What is the theme of ''The Awakening''? Can you explain the Gothic setting in ''Dracula''? What is the tone and theme of Charlotte Bronte's ''Jane Eyre''? What are some insights about 'Pride and Prejudice'? What was the ERA? When was it proposed?
Understand who Emily Brontë was, discuss the literary elements of her novel Wuthering Heights and the factors that answer why Wuthering Heights is...
Though two given writers might dwell on similar themes, every writer expresses a unique writing style, conveyed through elements like word choice, narrative structure, and the author’s own voice. But what is style in writing? On some level, style is ineffable. It’s also emergent: when you...
Let’s look at an example from classic literature. Take these two quotes from Jane, the narrator and protagonist of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. The first quote is from thenovel’s beginning, while the second is from itsfinal movement. ...
How does Hester change throughout The Scarlet Letter? What is the mood of The Scarlet Letter? How is the American dream portrayed in The Scarlet Letter? What is the role and an example of litotes in The Scarlet Letter? What is the moral of The Scarlet Letter?
Key: First-personnarrative is a narrative mode in which a story is narrated by only onecharacter at a time, who explicitly refers to him- or herself using words andphrases involving “I” and/or “we”. This allows the reader or audience to seethe point of view (including opinions, thoug...
Literary is a bookstore category, not a genre A lot has been written debating the merits of literary fiction versus genre fiction (genres such as fantasy, romance, crime, thriller). Elizabeth Edmonson, writing for The Guardian, for example, argues that Jane Austen wasn't writing 'literature...
In order to understand the function of a denouement in a story, let’s just back up a bit and briefly look at a traditional story structure. Firstly, a story usually hinges on having conflict in a story. (There are more meta novels in which conflict is sometimes dispensed with, but we...
The resolution (also calleddenouement) is the final phase in the story's plot structure, which wraps things up. While it often blends with the ‘falling action,’ the key difference is that the resolution offers closure to the story's main conflict. Essentially, it fulfills the promise of ...
return it to the library. So one of these days, I’m going to get it out of the library again and finish it because I think it is definitely worth finishing. I just haven’t - haven’t done it yet. This is what I’m saying about my book quitting being a bit of a problem ...