Abasement

Abasement.
SYN. Degradation, de- pression, disgrace, humiliation, ab- jection, dishonor, shame.
ANT. Promotion, elevation, honor, exaltation, dignity, aggrandizement.

Catharsis

Catharsis
Definition: Catharsis is the emotional arouse which makes pity and fear to the audiences after watching the end of tragedy.

Abase

abase

SYN. Degrade,disgrace, bring low, reduce, humble, demean, stoop, humiliate, depress, lower, sink, dishonor.
ANT. Promote, exalt, honor, raise, elevate, dignify, aggrandize.

Concrete and Abstract

Concrete and Abstract

Definition:

In standard philosophical usage a "concrete term" is a word that denotes a particular person or physical object, and an "abstract term" denotes either a class of things or else (as in "brightness," "beauty," "evil," "despair") qualities that exist only as attributes of particular persons or things. A sentence, accordingly, is said to be concrete if it makes an assertion about a particular subject (T. S. Eliot's "Grishkin is nice ..."), and abstract if it makes an assertion about an abstract subject (Alexander Pope's "Hope springs eternal in the human breast"). Critics of literature, however, often use these terms in an extended way: a passage is called abstract if it represents its subject matter in general or no sensuous words or with only a thin realization of its experienced qualities; it is called concrete if it represents its subject matter with striking particularity and sensuous detail. In his "Ode to Psyche" (1820) John Keats' ' Mid hush'd, cool-rooted flowers, fragrant-eyed, Blue, silver-white, and budded Tyrian is a concrete description of a locale which intervolves qualities that are perceived by four different senses: hearing, touch, sight, and smell. And in the opening of his 'Ode to a Nightingale," Keats communicates concretely, by a combination of literal and figurative language, how it feels, in physical detail, to experience the full-throated song of the nightingale: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains ... It is frequently asserted that "poetry is concrete," or, as John Crowe Ransom put it in The World's Body (1938), that its proper subject is "the rich, contin- gent materiality of things." Most poetry is certainly more concrete than other modes of language, especially in its use of imagery. It should be kept in mind, however, that poets do not hesitate to use abstract language when the area of reference or artistic purpose calls for it. Keats, though he was one of the most concrete of poets, began Endymion with a sentence composed of abstract terms: A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; ... And some of the most moving and memorable passages in poetry are not concrete; for example, the statement about God in Dante's Paradiso, "In His will is our peace," or the bleak comment by Edgar in the last act of King Lear, Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither; Ripeness is all.

Comic Relief

Comic Relief

Definition:
A Comic Relief is the introduction of comic characters, speeches, or scenes in a serious or tragic work, especially in dramas. Such elements were almost universal in Elizabethan tragedy. Sometimes they occur merely as episodes of dialogue or horseplay for purposes of alleviating tension and adding variety; in more carefully wrought plays, however, they are also integrated with the plot, in a way that counterpoints and enhances the serious or tragic significance.
Example:
Examples of such complex uses of comic elements are the gravediggers in Hamlet (V. L), the scene of the drunken porter after the murder of the king in Macbeth (II. iii.), the Falstaff scenes in 1 Henry IV, and the roles of Mercurio and the old nurse in Romeo and Juliet.

Aback

aback

SYN. Backwards, rearwards, aft, abaft, astern, behind, back.
ANT. Onwards, forwards, ahead, before, afront, beyond, afore.

Chorus

Chorus

Definition:
A group of person who give much information to decorate and enlarge the act but they are not the character of the act. They make bridge among the past, present and future condition of the act and inform the audience.

Archaism

Archaism
The literary use of words and expressions that have become obsolete in the common speech of an era. Spenser in The Faerie Queene (1590-96)deliberately employed archaisms (many of them derived from Chaucer's medieval English) in the attempt to achieve a poetic style appropriate to his revival of the medieval chivalric romance. The translators of the King JamesVersion of the Bible (1611) gave weight, dignity, and sonority to their prose by archaic revivals. Both Spenser and the King James Bible have in their turn been major sources of archaisms in Milton and many later authors. When Keats, for example, in his ode (1820) described the Grecian urn as "with hrede I Of marble men and maidens overwrought, " he used archaic words for "braid"
and "worked [that is, ornamented] all over." Abraham Lincoln achieved
solemnity by biblical archaisms in his "Gettysburg Address," which begins, "Fourscore and seven years ago." Archaism has been a standard resort for poetic diction. Through the nineteenth century, for example many poets continued to use "I ween," "methought," "steed," "taper" (for candle), and "morn,"
but only in their verses, not their everyday speech.

Conceit

Definition:
Conceit is an elaborate figure of speech comparing two very dissimilar things or situations. The comparison may be startling, farfetched, fanciful or highly intellectual and may develop an analogy to its logical limits and beyond. John Donne has used many conceits in his poem, ‘The Good Morrow’.
For example: ‘Or snorted we in the seven sleepers den?’

abandon

abandon v.

1 give up or over, yield, surrender, leave, cede, let go,
deliver (up), turn over, relinquish: 
I can see no reason why we should abandon the house to thieves and vandals.
2 depart from,
leave, desert, quit, go away from: 
The order was given to abandon ship.
3 desert, forsake, jilt, walk out on: 
He even abandoned his fianc. 4 give up, renounce; discontinue, forgo,
drop, desist, abstain from: 
She abandoned cigarettes and whisky after the doctor's warning.
n. 5 recklessness, intemperance, wantonness, lack of
restraint, unrestraint: 
He behaved with wild abandon after he received the inheritance.

abandoned adj

abandoned adj. 
1 left alone, forlorn, forsaken, deserted, neglected; rejected, shunned, cast off or aside, jilted, dropped, outcast: An abandoned infant was found on the church steps. Totally alone, she felt abandoned by her friends.

2 bad, immoral, amoral, wicked, sinful, evil, corrupt, unprincipled,unrestrained, uninhibited, reprobate; loose, wanton, wild, dissolute, dissipated, profligate; depraved, lewd, lascivious, flagitious: His abandoned behaviour soon in jail.

Comedy

Definition:
Comedy is a play which ends happily. In general, any literary work that ends to amuse by dealing with humorous, familiar situation involving ordinary people speaking everyday language. There are different kinds of comedy; such as- comedy of humors, comedy of intrigue and comedy of manners. George Barnard Show’s Arms and The Man is a great comedy.