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#Irony: - Irony is a figure of speech which a speaker says one thing but means the opposite. e.g - Sweets are uses of adversity.

#Paradox: - Paradox is a figure of speech that seems false apparently but actually indicates the truth. e.g - Wear ornaments if you want to be rich?

#Allegory: - Allegory is a figure of speech which states the inner meaning beside the surface meaning that means an allegory has double meaning. e.g – Mr. Bush wants to make our country Iraq.

#Tragedy: - Tragedy is a piece of writing where the hero or heroine or both suffer a lot for their hammartia and finally die. e.g – Macbeth, Hamlet.

#Drama: - A literary from intended to be performed on stage using physical movements and dialogues. It consists of three parts: beginning/ exposition, middle/ climax and end/ denouement. It is also called Play. Basically it is of two types (1) Comedy and (2) Tragedy.

#Novel: - A ficticious prose narrative of a certain length 50000 and above words, the progress of the story follows a time sequence, a realistic picture of a particular society, a world vision, characters of the story and a plot are the common features of novel.

#Satire: - A literary attack on the follies and vices of an individual or a society with a view to correcting them through laughter and ridicule. It may be prose or in verse. It is two kinds (1) Formal (direct) and Informal (indirect).

#Sonnet: - A lyric poem of fourteen iambic pentameter lines. It is of three types- (1) Petrarchan (also known as Italian) (2) Shakespearean (English) and (3) Spenserian. The first eight lines of a Petrarchan sonnet are called octave and last six lines of it are called sestet. The rhyme of the octave is abba abba and that of sestet is cd cd cd or cde cde.

#Conceit: - A figure in which two far fetched objects of very different nature are compared. It surprises its readers by its ingenious discovery and delights them by its intellectual quality. A famous example is Donne’s comparison between two lovers’ souls and the two arms of a pair of compasses.

. #What_is_language?

Language is the ‘species-specific’ and ‘species- uniform’ possession of man. It is God’s special gift to mankind. Without language human civilization as we now know it, would have remained impossibility. Language is ubiquitous. It is present every where –in our thoughts and dreams, prayers and meditations, relations and communications, and sanskars and rituals. According to an ancient linguist of Indian, Patanjali --- “Language is that human expression which is uttered out by speech organs.”
Characteristics of language:-
a) Language is verbal, vocal: language is sound.
b) Language is a means of communication.
c) Language is a social phenomenon.
d) Language is symbolic.
e) Language is systematic.

#Q. What is linguistics?

The word “Linguistics” has been derived from Latin word “lingua” and “istics.” Here “lingua” means tongue/sound and “istics” means knowledge/science. So etymologically linguistics is the scientific study of language. But it is the study not of one particular language but of human language in general.

#Q. What is Applied Linguistics?

Applied linguistics is a wide conception of linguistics. The term Applied means “used” or importance and linguistics means “the scientific study of language as system of human communication”. Applied linguistics includes SLA (Second Language Acquisition), psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, ELT (English Language Teaching), IELTS, TOEFL etc. which are very important in our day to day life.

#Q. Which one is more important between literature and linguistics? Why?

Both the field of knowledge is important in the present world. Undoubtedly, literature seems to be food our soul and provides immense pleasure. But in the third-world country like Bangladesh the study of linguistics is much more emphasized, because almost everybody gets educated in order to get jobs and for commercial purpose.

#Q. Why are you interested to read Linguistics?