Planning a feature on street-children
See Answer →Features on environmental issues
See Answer →Travel writing
See Answer →Types of interviews
See Answer →What are the characteristics of a good scientific feature? How would you collect and arrange your material on a topic of scientific importance of your choice?
See Answer →Discuss the process of feature writing for periodicals, going step-by-step.
See Answer →'What is the main difference between an article and a feature? Which of the two is likely to make more interesting reading and why?
See Answer →Discuss the role of print media Vis-a-Vis electronic media?
See Answer →Aitken’s prose style make his Travels by a Lesser Line both informative and interesting to the reader. Comment
See Answer →Comment on main features of Laurence’s speech “My Final Hour.”
See Answer →Examine diary writing as a literary form of prose with reference to Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl.
See Answer →Examine the essay “A Dissertation upon Roast Pig” in the light of the distinctive features of Lamb’s style and personality.
See Answer →Comment on the prose style of the essay “Of Great Place”
See Answer →Discuss The Binding Vine as a stream of consciousness novel
See Answer →Trace elements of humour and irony in the story ‘The Other Woman’. Give examples and quotes from the story and illustrate these.
See Answer →Comment on the dominant variety of prose (narrative, expository or descriptive) present in each of the following passages. Write a brief critical appreciation of each passage in about 250 words each:
a) Culture today must have a wider mass basis, and language, which is one of the embodiments of that culture, must also have that basis. This approach to the masses is not merely a question of simple words and phrases. It is equally a matter of idea and of the inner content of those words and phrases. Language which is to make appeal to the masses must deal with the problems of those masses, with their joys and sorrows, their hopes and aspirations. It must represent and mirror the life of the people as a whole and not that of a small group at the top. Then only will it have its roots in the soil and find sustenance from it. This applies to all our Indian languages. I know that in all of them these ideas are finding utterance, and they are looking more and more towards the masses. This process must be accelerated, and our writers should deliberately aim at encouraging it. It is also desirable, I think, for our languages to cultivate contacts with foreign literatures by means of translations of both the old classics and modern books. This will put us in touch with cultural and literary and social movements in other countries and will strengthen our own languages by the infusion of fresh ideas.
b) Sleep slowly came over him, and so deep was his rest that people were already moving about in the streets when he awoke. He rose quickly and hurried down to the river and hurried back again and, seated by the central pillar, began once more to meditate. People came and people went; they banged the bell and touched the Bull and took the flowers, and still did Moorthy enter deeper and deeper into meditation; and it was only Waterfall Venkamma who roused him with her loud laughter; ‘Ah, the cat has begun to take to asceticism,’ says she, ‘only to commit more sins. Hi son! When did you begin to lie to your neighbours? As though it were not enough to have polluted our village with your pariahs! Now you want to pollute us with your gilded purity!
c) On most of the isles where vegetation is found at all, it is more ungrateful than the blankness of Atacama. Tangled thickets of wiry bushes, without fruit and without a name, springing up among deep fissures of calcined rock, and treacherously masking them; or a parched growth of distorted cactus trees. In many places the coast is rockbound, or more properly, clinker-bound; trumbled masses of blackish or greenish stuff like the dross of an iron-furnace, forming dark clefts and caves here and there, into which a ceaseless sea pours a fury of foam; overhanging them with a swirl of gray, haggard mist, amidst which sail screaming flights of unearthly birds heightening the dismal din.
See Answer →Aitken’s prose style make his Travels by a Lesser Line both informative and interesting to the reader. Comment
See Answer →Comment on main features of Laurence’s speech “My Final Hour.”
See Answer →