Devices

A Simile for Me, Please 🙏🏽
Action
Ad Hominem
Adventure
Allegory You Say. What ‘s That? ⚧
Allusion: Wow! That Really Takes Me Back
Alter Ego
Ambiguity
Anachronism
Anagram: The Art of Rearrangement
Analogy – The Informational Comparison
Anaphora: Repetition’s First Cousin
Anecdote: A Story within a Story 📜
Antagonist
Antecedent
Anthology
Anthropomorphism
Antithesis – Anti What?
Aphorisms: Short, Memorable Quotes to Live By
Apostrophe
Archetype
Argument
Atmosphere
Attitude
Autobiography
Bias
Biography
Burlesque
Cacophony: Adding Sound to Your Writing
Cadence
Canon
Caricature
Catharsis
Chiasmus. It’s Like Looking in a Mirror
Climax
Comedy
Conflict
Connotation
Consonance. You Know, That Thing Then Consonants Keep Repeating? 🔁
Context
Contrast
Conundrum
Deductive Reasoning
Deus Ex Machina
Deuteragonist
Dialect
Dialogue
Dichotomy
Diction, not Dictation 🎩
Dilemma
Discourse
Dissonance
Doppelganger
Drama
Dramatic Irony
Dystopia
Ellipsis. Um … Yeah
Epic. Here we Go …
Epiphany: The Great Moment of Realization
Ethos, Pathos, Logos, Hooray!
Etymology
Eulogy
Euphemism – Its Own Kinda Thing
Evidence
Existentialism
Explore the Depths of Allegory: Unveiling Hidden Meanings in Narratives
Exposition
Fable
Fallacy
Fantasy
Farce
Fiction
Figurative Language
Flashback! And Away!
Foil? Aw, Shucks! Again?
Folklore
Foot
Foreshadowing: So That’s Gonna Happen
Fun Puns. Well, Isn’t That Punny
Genre
Haiku
Hero
Homage
Hook
Horror
Hubris
Hyperbole – The Best Kind of Over-Exaggeration
I Said, “Chips, please!” It’s a Colloquialism.
Idiom – When the Words Don’t Add Up
Imagery – You See What I Mean, Right?
Inference
Innuendo
Irony – A Writer’s Secret Weapon 🏹
Jargon
Juxtaposition
Legend
Limerick
Litotes! The Grandest Understatement of Them All
Logos – The Glue Holding the Other Two Together
Malapropism? Wait a sec. You Said that Wrong . . .
Maxim
Meiosis. No! Not the Science Kind
Metaphor – The Meaning between the Lines
Metaphysical
Metonymy Explained
Mnemonic
Monologue
Montage
Mood: How You Feelin’?
Motif
Motivation
Mystery
Narrative
Nemesis
Neologism, or the Creation of New Words
Non Sequitur
Nostalgia
Novel
Omniscient
Oxy– What? Oxymoron
Palindrome – Wait a Sec! Rewind That, Please
Paradox – That’s not Right!
Parallelism
Paraphrase
Pathos: The Emotional Side to Logic
Pejorative
Persona
Personification – Say What?!
Perspective
Persuasion
Plagiarism
Plot: A Writer’s Meat and Potatoes
Poetic Justice
Polemic
Portmanteau is a Porta– What?! 💡
Premise
Prologue
Propaganda
Prose
Protagonist
Pseudonym
Puns
Quest
Rebuttal
Red Herring
Repetition
Resolution
Rhetoric
Rhetorical Question
Rhythm – The Beating Pulse of Writing 🕺🏽
Riddle
Romance
Sarcasm
Sardonic
Satire. Using Humor and Sarcasm to Make a Point
Setting
Soliloquy, or A Good Talking to Oneself 💭
Speaker
Strereotype
Subjective
Surrealism
Syllogism. The Power of Deductive Reasoning
Symbol
Symbolism: A Deeper Meaning Awaits You
Syncope: No. I Do Not Mean Fainting.
Synecdoche in Literature: A Quick & Easy Guide
Synesthesia
Synonym
Syntax
Tautology
Theme
Thesis
Tone
Tragedy
Trope
Turning Point
Two for the Price of One! Did Someone Say Double Entendre? ➿
Unlocking Assonance: The Power of the Vowel
Utopia
Vernacular
Vignette? Or Mini-Me Time?
Villain
Voice
What’s that Sound? Onomatopoeia!
Wit
Wordplay
Ya Know, Ya Know, It’s Alliteration! 🔁