OCCASIONAL POEMS: This poems are written to adorn or memorize a specific occasion, such as a birthday, a marriage, a death, a military engagement or victory, the dedication of a public building or the opening performance of the play.
ODE: It is a long lyrical poem, serious in subject, elevated in style, and elaborate in its stanzaic structure.
OLD ENGLISH PERIOD: It is also called ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD. It extended from the invasion of Celtic England by Germaniac tribes in the half of the fifth century to the conquest of England in 1066 by the Norman French.
PANTOMIME: It is acting without speech, using only posture, gesture, bodily movement, and exaggerated facial expression to mime a character's actions and to express a character's feelings.
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PARADOX: A paradox is a statement which seems on its face to be self-contradictory or absurd, yet turns out to have a valid meaning.
PASTORAL: The originator of the pastoral was Theocritus. It is an expression of an urban poet's nostalgic image of the peace and simplicity of the life of shepherds and other rural folk in an idealized natural setting.
PATHETIC FALLACY: It was a phrase invented by John Ruskin in 1856 to signify the attribution to natural objects of human capacities and feelings.
PLOT: The plot in a dramatic or narrative work is the structure of its actions, as these are ordered and rendered toward achieving particular emotional and artistic effects.
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