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rent ’s be honorable : You google " what is personification " and set ashore on this Sir Frederick Handley Page . Whether you ’re asking because of a homework prompt or out of bibliophilic curiosity , you ’ve come to the right place .
ByAda Tseng
Have you ever wondered why an author ’s writing can sometimes feel as frigid as meth or as warm as a gay day ? It ’s all come down to tone . Whether the writing is bare and emotionless or deeply felt and intimate , tincture words help decipher the author ’s intent .
ByDesiree Bowie
Verbal irony is a clever twist of speech that keeps conversation interesting and adds humour by contrasting what is said with what is mean .
sarcasm is one of those affair that everybody seems know about but few seem able to precisely specify . To make matters more complicated still , there are different form of sarcasm ( cosmic irony , striking satire , verbal irony and so forth ) .
ByZach Taras
Something that makes the " Harry Potter " book fun to read for adults - not just tiddler - is writer J. K. Rowling ’s use of wordplay . gens are often literary references or gag , and many of the " Harry Potter " spells provide a unclouded hint at their function for anyone intimate with Latin or Greek .
BySascha Bos
The prospicient script in the human race can be determined by Book count , page bit , or character count ( varsity letter , not personalities ) .
ByKatherine Millar
When a book land on The New York Times Best Sellers list , it ’s a boon for the generator and publishing house . But does that really mean it ’s a in force seller ?
ByCarrie Whitney , PhD
Both William Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer are sleep together for using iambic pentameter in their famous works of lit . But what is iambic pentameter and how can you spot it ?
The writer of many darling child ’s classics , Roald Dahl was also a World War II flying ace and a undercover agent . And his record are being alter to absent potentially offensive words and phrases . Learn more about this controversial figure .
ByKate Morgan
In 1926 , famed offense novelist Agatha Christie went missing for 11 days under very strange circumstances . Even today , question linger about why she did it and a late biography has a new explanation .
ByMelanie Radzicki McManus
The stories these memoirs told were transfix , lurid - and ultimately false . Were you taken in by any of these literary hoaxes ?
ByDave Roos
It ’s not an easy question to do but we ’ve made an educated guess .
ByTalon Homer
The most late U.S. poet laureate , Joy Harjo , was the first Native American to fill up the office and she passed the baton to Limón in July 2022 .
ByAmy Cannon
shamefaced of corrupt Word of God you never have meter to read ? We get it . And there ’s a name for that .
ByKristen Hall - Geisler
Dostoevsky created some of the cracking novels ever written , full of psychological and religious perceptivity . Here are five quote that will abide with you , even if you ’ve never finished one of his script .
Some books amount out hot rightfield out of the gate with iconic openers . How many of these literary work can you correctly think based only on the opening credit line ?
ByAlia Hoyt
Flyting , which was fundamentally a verbal contest of poetic abuse , was public amusement in the 15th and 16th hundred . Think of it as the belt fight of mediaeval meter .
And why could n’t all the tycoon ’s horses and all the king ’s men put him back together again ?
ByRebecca Treon
We have just a fraction of Sappho ’s work , but what we have bring out her personal spokesperson in Hellenic lyrical verse . Just who was this adult female that so inspired even Plato ?
Dr. Seuss did n’t live on atop Mount Crumpit . He did n’t have a loyal whelp name Max outfitted with reindeer antlers . But there were some similarities between Seuss and his noted gullible miser .
ByLaurie L. Dove
' Uncle Tom ’s Cabin ' was a wildly pop nineteenth - century novel about a heroic enslave man in the American South . But along the agency , ' Uncle Tom ' became tachygraphy for a Black human beings who ’s subservient to whites . What stimulate the switch ?
Popularized in the 1897 novel " Dracula " by Bram Stoker , and the film " Nosferatu " in 1922 , the word " nosferatu " is largely consider to be an archaic Romanian Book , synonymous with " vampire , " though the unfeigned source story is long and complicated .
ByMark Mancini
In ' A Series of Unfortunate Events , ' noted for its dark humor and sarcastic storytelling , narrator Lemony Snicket recounts the disastrous lives of the Baudelaire children , who are orphaned after a mysterious star sign fire .
J.K. Rowling fan exult ! The beloved author is releasing a make - new rule book online . And it ’s all gratis .
The wildly successful source of numerous children ’s books , Shel Silverstein was also a poet , instrumentalist , illustrator and man of many talents . He even lived in the Playboy mansion for a time .
ByOisin Curran
