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Lakshmi
- Mar 22, 2023
- 6 min
Following World Poetry Day
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...
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Lakshmi
- Apr 6, 2022
- 2 min
One Verse Every Week 'THE WIZARD ARCHETYPE'
There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Wizard is one of the twelve: A Wizard...
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Lakshmi
- Mar 30, 2022
- 2 min
One Verse Every Week 'THE HERO ARCHETYPE'
There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Hero is one of the twelve: Hero,...
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Lakshmi
- Mar 23, 2022
- 3 min
One Verse Every Week 'THE REBEL ARCHETYPE'
There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Rebel is one of the twelve: The Rebel...
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Lakshmi
- Mar 16, 2022
- 2 min
One Verse Every Week 'THE EXPLORER ARCHETYPE'
There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Explorer is one of the twelve: The...
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Lakshmi
- Mar 2, 2022
- 2 min
One Verse Every Week 'THE SAGE ARCHETYPE'
There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Sage is one of the twelve: The Sage...
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Lakshmi
- Feb 16, 2022
- 1 min
One Verse Every Week 'THE RULER'
There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Ruler is one of the twelve: The Ruler...
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Lakshmi
- Feb 9, 2022
- 1 min
One Verse Every Week 'THE TWELVE LITERARY ARCHETYPES'
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung identified twelve archetypes to represent the human psyche, which are within the collective human...
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Lakshmi
- Feb 2, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 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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