General list of litereary devices.

A
  • Accumulation
  • Acrostic
  • Active Voice
  • Ad Hominem
  • Adage
  • Adynaton
  • Allegory
  • Alliteration
  • Allusion
  • Ambiguity
  • Amplification
  • Anachronism
  • Anacoluthon
  • Anadiplosis
  • Anagnorisis
  • Anagram
  • Analogy
  • Analytical Essay
  • Anapest
  • Anaphora
  • Anecdote
  • Antagonist
  • Antanaclasis
  • Antecedent
  • Anthimeria
  • Anthology
  • Anthropomorphism
  • Anti-Climax
  • Anti-Hero
  • Antimetabole
  • Antiphrasis
  • Antistrophe
  • Antithesis
  • Aphorism
  • Aphorismus
  • Aporia
  • Aposiopesis
  • Apostrophe
  • Appositive
  • Archaism
  • Archetype
  • Argument
  • Argumentative Essay
  • Aside
  • Assertion
  • Assonance
  • Asyndeton
  • Atmosphere
  • Attitude
  • Audience
  • Auditory Imagery
  • Autobiography
B
  • Balanced Sentence
  • Ballad
  • Bandwagon
  • Bathos
  • Bias
  • Bildungsroman
  • Biography
  • Black Humor
  • Blank Verse
C
  • Cacophony
  • Cadence
  • Caesura
  • Canon
  • Canto
  • Caricature
  • Catachresis
  • Catalog
  • Catastrophe
  • Catharsis
  • Cause and Effect Essay
  • Character
  • Characterization
  • Chiasmus
  • Circumlocution
  • Claim
  • Cliché
  • Cliffhanger
  • Climax
  • Coherence
  • Colloquialism
  • Comedy
  • Comic Relief
  • Comparatives
  • Comparison
  • Comparison and Contrast Essay
  • Conceit
  • Concession
  • Conflict
  • Connotation
  • Consonance
  • Context
  • Contrast
  • Couplet
  • Critical Essay
  • Critique
  • Cumulative Sentence
D
  • Dactyl
  • Deductive Reasoning
  • Denotation
  • Denouement
  • Deus Ex Machina
  • Diacope
  • Dialect
  • Dialogue
  • Diatribe
  • Dichotomy
  • Diction
  • Didacticism
  • Digression
  • Dilemma
  • Direct Characterization
  • Discourse
  • Dissonance
  • Distortion
  • Doppelganger
  • Double Entendre
  • Drama
  • Dramatic Irony
  • Dramatic Monologue
  • Dynamic Character
  • Dysphemism
  • Dystopia
E
  • Elegy
  • Elision
  • Ellipsis
  • End Rhyme
  • End-Stopped Line
  • Enjambment
  • Enthymeme
  • Enumeration
  • Epic
  • Epigram
  • Epigraph
  • Epilogue
  • Epiphany
  • Epiphora
  • Epistle
  • Epistolary
  • Epistrophe
  • Epitaph
  • Epithet
  • Epizeuxis
  • Eponym
  • Eristic
  • Essay
  • Ethos
  • Eulogy
  • Euphemism
  • Euphony
  • Evidence
  • Exact Rhyme
  • Exaggeration
  • Exemplum
  • Existentialism
  • Expletive
  • Explication
  • Explicatory Essay
  • Exposition
  • Expository Essay
  • Extended Metaphor
  • External Conflict
  • Eye Rhyme
F
  • Fable
  • Fairy Tale
  • Fallacy
  • Falling Action
  • Fantasy
  • Farce
  • Feminine Rhyme
  • Fiction
  • Figurative Language
  • Figure of Speech
  • Flash-Forward
  • Flashback
  • Flat Character
  • Foil
  • Folklore
  • Foot
  • Foreshadowing
  • Frame Story
  • Free Verse
G
  • Genre
H
  • Haiku
  • Half Rhyme
  • Hamartia
  • Hero
  • Homily
  • Homograph
  • Homophone
  • Hook
  • Hubris
  • Humor
  • Hyperbaton
  • Hyperbole
  • Hypophora
  • Hypotaxis
  • Hypothetical Question
