We call these tools—closely related to the literary devices in literature—rhetorical devices. They are the clever tricks and techniques in everyday speech, writing, and even memes that make ...

This is one of my favorite literary devices, and it goes all the way back to Anglo Saxon poetry of the 900s. It’s the use of understatement to underscore a point.

Literary devices are specific ways of using language or other literary elements that we can recognise and identify in a text (a piece of writing). These can work either at a word or sentence level ...

Don Juan is one example, with the titular womanizer’s exploits related through more than 16,000 lines of verse. Karen Hesse’s 1997 novel, ... Of all literary devices, ...