Devices

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Accumulation
Acrostic
Action
Active Voice
Ad Hominem
Adage
Adventure
Adynaton
Allegory You Say. What ‘s That? ⚧
Allusion: Wow! That Really Takes Me Back
Alter Ego
Ambiguity
Amplification
Anachronism
Anacoluthon
Anadiplosis
Anagnorisis
Anagram: The Art of Rearrangement
Analogy – The Informational Comparison
Analytical Essay
Anapest
Anaphora: Repetition’s First Cousin
Anecdote: A Story within a Story 📜
Antagonist
Antanaclasis
Antecedent
Anthimeria
Anthology
Anthropomorphism
Anti-Climax
Anti-Hero
Antimetabole
Antiphrasis
Antistrophe
Antithesis – Anti What?
Antonomasia
Aphorism
Aphorisms: Short, Memorable Quotes to Live By
Aphorismus
Apologia
Apologue
Aporia
Aposiopesis
Apostrophe
Appositive
Archaism
Archetype
Argument
Argumentative Essay
Aside
Assertion
Asyndeton
Atmosphere
Attitude
Audience
Auditory Imagery
Autobiography
Balanced Sentence
Ballad
Bandwagon
Bathos
Bias
Bibliomancy
Bildungsroman
Biography
Black Humor
Blank Verse
Burlesque
Buzzword
Cacophony: Adding Sound to Your Writing
Cadence
Caesura
Canon
Canto
Caricature
Catachresis
Catalog
Catastrophe
Catharsis
Cause and Effect Essay
Character
Characterization
Chiasmus. It’s Like Looking in a Mirror
Chronicle
Chronology
Circumlocution
Claim
Cliché
Cliffhanger
Climax
Coherence
Comedy
Comic Relief
Comparatives
Comparison
Comparison and Contrast Essay
Competitor
Conceit
Concession
Conflict
Connotation
Consonance. You Know, That Thing Then Consonants Keep Repeating? 🔁
Context
Contrast
Conundrum
Couplet
Critical Essay
Critique
Cumulative Sentence
Dactyl
Deductive Reasoning
Denotation
Denouement
Deus Ex Machina
Deuteragonist
Diacope
Dialect
Dialogue
Diatribe
Dichotomy
Diction, not Dictation 🎩
Didacticism
Digression
Dilemma
Direct Characterization
Discourse
Dissonance
Distortion
Doppelganger
Drama
Dramatic Irony
Dramatic Monologue
Dynamic Character
Dysphemism
Dystopia
Elegy
Elision
Ellipsis. Um … Yeah
Encomium
End Rhyme
End-Stopped Line
Enjambment
Enthymeme
Enumeration
Epic. Here we Go …
Epigram
Epigraph
Epilogue
Epiphany: The Great Moment of Realization
Epiphora
Epistle
Epistolary
Epistrophe
Epitaph
Epithet
Epizeuxis
Eponym
Equivocation
Eristic
Essay
Ethos, Pathos, Logos, Hooray!
Etymology
Eulogy
Euphemism – Its Own Kinda Thing
Euphony
Evidence
Exact Rhyme
Exaggeration
Exemplum
Existentialism
Expletive
Explication
Explicatory Essay
Explore the Depths of Allegory: Unveiling Hidden Meanings in Narratives
Exposition
Expository Essay
Extended Metaphor
External Conflict
Eye Rhyme
Fable
Fairy Tale
Fallacy
Falling Action
Fantasy
Farce
Feminine Rhyme
Fiction
Figurative Language
Figure of Speech
Flash-Forward
Flashback! And Away!
Flat Character
Foil? Aw, Shucks! Again?
Folklore
Foot
Foreshadowing: So That’s Gonna Happen
Foreword
Frame Story
Free Verse
Fun Puns. Well, Isn’t That Punny
Genre
Gustatory Imagery
Haiku
Half Rhyme
Hamartia
Harangue
Hero
Homage
Homily
Homograph
Homonyms
Homophone
Hook
Horror
Hubris
Humor
Hyperbaton
Hyperbole – The Best Kind of Over-Exaggeration
Hypophora
Hypotaxis
Hypothetical Question
I Said, “Chips, please!” It’s a Colloquialism.
