English Literature:

Name 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:

1. “Beauty is truth, truth is beaty” – Keats

2. “To be or not to be, that is the question” – William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
3. “I have a dream that one day this nation will live out the true meaning of its creed that all men are reated
equal” – Martin Luther King.
4. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind” – P. B. Shelley (Ode to The West Wind)
5. “Brevity is the soul of wit” – Shakespeare (Hamlet)
6. “Justice delayed is Justice denied” – Gladstone
7. “Justice hurried is justice burried” – Gladstone
8. “They think too little who talk too much” – Dryden
9. “Superstition is a religion of feeble minded person ” – Edmund Burke
10. “To err is human, To forgive is divine” – Alexander Pope
11. “Cowards dies many times before their death” – William Shakespeare
12. “All the world’s stage and all the men and women merely players” – Shakespeare
13. “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” – Shelley
14. East is East and West is West Never the twain shall meet” – Rudyared Kipling
15. “Knowledge is Power” –Hobbes
16. The Child is the father of a man” – William Wordsworth.
17. “A thing is beaty is a joy forever” – John Keats.
18. “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains” – Rousseau
19. “Liberty consists in doing what one desires” – John Stuart Mill
20. “Religion is the opium of the people” – Karl Marks
21. “Eureka Eureka (I have found it)” – Achimedes.
22. “The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates
23. “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 (সসসস সস সসসসসসসসসসসসসস সসসসসস সসস সসসস সসসস) in English
Literature.
W. B. Yeats translated the “Gitanzali” in to English.
Keats died of tuberculosis( hÿv).
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:

1. Ballad – a kind of narrative poem.

2. Blank verse – having no rhyming end
3. Canto – a subdivision of an epic or narrative poem.
4. Caricature – ridiculous or exaggerated style, parody.
5. Catastrophe – the tragic end of dramatic events.
6. Dirge – a song expressing grief, lamentation and mourning.
7. Elegy – song of lamentation
8. Epic – a long poem
9. Epitaph – words that are said about dead person.
10. Eulogy – speech or writing in praise of a person
11. Euphemism – inoffensive expression.
12. Fairy tale – folk literature.
13. Fantasy – an imaginary story.
14. Genre – Classification of literature such as drama, novels, poems, short story etc.
15. Hymn – song in praise of god.
16. Hyperbole – exaggerated statement
17. Irony – the deliberate use of words whose literal meaning is opposite of the meaning the speaker or writer intends.
18. Jargon – a mixture of two or more language.
19. Lampoon – a piece of satire against a person.
20. Limerick – a kind of short narrative poem.
21. Lyric – a poem that can be sung.
22. Melodrama – violent and sensational themes.
23. Metaphor – a word or phrase used to describe in a way that is different from its normal use.
24. Neology – bringing into use of new words.
25. Ode - a lyric poem, often in the form of an address.
26. Opera – a musical drama.
27. Parody – imitation of a poem or writing.
28. Penny dreadful – blood and thunder tales.
29. Plagiarism – act of stealing from the writing of others.
30. Protagonist – the leading character in a play / novel.
31. Rhetoric – the art of persuasive impressive speaking / writing.
32. Rhyme – short poem in same sound.
33. Satire - The literary art that uses honor and wit to attack and expose human folly and weakness.
34. Sonnet – a poem of fourteen lines.
35. Thrillers – sensational stories.