Devil’s Advocate
From the 1997 film by Jamal Stone The facts: Broad Street Magazine’s “Bedeviled” issue draws closer than ever to publication, Halloween is less than a week away, and The Devil’s Advocate recently has been picked up as a TV series by NBC. This raises a question: Rhetorically, a devil’s advocate is someone who argues for argument’s sake,...
Five Etymologies that May Change the Way You Think About Literature
Did you know that the words ‘fiction’ and ‘dough’ are closely related? Read on to find out how, and for more eye-opening information about the origins of common literary terms. 1. Scene It probably doesn’t surprise you that before the word ‘scene’ was applied to literature in general, it was solely a theatrical term that meant the...
