Before sitting for the ACT, it is important to gain an understanding of common literary devices. The ability to identify, analyze and employ literary devices can help test-takers score their best on ...

Lines from poems and plays frequently serve as inspiration for later literary allusions. This 12-question quiz is crafted from a running list created by the Book Review’s staff to test your knowledge ...

Literary devices are specific ways of using language or other literary elements that we can recognise and identify in a text (a piece of writing). These can work either at a word or sentence level or ...

I enjoyed the subtle reference to Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” in Devra First’s argument in favor of cold lobster rolls (”Is the best lobster roll hot or cold?”, Food, June 19). Bishop is ...

Linguistic devices are specific ways of using language or other literary elements that we can recognise and identify in a text (a piece of writing). These can work either at a word or sentence level ...