Literary devices or literary techniques

  • similar to Rhetorical devices but about literature whereas rhetorical devices regard persuasion

Literary approaches

  • narration
  • narrator
  • person
  • point of view

Literary techniques

point of view

detail

diction

sequence

structure

syntax

tone

vignette

Narrative modes

action

dialogue

description

exposition

interiority

List of literary devices

  • allegory
  • alliteration
  • allusion
  • analogy
  • anaphora
  • anthropomorphism-
  • antithesis
  • archetype
  • colloquialism
  • euphemism
  • figurative
  • flashback
  • foreshadowing
  • hyperbole
  • imagery
  • irony
  • juxtaposition
  • malapropism
  • metaphor
  • meter
  • mood
  • motif
  • onomatopoeia
  • oxymoron
  • paradox
  • parallelism
  • personification
  • point of view
  • repetition
  • rhetorical
  • simile
  • symbolism
  • tone
  • tragedy
  • tragicomedy
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