Literary devices are specific ways of using language or other literary elements that we can recognise and identify in a text (a piece of writing). These can work either at a word or sentence level or ...

Ever tried convincing someone to pick your favorite movie for movie night? Or maybe defended pineapple on a pizza? Whether you knew it or not, you were tapping into one of the oldest human traditions: ...

Even if you're years out of school and not actively taking an English class, it's hard not to note how we use literary and sound devices in music, art, advertising and writing. You've got "Snap, ...

Metaphor. Foreshadowing. Boy wizards. Most of us know the common elements of fiction. But there’s an endless supply of ...

If Vyasa, Chaucer, Joseph Conrad, Scott F. Fitzgerald and the perspicacious storytellers of the Jatakas and One Thousand and One Nights were to confabulate in afterlife on their oeuvre, they would ...

These expressions were coined to disguise everything from capital punishments to diseases, death, slavery, and cannibalism.