by Cole Salao
Have you ever wondered why people call their cars, wheels? Or when teachers refer to the alphabet as your ABCs? This is called synecdoche, a figure of speech where a part of something is used to refer to the whole thing. While you may not know what it is called,...
by Cole Salao
There is a strong, continuing interest in stories from long ago. From learning about them at school, reading novels, and watching countless adaptations, most people have become familiar with a lot of mythologies. Modern writers have taken to retelling these stories...
by Cole Salao
When reading a story, readers follow a well-constructed path that leads them from a compelling start all the way to a satisfying ending. This path is called a story arc—the sequence of events that make up a plot. Story arcs can encompass an entire story or only make...
by Cole Salao
As media continues to evolve, stories gain access to more and more platforms from which they are told. The novel you’re reading now may be continued by a movie and vice versa. When a story does this, it has become an expanded universe. This kind of multi-media...
by Cole Salao
Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us is a romance novel that has stood above its competition for years. It’s blown up the BookTok community, and reached #1 in The New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly respective lists. It tells the story of Lily Bloom, a...
