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Literature
In this sonnet, the speaker compares his lover to a "summer's day" via a metaphor, a comparison of two unalike objects where one thing is said to be the other. He asks if he should compare her in...
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The first line of this very short and thought-provoking poem is “The ivory gods and the ebony gods.” To help you get started in your analysis of themes and literary devices in this work, let us...
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Each of these literary concepts are very applicable to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18. Let’s take them one by one. Denotation refers to the strict or “dictionary” meaning of a word, while...
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The old testament is full of good examples of people demonstrating free will. Adam and Eve might be the two best known old testament people that demonstrate free will. God placed them in the Garden...
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Gothic literature is a subset of Romantic literature. Thus all themes of Gothic literature can be said to belong to Romantic literature but there are themes addressed in some Romantic works which...
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Likely demographics for such a project would likely skew young (Gen X and younger), as that is the target audience for the horror genre, and Purge films in particular. It would also include...
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This question refers to the Supreme Court's decision in the 2012 case Arizona v. United States. The case is largely remembered because the Court struck down some parts of a vey harsh Arizona law...
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The idea of "real dreams" can be traced to Andre Breton's surrealist manifesto. As the eNote summary of the manifesto puts it, Breton believes that Freud has shown that dreams must be respected...
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Charles Garcia argues that the phrase "illegal immigrant" should not be used to describe people who have entered the United States without documentation. One major piece of his argument is that...
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In this quote, Rosmarin (and many other critics as well) is stating that Jane Austen's Emma is deliberately designed for the purpose of tricking the reader. This novel is famous for misleading the...
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In 2004, following growing public discussion about border security and immigration laws, The Associated Press, or AP for short, created an entry in the AP Stylebook on the subject and deemed the...
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The principal differences between the first generation of Romantics—Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge—and the later generation of Byron, Shelley, and Keats need to be understood in the context...
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Ballin has a very definite take on the education of the deaf: he advocates the teaching of sign language instead of the intrusive methods of teaching the deaf to both speak and read others’ lips....
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In Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall,” the speaker begins by observing that nature itself seems to want to bring down the wall. Both frost and sunlight attack it to the point where it needs to be...
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The short story "On the Rainy River" by Tim O'Brien tells of a young man who receives a draft notice and his dilemma about whether to respond to the notice, join the military, and go to Vietnam, or...
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In order to write your story for this assignment, you must first be familiar with Freytag's pyramid. This is a structure used to ensure a successful, dramatic story. It has seven key steps:...
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In As You Like It, Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has also overthrown her father. Rosalind is smart and knows it is dangerous for a young woman to travel in the world. She decides to...
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Macdonald argues that mass culture is culture that is produced by a process resembling industry, and marketed to people in mass society, which he regards as atomistic and lacking in traditional...
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First, it becomes clear that the Ewells are not finished being rotten. When Mr. Link Deas provides a job to Helen Robinson because he feels "right bad about the way things turned out," the Ewells...
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What a great idea. I am glad you are focusing on Emma. As you probably know, it has been called the first murder mystery by some because Mrs. Churchill's death is just a little too convenient,...
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In the first paragraph of "A Piece of Chalk," Chesterton mentions his conversation with the "very square and sensible old woman" in the kitchen, partly to establish what he was doing (drawing...
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eNotes prevents writers from actually finishing student assignments, but I can offer some guidance based on the initial story that you have set up. John is on summer vacation, so he has time to do...
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There are many differences between Thor and Loki as portrayed in the Marvel Universe and as characterized within Norse mythology. In the Marvel Universe, Thor and Loki are brothers (though later it...
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In Plato's Apology, Socrates gives several reasons why weeping and wailing before the judges in order to attempt to avoid the charges or reduce the sentence would prove the charges against him. A...
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"Puerto Rican Obituary" is the obituary speech that the speaker might have given for the five Puerto Rican people he gives only first names—"Juan/Miguel/Milagros/Olga/Manuel"—in the poem. He...
