04-01-2018, 04:15 PM
*The literature includes fiction, non-fiction, fables, travelogues, poetry etc.
*The creative writings of an author from imagination
Ans : Fiction
*Writings about real life
Ans : Non fictions
*The examples of Non-fiction
Ans : History, Biography, Autobiography, Essays
*‘Fable’ is a moral story.
*The travelling experience of an author
Ans : Travelogues
*Lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning the deeds of a legendary or historical hero
Ans : Epic
*Elaborately structured poem praising or glorifying an event or individual
Ans : Ode
*Comedy which aims at entertaining the audience
Ans : Farce
*Poem which contains fourteen lines
Ans : Sonnet
*Form of verse, often set to music
Ans : Ballad
*A preface or introductory part of a poem or novel
Ans : Prologue
*Piece of writing at the end of a work of literature or drama
Ans : Epilogue
*A device often used in drama where by a character speaks to himself or herself
Ans : Soliloquy
William Shakespeare
*William Shakespeare is known as 'Bard of Avon' and England's National poet.
*He was bom at Stratford-upon- Avon (England).
*April 23, Shakespeare’s death Anniversary is observed as World Book Day every year.
*Shakespeare’s major tragedies are ‘Hamlet’, King Lear’, Othello;, Macbeth’, Romeo and Juliet’, Antony and Cleopatra.
*All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice are other important comedies of Shakespeare.
*Henry VI part I is the first and ‘The Tempest’ is supposed to be his last play.
*Speech presented by a single character most. often to express their thoughts aloud
Ans : Monologue
*Kind of poem in which single fictional or historical character other than the poet speaks to a silent ‘audience’ of one or more persons Dramatic monologue
*A mournful, melancholic poem especially a general song or lament for the dead
Ans : Elegy
*A brief , interesting , memorable and sometimes surprising or satirical statement
Ans : Epigram
*A traditional or legendary story usually concerning some being or hero or event
Ans : Myth
*A repetition of similar sounds in two or more words and is most often used in poetry and songs
Ans : Rhyme
*The main character of a literary, theatrical, cinematic or musical narrative
Ans : Protagonist
*A character who represents the opposition against the protagonist
Ans : Antagonist
*A well known lexicographer who compiled the first dictionary in English Samuel Johnson
*The highest award in the field of literature Nobel Prize
*World's first Gender Literature festival will be held in Patna (from 7th April to 9th April,2017)
*Two famous Greek epics written by Homer
Illiad and Odyssey
*Sophocles - Greek Tragedian
*His works - Oedipus the king, Electra
*Herodotus - Father of History
*Aritophanes - Greek comedy playwright
*His works - The Wasps, Lysistrata
*The well known orator in Greek Demosthenese
*Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, etc. were great philosophers in Greek.
*The poet known as ‘Nature poet’ in English literature
Ans : William Wordsworth
*His major works The Solitary Reaper,The Prelude Lyrical Ballads.
Father of English Essay
*Father of English Essay
Ans : Francis Bacon
*Francis Bacon’s works are ‘Of studies’, ‘Of truth’, 'Of travels’ etc.
