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.

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 ...

Many contemporary writers reject this practice—which can now be done via software—because they prefer to see the words appear ...

It is ‘pathetic’ because it is used to evoke ‘pathos’ or deep feeling — the word ... device is common in all forms of literature. The term is used more or less in a neutral sense in ...