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S Eliot The old english period (450-1066) Caedmon (ক্যাডমন) (657-680) Saint Venerable Bede (673-735) Cynewulf (770-840) King Alfred the Great (849-899) The middle english period (1066-1500) Dante (1265-1321) Sir John Mandeville (1300-1372) John Wycliffe (1324-1438) John Gower (1330-1408) William Langland (1332-1386) Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) John Lydgate (1370-1451) Sir Thomas Malory (1415-1471) William Dunbar (born 1459 or 1460 - died 1530) The Renaissance (1500-1660) Preparation for Renaissance (1500-1558) Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) Sir David Lindsey (1490-1555) Bishop Bale (1495-1563) John Heywood (1447-1540) Nicholas Udall (1504-1556) Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey (1517-1547) Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) William Stevenson (1530-1575) The Elizabethan Period (1558-1603) Thomas Norton (1532-1584) & Thomas Sackville (1536-1608) Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) Edmund Spenser(1552-1599) Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) Richard Hooker (1554-1600) Lohn Lyly (1554-1606) Robert Greene (1558-1592) Thomas Kyd (1558-1594) George Peele (1558-1598) Thomas Lodge (1558-1625) George Chapman (1559-1634) Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Samuel Daniel (1562-1619) Michael Drayton (1563-1631) Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Thomas Nashe (1567-1601) The Jacobean Period (1603-1625) John Donne (1572-1631) Ben Jonson (1572-1637) Cyril Tourneur (1575-1626) John Webster (1578-1626) The Caroline Period (1625-1649)) Robert Herrick (1591-1674) George Herbert (1593-1633) The Commonwealth Period (1659-1660) Thomas Hobbies (1588-1679) John Milton (1608-1674) Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) Andrew Marvel (1621-1678) Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) The Neoclassical Period (1660-1798) The Restoration Period (1660-1700) Samuel Butler (1612-1680) John Bunyan (1628-1688) John Dryden (1631-1700) John Locke (1632-1704) William Wycherley (1640-1716) Thomas Otway (1652-1685) Nathaniel (1653-1692) George Farquhar (1678-1707) The Augustan Period : (1700-1745) Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) Sir Vanbrugh (1664-1726) Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) William Congreve (1670-1729) Richard Steele (1672-1729) Joseph Addison (1672-1719) Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) James Thomson (1700-1748) The Age of Sensibility (1745-1785/98) Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Henry Fielding (1707-1754) Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Tomas Gray (1716-1771) Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Lindley Murray (1745-1826) William Blake (1757-1827) The Romantic Period (1798-1832) William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Important Information (Wordsworth) Well-known works of Wordsworth Some Quotes of Wordsworth Summary of Famous Texts Daffodils Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Charles Lamb (1775-1834) Jane Austen (1775-1817) Lord Byron (1788-1824) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) John Keats (1795-1821) Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) The Victorian Period (1832-1901) Alexander Duman (1802-1870) John Stuart Mill (1806-1861) Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Gladstone (1809-1898) William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) Robert Browning (1812-1889) Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) Emily Bronte (1818-1848) Karl Marx (1818-1883) George Eliot (1819-1880) Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) Mathew Arnold (1822-1868) Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Mark Twain (1835-1910) Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) (টমাস হার্ডি) Gerard Manley Hopkin (1844-1889) Robert Louis Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Oscar wilde (1856-1900) Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930) Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Herman Melville (1819-1891) Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) The Modern Period (1901-1939) The Edwardian Period (1901-1910) Jules Verne (1828-1905) Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) Henry James (1843-1916) Robert Bridges (1844-1930) A.C. Bradley (1851-1935) George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) David Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) O’Henry (1862-1910) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) H.G Wells (1866-1946) Arnold Bennet (1867-1931) John Galsworthy (1867-1933) Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970) The Georgian Period (1910-1936) Robert Frost (1874-1963) William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) John Masefield (1878-1967) Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) John Drinkwater (1882-1937) James Joyce (1882-1941) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Ezra pound (1885-1972) Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) James Bridie (1888-1951) Eugene Gladstone O’Neill (1888-1953) T.S Eliot (1888-1965) Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) Richard Aldington (1892-1962) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) J.B. Priestley (1894-1984) William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962) Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987) Earnest Hemingway(1899-1961) Noel Coward (1899-1973) George Orwell (1903-1950) Evlin Waugh (1903-1966) Graham Green (1904-1991) Tean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) C.P. Snow (1905-1980) Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906-1989) R. K. Narayan (1906-2001) Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) William Gerald Golding (1911-1993) Irwin Shaw (1913-1984) Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914-1953) Saul Bellow (1915-2005) Arthur Miller (1915-2005) Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) Doris Lessing (1919-2013) Jimmy Carter (1924----) Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) Gunter Grass (1927-2015) Noam Chomsky (1928- ) The Post Modern Period (1939-Present) John Osborne (1929-1994) Ted Hughes (1930-1998) Harold Pinter (1930-2008) Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931) Alice Ann Munro (born 10 July 1931) Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) Wole Soyinka (1934- ) Anita Desai (1937- ) Seamus Justin Heaney (1939-2013) Salman Rushdi (1947- ) Kaiser Hamidul Haq (1950- ) Orhan Pamuk (1952- ) Amitav Ghosh (1956- ) Arundhuty Roy(1961 - ) Dan Brown (1964 - ) J.K. 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Simile

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A simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things using the words “like” or “as”. For example, “She is as sweet as a rose” is a simile that compares a person to a flower. Similes are used to make descriptions more vivid, interesting, or poetic. They can also help the reader or listener to imagine something more clearly or relate to something more easily.

Some common similes that you might have heard are:

  • He was as brave as a lion.
  • She ran like the wind.
  • He was as cold as ice.
  • She shone like a star.
  • He was as sly as a fox.

Similes are different from metaphors, which are another type of comparison. Metaphors do not use “like” or “as”, but instead say that one thing is another thing. For example, “She is a rose” is a metaphor that implies that she has the qualities of a rose, such as beauty, fragrance, or delicacy.

Similes are very common in literature, especially in poetry and songs. Here are some examples of similes from famous works:

  • My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun (William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130)
  • Life is like a box of chocolates (Forrest Gump)
  • I wandered lonely as a cloud (William Wordsworth, Daffodils)
  • Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? (Langston Hughes, Harlem)
  • Love is like a friendship caught on fire (Bruce Lee)
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