Why does R.L. Stevenson advise to go on walking tour without company? Walking tour should be gone upon alone. If you go in a company, or even in pairs, it is no longer a walking tour in anything but name; it is something else and more in the nature of a picnic.
What logic does A.G. Gardines present about the superstition of the ladder?
Ans. I walk under the ladder, I am not quite sure that I have not done so as a kind of negative concession to the superstition. I have challenged it rather than been unconscious of it. There is only one way of doding the absurd dilemma, and that is to walk through the ladder.
(iii) (c) How do the youngmen feel at the approach of holidays and why?
Ans. The youn gman who leaves his office feels a relief, because he no longer has to observe rules of punctuality. The people who used to take meals at specific timings no longer have to stick to such habits. In truth everyone who goes for a holiday wish to get freedom from such habits. When our action is controlled by mere habits we lose sincerity. Our action should be guided by impulse.
(iii) (d) How did the essayist J.B. Pristley feel at the sight of snowfall when he work up in the morning.
Ans. (iii) (e) Essayist describes about enchanting beauty of first snow fall. No doubt, it is fantastic charm. In the night it has one beauty and in the morning it has another beauty and in the day it has one another glance. Due to snow fall every sight has, fully, been changed, he writes ‘where the garden was yesterday, there was now a white glistening level and the village beyond is no longer your own familiar cluster of roofs but a village in an old German fairytale. The atmosphere has, fully, changed and sight of the outer words seems very ship in the white sea of snow.
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What do you understand by the term ‘essay”?
Ans. The word ‘Essay’ has been derived from the word ‘Assay’ which means an attempt or an effort. In other words, the essay is a lyric in prose. It is a prose-lyric. Like the lyric, it is an outpouring of writer’s emotions, his joys and sorrows.
What is personal essay?
Ans. In fact, the essay is a lyric in prose. It is a prose lyric. It derives its charm from the personality of the writer. However, only the personal essays, like those of Charles Lamb, can be called prose lyrics. The remark does not apply to essays of other kinds.
Ans. What do you understand by the term biography and biographical essays? Biography means the story of a person’s life written by somebody else. Such writing is a part of literature. Biographical essays involve knowledge of the major events in the life of the person whose biography is being described. The essay should mention the qualities or character of the hero, his achievements, his struggles etc.
What do you understand by the term Autobiography?
Ans. Auto + bio + graph-Self+life+ writing. Autobiography means the story
Person’s life written by that person himself. What is the difference between biography and autobiography?
Ans. Biography means the story of a person’s life written by somebody else. Autobiography means the story of a person’s life written by that person himself.
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What do you know about Periodical Essay?
Periodical Essay developed in England during the 18 century. It was developed and perfected by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. They started magazines and journals in which essays were published after a regular interval of time.
What do you mean by ‘Familiar Essay”?
Ans.‘Familiar Essay’ is a personal or subjective essay. It is different from autobiography. It is an effort to introduce oneself. A narrative or discursive introduction is presented in limited space.
Define the term ‘Memoir’.
‘Memoir’ means an account of events written from personal knowledge or from reliable information. NEWS It is very near to biography but different to an autobiography. Memoirs have often been written by politicians or military leaders.
What do you know about “Travelogue’?
The literal meaning of travelogue is an illustrated narrative of travels. In very simple words the account of journey is known as travelogue. It is based on personal knowledge and experience.
What is the difference between a memoir and autobiography?
A memoir is slightly different in character from an autobiography. An autobiography focuses on the life and times of the writer, a memoir has a more concentration on his/her own memories, feelings and emotions. Give the chief characteristics of essay.
- It is a prose composition brief, short or of moderate length.
- The essay is incomplete no exhaustive.
- It is informal and unsystematic.
Write the chief objective of periodical essays.
The chief objective of periodical essays was to bring improvements in morals and manners of the contemporary English society. What is ‘Picaresque Novel’?
‘Picaro’ means a rogue who runs from the beginning to the end and performs adventurous deeds in facing lyrannical masters and unlucky fate. Write about John Lyly’s Euphues.
Ans. Euphues’ is a Greek word and means graceful, witty. John Lyly published the works ‘Euphues‘: The Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and his England. Distinguish between formal and personal essay. Give example.
Ans. In the formal essay the essayist treats his subject in an objective and detached manner. He describe in his essays his point of view and his attitude of mind regarding a particular topic.
The personal essay is a kin to lyric. In it the essayist reveals his personality. It is autobiographical in character. Bacon, Carlyle, George Fliot, Matthew Arnold and Macaulay are formal essayist and Addison, Steel, Lamb and Hazlitt are well known personal essayist.