von Thom | Montag, Mai 4, 2020 | Practice
Poetry is a lot more than just cleverly arranged stylistic devices, surrounded by poetic language. Different people can look at the same poem and have completely different, sometimes even conflicting interpretations which may be valid at the same time, provided they...
von Merve Yilmaz | Montag, April 27, 2020 | Practice, Practice Vocabulary
In our post on Finding and Identifying Rhetorical devices we have already talked about identifying rhetorical devices that can enhance meaning in a text. Poetry is full of imagery and metaphors and there are many layers to analyse within a poem. In the following, we...
von Susannah | Mittwoch, April 22, 2020 | Get informed
Are you struggling with getting your work done in the current, very strange situation? Are you trying to figure out where and how to make space and time for your studies or your writing? The Schreibzentrum at the University of Hamburg is here to help! Under the title...
von Merve Yilmaz | Freitag, April 17, 2020 | Get informed
First of all, we hope that you are healthy of course. However, if you are a student at the University of Hamburg (or any another institution) you might have heard that all libraries are closed for the upcoming weeks. Therefore, you can find a list below with some...
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...