Joshua Littler
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Editor and teacher by day, author by night, and daddy 24/7. Born and raised in Cleveland, OH, where I live with my beautiful Pennsylvania Dutch wife and our two energetic (and often loud) boys.
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Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
“But my parents, especially my mother, she has ears like a g***m bloodhound. So I took it very, very easy when I went past their door. I even held my breath, for God's sake. You can hit my father... -
Answered a Question in Phillis Wheatley
Perhaps the most significant prevailing sentiments found in Wheatley’s poems involve the American Revolution, slavery, and Christianity. While offering initial praise through a poem to King George... -
Answered a Question in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Jonathan Edwards did indeed employ a special kind of structure to his sermon. The four elements you listed (i.e. hyperbole, intimidation, litany of wrongs, and series of metaphors) exist within a... -
Answered a Question in Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his work represented a movement away from the Enlightenment and toward the Romantic Period. As a Romantic poet, Coleridge contributed to a body of work that sought to... -
Answered a Question in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a prime example of the need to engage in suspension of disbelief in order to best understand the meaning and purpose of pieces...