by Judy Ravin | Apr 22, 2012 | American Pronunciation, Communication Skills, English as a Second Language, Grammar Rules, Language Acquisition, Language Fluency
“Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.” ~ Paul de Man Believe it or not, despite our varying degrees of poetic ability, we all try our hand with the poet’s most time honored literary device, metaphor. Metaphor is a technique used to transfer...
by Judy Ravin | Apr 22, 2012 | American Pronunciation
Who’s Jack, as in Jack O’Lantern? That’s right. My question wasn’t, “What’s a Jack-o’-lantern”? But instead, who’s this Jack guy and how did he get involved with Halloween? Let’s begin by taking a look at the...