Essay Prompt for "The Storm,"

Write a well-organized essay in which you discuss which literary techniques Chopin uses in order to develop the emotional storm of the characters in the story. Some suggested tools are imagery, metaphor, and setting.

Essay Topic for Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe repeats a great proverb that goes "until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." Write an essay illustrating how Things Fall Apart is an attempt to give the lions their say (to carry on with the metaphor).

Be sure to address the literary techniques the author uses as a means to convey the larger themes of the novel.

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Paper Topics for Things Fall Apart

FromEDSITEMENT.neh.gov:
Choose one of the following to write your essay on:
1)The relationship between Achebe's title of Things Fall Apart and William Butler Yeats' poem "The Second Coming"
2)What purposes are served by Achebe's weaving of oral art forms such as African proverbs and folktales into the narrative
3)Achebe's decision to use English as the language of the novel and to integrate Ibo words and concepts into the text without translation
4) How Achebe uses specific linguistic devices and literary strategies to complement the content and message of the novel