Q1. Write short notes on the following:
- a)) Shakespearean tragedy (200 words)
- b)) Characteristics of a mock epic (200 words)
- c)) Metaphysical Poetry (200 words)
- d)) Heroic couplet (200 words)
- Shakespearean tragedy: noble protagonist, tragic flaw (hamartia), peripeteia, anagnorisis, catharsis, e.g., Hamlet.
- Mock epic: parodies classical epic, applies high style to trivial subjects, uses irony/hyperbole, e.g., The Rape of the Lock.
- Metaphysical Poetry: intellectual, witty, uses metaphysical conceit (extended metaphor), paradoxical, e.g., John Donne.
- Heroic couplet: two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, end-stopped, expresses complete thought, balanced.
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