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Knowledge of the basic literacy terms, concepts and movements is essential for one who studies literature. Most of us, even the serious students of literature, are found to show an embarrassing lack of knowledge in this regard and approach a literacy work without knowing the precise genre to which it belongs and its characteristics. So a shelleyan ode in the end appears to such readers no different from a lyric or a ‘farce’ from ‘’burlesque’. Even ...
A systematic and thorough knowledge of a subject demands close acquaintance with the specialized terminology developed by it through decades of research. Early learners have often been seen to feel dampened by the awesome array of technical terms of linguistics. There is nothing to feel scared about it; one has only to see that these terms give us a precise and focused vision of the things that we are all engaged in; acts of using language. Linguistics offers us ...