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British Poetry Digvijay Pandya, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 3: Major Literary Terms-III

CONTENTS

Objectives

Introduction
3.1 Figure of Speech

3.2 Heroic Couplet
3.2.1 History

3.2.2 Variations
3.3 Iambic Pentameter
3.3.1 Rhythmic Variations

3.3.2 Feminine Ending

3.3.3 Inversion
3.4 Lyric
3.4.1 Forms of Lyrics

3.5 Simile
3.5.1 In Literature

3.5.2 Explicit Similes
3.6 Metonymy

3.7 Summary
3.8 Keywords

3.9 Review Questions
3.10 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
• Know about figure of speech, heroic couplet, lyric, simile
• Know about iambic pentameter and metonymy
• Know about history and variations of heroic couplet.

Introduction

Literary elements refer to particular identifiable characteristics of a whole text. They are not “used,”
per se, by authors; they represent the elements of storytelling which are common to all literary and

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