- Epistolary: A piece of writing written in the form of letters.
- Alliteration: A writing device that involves emphasized repetition of the initial consonant sounds in the words of a sentence or line. Ex: Betty Botter bought a bit of butter.
- Zeugma: A writing device used to denote a single word/phrase to describe two thoughts or two different contexts. Ex: She lost her necklace and her heart.
- Palindrome: A word, number, phrase, sentence, writing, or a sequence of characters/symbols, that reads the same backwards as forwards. Ex: Wow, mom, radar, Mr. Owl Ate My Metal Worm
- Epigram: A short poem, phrase, or witty saying that expresses an idea in a clever, paradoxical, or amusing way. Ex: I can resist everything but temptation.
- Anthropomorphism: Attributing human traits to non-human objects. Ex: the character of an animal, toy, or object in a story/movie that speaks in the language of humans
- Anadiplosis: A writing device that involves repetition in which a word of a phrase appears both at the end of one clause, sentence, or stanza, and at the beginning of the next, thus linking the two units. Ex: Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
- Acronym: A short word composed of the first letters of a group of words. Ex: WHO (World Health Organization)
- Aphorism: A concise, terse, laconic, witty, clever, pointed, or memorable expression, representing a general truth or observation. Ex: All is fair in love and war.
- Enthymeme: A writing device that presents an argument that expresses that if A=B and B=C, then A=C without stating that B=C. Ex: All insects have six legs, therefore, all wasps have six legs.
- Polyptoton: Repetition of the word of the same root used in the same sentence with a variety of differing contexts, inflection, and voice. Ex: I dreamed a dream in times gone by.
- Synecdoche: A writing device in which a part of something is used to represent the whole. Ex: Johnny got new wheels. (Meaning, Johnny got a new car)
- Cliffhanger: An exciting situation in a story when you cannot guess what's going to happen next and you have to wait until the next part in order to find out.
- Personification: A writing device that involves projection of a human's qualities, emotions, and feelings on a non-human entity. Ex: Flowers danced merrily in joy.
- Enjambment: The continuation of a sentence or a clause beyond the end of a poetic line, couplet, or stanza. Ex: “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness; but still will keep / A bower quiet for us, and a sleep / Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing”
- Verisimilitude: A writing device based on the idea that a piece of writing is true to reality. Ex: A description of a city in a story, with all its buildings, streets and names, should ring true to the reader.
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