Iamb
Iambic Pentameter
Idiom – When the Words Don’t Add Up
Illusion
Imagery – You See What I Mean, Right?
Imperative Sentence
Implied Metaphor
In Medias Res
Inciting Incident
Induction
Inference
Innuendo
Internal Rhyme
Intertextuality
Invective
Inversion
Irony – A Writer’s Secret Weapon 🏹
Isocolon
Jargon
Juxtaposition
Kairos
Kenning
Kinesthesia
Kinesthetic Imagery
Lampoon
Limerick
Line Break
Lingo
Litotes! The Grandest Understatement of Them All
Logos – The Glue Holding the Other Two Together
Lyric
Lyric Poem
Main Idea
Malapropism? Wait a sec. You Said that Wrong . . .
Maxim
Meiosis. No! Not the Science Kind
Melodrama
Memoir
Metalepsis
Metaphor – The Meaning between the Lines
Metaphysical
Meter
Metonymy Explained
Mnemonic
Monologue
Montage
Mood: How You Feelin’?
Moral
Motif
Motivation
Motto
Mystery
Myth
Narrative
Narrative Poem
Narrator
Naturalism
Nemesis
Neologism, or the Creation of New Words
Non Sequitur
Nostalgia
Novel
Novella
Octave
Ode
Olfactory Imagery
Omniscient
Omniscient
Onomatopoeia
Ordinal Number
Overstatement
Oxy– What? Oxymoron
Pacing
Palindrome – Wait a Sec! Rewind That, Please
Parable
Paradox – That’s not Right!
Paralipsis
Parallel Structure
Parallelism
Paraphrase
Paraprosdokian
Parataxis
Parenthesis
Parody
Paronomasia
Parrhesia
Passive Voice
Pastiche
Pathetic Fallacy
Pathos: The Emotional Side to Logic
Pedantic
Pejorative
Pentameter
Peripeteia
Periphrasis
Persona
Personification – Say What?!
Perspective
Persuasion
Persuasive Essay
Plagiarism
Platitude
Play
Pleonasm
Plot Twist
Plot: A Writer’s Meat and Potatoes
Poem
Poetic Justice
Poetry
Point of View
Polemic
Polyptoton
Polysyndeton
Portmanteau is a Porta– What?! 💡
Premise
Procatalepsis
Process Essay
Prologue
Propaganda
Prose
Prosody
Prosthesis
Protagonist
Proverb
Pseudonym
Puns
Quest
Realism
Rebus
Rebuttal
Red Herring
Reductio ad Absurdum
Refrain
Refutation
Repetition
Resolution
Rhetoric
Rhetorical Device
Rhetorical Question
Rhyme
Rhyme Scheme
Rhythm – The Beating Pulse of Writing 🕺🏽
Riddle
Rising Action
Romance
Romanticism
Round Character
Run-On Sentence
Sarcasm
Sardonic
Satire. Using Humor and Sarcasm to Make a Point
Scansion
Science Fiction
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Semantic
Sensory Language
Sesquipedalian
Sestet
Sestina
Setting
Short Story
Sibilance
Simple Paragraph
Situational Irony
Slang
Snark
Solecism
Soliloquy, or A Good Talking to Oneself 💭
Sonnet
Sound Devices
Speaker
Spondee
Stanza
Static Character
Stereotype
Story
Straw Man
Stream of Consciousness
Style
Subjective
Subplot
Subtext
Superlative
Supporting Sentence
Surrealism
Suspense
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
Synesis
Synesthesia
Synonym
Synopsis
Syntax
Tactile Imagery
Tautology
Tercet
Theme
Thesis
Thriller
Tmesis
Tone
Tragedy
Tragic Flaw
Tragic Hero
Tragicomedy
Transition
Tricolon
Trimeter
Trochaic
Trope
Truism
Turning Point
Two for the Price of One! Did Someone Say Double Entendre? ➿
Understatement
Undertone
Unlocking Assonance: The Power of the Vowel
Urban Legend
Utopia
Verbal Irony
Verisimilitude
Vernacular
Verse
Vignette? Or Mini-Me Time?
Villain
Villanelle
Visual Imagery
Voice
Volta
What’s that Sound? Onomatopoeia!
Wit
Word Play
Wordplay
Ya Know, Ya Know, It’s Alliteration! 🔁
Zeugma
Zoomorphism