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Stylistic Analysis of the Short Story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
Full text linkStylistic analysis as a methodology, is important to understand text as well as their contents that how language works within a text. The present paper aims to analyze the story from stylistic point of view discussing the literary and rhetorical devices used in detail. The methodology used for the paper is stylistic analysis. The paper concludes that Poe in his short story has extensively used literary and rhetorical devices to prove insanity, obsession, guilt, tension and other recurring themes of story
Survey Synchronize on Selected English Word among Diamantinians: An Assessment
Full text linkInvasion of English language, brought consequences not only to the lexicon but to the phonology as well. Diamantina National High School is an institution which promotes Discipline and Excellence Adaptation of selected words clusters was taken from 50 Grade 12 students. Only spectrographic behaviors of these sounds are look into. This research paper examine word clusters with both initial and medial position occurrence, except for /z/ clusters and focused on the stress, intonation and juncture. The discussion on the affixation processes will not include a frequency count on the variability of forms, and the central tendency (mean, median and mode) as made on Ramos et. al (2017). Simply the description of on how the subjects cope with the processes. There are three points addressed in this paper, in order to determine the characteristics of the suprasegmental. In pronunciation of initial clusters, the first constituent is uttered the same as the noncluster correspondence. Thus, we will call that repair as full articulation of the first constituent. With regards with the third type clusters, two ways are employed; first, is the full articulation, and the second is the prosthesis /f/ /s/. For the resyllabication of clusters, word-medial clusters are examined in this paper. The ambisyllabicity of the cluster member lying along the boundary, if it is a plosive, split itself into the two syllables. Wherein, the closure of the lip belongs to the former syllable, while the explosion is on the succeeding syllables. If it is a continuant, like /f/ /s/, normally with an extended sound, it runs through the next syllable, until the burst of the next segment
Sexual Harassment of Aboriginal Women in George Ryga’s The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
Full text linkGeorge Ryga is one the prominent English playwright who has an esteem place in the history of Canadian literature. He addresses issues relating to Aboriginals people in his country. The play, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe is considered as a landmark in Canadian Literature as Sally Morgan's My Place is in Australian literature because it was one of the first literary genres which discuss issues relating aboriginal people which earlier never found place in the Canadian literature. The play structured in two acts recounts the story of Rita Joe, a young aboriginal woman, her struggle for survival in a completely adverse atmosphere. She belongs to a city where there is a monopoly of Whites and her tribe (Blacks) is being discriminated because of the color of their skin. The play is about the oppression of colonial power and the survival strategies of the natives. Through this play, Ryga has given voice to the voiceless and has been successful in his attempt in portraying the problems of the aboriginals in Canada in the best possible way. He has taken the human experience with a fine sense of compassion in dealing with the issue
The Delineation of the Complicated Marital and Extra-Marital Affairs in R.K. Narayan's Novel THE GUIDE
Full text linkRasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami who is one of the most versatile and prolific novelists in the history of the Indian English Literature, has presented the typical Indian characters and the true Indian atmosphere to show the contemporary Indian society in his works. The most distinguished fact of his novel is that he has dealt with essentially the middle class characters and has created a fictional South Indian Malgudi town like Thomas Hardy‘s Wessex or William Faulkner‘s Yoknapatawpha County. His fictional world has projected an exploration of the conjugal relationship in the domestic world and the themes of marital and extra marital relationships have always been the focus of many literary works in the Indian English Literature. However, his novels are deeply rooted in customs, traditions, beliefs, and superstitions of the Indian society and are preoccupied with the theme of family relationship, East- West encounter, education etc. Here in this paper an attempt has been made to reveal his portrayal of marital and extra marital affairs and at the same time it also aims to find out the reasons of extra marital relationship. However, through this exploration, we can observe that he has vividly presented the contemporary scenario of the Indian society which always follows the stream of conventional and unconventional way of life
Study Habits of Senior High School
Full text linkThis study attempts to find out perception on study habits of Senior High School students and analyze relationship between study habits and academic performance and various other factors that affects study habits. It is generally believed that a student learns effective study habits in school. So Senior High School students are generally assumed to have effective study habits, but, the environment of school is very different and need of effective study habits. So, this research consists of details about why effective study habits are needed at Senior High School level and effective study habits that a Senior High School student must have in order to learn and eventually score better. Also, we conducted a survey in La Paz National High School to analyze study habits of students. 
