Rebecca Hope, M.A.
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I have taught private school and tutoring classes for home school co-ops and tutoring organizations. I currently teach college-level composition and literature at North Central University. During the summers, I teach reading enrichment classes for all age levels, kindergarten through adult.
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Answered a Question in Trifles
At the beginning of Trifles, the women characters experience the demeaning words and behavior of the attorney and sheriff toward Mrs. Wright in particular and toward women in general. The men... -
Answered a Question in Trifles
In deciding whether Mrs. Wright felt like a "caged bird," viewers or readers of Trifles must consider symbolism and inferences, since Mrs. Wright never appears in the play. The two women who gather... -
Answered a Question in Literature
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Answered a Question in T. S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot is perhaps best known for his long poem The Waste Land, published in 1922, which focuses on the alienation and aimlessness of the post-World War I generation. "The Hollow Men," a much... -
Answered a Question in The Tyger
In "The Tyger," William Blake uses the first two lines to introduce the subject of the poem. It is about the tiger that burns brightly "in the forests of the night." These lines suggest the tiger's... -
Answered a Question in "I Have a Dream" Speech
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of history's most moving speeches at the March on Washington in 1963. In it he described the past and present wrongs that black Americans had lived with... -
Answered a Question in The Westing Game
After the reading of Sam Westing's will, the residents of Sunset Towers are divided into pairs, and each pair receives a set of four clues. The clues by themselves aren't meaningful; the will... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
As other responses explain, the most obvious significance of the conch's exploding "into a thousand white fragments" is its symbolic representation of the loss of rules and order in the boys'... -
Answered a Question in Literary Terms
The lyrics to "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Freddie Mercury are enigmatic and open to interpretation. Thus what one listener might take as literal language could be taken as figurative language by someone... -
Answered a Question in Hattie Big Sky
In the final chapter of Hattie Big Sky, Kirby Larson must wrap up the story by telling readers what Hattie will do now that she has failed to prove up on her claim. Readers may have been surprised... -
Answered a Question in The Tempest
As The Tempest opens, the ship is in the middle of a fierce storm as the Boatswain and the Mariners seek to keep it from wrecking. Some of the high-born passengers come topsides to see what is... -
Answered a Question in Life of Pi
One recent event in the news that has some parallels to the events in Life of Pi is the Labor Day destruction by fire of the charter boat Conception. During the night, crew members awoke to find... -
Answered a Question in Acquainted with the Night
At least four clues in Robert Frost's sonnet "Acquainted with the Night" suggest that the speaker of the poem has experienced an unpleasant or unsatisfying interpersonal encounter. First, the fact... -
Answered a Question in William Wordsworth
Writing in "Preface to Lyrical Ballads," William Wordsworth expounded at length on the question of "what is a poet?" Although the poet is "a man speaking to men," (with man taken in the generic... -
Answered a Question in Pride and Prejudice
Besides Elizabeth's general dislike of Darcy's arrogant nature, her two primary reasons for spurning his declaration of love and offer of marriage are that he "ruin[ed], perhaps forever, the... -
Answered a Question in Thank You, M'am
The boy, Roger, tries to take Mrs. Jones's pocketbook, but not realizing how heavy her purse is, he falls onto the sidewalk instead of making a quick getaway. After giving him a quick kick to the... -
Answered a Question in If—
Here is a paraphrase of each line, numbered in order: 1. If you can stay calm when other people 2. are losing their composure; 3. if you can remain self-confident even when others lose their faith... -
Answered a Question in The Bible
One of the most inspiring messages of the book of Ruth is that a person who displays selfless compassion will be rewarded in the end. At the beginning of the book, readers are introduced to Naomi... -
Answered a Question in The Raven
The primary image in "The Raven" is the picture of the raven sitting above the bust of Pallas above the speaker's "chamber door." Through this image and other diction choices associated with it,... -
Answered a Question in The Gettysburg Address
In his short but powerful speech at the dedication of the Soldier's National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, President Abraham Lincoln deftly addressed three issues: the soldiers, the nation,... -
Answered a Question in The Second Coming
In his pre-apocalyptic poem "The Second Coming," William Butler Yeats focuses on the menacing chaos of the present, the looming horror of the future, and his personal view of the progress of... -
Answered a Question in Sonnet 116
In this sonnet, William Shakespeare extols the characteristics of true love. Love doesn't change even when altering situations seem to warrant a change. It is a steady target, like the North Star... -
Answered a Question in The Charge of the Light Brigade
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson pays tribute to a historic battle in the Crimean War fought between Russia and Britain in 1854. Due to miscommunication among British... -
Answered a Question in Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
In this twelve-line poem by A. E. Housman, the poet contemplates the beauty of spring and calculates how many more years he will have to enjoy its wonder. In the first stanza, he proclaims the... -
Answered a Question in Poetry
Lyric poetry is a broad category of poetry that encompasses most of what the average person means when they say the word "poetry." While a lyric poem doesn't have to be sung (it is not the same as... -
