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English Literature Forms & Devices English Medium

Handwritten notes on figures of speech and literary techniques — simile, metaphor, personification, pun, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia, sonnet, ode, elegy, ballad, soliloquy, dramatic monologue and stream of consciousness.

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Chapter 1 Pass English Medium English Literature Forms & Devices Figures of Speech English literature handwritten notes on figures of speech — simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, pun, alliteration and onomatopoeia explained from the beginning, with the four families, quick tests to identify each device in a line, oxymoron, paradox, irony, transferred epithet, metonymy and synecdoche, flashcards and previous-year practice questions. Open map Chapter 2 Pass English Medium English Literature Forms & Devices Poetic Forms — Sonnet, Ode, Elegy, Ballad English literature handwritten notes on the four great poetic forms — the sonnet with its Petrarchan, Shakespearean and Spenserian types and the volta; the ode with its Pindaric, Horatian and irregular patterns and the strophe, antistrophe and epode; the elegy, the pastoral elegy, monody, dirge and threnody; and the ballad with its stanza, its oral features and the famous collections — with flashcards and previous-year practice questions. Open map Chapter 3 Pass English Medium English Literature Forms & Devices Dramatic & Narrative Techniques English literature handwritten notes on soliloquy, dramatic monologue and stream of consciousness — what each technique does, how soliloquy differs from monologue and aside, the three strict features of the dramatic monologue perfected by Browning, who coined stream of consciousness and when, interior monologue, epiphany and free indirect discourse, with flashcards and previous-year practice questions. Open map Chapter 4 Pass English Medium English Literature Forms & Devices Poetry Appreciation English literature handwritten notes on poetry appreciation — the eight things to examine in any poem, metrical feet from iamb to dactyl, line lengths and scansion, caesura and enjambment, rhyme schemes and kinds of rhyme, blank verse against free verse, the heroic couplet and terza rima, stanza forms from the quatrain to the Spenserian stanza, and a step-by-step method for writing an unseen-poem answer, with flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 5 English Medium English Literature Forms & Devices Literary Terms — The Full Glossary English literature handwritten notes giving the full glossary of literary terms — narrative terms from plot and dénouement to point of view, the unreliable narrator and flat and round characters, the dramatic vocabulary of soliloquy, aside, dramatic irony and the unities, prosody with every metrical foot, line length and stanza form from terza rima to the villanelle, the kinds of poem and novel, the schools and movements in one line each, every figure of speech from simile and metonymy to zeugma and chiasmus, and a complete who-coined-what attribution table, with flashcards and practice questions. Open map