ASSIGNMENT B.Com General – 3rd Semester Subject Name: Language – General English Subject code: BCC 301 Spring Drive 2013 4 credits (60 marks) (BKID: 1495) Answer the following questions. Each question carries 10 marks. 1. Our world is full of miseries at every turn. What is Swami Vivekananda’s cure for all human ailments? Discuss in detail. 10 marks Ans- In a life-span of only 39 years‚ Swami Vivekananda‚ who spread the message of India’s spiritual heritage across the world
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Literature: Reading‚ Reacting‚ Writing‚ 5th Edition Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell Table of Contents Preface 1. Understanding Literature Imaginative Literature Conventional Themes The Literary Canon Luisa Valenzuela‚ “All about Suicide” Wole Soyinka‚ “Telephone Conversation” Thinking Critically Interpreting Literature Evaluating Literature The Function of Literary Criticism Checklist: Evaluating Literary Criticism 2. Reading and Writing About Literature
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core book for language analysis. Aimed at A-Level and beginning undergraduate students‚ The Language of Poetry: focuses on the ‘look‚ the sound‚ the movement and the appeal of poetry uses clusters of poems to highlight differences in structure‚ tone‚ quality and form explores historical‚ contemporary‚ regional and social differences in language and style combines a highly individual and fascinating selection of poems from the canonical to the fringe‚ among them an Old English lament‚ a haiku
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Alliteration: A technique where a sound repeats in the beginning of the word or phrase‚ it’s usually a consonant. Alliteration is used in the poem “Song” by Sir John Suckling. The w is alliterative throughout the whole poem. “Why so pale and wan fond lover? Prithee why so pale? Will‚ when looking well can ’t move her‚ Looking ill prevail? Prithee why so pale?” (Ferguson 1588) Allusion: A reference
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The British romantic era starts from the 1700’s to the 1800’s‚ Romanticism‚ a philosophical‚ literary‚ artistic and cultural period which initiated as a result prevailing Enlightenment ideals of the day. This romantic period in the history of British poetry was right in the middle of a time when the society was going through tremendous reforms. It is characterized by a shift from the structured‚ intellectual‚ reasoned approach of the 1700’s to use of the imagination‚ freedom of thought and expression
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ROMANTICISM Philosophical Foundation (Summary) Proponent: The Principle of Natural Goodness Philosophical Foundations of Romanticism • Earl of Shaftesbury’s View of natural goodness • Herder’s organic view of History • Post-Kantian German philosophers’ epistemological concerns • Burke’s inquiries into the sublime and the beautiful • Percy’s Researches in the Folk literature • Walpole’s and Volney’s Concern with the past • Goethe’s celebration
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Watchmen is a work rich with symbolism‚ social themes‚ and thought provoking concepts. The Tales of the Black Freighter is a comic within the comic‚ and tackles similarly profound topics. Adrian Veidt from the Watchmen‚ known as his superhero name Ozymandias‚ was an industrialist genius who used his unique talents to build an empire. Veidt was a renowned celebrity known for his intelligence‚ handsomeness‚ elegance‚ business savvy‚ and his past career as a masked vigilante. The mariner was a pirate attack
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Brittani Powell Dr. Matthew DeForrest ENG435/ TR 9:30-10:45 March 1‚ 2010 Individualism: First Generation Romantics The Romantics were known for their use of the unusual and old-fashioned in their poetry because they were in a very unusual and old-fashioned state of mind when writing their poetry. The Romantics were experimental writers and they lived during a very tough time period‚ and itshowed in their poetry. The Romantic period had the shortest life span of any literary era in
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How to Read Like a Professor by: Thomas C. Foster 1) Introduction: How’d He Do That? Mostly in memory it affects the reading literature in way that the reader‚ recognizes similarities in another work of literature‚ like in romantic novels elude towards Shakes Spears’ play Romeo and Juliet. Also‚ recognizing the pattern makes it easier on the reader because with that understanding the complex undertone of the book; like when I was reading The Scarlett Letter‚ I saw the allusions and symbolism in
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The Effect of Tone in Beloved Tone is the way an author conveys a feeling to the reader through a piece of writing. In Beloved‚ by Toni Morrison‚ the book begins with a dark and foreboding tone and as you traverse through the memories of the characters the tone becomes more and more gloomy but as the book comes to a close the tone becomes more hopeful in 124. “124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom.” P.1 is the first words of the book and sets up the dark foreboding tone that trails throughout
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