WHAT ARE "
LITERARY WORDS
"? - 'Literary words' are associated with literature. 'Literary words' are typical of a work of literature and imaginative writing. 'Literary words' are used with a particular meaning, in narrative, drama, poetry and other writing in a literary manner.
This book has been divided into three sections:
Section 01: Common Literary Words, Section 02: Figurative Use of the Words, Section 03: Glossary of Literary Terms
--- IMPORTANT NOTES-
NOTE -- A: ELEVATED WORDS -
Use of an 'Elevated' Word in Place of a 'Simple' Word- 'Elevated language' is widely used in literature. Elevated Word -- a word that is used to show a high intellectual level Simple Word -- a word that is used to keep the conversation simple in daily life --
Example 1: 'Behold' [elevated word] --- 'See' [simple word];
Meaning of 'behold' and 'see': to become aware of something by using your eyes ---
Example 2: 'Blithe' [elevated word] --- 'Happy' [simple word];
Meaning of 'blithe' and 'happy': showing or feeling pleasure ******
NOTE -- B: FIGURATIVE USE OF THE WORDS
-Many words and phrases are used in a different (literary) way from their usual (literal) meanings to produce a special effect. [I have put these words together in Section-2 (figurative use of the words) of this book.] ---
Example-1: ache: In a general sense -- to feel a continuous pain
- His leg ached because of injury.
ache: In a literary sense -- to be very sad
- His false accusations made our heartache. [= made us sad] ---
Example-2: Flash: In a general sense -- to shine brightly for a few moments -
The camera flashed once. Flash:
In a literary sense -- to suddenly show a strong emotion -
Their eyes flashed with horror. ******
NOTE -- C: 'LITERARY TERMS' -
There are many words that are used to describe a particular form of writing in a literary work, or used in the analysis, discussion, classification, and criticism of a literary work. [I have defined these terms in Section-3 (glossary of literary terms) of this book.]
Examples:
catharsis
-- the process of releasing strong feelings through artistic activities;
diction
-- the choice and use of words to create a specific effect in a literary work;;
epithet
-- a word or expression used to attribute special quality to somebody/something;
genre
-- a particular category, style or type to which a literary work belongs;
holograph
-- handwritten piece of writing by its author;
idyll
-- a poem that describes a peaceful and happy scene;
juvenilia
-- a literary work produced by an artist, in his/her youth;
melodrama
-- a literary work that is full of exciting and exaggerated events or emotions;
opera
-- a dramatic work where a majority of the words are sung to music;
panegyric
-- a speech or written composition that praises somebody/something;
prosody
-- the patterns of rhythms and sounds in poetry;
quatrain
-- a verse of a poem that has four lines; refrain -- a line or number of lines of a song or poem that is repeated after each verse;
scene
-- one of the small sections within an act (a major division) of a play;
semantic
-- relating to the meaning of words and sentences; trilogy -- a set of three books, plays, movies, etc. on the same characters or subject
--- figure of speech
-- an expression in which a word or phrase represents one thing in terms of something dissimilar (non-literal) to create a particular effect in somebody's mind, or in which an emphasis is produced by patterns of sound. [Some common figures of speech are as follows -- alliteration, anaphora, antistrophe. apostrophe, assonance, consonance, hyperbole, irony, litotes, metaphor, metonymy, periphrasis, personification, simile, synecdoche]