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Why I teach a course connecting Taylor Swift's songs to the works of Shakespeare, Hitchcock and...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 6 months agoLiterary devices abound in Taylor Swift's body of work. John Shearer/TAS18 via Getty Images Uncommon...
Personification Examples to Make Your Writing More Interesting
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoLike other forms of figurative language, personification can make your writing more dynamic. By...
What does alliteration mean? Definitions and real-world examples in ads, songs and poetry.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 11 months agoEven if you're years out of school and not actively taking an English class, it's hard not to note...
50 common hyperbole examples to use in your everyday life
The Today Show via AOL· 4 months agoYou may have vague recollections of hyperbole from high school English or Language Arts classes. Or,...
The Trouble With the Rewrites to the James Bond Books
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEnglish author Ian Fleming (1908 - 1964) in his study with a copy of 'For Your Eyes Only', one of...
What Happened When Computers Learned How to Read
Time via Yahoo News· 3 months agoCredit - Getty Images Computers love to read. And it isn’t just fiction before going to bed. They read greedily: all literature, all of the time—novels,...
Bizarre AI camera turns images into sonnets and haiku
Creative Bloq via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoPoetry Camera. It looks like a homemade Polaroid camera, perhaps made with one of the best 3D...
‘Great Expectations’ Has an Electric Olivia Colman, But Not Enough Else: TV Review
Variety via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMiss Havisham is one of the most indelible characters in the English-language literary canon....
The Power of Percival Everett: America’s Incendiary Man of Letters
The Oprah Magazine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Power of Percival EverettOprah Daily With a lifetime achievement award from the National Book...
AI and the End of the Human Writer
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoThe most nauseating, addictive thing about writing is the uncertainty—and I don’t mean the is-anyone-reading? or will-I-make-rent? kind. The uncertainty...