Literary Terms
Verse | Definition
September 24, 2026
A verse is a metrical line referring either to poetry or to an individual poem. In a narrow sense of the word, a verse is an individual line of poetry. Sometimes it also means a...
Sound of Poetry | Definition
September 24, 2026
The sound of poetry generally refers to the linguistic quality which determines a certain rhythms in poetry. It is the distinctive qualities or features which distinguishes poetry from other forms of literature. It has its...
Jungian Criticism | Definition
September 24, 2026
Jungian criticism is a type of literary criticism based on the theories of Carl Jung; a psychiatrist who was a disciple of Sigmund Freud. Jung later developed his own theory of analytical psychology, a theory...
Objective Correlative | Definition
September 24, 2026
Objective Correlative is a term popularized by T.S. Eliot in his essay on ‘Hamlet and His Problems’ to refer to an image, action, or situation – usually a pattern of images, actions, or situations –...
Comedy of Manners | Definition
September 24, 2026
A comedy is a play with happy ending and aims at making people laugh at certain follies, vanities, hypocrisies and weaknesses of people for reforming society. Comedy of manners is a comedy that deals with...
Allegory | Definition
September 24, 2026
Allegory is an extended form of metaphor. Allegory is the process of presenting an abstract idea through more concrete means. Allegory is a narrative in prose, verse or drama that has two levels of meanings....
Allusion | Definition
September 23, 2026
An allusion in a literary text is a reference to a personal place or event or to another literary work or passage. It does not have clear identification, that is, it does not tell directly...
Ode | Definition
September 23, 2026
Most simply, the Ode is known as a poem addressed to somebody or something. But, besides that one simple feature, the ode is characterized by a number of features of a special classical form of...
Animation | Definition
September 23, 2026
Animation is giving life to non-living objects. If a poet treats a lifeless concrete thing as having life, awareness, will-power, thought, emotion, etc, that is called animation. For example, if a poet says, “The moon...
Utopia | Definition
September 23, 2026
Utopia is an ideal place that does not exist in reality. The word utopia, which comes from the Greek for outopia, meaning “no place,” and eutopia, meaning “good place,” is itself a pun referring to...
