Oxymoron
The combination of contradictions is called an oxymoron. Silent scream, deafening silence, dark day, pretty ugly, darkness visible etc. are some oxymora. (correct plural of oxymoron; not oxymorons)
Objective oxymoron
Those oxymora that use apparent contradictions like angry saint or bitter sweet are called objective oxymora. They are quite literal, without any hidden meanings.
Allusion
An allusion is an indirect reference to a well-known person, place, literature, historical events, movies, fictional character, television shows, cartoon characters etc. With the help of an allusion, the author can, in a few words, make numerous associations between two things.
He is the Shakespeare of our class.
Immediately, ‘he’ takes on the qualities of Shakespeare [...]
Where winds do not spurn
What is there in this air?
That plays with me,
And leaves me in my loneliness.
What strange land is this?
Where piercing voices and angry eyes,
Can turn flesh into stone.
The city seeped into me
I walk looking over the heads of people,
From where has this city seeped into me then?
When greedy eyes were beholding raw flesh,
And some overworked tongues were poisoning the air,
Where every body had become a threat,
And every mile was crossed with thousands of incests.
I had walked on the wet earth,
With bare feet,
And a sole thought.
Moonlight
Multitudes of people stare on every path,
Every turn ahead brings forth the same road,
On which the same foggy dream had flashed colors,
Throwing ideas into the dizzy mind.
Is it change,
As you had said and I believed?
Or is it moonlight,
That has shaded all colors to one?
Just Words
The desolation is complete,
The heart forgets to respond,
The mind heavy with liquor,
The hand is writing,
Words.
Words which had been forgotten,
When the pumping of the heart was too much,
When the mind was defeated,
And the heart cheated.
Judgment Day
Bright orange clouds rush to fill the sky,
The earth darkens, quivers; fearing the worst,
And He riding high on a golden chariot,
Like ether, unseen but felt,
Glowing with such energy,
That mortals beneath shake with awe.
‘O Lord! The judgment day has come’,
One of them screams.
There is no dark corner left to hide.
The celestial light has conquered,
The darkest corner [...]
Impressions
The crevices laden new,
Beneath the horny sea,
Ridding volumes high,
Taking a note shrouded,
From under the myriad.
Soren thought with his tongue,
Picking thorns for the washerwoman,
Carrying pages in print,
He rolled down on matted feet,
Syllables gathered dust.
Growing into the uneasy chair
The same old chair,
With its wooden armrests,
And stiff back,
Is swinging to and fro,
Giving my thoughts some motion.
The dreary work,
Has still not got hold of me.
I see a busy little mouse,
Smelling the floor dust,
Moving lightly on its feet.
A Tear
The woman stared at the web as if in trance,
Twisting it with her glance,
She saw a tear reflected,
From her eye it dropped and froze the floor,
Uncharted, bellowing, dying.
Ashamed she weaved another world,
Dropping the former to her feet,
For it had uncovered her brutal nakedness,
And pained her by the revelation,
About which she knew little.
A painted box
I stand inside a black painted box,
With peeping large windows all around,
Growing black as soot,
As I gaze through them.
Last night I killed my brother,
Because he said he was tired of seeing red all around,
And wanted to see more colors except it,
Well…madness cannot be tolerated among civilized people. Can it?
Personification
Personification for Ornamentation
Revealing self-species-love, personification is an ontological metaphor in which you give human attributes to abstractions, inanimate objects, and any other living being except, of course, humans.
If horses were ruling, it would be like – “Gosh, these humans neigh all the time.”
Anyways, as we are ruling, why not see our country as mother, a [...]
Hyperbole
In graduation, my heels gave competition to the Himalayas.
That’s not me. That’s a hyperbole. I was more of a tomboy with sports shoes.
By definition, a hyperbole is a way of expressing the excess or exaggerating a thing to such an extent that it becomes unbelievable. Hyperboles are commonly used in literary fiction, drama [...]
Similes
You might or might not know that a simile is a comparison between two things that are dissimilar in many ways, but are similar in a few, unobvious ways. Okay, now you know or re-know. Here comes the fire round –
How do you compare two objects in a simile?
Simple. With the use of ‘like’, ‘as’, [...]
18 Types of Metaphors
With a metaphor, you can!
The first extremely obvious question is – What is this darned metaphor? Another fancy name? Well . . . yes and no . It is fancy, but also effective. Charged with energy. Stuffed with genius. By definition, a metaphor is a figure of speech where two entirely dissimilar words or [...]
