Literary Techniques

The Use of Literary Techniques in Poetry

Thomas Hardy's "Neutral Tones" examines a relationship that has lost its passion and fallen into a state of near-death. In…

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Postmodernity and Postmodern Poetry

Through his works The Cultural Turn, A singular Modernity, and "Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism," Fredric Jameson…

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Analysis: Volpone by Ben Jonson

Volpone is the story of five people - Volpone, Mosca, Voltore, Corvino and Corbaccio - who are led into folly…

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Isolation and Alienation in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s the Scarlet Letter

Throughout the novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne emphasizes the intricate themes of isolation and alienation. Using a variety of…

8 months ago

Essay Analysis of Book IV of “Gulliver’s Travels”

Are we rational? In Book IV of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver sure seems to think not, nor does the Houyhnhnm society…

2 years ago

Writing Tips: The Short Sentence

Although many writers are criticized for peppering their work with short sentences on the grounds that such representations are choppy…

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William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying: An Essay on Subjectivity in the Short Story

One of the central thematic elements of As I Lay Dying is the distinction between what is a fact and…

3 years ago

Lesson Plan: Literary Devices in The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes

Time: 47 minutes (one class period) Setting: Classroom (desks in a horseshoe shape to enable/encourage class discussion) Objective: After this…

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The Sound and the Fury Analysis

William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury takes its title from the most famous soliloquy in Shakespeare's Macbeth. By taking…

4 years ago

Explication of Claude McKay’s Poem If We Must Die

It seems really ironic that a poem could be both an outcry during the Harlem Renaissance and a rallying song…

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