they’ve been coming up with words to describe all the tools and techniques that make a story work. But these “literary devices” don’t just show up in classical drama and Anglo-Saxon poetry.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Literary devices are specific ways of using language or other literary elements that we can recognise and identify ...

Foreshadowing. Boy wizards. Most of us know the common elements of fiction. But there’s an endless supply of devices authors use to augment their work, including some that demand such a high ...

Curious if My Word would be worth suggesting to my favorite ... So without further ado, here are the crème de la crème, hall-of-fame literary devices that most scream “AWARD WINNER”: This ...

In poetic terms, the typewriter means thudding ... the wife who can out-process Microsoft Word shows that the literary history of word processing is also gendered in a way that is perhaps beyond ...

Technique. Word choice. Sentence structure. Reading level. There's something cheeky in the way Blatt throws genre best-sellers into his statistical blender alongside literary lions and hits puree ...