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Saturday, 23 December 2017
Is there any personification in "The Tell-Tale Heart"?
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Personification is a literary device in which the author attributes human characteristics and features to inanimate objects, ideas, or anima...
In Animal Farm, how do the pigs become what they hated?
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George Orwell's Animal Farm (1945) is a political allegory about the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Stalin's subsequent rule over ...
Friday, 22 December 2017
Where can I find quotes about depression in Act 1 of Hamlet?
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Hamlet's depression is pretty well documented throughout the play, beginning as early as Act 1, scene 2, where his uncle and his mother ...
Thursday, 21 December 2017
How does Steinbeck present the brutality of ranch life at the time Of Mice and Men is set?
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In Of Mice and Men , the brutality of ranch life is depicted through characterization. In Chapter One as George and Lennie camp out before ...
Why does Jeanne decide that if she faces hostility, she will "have to allow it"?
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Although Jeanne makes that comment in Chapter 16, when she says that she'll have to allow hostility because something about her deserves...
Krakauer observes that it is not unusual for a young man to be drawn to a pursuit considered reckless by his elders. Identify an example from...
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Recklessness can be thought of in terms of both what you do and how you do it. On the "how", for example, driving to the store und...
Wednesday, 20 December 2017
Why does Winnie get reminded about her grandfather's funeral when talking to the stranger?
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But Winnie, though she was half charmed, was suddenly reminded of the stiff black ribbons they had hung on the door of the cottage for her g...
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