Month: June 2018
Word of the Day: Cacophony
Paul Schleifer According to www.dictionary.com, cacophony means “harsh discordance of sound; dissonance; a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds.” The etymology, according to www.etymonline.com, is actually kind of fun: “1650s, […]
Word of the Day: Enervate
Paul Schleifer Enervate is one of those words that means the opposite of what you might think it means. It sounds something like energize, right? So you might think it […]
America’s Reading Dilemma—From Prologue to Epilogue
Katherine Wiggins Most of us would not be surprised to hear that our generation does less reading for enjoyment than our parents’ and grandparents’ generations did. Most of us would […]
“On Stories”—C.S. Lewis’s Analysis of Plot and Narrative
Jahanna Bolding C.S. Lewis in his essay “On Stories” discusses the purposes of a narrative story. He argues that a good story must do more than tell about a series […]