Dictionary of Literary Words: Vocabulary Building - Paperback

by Manik Joshi (Author)

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]

Author Biography

Manik Joshi was born on Jan 26, 1979 at Ranikhet and is permanent resident of Haldwani, Kumaon zone of India. He is an Internet Marketer by profession. He is interested in domaining (business of buying and selling domain names), web designing (creating websites), and various online jobs (including 'self book publishing'). He is science graduate with ZBC (zoology, botany, and chemistry) subjects. He is also an MBA (with specialization in marketing). He has done three diploma courses in computer too. ManikJoshi.com is the personal website of the author.