A-Z Literary Devices Index A Accismus Accumulation Acrostic Active Voice Ad Hominem Adage Adnomination Adnomination Adventure Allegory Alliteration Allusion Ambiguity Amplification Anachronism Anagram Anastrophe Anecdote Antanaclasis Antanagoge Anthimeria Anthropomorphism Antihero Antimetabole Antithesis Antonomasia Apostrophe Archaism Archetypes Assonance Asterismos Asyndeton Atmosphere Authorial Intrusion B Backstory Bathos Bdelygmia Bibliomancy Bildungsroman C Cacophony Caesura Catharsis Chiasmus Circumlocution Cliffhangers Climax Conceit Consonance Contrast Cumulative sentence D Deus ex Machina Diction Double entendre Dysphemism E Ekphrastic Ekphrastic Elegy Ellipsis Enjambment Enthymeme Epanalepsis Epigraph Epimone Epistrophe Epithet Epizeuxis Eulogy Euphemism Euphony Eutrepismus Exposition F Figurative language Devices Flashbacks Foil Foreshadowing Frame story H Half rhyme Hamartia Hubris Hypallage Hyperbaton Hyperbole Hypotaxis I idiom Imagery In Medias Res Innuendo Intertextuality Inversion Irony Isocolon J Juxtaposition K Kinesthetic Imagery L Litotes M Malapropism Meiosis Metalepsis Metaphor Metonymy Mondegreen Mood Motif Myth N Narrative devices Narrative voice Negative Capability Nemesis Neologism O Olfactory Imagery Omniscient Onomatopoeia Overstatement Oxymoron P Paradox Paralipsis Parallel Plot Parallelism Parenthesis Pathetic Fallacy Periodic Structure Periphrasis Personification Perspective Pleonasm Plot Plot Twist Poetic Devices Polysyndeton Portmanteau Prologue Protagonist Pun Purple Prose R Rhetorical Devices S Sarcasm Satire Setting Sibilance Simile Situational Irony Spoonerism Stanza Stream of Consciousness Structural devices Style Subplot Suspense Syllepsis Symbolism Synecdoche Synesthesia Syntax T Tactile Imagery Tautology Theme Tmesis Tmesis Tragedy Tragic Flaw Trope U Understatement V Verbal Irony Verisimilitude Vignette Visual Imagery W Wordplay devices Z Zeugma Zoomorphism
