LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Sense, Humour, Epic, Feeling
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Sense, Feeling, Tone, Intention
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Tone, Feeling, Epic, Sense
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Feeling, Humour, Intention, Epic
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Detailed explanation-1: -Tone: Tone refers to attitude of speaker towards his listener. There is a kind of relation between speaker and listener. Since speaker is aware of his relationship with language and with the listener, he changes the level of words as the level of audience changes. It means tone varies from listener to listener.
Detailed explanation-2: -Four kinds of functions or meanings as enlisted by I.A. Richards are the following: (1) Sense, (2) Feeling, (3) Tone and (4) Intention. ‘We speak to say something and when we listen we expect something to be said.
Detailed explanation-3: - He believed that poet writes to communicate, and language is the means of that communication. Language is made of words, and hence a study of words is all important if we are to understand the meaning of a work of art. Words carry four kinds of meaning: Sense, Feelings, Tone and Intention.