Genre is the classification of an artwork based on the work's style, subject matter, form, tone and so on. While poetry is one of the...

Motif supplements the theme of a piece of work. It is a recurring idea or action or image or word or symbol in a piece of work, which...

It is what is the underlying idea or meaning of a text. We are used to being asked after having read a book, or a story or watched a...

Now, we know what tone is as a literary device. It is quite often confused with mood. Mood is what the reader and/or audience experience...

What does one mean when one says, "I didn't like his tone." or "Don't you dare speak to me in that tone!" or "That song has a happy...

Rock a-bye, baby, On the tree top, When the wind blows, The cradle will rock. When the bough breaks, The baby will fall, Down will come...

Lady Macbeth: Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why, then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and...

These lines, 'She sells seashells at the seashore' or Betty Botter bought a bit of butter but the bit of butter was bitter so Betty...

Sibilant sound is characterised by a hissing sound, and sibilance is a literary device used to convey a mood or situation using the...

Consonance is a literary device used to create rhyming effect and musicality in a text, especially of poems. It, essentially, is the...

In poetry, dissonance, is a powerful and useful literary device, employed by poets, although dissonance disrupts the harmony of vowel...

The likeness in rhyming sounds between only stressed vowels, not consonants, of two or more words that are placed successively or close...

In literature, when the same initial consonant (in some cases even vowel) sounds are repeated in successive or closely placed syllables...

The following lines from Edward Lear's To Miss Lear on her Birthday have the same end rhyme: Dear, and very dear relation, Time, who...

Identical rhyme in English poetry is when the verse has identical vowel and identical onset twice in rhyming positions, most often...

What is the difference between internal rhyme and end rhyme? Internal rhyme and end rhyme are determined by the position of the rhyme...

Internal rhyme, too, is an aural rhyme, where similar sounding words or syllables occur within the same line multiple times, such as in...

This is the most common form of rhyme and also the most discernible type of rhyming pattern in a poem or verse. This is an aural rhyme,...

We associate rhyme with sound and it mainly is to do with the aural sense. However, an eye rhyme is an exception; it is a rhyme that...

Rhyme is not new to us. Nursery rhymes, the most popular types of rhymes, have a certain quality to them — perhaps why we retain them in...