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Short Answers of Fireflies in the Mist

Introduction: Short answers of Fireflies in the Night a novel by Quratul Ain Hyder includes questions with short answers and character sketches of Deepali Sarkar, Rehan Ahmed and minor characters.

✒️ “Every question opens a door; every answer is a step deeper into the world of stories, symbols, and soul.”

What was the pen name of Quratul-ain-Haider?

Quratul-ain-Haider is an Indian novelist and her pen name is “Ainee Apa”.

Discuss the themes of Fireflies in the Mist?

The major theme of the novel is the connection between different identities and faithfulness. Other themes are conflict between colonizers and colonized, political activism, partition, migration and music.

Name the minor characters of Fireflies in the Mist?

There are many minor characters in the novel “Fireflies in the Mist” some of them are Abdul Qadir, Bhavtarni, Najma, Nasira, Reverend Mathew Banerjee, Nawab Qammar U Zaman, Dr. Banoey Sarkar etc.

Short Answers of Fireflies in the Mist

Short Answers of Waiting for Godot

Introduction: Short answers of Waiting for Godot the Modern Drama include mostly asked questions in university’s examinations.

✒️ “Every question opens a door; every answer is a step deeper into the world of stories, symbols, and soul.”

What is an absurd play?

An ‘absurd play’ is a play in which the meaninglessness and purposelessness is presented. There is very less action but dialogues are presented.

What are the nicknames of Estragon and Vladimir?

The nick name of Estragon is “Gogo” and the nick name of Vladimir is “Didi” in the play ‘Waiting for Godot’.

What is meant by Existentialist Philosophy?

Existentialist philosophy or Existentialism is the theory in which each and every individual have his choice, what to do either suicide or exist instead of following the rules of some religion etc.

Why is “Waiting for Godot” in two acts?

Play ‘Waiting for Godot’ is divided into two acts to show the passage of time. Both the acts presented almost in similar manner only few things changed, leaves on tree, Pozzo blind and Lucky dumb etc.

Short Answers of Waiting for Godot

Short Answers of Stylistics

✒️ “Every question opens a door; every answer is a step deeper into the world of stories, symbols, and soul.”

What is formal style? Discuss.

Formal style is a style of language use for the purpose of uniformity. It is less personal than informal style, It is used for professional and academic purposes like formal letters or documents used in different professions. Also, format of assignments, thesis and formal style of hosting on the stage.

What is the main purpose of a literary text?

Literary text can move the mind and heart. The main purpose of literary text is different according to different critics. According to Romantic critics the main purpose of literary text is aesthetic pleasure and entertainment. On other hand, According to Classical critics the main purpose of literary text is reformation of society and culture.

Differentiate between Alliteration and Consonance as the elements of musicality.

Alliteration is the repetition of similar initial consonant sound in word, phrase or line of poetry. Whereas, consonance is repetition of similar final consonant sounds in a phrase or line of poetry.

How cohesion is created in a literary text? Give examples.

Cohesion is logical connection between words, sentences and paragraphs that text becomes integrated whole. The use of transition words, pronouns, repetitive structures and contrast makes the literary text coherent. For example words or phrases are connected with grammatical and lexical relations and sentences with and, then, after— etc. Paragraphs with initial, final, first, last, following, preceding— etc.

Short Answers of Stylistics

Literary Forms and Movements 1st term

Short Answers and some other topics of Literary Forms and Movements were collected from previous examinations are as under:

Short Answers of Literary Forms and Movements

Different Kinds of Meter Used in Poetry

Kinds of Novel

Musical Devices Used in Poetry and Muses of Art

These Literary Forms and Movements’ topics explained and answered time to time on nazarbazmi.com and in this post I have collected all these links together as follows:

Literary Forms and Movements 1st term

Study Skills 1st term

“Short Answers and some other topics of Study Skills 1st Term are collected from previous examinations are as under: Short Answers of Study Skills 1st Term  Introduction to Dewey decimal classification and how to use… Study Skills 1st term

Short Answers of Fiction 1st term

  • We have collected the old examination questions of
    • Joseph Andrew by Fielding
    • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    • Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  • and answered these questions as under.
    We have posted these questions time to time on Nazar Bazmi’s Notes (nazarbazmi.com), here we have collected all links together as under
Short Answers of Fiction 1st term

Short Answers of Drama 1st term

  • We have collected the old examination questions of
    • Every Man in his Humour by Ben Jonson
    • Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
    • Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlow
  • and answered these questions as under.
    We have posted these questions time to time on Nazar Bazmi’s Notes(nazarbazmi.com), here we have collected all links together as under
Short Answers of Drama 1st term

