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Category: Reading
Is the print book dead? Debating the pros and cons of real books
It’s the digital age, they say. We do things the digital way, they say. But do we really?
How to understand any speech: your guide to ethos, pathos & logos
In this post, let’s take a break from poetry and literature to look at something slightly different – rhetoric and persuasion.
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Why are books so dangerous? Reading ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Brave New World’
Dystopian fiction is a popular genre in most high school English curricula, and for good reason.
What ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘Of Mice and Men’ show us about the American Dream
The American Dream is a popular concept in American literature, and perhaps an even more popular study topic for high school English students.
Too funny it hurts – 3 signs to help you detect satire
We all love a good laugh.
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Want to read faster? Try this.
Previously, I wrote a post on ‘How to read between the lines’, which seemed to resonate with quite a few of you who read this humble blog. So in this post, I’d like to take on another one of the most common FAQs I get about reading:
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Here are 2 ways for you to ‘read between the lines’
In this post, I want to address one of the biggest FAQs I get about the study and appreciation of literature:
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Is Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’ a great poem, or a poem about greatness? (or both?)
It’s quite common to see Romantic poetry in English Literature curricula, largely because they tend to feature more layman language and universal themes (well, ‘layman’ compared to their more stylistically experimental Modernist counterparts or more linguistically distant Medieval / Renaissance predecessors).
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