Amy Lepore
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Born in Bowling Green, KY. Graduated high school from Hopkinsville High in 1986; University of Central Florida with B.S. in 1991; and Murray State University with M.A. in 1996. Taught in Kentucky, South Korea, Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, Mississippi on both high school and college/university levels. Freelance author. Married with two sons.
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Answered a Question in My Last Duchess
This is such a complicated but wonderful poem. The Duke of Ferrara is a very selfish man who considers everything within his grasp "his". He owns many things...the bronze statue, for... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
How would you do things differently, Julius? You are a logical man, yet you repeatedly ignored signs of detriment and danger for your own life--the soothsayer, and Calpurnia's dreams for... -
Answered a Question in Trifles
This is such a great play...the short story "A Jury of her Peers" is the same idea in a slightly different format. Based on a true story, Glaspell wrote these works after reading a newspaper... -
Answered a Question in Shooting an Elephant
This story is about so many things: power, colonialism, the individual vs. society, cultural differences, and inhumane treatment of animals to name a few. This was written during a time... -
Answered a Question in Literary Terms
There is also such a thing as a metaphysical conceit--also a metaphor, but a comparsion between two seemingly unrelated things. John Donne is a master at this, and an example of this is in his... -
Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales
The Prologue doesn't specifically mention why he is on the pilgrimage. It was common for people from all walks of life to take pilgrimages in order to pay homage to the saints and martyrs... -
Answered a Question in The Masque of the Red Death
The clock is Father Time. The house is arranged in seven rooms, each decorated differently, which the party goers pass through as the night progresses. They stop only briefly every hour... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Macbeth hesitates because he has sworn his loyalty as a subject to Duncan, because he is related to Duncan (the bonds of family were strong), because he has been treated well by Duncan and has a... -
Answered a Question in Everyday Use
The basic conflict in this story is Maggie's knowledge of every day things and her intention to use them for their purposes, and her sister (Dee), who considers herself more worldly and educated... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
The doctor is merely stating to the nurse that Lady Macbeth obviously has a guilty conscience and that she has done some horrible things in her life. This is why she is sleepwalking, as her... -
Answered a Question in The Seafarer
The Seafarer's spiritual journey involves his love of the sea and all the range of emotions he runs through as he is sailing. He suffers from the pain and the cruelty of the weather and the... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Of course there is sadness, but I have always read this as Macbeth reacts in a sort of "Well, she would have died sooner or later, but this is really bad timing" attitude. He is busy... -
Answered a Question in Leaves of Grass
THis entire poem is singing the beauty of humanity and of each person's occupation. That every person is important as is every job. The "song" of each job (hammers, human voices, other... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
The parachutist also gives the boys' fear of the beast more credence. They are afraid of the parachutist as something they can't explain. Consequently, everything they can't explain... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
In addition to both these fine answers, Claudius knows something must be done with Hamlet and that something comes in the form of Polonius' son. The two of them concoct a duel, in which... -
Answered a Question in A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
Henry and Becket were great friends. Henry appointed Becket to the position of Archbishop of Canterbury since in those days only the church and the king had any power. Henry assumed... -
Answered a Question in The Black Cat
Everything up to the point where the narrator taps on the wall and the second cat screams--making the reader think it is the spirit of his entombed wife--is the rising action. The tapping on... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Piggy has prior experience with conchs as his Aunt had one and she taught him how to blow it. Piggy, in turn, teaches Ralph how to blow the conch, and from that moment on it is used to keep... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
There is a very good reason your teacher keeps talking about this. Let me outline some things for you: 1. Mary Shelley's own mother died from complications of giving birth to her. ... -
Answered a Question in The Black Cat
Theme is the main idea that runs throughout a story, and usually there are more than one or two. To create a list for yourself, complete the following: __________________(name of story)... -
Answered a Question in The Metamorphosis
Gregor doesn't particularly like the picture, but it does represent to him an element of normalcy and his life as it was before his change. It is the one thing his sister and family do not... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Dramatic irony is when something happens that only one or a few characters on stage and the audience know about...all other characters are in the dark. In this soliloquy, Juliet is grieving... -
Answered a Question in Ode to My Socks
The simplicity of the poem is surprising considering that it is an ode, which traditionally is a solemn and elaborately structured poem. Choral odes of ancient Greece (so called because they were... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
The ghost also hints here that Gertrude might have been involved in the plot to take King Hamlet's life. However, he instructs Hamlet not to take revenge on his mother, but to concentrate on... -
Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales
This piece of literature is the very first of its kind. It is the first collection/anthology of short stories as we know them today. Chaucer brilliantly gives us an amazingly accurate... -
Answered a Question in Fences
Just with the Robert Frost poem "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors," this play illustrates how people "fence" themselves in to certain roles in life. Sometimes these roles are within the... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
As a teacher certified to teach ESOL, you seem to be doing wonderfully! Keep up the good work. :) Just thought you might like to know that there is another site (free to use) that gives the... -
Answered a Question in Seedfolks
"God Almighty first planted a garden," Sir Francis Bacon once noted. In Paul Fleischman's novel Seedfolks, a junk-strewn, rat-infested city lot is transformed into an urban oasis, a process that... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Macbeth wanted both Banquo and his son, Fleance, dead due to the prophecies of the witches. They foretold that Macbeth would be king, but not his sons and that Banquo would not be king, but... -
Answered a Question in Beowulf
In addition, Beowulf goes to fight Grendel for three reasons: 1. paying his debt to Hrothgar for the kindness he once paid to Beowulf's father, 2. for fame and glory and songs that will be... -
Answered a Question in I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
Hi! I haven't read this book, but I can help you come up with a good thesis statement. Whenever you are looking at a book/topic for a paper, you need to make a list or several lists to... -
Answered a Question in Sonnet 29
When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, When I am out of... -
Answered a Question in A Rose for Emily
The mood in this story is one of quiet humor laced with sympathy for Miss Emily's plight. He seems a little sad or disappointed that the town didn't do more for Miss Emily, the last of the... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
The Romantic period is basically a rebellion against the ideas of the rigid and stuffy 18th Century. Therefore, some qualities that signify Romantic works are: love of nature,... -
Answered a Question in The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
The Nymph also mentions that IF love would last forever, and also all the things that the Shepherd offers her--the belts and kirtles and beds of roses, etc.--then she WOULD accept. This is... -
Answered a Question in The Metamorphosis
The father and the son have a strained relationship. This is one reason why Gregor "morphs" into a huge bug and stays in his room. Gregor is expected to work and support the family who... -
Answered a Question in Of Mice and Men
In many books, static characters like Curly's wife often are never blessed with their own names. They help move the plot forward, but they don't change themselves. They serve a purpose... -
Answered a Question in Night
The above answer is a very good one, but I wanted to add that both these men are forgotten by their friends and loved ones in the camps. The rabbi's son runs ahead of him and actively... -
Answered a Question in The Gold-Bug
I like to challenge my students with the following: "The Gold Bug" (or whatever story/poem) is a story/poem about ______________ (fill in the blank). There are usually several things you can plug... -
Answered a Question in An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
It seems as though hours have passed since the rope from which he is hanging breaks. He swims through the water avoiding bullets, and runs for what seems like miles through all sorts of... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Ralph's flight across the island is less than glamorous. He is determined to survive and is willing to use the beast to do it. By this time, the pig's head is only a skull since the... -
Answered a Question in Oedipus Rex
We, the reader/audience, also know way before Oedipus does that he has in fact killed his father and married his mother. Since the time of the prophecy, Oedipus has gone to great pains to... -
Answered a Question in A Rose for Emily
The point of view in “A Rose for Emily” is unique. The story is told by an unnamed narrator in the first-person collective. One might even argue that the narrator is the main character. There are... -
Answered a Question in Night
This is not made clear in the novel NIGHT, but many people in Europe did not believe such atrocities occurred. This is not due to a lack of proof, but because people were in denial that... -
Answered a Question in The Most Dangerous Game
Think of it in this way: someone is involved in a serious accident and the story he tells after it is clear he will survive it is that his entire life passed before his eyes and he witnessed... -
Answered a Question in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
How about something unexpected such as Katrina's admission that she has been secretly in love with her teacher as well? She is enamored by his intelligence and sensitivity, and that big... -
Answered a Question in The Devil's Arithmetic
Hannah comes to expect that something out of the ordinary will soon happen when Gitl informs her that there is a plan and who is involved. She will not reveal what the plan is, but makes Chaya... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are friends of Hamlet's from school. While they seem unimportant to the play, they are used by everyone in the play (including Shakespeare) to move along the... -
Answered a Question in Sonnet 18
All sonnets do this...the "turn" or the switch from problem or situation to answer is different for most sonnets. Petrarchan or Italian sonnets usually "turn" after the first eight... -
Answered a Question in Everyman
In addition to this answer, Everyman is sent on this journey for making poor choices. God is angry with man's decisions, and sends him toward his judgement. It is the nature of mankind...
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