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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

In poetry, dissonance, is a powerful and useful literary device, employed by poets, although dissonance disrupts the harmony of vowel...

Laetitia Pilkington was no ordinary woman. Pilkington's extraordinariness was rather conspicuous, especially in the Libertine age or...

The likeness in rhyming sounds between only stressed vowels, not consonants, of two or more words that are placed successively or close...

In literature, when the same initial consonant (in some cases even vowel) sounds are repeated in successive or closely placed syllables...

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...

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...