… Homer finds a great tool in the simile. Just by opening the book in a random place the reader is undoubtedly faced with one, or within a few pages. Homer seems to use everyday activities, at least for the audience, his fellow Greeks, in these similes…

… the genre of tragedy by offering a promise of fulfillment and yet delivering the opposite.(Epstein)” As it is defined, a tragedy is “a drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially…

… Babi Yar, Yevgeny Yevtushenko does a wonderful job of paying tribute to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. He does this by portraying the history of the Jewish people. Yevtushenko also uses various literary devices to heighten the sentiment of the…

… 15 Men and women turn their glances toward the sky, and see a large, perhaps 100 feet, tree falling to the ground. As the tree hits the solid earth, everything grows very quiet. All look at the lumberjack, who killed this tree, and find him weeping in…

… how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic chi…

… other than the benefits and the good of the other animals. On the contrary, their objectives were to use, conquer, and capitalize on them. One of the conflicts in Animal Farm is the strong against the weak. The strong are the pigs and the weak are…

… ‘em all, kill ‘em” A man falls to the floor, bleeding. Another falls, and later yet another. News Reporter: “Today, a man by the name of _____ ______ has committed suicide after butchering two men in a deserted house. All three…

… George Orwell and was published in 1946. The story is about a farm in England around the time of the Russian revolution. The animals on Manor Farm are irritated with the way they are being treated, so they start a revolution. The pigs, who were the smart…

… Animal Farm. They are: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and Resolution. This paper will describe how the author uses each element to smoothly transition through the story. Exposition: Orwell begins by depicting the scene in the…

… A Utopia is an ideal society in which the social, political, and economic evils afflicting human kind have been wiped out. This is an idea displayed in communist governments. In the novel, Animal Farm, by George Orwell Old Major’s ideas of a Utopia…