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Language focuses specifically on the use of words and devices (such as the use of personification, ceasura, and so on), while the structure is concerned with how the piece of writing develops - not thr...

If you are not accustomed to the language and syntax of Shakespeare, the nature of his plays, sonnets and poems may be difficult to decipher. The first thing is to remember is that Shakespearean langua...

There are both dominant and underlying themes in To Kill A Mockingbird. The dominant themes include; childhood innocence, social inequality, family values, morality and the coexistence of good and evil. L...

In both Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, gothic conventions are employed in order to express the writers’ attitude towards gender roles. 

During the Victorian...

While the conventional revenge tragedy protagonist accepts their role as an avenger early in the play and is determined in their mission to extract revenge, Hamlet is very introspective and spends a di...