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Lakshmi
Feb 2, 20221 min read
One Verse Every Week 'ARCHETYPE'
A damsel in distress, a knight in shining armour, a villain are all examples of archetypes. While these are character archetypes, an...
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Lakshmi
Jan 26, 20223 min read
One Verse Every Week 'ALLUSION'
"What is the matter? You've been acting strange these days, lost and dreamy." "Oh, come on, leave him be. He has been struck by the...
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Lakshmi
Jan 19, 20221 min read
One Verse Every Week 'PARADOX'
Irony, oxymoron and now paradox. These are related terminologies and irony is a part of both oxymoron and paradox but as literary devices...
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Lakshmi
Jan 12, 20221 min read
One Verse Every Week 'OXYMORON'
Man cub. Yes, this figure of speech would be familiar to some of us. The Bengal tiger Shere Khan, the fictional character and the main...
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Lakshmi
Dec 29, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'VERBAL IRONY'
Now, that we know what irony and dramatic irony are let us find out what verbal irony could be? Verbal irony is often a statement made by...
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Lakshmi
Dec 15, 20212 min read
One Verse Every Week 'IMAGERY'
The terminology itself is quite telling. When you read a piece of literature do you drift into a world those words have painted for you?...
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laxmihere
Dec 9, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'SOLILOQUY'
This, now, is tricky because soliloquy is not simply a verse feature. It, however, can be in verse as well as prose forms. This a feature...
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Lakshmi
Dec 1, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'GENRE'
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...
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Lakshmi
Nov 24, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'MOTIF'
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...
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Lakshmi
Nov 17, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'THEME'
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...
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Lakshmi
Nov 10, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'MOOD'
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...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Nov 7, 20212 min read
EnvironMental 'BUTTERFLIES'
Let's see how butterflies contribute to the environment Pollination Butterflies are great pollinators and as they flutter about drinking...
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Lakshmi
Nov 3, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'TONE'
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...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Oct 31, 20212 min read
EnvironMental 'SQUIRRELS'
Occassionally some of us, or the luckier few of us, often, notice a cute little squirrel scurrying away in our garden. They always seem...
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Lakshmi
Oct 20, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'CACOPHONY'
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...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Oct 17, 20212 min read
EnvironMental 'NATURE'S NIGHTMARE'
With Halloween and then Diwali around the corner we will soon be able to see carved pumpkins trashed outside every door and firework...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Oct 10, 20211 min read
EnvironMental 'KEEP OUR ENVIRONMENT CLEAN!'
Quarantine regulations have been relaxed and lock down is being lifted world over, for the moment, and hopefully so it'll continue,...
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Lakshmi
Oct 6, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'SIBILANCE'
Sibilant sound is characterised by a hissing sound, and sibilance is a literary device used to convey a mood or situation using the...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
Oct 3, 20212 min read
EnvironMental 'JAVAN RHINOCEROS'
The Javan Rhinoceros is the most critically endangered species on planet Earth with only tens of them remaining in the wild and in only...
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Lakshmi
Sep 29, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'CONSONANCE'
Consonance is a literary device used to create rhyming effect and musicality in a text, especially of poems. It, essentially, is the...
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