GoodWords

40 literary terms you should know

by Mark May 11, 2011 instruction

Ubi sunt: At some point in their lives, everyone reads a literary work (or its corresponding Cliffs Notes) about the transience of mortality and how people are really just ants, man, ants in this big cosmic soup. At some point in their lives, everyone reads an ubi sunt, they just didn’t know there was a Latin phrase for it because that language is dead.

We Heart It, semi-colon close parentheses.

by Mark October 3, 2010 mind_candy

A junk food trope. The next time you read a written-out emoticon, think. You’ll frequently find them as a simile or metaphor. So helpful of the writer, comparing two things, one unknown and one vapid. The happy meal of metaphor.

Handling Teacher Respect

by Mark September 2, 2010 instruction

“I’m a teacher.” ((Pause for effect)) “Which is a highly respected profession,” ((Pause for effect)) “in many other cultures.”

Entelechy

by Mark February 18, 2010 instruction

(Aristotle) the state of something that is fully realized; actuality as opposed to potentiality