
S. "AIl merely players." and
Along walk to
Robinson CrusoeFrecdom |Daniel
Neson mandcla
the perfumes
little hand" (Shakespeure)
of Arabia will not
sweeten this
Roots Defos 6. "An
(Shakespeare) u nf t
Time Machine Alex Haley unexamincd life is not
Try and Try again H.G Wells 7. "A (Socratcs) e t f l worh living"
Seven Scas W.E Hickson thing of beauty is a joy
forever" (Keats) turêrs
Around the world In Eighty| Rudyard Kipling
Jules verne. "Beauty is truth, truth is bcauty."
Days 9 (Keats) Ibe
Tess of the "Cowards die many times before heir
Things FallD'Apart
Urbervilles Thomas hardy
Chinus Achebe
(Shakespcare)
10. "Better e
to reign in Hell e: l death."
Wailing for goddot (John Milton) t than to serve in
Scholar Gipsy Samuel Becket K forgHeaven."t
Time. you old gipsy man |Mathew Arnold I1. "Good ace is the
Pilgrim's Progress Ralph Hodgson best letter of
John Bunyn (Qucen Elizabeth) A( recommendation."
thy name is women" (W. Us :tooo|
Divine comedy
Crime and Punishment
|ABricf History of Time
Akbar Nama
|Dante
Dostoevsky
Stcphen Hawking
Abul Fazal
12."FraA
loo
13. "Give me good
nation."
14. "Ifwinter(Napolcon)
mothers,
(fs YN M
Shakespeare)
Iwill give you a good
comes, can spring be far behind." o]
Politics |Aristotle 1s. "He prayth bes who loveth best. (S.T. (Sbelley)
War of peace Leo Tolstoy Coleridge)
Half Girlfriend 16. "Justice delayed is justice
Moby Dick |Chetan Bhagat 17. "Know thyselr denied." (Gladstone)
Onc Hundred Ycars ofHerman Mclville 18. "Knowlcdge is (Socrcates) INSTU (C) 16-17
powcr." (Hobbes) (TU (C.O) |1-12]
Solitude. Gabricl Garcia Marqucz 19. "Man is a political animal."
20. "Poctry is the Spontancous (Aristotle)of los ffna
feeling." overflow powerful
Country National Poets 21. "Power (Wordsworth) [JU (C)
tends to corrupt and 14-15]
USA Walt whitman corrupls absolutely." (Lord Acton)absolute power
(CU (E) 06-07)
Canada Pablo Neruda 22.. "Man is bom free, and cvery where he is in
England |W. shakespeare chains." (Rousscau)
23. "Our Swectest songs are those that tell of
France Victor Hugo sddest
Grecce thought" (P.B. Shelley)
Homer 24. "Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."
Lreland Thomas Moore, W.B. Yeats (Wordsworth)
Latin |Virgil 25. "I am a man more sinned against than sinning."
Persian Sheikh Sadi (W. Shakespcare)
Ialy Dante Alighieri 26. "Rcading maketh a full man confcrence a rcady
man and writing an exact mun." (Francis Bacon)