Quotations or quotes are representative lines of a work which highlight the themes, beliefs, and motifs that the writers convey to their audience. The quotes from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens also highlight the themes and beliefs…
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A Tale of Two Cities Characters
Characters are human beings in a storyline that make up the mainstay of the story to depict beliefs, ideas, and concepts. Characters in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens depict his views and beliefs of the period in…
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow; And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go. It followed her to school one day, Which was against…
Daddy
Daddy by Sylvia Plath You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. Daddy, I have had…
Those Winter Sundays
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early And put his clothes on in the blue black cold, Then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one…
Dover Beach
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in…
The Things They Carried Quotes
Quotes, also known as quotations are dialogue lines or sentences that reveal characters’ nature or intention, conditions, situations, and circumstances given in a text. Tim O’ Brien has written The Things They Carried with special reference to the soldiers killed…
The Things They Carried Characters
Characters are human beings in novels, stories, and poems. The authors show their beliefs, ideas and philosophical foundations through these characters. Characters in The Things They Carried also teach the readers various things about war, battle, memory, and people. Some…
Home Burial
Home Burial by Robert Frost He saw her from the bottom of the stairs Before she saw him. She was starting down, Looking back over her shoulder at some fear. She took a doubtful step and then undid it To raise…
Thanatopsis
Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of…
The Flea
The Flea by John Donne Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deniest me is; It sucked me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be; Thou know’st that…
Sound Devices
Sound Devices Definition Sound devices are literary elements used in prose and poetry to stress certain sounds and create musical effects. The writers make their texts vibrant, emotive, and pleasing with the use of these devices. Also, they create pointed…
My Parents
My Parents by Stephen Spender My parents kept me from children who were rough Who threw words like stones and wore torn clothes Their thighs showed through rags they ran in the street And climbed cliffs and stripped by the country…
Auguries of Innocence
Auguries of Innocence by William Blake To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour A Robin Red breast in…
Not Waving but Drowning
Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he’s…
Rhetorical Device
Rhetorical Device Definition Rhetorical devices are literary elements used to convince or persuade audiences using logos, pathos, and ethos. Their appropriate use makes the text rich, lifelike and enjoyable in prose and poetry. When carefully inserted, they transform an ordinary…
Implied Metaphor
Implied Metaphor Definition Implied Metaphor is a literary device used in prose and poetry to compare two unlikely things, with common characteristics without mentioning one of the objects of comparison. It is implied in the texts to make imagery rich…
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; Along the sea-sands damp and brown The traveler hastens toward the town, And the tide rises, the tide…
When You Are Old
When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once,…
Silence
Silence by Thomas Hood There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be, In the cold grave—under the deep deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found, Which…