Essays on Literary Genres

The introduction of Ha! The Science of Why We Laugh by Scott Weems begins with a humorous anecdote regarding innovative comedian Lenny Bruce and sustain a high level of humor across the book, largely spanning a minor difference between revelation and entertainment (Weems 11). The author claims humor and its...

Part 1: Scansion and Analysis. “Describe Yourself in Three Words or Less” by Rita Dove has three stanzas as opposed to the idea communicated by the title of expressing oneself in three words. The stanzas are almost equal in length with the last two having seven lines each. All the three...

Annie Dillard (1945-present) is an American who integrated the complex ideas of nature and sight in 1974 in the book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. In the book, the author notes her ideas about sight and appreciate the natural world while delving into the meaning and understanding of the world and...

The Presentation of the Poem The presentation of the poem is in a simple form. The speaker decides to make a stop by some woods. The poem summarizes the information in four stanzas which are identical. The lines constituting the poem are iambic. They consist of four emphasized syllables. The Wood and...

Girl Girl is a poem revolving around a mother-daughter relationship. With the mother doing all the talking, this poem emerges as a harsh conversation between the narrator and her mum. This piece of literal work describes in depth the expectation of the narrators’ mother in all aspects of her life from...

A Hero's Journey A hero is an individual or a major character of a literary work who, in the face of jeopardy, struggles adversely through achievements of cunning, courageousness as well as strength (Chance 6). In a few words, heroes' journey entails the call to adventure, a supernatural aide, and initiation...

Setting in "Blood Work" by Bonnie Jo Campbell Setting is one of the major elements of a short story which entails segments such as time and location that the story takes place. The two categories of setting can then be extrapolated to the aspects of place, time or period, weather conditions,...

Poems and songs have been used for decades to pass across specific and literary messages to the societal events. Some of the poems and their poets have touched on various topics that take place in daily lives of the people within the community and the poem “The Room Where It...

Banshee is a monster, famous in Ireland and Scottish Highlands; essentially, it is considered monstrous due to its appearance. The creature takes the form of a woman with and emits a shrill cry of lamentation. According to folktales, the supernatural being wails when an individual is about to die, alerting...

Anonymity and pretending to be another individual are appealing because they allow individuals to express themselves freely without the fear of being judged. In the Talhotblond, anonymity allows Mary Shieler to express herself freely without being judged. It allows her to say things that a married woman of her age...

“American Born Chinese,” Guen Luen Yang’s Printz Award-winning graphic novel, explores the life of Asian- American adolescents. The novel illustrates the experiences of racial minorities and their interactions with the dominant race. The writer uses the individual stories of three characters to bring out the theme of racial identity and...

is a narrative that explains events resembling two different types of religion. It is concerned mainly with the faith practiced by different people. The book describes the people as those who live in isolation and cannot bear living on the earth`s surface thus they live on the ground one. The...