The term ‘Psychobabble’ was coined by R. D. Rosen in Psychobabble: Fast Talk and Quick Cure in the Era of Feeling (1977) – a critique of DIY ego-psychology – and…
Definition
The term litotes is derived from the Greek word litos, meaning simple, plain, or modest. In rhetoric, litotes is a figure of speech in which an affirmative idea is…
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
This stanza is extracted from the poem The Tyger by William Blake.…
Ideogramic method is a method of verse composition devised by the modernist poet Ezra Pound. It is based on the juxtaposition of words and images and, by avoiding abstraction and…
Palindrome (Gk. meaning "running back again") is a word, number, or sentence that reads the same both forwards and backwards. Common palindrome words include civic, level, minim, radar, rotor, madam,…
