I'm writing a story, should I use a period in the following bold sentence (and does the bold sentence contain any mistakes?): I thought catching a criminal would be easy. Oh how wrong I was to believe it would be easy. Or should I use a

Is there a name for a literary technique like that? Thanks in advance! Also, I'm sure its not parody, anecdote, side story frame-story or back-story.

That would seem absurd because the 1 of the 2 characters involved with that phrase has been told the death of a loved one. Not a single bit comfortable. By the way, this is from Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto.

Hi, I'm reading this book and this sounds like a non-sequitur: "My, you students have a cushy life, don't you?" I'm not sure what it means and I'd like some clarification. It sounds like a non-sequitur because the narrator and another character

It's a word that resembles dark nostalgia possibly triggering grief.

I'm having a hard time seeing how nouns become the object for a verb and sometimes how they aren't. For example, some objectless clauses (From http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=8&q=verged ): a statesman who verged on greatness -

Can anyone confirm to me whether 'best friend' is a superlative as in 'He was the best friend I ever had' because friend looks like it is being used as a noun here?

Ok, there's this guy who gets 'ditties' from a peasant when he needs 'sincere, authentic folk songs'. Then he proceeds to modify the songs saying 'All I need to do is make a few alterations'. He's changing what is real to fit his personal needs.

Ah I think its irony...

I think its not hypocrisy is it.