An allusion is a figure of speech in which something unrelated is referred to, so the audience can make the connection. Like when someone says, "Chocolate is my Kryptonite," they are alluding to Superman and how Kryptonite renders him weak and unable to fight back. There are two types of...
An allusion is a concise way to communicate a lot of meaning. Think of it like a writing shortcut. You could spend a paragraph or two describing why a proposed business venture is doomed to fail despite it checking all the boxes for being the best in its market, or you could describe ...
Speech. Juxtaposition in literary terms is the showing contrast by concepts placed side by side. An example of juxtaposition are the quotes "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country", and "Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear...
dark-suited and not a one of them looking like they could punch your lights out. Every woman in the room moved her wedding ring to the opposite hand. On either side of me, friends asked, “Who’s the one with the hair?” only they ...
It's time to give a little love forCourtney Love's longtime band,Hole. The group were grunge icons in the '90s, evolving their sound to something a little more glammy by the end of the decade. But which of their albums is the best? That's what we want to know during this week's...
JULIA: Right. So there's no moving. The stomach is like, "That's my kryptonite." My kryptonite is I just have always had a very loud stomach and it is never happy. It will not shut up no matter what I put in it. So I usually record with a pillow over my stomach. ...
Gardening 101: Salt is a gastropod’s kryptonite and prevents these slimy crawlers from damaging plants. Snail and slugs have a foot composed of cells, which can be thought of as bags of organelles inside an aqueous medium surrounded by a cell membrane. The cell membrane is a semi-permeable...
Being fooled, lied to, and hurt is like kryptonite to the ego. So don’t let it get you down. 3. What are you scared of? If you want to practice and understand the real meaning of redamancy, first identify what you’re scared of. Oh, don’t say you’re not scared, you are ...
This time, Rich is tired, semi-coherent, and is barely vertical. On the plus side, it’s the shortest podcast to date. Tune in next week when he’s more awake. Recorded while walking down the double yellow lines down the middle of his neighborhood’s main road at midnight. A couple ...
Mining for emotional gold has never been my strength, and as much as I would love to believe I can solve everyone’s problems, a cape-wearing crusader, Super Solace, you could call me, my kryptonite is tears. Academic being far superior to my emotional intelligence, I never hazard a ...