Essays on Literary Devices

The Death of Honesty by William Damon published by the Hover Institute in 2012 addresses issues related to dishonest that threatens democracy. Damon agrees that in some situations honesty has lost its importance especially in the society and is likely to cause downfall citing some examples in the...

Eileen Myles writes the poem Mad Pepper from a feminist point of view. The poem gives a symbolic meaning to the word pepper, which the poet equates to masculinity based on its hot nature. Mad pepper is about masculinity, which the poet feels desolated from. She uses the word itself...

Trifles by Susan Glaspell is a play with a unified plot and has verbal flashbacks to the events that led to the murder of John Wright. The themes highlighted in the play are based on the context of the events, and they include isolation, gender, patriarchy and plight of women....

Imagery is described as a descriptive comparison of two things that don't have a literal relationship, such as events, situations, or objects. With the help of deep comparisons made possible by imagery, which is figurative language, an audience is able to connect ideas, thoughts, actions, and many other things to...

"Dulce et decorum est" is a poem by Wilfred Owen, written during World War I and published posthumously in 1920. The phrase comes from Horace's Ode 3.2, which means "sweet and fitting" and ends with the words, "pro patria morum."Wilfred Owen The poem 'Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori' by...

Great authors employ literary instruments and methods in novel ways to illustrate their knowledge of the craft of fiction. Earnest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea is notable in the history of American literature as a novel that mastered the use of literary devices and techniques, as well...

The short story "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin The short story "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin is a literary analysis of racism in the African American community. The work shows the gradual shedding of prejudice and its themes of music and religion. However, there are a few points that need to...

An Analysis of My Antonia by Janet Cardiff The protagonist Antonia gives birth to a child that she does not consider to be legitimate. However, she does not hide this fact from society and does not fulfill the expectations of her peers. Instead, she openly displays her illegitimate child in front...

In this article, I would argue the use of storytelling approaches in the literature and compare the tools used in two literary texts: Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. The importance of the methods cannot be overstated. They are primarily the cornerstone of a story; without narrative, there...

Krakauer portrays Chris McCandless as a reckless adventurer Krakauer portrays Chris McCandless in his book "Into the Wild" as a reckless adventurer with risk-taking skills. He is portrayed as a very intriguing character who is driven to live a life that is not typical but exceptional. It's difficult to imagine Christopher...

When Charlotte Gilman wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper," the system of American society in the nineteenth century saw men (White men) ruling all facets of life, including the livelihoods of their wives. Gilman's short story can be seen as an attempt to liberate women of the time from the constraints of...

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift is a satirized literary work that delves into the deplorable circumstances in Ireland in the early eighteenth century. The publishing of the novel coincided with the arrival of the New World and the slave trade, in which people were commodified into commodities. Furthermore, Ireland,...