by Cole Salao
Have you ever watched a movie or read a book and found yourself thinking, “What are they doing?” If you repeat this question frequently throughout one story, then you’re probably looking at an idiot plot. As said by famed film critic Roger Ebert, the...
by Cole Salao
Palindromes are words, phrases, or any sequence of characters that are spelled the same way backward and forward. So when written and viewed on a mirror, these words will still appear the same. The term comes from the Greek word palindromos which means “running...
by Kaelyn Barron
If you’re the proud owner and writer of a successful blog, you may have wondered if you have what it takes to write a complete book. While blogs and books are two very different creative outlets, it’s highly possible that your blog could have the makings...
by Kaelyn Barron |
If you specialize in research or academic writing, you’d probably like to get your important findings into as many hands as possible. Getting your work published in an academic journal, or as a book, can add major credibility and authority to your name, while...
by Cole Salao |
Bathos is a literary device where a serious or important subject is suddenly turned into a ridiculous or ordinary one. It is an anticlimax that surprises the reader and disrupts their thoughts and emotions. For example: After hours of heated debate that often...
by Cole Salao
Enjambment is a literary device used in poetry where a line is continued on through the next line without any grammatical cues to indicate a stop, like this: This train of thought will keep goingDespite the line already ending. That’s a terrible couplet, but it...
