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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...
Wit | Definition
September 23, 2026
Wit is derived from the Old English witan, meaning ‘to know,’ a term whose meaning has changed several times over the centuries. In the late Middle Ages, wit referred to intellect and intelligence as opposed...
Scansion | Definition
September 23, 2026
Scansion is an analysis of verse to show its meter. A stanza of a verse contains some lines and each line contains different metrical patterns. Some lines may have iambic or some have a Napes-tic...
Refrain | Definition
September 23, 2026
A refrain is a line or part of a line or a group of lines which is repeated in the poem, usually at the end of each stanza. The refrain may sometimes appear with slight...
