English literature the book is designed to acquaint students with the main outlines

Fable (масал) - a short simple story, often told about animals, and always embodying a moral truth.


Fabliau (фаблио) - a sort of versified story popular in the Middle Ages, marked by wit, coarseness and brevity.


Fiction - (бадиий наср) a type of literature drawn from
the imagination of the author that tells about imaginary people and happenings. Novels and short stories are fiction.


Flashback - An interruption in a narrative to relate events that have happened earlier.


Folk Ballad - a story told or sung in verse, transmitted orally from generation to generation


Humanism (гуманизм, инсонпарварлик) - a disposi­ tion to treat other human beings with kindness, love and compassion. In the period of Renaissance humanism became the new philosophy. It promoted the principles of equality of men irrespective of their social origin, race and religion.


Humor (юмор) - a device used in literature and intended to improve slight imperfections. The object of humor is a funny incident or an odd feature of human character, which we laugh at good-naturedly. It should not be confused with irony and satire, the latter being aimed at ridiculing grave vices, mostly from the sphere of social life.


Metaphysical Poetry - highly intellectual verse filled with complex and far-fetched metaphors. Metaphysical poets wrote both love lyrics and meditative poems that displayed their wit and learning.


Narrative Poetry (ҳикоя қилувчи шеърият) - poems that tell a story. The epic is an example of a long narrative poem, and the folk ballad is a short narrative poem.


Naturalism (натурализм) is accurate representation of na­ ture literature and art, drawing and painting of things in a way true to nature.