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What is Word Formation? Word formation process is basically how new words are formed. In linguistics, word formation is the creation of a new word by making changes in existing words or by creating words. In other words, it refers to the ways in which new words are made on the basis of other words. … Read more
Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet and author. Considered among the greatest poets of English in the middle ages, his most celebrated work is “The Canterbury Tales”. He has been called as the “father of English Literature” and “father of English poetry”, alternatively. The Canterbury Tales is the collection of 24 stories based over 17,000 … Read more
What Is a Morpheme? A morpheme is the minimal grammatical unit within a language. Every word comprises one or more morphemes. A standalone morpheme and a word are identical but when a root word becomes modify with addition of affixes, it becomes word only. Look at the examples: Listen, listener, listened, listening The root is … Read more
Pope’s Use of the Heroic Couplet in Rape of the Lock The heroic couplet is a verse unit of two rhymed iambic pentameter lines. It is “heroic measure” because of its association with the heroic and epic poetry in the seventeenth century under the French influence. The most prominent poet of this age, who used … Read more
Pride and Prejudice are two different words with different meaning. These words are titles of one of the novels of Jane Austen. Both of these words are noun and sometime used as an adjective. In the context of the novel Pride and Prejudice, these two words are used for two characters of the novel: hero … Read more
Introduction to 29 Characters in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales There are twenty-nine main pilgrims in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. They all are the significant members of the party of those pilgrims who journeyed from London to the shrine of St. Thomas, which is a Becket in Canterbury. During a four-day’s journey, many stories are told which cleverly … Read more
Manner of Articulation As we know that speech-sound is made when we make obstruction to the flow of the air. The level of obstruction varies from slight obstruction to full obstruction. Usually, vowel makes very little obstruction, while consonant makes high or complete obstruction. The manners of obstruction in speech sound are known as the … Read more
Text of the Poem | Ode to Psyche O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung By sweet enforcement and remembrance dear, And pardon that thy secrets should be sung Even into thine own soft-conched ear: Surely I dreamt to-day, or did I see The winged Psyche with awaken’d eyes? I wander’d in a forest thoughtlessly, … Read more
Brief Introduction to Main Character in Heart of Darkness Below is the brief introduction to all main characters in the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. The Narrator The Narrator is an unnamed man who relates Marlow’s story to the reader. Charlie Marlow Charlie Marlow is man who is the protagonist of the novel … Read more
A Mock-heroic poem is a poem which uses a formal and grand style to describe a trivial or common subject for which this style is not suitable. This leads to a comic effect since the style of the poem is mismatched with the subject. Rape of the lock is one of the best examples of … Read more