Characteristics of Poetry

Poetry is the oldest of all literary genres. 'Beowulf' is the final English literature with 3000 lines in it. It is a heroic poetry, a typical example of epic poetry.

Characteristic features of Poetry are as follow:

1. Connotation: In poetry, the ideas, feelings, thoughts of the speaker are not directly conveyed through the use of images, symbols, and figure of speech.
2. Meditation: Reading and understanding poetry makes everyone think seriously.
3. Metrics: Not modern poetry, but old poetry may use metrical composition, such as meter, rhythm, and foot.
4. Music: Poetry has the musical quality.
5. Aesthetic and dyadic: Poetry provides an entertainment and gives an instruction to the readers.
6. Imagination and Feelings: It is said that poetry is the expression of imagination. Hence, imagination and feelings are profoundly predominant in poetry.
7. Visible shape: Poetry has its own physical structure.
8. Stanza form: Poetry is written in stanzas such as couplets, triplets, and quotation.
9. Playfully pleasant: Poetry can please the heart of the reader.

What is a myth?

Myth is a traditional story about heroes of supernatural beings, often attempting to explain the origin of natural phenomenon or aspects of human behaviour. It is always concerned with creation and transfer from one generation to the another through oral saying. It is fictitious and imaginary.

Difference Between Fiction and Non-fiction

The term ‘fiction’ had has derived from Latin word ‘fictum’ which means ‘created’. A fiction is any form of relative which deals in part or whole with events that are not factual, but rather imaginary and invented by its authors. 

In contrast to fiction, non-fiction deals with exclusively factual events. For example: biography, history etc.

Fiction is applied in theatrical, cinematic documental and musical works. Whereas non-fiction is applied in writing biography, documentry, history etc.

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Characteristics of GT Method

1. A fundamental purpose of learning a foreign language is to be able to read literature written in it.
2. Literary language is superior to spoken language. Thus, more attention is given to reading and writing than speaking, pronunciation, and listening.
3. Language learning provides a good mental exercise.
4. The teacher is the authority in the classroom.
5. Classes are taught in the mother tongue with little active use of the target language.
6. Most vocabulary is taught in the form of lists of isolated words. 
7. Long elaborate explanations of the intricacies of grammar are given.
8. Grammar provides the rules for putting words together, and instruction often focuses on the form and inflection of words.
9. Reading of difficult classical texts begun early.
10. Little attention is paid to the content of texts which are treated as exercises in grammatical analysis. 
11. Often the drills are exercises in translating disconnected sentences from the target language into the mother tongue. 
12. Little or no attention is given to pronunciation.
13. Accuracy is focused and errors are not accepted.
14. It is based on the faculty of psychology as a mental training.
15. It is a teacher-friendly method of teaching language.
16. Grammar is taught deductively.
17. Students are evaluated by asking to translate a text from their native language to the target language or vice versa.

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Introduction to Grammar Translation Method

It is also called classical method because it was first used in the teaching of the classical languages, Latin and Greek. It is used for the purpose of helping students read and appreciate foreign language literature. It was the dominant method in the period from the 1840s to the 1940s and still used in many countries. GT method is popular among traditional teachers in Nepal. This method is chiefly based on the literary works of Romans and Greeks. German writer Karl Ploetx advocated GT method in the 19th century.

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