Metonymy:
Name of one thing used for another thing with which it is
related. Thus, "the crown" is used for king; "the stage" is
used for theatre; Shakespeare's name is used to mean his works .
Motif : "One
of the dominant ideas in a work of literature."
Figures of Speech : Irony,Litotes,Literal Meaning ,Machinery ,Metaphor
Figures of Speech : Irony,Litotes,Literal Meaning ,Machinery ,Metaphor
Negative capability : An ability that enables a writer
to keep himself aloof from his writings. It is synonymous of objectivity. Keats
who coined this phrase defines it as an ability which makes a writer "
capable Of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching
after fact and reason." Shakespeare had it as his personal life cannot be
discovered from his plays. Keats claimed that he also had it. According to TS.
Eliot, this kind of writing is called impersonal writing.
Objectivity
A mode of expression in which the writer's personal life
remains absent from his writing. Homer, Virgil and Shakespeare are famous
objective writers because no information about their lives or their likes and
dislikes is found in their writings.
Objective
Correlative:
An image which suggests a particular emotion associated with
it. For example: The sentence ‘He is Meer Zafar' evokes in the mind of the
readers a sense that "He" is a betrayer. It is because betrayal is
associated with the name Meer Zafar who betrayed Nawab Sirajud-Daula. So
"Meer Zafar•• is an objective correlative for betrayal. Thus, waste land
is an objective correlative for spiritual death, rose is for love,
nightingale's song is for suppressed agony, and so on.
Onomatopoeia :
A figure of speech in which the sound of the words and
phrases suggests the sense. For example:
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
(Coleridge: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner")
Oxymoron:
A figure of speech in which two contradictory words are put
together. Example: "I fear and hope, I burn and freeze
in ice". (Wyatt)
A self-contradictory statement that hides a rational meaning
.
Example: "Sweet are the uses of adversity". The
surface meaning o this line appears contradictory as, generally, adversity is
bitter But as we go deeper we find the truth that adversity carries within
itself the sweetness of advantages.
Personification:
A figure in which
lifeless objects or ideas are given life. Example: "And Joy, whose hand is
ever at his lips / Bidding adieu." (Keats) Here "Joy" has been
imagined as a living person.
Plot:
In a literary work a plot is the logical arrangement of
events designed to excite curiosity or
suspense. It is the structure or scheme of a literary work.
Poetic
Justice:
The natural judgment which gives the wicked his due
punishment and the virtuous his due reward.
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