
Alea Balck
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Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
This quote from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is an example of personification. Here, "Death" is spoken of as if it were a person; Lord Capulet gives this line to reference... -
Answered a Question in A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," as does most of her writing, employs simple sentences that offset the colorful speech of the characters and highlight the climactic... -
Answered a Question in I Am The Messenger
Markus Zusak's novel I Am the Messenger presents several themes worth exploring. These themes and others work together to reveal the complex understanding at the novel's end that Ed's is a... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare's mythical comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream is known for its use of different types of language. This aspect of the play is used to mark the differences between Athens, which is... -
Answered a Question in Cathedral
Raymond Carver's short story "Cathedral" is not said to take place in a specific city, but we may infer that "Cathedral" likely happens somewhere in New York. At the story's open, the narrator... -
Answered a Question in Winter Dreams
F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterful "Winter Dreams," frequently discussed as a first draft of The Great Gatsby, looks at the themes of attaining dreams and pursuing hopeless ventures. To explore these... -
Answered a Question in A Good Man Is Hard to Find
In literature, a story's plot progresses through several stages. These stages are the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement. A climax is when a story's plot progression... -
Answered a Question in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
There are many examples of figurative language in Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, from the powerful symbolism imbedded in the title to the haunting beautiful chiasmus in the... -
Answered a Question in The Open Window
Saki’s mysterious short story “The Open Window” is a masterful work on the wonders of being and seeming. The short story, which takes readers on a brief but playful journey of intrigue, contains...