Personification is a beautiful type of figurative language that gives human qualities to things that aren’t human. For instance, “the sun’s fingers tickled my back” is a good way to show that it is warm outside. Personification is often used in fiction and poetry. Finally, it is a term often used on state tests. Here ...
The speaker in the poem is a woman. She wakes up in the morning with her lover. She is upset that he must rise and leave her to go about his usual busy day. She says they should not allow themselves to be controlled so easily, sleeping when it is night and waking when it ...
Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in 1837. In the allegorical tale, Dr. Heidegger experiments on four of his friends by offering them water from the fountain of youth. This gives them the ability to grow young once again. All four, who have led wasteful lives, vow never ...
The poetry of e.e. cummings is marked by its distinctive quality of being contemporary, while maintaining a traditional appeal. By doing this, cummings writes poetry that has an appeal to many readers. The same is true for his poem, “i like my body when it is with your body.” The poem utilizes a passion that ...
Lesson Plan Objectives 1. Having begun an English Literature Unit on tragedy, students will analyze their conceptions about tragic flaws and will be able to reconcile preconceptions with the literary devices and methods discussed through journaling and a brief paper. 2. After the lesson students will be able to relate the literary texts and terms ...
Flannery O’Connor was an American short story writer of the mid-20th Century who possessed exceptional talent and received high critical acclaim, yet her work today seems obscure if not apocryphal. “Dismissed as a minor writer by some critics, totally rejected by others…” (Lukas 5197) or as eloquently described in 1997 by Joseph Zornado …[R]ecent scholarship ...
Passage from The Stranger by Albert Camus: At the same instant the sweat in my eyebrows dripped down over my eyelids all at once and covered them with a warm, thick film. My eyes were blinded behind the curtain of tears and salt. All I could feel were the cymbals of sunlight crashing on my ...
The highly acclaimed narrative Beloved by African-American writer Toni Morrison takes place in Cincinnati, Ohio, from the 1850s to early 1970s. The story centers mainly on the novel’s protagonist, Sethe, and her journey in life, but also examines the lives of her two children, Denver and Beloved, and her close friend, Paul D. As the ...
Why do teachers assign book reports? Having taught high school English, I can reveal the secret here. The real reason teachers require students to write book reports is this: We want to know if you have actually read the books we have asked you to read! From elementary school through university-level literature courses, the purpose ...
One crucial literary device, frequently used in any variety of text, is ambiguity. Usually, when we are reading a work of literature, each word takes on one meaning, their definition, and each phrase will refer to one specific thing or idea. This makes sense; if every word or phrase could mean a number of other ...
