For thousands of years, humans have been creating stories — and for just as long, they’ve been coming up with words to describe all the tools and techniques that make a story work. But these “literary ...

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 ...

Literature is fragile. It serves no obvious purpose. But it is also as close to immortal as any cultural endeavor has ever ...

Try this quiz about the bookish influences on Homer Simpson, Kate Bush and others to see how many connections you know.