Amira Lind, M.A.

Marianne Moore's poem "Poetry" is a commentary on the power of all words. The speaker urges her readers not "to discriminate against 'business documents and school-books'; all these phenomena are...

Structurally, we could infer that a short story titled "Boy" would look completely different. If you recall, the actual short story, "Girl," is written as one dense paragraph of directives given by...

The syntactical structure of the short story "Girl" is one of its most striking features. It's a challenging story to read because it is one large paragraph. Typically, we would discourage writing...

"Desiderata" means "things wanted or needed." In the context of the poem, the speaker is sharing with his readers what he desires them to do in the form of directives such as "Go placidly amid the...

To clarify, diction is a reference to word choice, and syntax refers to the arrangement of words within a sentence. While there are many examples of dialogue from Christopher's parents, what is...

One of the morals Turtles All the Way Down teaches us is that we are stronger when we share our struggles with others. If you recall, sixteen-year-old Aza struggles with both anxiety and obsessive...

A Doll's House offers an unflinching look into a middle-class Norwegian family in the late nineteenth century. The protagonist, Nora, and her husband, Torvald, portray a facade of honesty and...