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Literary device

A literary device, literary technique, figure of speech, rhetorical device, stylistic device, or trope is any strategy of using language that a writer or speaker employs to deliberately achieve some purpose. This purpose is typically: to focus or guide the audience's attention, to make the language or its content memorable, or to evoke a particular…

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Rhetorical and argumentative devices

Pathos, logos, and ethosLiterary criticM. H. AbramsAmplificationRoald Dahl
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Figurative language

Figurative languageKenneth BurkeAllusionBeirutAntanaclasis
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Schemes

RepeatingAnadiplosisConduplicatioRichard IIIAnaphora
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Poetic and sound-based devices

PoetryAlliterationRichard IIAssonanceConsonance
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Literary device

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Literary device

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related to Narrative devices · 19
Literary device → Allegory, Animal Farm, Flashback, For, Foreshadowing, George Orwell, If, In, It, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Mood, Motif, Plot, Russian Revolution, Some, Story, Such, The, Various
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Literary device → Drama, During, Eloquence, Essay, Henry Peacham, Literature, Poetry, Professor Robert DiYanni, Reading Fiction, Renaissance, Rhetoricians, The, The Garden

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Literary devicerelated to historyRenaissance0.60section
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Literary devicerelated to historyHenry Peacham0.60section
Literary devicerelated to historyThe Garden0.60section
Literary devicerelated to historyEloquence0.60section
Literary devicerelated to historyProfessor Robert DiYanni0.60section
Literary devicerelated to historyLiterature0.60section
Literary devicerelated to historyReading Fiction0.60section
Literary devicerelated to historyPoetry0.60section
Literary devicerelated to historyDrama0.60section
Literary devicerelated to historyEssay0.60section

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