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Note: At my school, there's this English assignment known as the "sophomore speech." I am a sophomore. Therefore, I have to do research and make a speech to my English ...

Thanks for the replies! As for the dialogue, (which was the assignment right?) it was good, very believable and flowed well too, the only suggestion I could make for that ...

^^I agree with Clau there. I used to throw a bunch of my stuff out because it didn't come out right the first few times. Now I have a million ...

[Now, this is a Creative Writing assignment. Please understand that I SUCK at prose, and that I made it through the first half of the class writing mediocre poetry that ...

While using alliteration in that first line shows an ability to use literary techniques, I'm not sure it was really justified. As Trident pointed out, it seemed to be just ...

A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle Of course, that was a series, right? At least, I recall that books such as A Swiftly Tilting Planet and A Wind in ...

Now, I dislike Dickens, as many do, but he was a literary mastermind. If anything of his should go up there, it should be A Tale of Two Cities. To ...

East of Eden - John Steinbeck ^^DUH. Okay, so I just got into Steinbeck, so I haven't read a lot of his stuff yet, but East of Eden was truly ...

Yeah, I did it. Some people got shirts, but there weren't enough. We all carried around cards that we showed to our teachers at the beginning of class so they ...

OMG YES The Perks of Being a Wallflower! That was pretty much the best thing in teen angst literature...ever. Not sure about the Da Vinci Code. It wasn't a great ...

Photography, eh? HIGH-FIVE! Have you worked in a darkroom with all the real film and smelly chemicals or just digital? I love both. Soon I might end up spending part ...

Oh, gosh, Ender's Game...not that! My friend brought it up on the bus to school because she has made it her mission to find a happy article in the first ...

Oooh, a prose-poem? I don't have much time for a proper crit here, but I want to say that I'd like to see this extended, perhaps, or at least go ...

As others have said, yeah, it's one of those books you sort of have to read, but may not like. I read it my freshman year for English class. I ...

Or, which is another thing to consider, Emo poetry takes into no consideration the fundamental pieces of poetry: structure, rhythm, rhyme, flow, verses, and the many others that I have ...