User:Nivich/Books/Literary techniques


 * Literary technique
 * Plot device
 * Stylistic device
 * Alien space bats
 * Allegory
 * Allusion
 * Aphorism
 * Apologue
 * Author surrogate
 * Backstory
 * Bed trick
 * Cacography
 * Chekhov's gun
 * Chreia
 * Closed circle of suspects
 * Collaborative poetry
 * Comedic device
 * Condensation (psychology)
 * Deal with the Devil
 * Deathtrap (plot device)
 * Deus ex machina
 * Digression
 * Dionysian imitatio
 * Dream world (plot device)
 * E-Prime
 * Euphuism
 * Eye dialect
 * Fable
 * Fairy tale
 * Farmer's daughter (character)
 * Frame story
 * Heteronym (literature)
 * Homeric simile
 * Homophone
 * Hypocatastasis
 * Illeism
 * Imagery
 * Imitation (art)
 * Ironic precision
 * Jonbar Hinge
 * Level of detail (writing)
 * Line (poetry)
 * Line break (poetry)
 * List of metonyms
 * List of polysemes
 * MacGuffin
 * Metalepsis
 * Metaphor
 * Metaphor and metonymy
 * Metonymy
 * Opening sentence
 * Parable
 * Personification in the Bible
 * Plot generator
 * Point of divergence
 * Principle of Evil Marksmanship
 * Psittacism
 * Purposeful omission
 * Quest
 * Quibble (plot device)
 * Redshirt (character)
 * Reveal (narrative)
 * Shakespearean fool
 * Shoulder angel
 * Simile
 * Simulated Real Time
 * Slice of life
 * Tuckerization
 * Wisdom (personification)