Important titles taken from.!!
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[ ] Arms and Men (Shaw) - Virgil's Aeneid
[ ] Captain Courageous (Kipling) - Mary Ambree
[ ] Where Angles Fear to Tread ( E M Foster) - An Essay on Criticism
[ ] Passage to India - Leaves of Grass
[ ] Cakes and Ale,or The Skelton in the Cupboard(Maugham) - Twelfth night
[ ] Appointment in Samaria ( John Hora) - A Merchant in Bagdad(Maugham)
[ ] Antic Hay ( Huxley)s- EdwardII (Marlowe)
[ ] Those Barren Leaves (Huxley)- The Tables Turned ( Wordsworth)
[ ] After Many a Summer (Huxley)- Tennyson's Tithonus
[ ] Time Must Have a Stop (Huxley)- Henry IV. Part 1
[ ] The Less Deceived (Larkin)- The Tempest
[ ] Darkness visible ( Golding)- The Paradise Lost
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Some facts.!!
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◼D.H.Lawrence called one of his novels Kangaroo as “Thought Adventure".

◼The phrase ‘religion of the blood' is associated with D.H.Lawrence.

◼A character in Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando changes his sex. Charles II is characterised in this novel.

◼A woman's search for a fitting mate is the central theme of Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman.

◼‘Chocolate cream hero' appears in Shaw’s Arms and the Man.

◼The phrase 'Don Juan in Hell' occurs in Shaw’s Man and Superman.

◼Prostitution is the central theme of Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession.

◼Labour and Capital conflict is the central theme of Galsworthy’s Strife.

◼"The law is what it is -a majestic edifice sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another." These lines occur in Galsworthy’s Justice.

◼Bernard Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925.

◼Joseph Conrad's novels are generally set in the background of the sea.

◼Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem “ If”

◼The term 'Stream of consciousness' was first used by William James.

◼The terms 'Inscape' and 'Instress' are associated with Hopkins.

◼Sprung Rhythm' was originated by Hopkins.

◼T .S. Eliot called 'Hamlet' an artistic failure.

◼The World Within World is an autobiography of Stephen Spender.

◼G. B. Shaw said, "For art's sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence”.
◼Aldous Huxley borrowed the title ‘Brave New World’ from Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

William Morris is the author of The Earthly Paradise.

◼T S Eliot was believed to be "a classicist in literature, royalist in politics and anglo-catholic in religion”.

◼Virginia Woolf was the founder of the Bloomsbury Group, a literary club of England.

◼George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty – Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World are prophetic novels.

◼Plato said, ‘Art is twice removed from reality'.

◼Plato proposed in his Republic that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic.

◼Five principal sources of Sublimity are there according to Longinus.

◼In Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four speakers representing four different ideologies. Neander expresses Dryden's own views.

◼Dr. Johnson called Dryden 'the father of English criticism'

◼Shelley said, "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”.

◼Dr . Johnson preferred Shakespeare's comedies to his Tragedies.

◼Coleridge said, "I write in metre because I am about to use a language different from that of prose."

◼Heroic Couplet is a two-line stanza having two rhyming lines in Iambic Pentameter.

◼Alexandrine is a line of six iambic feet occasionally used in a Heroic couplet.
◼Terza Rima is a run-on three-line stanza with a fixed rhyme-scheme.
◼Rhyme Royal stanza is a seven-line stanza in iambic pentameter.
◼Ottawa Rima is an eight-line stanza in iambic pentameter with a fixed rhyme-scheme.
◼Spenserian stanza is a nine-line stanza consisting of two quatrains in iambic pentameter, rounded off with an Alexandrine.

◼Blank verse has a metre but no rhyme.

◼Simile is a comparison between two things which have at least one point common.

◼Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement for the sake of emphasis.

◼The poem by Chaucer known to be the first attempt in English to use the Heroic Couplet is The Legend of Good Women.

◼Chaucer introduced the Heroic couplet in English verse and invented Rhyme Royal.

◼The invention of the genre, the Eclogues (pastoral poetry) is attributed to Alexander Barclay.

◼Mort D' Arthur is the first book in English in poetic prose.

◼First to use blank verse in English drama Thomas Sackville.

◼The first English play house called The Theatre was founded in London, 1576.
◼Thomas Wyatt introduced the sonnet form to England.

◼Thomas Nash was the creator of the picaresque novel. ( The Unfortunate Traveler)
◼Francis Bacon is the first great stylist in English prose.

◼Marlowe wrote only tragedies.

