Posted on: 07 Oct 2024
Snap! Buzz! Wham! What are these words? And why do they represent so well the sounds that they represent? Well, those words are called onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia means the formation of words from the sounds they represent. Words like sizzle and cuckoo are great examples—the word and the sound are the same thing (or quite nearly). You’ll […]
Posted on: 03 Oct 2024
Alliteration always ameliorates average aural assemblages! Or, in other words, alliteration always makes your writing sound better. Just kidding, it might not. But, alliteration can help you to express yourself more creatively in your writing—and let you create a sense of sonic play that takes your written work to the next level. We’ll walk you […]
Posted on: 01 Oct 2024
Before we get to our 60 metaphor examples, a metaphor is a figure of speech and a form of figurative language in which one thing is said to be another thing, which it cannot be. A metaphor, while figurative, makes use of the idea of imagery, telling the reader that one thing literally is another—even […]
Posted on: 30 Sep 2024
If you’ve ever written a text to the tune of It’s such a happy day! or That outfit seems a little desperate, doesn’t it? then you’ve used personification. Quite simply, personification is a literary device that attributes human traits to non-human animals and objects. You personify them. You write a description to make them person-like. It’s […]
Posted on: 27 Sep 2024
Famous College Dropouts – Here you are, preparing for college, writing a million personal essays, taking the SAT, trying to be your best self. Why? Just so some college can accept you and you can pay tens of thousands of dollars for them to tell you that you need to go to graduate school? C’mon. You […]
Posted on: 26 Sep 2024
Brain Breaks for High School Students – Decades of research show that taking breaks is beneficial for the brain. It’s specifically important for those brains that are still developing. High school students benefit tremendously from brief, regular breaks in demands on their concentration—and there’s a ton of science to back this up. When we’re asking […]
Posted on: 24 Sep 2024
If you’re a teacher building a classroom built on student-centered pedagogy—where your students and their abilities help to determine the pace and breadth of the learning environment—you have to know how your students are absorbing the information you teach them along the way. That’s where formative assessment comes in. Formative assessments—evaluating the development of your students […]
Posted on: 23 Sep 2024
Best College Student Discounts – When I went to college (oh so many years ago), I used to joke that the money we spent on campus didn’t matter. “Monopoly money,” I called our dining hall points. I went to the cafeteria, ordered my buffalo chicken wrap, swiped my student ID, and felt no impact to […]