Essays on Literary Devices

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,...

Comparing and Contrasting The Great Gatsby and In the Dubious Battle When we look back in time, we can t help but see the patterns that color and characterize specific eras. For example, World War II defined the 1940s, also known as the Fighting Forties. The 1960s were marked...

Great Gatsby is one of Scott Fitzgerald's novels that focuses on the gaiety of specific characters. The car and driving are two of the book's main themes. The automobile was becoming important at the time the book was first written. This seems to be a pivotal point in the book....

Introduction Because of the creativity and consistency in the prose, Mary Shelly's novel Frankenstein is arguably one of the most read books of literature. As a consequence, the novel has been subjected to scholarly review from a variety of literatures, with a variety of scholars describing their perspectives on the novel. Critical...

Why Banning Books Should Not Be Encouraged For the longest time ever, published materials have been used by humans for a variety of purposes. History will reveal the literature has been carved out of the desire to preserve past events and to maintain track of such occurrences. As we change, literature...

In the poem, Billy Collins addresses “them.” The term is used by the speaker to refer to the “readers” of the poem including poets and students. It pursuits at educating readers on how to interpret a poem rather than distort or manipulate its meaning. As such, Collins desire readers to...

The poem Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walt Whitman The poem Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walt Whitman consists of three stanzas, each of which has seven verses. The poet composed the poem in free verse, taking the reader through a variety of stylistic devices such as language, repetition,...

Literary instruments are used in literature to communicate a specific meaning to the readers. These instruments are used to highlight points and make ideas more accessible to readers. Conflict as a literary device is most prominent in Susan Glaspell's play, The Trifles. It reflects on the denial of fundamental rights...