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Lakshmi
Jan 5, 20221 min read
One Verse Every Week 'SITUATIONAL IRONY'
You'd recall times when you expected a certain outcome but what occurred was totally unexpected and contrary to what you had expected....
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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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laxmihere
Dec 22, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'IRONY'
Irony as a literary device is when a situation is is unanticipated or contrary to what is expected or is the reality. When the unexpected...
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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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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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Lakshmi
Oct 27, 20212 min read
One Verse Every Week 'EUPHONY'
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...
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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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Lakshmi
Oct 13, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'ALLITERATION-RETURNS'
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...
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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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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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Lakshmi
Sep 22, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'DISSONANCE'
In poetry, dissonance, is a powerful and useful literary device, employed by poets, although dissonance disrupts the harmony of vowel...
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Lakshmi
Sep 21, 20212 min read
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'LAETITIA PILKINGTON'
Laetitia Pilkington was no ordinary woman. Pilkington's extraordinariness was rather conspicuous, especially in the Libertine age or...
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Lakshmi
Sep 15, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'ASSONANCE'
The likeness in rhyming sounds between only stressed vowels, not consonants, of two or more words that are placed successively or close...
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Lakshmi
Sep 8, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'ALLITERATION'
In literature, when the same initial consonant (in some cases even vowel) sounds are repeated in successive or closely placed syllables...
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Lakshmi
Sep 1, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'MONORHYME'
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...
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Megha S. Sunder
Aug 30, 20212 min read
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'O. N. V. KURUP'
When reading or listening to his poems, one could easily wonder if there ever lived a poet who loved Mother Earth as fervently as this...
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