Question: What is syntax? Discuss the major syntactic process with diagram. Syntax Syntax refers to the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. In linguistics, syntax is the set of rules, principles, and processes that…
Question: Discuss critically Nativist Theory of language learning. Nativist theory The nativist theory is a biologically based theory, which argues that humans are pre-programmed with the innate ability to develop language. Noam Chomsky is the main theorist associated with the…
Question: Discuss the rules of word formation. Or, discuss the major rules of word-formation. Introduction Word formation rules are very basic concept of linguistic. This is a process of forming new word. All the languages of the world possess some…
Question: What is the cooperative principle? Discuss with reference to Grecian Maxims. The cooperative principle The cooperative principle states that you should say things that are appropriate for the kind of conversation you are having. In other words, cooperative principle…
Question: What is language? Discuss the characteristics of Language. Introduction Language is an inseparable part of human society. Human civilization has been possible through language. Humanity has come out of the stone age only through language and has developed science,…
Question: What are the functions of poetry? Introduction Every branch of knowledge has function to be done for the betterment of human beings. As the earliest branch of knowledge, poetry has a unique function to be done in accordance with…
Question: How does Wordsworth justify metre in poetry? Introduction William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) is an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, assisted to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).…
Question: What are the faults of Shakespeare? Introduction Doctor Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) is one of the well-known literary figures in the history of English literature. In his literary criticism ” Preface to Shakespeare ” here he upheld some faults of…
Question: What are the merits of Shakespeare? Introduction Johnson’s “Preface to Shakespeare” is a critical assessment of Shakespeare’s dramatic art in which the merits of Shakespeare are uphanded. Poet of Nature: Shakespeare is called a poet of nature. He is…
Question: What does Aristotle say about the unities of poetry? Introduction Poetic unities are the principles of poetic structure relating to action, time, and place. Aristotle emphasizes the three unities of poetry in his “Poetics”. Though the three unities are…
Question: What is Coleridges objection to Wordsworth’s selection of characters in his poems? Introduction In chapter seventeenth of the essay “Biographia Literaria”, Coleridge gives a detailed analysis of the defects and excellences of the poetry of Wordsworth but the defects…
Question: What led Wordsworth to write Preface to Lyrical Ballads? Introduction To flourish the art of Romanticism as a movement of poetry, William Wordsworth (1770-1850) wrote “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”. Here he explains the characteristics of the new kind of…
Question: Write a short note on Neoclassicism. Introduction Neoclassicism is the name of a movement that is involved with artistic and creative movements that reflect the nature of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, culture, and art. To put it differently,…
Question: Write a short note on the objections of poetry Introduction Stephen Gosson (1554-1624) was an English essayist who brought some objections against poetry and poets in his “The School of Abuse”. But Sir Philip Sydney (1554-1586) in his “An Apology…
Question: Write a note on Coleridge concepts of imagination and fancy. Introduction The “Biographia Literaria”, a life account in talk by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1774-1832), which he published in 1817. It was one of Coleridge’s principle basic investigations. Through this…
Question: Why does Johnson prefer Shakespeare’s comedies to tragedies? Introduction Doctor Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) compares Shakespeare’s tragedies and comedies in his literary criticism ” Preface to Shakespeare” (1765). Here, he has preferred Shakespeare’s comedies to tragedies. There are some logical…
Question: Why did Sydney write An Apology for Poetry? Introduction During the Renaissance, the emotional appeal of literature created a number of poets. Among them, Sir Philip Sydney (1554-1586) was a superior one. One of the most famous pieces of…
Question: what does Johnson say about Shakespeares violation of unities? Introduction “Preface to Shakespeare” (1765) is an outstanding masterpiece of Doctor Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) in the history of English criticism. In his literary criticism, he has clearly upheld the violation…