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?
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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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 […]
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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Sri Lanka, the Singhalese Buddhist Country Where is it written? It is written in water: in the lifeline of Sri Lanka, the network of thousands of rainwater reservoirs built by the ancient kings of Sri Lanka. Where is it written? It is writen in stone: in the numerous rock craved colossal buddha statues of Sri Lanka. Where is it written? […]
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Shall We Dance? I will love to. Will or Shall Bobby: Is it the will of the god to make us suffer with will and shall? bun: No, of course not, the god is forever merciful, but you can be very stylish with both will and shall in your pocket. See, would you ever imagine inviting a lady “Will we dance?” Bobby: Oh!, no you are kidding. bun: Exactly, now you […]
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