English literature

Mya Gordon Mr. Harragian English 9 (Essay) 15 May 2016 Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is classified as one of the most popular and best-selling stories worldwide. According to Www.ancient-orgins.net, “William Shakespeare 's world renowned Romeo and Juliet (written sometime between 1591 and 1595) stands in the historical record as one of the greatest love stories ever written...it is a lot of differences on a story told many times from the fourteen hundreds onwards…borrowed from poets…

Mr. Mahmud Ullah, Associate Professor, Department of Marketing, University of Dhaka, told me to read lots of books, and to be an inquisitive learner. His speech impressed me a lot, and I spent some of my best days in reading books, especially of literature. I had gone through the texts of the modernist writers, i.e. Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, and David Herbert Lawrence as a consequence of my reading. Finding their writings very intriguing relating to class, gender, and race,…

Debating if a piece of text is literature or not is still a tricky topic in this day and age. The Oxford English Dictionary defines literature as “Written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit” but to really define and classify a text as literature you need to delve deeper, ask more questions and do this with a completely unbiased and open mind. Perhaps no other authors work has been debated in this manner quite as much as Edgar Allan Poe. His short stories,…

Literature can be defined as written texts with artistic value, including the traditional literary genres of poems, fiction and drama. Literature is understood in many ways. It is a body of written and oral works, such as novels, poetry and drama that use words to stimulate the imagination and confront the reader with a unique vision of life. The underlying assumption here is that a work of literature is a creative, universal form of expression that addresses the emotional, spiritual, or…

students enjoyed reading advanced literature because it challenged them to learn and readied them for real-life situations where everything they read may not be easily understood. In an English classroom, students may at first be reluctant to read a novel assigned by the teacher. However, advanced literature causes students to think, annotate, and analyze deeper into the themes and meanings of the texts they read. Additionally, school is a place for students to read literature they would not…

Pieces of Literature are written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas is a wonderful novel, receiving high praise from many non-academic organizations including but not limited to The Atlantic, Entertainment Weekly, and Newsweek. While it has received many raving reviews, it is no work of literature. This novel should be taught in school, however, The Hate U Give should, under no circumstances should be taught in English class.…

University's, English department. Professor Armbruster research interest are American Realism (1870-1920), American Domestic Architecture (especially late 19th/early 20th century) and Women’s Literature. Even though, I could have interviewed another professor from the English department which I don’t know, by conducting this interview I got to know more of Professor Armbruster. Also, I really owe her for motivating me to pursue a minor in English, because I never pictured myself taking English…

Going into DE English I was quite intimidated. I was telling myself that I had nothing to worry about because I truly believed I was an above average writer. During my freshmen and sophomore years in high school I was enrolled in honors/advanced English classes. Junior year came and I took the next step to registering for the AP English 11 class. I passed this class with flying colors and decently scored on the AP test with a 3. I suppose deep down inside the intimidation was generated from the…

badly structured, paragraphs when I got up from my chair. Although I enrolled in advanced writing and literature courses such as AP Literature and AP Language, I found that these classes did not help me to develop my writing skills. These classes were black and white and restrained any ounce of creativity. In addition, these classes were also concerned more with reading the works of literature than actually teaching the class how to write a literary…

#1 Literature ● ● ● ● ● Cornerstones of Mrs. Pruitt’s Classroom Curriculum Analysis (12.1.5, 12.1.6) Author’s purpose T ext structure and text aides Literary Elements (plot, setting, characterization, conflict, theme, point of view, tone/mood) Literary Techniques (flashback, foreshadow, imagery, symbol, allusion, figurative language [personification, metaphor, simile], dialect, irony, epiphany, oxymoron, allusion, suspense) Poetic Device (rhyme, rhythm, stanza, alliteration, assonance,…