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laxmihere
- Dec 9, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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 27, 2021
- 2 min
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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Sarah Mariam Koshy
- Oct 24, 2021
- 3 min
EnvironMental 'THAWING PERMAFROST'
What is Permafrost and how is it formed? Water that is trapped in the cracks and pores of rocks and under the soil turns into ice when...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
- Oct 10, 2021
- 1 min
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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Sarah Mariam Koshy
- Oct 3, 2021
- 2 min
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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Sarah Mariam Koshy
- Sep 26, 2021
- 2 min
EnvironMental 'SNOW LEOPARDS'
The elegant snow leopard with their beautiful spotted fur is an endangered species with only around four thousand of them remaining. With...
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Lakshmi
- Sep 15, 2021
- 1 min
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 1, 2021
- 1 min
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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Lakshmi
- Aug 25, 2021
- 1 min
One Verse Every Week 'IDENTICAL RHYME'
Identical rhyme in English poetry is when the verse has identical vowel and identical onset twice in rhyming positions, most often...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
- Aug 22, 2021
- 1 min
EnvironMental 'FASHION: WEEK-III'
It feels good to finally walk down the street showing off a pair of limited edition sneakers or having a branded tote or backpack slung...
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Lakshmi
- Aug 18, 2021
- 1 min
One Verse Every Week 'INTERNAL RHYME AND END RHYME'
What is the difference between internal rhyme and end rhyme? Internal rhyme and end rhyme are determined by the position of the rhyme...
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Lakshmi
- Jul 28, 2021
- 1 min
One Verse Every Week 'END RHYME'
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,...
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Lakshmi
- Jul 14, 2021
- 1 min
One Verse Every Week 'RHYME'
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...
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Lakshmi
- Jul 7, 2021
- 1 min
One Verse Every Week 'QUANTITATIVE METER'
Although the metrical system in English poetry is predominantly qualitative, quantitative meter, too, has been attempted in English...
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