Literary Devices and Techniques


 * abbreviation
 * abridgment
 * abstraction
 * acronym
 * acrostic
 * adumbration
 * affidavit
 * agenda
 * agon
 * Alexandrine
 * allegory
 * alliteration
 * allusion
 * ambiguity
 * amphigory
 * amplification
 * ana
 * anachronism
 * anagogue
 * analects
 * analogy
 * analysis
 * anapest
 * anecdote
 * anticlimax
 * antigram
 * antiphrasis
 * antithesis
 * aphorism
 * appendiz
 * archaism
 * arsis
 * assonance
 * asterism
 * atmosphere
 * bathos
 * bibliography
 * bibliotics
 * blank verse
 * bombast
 * bowdlerization
 * brevity
 * bucolic
 * bulletin
 * cacophony
 * cadence
 * caesura
 * canto
 * caricature
 * carmen figuraturum
 * catachresis
 * character sketch
 * characterization
 * cipher
 * circumlocution
 * clarity
 * clerihew
 * cliche
 * climax
 * clue
 * coda
 * cognomen
 * colloquialism
 * common meter
 * comparison
 * complaint
 * conceit
 * condensation
 * conflict
 * controlling image
 * conversation
 * corollary
 * couplet
 * dactyl
 * dead metaphor
 * declamation
 * definition
 * denouement
 * device
 * diagram
 * diatribe
 * digression
 * dipody
 * dithyramb
 * ditty
 * doggerel
 * double entendre
 * double rhyme
 * effect
 * elegiac
 * elision
 * ellipsis
 * encomium
 * enigma
 * epilogue
 * epithet
 * euphemism
 * euphony
 * euphuism
 * exaggeration
 * example
 * excerpt
 * exegesis
 * explanation
 * explication de texte
 * exposition
 * eye dialect
 * falling rhythm
 * fantasy
 * feminine rhyme
 * figurative language
 * flashback
 * flash-forward
 * flyting
 * foil
 * footnote
 * foreword
 * free verse
 * fustian
 * georgic
 * gloss or glossary
 * gossip
 * hamartia
 * hapax legomenon
 * heading
 * hendiasys
 * heroic couplet
 * hexameter
 * hiatus
 * homonym
 * Hudibrastic verse
 * hyperbole
 * iamb
 * iambic pentameter
 * illustration
 * imagery
 * implication
 * index
 * insinuation
 * interactive fiction
 * interior monologue
 * interjection
 * internal rhyme
 * introduction
 * irony
 * kenning
 * lampoon
 * leitmotif
 * lesson
 * letter
 * lipogram
 * litotes
 * locale
 * macaronic
 * metalepsis
 * metaphor
 * metathesis
 * meter
 * metonymy
 * metrics
 * mimesis
 * monologue
 * motif
 * narrative
 * news
 * nickname
 * obscurantism
 * octave
 * octet
 * onomatopoeia
 * palindrome
 * pandect
 * parable
 * paradox
 * paraenesis
 * parallelism
 * paralogism
 * paranomasia
 * paraphrase
 * passim
 * passus
 * pathetic fallacy
 * pathos
 * pentameter
 * periphrasis
 * personification
 * plagiarism
 * plea
 * plot
 * poetic license
 * poeticism
 * point of view
 * polymythy
 * postscript
 * preface
 * problem
 * proem
 * prolegomenon
 * prologue
 * prophecy
 * proverb
 * pun
 * purple prose
 * pyrrhic
 * quatrain
 * question
 * quotation
 * rebuttal
 * recension
 * record
 * refrain
 * reiteration
 * repetition
 * report
 * review
 * rhetorical question
 * rhyme
 * rhythm
 * rising action
 * rising rhythm
 * roundelay
 * sarcasm
 * satire
 * scansion
 * secret
 * sestina
 * simile
 * slang
 * slogan
 * solecism
 * soliloquy
 * speech
 * spondee
 * sprung rhythm
 * stanza
 * stichomythy
 * story line
 * straw man
 * stream of consciousness
 * strophe
 * style
 * stylized
 * subplot
 * subtext
 * suspense
 * syllepsis
 * syllogism
 * symbolism
 * syncope
 * synecdoche
 * synopsis
 * taste
 * telestich
 * tetrameter
 * theme
 * tragic flaw
 * tralation
 * transposition
 * trimeter
 * triple rhyme
 * trochee
 * trope
 * tropology
 * turgescence
 * tushery
 * verisimilitude
 * vignette
 * villanelle
 * voice
 * warning
 * wordplay
 * tabulation
 * zeugma