Category:Literary techniques

D

• ► Descriptive technique‎ (14 P)

F

• ► Films by plot device‎ (1 C, 1 P)

L

• ► Logical fallacies‎ (4 C, 73 P)

M

• ► Metaphors‎ (5 C, 58 P)
• ► Metonymy‎ (4 P)

P

• ► Personifications‎ (6 C, 52 P, 1 F)
• ► Placeholder names‎ (51 P)
• ► Poetic devices‎ (5 C, 42 P)
• ► Polysemy‎ (2 P)

R

• ► Rhetorical techniques‎ (8 C, 97 P)

S

• ► Synecdoche‎ (3 P)

U

• ► Unseen characters‎ (26 P)

W

• ► Word play‎ (6 C, 44 P)

• Literary technique
• Plot device
• Stylistic device

A

• Alien space bats
• Allegory
• Allusion
• Aphorism
• Apologue
• Author surrogate

B

• Backstory
• Bed trick

C

• Cacography
• Chekhov's gun
• Chreia
• Closed circle of suspects
• Collaborative poetry
• Comedic device

D

• Deal with the Devil
• Deathtrap (plot device)
• Deus ex machina
• Digression
• Dionysian imitatio
• Dream world (plot device)

E

• E-Prime

E cont.

• Euphuism
• Eye dialect

F

• Fable
• Fairy tale
• Farmer's daughter (character)
• Frame story
• Framing device

H

• Homeric simile
• Homophone
• Hypocatastasis

I

• Illeism
• Imagery
• Imitation (art)
• Ironic precision

J

• Jonbar Hinge

L

• Level of detail (writing)
• Line (poetry)
• Line break (poetry)
• List of metonyms
• List of polysemes
• Lofty idealism

M

• MacGuffin
• Metalepsis
• Metaphor

M cont.

• Metaphor and metonymy
• Metonymy

O

• Opening sentence

P

• Parable
• Personification in the Bible
• Pieg
• Plot generator
• Point of divergence
• Principle of Evil Marksmanship
• Psittacism
• Purposeful omission

Q

• Quest
• Quibble (plot device)

R

• Redshirt (character)
• Reveal (narrative)

S

• Shakespearean fool
• Shoulder angel
• Simile
• Simulated Real Time
• Slice of life

T

• Tuckerization

W

• Wisdom (personification)