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ELT 4. TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT OF LITERATURE STUDIES
INTRODUCTION What is Literature? Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. Literature is a method of…
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AFRO-ASIAN LITERATURE
Introduction Countries under Afro-Asian Literature include: • South Korea, North Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, China, India, Egypt, and Israel. African literature, the body of traditional oral and written literatures in Afro-Asiatic and African languages together with works written by Africans in European languages.The main characteristics of African literature include oral…
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Row your boat
At night the body of clouds advancing higher up the sky smothers the whole quiet gulf below with an impenetrable darkness, in which the sound of the falling showers can be heard beginning and ceasing abruptly—now here, now there. Indeed, these cloudy nights are proverbial with the seamen along the whole west coast of a…
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Gently down the stream
The dawn breaks high behind the towering and serrated wall of the Cordillera, a clear-cut vision of dark peaks rearing their steep slopes on a lofty pedestal of forest rising from the very edge of the shore. Amongst them the white head of Higuerota rises majestically upon the blue. Bare clusters of enormous rocks sprinkle…
