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?
RITIGALA, SRI LANKA, THE LAND OF DELIGHTS Romances From The Resplendent Island 1 by B. Upul N. Peiris Unmada Chithra (The beauty who overwhelm one & all with maddening desire) The first king of Lanka, King Vijaya, who arrived in the Resplendent Island, the Land of Delights in the year of final extinction of Gauthama Buddha (543 BC), by […]
Read moreImagesElephant worshipping at the temple of God Skanda Buddhist Stupa close to Hindu temple of God Skanda, God Skanda of Katargama River Manik Ganga at Kataragama The corssed tuskers are a torment to the noble beast Festival A main road running along the rainwater reservoir Offerings of fruits to God Skanda. Rain water reservoir at Kataragama Rosen HotelRomances From The […]
Read moreASOKAMALA OF LANKA Isurumuniya Rock temple, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka In the loveliest part of old Anuradhapura, in a group of black granite boulders, there nestles the Isurumuniya Rock temple. The temple built in the 3rd century B.C., was the first repository of the Sacred Tooth Relic of the Buddha. The […]
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