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?
Students need to bring in evidence in the form of quotations from the text of “To kill A Mockingbird”, explain the situation/encounter, and expand the given short answer to make it a fully-fledged essay-type answer written in PEEL [Point, Evidence, Explanation, Link] format.
Read moreQuestion [Undergraduate level. B.A. in English, Sri Lanka]“Uprooted”, English translation of Sinhalese Gamperaliya is an authentic portrayal of the sweeping social transformation that took place in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) in the mid-20th century, subsequent to the collapse of the feudal system. Discuss.Answer Written by bunPeiris of Moratuwa. It is true “Uprooted” of realistic fiction genre is an authentic portrayal […]
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Canterbury Tales: Sea Captain’s Tale and The Prioress’s Tale Written in PEEL [Point, Evidence, Explanation and Link format] by BunPeiris. Compare & contrast the content, themes and character portrayal in “The Sea-Captain’s Tale” & “The Prioress’s Tale” Geoffrey Chaucer is humble: appeals to the readers to credit Jesus Christ for the inspiration of everything they would have learned in reading […]
Read moreThe Employability Skills Hoax Written by bunPeiris. Meden Agan (μηδὲν ἄγαν) – ‘Nothing in excess’ [An inscription at the temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece] In the beginning it was only snares: Soft Skills. Now they have begun to flaunt the guns: Employability Skills. If the concept of Soft Skills is the camel’s nose, the notion of Employability Skills is the […]
Read moreTHE MASTER WITH AN EARRING By bunpeiris “Will stands out not only as the greatest literary light ever, but also the supreme intellect, with the exception of Buddha & Maha Rishi Vyasa, the author of Mahabharata. “Dilshan the cricketing swashbuckler, the only batsman to have a cricketing stroke [Dilscoop] named after him, got it all:will, dash and dare. And he got a diamond in his left […]
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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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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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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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Rise of English 1: Liberal Humanism Written by bunpeiris Rise of English 1: Liberal Humanism is the first article of a series of articles titled “Rise of English“. It has dual purposes: to enlighten the readers of the value of English language in the global stage; to bring in the Literature in English closer to your sense of humanity. A Pan […]
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Homer and Shakespeare “Short is the life of man, just like the dew-drop on the tip of a blade of grass; a bubble appearing on the water when rain falls; a line drawn on water with a stick; a mountain stream; a lump of spittle on the tip of the tongue; a piece of meat thrown into an extremely hot iron […]
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Gitanjali Song offerings Rabindranath Tagore A Collection of Prose translations made by the author from the original Bengali With an introduction by W. B. Yeats London: The Macmillan Company, 1913 Nobel prize for literature in 1913 [A limited edition comprising 750 copies was published by the India Society, London in 1912] The book was dedicated to WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN Introduction to […]
Read moreCambridge O Level “Literature in English” [2010] For examination in June and November 2017, 2018 and 2019 4.1 Syllabus aims The syllabus aims to develop the ability of learners to: • communicate accurately, appropriately and effectively in speech and writing • understand and respond imaginatively to what they hear, read and experience • enjoy literature and appreciate its contribution to […]
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Thomas Hardy by J. B. Bullen*1 [gleanings:literary biographies,universality-of-themes-in-fiction] The tragedies of Thomas Hardy‘s novels are indeed dark, but that darkness is a foil to the rightness and optimism of life. As Thomas Hardy recognised, pleasure, joy and satisfaction are emotions understood only in terms of their opposite, and much of the energy in his writing comes from the stress between […]
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Why Do We Study Literature? To learn more about us: human condition. The human condition is defined as “the characteristics, key events, and situations which compose the essentials of human existence, such as birth, growth, emotionality, aspiration, conflict, and mortality.” This is a very broad topic which has been and continues to be pondered and analyzed from many perspectives, including those […]
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