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of the Writers and their Books:
1) “India
Wins Freedom” (Autobiography) writtern by “Abul Kalam Azad”
2) “Rape
of the Lock” (Poem) written by “Alexandar Pope”
3) “The
Alchemist” (Story) and “Silent Woman” (Story) written by “Ben Jonson”
4) “David
Copperfield” (Novel), “A Tale of Two Cities” (Novel), “The Old Curiosity Shop”
(Novel), “Oliver Twist” (Novel), “Great Expectation” (Novel) written by
“Charles Dickens”
5) “Tamburlaine
the Great” (Play), “The Jew of Malta” (Play) and “Doctor Faustus” (Play)
written by “Christopher Marlowe”
6) “A
Farewell to Arms” (Novel), “The Old Man and The Sea” (Novel), “The Sun also
Rises” (Novel) and “For Whom the Bell Tolls” (Novel) written by “Ernest
Hemingway”
7) “Caeser
and Cleopatra” (Play), “Arms and the Man” (Play), “Man and Superman” (Play) and
“Doctor’s Dilema” (Play) written by “G. B. Shaw”
8) “Animal
Farm” (Novel) and “Ninteen Eighty Four” (Novel) written by “George Orwell”
9) “Ode
to Nightmare” (Ode), “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (Ode) and “Ode to Autumn” (Ode)
written by “John Keats”
10) “Gulliver’s
Travel” (Satire) written by “Jonathon Swift”
11) “Childe
Harold’s Pilgrimage” (Poem), “Don Juan” (Poem), “The Vision of Judgment” (Poem)
and “Heaven and Earth” (Poem) written by “Lord Byron”
12) “The
Patriot” (Poem) written by “Robert Browning”
13) “The
Jungle Book” (Novel) written by “Rudyard Kipling”
14) Comedy
Play: “Mid Summer Night’s Dream”, “The Tempest”, “As You Like It”, “Merchant of
Venice”, “Julius Caeser”, “Comedy of Errors”, “The Taming of the Shrew” and
Tragedy Play: “Othello”, “Macbeth”,
“King Lear”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “Hamlet” written by “William Shakespeare”
15) “Pamela”
(Novel) written by “Samuel Richardson”
16) “The
Gift of the Magi” (Short Story), “Cabbage and Kings” (Short Story), “Roads of
Destiny” (Short Story) and “Sixes and Seven” (Short Story) written by “Sidney
William Porter”
17) “Ivanhoe”
(Novel), “Heart of Midlothian” (Novel), “The lay of Last Minstrel” (Poem) and
“Patriotism” (Poem) written by “Sir Wlater Scott”
18) “The
Waste Land” (Poem) and “Four Quarters” (Poem) written by “T. S. Eliot”
19) “Of
Human Bondage” (Novel) and “The Moon and Sixpence” (Novel) written by “Somerset
Maugham ”
20) “Songs
of Innocence, Songs of Experience” (Poem) written by “William Blake”
Quotations:
“Beauty
is truth, truth is beaty” – Keats
“To
be or not to be, that is the question” – William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
“I
have a dream that one day this nation will live out the true meaning of its
creed that all men are created equal” – Martin Luther King.
“If
winter comes, can spring be far behind” – P. B. Shelley (Ode to The West Wind)
“Brevity
is the soul of wit” – Shakespeare (Hamlet)
“Justice
delayed is Justice denied” – Gladstone
“Justice
hurried is justice burried” – Gladstone
“They
think too little who talk too much” – Dryden
“Superstition
is a religion of feeble minded person ” – Edmund Burke
“To
err is human, To forgive is divine” – Alexander Pope
“Cowards
dies many times before their death” – William Shakespeare
“All
the world’s stage and all the men and women merely players” – Shakespeare
“Poets
are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” – Shelley
“East
is East and West is West
Never
the twain shall meet” – Rudyared Kipling
“Knowledge
is Power” – Hobbes
“The
Child is the father of a man” – William Wordsworth.
“A
thing is beaty is a joy forever” – John Keats.“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains” – Rousseau
“Liberty
consists in doing what one desires” – John Stuart Mill
“Religion
is the opium of the people” – Karl Marks
“Eureka
Eureka (I have found it)” – Achimedes.
“The
unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates
“Man
is by nature a political animal” –
Aristotle.
Miscellaneous:
Samuel Johnson wrote first English Dictionary
published in 1755.
William
Wordsworth was a “Poet of Nature”
Shakespeare
was born in 1564 and died in 1616.
“Lyric
Ballads’ was published in 1798”
‘Hasting
day’ in to Daffodils means “Hurriedly Passing day”
“A
Tale of Two Cities” refers to the cities of “London and Paris”
“The
greatest modern English Dramatist” is “G. B. Shaw”
“William
Shakespeare” is mostly known for his “Plays / Dramas”
“William
Blake” is known both a poet and a painter.
John
Keats is primarily a Poet of Beauty.
Jonathan
Swift is a famous satirist in English Literature.
W.
B. Yeats translated the “Gitanzali” in to English.
Keats
died of tuberculosis.
Homer
was a blind poet.
Homer
was a blind poet.
Famous
three Greek Dramatists – Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus.
W.
B. Yeats won the Nobel Prize in 1923.
T.
S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in 1945.
English
Literary Terms:
Ballad – a kind of narrative poem.
Blank verse – having no rhyming end
Canto – a subdivision o f an epic or narrative poem.
Caricature – ridiculous or exaggerated style,
parody.
Catastrophe – the tragic end of dramatic events.
Dirge – a song expressing grief, lamentation and
mourning.
Elegy – song of lamentation
Epic – a long poem
Epitaph – words that are said about dead person.
Eulogy – speech or writing in praise of a person
Euphemism – inoffensive expression.
Fairy tale – folk literature.
Fantasy – an imaginary story.
Genre – Classification of literature such as drama,
novels, poems, short story etc.
Hymn – song in praise of god.
Hyperbole – exaggerated statement
Irony – the deliberate use of words whose literal
meaning is opposite of the meaning the speaker or writer intends.
Jargon – a mixture of two or more language.
Lampoon – a piece of satire against a person.
Limerick – a kind of short narrative poem.
Lyric – a poem that can be sung.
Melodrama – violent and sensational themes.
Metaphor – a word or phrase used to describe in a
way that is different from its normal use.
Neology – bringing into use of new words.
Ode - a lyric
poem, often in the form of an address.
Opera – a musical drama.
Parody – imitation of a poem or a writing.
Penny dreadful – blood and thunder tales.
Plagiarism – act of stealing from the writing of
others.
Protagonist – the leading character in a play /
novel.
Rhetoric – the art of persuasive impressive speaking
/ writing.
Rhyme – short poem in same sound.
Satire - The literary art that uses honour and wit
to attack and expose human folly and weakness.
Sonnet – a poem of fourteen lines.
Thrillers – sensational stories.
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