One description of the fictional device was as follows:
As of 2011 they remain a "fictional device".
The Times's policies prohibit falsifying a news account or using fictional devices in factual material.
It is primarily a fictional device and often takes the form of a tragedy.
Such devices are not considered to be hover cars, however-that term is used only for the fictional device.
The character of the fictitious author, as perceived by the reader, may itself be a fictional device.
The time viewer is a fictional, oracle-like device occasionally imagined in science fiction.
Frameups are often used as a fictional device.
But he hadn't really expected such signs; they were fictional devices, and this was real.
Professor Brinkley said he had never heard of the use of such a fictional device in a biography.
