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  Besides the narrator, the characters in “The Tell-Tale Heart”—the old man and the policemen—are not fully developed. Instead, they are...

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  An epistrophe (or epiphora or antistrophe) is a literary device where a writer or speaker repeats the same word or phrases at the end...

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  Merriam-Webster defines the word modest as “placing a moderate...

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  In “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?,” 15-year-old Connie feels stifled by her boring home life and oppressive mother. She...

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  In Wayson Choy’s “The Jade Peony,” the young narrator Sek-Lung shares an especially strong bond with Grandmama. The 83-year-old...

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• Answered a Question in Chronicle of a Death Foretold

  In his novella Chronicle of a Death Foretold, author Gabriel Garcia Marquez does not state that Father Amador delivers a sermon...

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  In “Barn Burning,” protagonist Colonel Sartoris Snopes experiences a final crisis of faith between filial loyalty and individual...