A damsel in distress, a knight in shining armour, a villain are all examples of archetypes. While these are character archetypes, an...

"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...

Irony, oxymoron and now paradox. These are related terminologies and irony is a part of both oxymoron and paradox but as literary devices...

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...

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...

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?...

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...

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...

Let's see how butterflies contribute to the environment Pollination Butterflies are great pollinators and as they flutter about drinking...

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...

Occassionally some of us, or the luckier few of us, often, notice a cute little squirrel scurrying away in our garden. They always seem...

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...

With Halloween and then Diwali around the corner we will soon be able to see carved pumpkins trashed outside every door and firework...

Quarantine regulations have been relaxed and lock down is being lifted world over, for the moment, and hopefully so it'll continue,...

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

The Javan Rhinoceros is the most critically endangered species on planet Earth with only tens of them remaining in the wild and in only...

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