The Age of Chaucer
There are different periods in Literature divided into
Literary Periods and Genres. We started to examine literary periods last...
The oldest poems in the world
Art in all its forms is a mark of social development and a reflection of the times. No...
My Last Duchess
By Robert
Browning
Ferrara
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,...
Elements of Short Story
The short story is a narrative prose that must be concise, to-the-point, lucid (void of ambiguities), and highly organized. It is centred...
Why writers’ works are rejected
A senior lecturer in the Department of English in one of Nigeria’s federal universities, Dr Ali and I...
Point of view – Who’s telling the story and how?
POINT OF VIEW – WHO’S
TELLING THE STORY AND HOW
Point of view is the mode of narration employed by...
Theme
The Meaning and the Message in Fiction
Theme is that element of Literature that addresses what the
story is all...
Setting in Literature
Setting is the place and time in which a story takes place. It also includes the mood or...
Characterisation
Characterisation
is a way authors convey information about fictitious people in their work of
fiction. It is an artistic representation...
Structure
Structure is the skeleton on which a work of fiction is built. It is the arrangement of events...
