We have a few questions about the selection of particular words in a phrase or poem. Examples: Language in A View from the Bridge What is the rhetorical purpose of the description of Miss Emily? Since we do tag sub-topics within literature with things like "character-analysis", I'm thinking it...

"Dr. Azad," she said. "Why did you give my husband that money?" The end of his nose was pitted with age, his cheeks had given way to jowls, pockets of air puffed the skin around his eyes, when he smiled the corners of his mouth turned down, and it was a big, generous smile. "It's ve...

I was reading the Wikipedia page on C.P. Snow's article/lecture/book The Two Cultures, about the divide between science and the humanities in academia. The Wikipedia page seems to have a contradiction, and I haven't got the original text to check, so I'm not sure which is right. Firstly, at the ...