English Literature Overview

Nobel Prize in Literature 2016

• Alice Munro was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Tam o' Shanter

• Robert Burns wrote the narrative poem Tam o' Shanter.

Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard

• Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard translated Petrarch's sonnets.

Elizabethan Poetry

• Lyric poetry, expressing personal feelings in first person, was popular during the Elizabethan period.
• Sonnet is a formal type of poetry.

English Poetry Anthology

• Tottel's Miscellany was the first printed anthology of English poetry.

Concordance

• A concordance is an alphabetical list of words in a book or body of work, including every instance with its context.

Play by William Shakespeare

• Antony and Cleopatra is a play by William Shakespeare.

University Wits

• Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, and George Peele were called University Wits.

William Shakespeare's Plays

• William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays.

The Spanish Tragedy

• Thomas Kyd wrote the play The Spanish Tragedy.

Dr. Johnson's Work

• Dr. Johnson's work, The Lives of the English Poets, is a collection of biographies and critical prefaces to the works of English poets.

Sir Roger de Coverley

• Joseph Addison created the fictional character Sir Roger de Coverley.

Mock-Heroic Poetry

• Mac Flecknoe is a famous mock-heroic poem.

Alexander Pope's Poem

• Alexander Pope wrote An Essay on Man.

18th Century Satirical Poetry

• An Essay on Man, a poem by Alexander Pope is an example of 18th-century satirical poetry.

Jonathan Swift's Works

• Jonathan Swift created the lands of Lilliput and Brobdingnag.

Samuel Richardson's Novels

• Samuel Richardson wrote the epistolary novels Pamela and Clarissa.

The Rise of the Novel

• Ian Watt wrote the historical account The Rise of the Novel.

Romantic Revolt

• William Wordsworth wrote the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, a document central to the Romantic revolt against Neo-classicism.

Songs of Innocence and Experience

• William Blake composed Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, which depict the two contrary states of the soul.

Wordsworth's Poem

• The poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud discusses daffodils.

Coleridge's Poem

• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem by S.T. Coleridge.

Coleridge's Kubla Khan

• Kubla Khan is a poem by S.T Coleridge.

Charles Lamb's Essay

• Charles Lamb wrote the essay A Dissertation upon Roast Pig.

Walt Whitman's Collection

• Leaves of Grass is a collection of poems by Walt Whitman.

Henry David Thoreau's Memoir

• Henry David Thoreau wrote the memoir Walden.

Charles Dickens' Novel

• Bleak House shows post-Industrial Revolution pessimism.

Gothic Fiction

• The Castle of Otranto is an example of Gothic Fiction.

Jane Austen's Novels

• Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen.

George Eliot's Novels

• The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot about Tom and Maggie Tulliver.

J.R.R. Tolkien's Works

• J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

T.S. Eliot's Literary Term

• T.S. Eliot created the literary critical term Objective Correlative.

Vladimir Propp's Work

• Vladimir Propp wrote Morphology of the tale.

William K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley

• The essay The Intentional Fallacy was written by William K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley.

Aristotle's Dramatic Unites

• Aristotle proposed three unities in drama: time, place, and action.

Kurt Vonnegut's Novel

• Kurt Vonnegut Jr. wrote Slaughterhouse-Five.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Novel

• Ant Hills of the Savannah is a novel by Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

Mulk Raj Anand's Character

• The character Bakha is from Mulk Raj Anand's novel Untouchable.

Response to Jane Eyre

• Wide Sargasso Sea is a novel written in response to the famous Victorian novel Jane Eyre.

Jane Austen's Parody

• Northanger Abbey is Jane Austen's parody of Gothic fiction.

Thomas Hardy's Works

• Thomas Hardy wrote Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude the Obscure and Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

D.H. Lawrence's Novel

• D.H. Lawrence wrote Sons and Lovers.

Alan Sillitoe's Novel

• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is the debut novel of Alan Sillitoe.

Pre-Raphaelite Poet

• Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a Pre-Raphaelite poet.

T.S. Eliot's Masterpiece

• Four Quartets is the masterpiece of T.S. Eliot.

Abbey Theatre Founder

• W.B. Yeats co-founded the Abbey Theatre.

Salman Rushdie's Banned Novel

• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie was banned in India.

Jhumpa Lahiri's Novel

• Jhumpa Lahiri wrote the 2008 novel, Sea of Poppies.

Contemporary Fiction Trend

• Alejo Carpentier's novels contributed to the movement of Magical Realism in contemporary fiction.

Literary Device in Poetry

• The literary device in "The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep moans round with many voices" is personification

Literary Device in Sarcasm

• The literary device used to underscore the sarcasm in the lines, "Not louder shrieks to pitying Heav'n are cast / When husbands or when lap-dogs breathe their last" is juxtaposition.

Short Impressionistic Poem

• Whitecaps on the Bay is a Haiku.

Literary Device in Sentence

• The literary device in the phrase "the expense of spirit in a waste of shame" is a metaphor

Literary Device in Sentence

• -If a person has ugly thoughts it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every week for every year..." -The literary Device used is Analogy

Literary Device in Sentence

• The phrase "To hit the nail on the head and put it in a nutshell" is using clichés, phrases and idioms.

Literary Devices in Sentence

• The literary device in the sentence "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" is using symbols

Literary Device in Sentence

• The literary device in the sentence "As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames no light, but rather darkness visible" is oxymoron.

Literary Device in Poem

• The literary device in the poem Will love you dear/Will love you;"/And the river will love me is internal rhyme

Poetic Devices in a Line

• The literary devices "She floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream" are metaphor and personification.

Poetic Device in Lines

• The poetic device in "O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth" is synaesthesia.

Literary Device in Sentence

• The literary device used in \"Money will buy a fine dog but only kindness will make him wag his tail\" is an aphorism.

Non-Literary Device

• Dogberryism is a character type, not a literary device.

Literary Device in a Sentence

• The literary device in the sentence "Having one wife is called monotony" is a malapropism.

Major Trope in Two Lines

• The major trope in the lines "The Eyes around - had wrung them dry - And Breaths were gathering firm" is synecdoche.

Rhyme Scheme in Poetry

• The rhyme scheme in the lines "Let me not to the marriage of true minds/ Admit impediments. Love is not love/ Which alters when it alterations finds / Or bends with the remover to remove" is internal rhyme

Type of Couplet

• "One tender Sigh of hers to see me languish, Will more than pay the price of my past anguish" is a closed couplet.

Poetic Devices in a Line

• The poetic devices in the line "You have a sweet ride there there!" is a metaphor.