The essay explores the shift in literary work during the restoration period. ... Pope retaliated by making Theobald the hero in his poem, Dunciad, which is an indisputable example of violent satire. ... In this poem he demonstrates aspects of the restoration period literary work. ... In the poem, he describes ordinary human beings in heroic terms. ... During this period literary work was used to fight vices and instill morals....

• Word Count: 1100
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Literature also makes up a unique reading styles because of the different literary terms and rhetorical devices that it possesses such as simile, metaphor, imagery and many more. ... A metaphor is derived from a simile in that it equates different things without using connecting terms such as like or as. ... Allusion is a reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work. ... Hiss," for example, when spoken is intended to resemble the sound of steam or of a snake. ... The literary terms and rhetorical devices that I have described help makeup the literar...

• Word Count: 1599
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

What is literary study? ... On the other hand, literary study is knowledge about literature itself. ... But these efforts only make literature and literary study come to a very complicated relation. ... But this effort replaced the pure literary criteria. ... Traditional literary works fulfill this nature. ...

• Word Count: 5585
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Alexander Pope has long been considered one of the greatest satirists that English literary tradition has ever seen. ... This is only one of many striking examples of Pope's use of bathos as a device to aid his satire. In Canto III, we have a fine example of subtlety of Pope's satire, this time a comment on the obsession on the society of early eighteenth century with class and the aristocracy. ... It is here that we also come to realise how utterly important Pope's inclusion of the sylphs and spirits is to "The Rape of the Lock" in terms of its genre. ... For example, in ...

• Word Count: 2068
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A well-known example is his work in The Draft Horse: a narrative poem that at a first glance, is simply about a random act of violence where two people travelling through "a pitch-dark limitless grove" (4) are suddenly approached by an unknown man who "came out of the trees took our horse by the head [and] deliberately stabbed him dead." (5-8) The abnormality and eerily calm ambience about this poem is almost deliberate; so when you take a first look it over its' form, structure and language it deftly composes a simplistic poem with nothing out of place – comp...

• Word Count: 943
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

With the help of Mephistopheles who is his agent representing Lucifer, they negotiate the terms of their agreement and agree that Faustus will sell his soul to Lucifer the devil in exchange for 24 years of power, and Mephistopheles will remain his servant and he will satisfy his every whim. ...

• Word Count: 4910
• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: Undergraduate