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Team O
- May 6, 2022
- 1 min
Foundation Day Event: Shakespeare's Sonnets by Prof. Sir Stanley Wells and Dr Paul Edmondson
O was set up on 31 March 2021, to build bridges. It wasn’t a matter of identifying gaps for we know they are there and that the gaps are...
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Lakshmi
- Apr 20, 2022
- 2 min
One Verse Every Week 'THE EVERYMAN ARCHETYPE'
There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Everyman is one of the twelve: The...
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Lakshmi
- Apr 13, 2022
- 1 min
One Verse Every Week 'THE JESTER ARCHETYPE'
There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Jester is one of the twelve: The...
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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
- 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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laxmihere
- Dec 22, 2021
- 1 min
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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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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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
- Jun 9, 2021
- 1 min
One Verse Every Week 'PYRRHUS'
Like an iamb, a trochee, and a spondee, a pyrrhus, too, is a type of foot in a metrical feet. While a spondee is a pair of stressed...
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Lakshmi
- May 26, 2021
- 2 min
One Verse Every Week 'CAESURA'
What's Montague? || It is nor hand nor foot --William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (II.ii.40) This line is in blank verse. But how is...
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Lakshmi
- May 19, 2021
- 1 min
One Verse Every Week 'TROCHEE'
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. (IV.i.10-11) Remember these lines and the three witch sisters in...
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Lakshmi
- May 13, 2021
- 1 min
One Verse Every Week 'FEMININE-ENDING BLANK VERSE'
A blank verse with a feminine ending is, not the standard ten-syllabic metre, instead, one more than the ten, ending with an additional...
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Lakshmi
- May 5, 2021
- 2 min
One Verse Every Week 'CAPPING COUPLET'
Capping couplet is one rhymed couplet of two lines, which have the same metre. These are typically found at the end of poems or at the...
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Lakshmi
- Apr 28, 2021
- 1 min
One Verse Every Week 'HEROIC COUPLET'
Heroic couplet is a form of iambic pentameter. They are a pair of iambic pentameters with a rhyming metric template such as aa, bb, cc...
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Lakshmi
- Apr 15, 2021
- 1 min
One Verse Every Week 'BLANK VERSE'
We will start with verse-types in the English language first, only because the content generated, for the moment by 'O', is mainly in...
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