historical, or cultural significance. It is usually a brief reference that does not describe the person or thing in a detailed manner. It is more like a passing comment. The writer, while using allusion, expects a reader to understand it with the knowledge he or she has. ...
Broderick and I took off our shoes and dipped our toes in the river, and as his lilting voice continued the tale of Grace O’Malley’s wild ways, salty air whipping my hair around my face, I was struck by the loveliness of it all. It is impossible to describe Connem...
‘the mighty rivers, spewing venom" to describe the waters Thor must wade through on his way to the giant Geirrod’s. The expressionfnæstu eitri"snorted/spewed poison" invokes the image of a spitting serpent. In this context, the serpent can only be Jörmungandr, the Midgard serpent, ...
There’s no other way to describe the intensity of emotion that came over me. Not long afterward, once the characters had nudged me out of the way, the book began, essentially, writing itself. I love my first two novels, I always will, but there is something different about Deadmarsh ...
2. The Conflict Between Linguistic Theory and Actual Practice199“μέθηνηφάλιος”goes back to Philo of Alexandria who uses it to describe the rapturous condition of the soul, a mystical union with the divine. The underlying notion corresponds to Platonic ideas and may be seen...
Things will always break, and that will be expressed in these unique ways. Why be more than it really is?When I played Off-Peak for the first time, I was REALLY into it. I talked to everyone. I followed every and all dialogue b...
Broderick and I took off our shoes and dipped our toes in the river, and as his lilting voice continued the tale of Grace O’Malley’s wild ways, salty air whipping my hair around my face, I was struck by the loveliness of it all. It is impossible to describe Connemara without mention...
Broderick and I took off our shoes and dipped our toes in the river, and as his lilting voice continued the tale of Grace O’Malley’s wild ways, salty air whipping my hair around my face, I was struck by the loveliness of it all. It is impossible to describe Connemara without mention...