Persuasive language is used for many reasons, for example, to help to sell products or services, or to convince people to accept a view or idea. Politicians often use persuasive techniques to get ...

Descriptive language is used to help the reader feel almost as if they are a part of the scene or event being described. Description is useful because it helps readers engage with the world of the ...

The 19th-century English poet was a "prolific reviser" who tested out many variations of his work before publication. A new ...

The School of English at the University of Sheffield has one of the largest concentrations of researchers in literary linguistics in the world. Five full-time permanent members of staff currently ...

Analyze global works of literature from medieval poetry to postmodern theory. Graduate as a critical thinker, writer and reader firmly rooted in narrative and rhetorical analysis. As a literary ...

A new project led by Dr. Michael J Sullivan of the University of Oxford's English Faculty has recovered never-before-seen text by Alfred Tennyson using a combination of imaging techniques to ...