Hyperbole is applied in the phrase "...staging the most amazing acts of prestidigitation" to exaggerate Mama Elena ability to keep them separate as magic. The author uses this literary device to show the Mama Elena is doing everything she can to separate Pedro and Tita. ... " (paragraph 4) Being in the kitchen, she still holds onto a piece of Nacha and to comforts herself, she prepares elaborate dishes. ... The magical realism is used very well to portray the the overall theme of love and desperation between Tita and Pedro. ...

• Word Count: 779
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

This is a very emotive piece of writing; this being accentuated through Rosetti's use of language and imagery. ... In my opinion this poem has two main themes, both of which greatly contribute to the overall feeling of the poem. The first is the refusal to separate from each shown by the two pigeons in the poem. ... The first theme shown is the speaker's evident awareness of her mortality. ... The second theme, which is much more subtle, is the speakers exploration of the thin divide between pain and joy. ...

• Word Count: 2526
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By looking at this piece of text, several recurring themes in Jesus" teachings can be selected, some being: love, equality, forgiveness, modesty, humility or abstention, and non-materialism. ... Though both teachers lived in two very different places in two very different times, much of the groundwork; the basics of their teachings (as well as some of their themes) are surprisingly similar given the diversity of the societies they lived in. ... While Confucius was the first to advocate: "Do not do to others what you yourself would not desire", 500 years later in an entirely separate place an...

• Word Count: 1478
• Approx Pages: 6

I will be studying the way the characters are used on the stage in their surroundings, as well as the differences in how Beckett creates these impossible situations through separate mediums of stage and Radio. ... Beckett has removed the choice for these characters to be separate due to the entrapment. ... Even if this is the case, through reading much of Beckett's work we can see that he had a 'fascination with paradoxes'15 and so although his work here presents us with the entrapment of the couple and them not being alone, we are also faced with the characters presenting the ...

• Word Count: 3587
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Questions of personal responsibility, free will, and justice move our sympathies through a work of literature, causing readers to relate with or despise characters as they are shaped within a piece. In The Tragedy of King Lear, William Shakespeare draws our support for his villains as well as his he...

• Word Count: 2076
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School