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Edited from LitHub here . I like Sontag's approach: that it is important to be attentive and to be connected and to not be cynical. To ...

Your teachers might ask you to use evaluative adjectives for your literary terms, so that you describe an image as distinctive or a metaphor...

Humour in literature can be achieved through a variety of literary devices and techniques. Here are some common literary devices that author...

Tone is an effect of a writer's work. However, teachers rarely share examples of how to describe tone.  Here are links to resources that...

In literary analysis, some devices and elements are often considered more fundamental or foundational than others. Here's a hierarchy, t...

 In the TEE paragraph you are required to state the effect of the technique you have identified. This is often the trickiest part of writing...

This is from Harvard Writing Centre.  How to Do a Close Reading The process of writing an essay usually begins with the close reading of a ...