What is the difference between story and plot? What is the difference between plot summary and plot interpretation? How do you analyze the relationship between the main plot and a subplot? What are the purposes of literary elements and literary techniques? What are the writer’s literary devices and reader’s literary devices? How do you recognize and appreciate ways in which writer use language, structure and style to achieve his intended effects on the reader? How do you shift from mere appreciation of a literary text to critical literary appreciation? How do you engage in literary analysis & what is the purpose? What is the difference between topic and theme and how do you arrive at the theme? How do you compare the theme and the moral message? How do you develop an interpretation of a work of literature (drama, poetry and prose) and what is the purpose? How do you present critical appreciations or your individual responses to literary texts composed in different forms and in different periods and cultures? How do you know your individual response is valid? What are the differences between Critical Literary Appreciation, Literary Criticism, and Literary Theory? Why should there be a Literary theory at all?
Plot construction & Aspects of Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream Written by BunPeiris “Are you sure That we are awake? It seems to meThat yet we sleep, we dream” [A Midsummer Night’s Dream: William Shakespeare] Plot construction A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy composed and stage directed by the foremost dramatist, the ultimate humanist writer ever. But Shakespeare would […]
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Jane Eyre and Charlotte Bronte : women ahead of their times Written by BunPeiris In what ways might the knowledge of the social and political context in which Jane Eyre was written and first published contribute to an understanding of the novel? “I resisted all the way; a new thing for me…,” [10 year old Jane, while being dragged by […]
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Metaphysical Poetry Written by BunPeiris Metaphysical poetry possesses its typical themes and techniques which depict the contemporary issues of the era. Discuss As everything under the sun, moon and stars are do change with time, throughout the literary periods, especially in poetic ages, themes and techniques too kept changing. The age of metaphysical poetry was no exception. As such metaphysical […]
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Canterbury Tales: Sea Captain’s Tale and The Prioress’s Tale Written in PEEL [Point, Evidence, Explanation and Link format] by BunPeiris. Compare & contrast the content, themes and character portrayal in “The Sea-Captain’s Tale” & “The Prioress’s Tale” Geoffrey Chaucer is humble: appeals to the readers to credit Jesus Christ for the inspiration of everything they would have learned in reading […]
Read moreThe Employability Skills Hoax Written by bunPeiris. Meden Agan (μηδὲν ἄγαν) – ‘Nothing in excess’ [An inscription at the temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece] In the beginning it was only snares: Soft Skills. Now they have begun to flaunt the guns: Employability Skills. If the concept of Soft Skills is the camel’s nose, the notion of Employability Skills is the […]
Read moreFortitude and Attitudes of Robinson Crusoe Written by bunpeiris Robinson Crusoe is a fiction not only of the perseverance and fortitude of a man in trouble, but also of the attitudes of the “white man” towards the “black man.” Discuss The question is answered using the paragraph writing technique “PEEL”: Point; Evidence; Explanation; Link. You may follow this technique in […]
Read moreTHE MASTER WITH AN EARRING By bunpeiris “Will stands out not only as the greatest literary light ever, but also the supreme intellect, with the exception of Buddha & Maha Rishi Vyasa, the author of Mahabharata. “Dilshan the cricketing swashbuckler, the only batsman to have a cricketing stroke [Dilscoop] named after him, got it all:will, dash and dare. And he got a diamond in his left […]
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WRITER’S DIGEST Can you start a sentence with a conjunction? by Catherine Soanes For many of us, our English lessons at school were marked by the stern admonition: ‘Never begin a sentence with a conjunction!’. I was taught this ‘rule’ as a grammatical diktat back in the 1970s, and a quick trawl of the Net shows that the same advice […]
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ISABEL ALLENDE Uncle Marcos House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende It had been two years since Clara had last seen her Uncle Marcos, but she remembered him very well. His was the only perfectly clear image she retained from her whole childhood, and in order to describe him she did not need to consult the daguerreotype [*1] in the […]
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George Herzog and Harold Courlander Talk Once, not far from the city of Acera on the Gulf of Guinea, a country man went out to his garden to dig up some yams to take to market. While he was digging one of the yams said to him: “Well, at last you’re here. You never weeded me, but now you come […]
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