Finding Nemo, my son's current favorite film, is about a clownfish named Marlin whose son is kidnapped by a diver and decides to go on a quest to save him. This too is a clear anthropomorphism. In case you don't have experience with clownfish, they have don't names like Marlin, go ...
(Names included for those geeks who want to head down the Google rabbit hole.) However, geeks can take pride in the fact that C. S. Lewis was at the forefront of this new way of thinking about literature when he wrote An Experiment in Criticism in 1961. In this book Lewis analyzes th...
Rhetoricians have further elaborated on the definition of metaphor by separating and naming the two key elements. There are a few different sets of names for these two parts: they can be called the “tenor” and the “vehicle”, the “ground” and the “figure”, or the “target” and ...
A cow named Elsie, a pig first named Jerry who then re-names himself “Shalom,” and a turkey named Tom, all of whom suddenly acquire the ability to read and operate technology, decide to leave the farm and go (respectively) to India, Israel, and Turkey, where they expect to elude th...
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I bet you know some names of motivational speakers who are more famous than I am. But it’s a myth that you need a superstar with personal charisma out the roof. My assumption is like West Point’s assumption about learning to draw: The best motivators are pretty normal people and they...
, as if writing down the junior high newspaper (which he edited) and the high school paper (which I edited), the names of our cats, and our twinned acceptances (Telluride, Yale), would answer some essential question. For some reason, I used “him” and “me” instead of our names....
African names roll apart like the heads of dried flowers crushed idly between thumb and forefinger—Ngoma, Mukenge, Mulele, Kasavubu, Lumumba. They crumble to dust on the carpet. Cite this Quote This stylized retelling of late-20th-century African history is accurate: during the Cold War, ...
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