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Chorus |Define Chorus|Chorus Meaning |Chorus Definition |Chorus Literary Terms |Chorus in Literature Chorus is a group of performers who   sing,dance and at times take part in the action of a play.According to Aristotle (Poetics,Chapter XII),it is one of the constituent elements of tragedy.The functions of chorus in classical tragedies are many.It- a) determines the structure of a Greek tragedy; b) creates background and sets tone and atmosphere; c) comments on past and present events and hints at what is coming next; d) sometimes takes part in action; e)covers the time-gap between episodes; f)affirms the wise views of the society; g)give touches of religious solemnity and common humanity. Chorus is an integral part of all classical tragedies. Sophocles has used heat in oedipus Rex,Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone. Modern writers have also used it. Marlowe has used it in Doctor Faustus.Milton has used it in Samson agonistes. Some modern dramatist replace

Chiasmus |Chiasmus Definition |Chiasmus Figure of Speech |Chiasmus Example Chiasmus |Chiasmus Definition |Chiasmus Figure of Speech The inversion in the order of words or phrases when repeated. Chiasmus Example |Examples of Chiasmus ◆"Beauty is truth,truth beauty," ...........(Keats:Ode on a Grecian Urn") ◆"Fair is foul,and foul is fair," ...............(Shakespeare:Macbeth) ◆"The fool doth think he is wise,but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." .........(Shakespeare:As You Like It,Act V,Scene I) ◆"Bettet a witty fool than a foolish wit". ...........(Shakespeare:Twelfth Night,Act I,Scene V) ◆"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." (J.F. Kennedy :Speech to UN General Assembly) Chiasmus is used to make the meaning more impressive by witty effect.

Catharsis |Definition of Catharsis |Catharsis Example |Catharsis in Literature The purgation or purification of pity and fear in tragedies.A dramatic presentation of sufferings or death arouses pity and fear in the spectators to such an extend that they ,after watching such scenes,feel relieved of those harmful emotions.Milton describes this state of a cleansed mind in the last line of Samson Agonistes:And calm of mind all passion spent." Catastrophe

Catastrophe|Catastrophe in Literature| Catastrophe Definition|Catastrophe Examples Catastrophe is the Deadfull consequence of the story of a tragedy. It is the final scene in which the action ends with the death of the hero and other characters. Examples of Catastrophe •Catastrophic takes place in the last scene of Doctor Faustus in which Faustus begs for God's forgiveness but Lucifer drags  him to hell. •In Othello it occurs when Othello kill Desdemona and then kills himself. • The catastrophe of Hamlet  is in the death scene of Hamlet (the hero ), Gertrude (the Queen),Claudius(the present king) and Laertes. Caesura

Caesura |Caesura Definition |Literary Terms |Caesura Example | Caesura Poetry Example Caesura |Caesura Definition |Literary Terms |  Caesura |Caesura Definition |Literary Terms |  A break or pause in the rhythmic progression in a line of poetry.It is indicated by the mark "||" as is shown in the following examples: Caesura Example | Caesura Poetry Example  ◆Observe this exampleThe boast of heraldry ,|| the pomp of power,  And all that beauty,|| all that wealth e'er gave,  .........Gray:["Elegy"]  ◆Where are the songs of springs?||Ay,where are they?  Think not of them,|| thou hast thy music too, --                      (Keats:"To Autumn")  ◆In friendship false,||implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin || or to rule the state;  .........(Dryden:Absalom and Achitophel)  ◆To err is human,||to forgive divine" ....... (Pope: An Eassy on Criticism)  At last ,you should know that caesura usually can be used to bring var

Blank Verse |Literary Terms |Blank Verse Examples | Blank Verse Poem Blank Verse |Literary Terms | Lambic pentameter verse lines without rhyme at the end. An iambic pentameter line is a verse line of 5 iambic feet.In blank verse, the last word of a line  doesn't rhyme with the last word of any of the successive lines. Blank Verse Examples | Blank Verse Poem Add this under the above line"Thy sweet converse and love so dearly join'd, To live again in these wild woods forlorn? Should God create another Eve,and I Another rib afford,yet loss of thee Would never from my heart;no,no,I feel The link of nature draw me;flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thout art,and from thy state Mine never shall be parted,bliss or woe." ........(Milton: Paradise Lost,Book IX) All these lines,like the scanned one,are in iambic pentameter and none of the last words of these lines rhyme with any other end-word. |Blank Verse Examples | Blank Vers

  Connotation Literary Definition  The indirect meaning of a word.Connotation is the suggestion or associated significance implied by a word. Connotation Examples | Cannotation in a Sentence 'Home is the place where , when you to go there, They have to take you in'. ...........(Frost:"The Death of the Hired Man") "Home"literally means a roofed structure to live in (denotation) but its connotative meaning,as it is suggested here,may be peace, intimacy, family bond,etc. Thus,a "bird"is a winged  biped(denotation)but the cannotation  of the word "bird" may be freedom,or  sweet voice;"island"is a piece of land  surrounded by water (denotation) but  its connotation is "isolated"as in the  sentence"Every man is an island in a  crowded city".The "bridge party' in  E.M.Forster'sPassage to India, literally  means a party to reduce the gap  between

