English-Honours-Guide

Students of English Honours are particularly scared of scansion. I was too. Here I have tried to explain The basics of scansion and I have tried to avoid bookish language as much as possible. Hope this turns out to be useful to you people. To understand scansion, you have to understand these things first- 1. Syllable- Consider the word 'Belong'. If I tell you to break this word in such a way that those broken pieces cant be broken further, how would you do that? You would break it like this- Be+long. The pieces 'be' and 'long' have only one vowel sound. These pieces containing only one vowel sound are called syllables.                   The words 'vote', 'spoke', 'fine' have more than one vowel, yet there is only one vowel sound in each of them. So these three are monosyllables, that is, they have only one syllable (one vowel sound) in them. Clear? 2. Stress or Accent- Accent is a relat...

The Boss And Mr.Woodifield Mourn Their Sons' Death Differently Let Us Analyse The Characters Of The Boss and Mr. Woodifield The Fly opens in the cosy office-chamber of the Boss. Mr. Woodifield has come to visit the Boss, his old friend. As their conversations start, Mansfield, throiugh her deft use of parallelism and contrast, shows us how the two characters are so similar in their experiences, yet so different in their reaction to their experiences. Many are the similarities between the Boss and Woodifield. Both of them have arrived in the twilight of their lives. While Woodifield has already suffered a stroke, the boss who is five years older to him is still going strong and is at the helm of his business. Both of them faced the painful experience of losing their sons in actions in Belgian front and now their sons lay buried in the same cemetery. Above all, Woodifield and the Boss are good friends- so much so that every Tuesday Woodifiel...