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Literature Questions and Answers

What are the similarities between academic and non-academic texts?

Discuss the use of humor in Vaikom Muhammad Basheer's, ''Birthday.''

Please analyze the main theme of the novel Rajmohan's Wife by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay.

Discuss the significance of the title of the short story ''The Empty Chest'' written by Indira Goswami.

Please give a summary of "The Story of Fidgety Philip."

Importance Of Studying Literature

Do subjects offered at school prepare you for life?

What is a critique of the short story ''The Fourth Daughter''  by Subhadra Sen Gupta?

Explain the use of salt as a metaphor for the process of exploitation in Mahasweta Devi's short story ''SALT.''

What is the plot of Mahesh Dattani's play Tara?

What are the narrative techniques used by Githa Hariharan in "Gajar Halwa"?

Recursos literarios y análisis del cuento "Los Bomberos" de Mario Benedetti.

What is the importance of myths and legends today, and how do they impact readers today? 

What is the theme of the story “The Wretched and the Beautiful” by E. Lily Yu?

What is the theme of Premchand's story "Panch Parmeshwar or Holy Panchayat?"

What is the significance of the title of Sarah Lean's The Forever Whale?

How is irony used in Anansi by Alistair Campbell?

What is the purpose of reading a short story?

Describe the crocodile in "The Blue Bead."

What is an analysis of the characters Gangu and Gomti from "The Child" by Munshi Premchand?

Who showed greater, if any, resilience: Oedipus or Hamlet?

Elements Of Novel

Discuss Tamas as a partition novel.

Analyze The Marriage of Anansewa as a comedy.

What are the goals of stylistics?

What is the relationship between history and literature?

What is the plot (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement) of the story "The Centipede" by Rony V. Diaz?

What does the Chosen One mean?

What is the setting in Beauty and the Beast?

Comment on the title of the Intizar Husain's novel Basti.

Discuss the story "Father" by Prafulla Roy.

What is the difference between poetry and a short story? I need the answer in 3 to 5 sentences.

Theme Of Little Red Riding Hood

What is the difference between the genres of literature (novel, poetry, and drama)?

How is the deep meaning behind a blank sheet of paper related to journeys?

Why Do We Need To Study Literature

What is an act-by-act summary of The Vultures by Vijay Tendulkar?

What were the qualities of Kumar Sangakkara's speech on the 2009 Lahore attack against the Sri Lankan national cricket team?

What was the impact of Puritanism on 19th century American society and literature?

Please give a summary of the story "By Any Other Name" by Santha Rama Rau.

In "Before the End of Summer" by Grant Moss, what do you think the grandmother means when she says to Dr. Frazier, "He'll have to go to the Stewarts'"?

What are the differences between traditional literature and modern literature? Compare and contrast, using bullet points.

What are the most important characteristics of Old English poetry?

What is the difference between drama and prose?

How would life be without literature? What would it be the cause of that?

What is a summary of "Rite of Passage" by Manoj Nair?

What is the significance of the title of the play Tara by Mahesh Dattani?

An important characteristic of literature is 'suggestiveness', please explain it

What are two short stories with similar themes?  

What is a critical analysis of "An Angel in Disguise" by T. S. Arthur?