Literary Terms

• Name Heeral bhatt

• Rollno. 11

• Year 2012/13

• Semester 1

• Paper no. 3

• Unit no. 5

Literary Terms

• Chorus

• Diction

• Expressive Criticism

Chorus

• Meaning• “A refrain of a song”—oxford dictionary

• Chorus means in unison

• GREEK CHORUS-ooooooooooooooooooooooo

• Role of chorus

Diction

• Diction pronounced—(dic-shun)• “A person’s way of pronouncing words”

• Meaning

• Four levels of diction

Example of diction by John Anderson

• “A Frosty winter night my love,chill wind • whispers sweet adoration Binds my body with • the finest wool,The darkest of sweet • sensations” -----NIGHT MY LOVER

Example of Diction by John keats

• “This living hand, now warm and capable of earnest grasping,would,if it were cold And in the “icy” silence of the tomb ,so hauntthy days,anh chill thy dreaming nights,That thou wouldst wish thine own heart dry off blood and thou be conscience-clamed-see here it is-I hold it towards you”

--The Living Hand

ExpressiveCriticism

• Definition

• Objectives

• Design

Example of Expressive Criticism in “eat,pray and love novel”

• “I don’t want tobe any married any more,I don’t want tobe married again”

• “I don’t want to be any more,you must divorce your husband”

• “I don’t want to live in this house,I don’t want to have baby”

THANK YOU

• Submitted To, • DR. Dilip Barad,• S.B.G.Department of English• M.K.K.S.Bhavnagar university