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In his preface to the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems, William Wordsworth says of “We are Seven” that it evinces ‘the perplexity and obscurity which in childhood attend our noti...

You can either quote a direct piece of the text in "" and say what passage of what book it is from. 

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An Oxymoron is a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. 

ex. "heavy lightness" from Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare 

In James Fenton's poem, the speaker expresses anguish at the romantic situation between himself and his lover through his use of coined terms. The speaker suggets his frustration at the unreciprocated lov...

The mockingbird features prominently throughout Lee's novel and is used to represent innocence. Near the beginning of the novel, Atticus tells Jem and Scott that it is a "sin to kill a mockingbird.&q...