Literary Terms ও ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের বিভিন্ন Period A to Z
Allegory: An allegory is a story of double meaning. In it, one story is told in the guise of another story.
Allusion: An implicit or indirect reference to another word of literature, a historical or mythical person or event. Irony: A statement or a situation or an action which actually means the opposite of its surface meaning Paradox: Paradox is a self-contradictory statement. Alliteration: The repetition of beginning consonant sound. Assonance: Repetition of a vowel sound in nearby words.
শিক্ষা জগতের বিশ্বত প্রতিষ্ঠান Eduexplain
Aside: A dramatic technique of speaking along with the presence of other characters on the stage Soliloquy: Soliloquy is a dramatic technique of speaking alone on stage. Epilogue: A speech at the end of a play. Prologue: The beginning part of a play or a novel.
Catastrophe: The tragic end of dramatic events.
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Cati-climax: Anti- climax is a statement in which there is a sudden fall from the serious to the trivial or from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Climax: The climax of a plot is what happens at the height.
Biography: One’s life story written by another person.
Auto-biography: One’s life story written by oneself.
Chorus: A body of singers who perform together as a group.
Dialect: The language of a particular district, class or a group of people. Limerick: 1) Limerick is a funny poem of five lines. 2) A kind of short narrative poem.
Syntax: In English grammar, syntax deals with formation of sentences. Simile: The explicit comparison of unlike things using the words “like” or “as” is known to be simile
Example: Rafi is like the moon.
Rafi is as busy as a bee.
Metaphor: An implicit comparison between two different things.
Example: Rahi is the moon. Lima is a rose.
Euphemism: Euphemism is an inoffensive expression.
Hyperbole: An exaggerated statement or an extreme overstatement.
Hymn: A lyric poem or song in praise of God or a deity or a hero.
Lyric: A short poem expressing personal or subjective thoughts and intense feelings of single speaking Elegy: 1) Elegy is a song or a poem of lamentation, (কারো মৃত্যুতে বিলাপ করা)। 2) A song of mourning.
Dirge: Dirge is a song expressing grief, lamentation and mourning. (কোনো ব্যক্তির সমাধিসৌধে বিলাপ করা।
Ballad: A short narrative poem that tells a grave story through dialogue and action; especially in a sentimental or a romantic poem.
Ode: An exalted (মহিমান্বিত) lyric poem that begins with an address to someone, instill anguish and ends with consolation.
Epitaph: Inscription on a tomb or a monument.
Epic: Epic is a long narrative poem composed on a grand scale and is exalted style.
Canto: A part of a long poem.
Stanza: A division of a poem. It is a smaller unit of the structure of a poem. Act: The major division of a drama. Novelette: Novelette is a short form of a novel. It is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel.
Melodrama: Melodrama is a kind of play of violent (হিংস্র) and sensational (উত্তেজনাপূর্ণ) themes. Basically, melodrama is a highly sensational drama with happy ending.
Monologue: A part of a drama in which a single actor speaks alone.
Dramatic Monologue: A kind of lyric poem in which a single speaker expresses his thoughts and feelings to a silent listener. (মনে রাখতে হবে, Dramatic Monologue কিন্তু Drama-তে ব্যবহৃত হয় না, poem-এ ব্যবহৃত হয়। আবার শুধু Monologue Drama-তে ‘ব্যবহৃত হয়।) Sonnet: A poem of fourteen lines. Protagonist: The leading character of actors in a play.
Hamartia: An error or a flaw in the character of the protagonist of a tragedy.
Rhyme: The sound pattern made by the rise and fall of the unstressed and stressed syllables in verse line or speech.
Example: Light, fight, bight.
Couplet: Two verse lines rhyming together at the end.
Euphemism: Euphemism is an inoffensive expression.
Blank Verse: Blank verse is a kind of verse having no rhyming end.
Iambic Pentameter: A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable.
Dactyl: A metrical feet of three syllables of which the first one is stressed and the last two are unstressed.
Personification: Personification is a figure of speech in which lifeless objects or ideas are given imaginary life.
Onomatopoeia: A figure in which the sound of the words and phrases suggests the sense.
Denouement (অভিম দৃশ্য): The final scene of a drama or fiction in which all the problems are solved.
Epigram: A brief and witty statement which is apparently self-contradictory. (যেমন। ঘোড়ায় চড়িয়া মত্য হাঁটিল) Episode: A part of a larger story or a larger sequence.
Poetic justice: The natural judgment which gives the wicked his due punishment and virtuous his due reward.
Theme: The central idea of a literary work.
জাতিসংঘ নিয়ে সব প্রশ্ন
Plot: The logical arrangement of events designed to excite curiosity or suspense.
Fantasy: A fantasy is an imaginary story.
Fiction: A fiction is an imaginary story. Foot: Foot is a basic unit of meter in a poem.
Fable: A brief story illustrating a moral. Parable: A parable is a short didactic story that is meant to teach a moral or principle lesson.
Farce: Farce is a form low comedy designed to provoke laughter.
Satire: Satire is a way of criticizing people or ideas in a humorous way. Mock-epic: Mock-epic is a long satirical poem dealing with a trivial theme. Comic Relief: Comic Relief is a humorous scene in a tragedy to eliminate the tragic effect from audience.
Linguistic: The scientific and systematic study of a language.
ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের বিভিন্ন Period
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Anglo-Saxon Period: (450-1066)
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Middle English Period: (1066-1500)
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Renaissance Period: 1500-1660
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a) Preparation for The Renaissance: 1500-1558
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b) Elizabethan Age: 1558-1603
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c) Jacobean Age: 1603-1625
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d) Caroline Age: 1625-1649
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e) Commonwealth Period: 1649-1660 f) Puritan Period: 1620-1660
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Neo-Classical Period: 1660-1798
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a) Restoration Period: 1660-1700
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b) Augustan Age (Age of Pope): 1700-1745
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c) The Age of Sensibility (Age of Johnson): 1745-1798
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Romantic Period: 1798-1832
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Victorian Period: 1832-1901
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Modern Period: 1901-1939
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a) Edwardian Period: 1901-1914
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b) Georgian Period: 1910-1936
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Post Modern Period: 1939-Present.
