Quotes and Diction

Quotes and Diction

English 8 students worked on diction and voice. We examined some passages from Nightjohn in which the narrator, Sarny, “sounds like a slave,” as one student aptly described. We looked at the author’s use of non-standard grammar and non-standard...
Pay

Pay

This is the entrance to a public bathroom in the main train station in Krakow, Poland. That turnstile is there to prevent people from entering without paying. “Enter without paying?!” you might be thinking. That’s right: many of the public bathrooms...
A Cloud

A Cloud

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze....