Note to First Years [ Class Email ]

Your notes are sent to your class email [ hndeait007@gmail.com ] Do contact Mr.Gopikrishna regarding the password.

First Year literature online exams

Those who wish to do the online practice exams on literature do send a mail to me so that i can forward the registration code to you. If you had already registered you can start doing the exams. Two tests are open for you all. HNDE 1st year Test 1 & HNDE 1st year Test 2.

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Guide Movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY1-k3EjgQA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Death of a Salesman : Characters.

Model Examination First Year 1st semi

  

Model Examination

Q1. Comment on the following extract, relating it to the specific work, the context, and its significance. [20 Marks]

1.       For oft, when on my couch I lie

ENTERTAINMENT BY NISSIM EZEKIEL

The monkey-show is on -

patient girl on haunches

holds the strings,

a baby in her arms.

Two red monkeys

in red and purple pantaloons

prepare to dance.

Crowd collects,

Naked to the waist,

the Master of Ceremonies'

drums frenzy, cracks whip,

calls the tricks

to earn applause and copper coins.

The circle thickens as the plot thickens,

children laugh, the untouchable women

smooth their hair. A coolie

grins at me, his white teeth

gleam in the sunlight.

Only the monkeys are sad,

and suddenly

the baby begins to cry.

Anticipating time for payment,

the crowd dissolves.

Some, in shame, part

with the smallest coin they have.

The show moves on.

The poem captures a familiar scene in most Indian cities - a street show of performing monkeys, dancing to the beat of the quavering drum.

The monkey showman in the poem 'Entertainment' represents poor rural entertainer who sustains life in utter hardships. In search of money, he moves from one place to another. He entirely depends on the favour of the public.
The crowd thickens as the show climaxes but melts away when the time for payment comes.

Learn Online: Literary Techniques

Select any of the following web link you link best and learn the literary terms ..

http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/classroom/terms.htm

http://quizlet.com/11318872/literary-techniques-flash-cards/#

http://sparkcharts.sparknotes.com/sat/satcriticalreading/section4.php

http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_technique

First Year 1st semi : Model Exam on Literary Forms

Model exam on Literary Forms starts on 31 .03. 2013 at 9- 10 am.

EN 1105 : Figures of speech

Figures of speech 

Simile 

Metre (poetry) 

Foot (prosody) 

Anthropomorphism / personification 

Oxymoron 

Sarcasm 

Alliteration 

Sibilant 

Zeugma 

Metaphor 

Allegory 

Synecdoche 

Satire 

Hyperbole 

Stanza 

Rhyme scheme 

Prosody

Syllepsis 

Irony 

Verbal irony 

Situational irony 

Dramatic irony 

Aphorism