Kedar N. Sharma
Kedar N. Sharma is an experienced literary expert and analyst with a postgraduate degree in English Literature. With many years of experience, he specializes in poetry and literary analysis. His strong knowledge of literary terms and critical theory adds depth and value to his contributions to PoemSense.
Simile | Definition
September 26, 2026
Simile is the simplest device of metaphorical language. It is a comparison of two concrete entities done with the help of comparing words like ‘like’, ‘as’, ‘so’, and so on. It can be easily recognized...
Metaphor | Definition
September 26, 2026
Metaphor is a figure of speech more especially a trope which uses a comparison or descriptive term for a person or a thing to which it is not literally applicable. It differs from simile only...
Epic | Definition
September 26, 2026
The epic is one of the oldest of the poetic forms. It is a long narrative poem, majestic both in theme and style, dealing with legendary or historical events of national or universal significance. Epic...
Symbol | Definition
September 26, 2026
The symbol is the most complex metaphorical device of word game. In its simplest sense, it is a comparison between a concrete entity and an abstract idea. So, the ‘rose’ as representing ‘love’, ‘youth’ or...
Lyric | Definition
September 26, 2026
A lyric is a fairly short poem which is the expression of strong feelings of thoughts or perceptions of a single speaker in a meditative manner. The lyric was originally in Greek poetry; the kind...
Irony | Definition
September 26, 2026
Irony consists of saying one thing while we mean another. It is not easy to define irony exactly, but we can say that it is the expression of one’s meaning by language of opposite or...
Image | Definition
September 26, 2026
An image is a mental picture of a person, animal, or object summoned up by a word, phrase, or sentence. An image is a picture that poetic description creates in the mind of the reader....
Imagery | Definition
September 26, 2026
Imagery is the use of visual or other types of images in poetry. The use of all kinds of concrete, metaphoric and more abstract is called imagery. Images are usually visual, but they can have...
Sonnet | Definition
September 26, 2026
Sonnet is a lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of fourteen iambic pentameter lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme. Just as the ballad gives the poet an opportunity to tell a story briefly...
Italian Sonnet | Definition
September 26, 2026
The Italian poet Petrarch was the pioneer in this direction. The Petrarchan sonnet was a very strict and almost rigid form. Petrarch wrote a series of love poems about an imaginary lady, in a fixed...
