English literature

Shakespeare's most famous plays. Although the article only focuses on a single play, it does an excellent job explaining the rhetoric used by William Shakespeare. The article explains the background of William Shakespeare and the importance of literature during his time in school. During the Elizabeth Era there was a large focus on bringing back powerful aspects of linguistic devices that were used in Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman times, so much so that at…

As a distant relative of Hamlet once asked, “To read or not to read, that is the question.” English students around the world have been doing just that with the plays by William Shakespeare for years; however, more often than not, they exhort their teachers to cut the famous literature out of the lesson plan. These writings are crucial to the development of high schoolers’ minds and must continue to be taught. The first reason why we should read Shakespeare is because of the complex themes found…

Unfortunately, not everything could be taught in a school but it should be attempted, nonetheless. As a teacher, I plan to show my students that wonder of education that I felt while I was in school. Because my teaching field will be secondary English, I plan teaching English and also how it interconnect with everything else, not only in school but in my students’ daily lives. I want my students to be inspired to learn then understand why they are learning what they are learning. Too many…

In high school I was exposed to a lot of writing and reading from grades nine all the way through twelve. I learned how to write through literature for the most part but I also learned by building from the ground up. Through high school from freshman year through senior year we wrote 2-3 papers a semester. In my high school English class we did a lot of learning and writing through textbooks, and novels, and what was going on in the world around us. We wrote a lot of papers after reading a…

purpose of this is to understand the idea of humor theory and how it functions in literature. In class, we learned not only about humor theory, but literary devices like diction.The course's book were Born a Crime by Trevor Noah and Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. The connection between the course theme and all the assignments I have done, is on how to show the distinct connection between humor and literature. I have grown academically since the beginning of the semester since I have…

Philosophy, Shelley uses personification and metaphor to express love; In Ozymandias, Shelley demonstrate the idea of after death; The theme that fighting for life is still appearing in modern artistic forms, for instance, Viva La Vida. The dominant English movement during eighteenth century is Romanticism, which lead to literary rebellion at early nineteenth century Europe. As one of the pioneers who want to rebuilt a new form of Romanticism, Shelley’s work is filled with mad and love. “This…

while it was occupied by Great Britain. She grew up in the time era known as the Age of Imperialism. This is where many powerful countries conquered weaker ones around the world ("The Definition of"). She was exposed to English, thus Desai 's writing has always been in English. With the wide range of imperialism, Desai 's works has reached a wider audience. Imperialism has influenced Desai 's writing style by giving her the inspiration to write about imperialist India and the lives of Indian…

we go on, here’s a little bit of background information about the author. Suzanne Elizabeth Reid was born in Hyannis, Massachusetts. She has a Bachelor in English, a Master of Arts in English, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum. Originally, Reid was an English teacher at Nelson County Schools for two years before she went to be an English instructor at Virginia Highland Community College in Abingdon, Virginia. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on Cynthia Voigt and has contributed…

Tamil literature there were many poets who were always held with high respect in Tamil nadu history. Some of the notable literary Tamil poets and their contributions were discussed above. Even though Tamil classical literature had many number of famous works, which were translated and placed at high respect, it is the Thirukkural written by Tiruvallur which is always held at high respect because of the author Tiruvallur’s way of presenting the poems and its virtues. In the Indian literature,…

The Restoration Period was a time that English citizens and much of Europe began turning away from religion and started looking towards science and reason to learn and make new discoveries. Many scientists focused on astronomy, mathematics, and anatomy which allowed for the increase in technology, the improvement of medicine, and education. Literature also started becoming more modern as authors wanted to make a change to the old way of writing in forms of plays. Many writers started using…