Short Answers of Prose 1st term

  • We have collected the old examination questions from Sargodha University (UOS) of these papers
    • Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
    • Ruskin’s Essays by Ruskin
    • Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
    • Bacon’s Essays by Bacon
  • and answered these questions as under.
    We have posted these questions time to time on Nazar Bazmi’s Notes (nazarbazmi.com), here we have collected all links together as under
Short Answers of Prose 1st term

Short Answers of Classical Poetry 1st term

  • We have collected the old examination questions of
    • Paradise Lost by John Milton
    • Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
    • Sonnet by Shakespeare
    • Love and Divine Poems by John Donne
    • Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
  • and answered these questions as under.
  • We have posted these questions time to time on Nazar Bazmi’s Notes (nazarbazmi.com), here we have collected all links together as under
Short Answers of Classical Poetry 1st term

Short Answers of Ruskin’s Essays

✒️ “Every question opens a door; every answer is a step deeper into the world of stories, symbols, and soul.”

Is Ruskin a social reformer?

Ruskin is an art critic, social critic and social reformer. In his essay ‘Work’ he criticizes the industrialization and class differences.

What is the theme of Ruskin’s essay “Work”?

Effect of industrialization on human and class differences is the main theme of Ruskin’s essay “Work”.

What is an essay?

An essay is a piece of writing in straightforward language about a particular topic or subject. Normally writer makes his point of view, evaluate, analyze or criticize a topic or subject. Essay can be divided into two types formal and informal essays.For example: Ruskin’s Essays and Lamb’s Essays.

Short Answers of Ruskin’s Essays

Short Answers of Every Man in his Humour

✒️ “Every question opens a door; every answer is a step deeper into the world of stories, symbols, and soul.”

Why does Bobadill beat Cob in Every Man in his Humour?

Captain Bobadill beat Oliver Cob with cudgel because Captain Bobadill have the habit of smoking and Oliver Cob made insulting remarks about tobacco’s smoking in the Every Man in his Humour.

Who is Tib in ‘Every man in his humour’?

Tib is the wife of Oliver Cob in ‘Every Man in his Humour’.

What is Kitty’s sister called?

Kitely’s lovely sister is called Bridget. She is courted to Mathew but married to Adward Knowell at the end.

Of what is Captain Bobadill fond of in the “Every Man in his Humour?

Captain Bobadill is fond of quoting the terms of Elizabethan plays, especially from Spanish Tragedy. His account of fake military career’s stories is limitless.

Short Answers of Every Man in his Humour

Short Answers of Lamb’s Essays

✒️ “Every question opens a door; every answer is a step deeper into the world of stories, symbols, and soul.”

Write a brief note on Charles Lamb.

Charles Lamb (1775-1834) is a poet, an English essayist and his best work is Essays of Elia and Tales from Shakespeare (children’s book).

Who is Elia in Lamb’s Essays?

Elia is the pen name or pseudonym of Charles Lamb himself in Lamb’s essays. It is taken from an old Italian clerk at South-Sea House.

Name the two dream children in Lamb’s essay.

Lamb’s essay, Dream Children is a reverie (short day dream) and in this reverie Lamb finds the Alice and John two children around him.

Short Answers of Lamb’s Essays

Compare and Contrast between Epic and Tragedy

Introduction: Epic & Tragedy Aristotle’s Poetics includes definition, comparison and differences.

Introduction to Aristotle

Aristotle was born at a Greek colonial town in 384 B.C. He was a philosopher, moralist, psychologist, logician and a literary critic. He was the student of philosophic school of Plato in early age but in his old age he himself runs the school. His major works are literary essays, literary dialogues (except fragments other were lost), constitution of Athens and treatises. He died in 322 B.C.

Compare and Contrast between Epic and Tragedy

Short Answers of Fiction-II Part-Two

  • We have collected the old examination questions of
    • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
    • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
    • Lord of Flies by William Golding
    • To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  • and answered these questions as under.
    We have posted these questions time to time on Nazar Bazmi’s Notes(nazarbazmi.com), here we have collected all links together as under
Short Answers of Fiction-II Part-Two

Short Answers of Heart of Darkness

Note: If you have any question about Heart of Darkness questions and answers, please ask in comment.

✒️ “Every question opens a door; every answer is a step deeper into the world of stories, symbols, and soul.”

What is the significance of river Congo in Heart of Darkness?

In the novel Heart of Darkness, the protagonist Marlow travels through the river Congo to the center of the continent and return back. Congo River represents the movement towards the goal.

What is the significance of the “two knitting women” in the novel ‘Heart of Darkness’?

The women knitting with three threads present the goddess of fates and in Greek mythology; in the underworld fate of a man is made by three threads. Three threads represent the happiness, sadness and death.

What is the significance of painting made by Kurtz?

Painting shows “A woman bearing a torch but her eyes was covered with cloth”. It represents the blind believe, Marlow’s thoughts and uncivilized behavior of Europeans who are civilizing the Africans.

Short Answers of Heart of Darkness
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