The speech sounds in English are broadly divided into two kinds namely, vowels and consonants. Vowel A vowel is a speech sound produced by the air from the lungs allowed to pass freely. /i:/ eg: feet. Consonant A consonant is a speech sound formed when air from the lungs is not allowed to pass freely. …
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There are a lot of organs which help a person speak with proper pronunciation and clarity. Some organs are helpful in differentiating the sounds through articulation. Lungs They act as the main source of energy for speech. It has small air pockets called alveoles in which oxygen is stored. When the air in the alveolus …
The artistic ornament in a diction implies the rhythm, harmony and song. Rhythm and harmony in verse may be used to develop some parts and song to imply others. They are all designed to enrich the language of the play to make it more effective. There are a few aspects included in a tragedy and …
Catharsis (meaning purification). Aristotle implicitly suggests that tragedy helps to keep pity and fear in their due proportions by allowing to find the spiritual purgation of these elements. Catharsis directs out pity and fear towards worthier objects. In a tragedy where the sufferings being witnessed are not our own. These emotions find a free and …
Wolfgang Iser’s The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach Reading is a process that envisages an act of comprehension. Whenever we read meaning in a text, we read meaning into a text and out of the text. Therefore, while reading meaning we have to consider two things – the actual text & the actions involved in …
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Nation has been considered as an ‘imagined political community’ by Benedict Anderson. It is considered ‘imagined’ as it is limited and assumed as a community to which the people ‘regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation’ are forced to believe nation to be a deep, horizontal comradeship to kill themselves willingly for these imagined and …
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Aristotle (384-322 BC) was born in Stagira, an ancient Greek city in the central Macedonia. He studied Biology and worked as a teacher. He was the disciple of Plato and joined his academy and remained there for several years. He left the academy shortly after the death of Plato. In 342 BC, he became the …
‘History’, the English word is derived from the Greek word ‘istoria’ meaning inquiry, exploration, research which defines the origin and development of humankind and also depicts a record of the various and distinct events and movements in its time. As Thomas Carlyle defines history, it is a subject that traces the essence of the past …
People, though wonders at the beauty of nature and its creations, fail to realize that they are also part of the web of life in the earth. Moreover, they adopt an anthropocentric attitude towards nature which, in fact, results in exploitation of it. This kind of attitude towards nature has urged several critics and writers …
Man, though wonders at the beauty of nature and its creations, fail to realize that they are also part of the web of life in the earth. Moreover, they adopt an anthropocentric attitude towards nature which, in fact, results in exploitation of it. This kind of attitude towards nature has urged several critics and writers …
