Verbal irony is the use of words to convey something other than their literal meaning. If you accidentally dropped the ice cream cone you just bought and said, “Oh, great!”, you’d be using verbal irony.
Referred to as “one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century,” Roald Dahl still doesn’t get the credit he’s owed. Happily, when he wasn’t busy (and sometimes when he was,) Dahl was happy to talk about his writing process and offer advice to budding authors. Let’s see what he had to say.
The Flesch Reading Ease test and the Flesch–Kincaid (F–K) Grade Level test use the lengths of words and sentences in a piece of writing to determine its relative ease of reading.
Few names in American letters command as much respect as Toni Morrison. The first black woman to win a Nobel Prize, Morrison, rather remarkably for a writer of such prestige, didn’t publish her first novel until she was thirty-nine. She wrote this novel – The Bluest Eye – by waking up at four AM every …
