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?
Cambridge OL English Essays 1 by bunpeiris An essay is a development of an argument, interpretation or analysis brought into the reader, concisely and economically, by way of an enlightening and flowing sequence of points, evidence & explanations that makes the theme alive and vibrant. Writing Essays Is Within You: Its All Yours The task of an essay set by Cambridge OL English […]
Read moreTone, Mood & Register In An Essay Cambridge OL English marking scheme on essay requires the learners to pick the appropriate tone and register. Many a learners pose questions upon this requirement. Following is a brief explanation on the matter. Tone is the author’s attitude to the reader or audience (e.g. formal, intimate, pompous) or to the subject matter (e.g. ironic, light, solemn, satiric, sentimental). Mood is the emotional-intellectual attitude of […]
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Tuition: Cambridge Checkpoint English For Grade 6,7 & 8 Paving the way to an ‘A*’ in Cambridge OL & AL English Language bunpeiris Cut the path to Cambridge OL English Language [1*] beginning with grade 6 [Age 11-14]: plan for A* in Cambridge International examinations GCE Ordinary Level English Language. Cambridge Secondary 1 Checkpoint test: English as a second language The […]
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ZENBUN GRAMMAR TOOLKIT FOR SUPERIOR ESSAYS IN CAMBRIDGE OL/AL ENGLISH by bunpeiris Tool 1: colon and semi colon In the backdrop of the dexterity in which competent writers in English language making use of colon and semi colon to its very limits, I have often wondered why the students have failed to follow suit: instead, all we see is overdependence of […]
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Cambridge English For Global Recognition Learn English language with a view to a Cambridge Certificate of FCE [First Certificate in English] first and then proceed to CAE [Cambridge Advanced English] and CPE [Cambridge Proficiency in English] as required or branch off to IELTS or Business English or English Teaching Knowledge courses/tests TKT, CELTA & DELTA. A word to the students […]
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Use the Right Key Words in Education Competence, knowledge & skills A competence is more than just knowledge and skills. It involves the ability to meet complex demands, by drawing on and mobilising psychosocial resources (including skills and attitudes) in a particular context. For example, the ability to communicate effectively is a competence that may draw on an individual’s knowledge […]
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An Intensive English Language Tuition Class with bunpeiris A forerunner to Cambridge OL English and Literature Is your child in grade 6 or 7 or 8? Pave the way for A grade in Cambridge OL English and Literature now itself. Begin cutting the path today itself with bunpeiris. Call 0777 1000 60 today Cambridge OL English Language & Literature classes begins at Kandana […]
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English Literature Literature Cambridge IGCSE, OL, Edexcel & National OL English Literature students endowed with a definite literary bent and a sense of the language, are bound to view their studies in literature in broader perspective, once the following article is read a couple of times. Following article for the undergraduates in English is reproduced herein by the kind courtesy […]
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TUITION IN ENGLISH LITERATURE WITH bunpeiris Cambridge, National, Edexcel – OL & AL “Literature is the question minus the answer”, French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician Roland Barthes. [See, you are free to come up with your own answers. nihil timendum est: fear nothing] “Teachers should aim to develop readers, not literary critics” R. E. Probast in the […]
Read moreCITY & GUILDS ENGLISH, England ON YOUR ACCENT Which of these opinions about good pronunciation is closest to yours? (a) Good pronunciation must be free of any local or regional accent. (b) A slight regional accent is acceptable but a foreign accent is not. (c) An accent, regional or foreign, doesn’t matter as long as the speaker’s pronunciation is easy to […]
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