On World Poetry Day (21 March), as I was preparing to read a poem out loud to be recorded, so that it could be posted on some of the most...

There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Wizard is one of the twelve: A Wizard...

There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Hero is one of the twelve: Hero,...

There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Rebel is one of the twelve: The Rebel...

There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Explorer is one of the twelve: The...

There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Sage is one of the twelve: The Sage...

There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Ruler is one of the twelve: The Ruler...

Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung identified twelve archetypes to represent the human psyche, which are within the collective human...

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...

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...