These literary devices compare two unlike things for an unexpected effect.

Most likely this was a literary device used in the novel.

In writing, however, both genders use rhetorical questions as literary devices.

It is a common literary device with the great authors.

The more literary devices that you can throw together, the better the writing.

At times, notes have been used for their comical effect, or as a literary device.

Not just as a literary device, but in real life.

The choice and use of literary devices are conspicuous in the stories.

This literary device is the equivalent of the character's writing in the novel and the film's only wrong turn.

In the series he often uses literary devices characteristic of 19th century popular literature.