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What is poetry

What is Poetry- A Brief Insight into the Poetic Vastness

‘furor poetics’ was the term the ancient Greeks used to describe poetry as ‘divine fury’. And through centuries, poetry has continued to bemuse the humankind, by the beauty of its metaphors, symbolizing, the concrete words, or even the abstract sentences.  Poetry is what comes to a poet without warning, and the poet paints it in …

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literary devices examples

17+ Powerful Literary Devices (With Examples) to Embellish Your Writing

A few years ago, when my creative writing teacher was explaining the use of literary devices in novels or poems, she showed us this picture: Yes, that’s a before-and-after shot of a movie scene — a fantastic example of special effects (SFX) and visual effects (VFX) in cinematography.  So, the tutor asked us to look …

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EXAMPLES OF GUSTATORY IMAGERY

Gustatory Imagery: 80+ Show Don’t Tell Examples

If you’re a writer or you’ve studied creative writing, chances are you’ve come across the expression ‘Show, Don’t Tell.’ In literature and poetry, this is called ‘Imagery’ — the use of different expressions and figurative language to evoke a sensory experience in the reader.  What is Sensory Imagery in Literature? When authors use the imagery …

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Olfactory imagery

50+ Show Don’t Tell Examples for Olfactory Imagery:

As a new writer, we almost always fall victim to the situation where we ‘tell’ too much and ‘show’ too less; our writing is too narrative but far less depictive.  ‘Show, don’t tell’ is one of the most common (sometimes, over-emphasized) rules in fiction writing. And yet, it is neglected.  Check this info-graphic if you’re …

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examples of auditory imagery

Auditory Imagery: 30+ Show Don’t Tell Examples for

New writers often struggle to understand the difference between showing and telling But, Most of the authors know these differences, and yet they fail to maintain the balance between showing and telling. If you’re one of them, bookmark this article that has over 300+ Show Don’t Tell Examples. These sentences are completely at your disposal. …

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