Assonance | Assonance Definition| Assonance Literary Definition | Assonance Examples |Assonance Examples Sentences|Assonance in a Sentence Assonance | Assonance Definition| Assonance Literary Definition | Literary Terms or Literary Devices Repetition of a vowel sound in nearby words (without the recurrence of consonant sounds which would make a rhyme).Love and dove are a case of rhyme as both vowel and consonant sounds are repeated. But there is assonance in m a ke and h a te as the vowel"a" is only repeated and the consonants after it-----'ke' and 'te' are different. Assonance Examples |Assonance Examples Sentences|Assonance in a Sentence |Assonance in Poetry Then in a wa i ful ch o ir the small grants m o urn Am o ng the r i ver shall o ws,b o rne al o ft O r s i nking as the l i ght w i nd l i ves or d i es; ..........Keats:"To Autumn" In these lines,"o"and "i" are repeated. •Till morning touching mountai

Literary terms or  Literary Devices |Archaism |Archaism Definition Archaism |Archaism  Definition Use of a word or a style of writing which has already been old-fashioned. Example of Archaism Lord,thou hast examined me and knowest me. Thou knowest all , whether I sit down or rise up; thou hast discerned my thoughts from afar. Thou hast traced my journey and resting places, and art familiar with all my paths. ......(The Bile,"Psalms"-139) Here the words "thou"for you,"knowest " for know,"art" for are and "hast" for has are archaic words.A modern writer uses archaic words to add grandeur to his writing. Coleridge uses it in many lines of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".For example: He prayeth well,who liveth well Both man and bird and beast. What is Hyperbole?

What is a Hyperbole ? | Hyperbole |Hyperbole Definition | Hyperbole Literary Definition | Hyperbole Figure of Speech | Hyperbole Examples |5 Examples of Hyperbole | Give Examples of Hyperbole | 5 Sentences of  Hyperbole What is a Hyperbole ? | Hyperbole |Hyperbole Definition | Hyperbole Literary Definition | Hyperbole Figure of Speech |  An exaggerated statement or an extreme overstatement. Hyperbole Examples |5 Examples of Hyperbole | Give Examples of Hyperbole | 5 Sentences of  Hyperbole 1)"Ten thousand saw I at a glance," ..........(Wordsworth:"Daffodils") 2) From the east to western Ind No jewel is like Rosalind. Her worth being mounted on the wind Through all the world bears Rosalind All the pictures fairest lined Are black to Rosalind. ......Shakespeare:As You like It,Act III, Scene II) 3)"Ay sir,to be honest as this world goes,is to be one man pick'd out of two thousand."

Apostrophe | Apostrophe Literary Term | Apostrophe Figure of Speech| Apostrophe Examples | Apostrophe | Apostrophe Literary Term | Apostrophe Figure of Speech An address to someone present or something abstract as if the person or the things were present .It is often introduced by the exclamation "O".Shelley makes use of apostrophe in " ode to the west wind" at least 7 times. Here is one of them:                    Apostrophe Examples|Examples of Apostrophe   O Wind , If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Pope also uses Apostrophe many times in The Rape of the Lock.Here is one: "O wretched maid!"she spreads her hands,and cried (While Hampton's echoes,"Wretched maid! replied) Here the maid who helped Belinda in her preparation for the day has been addressed. The maid is absent at the place where Belinda Wails for the loss of one of her locks. Here is an example from Keats's "To Autumn": S

What is an aphorism ? Answer: A terse, memorable expression of a universal truth. 💐 What is an example of aphorism? Answer: •Wives are  young man's mistresses; companions  for middle ages; and old men's nurses."        ........ (Bacon: Of Marriage and Single life") •"Men fear death,as children fear to go in the dark;" .......(Bacon:Of Death) •"That it is impossible to love and to be wise."                 ...Bacon:"Of Love" •"To err is human,to forgive divine."                   (Pope:An Essay on Criticism) •"Authority forgets a dying king" ..........Tennyson:"Morte d Arthur" The use of aphorism reflects the range of an authors'sexperience and adds universality to the text in which it is used. Difference between Aporism and Proverb A proverb is an anonymous expression of a general truth while an aphorism is a true taken out of one's personal

What is bathos ? Answer: A statement in which there is a sudden fall from the serious to the trivial or from the sublime to the ridiculous. ●What is an example of bathos or anti-climax? •Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands,or when lapdogs breathe their last;        (Pope:The Rape of the Lock) Here is a sudden fall of importance from husbands to dogs. •Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail china jar receive a flaw,        (Pope:The Rape of the Lock) Here is a sudden fall from the importance of virginity to the brittleness of a china ware  suggesting that Belinda's virginity is as brittle as that of a china jar. •but in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler,,statesman,and buffoon; .......(Dryden:Absalom and Achitophel) There is a sudden fall from several important positions to that of a crown.        So over violent or over civil      That every man with him

