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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.

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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.

Literary devices and terms are the techniques and elements—from figures of speech to narrative devices to poetic meters—that writers use to create narrative literature, poetry, speeches, or any …

The following examples of mood are from different types of literature: plays, novels, and poems. In each, we identify how the author builds the mood of the work using a combination of setting, imagery, tone, …

Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.

Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.

Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.

Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o and Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo's The Trial of Dedan Kimathi. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best …