Born on Jan 25, 1962, in district of Layyah (also spelt Leiyah), Punjab, Dr Muzzammil Husain is an academic, critic and researcher known for his works on Urdu and Seraiki literatures. He has to his ...

Like similes, metaphors are a form of comparison. While similes use “as” or “like” to make comparisons, a metaphor is when you say that something is something else. She’s a night owl. The bus driver ...

Onomatopoeia refers to words that imitate the sound they are describing. Onomatopoeia is a device that appeals to our sense of sound. It can help build a sense of immediacy, movement, atmosphere or ...

Literary devices are specific ways of using language or other literary elements that we can recognise and identify in a text (a piece of writing). These can work either at a word or sentence level or ...