“MY TRIP TO THE MOON” is written by?

1. SEA ANIMALS is written by ……
a. P. C. ROY
b. KAMALA DAS
c. AKRITI GOEL
d. MEISH GOLDISH
2. THE TATTERED BLANKET is written by …..
a. P. C. ROY b. KAMALA DAS
c. AKRITI GOEL
d. MEISH GOLDISH
3. MY TRIP TO THE MOON is written by ………
a. P. C. ROY b. KAMALA DAS
c. AKRITI GOEL
d. MEISH GOLDISH
4. THE DEAD RAT is written by ………..
a. P. C. ROY b. KAMALA DAS
c. AKRITI GOEL
d. MEISH GOLDISH
5. THE CRY OF CHILDREN is written by ……….
a. P. C. ROY
b. KAMALA DAS
c. E. B. BROWNING
d. CELIA BARELL
6. THE GARDEN WITHIN is written by……
a. P. C. ROY b. KAMALA DAS
c. E. B. BROWNING
d. CELIA BARELL
7. &was the founder of Shantinike tan, an experimental school.
a. TAGORE b. KAMALA DAS
c. AKRITI GOEL
d. MEISH GOLDISH
8. Charles Dickens is a well known & novelist.
a. Indian b. English
c. Canadian d. Hungarian
9. The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of ……………..
a. children’s stories b. adult stories.
C. women’s stories. D. men’s stories.
10. MY MOTHER is written by ……….
a. TAGORE b. KAMALA DAS
c. AKRITI GOEL
d. MEISH GOLDISH
11. THE TOWN CHILD, THE COUNTRY CHILD is written by ……..
a. TAGORE
b. IRENE THOMPSON
c. R. L. STEVENSON
d. ROBERT BRIDGES
12. MAKING BEAUTY is written by …..
a. TAGORE
b. IRENE THOMPSON
c. R. L. STEVENSON
d. ROBERT BRIDGES
13. MY SHADOW is written by ….
a. TAGORE
b. IRENE THOMPSON
c. R. L. STEVENSON
d. ROBERT BRIDGES
14. Which one of the following is not a work of Charles Dickens?
a. Oliver Twist
b. Great Expectations
c. Pickwick Papers
d. The Dead Rat

Kamla Das (1932-2009) is the daughter of the famous Malayalam poet- Balamani Amma and V.M. Nair.
She is an internationally known poet, short story writer and novelist who writes effortlessly both in English and Malayalam.
She has received many awards for her literary work. Some of them are Asian Poetry Prize, Kent Award for English Writing from Asian Countries, Asian World Prize, Sahitya Academy Award arid Vayalar Rama Varma Sahitya Award.
Rabindranath Tagore:
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is popularly known as Vishwa Kavi and Gurudev.
He was the founder of Shantiniketan, an experimental school.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for his Gitanjali, the Song of Offerings.
Each of his poems reflects Indian vision and love towards his Mother Land.
He is considered the Voice of Indian Heritage and Spiritualism.
Charles Dickens:
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is a well known English novelist.
Due to his father’s imprisonment, Charles left school and worked in a shoe factory. While he was working as an office boy, he launched his writing career.
His novels Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Pickwick Papers, Bleak House, A Tale of two Cities and David Copperfield brought him name all over the world.
He went on lecture tours to America and got literary reputation.
He focussed on social issues and human ailments in his works.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was a great poet of English language.
She published a collection of poems, Sonnets from the Portu guese, Aurora Leigh, The Seraphim and Other Poems.
She married Robert Browning, a famous English poet and moved to Italy.
Most of her poems deal with human emotions.
Oscar Wilde:
Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet.
After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.
Today he is remembered for his epigrams and plays.
Oscar Wilde is best known for the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and the play The Importance of Being Earnest.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of children’s stories.
Abburi Chayadevi:
Abburi Chayadevi is a well known feminist writer born in 1933.
She has written many short stories and essays.
She was awarded the Central Sahitya Academy in 2005.
In her works, she elucidates women life and their feelings.