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The cultural values in Beowulf and Homer’s Iliad have a lot of similarities. Therefore, Achilles, Hector, and Beowulf will share similar cultural values. The Greek and Germanic code for...
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In the opening two lines of the poem, the speaker describes his son, who is "little" and who has "thoughtful eyes," and who speaks in "in quiet grown-up wise." In the third and fourth lines, the...
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First, one should note that social change is not uniform across all classes and regions and also that the feminist movement occurred at the same time as Civil Rights, gay rights, and other...
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Please note: The post contains two questions. The eNotes Homework Help policy allows for one question per post. This answer addresses the first question. The speaker in William Wordsworth’s poem...
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This short poem by Benjamin Zephaniah is an account of the racism that he has experienced, documenting society's tendency to pigeonhole him into a specific role. The poem is careful to showcase...
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Impressionist art was concerned on capturing, as the name suggests, an "impression" of a scene as it appeared at a particular time. Artists worked especially hard to capture the quality of the...
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The carp is a symbol of both community and defeat in "The Carp" by Yun Wang. The carp acts as a symbol of community, luck, and good tidings when Wang's father catches it. He shares it with everyone...
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Some differences between "solid modernity" and "liquid modernity," as described by Zygmut Baiman in Liquid Modernity, relate to the (1) resistance of the abstract idea of modernity (i.e., "the...
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It is interesting that in your question you emphasize the issue of religion as it existed in England at the time Crèvecœur wrote his Letters from an American Farmer. Crèvecœur says relatively...
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In the story "Night Calls" by Lisa Fugard, the relationship between the narrator and her father is inverted from the usual parent-child relationship. In a typical parent-child relationship, parent...
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The cyborg icon is liberation from ideology by embracing technology and avoiding categorization. Haraway is exploring the borders between human and machine, physical and nonphysical; human and...
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Literary techniques are specific expressions of language that writers use to create meaning in their work. These expressions can include figures of speech, such as metaphors, and sound effects like...
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The ways in which Kenneth Slessor’s poetry shapes one’s understanding of the human experience is fairly subjective. There’s plenty of potential for your thesis, but there’s so much...
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In this poem, Zephaniah draws attention to the negative connotations which are attached to the word "black" in our language by deliberately subverting a succession of words and phrases in which it...
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The title of "The Choice" immediately suggests that it is related to the notion that people given enough rope are likely to hang themselves, since this idea is all about making bad choices. Rope in...
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Aeschylus is the most traditional of the three. He expanded the role of the cast, from one actor to two. His plays still have the Chorus front and center, as protagonists. He is mainly...
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In The Wednesday Wars, Holling’s father, Mr. Hoodhood, is an architect and builder. He is obsessed with perfection but generally lacks the ability to achieve it. The gap between reality and...
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Babu finds peace and joy in the marble chippings that make art out of the floors he creates. The narrator explains that Babu's preferences were tiles in the beginning. He was completely preoccupied...
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An imaginative text can be any kind of text: a fictional story, a memory from your own life, an abstract poem, and many others. What makes the text imaginative is that it approaches and expresses...
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This poem is a reference to Walter Raleigh's poem "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" (which is a reply in turn to Marlowe's poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"). In Marlowe's pastoral poem,...
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“The Silver Trout Fishing Network” by Yun Dae Nyeong begins with the narrator reminiscing about his childhood fishing trips with his father. In particular, the narrator discusses the way they...
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This book is filled with the history of sugar and how it was introduced to European countries. It also discusses how sugar used to be viewed as a luxurious item during a time when people had a...
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When studying literary theory, it’s important to understand that literary theory is comprised of numerous schools of criticism. Schools of criticism are separated by key indicators and/or unique...
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"The Anthropocene: The Promise and Pitfalls of an Epochal Idea" examines the argument advanced by Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer that the Holocene epoch, usually regarded by geologists as the...
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For an essay utilizing Nathaniel Hawthorne as a Romantic author whose work offers social commentary on America, his 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter would be a fine choice. Though set in a Puritan...