If you’re indoors, take a moment and look at the door of the room you’re sitting in. And if you’re outdoors, try and have a look around to spot a door in sight. Stare at it for a moment. What you’re looking at is not just a plank of wood or metal, it’s something much …
Vocabulary
The phrase “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” is not your classic, old-English idiom. This phrase, that reverberates within each of us takes its roots from a 2004 song from the American rock band, Green Day. The phrase was used even before that by Al Dubin in 1933 where he released a song by the same name, …
Everyone knows that communication on the internet has its oddities. There are memes, where people make endless different captions for a single image. There are acronyms which don’t make sense unless you spend lots of time online. And, of course, there are smileys (also known as emoticons or emoji). In this post, we’ll take a …
The saying “if wishes were fishes we’d all swim in riches” features the literary device known as assonance. Assonance is also called “vowel rhyme,” and is a resemblance of sounds caused by the repetition of the same vowel sounds in multiple words. In this sentence, the assonance is the repetition of the “I” sound. This …
Our ability to be in constant communication with one another via text messaging apps has changed the way we use language. The reality is that many of us now spend more time texting our friends than actually speaking to them. There are considerable changes in the way we use language that have occurred as a …
For those among us who are not particularly mathematically inclined, it can be difficult to remember the meanings of mathematical symbols. This can be the case regardless of whether we learned them twenty years ago or yesterday. The symbols for addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication are pretty straightforward. Things become more complicated, however, when we …
Have you come across the expression “drippy drop” in a text and aren’t sure what it means? “Drippy drop” is an example of a literary device known as onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia is the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named. This means that the word “drip” actually sounds like the thing …
When selecting which meal to order at a restaurant, it is helpful to know what is in it. For some people, knowing the contents of their meal is simply a matter of preference or interest. For people who do not eat certain foods, however, it can be a more important question. With the rise of …
Almost all of us have seen Home Alone 2, and most of us still remember the scene where Mr. Duncan gives Kevin a pair of Turtle Doves. Be it a pair of Turtle Doves or any other kind of Dove, the notion has developed great symbolic value since ancient times. From religious scriptures, dream interpretation …