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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