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Comparing 'Home' by Grace Nicholas to 'Wherever I Hang' by Anne Bronte

In three pages the literary devices of simile, metaphor, rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration are used in a comparative analysis of the...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

In 7 pages the 1984 novel by Milan Kundera is analyzed in an examination of techniques such as the tone of dream like surrealism a...

Literature and Fate

In seven pages the literary device of fate is examined within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edgar Allan...

Gothic Characteristics of The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper analyzes the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne in terms of the author's literary device usage and its Gothic c...

Analysis of A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

in the Italian ambulance corps during World War I. Henry meets and falls in love with Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. Soon af...

'Desiree's Baby' Short Story Analysis

Realist writers "were more or less in open revolt against [society]," and naturalism combined the theories of Charles Darwin to co...

Directions for a Birth Day Song by Jonathan Swift and Irony

Laureate whose job it was to provide annual New Years and birthday poems. It was considered to be a competition, and obviously a c...

Literary Analysis of Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants'

to convince her that having the abortion is no big deal. PATTERN OF SYMBOLS ASSOCIATED WITH MODERN WORLD It is an interesti...

Joseph Conrad's 'The Lagoon'

thinks the woman will die. Arsat is very sad and while he waits out the long night he begins to tell his friend about how he came ...

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

end it is buried when the bulldozers level the area. Rushdie has his main character, Saleem, comment on the significance of the sp...

Sylvia Plath's 'Above the Oxbow'

is characteristic of Plaths works. "Back of the Connecticut, the river-level Flats of Hadley...

The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson and The Surrounded by D'Arcy McNickle

frame. Archilde says: "One had only to go into daylight to realize how preposterous such things were" (McNickle, 1935, p. 106). ...

Authors of the Latin American Boom Era Carpentier and Cortazar

indicative of what the new emerging countries might become. Julio Cortazar does...

Critiquing Part 4, Chapter 5 of 'Gulliver's Travels' by Jonathan Swift

is based upon Lemuel Gulliver, who was a ships surgeon and he tells of being shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput (Summary of Gul...

'Loverboys' by Ana Castillo

our traditional notions regarding love and romance. She doesnt want any one "box" to define love or sex. The lesbian with a man ...

Eighteenth Century Literary Satire in the Works of Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift

her Imperial Majestys Apartment.(1) The Rabelaisian joke has often been deciphered in the light of early eighteenth-century topica...

'Ballad of Birmingham' by Dudley Randall

hope. The mothers wise voice could be seen to be the voice of experience, conservative ways, of hope seasoned with hard times. The...

Critique of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

as a first attempt one can see the underlying brilliance that will shine through in later novel attempts. As has been said, "Auste...

Uses of Propaganda in Oronooko by Aphra Behn, Spectator Number 69 by Joseph Addison and A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift'

take a closer look at where it is headed in the overall scheme of existence upon this earth. Through his use of syntax...

Literary Conflicts in Plays

This 3 page paper gives an explanation of literary devices and conflicts within the plays Macbeth and Mistaken Identity. This pape...

Analysis of Great Expectations

In a paper of one page, the writer looks at Great Expectations. Literary devices are identified in a single excerpt. Paper uses no...

Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

One could argue that perhaps Ibsen told the press he was not a feminist in order to get the media off his back, but the...

Irony and Paradox in 'Battle Royal' by Ralph Ellison and 'On the Rainy River' by Tim O'Brien”

and hides and works for a man who never questions him, and he is torn terribly with his emotions because he wants to run and yet h...

The Outsider’s Viewpoint in Literature

the experiences their protagonists have growing up as young, ethnic women in America. However, the relationship between the fictio...

The Story of Sonny’s Blues

problem is, he and Sonny have never really understood one another; or rather, his brother has never truly understood Sonny. For So...

Comparative Analysis of Evelyn Lau’s Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid and the Anonymously Written Go Ask Alice

she had no particular interest in helping or educating others. For Lau, her diary represented the ultimately self-expression her ...

Power of Language in Langston Hughes’ Poems ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ and ‘Mother to Son’

human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...

Irony in Shirley Jackson’s Short Story, ‘The Lottery’

careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...

Herman Melville’s Message in Moby-Dick

whale (55). Naturally, this represents the books climax, but how would Melville fill the huge writing gap between the introductio...

Symbolism in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter

were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...