Literature

Definition of dawn

The noun we are now dealing with must be established as having its etymological origin in Latin. Specifically, it derives from “albor”, which is synonymous with “whiteness”. The term albor is used to name the whiteness: the absolute or ideal whiteness. By extension, albor refers to the luminosity of dawn and the beginning of […]

Definition of winged

Winged is an adjective used to describe someone who has wings. This term (wings), in turn, refers to the appendages that certain animals have to move through the air and to the parts of an aircraft that support its flight. Wing is a word of Latin origin that can be translated as winged.

Definition of aphorism

An aphorism is a short expression that, in a given context, presents itself as a principle or a rule. It is interesting to mention that a Greek word derived into the Latin term aphorismus, which in turn came to Spanish as aphorism. Aphorisms, therefore, are propositions that seek to […]

Definition of acrostic

Acrostic comes from a Greek word that refers to the end of a verse. The first meaning of the concept mentioned in the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) refers to the poem that, with the initial, middle or final letters of its verses, forms an expression or a word. For example: I would give everything for […]

Definition of passive voice

Grammatical voice is the category associated with the verb and which refers to the semantic link it maintains with the object and the subject. According to the grammatical voice, the subject is either a patient or an agent depending on whether he receives or executes the action. The passive voice, as its name indicates, appears […]

Definition of narrative voice

To understand what the narrative voice is, we must understand what the concept of narration refers to. A narration is the process and the result of telling something: in this way, it can be a story or a novel, for example. The one who, in the story in question, relates the events that take place, […]

Definition of active voice

The concept of active voice appears in the field of grammar and is linked to a way of conjugating verbs. Also known as direct voice, the active voice refers to an agent subject who performs an action. In the case of the passive voice, however, the action is suffered by the subject […]

Definition of villain

Villain is a term whose etymology leads us to the Latin villanus. This word, in turn, comes from villa, which can be understood as "country house". Thus, the first meaning of the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) indicates that villain is someone who lived in a town and belonged to the common people, to […]

Definition of regular verse

A regular verse is one that exhibits the same number of syllables in each verse, respecting the rhyme. This means that, if we analyze the stanza of a poem that has four verses, and the four verses are made up of twelve syllables, they are regular verses. It should be noted that the set of syllables that are composed of twelve syllables is called a verse.

Definition of free verse

Verse is a term with several uses. It can refer to the set of words that maintain a cadence and are subject to a certain measure. It is important to note that poems have verses as their first ordered unit. Free, on the other hand, is that which enjoys freedom (that is not subordinated or tied). […]