Nunna John's English Literature Notes

  English Literature Semester – I Unit - I Origin and Descent of English Origin & Descent English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic Languages brought to Britain in the 5 th century AD by Anglo Saxon Migrants. The Anglo Saxons settled in the British Isles from the 5 th century and came to dominate the bulk of the southern Great Britain. Their language originated as a group of group of Ingvaenonic languages which was spoken by the settlers in England and Southerners and Eastern Scotland in the early middle ages by displacing the Celtic Languages (possibly British Latin) that had previously been dominant. As a matter of fact, Germanic languages are divided into three parts. They are North Germanic, West Germanic and East Germanic. North Germanic is the Sub family of the indo European Languages. People who lived in Danish, Faroesic, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish spoke Nordic Languages. West Germanic was further Sub divided into three p...

  English Literature Semester – I Syllabus Unit – I Introduction to English Language and Literature History of English language 1.origin & Descent of English language 2. Features of old English 3.Features of Middle English 4.Features of Modern English   Unit – II   Structure of English Language.   1.Word Formation 2.Change of Meaning 3.Sentence Structure - I (simple Sentence and its Constituents) 4.Sentence Structure - II (Compound Sentence and its constituents) 5.Sentence Structure – III (Complex Sentence and its Constituents) Unit – III   Figures of Speech   1.Simile 2.Metaphor 3.Oxymoron 4.Euphemism 5.metonymy 6.Hyperbole 7.Paradox 8.Synedoche 9.Irony 10. Personification Unit – IV   Literary Movement   1.Renaissance 2.Reformation 3.Neo-Classicism (Restoration, Augustan & Age of Johnson) 4.Romanticism 5.Pre-Raphaletism 6.Modernism Unit – V   Elemen...