Literary devices

Literary devices are techniques used to present a deeper meaning to the written words. They were used in Ancient Greek Literature.
The list below includes both ancient and modern literary devices.

Literary Techniques and Devices

- Adage
- Allegory
- Alliteration
- Allusion
- Ambiguity
- Anagram
- Analogy
- Anaphora
- Antagonist
- Antecedent
- Antithesis
- Anthropomorphism
- Antonym
- Aphorism
- Appositive
- Archetype
- Assonance
- Bathos
- Catharsis
- Climax
- Colloquialism
- Dactylic Hexameter and Iambic Pentameter
- Deus ex Machina
- Diatribe
- Dichotomy
- Dissonance
- Elegiac Couplet
- Equivocation
- Ellipsis
- Epithet
- Ethos
- Eulogy
- Euphemism
- Exposition
- Foil
- Homonym
- Homophone
- Hubris
- Hyperbole
- Iambic Pentameter
- Innuendo
- Invective
- Inversion
- Irony
- Juxtaposition
- Leitmotif
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- Litotes
- Logos
- Lyrical Poem
- Metaphor
- Mixed Metaphor
- Extended Metaphor
- Malapropisms and Spoonerisms
- Moral
- Ode
- Onomatopoeia
- Oxymoron
- Palindrome
- Parallelism
- Parody
- Pathos
- Protagonist
- Proverb
- Rhetoric
- Simile
- Superlative
- Syllogism
- Synonym
- Visceral
- Zeugma

Plot Devices

English Grammar

- Adverb
- Verb
- Noun
- Pronoun
- Preposition
- Adjective
- Past Participle
- A or An?
- It's and Its
- Who or whom?
- Split infinitive
- Strong verbs
- Voice, Active
- Voice, Passive

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