Texts for Literary Skills
Yes, they are. The phrase 'literary skills' comes loaded with associations of pomposity, cultural elitism, and exclusivity, but these associations should not blind us to the evident fact that much of the everyday use of language is driven by processes which can be labelled 'literary' - metaphor, exaggeration, irony, tone and overtones, implication ... and so on and on. Let us treat the term 'literary skills' as...