2. Forms of Language

• 1. STORY
  A story or narrative is a report of connected events, real or imaginary, presented in a sequence of written or spoken words, or still or moving images or both.
• The word derives from the Latin verb narrare, to tell, which is derived from the adjective gnarus, knowing or skilled.
• Narrative can be organized in a number of thematic or formal categories:
• Non-fiction (such as definitively including creative non-fiction, biography, journalism, transcript poetry, and historiography); fictionalization of historical events (such as anecdote, myth, legend, and historical fiction); and fiction proper (such as literature in prose and sometimes poetry, such as short stories, novels, and narrative poems and songs, and imaginary narratives as portrayed in other textual forms, games, or live or recorded performances).
• Narrative is found in all forms of human creativity, art, and entertainment, including speech, literature, theatre, music and song, comics, journalism, film, television and video, video games, radio, game play, unstructured recreation, and performance in general, as well as some painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and other visual arts, as long as a sequence of events is presented. Several art movements, such as modern art, refuse the narrative in favor of the abstract and conceptual.
• Oral storytelling is the earliest method for sharing narratives.[4] During most peoples childhoods, narratives are used to guide them on proper behavior, cultural history, formation of a communal identity, and values, as especially studied in anthropology today among traditio nal indigenous peoples.
• Narratives may also be nested within other narratives, such as narratives told by an unreliable narrator (a character) typically found in noir fiction genre. An important part of narration is the narrative mode, the set of methods used to communicate the narrative through a process narration (see also Narrative Aesthetics below).
• Along with exposition, argument- ation, and description, narration, broadly defined, is one of four rhetorical modes of discourse. More narrowly defined, it is the fiction-writing mode in which the narrator communicates directly to the reader.
• A narrative is a telling of some true or fictitious event or connected sequence of events, recounted by a narrator to a narratee (although there may be more than one of each). Narratives are to be distinguished from descriptions of qualities, states, or situations, and also from dramatic enactments of events (although a dramatic work may also include narrative speeches).
• A narrative consists of a set of events (the story) recounted in a process of narration (or discourse), in which the events are selected and arranged in a particular order (the plot).
• The category of narratives includes both the shortest accounts of events (for example, the cat sat on the mat, or a brief news item) and the longest historical or biographical works, diaries, travelogues, and so forth, as well as novels, ballads, epics, short stories, and other fictional forms.
• In the study of fiction, it is usual to divide novels and shorter stories into first-person narratives and third-person narratives.
• As an adjective, narrative means characterized by or relating to storytelling: thus narrative technique is the method of telling stories, and narrative poetry is the class of poems (including ballads, epics, and verse romances) that tell stories, as distinct from dramatic and lyric poetry.
  Some theorists of narratology have attempted to isolate the quality or set of properties that distinguishes narrative from non-narrative writings: this is called narrativity.

2. THE ESSAY

• An essay is, gene rally, a piece of writing that gives the authors own argument but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.
• Essays have traditionally been sub-classified as formal and informal.
• Formal essays are characterized by serious purpose, dignity, logical organization, length, whereas the informal essay is characterized by the personal element (self-revelation, individual tastes and experiences, confidential manner), humor, graceful style, rambling structure, unconventionality or novelty of theme, etc.
• Essays are commonly used as literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author.
• Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse have been dubbed essays (e.g., Alexander Popes An Essay on Criticism and An Essay on Man).
• While brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like John Lockes An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Thomas Malthuss An Essay on the Principle of Population are counterexamples.
• In some countries (e.g., the United States and Canada), essays have become a major part of formal education.
• Secondary students are taught structured essay formats to improve their writing skills; admission essays are often used by universities in selecting applicants, and in the humanities and social sciences essays are often used as a way of assessing the performance of students during final exams.

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