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 English Riolta On Line CAMBRIDGE ADULT ENGLISH STUDY COURSE: Face2Face Timing: Scheduled to begin in the mid year 2016 Mode of Instruction: [a] 80 percent of the study course is on-line [b] 20 percent of the study course is Face to Face with multi-media at Ivory Gardens, Kandana [c] Study course books: best selling […]
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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, […]
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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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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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