Literary devices
Literary devices or literary techniques
- similar to Rhetorical devices but about literature whereas rhetorical devices regard persuasion
Literary approaches[edit | edit source]
- narration
- narrator
- person
- point of view
Literary techniques[edit | edit source]
point of view[edit | edit source]
detail[edit | edit source]
diction[edit | edit source]
sequence[edit | edit source]
structure[edit | edit source]
syntax[edit | edit source]
tone[edit | edit source]
vignette[edit | edit source]
Narrative modes[edit | edit source]
action[edit | edit source]
dialogue[edit | edit source]
description[edit | edit source]
exposition[edit | edit source]
interiority[edit | edit source]
List of literary devices[edit | edit source]
- 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
- see Basic Types of Literary Devices | YourDictionary