One of the assignments in your English class is to write a literary analysis on The Great Gatsby. You read the book in high school, and you also wrote your senior paper on it. There are many sections from your previous paper you can reuse for this assignment. You include sections from that paper, change some of the wording, but don't cite yourself. Is this OK?

Without saying a word, berthe seized the child, kissed it and hugged it to her. then she raised her tear-filled eyes to him, asking: "did you say that the mother was dead? " he answered: "yes—just now—in my arms. i had broken with her since summer. i knew nothing. the physician sent for me." then berthe murmured: "well, we will bring up the little one." in this excerpt from "a wedding gift," the scene is an example of situational irony because berthe behaves in a surprising way an example of the theme of redemption because the child has another chance an example of dramatic irony because berthe behaves in a surprising way an example of the theme of tragedy because the infant's mother has just died

Is this personification? "i have played the fox,now i must play the cat of the fable"

In julius caesar did portia use effective strategies when she tried to persuade brutus to tell her the truth?