Answered a Question in Speech to the Virginia Convention
Three points Patrick Henry made in his speech to the Virginia Convention were that diplomacy had failed, Britain was preparing to use force against the colonies, and there would be no better time... -
Answered a Question in The Sign of the Beaver
Authors help readers understand their characters in two different ways: direct characterization and indirect characterization. When an author uses words and phrases that describe a character, it's... -
Answered a Question in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is a dramatic monologue that occurs in the thoughts of the title character. Over the course of his reflections about his date (whether they take place in real... -
Answered a Question in Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller incorporated a number of powerful symbols into Death of a Salesman. When searching for potential symbols in a work of literature, consider items that are referred to or shown often... -
Answered a Question in The Spanish-American War
The description of the Spanish American War as a "splendid little war" comes from John Hay, US ambassador to Britain, when he said to Theodore Roosevelt, It has been a splendid little war, begun... -
Answered a Question in The Snows of Kilimanjaro
In "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" by Ernest Hemingway, the story's action alternates between the present and the past. As the story begins, Harry and his partner, Helen, are stranded in Africa and are... -
Answered a Question in The Bronze Bow
After the inciting incident, where Daniel meets his childhood acquaintance Joel in the mountains outside the village, the rising action begins. Daniel and Joel participate in Rosh's raid on a... -
Answered a Question in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
This passage from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is an excellent example of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's skillful use of sound devices. The lines exhibit the following poetic devices: Alliteration... -
Answered a Question in The Little Prince
The pilot learns much from the Little Prince, and readers can take away a lesson from their relationship. As the Little Prince fills the pilot in on his travels, he reveals many lessons about the... -
Answered a Question in The Second Coming
William Butler Yeats's poem "The Second Coming" can be quite confusing for readers who don't understand the poet's personal religious and philosophical leanings. Many readers familiar with... -
Answered a Question in A Psalm of Life
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow describes two overarching characteristics of the human soul in "A Psalm of Life." He fervently declares that the soul is immortal and active. Granted, Longfellow... -
Answered a Question in The Importance of Being Earnest
The 2002 Miramax video production of The Importance of Being Earnest is remakably faithful to Wilde's original script. It does have some notable differences, however. The film begins with Algy and... -
Answered a Question in To Autumn
Keats personifies autumn in all three stanzas of the poem "To Autumn," but he does so in different ways. In the first stanza, he calls autumn the "close bosom-friend" of the sun. This description... -
Answered a Question in On His Blindness
Rhyme scheme is the term given to the pattern of end rhymes in a poem. To determine a poem's rhyme scheme, begin by assigning the letter A to the word at the end of the first line. Now look through... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
Chapter 15 of To Kill a Mockingbird has some interesting turns of phrase, including a few puns. In this chapter, Atticus goes to the jailhouse to keep watch while Tom Robinson is in custody. When... -
Answered a Question in The Importance of Being Earnest
As Gwendolen hints, if Jack has indeed learned anything by the end of the play, he is sure to change. And since Wilde confessed that his purpose in writing The Importance of Being Earnest was to... -
Answered a Question in History
Three characteristics of the Roman Empire are typically credited with aiding the advancement of Christianity. First, the Pax Romana, or Roman peace, created a relatively stable political climate... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
Scout and Jem view Tom Robinson's trial from the balcony, sitting with Reverend Sykes and other black people. Eventually Calpurnia comes to collect them, appalled that they have listened to such... -
Answered a Question in Tuck Everlasting
Tuck Everlasting has a profound theme for a children's novel. The teaser on the cover reads, "What if you could live forever?" This question is explored with surprising depth and pathos in the... -
Answered a Question in The Lady of Shalott
The Lady of Shalott, the title character of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem, is a dynamic character, meaning that she grows as a person over the course of the ballad. As the poem begins, the Lady is... -
Answered a Question in Trifles
Since readers aren't given the full story of what happened on the night that John Wright was murdered, any argument that justifies or condemns Minnie Wright's actions in strangling her husband in... -
Answered a Question in Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson's personal life comes through in the themes of her poetry as well as in its style. Common themes of her work include death, grief, nature, love, and introspection. Dickinson grieved... -
Answered a Question in Death, be not proud
John Donne uses several brilliant figures of speech in his sonnet "Death, Be Not Proud." The poem begins with an apostrophe, which is the technique of addressing someone not present or an inanimate... -
Answered a Question in Mother to Son
In "Mother to Son," Langston Hughes gives a message of encouragement to black Americans struggling against poverty and racial injustice. The language of the poem and the free verse format... -
Answered a Question in Antigone
In Antigone by Sophocles, the Chorus, which consists of a group of Theban elders who are advisers to King Creon, performs three important roles. First, they provide information about what takes...
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