Literary genre

and well-crafted as those crafted by Shakespeare. His elaborate style of word play and hidden meanings helped to fully immerse the reader into his stories. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses literary devices to develop the theme of how fate cannot be escaped, no matter how hard one tries. The first literary device that Shakespeare incorporates into his writing is the element of motifs. Shakespeare uses the motif of light and darkness to show how Romeo and Juliet are fated to always be apart.…

In Madame Bovary you can find many literary themes and variations in syntax and diction. In this essay you’ll see the comparisons Between Davis’ Interpretation of a passage from the book, and Marx-Aveling’s Interpretation. Davis’s interpretation of the passage uses a lot of loose and compound sentence structure; Marx’s Interpretation uses a variety of syntax and diction ranging from parallel syntax structure to abstract diction. In this paper you will see the similarities and differences between…

reality, it hit him hard. The theme of growth as explored in M.K Asante 's Buck, looking through the Psychological and Psychoanalytic literary lens, illustrates personal discovery because what you go through affects how you act as you get older, the things that your parents go through affect you as well, and reality never seems to be what we want it to be. The literary theory that is associated with Buck is the Psychological and Psychoanalytic criticism. It talks about a writer’s personality…

Author’. Arguably, Elliot also had an influence on Important figures in Literary criticism such as Leavis and Bloom. There are present mutual notions of perceiving tradition as continuously remade and rethought. Furthermore, critical essays such as ‘Tradition and the individual talent’ and ‘Hamlet and his problems’ have had major influence on the school of New Criticism. These influences have made the study of literary theory what it is today. In conclusion, Elliot’s theories may have…

not end up with a grade I’m happy with, but I have gained the confidence I need to continue with this concentration. I believe I have learned a great deal about various literary theories, how many there truly are, and how little I care about any of them past New Criticism. Additionally, I have learned I am great at applying literary theories in practice, composing essays, and frantically searching up key terms during a 20-minute quiz. I won’t be able to get the results I want by solely relying…

Danger in Tradition In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, a village prepares for their annual tradition of the lottery in which the townsfolk stone a person to death. The ritual was originally conducted to bring a bountiful harvest of corn, however, the meaning behind the sacrifice seemed to fade out while the tradition itself persisted. As surprising as it may seem, one can see instances of blindly followed tradition in today’s society: trick-or-treating on Halloween, blowing out the candles on…

be more beautiful than a pretty rose that hasn’t lost its beauty. The other literary device used, personification, was used to symbolize women as the rose. “You are flung on the sand, you are lifted in the crisp sand that drives in the wind” (Lines 10-13). This really gives the reader a good visual on how to view the rose, as not just a rose, but as a person being treated unfairly. Hilda Doolittle uses two strong literary devices throughout her poem, and uses them to portray a certain image to…

“I am an invisible man” is narrated by Ellison’s character in Invisible Man at the very beginning of Prologue. The start of this literary work proposes many questions as to how the story will unfold. How can one become invisible? How does it interact with its surroundings and other people? Is it able to switch between visibility and invisibility? The narrator of Invisible Man is introduced with a feature that he may or may not have control over. However, it isn’t revealed as to how he obtained…

LITERARY TERMS Word: motif Definition: A recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work, unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme. Quote: “I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all…

In her article “Why I’m Still Writing Women’s Literary History”, Professor Devoney Looser astutely asserts that women’s literary history is a field that is alive and thriving and therefore deserves to be treated as such. Her argument centers around addressing concerns expressed by various colleagues of hers, and perhaps a common concern many others hold, that the academic field of women’s studies is now “passe” due to taking a “separatist” approach. The article address the reasons why people may…