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Literature
One of the most important skills children learn through literature is how to react to different situations. Reading allows children to experience situations vicariously, and think about what they...
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Literature
I am sensing frustration on your part. Perhaps you don't like reading? When my students tell me they don't like to read, my answer is always, "Keep looking. You haven't found a book yet that...
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"Identity" by Julio Noboa Polanco is a poem about a singular identity awash in a constrained group culture. The poem starts by comparing unnamed individuals to flowers. Let them be as flowers,...
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"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Basically, this line has two meanings. The literal meaning is "Look at all my great accomplishments, and envy me, because even if you think of yourself...
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The elements of a novel are the same elements as that of the short story--plot, theme, setting, point of view, character--except that there may be more than one of each of these elements. That is,...
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The main difference between the different forms of literature is the purpose and the way words are arranged. The main difference between prose and poetry is how the words are used. In prose we...
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A literary convention is a commonly used device or aspect of a certain kind of work. If you are reading a certain type of literary work, you can expect it to conform to certain conventions. For...
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Literature
Let me start off with a few definitions, so that you can do it yourself in the future. A metaphor is a figure of speech that is used to make a comparison between two people, things, animals, or...
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Figures of speech enhance the author's creation. This is true of any genre and any form of writing. The effective use of figures of speech brings to life what would have been mere words, phrases...
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The theme of the short story “The Stolen Party” is that we will always be what we come from. Social class is not that easy to overcome. In this story, a young girl named Rosaura learns this the...
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This is a great question to ask and think through. One suggestion I will make is that you post this on the discussion board for literature as you will gain far more responses than if you merely...
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There are many novelists which apply the technique of beginning the text at the end of the story. Mary Shelley uses it in Frankenstein; Daphne du Maurier uses it in Rebecca; Edith Wharton uses it...
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Literature
Drama and Novel and the same in that they both tell a story of some sort. They can also have similarities based on their content; they can both be comedies or trajedies, or follow like plot...
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The theme of "Holy Panchayat" is the importance of putting justice above one's own interest. The story deals with two friends, Jumman and Algu. Jumman first has to appear before the panchayat when...
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The words "humble" and "humility" come from the same root word, "humilis." Humilis is Latin for "low or close to the ground." Humble is an adjective, so it is used to describe someone, whereas...
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Neoclassical is a term used to describe the writing of late 17th to 18th century authors like Alexander Pope, John Dryden, and others. This style of writing referred to a “new” form of the...
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The main theme of the story is to listen to what your parents tell you and not to talk to strangers. Essentially, she is sent on a specific journey, told not to leave the path, and yet because she...
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Drama refers to plays, which are written to be acted on a stage by people playing the parts of characters. Prose is usually meant to be read privately by an individual (though speeches are almost...
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One of the central messages of this short story seems to be summed up in the main symbol of the story, the marigolds, and the narrator's actions in destroying them. From the start it is clear that...
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The basic elements of prose are: character, setting, plot, point of view, and mood. Character refers to: biographical information; personality traits; social roles, and psychological factors such...
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"Los bomberos" es un relato escrito por Mario Benedetti. Este escritor uruguayo (1920-2009) es autor de una abundante obra, perteneciente a variados géneros: cuento, novela, drama, ensayo y poesía....
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By "olden days" I will assume you mean the days before technology, or perhaps even the days before the telephone was in widespread use. Letters were a common means of communication prior to the...
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The phrase "rootless weeds" is found in Stephen Spender's poem "An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum." The poem itself highlights the misery and squalor of inner city slum schools and the...
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The story is about a young girl named Rosaura who has been invited to the party of a wealthy classmate. Her mother does not want her to go because she will not fit in at a rich person’s party....
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The story is about a young girl named Rosaura, who has been invited to the party of a wealthy friend. Her mother does not want her to go because she will not fit in at a rich person’s party, but...
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The seventeenth century in Europe had seen great scientific revolutions as well as religious ones, and the eighteenth century, the age of Enlightenment, saw social, moral, and political revolutions...
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According to Dictionary.com the following applies: Myth - a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with our without a determinable basis in fact or a...
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This is a good and important question. English literature is important in many different ways. Let me list a few of them. First, English literature tells us about the history of the English...
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Well, if you think of literature as an artistic or realistic (Realism) depiction of reality, then literary criticism and literary theory (which is more abstract) is the study of how we interpret...
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This ancient Navajo proverb has begun to circulate recently as an inspirational quote. It is often used on online memes and printed on tote bags and so on. It can be interpreted in several ways,...
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Laughter vs. Tears While both comedy and tragedy point to human foibles, the manner in which these foibles are treated as well as the outcome greatly differ. TRAGEDY Emphasis upon human...
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The poem "The Last Lesson of the Afternoon" by D.H. Lawrence is about a teacher who is second-guessing his life’s work as an instructor to various students. In this six stanza poem, the poet begins...
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I will answer the second part of the question first. The quotation refers to the fact that while the law is very definite about how individuals should act, it does not have much to say about the...
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“The Eyes Are Not Here” [also known as “The Girl on the Train” and “The Eyes Have It”] is a short story by Ruskin Bond, an Indian writer. The story exudes irony. The story uses first person point...
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Night Voices is one creepy poem. The first two stanzas seem to be a conversation between a young child and his (the gender isn't clear, but let's assume it is a young boy for the sake of...
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Literature
It is much easier to say what academic and nonacademic texts do not have in common rather than their similarities, but I can say the following: Both academic and nonacademic texts may be written...
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In poetry, enjambment occurs when there is no break or punctuation at the end of a line, but the idea being expressed is carried on in the following line. For example, in Langston Hughes' poem...
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To understand tone, you first must define what it means. Tone is the author's attitude toward his subject. You are right when you say many words could describe tone. Tone can be serious, scary,...
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The term literature has many different meanings. That being said, for some, literature has a very defined meaning. For others, they believe in a very simplistic understanding of the term....
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An autobiography is an account of one's life written by oneself. This means that if you wrote an autobiography, the person who is the topic of the paper would be you! As far as characteristics of...
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Metaphors can enhance writing in many ways, which is why so many writers use them. Even the most amatuer writers use metaphors without realizing it. The first reason to use metaphors is to give...
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House Taken Over is a short story written by Julio Cortazar. It is set in Buenos Aires and it centers around a brother and his sister. The brother is the narrator and is unnamed, his sister is...
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The purpose of reading a short story is the same as for a long story: to learn, to be entertained or enlightened, and to simply appreciate a work of literature for its own sake. Short stories are...
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Literature is a mirror of society because it gives an image, but the image is not necessarily a true image. The image can be distorted in reality or perceived as distorted by society as a whole....
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Stevenson's poem is about the imaginative power of children. When the child, who is seven, goes to bed, we read "I find such pictures in my head." The child dreams of imaginative scenes, such as...
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There are many questions we could ask, and interpretations that could be made, from this quote. We should be careful not to overdo it! The symbolism of the boot is pretty clear; it represents...
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Imagination was the cornerstone of the Romantic poets and novelist. The movement of the Romantic writer was at it's strongest during the years of 1789 until around 1832. Science and discovery...
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American literature reflects the hopes and dreams of the American people, from our beginnings as colonies to our present. To learn about a people, reading literature provides great insight, into a...
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This is an oversimplification, but the main difference between Neoclassicism and Romanticism is that the former emphasized structure, objectivity, and restraint, while the latter emphasized...
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One good metaphor would be comparing the towering skyscrapers and their respective streets to canyons. It has been said that the streets of Manhattan are examples of man-made canyons instead of...