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?
Writer Vs. Reader The writer and the reader or Movie Director and the audience I think I always believed that something like a line of get: a poet might know what he wanted to write but he will never know what he wrote. You go through a process, you do your best- one thing to go- but, with all the […]
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Becoming Bun: Benevolence Stand Out Amidst The Literary Elite To Save Our Nation. written by bunpeiris We, The People, Must Become Bun: Cultured, Literate & Armed Today Sri Lanka being under the hammer of western powers and Sinhalese being one of the endangered species of the world, as bun, among many others profess that is, it is high time for the […]
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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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Teaching & Learning Literature REQUIREMENTS, APPRECIATIONS AND EXPERIENCES by bunpeiris Stories tell us how to live. Literature being all about us, the human race; being trained upon of the tragicomedy of the lonely race with intelligent aliens yet to be found for company; being homed in on the march of folly throughout their millenniums of history; being bullseyed on the human condition, to introduce this man-made treasure […]
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Above presentation is developed and brought to you by bunpeiris. Following article is reproduced herein by the kind courtesy of http://www.tracomcorp.com/blog/more-than-iq-eq-do-we-have-multiple-intelligences/. More Than IQ and EQ – Do We Have Multiple Intelligences? by Sierra Charter The research on the positive impacts of having high emotional intelligence (EQ) is undeniable, which is why it has become such a desired skill by recruiters and development […]
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Above PowerPoint presentation on Independent Learning is developed & brought to you by bunpeiris. Following article on Independent Learning is reproduced herein by the kind courtesy of University of Sheffield Independent Learning University of Sheffield One of the goals of an educator is to apply strategies and techniques to promote independent learning in their students. The notion of independent learning can be unfamiliar […]
Read moreAncient Literary Criticism by Casper C. de Jonge Throughout Antiquity, Greeks and Romans interpreted, analyzed, and evaluated the texts of poets and prose writers. They formulated ideas about the nature of poetry, its effects, and its function in society. They also developed theories on the effective composition of prose texts, and they commented on the style of orators, historians, and philosophers. […]
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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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Stand Out Among The Literary Elite: Study English Language & Literature with bunpeiris High quality intensive English language classes grade 6 onwards to OL & AL at Kandana Stand Out Among The Literary Elite: Study English Language & Literature with bunpeiris The students are supported with an outstanding private library of language study course books of all levels, Classics, literature, […]
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Cambridge OL English Essays 2 by bunpeiris RAISE YOUR COMPETENCE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TO GLOBALLY OPERATIONAL LEVEL [Your day-to-day chit chat English doesn’t get you anywhere up: let your words flow on the paper & ring in the ears.] “Criticize everything that moves” [Now, take it easy: don’t be nasty or negative about everything. All you have to do is, instead […]
Read moreAdrian Doff Language in Use A popular and highly acclaimed four level course which both interests and stretches learners. Authors: Adrian Doff, Christopher Jones English Type: British English CEF Level: A1 Beginner/Starter – B2 Upper Intermediate Publication date: 21/11/1991 English Unlimited English Unlimited is a six-level (A1 to C1) goals-based course for adults. Centred on purposeful, real-life objectives, it prepares […]
Read more23 maps and charts on language by Dylan Matthews on April 15, 2015 Source: http://www.vox.com/2014/11/17/7082317/language-maps-charts “The limits of my language,” the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once posited, “mean the limits of my world.” Explaining everything within the limits of the world is probably too ambitious a goal for a list like this. But here are 23 maps and charts that can hopefully […]
Read moreCeltic and the History of the English Language By Jonathon Owen Source: Celtic and the History of the English Language A little while ago a link to this list of 23 maps and charts on languagewent around on Twitter. It’s full of interesting stuff on linguistic diversity and the genetic relationships among languages, but there was one chart that bothered […]
Read moreSource: A Hero’s Hero – Alexander and Achilles A Hero’s Hero – Alexander and Achilles OCTOBER 28, 20112 COMMENTS Alexander Alexander conquered most of the known world of his time. His empire stretched from Macedonia to Persia to Egypt to the North-Western border of India. He was a legend even during his time. There was speculation about whether he was god […]
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Literary Criticism: Aristotle onwards by bunpeiris I bumped into a pile of second-hand books causing one of the books to be swept off the pile. It was a dusty, discoloured & dog-eared book titled “Classical criticism“. I wasn’t interested in literary criticism at all then. I was too young to digest the serious stuff; furthermore I felt falling short of the […]
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