Literary Presentations of Influence of 9/11 on Muslim Migrants in United States
Full text linkThe attack on Twin Tower in United States on 11th September 2011 was a disastrous and cowardly attack claiming the lives of many innocent victims. It also had led to the rise various discourses around the world. The attack was regulated by a handful of misguided Muslim men which led to the suspicion on the entire Muslim community. Muslim community who were living in West especially America was looked upon suspiciously. The aftermath of 9/11 was very disastrous for many innocent Muslims as they were threatened, beaten and even killed by angry American who wanted to take revenge from anybody on ethnic ground. Many innocent Muslims were persecuted on just suspicious ground and some were abducted and had never return back
Mysticism in John Donne and Lalon Shah: Similarities and Differences
Full text linkMysticism is a faith that directs knowledge of God, spiritual truth, or ultimate reality can be achieved through subjective intuition. Donne was a man of the 17th—century England that saw many religious reformation. Lalon was born in the 19th—century Indian Subcontinent who understood the terms of organized religion in his own principles. He is the pioneer of the movement of democratizing the society removing social disparity. His mysticism is based on human body and mind. Similarly, Donne shows his inner attitudes to human body and mind, which he takes to be God‘s book revealing His intention to mankind. This study examines that both Donne and Lalon have keen observations from the core philosophy to find out the ultimate truth of human soul dictate the way of spiritual salvation. It also aims to look at the influence of mysticism upon John Donne and Lalon Shah through the critical analysis of their poetry. It would like to examine Donne‘s treatment of mysticism as well as Lalon‘s treatment of mysticism respectively by fostering similarities and differences between them
Self-Identification in Elizabeth Bishop's Poetry
Full text linkoai:ojs2.aaj.ielas.org:article/1Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) is one of the most important American poets and short-story writers. She is the Poet Laureate of the United States (1949-1950), Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry (1956), National Book Award winner (1970) and recipient of Neustadt International Award for Literature (1976). Bishop is famous of writing poems implicitly referring to her personal life and suffering. The objective of this research is to study the life and poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and to show how her life is reflected in her poems through selfidentification. However, the research is divided into three sections and a conclusion. Section one is an introduction. It consists of two parts. The first part sheds light on Bishop's life, how she grew up, her suffering, the things and persons she lost in her childhood, the places she lived in and their effect on her. The second part of this section deals with her literary career. It tackles her poems, short-stories, style and use of self-identification. Section two is completely devoted to Bishop's poem "Sestina". This poem describes the moment her mother is taken to the asylum. Here, Bishop constructs a picture of a grandmother and a grandchild on a gloomy autumn. She identifies her sadness with the rain, the failing light, the water drops on the iron kettle and drawings. However, the section tackles the paraphrasing, form and analysis of the poem. Section three deals with Bishop's poem "One Art". This poem is a villanelle. At the beginning, the poet talks about losing. She suggests that we get used to loss by losing little things like house keys and wasting time. You become comfortable with these losses and then you would be ready to cope with the big ones. By talking about loss, the poet indirectly identifies her own loss. In the end, she confesses that she is talking about a dear person. Anyway, the section shows the paraphrasing, form and analysis of the poem
Motivated Students and Effective Learning in Literature Classes
Full text linkMost of our students are reluctant readers who consider reading and learning as an obligatory action. This study is about how to change the students‟ view of education and study. The study is made of two parts. In the first section the childhood and school stage is discussed. In this part, I will talk about how to make our children life-long motivated readers who look at reading as a pleasant activity. In the second section, the college and university level is discussed. Here some beneficial classroom techniques are proposed to be used in the classrooms. These techniques enable the instructors to provide an effective learning atmosphere in the classroom to absorb the students in the process of learning as much as possible. What is more outstanding about these methods is how they increase the quality of learning by classroom activities which stimulate creative reading, thinking, and writing. But it is just the beginning of the story. There are plenty of fabulous articles and books that our respected teachers and instructors can study to build a creative intellectual classroom atmosphere
The Slovene trilogy Alice in Crazyland by Evald Flisar
Full text linkThe British writer Lewis Caroll exerted influence upon Slovene authors writing for young readers for his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871). Contemporary Slovene writer Evald Flisar wrote his trilogy about Alice as a fantasy tale (Alice in Crazyland, 2008), a play (Alice in Crazyland: an ecological force, 2010) and as a comic strip and a graphic novel (Alice in Potteroonia, 2013, illustrated by P. Kovacic). His trilogy, particularly Alice in Crazyland (2008), reflects the philosophy of the Slovene theoretical Slavoj Zizek in his pathological Narcissus as a Socially Mandatory Form of Subjectivity (1985)