I
  • Iamb
  • Iambic Pentameter
  • Idiom
  • Illusion
  • Imagery
  • Imperative Sentence
  • Implied Metaphor
  • In Medias Res
  • Inciting Incident
  • Induction
  • Inference
  • Innuendo
  • Internal Rhyme
  • Intertextuality
  • Invective
  • Inversion
  • Irony
  • Isocolon
J
  • Jargon
  • Juxtaposition
K
  • Kenning
  • Kinesthesia
L
  • Lampoon
  • Legend
  • Limerick
  • Line Break
  • Litotes
  • Logos
  • Lyric
  • Lyric Poem
M
  • Main Idea
  • Malapropism
  • Maxim
  • Meiosis
  • Melodrama
  • Memoir
  • Metalepsis
  • Metaphor
  • Metaphysical
  • Meter
  • Metonymy
  • Monologue
  • Mood
  • Moral
  • Motif
  • Motivation
  • Myth
N
  • Narrative
  • Narrative Poem
  • Naturalism
  • Nemesis
  • Neologism
  • Non Sequitur
  • Nostalgia
  • Novel
  • Novella
O
  • Octave
  • Ode
  • Omniscient
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Ordinal Number
  • Overstatement
  • Oxymoron
P
  • Pacing
  • Palindrome
  • Parable
  • Paradox
  • Paralipsis
  • Parallel Structure
  • Parallelism
  • Paraphrase
  • Paraprosdokian
  • Parataxis
  • Parenthesis
  • Parody
  • Paronomasia
  • Parrhesia
  • Passive Voice
  • Pastiche
  • Pathetic Fallacy
  • Pathos
  • Pedantic
  • Pentameter
  • Periphrasis
  • Persona
  • Personification
  • Perspective
  • Persuasion
  • Persuasive Essay
  • Play
  • Pleonasm
  • Plot
  • Poem
  • Poetic Justice
  • Point of View
  • Polyptoton
  • Polysyndeton
  • Portmanteau
  • Procatalepsis
  • Process Essay
  • Prologue
  • Propaganda
  • Prose
  • Prosody
  • Prosthesis
  • Protagonist
  • Proverb
  • Pun
Q
  • Quatrain
R
  • Realism
  • Rebuttal
  • Red Herring
  • Reductio ad Absurdum
  • Refrain
  • Refutation
  • Repetition
  • Resolution
  • Rhetoric
  • Rhetorical Devices
  • Rhetorical Question
  • Rhyme
  • Rhyme Scheme
  • Rhythm
  • Riddle
  • Rising Action
  • Romance
  • Romanticism
  • Round Character
  • Run-On Sentence
S
  • Sarcasm
  • Satire
  • Scansion
  • Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
  • Semantic
  • Sensory Language
  • Sesquipedalian
  • Sestet
  • Sestina
  • Setting
  • Short Story
  • Sibilance
  • Simile
  • Simple Paragraph
  • Situational Irony
  • Slang
  • Snark
  • Solecism
  • Soliloquy
  • Sonnet
  • Sound Devices
  • Speaker
  • Spondee
  • Stanza
  • Static Character
  • Straw Man
  • Stream of Consciousness
  • Style
  • Subjective
  • Subplot
  • Superlative
  • Surrealism
  • Suspense
  • Syllogism
  • Symbolism
  • Syncope
  • Synecdoche
  • Synesis
  • Synesthesia
  • Syntax
T
  • Tautology
  • Tercet
  • Theme
  • Thesis
  • Tmesis
  • Tone
  • Tragedy
  • Tragic Flaw
  • Tragic Hero
  • Tragicomedy
  • Transition
  • Tricolon
  • Trimeter
  • Trochaic
  • Trope
  • Truism
U
  • Understatement
  • Undertone
  • Utopia
V
  • Verbal Irony
  • Verisimilitude
  • Vernacular
  • Verse
  • Vignette
  • Villanelle
  • Voice
  • Volta
W
  • Wit
Z
  • Zeugma
  • Zoomorphism
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