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?
The Nightingale and The Rose Guided Ouestion 2 for Sri Lanka’s National GCE OL Appreciation Of English Literary Texts. Developed by bunPeiris. THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE by OSCAR WILDE [1854-1900 ] Here is a set of literal comprehension question [*1] [A] and a pair of inferential comprehension question [*2] [B] & [C] that will enable you to compose an […]
Read moreThe Nightingale and the Rose Q1by bunPeiris [Question 1]In Oscar Wilde’s “The Nightingale and the Rose”, the student, referring to the songs of Nightingale says, “She has form’’, yet she has no “feelings”. He also says the nightingale does not “mean anything”, and also doubts whether her songs do “any practical good’’. Discuss. Hints. [Support material for you to answer […]
Read moreThe Eagle by Tennyson , A Model Essay Type Answer Writing essay type answers to Literature in English question paper at the examinations.Written by bunPeiris. Notes and Comments at the end are solely for the purpose of making you grasp a possible format. Question:The poem entitled, “”The Eagle”, seems to carry a deeper meaning that irrespective of the fame and […]
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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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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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Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations Marginal Comments by bunpeiris Great Expectations: the realization of a dream of a poor orphan. Oh! boy that’s a happy ending. Tell me that again, please. Okey, okey, hang on! The poor orphan boy makes its rich, makes his name, and wins the hand of the loveliest English rose. What’s more, he was even financed by an […]
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Lake Isle of Innisfree Lake Isle of Innisfree, of all the poems prescribed in Sri Lanka National OL Literature, is the of simplest and loveliest little poem for all of you budding poets & lovers of literature or rather humanity, to cut your teeth, i.e. to sharpen your sensibilities to literature. Lake Isle of innisfree is the ideal launch pad […]
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