Stanza:  a group of lines set off from others by a blank line or indentation. Verse:  are stanzas with no set number of…

WHAT IS SIMILE?  According to  Merriam-Webster Dictionary , “ Simile  is a figure of speech comparing two u…

Metaphor Milan Kundera wrote in  The Unbearable Lightness of Being : “Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are n…

Irony First recorded in Plato’s Republic where it has approximately the meaning of ‘a glib and underhand way of tak…

An  allusion  is when an author or poet makes an indirect reference to some idea, figure, other text, place, or event t…