Safe House

A few concepts you need to know for English literature What is an assessment?     The evaluation and estimation of the nature, quality, or ability of someone or something. Analyzing literature:     Foreshadow: literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.     Allusions: when a person or author makes an indirect reference in speech, text, or song to an event or figure.     Paradox: statement that is self-contradictory because it often contains two statements that are both true, but in general, cannot both be true at the same time.     Analogy: comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar.     Repetition: repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make

                People often tell me to take a break, to take some time off to myself and have some fun, that I should get out more since I’m always at school or locked in my room studying. What they don’t know is that I sometimes have a really hard time keeping my grades up or getting them to where I want them and well, this reminds me of something I heard someone say once “The stars in the sky might not even exist anymore… It takes so much time for the light to get here.” –Unknown           By what I wrote above I mean that, people make things seem a lot easier than they really are. I see how people say that school is easy, and how getting an A on a killer test is no big deal that anyone could do it; the truth is that it takes time and dedication because if it didn’t, it wouldn’t matter. If there’s a feeling I love, is the one you get after studying really hard for a test and passing with an A or even a B. This is something I refuse to give up on, everyone should. My aspira