Definition of Thriller A thriller is a genre that heightens feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation, and anxiety of the reader or viewer. Generally, it is a story, novel, or movie that has an exciting plot, interesting characters, and a…
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Etymology
Definition of Etymology Etymology means to find the roots of a word. It is mostly used as a noun, etymology, with its adjective, etymological. As such as it is not a regular literary device; rather, it is a linguistic term…
Premise
Definition of Premise The word premise means a proposition set in advance. It is derived from the Latin word praemissa. It is a derivate of two words prae that means before or prior to and mittere that means to send.…
Horror
Definition of Horror Horror is one of the fiction genres that includes paranormal beyond scientific knowledge. Although horror means strong feelings of fear, fright, shock, or terror, it falls into the literary realm as a type of narrative. It evokes…
Kairos
Definition of Kairos Derived from a Grecian root, kairos means the right time for doing something or presenting something. It refers to “opportune presentation” in rhetoric. It is mostly used in rhetoric but is also common in Christian theological presentations.…
Act of Union
Act of Union By Seamus Heaney I To-night, a first movement, a pulse, As if the rain in bogland gathered head To slip and flood: a bog-burst, A gash breaking open the ferny bed. Your back is a firm line…
A Woman’s Hands
A Woman’s Hands By Eva Bezwoda A woman’s hands always hold something: A handbag, a vase, a child, a ring, an idea. My hands are tired of holding They simply want to fold themselves. On a crowded bus, I watched…
A Sheep Fair
A Sheep Fair By Thomas Hardy The day arrives of the autumn fair, And torrents fall, Though sheep in throngs are gathered there, Ten thousand all, Sodden, with hurdles round them reared: And, lot by lot, the pens are cleared,…
Conundrum
Meaning of Conundrum The term, conundrum, seems to have originated back in 1590. It was used for a person in the meanings of a pedant with further evolution in meanings the 16th century and later. Its Latin equivalent conandrum means…
Alabama Centennial
Alabama Centennial By Naomi Long Madgett They said, “Wait.” Well, I waited. For a hundred years I waited In cotton fields, kitchens, balconies, In bread lines, at back doors, on chain gangs, In stinking “colored” toilets And crowded ghettos, Outside…
Against Love
Against Love By Katherine Philips HENCE Cupid! with your cheating toys, Your real Griefs, and painted Joys, Your Pleasure which itself destroys. Lovers like men in fevers burn and rave, And only what will injure them do crave. Men’s weakness…
Africa My Africa
Africa My Africa By David Diop Africa of proud warriors in ancestral Savannahs Africa of whom my grandmother sings On the banks of the distant river I have never known you But your blood flows in my veins Your beautiful…
Africa
Africa By Maya Angelou Thus she had lain sugarcane sweet deserts her hair golden her feet mountains her breasts two Niles her tears. Thus she has lain Black through the years. Over the white seas rime white and cold brigands…
A Time for Everything
A Time for Everything By King Solomon To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to…
The African Beggar
The African Beggar By Raymond Tong Sprawled in the dust outside the Syrian store, a target for small children, dogs and flies, a heap of verminous rags and matted hair, he watches us with cunning reptile eyes, his noiseless, small-poxed…
A Sketch for a Modern Love
A Sketch for a Modern Love By Tadeusz Różewicz And yet whiteness can be best described by greyness a bird by a stone sunflowers in December love poems of old used to be descriptions of flesh they described this and…
Science Fiction
Definition of Science Fiction Science fiction is one of the fiction genres that demonstrates different scientific facts, discoveries, innovations, inventions, or other strange and scientific evolutions. The stories or novels falling under this category often show technological advances, environmental issues,…
Alone in the Woods
Alone in the Woods By Stevie Smith Alone in the woods I felt The bitter hostility of the sky and the trees Nature has taught her creatures to hate Man that fusses and fumes Unquiet man As the sap rises…
The Wound in Time
The Wound in Time By Carol Ann Duffy It is the wound in Time. The century’s tides, chanting their bitter psalms, cannot heal it. Not the war to end all wars; death’s birthing place; the earth nursing its ticking metal…
The Tom Cat
The Tom Cat By Donald Robert Perry Marquis At midnight in the alley A Tom-cat comes to wail, And he chants the hate of a million years As he swings his snaky tail. Malevolent, bony, brindled Tiger and devil and…