Twila Stephen
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I have worked for Portland Public Schools as a liaison supporting student transitions from high school to college. I currently work as a writing coach and continue to publish my poetry in literary journals. My passions are literature, classical music, and history.
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Answered a Question in To India My Native Land
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio's "To India My Native Land" starts out in a laudatory tone as the speaker glorifies the India of old before it became colonized. This tone is first indicated by the... -
Answered a Question in Paradise Lost
Satan uses techniques of classical rhetoric, or the art of persuasion, to compel Eve to eat the fruit. Accordingly, his appeal to Eve in book nine precisely follows the Ciceronian arrangement.... -
Answered a Question in The Odyssey
Odysseus does not dare shed his disguise because it would risk compromising the very reason for assuming the disguise in the first place, which was indicated in the preceding book: Odysseus,... -
Answered a Question in Absalom and Achitophel
Whereas the wit of satire before Dryden and the Restoration would tax the common abuses and vices of the people in rough and bitter attacks, the wit that Dryden uses to expose his characters in... -
Answered a Question in Hyperion
Allegory is a narrative that is designed to draw some parallel or other with a message or phenomenon outside the work itself. The fragmentary epic Hyperion by Keats has allegorical elements in it,...
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