This is my wish for you:

Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, love to complete your life.

(Author Unknown)



Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

(Author: Clive Staples Lewis)


Thursday, February 24, 2011

Useful Information to Study Literature (Part V)



Authors's tone:

Across the top of the chart, you will find ten words that can be used to identify an author’s tone.  Below each of the ten words are other words associated with that tone that  might better pinpoint or describe a tone.



reverence
love
joy
happiness
calm

awe
veneration

affection
cherish
fondness
admiration
tenderness
sentiment
romantic
Platonic
adoration
narcissism
passion
lust
rapture
ecstasy
infatuated
enamor
compassion


exaltation
zeal
fervor
ardor
elation
jubilant
buoyancy


glad
pleased
merry
glee
delight
cheerful
gay
sanguine
mirth
enjoy
relish
bliss

serene
tranquil
placid
content


hope
sadness
anger
hate
fear

expect
anticipate
trust

somber
solemn
melancholy
sorrow
lament
despair
despondent
regret
dismal
funereal
saturnine
dark
gloomy
dejection
grave
grief
morose
sullen
woe
bleak
remorse
forlorn
distress
agony
anguish
depression
misery
barren
empty
pity


vehement
enraged
rage
outrage
antipathy
irritation
indignant
vexation
incensed
petulant
irascible
riled
bitter
acrimony
irate
fury
wrath
rancor
hostility
miffed
choleric
frustration
futility
aggravate
umbrage
gall
bristle

vengeance
detest
abhorrence
animosity
enmity
malice
pique
rancor
aversion
loathing
despise
scorn
contempt
disdain
jealousy
repugnance
repulsion
resentment
spite
disgust

timidity
apprehension
anxiety
terror
horror
dismay
agitation
sinister
alarm
startle
uneasy
qualms
angst
trepidation
intimidation
spooky
dread
phobia
appalled

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