The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, a play written by William Shakespeare, is set in Verona where two families, Montague and Capulet, have a long feud between them. This conflict causes a dilemma for the two adolescent lovers, Romeo and Juliet that are secretly married,...
The novel “The Outsiders”, by S.E. Hinton, was written in 1967 and focused on the ongoing and adverse impacts of conflict through a variety of literary techniques. Conflict first appears in the novel between two rival gangs from opposite sides of town as they foolishly...
In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the impact of literary devices such as foreshadowing, comic relief, and imagery all have an important role to heighten the readers experience of the play. Firstly, I will talk about how Romeo’s death is foreshadowed in...
Through a critical reading of an excerpt from the novel Atonement by Ian McEwan, many formal and stylised characteristics can be identified in assisting the success with which the novel delivers it’s themes to the readers. Some of the techniques used in this specific excerpt...
Orwell depicts a totalitarian fiction world, where freedom cannot be fought or dragged away from any sense of individual righteousness. In order to achieve this, the government suppresses people’s thinking and eliminate their freedom by creating fear through propaganda, strict laws, and incessant surveillances. Orwell...
Many literary authors use a number of literary devices in their writings. Some of the most common are devices such as similes, symbolism, satire, and alliteration. Many writers try to express their own ideas through their writing in hopes that others will one day read...
The short story, The Penal Colony, demonstrates various literary elements within the text. The three that I’ll be focusing on to explain in further detail includes the theme, the characters and imagery & symbolism. Although The Penal Colony was written in the third person, the...
In Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A White Heron”, a young heroine’s adventure is glamorized by exploring her characters essence before, during, and after her symbolic victory of the great, big pine tree. The adventure of Sylvia from the bottom to the top of the tree represents...
The poem “ The Black Walnut Tree” by Mary Oliver uses symbolism, metaphors, and imagery as some of the literary devices in the poem. These literary devices also portray the theme of how resilient a family could be in times of hardship. May Oliver uses...
How do you picture the end of the world?! A daunting question that could be answered with numerous outcomes. American poet, Robert Frost in his work has provided his own perspective to answer such a question. Born on the 26th day of March in the...
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque takes you through a voyage of war. As you read you are seeing the events through the perspective of a youthful German soldier. Utilizing imagery, purposeful anecdote, and exceptional symbolism the readers can be completely...
Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five is the story of Billy Pilgrim. A former American soldier and prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. Billy suffers different hardships during his service to Dresden. He was a optometrist by profession. The story of Billy is told in flashback in...
“Dover Beach” is a four stanza poem written by Matthew Arnold that starts out with a quiet scene. It begins with the speaker looking out on the moonlit water and listening to the sound of the waves. The author describes that the night air is...
“Frostbitten Faithlessness” is a short story about a woman’s lack of decision making, and fidelity. Ann is the wife of John, and they live on a farm, presumably in Canada. She seems to be short tempered, and miserable when it comes to her marriage. John...
The desire for overcoming corruption became a battle for everyone living in those times. The passion that many had and the hope that wasn’t lost kept them stronger. Now, a day’s corruption is not the most popular subject but it’s still around in many places...
Literary Analysis of The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allen Poe was born in 1809 and has become one of the most critically examined authors of his time. Poe was an author of many works and has undergone countless critics and attempts at analyses of his work...
A tool consistently employed by the Greeks was that of imagery, and within the genre of tragedy and the epic they have demonstrated their mastery of the device. Imagery within tragedy adds a necessary and otherwise unattainable sub-story to the play through symbolism, while within...
The poem “If we must die” by the poet Claude Mckay stood out mostly because Mckay is well known for writing about racism especially when it was towards him. The poem was a response to the Red Summer of 1919, which involved a lot of...
During the battle surrounding Drona’s death in the Mahabharata, the text frames the violent clash in unexpectedly tender terms. Despite the harsh realities of the conflict, the soldiers’ enthusiasm and regard for war is evident, provided that each side adheres to the parameters of its...
In I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and Surprised by Joy (also commonly known as ‘Daffodils’), William Wordsworth uses figurative language to reveal that noticing the little things in life can change a person’s perspective. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is a poem in which...
Born and raised in Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson grew up in an affluent Puritan family. Although her parents had three children, they were not involved with them. Dickinson noted that her dad was “too busy with his briefs” and wrote a friend “I never had a...
Life and death are two sides of a coin that all humans must face. Life is a beginning, but its destination that we all human share, is death which is inevitable. The trip from life to death, is sometimes long and can be, rapturous and...
Literary devices are a foundation for any written work, they provide a connection from the writer to the reader through language. Details emphasized through literary devices enhance the conflict within the text and often serve to reference real life problems. In Reginald Rose’s screenplay Twelve...
The poem “Legal Alien” has been taken from the book Chants written by Pat Mora, an American writer and poetess. She uses metaphor, imagery, paradoxes, two languages, symbols etc. in her poem. It is written in free verse yet it points out the fixed and...
While lecturing in America, Matthew Arnold wrote his poem “Dover Beach” in 1867. It is a free verse poem and does not follow any specific rhyme scheme and consists of 37 lines and 4 stanzas. Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” poem is about a person who...
In Alice Walker’s short story ‘The Flowers,’ the author depicts the story of a ten-year old girl named Myop growing up in a day. The story begins with Myop’s feelings of peace and happiness. Walker’s descriptions depict Myop skipping happily exploring the forest behind her...
Mark Twain, living through the horrors spanning from the civil war to racial and religious unrest that was known as the late 1800’s; this somewhat horrendous time drives Twain to write his satirized philosophical essay ‘The Lowest Animal’ by simultaneously using macabre imagery while exaggerating...
Literary analysis When innovating, it must be kept in mind that people’s happiness is important and emotions are priceless. This should always be obeyed or societies will struggle to move on. When this rule is broken and people lose their emotions and happiness, something must...
Washington Irving wrote a short story “The Devil and Tom Walker”. Showing the way people may be on the outside but how they truly are on the inside. An example being Tom Walker he’s a quiet guy but on the inside he is a greedy...
The short story,” The Moths” written by Elena Viramontes is a story that uses many elements of literature to address points such as religion, death, family, and coming of age of a fourteen-year-old chicana. The girl finds spiritual knowledge and understanding of who she is...
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