... was my first time to really be away from home, so I was a little nervous about starting a part of my life in a new place and a new school. Not knowing any one also played a small role in my emotional rollercoaster.(this sentence doesn't make sense) I moved from fear to excitement as it drew closer to the time when ... grew massively. I felt so energized when I walked into the building and down the stairs to the ancient, reeking basement. The class room was a big auditorium with the most unattractive orange and yellow chairs. The air smelled extremely stale and old as if the room had been ...

• Word Count: 784
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... hard work is done. Readers know that Chicago is a place of step-by-step process because of what is stated in line 25 of the poem, "Building, breaking, rebuilding" (86). The Chicagoans are always starting over, making what they do better and better. Readers can also infer that the Chicagoans are ... generally a happy bunch because of the constant use of the word "laughing" (86, 26-35) weaved throughout ... describes the city of Chicago is by explaining what the Chicagoans do there, further proving that the good and bad of the people define the city. Because the first five lines of the p...

• Word Count: 971
• Approx Pages: 4

... whether it be in his head or out loud. The way he speaks shows the reader that he doesn't really want to be telling this story. In the first sentence of the book, he starts out by saying " f you really want to hear about it, the first thing you"ll probably want to know is where I ... up releasing onto other people that he meets. Although we never meet Jane in the book, Holden is constantly talking about her. On page 42, when he is fighting with Stradlater about Jane he says, "I could hardly keep my voice from shaking all over the place. Boy, was I getting nervous. I just had a feeling s...

• Word Count: 1205
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... golden surprise". This gives the reader an idea of how pleasant the area Myop lives in is. She is used to everyday being better than the day before because of her beautiful surroundings. This is later crushed when she finds the skeleton. When she stumbles onto the decaying bones, the setting goes from "silver ferns" ... seventy-four by telling the reader what the man was wearing, the condition he was in, and the noose Myop found. This description shows Myop starting to put the pieces of the puzzle together. The last line of the story gives the reader sureness that Myop has learned somet...

• Word Count: 949
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... devices but the recurring use of enjambment suggests that the poet is having an outpouring of emotions and is not able to decide where to end his sentence. The poet maintains a neutral tone throughout the poem which is set in an isolated house atop a hill which can BE deduced from the detailed ... of the effects of the storm on the mountains. The poem follows the effects of the storm on various objects observable from the house, starting with a metaphor comparing the house with a ship far out at sea at night and stuck in a storm. The poet goes on to describe the various sounds which are...

• Word Count: 788
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate