Kathryn Draney
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I’m currently powering through my junior year at UW. I’m an English major. I am uber knowledgeable in the realm of grammar and literature, so if you ever have book questions or punctuation questions, I am your gal. I am well-versed in all things Greek tragedy and Shakespeare. I also love those awful books that you were forced to read in high school.
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Answered a Question in The Pit and the Pendulum
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" is famously cited for its ability to evoke a sense of dread within the reader. One of the few tales of Poe's that actually has a relatively "happy"... -
Answered a Question in Poetry
The rhyme scheme of a poem subconsciously affects the way you perceive the writing, much in the same way that the soundtrack of a movie can make you feel afraid, or the way that certain types of... -
Answered a Question in History
Common Sense is the best-selling American book of all-time. Thomas Paine used his persuasive writing to convince the colonists in Colonial America to fight for independence from Great Britain. This... -
Answered a Question in Stephen Spender
Stephen Spender's "My Parents kept me from children who were rough" is a poem written in free verse. That means it is unrhymed and has no specific meter. However, we can confirm by counting that... -
Answered a Question in Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes' poem "Mooses" compares antlers to thoughts in the second stanza. With massy bony thoughts sticking out near his ears – Reaching out palm upwards, to catch whatever might be falling from... -
Answered a Question in Sarojini Naidu
I would say the theme of this poem is that there are common steps taken throughout the life of a woman. While I'm not suggesting that every woman must follow these steps, the poem represents three... -
Answered a Question in Out, Out—
In his poem "Out, Out--" Robert Frost uses the juxtaposition of positive, warm details to emphasize the horror and unexpectedness of the boy's sudden death. The poem begins: The buzz saw snarled... -
Answered a Question in Literature
The answer to this question depends entirely on how you choose to define "literature." One popular concept is that literature is a written work of considerable merit. In other words, the writing is... -
Answered a Question in A Bird came down the Walk—
There are many poetic devices in Emily Dickinson's "A Bird come down the Walk-" including metaphor, simile, personification, and alliteration. Metaphor is present in the third stanza. He... -
Answered a Question in On Killing a Tree
The poem On Killing A Tree, by Gieve Patel, presents vivid images of the resilience of trees and describes how difficult it is to kill them. By using so many descriptions of life and juxtaposing... -
Answered a Question in Sarojini Naidu
According to the poem "The Bangle Sellers," by Sarojini Naidu, there are three stages in a woman's life. These three stages are differentiated in the last three stanzas of the poem, while... -
Answered a Question in Once Upon a Time
A plot graph is composed of the following: exposition, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, and conclusion. It is drawn in the shape of a mountain with the exposition at the bottom... -
Answered a Question in D. H. Lawrence
Impatience is the tone most strongly conveyed in the poem The Last Lesson by D.H. Lawrence. This poem is, quite simply, about a child who cannot wait to get out of school. The ambiguous... -
Answered a Question in Where the Mind Is Without Fear (Gitanjali 35)
Rabindranath Tagore's "Where the Mind is Without Fear" motivates and inspires readers to better their country and live with both pride and dignity. The British rule in India during the end of the... -
Answered a Question in The Giver
There are no special privileges or ceremonies awarded to people who turn 13 or 15 in the book The Giver. At each age up to 12 the turning of each new year is celebrated by a group of ceremonies... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
The conspirators do not want to let Cicero in on their plot to assassinate Julius Caesar because Cicero apparently is a poor follower. In Act II, Scene 1, Cassius suggests that Cicero be included.... -
Answered a Question in Gorilla, My Love
Gretchen's characteristics change throughout the story. She is first described as having a freckled-face and she eyes Squeaky up and down judgmentally. She does not participate in the banter... -
Answered a Question in Pygmalion
In his play Pygmalion, Shaw criticizes the British class system by depicting situations that show that it is nurture, not nature, that influences the worth of a person. For example, Eliza is... -
Answered a Question in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The significance of the sentence "This book belongs to Agnes Adams" is that he realizes the book belonged to his mother. Junior is subsequently outraged that the children in his tribe have to... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout describes the Maycomb courthouse as having large old pillars from the previous courthouse before it burned down. She notes the unreliable clock tower. She also... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
In chapter 5, the time of day influenced the meeting by allowing the fears of the boys to become realized. The darkness creates an eerie atmosphere where the idea of ghosts and beasties on the... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Macbeth says the word "assassination" instead of "murder" because it helps him to distance himself from the evilness of the action. Shakespeare presents Macbeth's decision to kill King Duncan as... -
Answered a Question in Literary Terms
Personification is where something that isn't alive is given human qualities. For example: The wind whispered in her ear. The wind cannot physically whisper because it does not have a voice, but... -
Answered a Question in The Lottery
The device used in this instance is foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is where the author gives us a small hint of what is to come, without entirely giving away the outcome of the situation. In "The... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
Victor is promising to tell Elizabeth about the monster he has created that has been haunting him ever since. He wants to be married to her before he tells her because he wants to ensure that she... -
Answered a Question in Jane Eyre
First you must identify what the "mystery" of Thornfield Hall is: the problem is, quite simply, the ghost that seems to haunt the halls and wake Jane in the dead of night. We find out later in the...