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Photo credit - unknown Is it just me? Or since this pandemic took over, writing has become a bit harder. Along the way, you may have possibly become a couch potato. So now Starting and finishing a book, article or poem seems to take a lot longer than it should.  Being cooped up at home makes holding a pen feel like work, lol. I'll be sharing the steps I used to go back with a refreshed mind. So rise from your beds and couches because it's about to go down. 1. Time Management. Due to the COVID-19, most of us have so much time that we don't know what to do with. If you're finding it a bit challenging to hop on the literary train, then take some time off to gather inspiration.  You could dedicate a week to researching, reading related books and if necessary, watching documentaries. Penning everything down is super important.  2. Set a Goal/time frame. I would advice you set a short term goal (1 - 2 weeks) and a long term ...

The clothes people wear tell us things about: their status in life, their cultural affiliation or identity. It tells us what era they live in, and their state of mind. The use of clothing shows the status of the character. It creates an authentic setting. It makes your write-up richer. It helps to contrast a characters personality. It is also often shows change in development or fortune of a character. I am going to narrow this down to ‘Medieval clothing’. As a writer exploring and learning other cultures are very beneficial to a good and catchy story. VICTORIAN ERA CLOTHING During the Victorian Era, women generally worked in private, domestic sphere. At that time clothing seemed as an expression of women’s place in the society. Those women who were in high social class(upper class women) did not need to work, often wore tightly laced corset over a chemisette, and paired them with a skirt adorned with numerous embroideries and trims; over layers of petticoats. Middle...

Our desire to know ourselves and others, to explore the unknown mysteries of existence, to make sense out of chaos, and to connect with our own kind are all primary reasons for engaging in the process of literary analysis. The benefits to self and society that result from this interaction include a sense of wonder at the glory of humanity’s imagination, a sense of excitement at the prospect of intellectual challenge, and a sense of connection with the universe. You have already engaged in these lofty experiences.  This handout will provide a brief review of terms and processes associated with the study of literature. What is Prose? Prose is the written equivalent of the spoken language.  It is written in words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs and chapters.  It utilizes punctuation, grammar and vocabulary to develop its message.  Prose is made up of fiction and nonfiction.  Prose is the way you speak everyday.  If someone followed you around and rep...

The poem Salute To The Elephant was a Yoruba oral poem translated to English by Professor Solomon Adeboye Babalola. He was a professor at the University Of Lagos and among other things, he was for his love for ìjálá (hunters’ song). Since this post aims at revealing the poetic devices in the poem: Salute To The Elephant; below are the poetic devices within the poem: 1.SIMILEY is the use of like or as to create comparison. In the poem, there’s “huge as a hill” in line 2, “like a garment” in line 7, ” like a person suffering from a sprained neck” in line 19, “as wide as palm-oil pits” in line 28, “like shafts” in line 29. 2. METAPHOR is a direct comparison that does not use as or like, the way simile does. “elephant’s head is his burden” in line 20 is an example of a metaphor because such statement can still be reframed as the elephant balances his head like a burden. “the elephant who is a veritable ferry-man” in line 23. “whose eyes are veritable water-jar” in line 26, “one toot...

A Piece of Stonehenge, Missing for 60 Years, Was Just Returned to the Site. A metre-long core from inside the prehistoric stone was removed during archaeological excavations in 1958. According to  BBC NEWS   English Heritage, which looks after Stonehenge, hopes the sample might now help establish where the stones originally came from. In 1958 archaeologists raised an entire fallen trilithon - a set of three large stones consisting of two that would have stood upright, with the third placed horizontally across the top. For 60 years Mr Phillips, an Englishman who now lives in retirement in Florida, kept his piece of Stonehenge - first in a plastic tube at his office in Basingstoke and later on the wall at home in the US. During the process workers extracted three 1m-long (3ft) cores of stone  and Mr Philip took one of them. On the eve of his 90th birthday, he decided to return it.  Archaeologists hope to analyse the chemical composition of the core...

The English language uses many processes of word formation, so probably your question refers to the main processes, plural. These include compounding, blending and the related analogy, and acronyms. Compounding is the combination of two nouns to form another. Usually it is written as a single word. Example: “carport.” ▪  Blending  Blending is the combination of parts of two words to create a new word with a different meaning, or coinage. One author who notably coined many words is Lewis Carroll, especially in his poem “Jabberwocky.” Example: “Slithy” usually considered to blend “slimy” and “lithe.” Others pronounce it with a short I, however, claiming “slither” is a component. In blending, part of one word is stitched onto another word, without any regard for where one morpheme ends and another begins. For example, the word swooshtika 'Nike swoosh as a logo symbolizing corporate power and hegemony' was formed from swoosh and swastika. The swoosh part remains whole a...

What were   the objectives   of Education in Ancient Athens, and how did Education prepare students for their roles in the society? Athens was the main educational, intellectual and cultural center of Ancient Greece. The main purpose of education in Ancient Athens was to make citizens trained in the arts, and to prepare them for both peace and war. It was aimed at the cultivation of the students' physical, mental, and moral qualities.   From Athens we get the motto: A sound mind in a sound body. All schools were very small private schools, and education was very valued. Boys Until age six, boys were taught at home by their mother or a male slave. Age six to 14 was primary school. The teacher in school was always a male. Once the youths were 16, their 'basic education' was complete. The boys who didn't have to work could now study the sciences and philosophy. From the ages of 18 to 20, able bodied young men had to take military trainging for the army or the na...

Who were the Athenians? Athens was another Greek city-states, just like Sparta. Greece as we know it today as a country did not yet exist then. Rather, small city states like Sparta, Corinth, Megara and Athens were to be found in what is today the Greek peninsula. What bound these city-states today was the common Greek language. THE ORIGIN OF THE ATHENIAN EDUCATION  Originally, Athens was like Sparta in its approach to the education of the citizens, with a heavy orientation towards the military training. However, beginning at a date difficult to fix precisely (at the end of the 7th or during the 6th century), Athens, gradually renounced the type of education oriented towards the future duties of the soldier. This did not mean that military life was totally excluded from the life of the Athenian youth. Rather, it meant that the military no longer dominated the life of the youth. ‘The Athenian citizen was always obliged, when necessary and capable, to fight for the fatherlan...