By God's grace, THAT'S IT!!!
"Epiphany: a sudden, overwhelming insight or revelation evoked by a commonplace object or a scene in a poem or a work of fiction." (Hamilton, pg. 102)
Ya know, if you go searching for an example of an epiphany on the internet, you're going to come up with a lot of people asking questions...mainly for an example of said epiphany. So what exactly is an epiphany, or an example of one at least? Well, everyone's had one at some point. You may just not remember it. It's that exact moment when you've almost given up on understanding something, when out of the blue, it seems to click in your mind. That's usually when you start saying, "By jove, I think I've got it!" Or something like that anyways. They're especially useful in literary texts, particularly when the author has chosen to not reveal their entire point. If they did, well, what point would there be in reading the text at all? We all want to have something click in our minds and go "Ah Ha!" over an occurrence, no matter how small.
*Click* Now you know what to do with this: BUTTON.
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Maddie, I agree with you, it does make the reading more interesting for the audience. Also, there is something very satisfying about reading about someone’s epiphany. Maybe because we realize how dumb we can be too, and it’s good to see there is hope for all of us to finally understand something. I think we have all had at least minor epiphanies ourselves, so it is very identifiable to us.
I liked you comment Maddie. I'm still waiting for an epiphany to occur for this class, I need something to finally "click in your mind".