What is anaphora in literature? Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginnings of two or more successive verse lines, clauses,or sentences. 👍What is an examples of Anaphora? Answer: •Observe this"So long as men can breathe,or eyes can see, So long lives this,and this gives life to thee."               .........(Shakespeare:"Sonnet XVIII") • In every cry of every man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear:                ....W.Blake:"London" •In Martin Luther King Jr's famous speech," I have a Dream, "there are two uses of anaphora."I have a dream" and with this faith" have been repeated several times. • It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness ,it was the epoch of belief ,it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was t

Anapaest Definition |Example of Anapaest |Anapaest Example Anapaest Definition |What is Anapaest? A metrical foot comprising three syllables of which the first two are unstressed and the third is stressed. Example of Anapaest (See Picture ) Example of Anapaest The use of anapaest gives swiftness to the movement of the verse line in which it is used.When the meanings or the events demand easeful swift movements,poets create the illusion of swift movements by using anapaest. What is Allusion?

What is an allusion? Answer: An implicit or indirect reference to another work of literature,a historical or mythical person or event. What is an example of an allusion? Answer: Observe this"Not half so fixed the Trojans could remain , While Anna begged and Dido raged in vain." ...........(Pope:The Rape of the Lock) Here is an allusion to the dilemma of Aeneas,the hero of Virgil's Aeneid.Aeneas falls in love with Dido,the queen of Carthage.Dido implores Aeneas to marry her and get settled permanently in Carthage.Though Aeneas is deeply in love with her,he decides to continue his voyage in search of a permanent empire for the Trojans. He is torn between love and duty.This dilemma of Aeneas has been recalled here to suggest the intensity of  Belinda's crisis. Allusion in a Sentence | Allusion Example in Poetry | Allusion Examples in Literature The winged boy I knew; But who wastes thou,O happy, happy dove?        

What is an alliteration? Answer: Repetition of a consonant at the beginning of two or more words or stressed syllables.Notice the following examples: " P uffs, p owders, p atches, B ibles, b illet-doux"                          ........(Pope:The Rape of the Lock) Here ' p ' has been repeated thrice and ' b ' twice.So there are two cases of alliteration in this line. ● What is an example of an alliteration?  Answer: The f air b reeze b lew,the white f oam f lew, The f urrow f ollowed f ree;                     ....(Coleridge:"The Rime of the      Ancient Mariner") Here "f" and "b" have been repeated. "To s pend too much time in s tudies is s loth"        ......(Bacon:Of Studies) Here "s" has been repeated. Example of Alliteration in Poetry | Alliteration Example in Literature " B lue, g lossy g reen,and v el v et b lack,"                (Coleridge:

The Secret to be Happy and Successful in L ife |How to Be Happy and Successful in Life We all want to be a little happy in our small life.Anyhow,we want to be happy and at the same time want to be successful in life.We do many things to be happy. How to Be Happy and Successful But you probably do not know  that you can get this happy and successful life easily through a few small tasks.Those are: 1) We always have to think positively. .Anyway, we have to leave thinking  negatively. Read More 2) Every morning or afternoon, exercises or yoga have to be done. 3) Be diligent in all the work. I cannot afford to or will not be able to  do this task.Never think this anyway.It is possible if you try. 4) Don't consider yourself weak. In all situations,you have to be strong. 5) Keep away yourself from anxiety.You have to keep in mind that worrying don't change anything. 6)You have to give time to your family and have to openly

How to be Successful in Life  Success in life does not come very easily.To get success in life,perseverance is necessary.At the same time ,regular living and discipline are also necessary. Both try and good luck are very important for success.To be Successful,obey the following 7 habits and change some practices. How to Be Successful 1) Keep Your Job List First of all, m ake a list of tasks and goals.Use your merit and don't depend on your emotion.It is not difficult to achieve the goal . Think that you are able to get Success.Keeping this in your mind, make a list.Hang the list in front of the eyes, wall or table. 2)Keep Workplace Clean Disorder never brings happiness.Also,it creates barricade to work. So if the work or reading space is scary and chaotic, then you cannot concentrate on anything. Keep it as clean as possible. Do not fill the space with more items. 3)Stay away from Distractions Do not waste any unnecessar

Anger Management:How to Deal with or Control  Anger Anger is a name of feeling.And since any of our feelings is personal and internal, there is no such thing as 'right-wrong'! So,anger is not a crime as long as it is confined to the boundaries of feeling. When we lose control over anger and behave unexpectedly,we create big problems. This indicates that in case of feeling there is no right or wrong issue but there is right or wrong issue for a behavior. If we hurt ourselves or others after being angry, then it is certainly wrong. And for this reason the concept of 'anger management' originated. Anger Management Anger management means not to keep anger under control or  anger in yourself  secretly.  Rather,anger management means to deal with it consciously.Now take a quick look at some of the techniques to takle anger management easily. 1) Identify the Causes and Circumstances of A nger Usual