Literary Devices

Poetry of E E Cummings

The poetry of e.e. cummings is marked by its distinctive quality of being contemporary, while maintaining a traditional appeal. By…

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Using Books and Poems to Teach Personification

Personification is a beautiful type of figurative language that gives human qualities to things that aren't human. For instance, "the…

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John Donne’s “Break of Day”

The speaker in the poem is a woman. She wakes up in the morning with her lover. She is upset…

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Analyzing Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in 1837. In the allegorical tale, Dr.…

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English Literature Lesson Plan: Tragedy and the Tragic Flaw in Literature

Lesson Plan Objectives 1. Having begun an English Literature Unit on tragedy, students will analyze their conceptions about tragic flaws…

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Flannery O’Connor: American Literary Hidden Treasure

Flannery O'Connor was an American short story writer of the mid-20th Century who possessed exceptional talent and received high critical…

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Literary Analysis of a Passage from Albert Camus’ The Stranger

Passage from The Stranger by Albert Camus: At the same instant the sweat in my eyebrows dripped down over my…

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Examining Toni Morrison’s Writing Style in Beloved

The highly acclaimed narrative Beloved by African-American writer Toni Morrison takes place in Cincinnati, Ohio, from the 1850s to early…

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How to Write an Award-Winning Book Report

Why do teachers assign book reports? Having taught high school English, I can reveal the secret here. The real reason…

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Literary Devices: Ambiguity

One crucial literary device, frequently used in any variety of text, is ambiguity. Usually, when we are reading a work…

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