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Digvijay Pandya, Lovely Professional University Unit 1: Major Literary Terms–I

Unit 1: Major Literary Terms-I Notes

CONTENTS

Objectives

Introduction
1.1 Introduction to Assonance
1.1.1 Assonance

1.2 Introduction to Ballad
1.2.1 Origins of Ballad

1.2.2 Ballad Form
1.2.3 Classification of Ballads
1.2.4 Traditional Ballads
1.2.5 Broadsides Ballads

1.2.6 Literary Ballads
1.3 Introduction to Blank Verse

1.4 Summary
1.5 Keywords
1.6 Review Questions
1.7 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
• Know about assonance, blank verse and ballad
• Know about the classification and origins of ballad.

Introduction

Genre is an important word in the English class. We teach different genres of literature such as poetry,
short stories, myths, plays, non-fiction, novels, mysteries, and so on. When we speak about a kind of
literature we are really speaking about a genre of literature. So when someone asks you what genre of
literature you like, you might answer, poetry, novels, comics, and so on.

1.1 Introduction to Assonance

1.1.1 Assonance

Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences,
and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building blocks of verse. For example,
in the phrase “Do you like blue?”, the /u:/ is repeated within the sentence and is assonant.

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