◼Sir Walter Raleigh wrote the introductory sonnet
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*Some Basic Terms Coined by Writers in Literature*
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1. Objective Correlative by T.S.Eliot
2. Dissociation of Sensibility by T.S.Eliot
3. Willing to Suspension of Disbelief by Coleridge
4. Negative Capability by Keats
5. American Renaissance by F.O Matthiessen
6.Natyashastra by Bharata
7. Rasa concept by Bharata
8. Kavya Prakasha by Mamata
9. Dhvanyaloka or Suggestion by Anandvardhana
10. Vakrokti by Kuntaka
11. Riti, Guna, Kavyalankara by Vaman
12. Positivism by August Campte
13. Romantic by Friedrich Schlegel
14. Metaphysical Poets by Dr.Johnson
15. Upstart Crow is Robert Green
16. Cultural Materialism by Raymond Williams
17. Imagism by T.E.Hume
18. Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
19. Horizon of Expectation by H.R.Jauss
20. Strategic Essentialism by Gayitri Spivak
21. Utilitarianism by J.S..Mill
22. Incunabula means Books published before 1501
23. Tension by Allen Tate
24. Strong Lined Poetry by G.M.Hopkins
25. Dictum 'Life Imitates Art' by John Ruskin
26. Theatre of Cruelty by Jerzy
27. Epic Theatre by Bertold Bretch
28. Theatre of Oppressed by Augusto Bal
29. Expressionist Theatre by George Kaiser
30. The Guilded Age by Mark Twain
31. Ambiguity by William Empson
32. Intertextuality by Julia Kristeva
33. Heteroglossia by M.Bakhtin
34. Dialogic Imagination by M.Bakhtin
35. Sublime by Longinus
36. Carnivalesque by M.Bakhtin
37. Jacobian Novel by Garry Kelly
38. Surrealism by Andre Breton
39. Decorum by Horace
40. The wasp of Twickenham by Pope
41. Theory of Avant Grade by Peter Berger
42. Chaucer of Scotland is William Dunbar
43. Poetic Justice by Rhymer
44. TouchStone method by M.Arnold
45. Pathetic Fallacy by John Ruskin
46. Theory of Population by Malthus
47. Provincialising Europe by Dipesh Chakravarthy
48. Egotistical Sublime is to William Wordsworth
49. Young Juvenile is Thomas Nash
50. Macabre element by John Webster
51. Sprung Rhythm and Curtal Sonnet and Inscape and Instress are by G.M.Hopkins
52. Life Force by G.B.Shaw
53. Light of Asia is Admin Arnold
54. Only Connect by E.M.Forster
55. Sports of Time by W. Wordsworth
56. Orientalism by E.Said
57. Womanism by Alice Walker
58. Third Space by Edward Doha
59. Hybridity by Homi Bhaba
60. Reception aesthetics by Wolfgang User
61. Langue and Parole by Ferdinand Saussure
62. Interlanguage by M.A.K.Halliday
63. Difference and Defferecnce by Derrida
64. Signs by Saussure
65. Stock Responses by I.A.Richards
66. Deep Structure by N.Chomsky
67. Competency and Performance by N.Chomsky
68. Readerly and Writerly Text by R.Bathes
69. Ironic and Indexical by C.S.Pierce
70.Habitus by Julia Kristeva
72. Flaneur by Walter Benjamin
73. Chora by J.Kristeva
74. Simulacrum or Simulacra by Jean Baurdrillard
75. Subaltern by G.Spivak
76. Metahistory by Hayden White
77. Polyphony by M.Bakhtin
78. Hegemony by Antonio Gramsky
79. Theoretician of Sociability is Malcolm Braburry
80. New Historicism by Greenblatt

Terms in Literature
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Most Important Terms in Literature
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🌷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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NTA-NET SET English:
1. What ‘I’ is The Chinese Book Of divination?
Answer: I Ching.🌹
2. Who wrote the poems “Ozymandias” and “Ode to the West Wind”?
Answer: Shelley.🌹
3. What ‘TOTH’ Is A. A. Milne’s play taken from a book by Kenneth Grahame?
Answer: Toad of Toad Hall.🌹
4. What book about four days in Iowa took Robert J. Waller two weeks to write, and topped bestseller lists for seven months?
Answer: The Bridges of Madison County.🌹
5. Which comic actor and writer co-wrote the book “Life and How to Survive It”?
Answer: John Cleese.🌹
6. What town was the birthplace of William Shakespeare?
Answer: Stratford-upon-Avon.🌹
7. Who wrote Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln and Julian?
Answer: Gore Vidal.🌹
8. What ‘N’ is the bird Keats wrote an ode to?
Answer: Nightingale.🌹
9. What was the only novel to be written by Margaret Mitchell?
Answer: Gone with the Wind.🌹
10. Which Author created The Sleuths Miss Jane Marple and Hercule Poirot?
Answer: Agatha Christie.🌹
11. Which 4 letter word for having sex first appeared in a dictionary in 1986?
Answer: Bonk – not the obvious one!🌹
12. Which ‘JE’ is Governess to The Ward Of Mr Rochester, in the book bearing her name?
Answer: Jane Eyre.🌹
13. How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write?
Answer: 154.🌹
14. Which authors first (unsuccessful) book was inland voyage?
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson.🌹
15. Who wrote “An Outcast of the Islands”?
Answer: Joseph Conrad.🌹
16. Who wrote Charlie And The Chocolate Factory?
Answer: Roald Dahl.🌹
17. In which Thomas Hardy novel does the character BathSheba Everdene Appear?
Answer: Far from the Madding Crowd.🌹
18. Who wrote the science fiction novel Slaughterhouse Five?
Answer: Kurt Vonnegut.🌹
19. What seven words provide the opening line of the Shakespeare play Richard III?
Answer: Now is the winter of our discontent.🌹
20. Which group of fans are the only ones to be mentioned in the Oxford English Dictionary?
Answer: Trekkies.🌹
21. Who wrote the novel Invisible Man In 1952?
Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson.🌹
22. John Ridd is the male lead in which book with a girl’s name as its title?
Answer: Lorna Doone.🌹
23. Which great book was started in Bedford Jail In 1675?
Answer: The Pilgrim’s Progress.🌹
24. The authorised version of the Holy Bible was made at the order of which king?
Answer: James The First (1611).🌹
25. Which novel opens with the words, ‘Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again … ”
Answer: Rebecca🌹
26. Who wrote about a pig called the Empress of Blandings?
Answer: P G Wodehouse.🌹
27. Whose 1995 novel The Moor’s Last Sigh enraged Hindu militants in
India?
Answer: Salman Rushdie’s.🌹
28. Which county shares its name with the first name of an English author?
Answer: Somerset (Maugham).🌹
29. What title is held by Shakespeare’s Cymbeline?
Answer: King of Britain.🌹
30. Excluding the word Hawaii what is the only word in the English dictionary that has a double i?
Answer: Skiing (Possibly Radii).🌹