The University Wits were an important group of pioneer English dramatists writing during the last 15 years of the 16th century. They transformed the native interlude (a short, simple dramatic entertainment) and chronicle play into a potentially great drama by writing plays of quality and diversity.

Romanticism is a poetic movement that occurred between the late 18th century and the early 19th century as a means of rebelling against the Neoclassicism movement and the Enlightenment era that preceded it. Romantic period poetry rebelled against rules and conventions and valued nature, imagination, and individualism.

In A Passage to India mosque is associated with arch, Caves with echo and Temple with sky. These symbols have a positive as well as negative meaning. The positive meaning of the mosque symbol consists in the possibilities of friendly relations between Aziz and Mrs. Moore; Aziz and Fielding.

John Milton, Anne Bradstreet, Cotton Mather, and William Bradford. John Milton is most famous for his poem, Paradise Lost; the 10-volume work recounts the story of Adam and Eve's sin and how they were cast out of the Garden of Eden.

As You Like It is a romantic comedy in its treatment of some sweet songs that add special charm and melodious atmosphere in the play. William Shakespeare wrote a number of romantic comedies of which As You Like It is the finest. A romantic comedy is a play in which the romantic elements are mingled with comic elements.

 In "Ode to the West Wind," Shelley's West Wind serves as both a destroyer and preserver. It destroys by sweeping away dead leaves and decaying matter, symbolizing death and decay. Simultaneously, it preserves by scattering seeds that will germinate in the spring, symbolizing rebirth and renewal.

By using size, Swift shows the dreadful sides of the Europeans and their faults. Although some readers say that Swift uses size in Gulliver's Travels to satirize people positively, he uses satire to reveal the negative side of people showing their human pride, existence, and knowledge.

In "Arms and the Man," George Bernard Shaw satirizes romanticized notions of love and war. Through characters like Raina and Bluntschli, Shaw exposes the absurdity of idealized heroism and romantic love, highlighting the discrepancy between reality and perception.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines “allegory” as a “story, picture, or other piece of art that uses symbols to convey a hidden or ulterior meaning, typically a moral or political one.” In its most simple and concise definition, an allegory is when a piece of visual or narrative media uses one thing to “stand in for”

Satire is an element of literature used to provoke change. Satire uses humor, exaggeration, ridicule and criticism to create change in others. Horatian satire and Juvenalian satire are the two most common forms of satire.

Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"),

A ballad is a song that tells a story, and it can be dramatic, funny, or romantic. You can find ballads in a variety of musical styles, from country-western to rock n' roll. The ballad is an old musical form. Ballads are often by anonymous composers, passed down from generation to generation.

The three unities are: unity of action: a tragedy should have one principal action. unity of time: the action in a tragedy should occur over a period of no more than 24 hours. unity of place: a tragedy should exist in a single physical location.

A mock epic, also known as a mock-heroic or heroic-comic work, is a form of satire where trivial subjects, characters, and events are treated with the grandeur and gravity of an epic poem. This juxtaposition creates humour and criticises by parodying the elevated style and conventions of the epic poetry genre.

An elegy is a poem, and it has a particular kind of emotion driving it. That emotion is lament, meaning to feel and express sorrow, and to mourn for something — and, yes, elegies are very often about someone who has died, but it might also be something that has died, say, a feeling, or a relationship.