Essays on Literature

In Learning to Read, Malcolm X conveys his point and opinion on education by using logos, pathos, and ethos. These three rhetorical techniques that Malcolm X employs allow him to present his argument and persuade his readers to make his case. The thing that Malcolm…

In the text ‘Learning to Read’ by Malcolm X, and in the text ‘Mother Tongue’ by Amy Tan, both authors similarly present the topic of education. Malcolm X expresses the difficulties he experienced in obtaining a self-taught higher education and being impacted by others. On…

In the text ‘Learning to Read’ by Malcolm X, and in the text ‘Mother Tongue’ by Amy Tan, both authors similarly present the topic of education. Malcolm X expresses the difficulties he experienced in obtaining a self-taught higher education and being impacted by others. On…

Malcolm X’s passage, “Learning to Read” and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s speech, “The Danger of a Single Story” are attempts to explain how incomplete information can affect the portrayal of a specific group of people. Both authors seek to help their audience find the truth behind…

The noun “invention,” – stemming from the Latin word; invenire and inventio- indicates a sense of creative license that is withheld by writers, in any form of literature. However definitively, “invention” also implies fabrication and fictionalisation, within poetry and sonnet writing, the poet my use…

According to Meyer, “an extended metaphor is a sustained comparison in which part or all of a poem consists of a series of related metaphors” (Meyer 926). In William Shakespeare’s sonnet 73 “That time of the year thou mayst in me behold”, the speaker uses…

Despite standing out through the dramatic genre, Shakespeare also turned to the lyric and produced 154 sonnets that are among the most beautiful in all world literature, with diverse themes such as love, time, beauty. The poetic self in the sonnet 73, is described as…

William Shakspere ‘s Sonnet s were first collected in Book volt-ampere. in 1609. Among the most famous of the 154 sonnet s is Sonnet XVIII, which includes the logical argument, ‘Shall I comparison thee to a summer time ‘s day light ?’ With three exception,…

William Shakespeare’s Othello, the Moor of Venice, takes place During the time of the Renaissance at the beginning of the play they are in Venice, and then they move to Cyprus to help with the war against the Turks. Shakespeare does an amazing job depicting…

Kate Chopin’s Story of an Hour is about feminism and female empowerment. Chopin moves for women’s rights all through the story, from Mr. Mallard’s death to his comeback. She shows the oppression of marriage and how death can set a woman free. A woman’s identity…