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Types

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Shakespeare : Plays/Drama
Bertrand Russel : Philosopher(UK)
Charles Dickens : Novelist
Goethe (Poet) : Germany
O Henry famous : Short history
Same period belongs : ST Coleridge + Wordsworth
Epic Poet :John Milton, Lord Tennyson
William Hazlitit : Essayist
Francis Bacon : Essayist
Lucy Poem : Wordsworth
Charles Lamb : Essayist
Lyciday : J Milton
George Barnard Shaw : Play Writer
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English Literary Terms:


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A Fantasy: Imaginary Story


Achilles: Greek Fighter
Ballad: Short narrative poem
Catastrophe: The tragic end of dramatic events
Lexicographer: Dictionary Writers
Limerick: Short form of light verse
Melodrama: Play: Violent & Sensational themes
Novel: Latin word
Ode - a lyric poem, often in the form of an address.
Opera a musical drama.
Parody imitation of a poem or a writing.
Penny dreadful blood and thunder tales.
Plagiarism act of stealing from the writing of others.
Protagonist the leading character in a play / novel.
Rhetoric the art of persuasive impressive speaking / writing.
Rhyme short poem in same sound.

Satire - The literary art that uses honour and wit to attack and expose human folly
and weakness.
Sonnet a poem of fourteen lines.
Thrillers sensational stories
Renaissance: The revival of life
Romantic Poetry feature: Subjectivity
Romanticism: Love & Beauty
To Daffodils: Short lived human life

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