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Canto refers to a division of a long poem or epic (দীর্ঘ কবিতার একটি স্তবক/বিভাগ).
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Jules Verne is the French novelist who wrote 'Round the World in Eighty Days' (1873).
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A dirge is a somber song or lament expressing mourning or grief, such as would be appropriate for performance at a funeral.
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Charles Darwin wrote 'On the Origin of Species' (1859), which is the foundation of evolutionary biology.
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Blank verse is poetry written in regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always iambic pentameter (having no rhyming end).
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Alexandre Dumas was a famous French writer, known for novels like 'The Three Musketeers'. The others are British (Doyle, Maugham, Fitzgerald).
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Blank verse translates to 'অমিত্রাক্ষর' (amitrakshar) in Bengali, referring to unrhymed verse, famously used by Michael Madhusudan Dutt in Bengali.
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'The Three Musketeers' is a historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas.
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A monologue is a speech given by a single character in a story or play, where they speak their thoughts aloud, often alone on stage (soliloquy is a specific type, but definition fits).
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'Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor' is a novel written by R.D. Blackmore, published in 1869.