von Susannah | Mittwoch, April 22, 2020 | Get informed
New content for isolated times: a weekly poem to keep our spirits up. Read, listen, and enjoy. David Ebenbach reads his poem ‚Passover This Year‘ It finally snows, five days afterthe first day of spring, and we’re like,where have you been, because by...
von Thom | Montag, April 6, 2020 | Get informed
New content for isolated times: a weekly poem to keep our spirits up. Read, listen, and enjoy. After dark vapors have oppress’d our plains For a long dreary season, comes a day Born of the gentle South, and clears awayFrom the sick heavens all unseemly...
von Nadja Wostiera | Dienstag, Februar 11, 2020 | Get informed
Who is Dr. Seuss? Born in 1904 in Springfield Massachusetts, Theodore Seuss Geisel could be regarded as the most considerable and popular english speaking childrens book author (and cartoonists) of the 20th century. Under the psyeudonym „Dr. Seuss“, more than 60...
von Merve Yilmaz | Donnerstag, November 14, 2019 | Learn, Reading skills
Within literary studies, working with rhetorical devices is an essential part of your degree. Whether you want to analyse a poem, a prose text or a piece of a play- rhetorical devices play an important role in constructing the meaning of the text. In the following, we...
von Merve Yilmaz | Dienstag, November 5, 2019 | Practice, Practice receptive skills
Within your literary studies, you will sooner or later be confronted with the task of finding rhetorical devices. You should be aware that it is not enough to simply find a stylistic device. More importantly, you should be able to explain its significance for the...