In example, the choices you make to guide the events of your day will almost always be dependent on how you perceive the questions that come about. ... Although a work of literature may have all forms of setting, there is usually one dominant form. ... The poem, "Waiting for Icarus" by Muriel Rukeyser, is another well-written piece of literature. ... Time is the most significant element of setting within this piece of literature. ... The most difficult of all six pieces of literature is, "The Love Song of J. ...

• Word Count: 1865
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The use of this character device is widespread in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and indicates a growing awareness among authors that the "self " is really a composite of many "selves ". ... The phrase has a long history in literature, and was popularized (and perhaps coined) by Edgar Allan Poe in his short story, "The Imp of the Perverse." 2. ... Many critics consider Poe the founder of the so called doppelganger technique, in literature. ... However, it does not refer to all impulses, but to those that guide us into harming a fellow human being. ...

• Word Count: 1909
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The literature of Flannery O'Connor can appear to be distant and unemotional, as well as unbelievably harsh and violent. ... (Baumgaertner, 24) Students may question how her writing, as bizarre and cruel as it is, would be deemed Christian literature. ... She was not fulfilled with the restrictions of solely rational content, and stated that she had the belief that her brand of literature "will always be pushing its own limits outward toward the limits of mystery." ... Pure chaos appears out of nowhere and guides the story onto a completely new path, causing a grim yet subtle realizat...

• Word Count: 1784
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout the years many dystopian novels have changed the way we look at our future. From Orwell's depiction of a society that is ruled by an all seeing eye looking over their shoulders in "1984" to a society where the government has all but collapsed to every man is for himself in Butler's "Parab...

• Word Count: 1647
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He expected to see Jesus, be saved, and be correctly guided by his aunt. ... A first-person point of view piece of literature is again aiding the audience in understanding the child's current state of emotions. ...

• Word Count: 1548
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School