But can we say then that a romance novel is a non-literary work? ... Until then, romance novels are non-literary. ... It would, for example, be difficult to imagine a literary history of eighteenth-century England without an extended treatment of Berkeley and Hume, Bishop Butler and Gibbon, Burke and even Adam Smith (I think). ... In practice, we get automatic and unprofessional accounts of these authors in terms of their specialty. ... The literary historian is not automatically transformed into a proper historian of these disciplines. ...

• Word Count: 660
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Irony and Metaphor are literary language that plays very important roles in short stories and poetries. ... One example of Verbal Irony arises in a photo studio when John and Mike, two co-workers working together trying to fix a camera. ... In this example, Situational irony plays an unexpected role at the last part of the movie where the boy died. ... Metaphor is also a figure of speech in which one thing is described in terms of another. ... Another example someone said, "Her soft voice was music to his ears while her shiny long hair was the path to connect his love to find her." ...

• Word Count: 632
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Setting: Another Country takes place in Harlem, France, Greenwich Village and other locales throughout numerous incidents in this literary work. ... The protagonists, for example, were two dissimilar male friends: Rufus Scott and Daniel Vivaldo Moore. ... Literary Style: According to Langston Hughes, "Baldwin uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing....The thought becomes poetry and the poetry illuminates the thought." ... An example of his ornate writing would be the subsequent sentence: "The nature, the ferocity, ...

• Word Count: 1203
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Literary Themes of Animal Dreams Any certain novel may contain a number of different themes and general major ideas. ... For example, when Hallie moves from their Tucson home to the uncivilized South American country, Codi is so distraught and does not know how to live without her younger sister. ... Hallie has left for Nicaragua to dedicate her life to their revolution, and Codi must come to terms with her absence. ... None of these critics are incorrect in their thinking, but certain incidents, beliefs, and character connections cause literary critics to find different assertions within ...

• Word Count: 1050
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School