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Boustrophedon

Posted by Grant Barrett on June 23, 2018 · Add Comment

Boustrophedonic writing goes from right to left, then left to right, then right to left again. This term derives from Greek word bous, meaning “ox,” also found in bucolic and bulimia (literally, ox hunger) and strophe, meaning turn, like the downward turn that is a catastrophe. This is part of a complete episode.

Reading Poems in Succession

Posted by Grant Barrett on February 27, 2015 · Add Comment

Glyn Maxwell, in a recent review of the book Ideas of Order: A Close Reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, argues that reading the sonnets altogether in a collection is a little strange, since many of them are worth more attention than they’ll get if you read through them all quickly. Grant explains a similar problem he’s [...]

Current-Event Limerick Quiz

Posted by Grant Barrett on July 28, 2012 · Add Comment

Hope you’ve been checking the headlines, because our Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a new set of current-event limericks. What’s been “occupied?” How long did the Kardashian marriage last? And who made ambiguous the definition of the word “winning”? This is part of a complete episode.

Limericks Quiz

Posted by grantbarrett on January 15, 2011 · Add Comment

Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a limericks news quiz. This is part of a complete episode.

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