An antihero is a central character in literature or film...

Bathos is a literary device that involves an abrupt shift...

Euphemism is a rhetorical device used to soften the impact...

Dysphemism is a rhetorical device that involves using harsh, derogatory,...

Polysyndeton is a rhetorical device in which writers use multiple...

Climax is the intense turning point in a story, traced...

Chiasmus is a rhetorical device in which two clauses are...

Syllepsis is a figure of speech in which one word...

Caesura—a deliberate pause within a line of poetry—serves as a...

Euphony a literary device that transforms ordinary language into a...