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Chief Characteristics of Short Story

Chief Characteristics of Short Story | Main Features of Short Story

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Chief Characteristics of Short Story or Main Features of Short Story Chief Characteristics of Short Story Chief Characteristics of Short Story Introduction to Short Story The Short Story is...
Salient Features of Biography

Salient Features of Biography

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Salient Features of Biography Salient Features of Biography Salient Features of Biography Introduction to Biography (Salient Features of Biography): ‘Biography’ is a genre of literature dealing with...
Existentialism Existentialism Chief Characteristics

Existentialism | Existentialism Chief Characteristics

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Existentialism | Existentialism Chief Characteristics Existentialism Chief Characteristics Term ‘Existentialism’ may be defined as a school of thought based on the conception of the absurdity (completely...
Pastoral Poetry Pastoral Form of Literature

Pastoral Poetry | Pastoral Form of Literature

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Pastoral Poetry | Pastoral Form of Literature Pastoral Poetry | Pastoral Form of Literature Pastoral is not a literary genre but a literary form or technique...
Heroic Poem Heroic Poem Chief Features

Heroic Poem | Heroic Poem Chief Features

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Heroic Poem | Heroic Poem Chief Features Heroic Poem | Heroic Poem Chief Features A Heroic Poem is a long narrative written in an elevated style...
Renaissance Renaissance Meaning & Definition

Renaissance Meaning & Definition

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Renaissance Meaning & Definition Renaissance Meaning & Definition The term ‘Renaissance’ is a French word that means ‘rebirth’, ‘revival’ or ‘reawakening’. Literary, it refers to the...
Irony Types of Irony

Irony | Types of Irony

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Irony | Types of Irony Irony | Types of Irony Roughly to say, Irony is a literary device by which a speaker says one thing but...
Reformation | Objectives and Causes

Reformation | Objectives and Causes

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Reformation | Objectives and Causes Reformation | Objectives and Causes The term ‘Reformation’ refers to a religious movement that arose in most European countries in the...
Quiz Quiz as a Form of Literature

Quiz | Quiz as a Form of Literature

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Quiz | Quiz as a Form of Literature Quiz as a Form of Literature   Quiz | Quiz as a Form of Literature Quiz as a Form of...
Metaphysical Poetry | Metaphysical Poetry Chief Characteristics

Metaphysical Poetry | Metaphysical Poetry Chief Characteristics

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Metaphysical Poetry| Metaphysical Poetry Chief Characteristics Metaphysical Poetry At the nick end of the sixteenth century as well as in the first half of the seventeenth...
Satire

Satire Origin and Meaning

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Satire Origin and Meaning Satire Origin and Meaning Satire is a form of literary composition either in prose or verse the function of which is to...
Classification of Imagery

Imagery | Classification of Imagery

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Imagery | Classification of Imagery Imagery | Classification of Imagery In a general sense, the term ‘Imagery’ refers to a mental picture of anything made of...
A Mock Heroic Poem A Mock Heroic Poem Definition Characteristics

Mock Heroic Poem | Definition | Characteristics

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Mock Heroic Poem | Definition | Characteristics Mock Heroic Poem | Definition | Characteristics A Mock Heroic Poem is one in which the subject is mean...
Sonnet Sonnet as a Form of Lyrical Poetry

Sonnet | Sonnet as a Form of Lyrical Poetry

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Sonnet | Sonnet as a Form of Lyrical Poetry Sonnet | Sonnet as a Form of Lyrical Poetry The Sonnet is a form of lyrical poetry...
Showing not Telling

Showing not Telling

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Showing not Telling Showing not Telling Showing not Telling ‘Showing not Telling’ is a hackneyed but significant term in creative writing. It is concerned with the style...
Method Method Meaning Method Definition

Method | Meaning | Definition

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Method | Meaning | Definition Method | Meaning | Definition Method refers to the particular way of treating, operating or representing a thing. The literary Method...
Stream of Consciousness Novel-Chief Characteristics

Stream of Consciousness Novel | Chief Characteristics

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Stream of Consciousness Novel | Chief Characteristics Stream of Consciousness Novel | Chief Characteristics Stream of Consciousness Novel is an improved and delicate form of Psychological...
Chivalric Romance or Medieval Romance

Chivalric Romance or Medieval Romance

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Chivalric Romance or Medieval Romance Chivalric Romance or Medieval Romance 'Chivalric Romance' or 'Medieval Romance' is a form of narrative literature mostly in verse (either rhymed...

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