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• Answered a Question in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

  Let us go for four.

  1) Allusion. To state the most obvious literary device first, like any good revivalist...

• Answered a Question in Shakespeare's Sonnets

  (All line citations are taken from the text available at the Shakespeare Online reference provided.)

  Question 1: Which...

• Answered a Question in Hamlet

  Let us try for three distinct, substantial literary devices used in the soliloquy from act 1, scene 5, of Hamlet.

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• Answered a Question in The Scarlet Letter

  The Scarlet Letter is a strongly allegorical work. Hawthorne uses the setting, the "Custom House" introduction, and the red A...

• Answered a Question in Social Sciences

  Short answer: legally, possibly. In practice, and as a matter of ethics, almost certainly not.

  Legally, the question of...

• Answered a Question in American Imperialism

  "Imperial power" is a bit of a vague label. It tends to mean several things at once, so let's unpack it.

  In the sense of "this...

• Answered a Question in Robinson Crusoe

  Defoe is considered "the father of realism" because he wrote about people, gave them specific, concrete motivations, and explained how...

• Answered a Question in The Ancient World

  On the most basic level, the ancient river valley civilizations influenced classical empires because they influenced civilization,...

• Answered a Question in Bhagavad Gita

  Both the Bhagavad Gita and the Analects of Confucius are about duty. They argue that individuals have social...