Just finished reading Robert Graves’ I, Claudius. What struck me through the book is how much of it is written as “Tell” (telling the reader what happened, as you would to a friend over the dinner table) and not “Show” (making the reader live the characters’ actions, by multiplying elements…
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“A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning.” (Source: Wikipedia) I’m really happy today because I discovered the word mondegreen, and realized that I’m not the only person to completely misconstrue the lyrics of…
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