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?
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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Gary soto The talk My best friend and I knew that we were going to grow up to be ugly. On a backyard lawn—the summer light failing west of the mulberry tree where the house of the most beautiful girl on our street stood—we talked about what we could do: shake the second-base dirt from our hair, wash our hands […]
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Amy Tan Rules of The Game I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect from others, and eventually, though neither of us knew it at the time, chess games. “Bite back your tongue,” scolded my mother when I cried loudly, yanking her hand toward the store that […]
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Leslie Marmon Silko The Man to Send Rain Clouds They found him under a big cottonwood tree. His Levi jacket and pants were faded light-blue so that he had been easy to find. The big cottonwood tree stood apart from a small grove of winterbare cottonwoods which grew in the wide, sandy, arroyo. He had been dead for a day […]
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Guy de Maupassant The Necklace The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks. She had no dowry, no expectations, no way of being known, understood, loved, married by any rich and distinguished man; so she let herself be married to a […]
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The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind “The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind” was written during the Cold War, a period of intense rivalry between the United States and the former Soviet Union that shaped the politics in the second half of the twentieth century. During this time, each action by one country-the creation of a weapon, the launching of a […]
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APPRECIATION OF LITERATURE OL & AL Written by bunPeiris APPRECIATION IS THE THING, NOTHING ELSE MATTERS Literature in English Cambridge OL & AL & Sri Lanka National OL & AL: Essay Type Answers As the street story teller once told Scheherazade, the stories do tell us how to live. Being cheated by his queen, the King Shahryar would have each one of […]
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Movies: the arguments HEAT – Face 2 Face HEAT – Dialogue between Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) & Lt. Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) AP: How’re you doing? What do you say I buy you a cup of coffee? RdN: Yeah, sure. Let’s go. AP : Follow me. (…) AP:Seven years in Folsom. In the hole for three. McNeil before that. […]
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Little Gems of Literature: Holiday reading for Grade 8,9,10 & 11 with bunpeiris in April, August & December at Kandana bunpeiris@gmail.com 0777 1000 60 The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy When Grandmama died at 83 our whole household held its breath. She had promised us a sign her leaving, final proof that her present life had ended well. My parents […]
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Little Gems of Literature: Holiday reading for Grade 8,9,10 and 11 with bunpeiris in April, August & December at Kandana. bunpeiris@gmail.com 0777 1000 60 New Directions by Maya Angelou In 1903 the late Mrs. Annie Johnson of Arkansas found herself with two toddling sons, very little money, a slight ability to read and add simple numbers. To this picture add a disastrous […]
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Little Gems of Literature: Holiday reading for Grade 8,9,10 & 11 with bunpeiris in April, August & December at Kandana. bunpeiris@gmail.com 0777 1000 60 Julia Alvarez When her family fled the Domnican Republic and returned to new York, Julia Alvarez was ten years old, and Spanish was her primary language. Painfully aware of not fitting in, Julia took refuge in reading […]
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Little Gems of Literature: Holiday reading for Grade 8,9,10 & 11 with bunpeiris in April, August & December at Kandana bunpeiris@gmail.com 0777 1000 60 The Washwoman by Isaac Bashevis Singer Read this narrative essay or a real-life story so that you would know how to live a full life: a life of honesty and hardwork to the very death. Having read this, […]
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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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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