Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in 1837. In the allegorical tale, Dr. Heidegger experiments on four of his friends by offering them water from the fountain of youth. This gives them the ability to grow young once again. All four, who have led wasteful lives, vow never […]
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Flannery O’Connor was an American novelist of the mid-20th century who had an exceptional character and received critical acclaim, yet her work today seems obscure if not apocryphal. “Less than a writer dismissed by some critics, totally rejected by others…” (Lucas 5197) or as eloquently described by Joseph Zornado in 1997. …[R]ecent literature locates O’Connor’s […]
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Time: 47 minutes (one class period) Setting: Classroom (desks in a horseshoe shape to enable/encourage class discussion) Objective: After this lesson, students should be able to identify the following literary devices: alliteration, simile, metaphor, personification, and onomatopoeia Background: Students have spent the last two weeks studying the elements of poetry. Usually, we have focused on […]
Why do teachers assign book reports? Having taught high school English, I can reveal the secret here. The real reason teachers require students to write book reports is this: We want to know if you have actually read the books we have asked you to read! From elementary school through university-level literature courses, the purpose […]
The speaker in the poem is female. He wakes up early with his lover. She is upset that he has to get up and leave her to go about her usual day. He says that he should not be so easily controlled, sleeping through the night and awake. when there is light Their love will […]
Poetic e.e. cummings is characterized by its distinctive contemporary quality, while maintaining a traditional appeal. By doing this, Cummings writes poetry that appeals to many readers. The same applies to his poem: “I like the body, it is with your body.” The poem uses emotion to refer readers to language and describes what draws the […]
Lesson Plan Objectives 1. Having begun an English Literature Unit on tragedy, students will analyze their conceptions about tragic flaws and will be able to reconcile preconceptions with the literary devices and methods discussed through journaling and a brief paper. 2. After the lesson students will be able to relate the literary texts and terms […]
Personification is a beautiful type of figurative language that gives human qualities to things that aren’t human. For instance, “the sun’s fingers tickled my back” is a good way to show that it is warm outside. Personification is often used in fiction and poetry. Finally, it is a term often used on state tests. Here […]
One crucial literary technique, often used in all kinds of text, is ambiguity. Generally, when we read a work of literature, each word takes on one meaning, their definition, each phrase refers to one thing or idea. This makes sense; if each word or phrase could mean several other words or phrases, it would be […]
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Certainly Plato (c. 428 BCE-c. 348 BCE) and Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE) have a great deal in common. They are the two most influential figures in the history of Western thought from the ancient world. They both revered Socrates and his spirit of open-minded inquiry. They both did the bulk of their work in Athens, […]
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