Before sitting for the ACT, it is important to gain an understanding of common literary devices. The ability to identify, analyze and employ literary devices can help test-takers score their best on ...

There’s nothing quite like a stylistic device that goes out of favor. If you don’t think so, check out some movies of the early to mid-1970s. Beginning with M.A.S.H., filmmakers seemed to go crazy ...

Picture the following scenario, said Visiting Assistant Professor of German Andrew Hamilton at a recent faculty seminar: It’s the early 1800s and two European cavalry officers—let’s say Russians—are ...

Legon Journal of the Humanities, Vol. 31, No. 1 (2020), pp. 117-144 (28 pages) This paper examines the stylistic features and proverbs in ɔba nyansafo wɔbu no bε na wɔnka no asεm, ‘A wise child is ...

Magic realism has become so commonplace, so trivialized, that its future as a mirror of deeper truth is being compromised. The technique has begun to lose its usefulness as a literary device. The ...

Literary devices are specific ways of using language or other literary elements that we can recognise and identify in a text (a piece of writing). These can work either at a word or sentence level or ...

City Desk has consistently returned thumbs-down verdicts on Washington Post Staff Writer DeNeen Brown and her literary devices. Any loyal Post reader knows the Brown MO—excessive second person ...