Reference
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...
English Sonnet | Definition
September 26, 2026
Shakespeare changed the rhyming scheme to abab; cdcd; efef; gg. He used the iambic pentameter. He used three quatrains and a couplet. The concluding couplet is usually an unusual twist given to the argument of...
Satire | Definition
September 26, 2026
Satire is a literary art that uses irony, wit and sometimes sarcasm evoking laughter as a powerful weapon against the vices and follies of the humanity for the purpose of reformation through ridicule. Although satire...
Mock Epic | Definition
September 26, 2026
A type of high burlesque, the mock epic is a lengthy poem written in the lofty and exalted style of the epic but that deals with an utterly trivial subject. Mock epics are not generally...
