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• Answered a Question in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

  Because Jonathan Edwards gave this sermon orally, he used many types of speech techniques to assure his audience followed his logic....

• Answered a Question in Defence of Poesie

  Because this piece is an essay instead of a story, there are not really characters. However, Sir Philip Sidney starts the piece with...

• Answered a Question in Rachel Carson

  Carson sets up a basic pattern of organization in this chapter to prove her thesis that "only within the moment of time represented by...

• Answered a Question in The Things They Carried

  Also in the story "The Things They Carried," O'Brien lists many of the things the men carry that are SOP ("standard operating...

• Answered a Question in Our Town

  Another aspect to look at with this scene is the paragraph directly after the original quote:

  And don't forget all...

• Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby

  One of the first signs that Tom and Daisy have a bad marriage comes in chapter 1, when Nick visits Tom and Daisy for dinner. Daisy...

• Answered a Question in The Things They Carried

  O'Brien starts the chapter titled "Notes" stating that "three years later [Norman] hanged himself in the locker room of a YMCA in his...

• Answered a Question in Lamb to the Slaughter

  Absolutely! And that's why the end of the story is so interesting!

  Mary is sitting at home like a dutiful wife, waiting for her...

• Answered a Question in The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

  Here are six more instances of hyperbole to describe Jim Smiley:

  If there was a horse-race, you'd find him flush,...

• Answered a Question in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

  This is one of the many metaphors that Edwards uses to explain to the audience how God's wrath is ever increasing. Specifically, this...