For thousands of years, humans have been creating stories — and for just as long, they’ve been coming up with words to describe all the tools and techniques that make a story work. But these “literary ...

To introduce or review and practice recognizing the parallels between literary devices and their anologuess in 2D visual art, such as symbolism, irony, allusion, repetition, mood, and personification ...

A friend of mine summarised her PhD in song form, taking the tune of a well-known hymn. She did it for a laugh but also thought it’d help her compress her thoughts. I forget what she rhymed ...

[ region ] Classical Persian verse constantly evokes Afghanistan and its glorious history. Poets such as Rumi (from Balkh), Sanai (from Ghazni), and Jami (from Ghor) are still celebrated today. In the ...

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GUL-I-RA’ANA (1923) and She’ar-ul-Hind (1925) are two histories of Urdu poetry penned in the first quarter of the 20th century and are often discussed, even a century after they first appeared. These ...

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