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Narrative structure is always important, particularly when we consider how it impacts our reading. The structure of a sentence, the choice of a word, the ordering of a paragraph can all influence...

For one, consider that the faculty and staff at Hailsham are asking the same question you are: What should the children know? What's ethical for them to know? What's right? You might look...

"Foreshadowing" refers to details in the story that suggest the possible outcome, that there is more story to come. Foreshadowing can take the form of a word, a phrase, or broader hints. In chapter...

Since you don't specify a work, I'll speak generally about how words and phrases evoke emotion in an audience. First, know that writers are using appeals to pathos when they attempt to evoke...

In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," Montresor lures Fortunato into the catacombs. He uses the pretense of having acquired a "pipe of Amontillado" whose value he questions, and he plans...

First, you should define "The Dystopian Protagonist" to identify how it is distinguished from a general protagonist. A dystopian protagonist recognizes the elements of their society that makes it a...

The relationships depicted in Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" and Elizabeth Jennings's "One Flesh" are drastically different.  In Browning's poem, the speaker, the Duke, is telling the...

In Mary Alcock's "The Chimney Sweeper's Complaint," the speaker is a "chimney sweeper's boy," an apprentice to a chimney sweep. The speaker has no parents or real home and is subject to the...