Students often struggle with themes in literature. Let's demystify the concept so that you can see the deeper thematic meanings of the stories you read.
In literature, anepigraphis thequotation (or sometimes the phrase)at the beginning of a book or chapter. It’s entirely optional on the author’s part, but can offer a thematic direction for the reader. Example:InThe Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway uses Gertrude Stein’s “You are all a...
Wisdomdepicts the struggle between good and evil as anallegory. It features Christ, who is the character of wisdom, along with Lucifer, the Soul, Mind, Will, and Understanding. Christ and Lucifer battler over humanity’s soul, and goodness, as one might expect, comes out on top in the en...
While bothgenresaim to promote moral understanding, parables, especially those found in the Bible, are often tied to the teachings of prophets and focus on broader religious principles rather than common social values. For example,The Parable of the Good Samaritanconveys a religious principle about ...
A figure of speech is a phrase or word used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or rich effect. It is an expression that is different from its literal meaning. A figure of speech is a way of describing something or someone interestingly and vividly. The words or phrases may not mean ...
In literature, anepigraphis thequotation (or sometimes the phrase)at the beginning of a book or chapter. It’s entirely optional on the author’s part, but can offer a thematic direction for the reader. Example:InThe Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway uses Gertrude Stein’s “You are all a...
Anaphora appears frequently in literature, politics, and music. Below are a few famous examples of anaphora, which offer some insight into the way it works in various contexts. Anaphora in the Bible The Song of Songs, in the Old Testament of the Bible, contains many examples of anaphora. In...
In literature, anepigraphis thequotation (or sometimes the phrase)at the beginning of a book or chapter. It’s entirely optional on the author’s part, but can offer a thematic direction for the reader. Example:InThe Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway uses Gertrude Stein’s “You are all a...
Aphorisms have been found in the literature of many different cultures around the world. In ancient times many of these aphorisms were in religious literature, such as Ecclesiastes in the Bible, the Sutras of India, and the Golden Verses of Pythagoras. Many modern philosophers have incorporated ap...
considered right to include biographies of men and women who were still alive. And the early Romans, such as Cato, rejected much of Greek theoretical knowledge, regarding it as a dangerous foreign influence and believing with theStoicsthat wisdom consisted in living according to nature’s precepts...