Krillion Dive #60 · Prompt 7 of 7

Name a literary device

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One in a Krillion100 points · 1 answers
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Rare60 points · 116 answers
  • Anachronism60 pts
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  • Anticlimax60 pts
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  • Apostrophe60 pts
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  • Bathos60 pts
  • Blank verse60 pts
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  • Catharsis60 pts
  • Chekhov's gun60 pts
  • Chiasmus60 pts
  • Colloquialism60 pts
  • Conceit60 pts
  • Concession60 pts
  • Consonance60 pts
  • Cosmic irony60 pts
  • Dactyl60 pts
  • Dactylic hexameter60 pts
  • Dead metaphor60 pts
  • Defamiliarization60 pts
  • Denouement60 pts
  • Deus ex machina60 pts
  • Diatribe60 pts
  • Digression60 pts
  • Ekphrasis60 pts
  • Elision60 pts
  • Enjambment60 pts
  • Enumeration60 pts
  • Epigraph60 pts
  • Epiphany60 pts
  • Epithet60 pts
  • Euphony60 pts
  • Eye rhyme60 pts
  • Foil60 pts
  • Foot60 pts
  • Frame story60 pts
  • Free indirect discourse60 pts
  • Gallows humor60 pts
  • Hamartia60 pts
  • Heroic couplet60 pts
  • Hexameter60 pts
  • Historical present60 pts
  • Hubris60 pts
  • Iamb60 pts
  • Iambic pentameter60 pts
  • Iambic tetrameter60 pts
  • In medias res60 pts
  • Intertextuality60 pts
  • Invective60 pts
  • Invocation of the muse60 pts
  • Juvenalian satire60 pts
  • Kenning60 pts
  • Lampoon60 pts
  • Leitmotif60 pts
  • Litotes60 pts
  • Loaded language60 pts
  • MacGuffin60 pts
  • Magical realism60 pts
  • Malapropism60 pts
  • Maxim60 pts
  • Metonymy60 pts
  • Mnemonic60 pts
  • Mock-heroic60 pts
  • Montage60 pts
  • Multisyllabic rhyme60 pts
  • Neologism60 pts
  • Octave60 pts
  • Pangram60 pts
  • Parenthesis60 pts
  • Pastiche60 pts
  • Pathetic fallacy60 pts
  • Pentameter60 pts
  • Persona60 pts
  • Platitude60 pts
  • Poetic diction60 pts
  • Polysyndeton60 pts
  • Portmanteau60 pts
  • Preface60 pts
  • Quatrain60 pts
  • Rebus60 pts
  • Retcon60 pts
  • Reverse chronology60 pts
  • Second-person narration60 pts
  • Self-insertion60 pts
  • Self-referential humor60 pts
  • Sibilance60 pts
  • Socratic irony60 pts
  • Soliloquy60 pts
  • Spondee60 pts
  • Spoonerism60 pts
  • Stock character60 pts
  • Stream of consciousness60 pts
  • Synecdoche60 pts
  • Tableau60 pts
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  • Tercet60 pts
  • Tetrameter60 pts
  • Three-act structure60 pts
  • Ticking time bomb scenario60 pts
  • Title drop60 pts
  • Trochee60 pts
  • Truism60 pts
  • Verisimilitude60 pts
  • Vernacular60 pts
  • Vignette60 pts
  • Volta60 pts
  • Zeugma60 pts
  • Zoomorphism60 pts
Schooler30 points · 113 answers
  • Acrostic30 pts
  • Allegory30 pts
  • Allusion30 pts
  • Alter ego30 pts
  • Ambiguity30 pts
  • Anagram30 pts
  • Analogy30 pts
  • Anecdote30 pts
  • Anthropomorphism30 pts
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  • Aside30 pts
  • Backstory30 pts
  • Breaking the fourth wall30 pts
  • Callback30 pts
  • Caricature30 pts
  • Character arc30 pts
  • Characterization30 pts
  • Chorus30 pts
  • Cliché30 pts
  • Cliffhanger30 pts
  • Climax30 pts
  • Comic relief30 pts
  • Conflict30 pts
  • Connotation30 pts
  • Couplet30 pts
  • Denotation30 pts
  • Dialect30 pts
  • Dialogue30 pts
  • Diction30 pts
  • Doppelganger30 pts
  • Double entendre30 pts
  • Dramatic irony30 pts
  • Dream sequence30 pts
  • Ellipsis30 pts
  • End rhyme30 pts
  • Epilogue30 pts
  • Ethos30 pts
  • Euphemism30 pts
  • Exposition30 pts
  • Falling action30 pts
  • First person30 pts
  • Flash-forward30 pts
  • Flashback30 pts
  • Foreshadowing30 pts
  • Foreword30 pts
  • Free verse30 pts
  • Hero's journey30 pts
  • Idiom30 pts
  • Imagery30 pts
  • Inciting incident30 pts
  • Indirect characterization30 pts
  • Innuendo30 pts
  • Interior monologue30 pts
  • Internal rhyme30 pts
  • Jargon30 pts
  • Juxtaposition30 pts
  • Line break30 pts
  • Logos30 pts
  • Meter30 pts
  • Mixed metaphor30 pts
  • Monologue30 pts
  • Mood30 pts
  • Motif30 pts
  • Narration30 pts
  • Narrative hook30 pts
  • Nonlinear narrative30 pts
  • Omniscient narrator30 pts
  • Onomatopoeia30 pts
  • Oxymoron30 pts
  • Pacing30 pts
  • Palindrome30 pts
  • Paradox30 pts
  • Parallelism30 pts
  • Parody30 pts
  • Pathos30 pts
  • Plot twist30 pts
  • Poetic justice30 pts
  • Point of view30 pts
  • Prologue30 pts
  • Proverb30 pts
  • Pun30 pts
  • Red herring30 pts
  • Refrain30 pts
  • Repetition30 pts
  • Rhetorical question30 pts
  • Rhyme30 pts
  • Rhyme scheme30 pts
  • Rhythm30 pts
  • Rising action30 pts
  • Rule of three30 pts
  • Running gag30 pts
  • Sarcasm30 pts
  • Satire30 pts
  • Self-fulfilling prophecy30 pts
  • Setting30 pts
  • Show, don't tell30 pts
  • Situational irony30 pts
  • Slang30 pts
  • Stanza30 pts
  • Style30 pts
  • Subplot30 pts
  • Subtext30 pts
  • Suspense30 pts
  • Symbolism30 pts
  • Syntax30 pts
  • Theme30 pts
  • Third person30 pts
  • Third-person limited30 pts
  • Tone30 pts
  • Understatement30 pts
  • Unreliable narrator30 pts
  • Voice30 pts
  • Worldbuilding30 pts
Plankton10 points · 6 answers
  • Alliteration10 pts
  • Hyperbole10 pts
  • Irony10 pts
  • Metaphor10 pts
  • Personification10 pts
  • Simile10 pts

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