A-Z Literary Devices Index A Accismus Accumulation Adnomination Adnomination Allegory Alliteration Allusion Anagram Anastrophe Anecdote Antanaclasis Antanagoge Anthimeria Anthropomorphism Antihero Antimetabole Antithesis Antonomasia Apostrophe Archaism Archetypes Assonance Asterismos Asyndeton Atmosphere B Backstory Bathos C Cacophony Caesura Catharsis Chiasmus Circumlocution Cliffhangers Climax Conceit Consonance Contrast Cumulative sentence D Diction Double entendre Dysphemism E Elegy Ellipsis Enjambment Enthymeme Epanalepsis Epigraph Epimone Epistrophe Epithet Epizeuxis Eulogy Euphemism Euphony Eutrepismus Exposition F Figurative language Devices Flashbacks Foil Foreshadowing H Half rhyme Hubris Hypallage Hyperbaton Hyperbole Hypotaxis I idiom Imagery Intertextuality Inversion Irony Isocolon J Juxtaposition L Litotes M Malapropism Meiosis Metalepsis Metaphor Mondegreen Mood N Narrative devices O Omniscient Overstatement Oxymoron P Paradox Paralipsis Parallel Plot Parallelism Parenthesis Periphrasis Personification Perspective Pleonasm Poetic Devices Polysyndeton Portmanteau Pun R Rhetorical Devices S Sarcasm Setting Sibilance Simile Spoonerism Structural devices Style Suspense Syllepsis Symbolism Synecdoche T Tautology Tmesis Tmesis Tragic Flaw Trope U Understatement V Verisimilitude Vignette W Wordplay devices Z Zeugma Zoomorphism