Sykes was, the director confessed, a dramatic device, but the story could not be properly told without one.

Slow motion is often used here as a dramatic device.

Prairie madness is used in literature of the period as a dramatic device, or to move the plot along.

It is also used as a dramatic device by many contemporary playwrights.

Maybe a more dramatic device is needed to catch reader attention.

Perhaps all these television clergymen are simply handy dramatic devices.

Yeah true, but obviously it's just a dramatic device.

An aside is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience.

The song has been featured as a dramatic device in numerous films of cultural significance.

The author's dramatic devices, as when one person seems to speak directly to another's thoughts, call for streamlined direction.