By Literature, Present tenses

The paper is in MLA format and I had some trouble keeping it in present tense, block quoting a speech from poetry, and siting the poetry inside the paragraphs themselves help would be very very appreciated. sorry its so long. also I dont know if i like my closing statement, should I add more or...

I think when we write an essay about literature, we use 'present tense' no matter if the literature itself is in past tenseNot at all.And you are not creating reported speech when writing an essay; you are narrating the story.Do your example this way:Ben always remembers his glory in high school:...

I think when we write an essay about literature, we use 'present tense' no matter if the literature itself is in past tense. But for example, "Ben suddenly recalled his high school life. When he was in the ninth grade, he was very popular. But now, he was not. He was such an ordinary man. No one...

Answer the questions based on their tense. When we write about literature or films, we write in the present tense (an exception would be if we are including some kind of chronology.) 1. Alexander tames Bucephalas by... 2. The first piece of advice given is... 3. Demosthenes, during the battle...

Thank you, Nona de Brit. The blue answers are my alternatives. I have two questions about these exercises. 1. If you visit the Lincoln Memorial, you will see a giant statue of Lincoln _dominating_/which/that dominates_ (dominate) the center of the Memorial. 2. The Washington Monument...

Englishuser wrote: A non-native speaker who has immersed himself or herself with highbrow literature written in a foreign language could very well have a more vivid vocabulary and a better knowledge of the grammar of the language than the average native speaker. At least as far as the 'standard...

When speaking about literature, film, etc., you should use the present tense, as that story is forever ongoing.

This is not strictly what you are asking, Taka, but there would not be much question about the present tense here: (which is the way I would want to see it written in the first place) No one would say of a work of music or literature that it is better than an earlier work just because it is...

Okay thanks. What about paragraph #16? Why doesn't she use present tense instead of past? How does she know what to use? I have wrote something about this story. When you're writing about literature you should write in the present tense right? With this story, it has so many tenses. I don't...

Hi Mr. P. Many thanks for your suggestions, which are really useful. Shoot! It seems that I’ll never stop having doubts with the bloody article. Here I have some new doubts: 1) “Throughout Sextus’ other writings one finds the Skeptic’s distinctively agnostic attitude coexisting with negative...