Chesterton praised Samuel Johnson in these words, through the character of Father Brown, speaking of a fictional crank named Raggley: ‘But Raggley did matter. He was one of a great… Read more A Sketch of the Character of Samuel Johnson, Through Excerpts from his Biography by James Boswell →
We’ve done lots of writing challenges here and we tend to offer critiques. For a change, this challenge was just for fun with critiques by request only. I started Saturday,… Read more Non-themed Poetry Challenge (Originally 12 Hours of Poetry Challenge) →
Note: If you come here following a link from a Curator email, the 12-poem flash challenge is elsewhere. Follow this link. The challenge is to steal some technique from the… Read more Poetry Challenge 20, Imagery: Post Thy Poems →
In my observation, so many beliefs about the Bible seem to be founded on an unasked question – one whose answer is assumed, built into the theology. And that question… Read more Question for Biblical Literalists →
I’m forged in heat, but I’m not a weapon;Monsters love me and yet I’m sweet;I’m round but I’m not a ball. Here’s a riddle I made up for my kids.… Read more The Mind-Building Fun of Genuine Riddles →
We should be able to handle these 2 chapters in 1 post. Diacope is easy and fun. It’s the mechanical investing of rhetorical figures. Rhetorical Questions, on the other hand,… Read more Elements of Eloquence Single Line Challenge, Chapters 12 and 13: Diacope and Rhetorical Questions →
Just when we’d decided to start combining chapters, it turns out our Author, Mark Forsyth, had a similar idea. (The book is Elements of Eloquence. You should check out his… Read more Elements of Eloquence Single Line Challenge, Chapter 11: Hypotaxis, Parataxis, Asyndeton and Polysyndeton →
This one’s long, so let’s go temporarily back to a single-chapter format. The periodic sentence is a long sentence, in which the main verb is postponed until the very end.… Read more Elements of Eloquence Single Line Challenge, Chapter 10: Periodic Sentence →
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