100+ Literary Devices List

100+ Literary Devices List PDF – Overview

This PDF contains list of 100+ literary devices in high quality printable format, or you can download the free PDF for later use. Literary devices refers to the typical structures used by writers in their works to convey his or her messages in a simple manner to the readers.

When employed properly, the different literary devices help readers to appreciate, interpret and analyze a literary work. Below is a list of literary devices with detailed definition and examples.

Another definition of a literary device is a writing technique that writers use to express ideas, convey meaning, and highlight important themes in a piece of text. A metaphor, for instance, is a famous example of a literary device. These devices serve a wide range of purposes in literature.

100+ Literary Devices List

List of Literary Devices

1. Aestheticism
2. Allusion
3. Anachronism
4. Anagram
5. Antagonist
6. Antimasque
7. Aphorism
8. Apostrophe
9. Arcadia
10. Archaism
11. Argument
12. Atmosphere
13. Avant Garde
14. Balance
15. Ballad
16. Baroque
17. Bathos
18. Beast Epic
19. Belles-Letters
20. Blank Verse
21. Burlesque (orCaricature)
22. Caesura (Cesura)
23. Canon
24. Canto
25. Caricature
26. Catharsis
27. Classicism
28. Closed Couplet
29. Comedy of Humours
30. Comedy of Manners
31. Comic Relief
32. Conceit
33. Dirge
34. Dramatic Irony
35. Dramatic Monologue
36. Droll
37. Denouement
38. Elegy
39. Epic
40. Epigram
41. Epistolary Novel
42. Euphemism
43. Euphuism
44. Existentialism
45. Expressionism
46. Genre
47. Gothic
48. Grub Street
49. Heroic Drama
50. Heroic Line
51. Humours
52. Idyll
53. Imagery
54. Innuendo
55. Intentional Fallacy
56. Interlude
57. Intrigue
58. Irony
59. Lampoon
60. Lay
61. Limerick
62. Madrigal
63. Magnum Opus
64. Masque
65. Metaphor
66. Metaphysical Poetry
67. Metonymy
68. Metrics
69. Mime
70. Minstrel
71. Miracle Plays
72. Mock Epic or Mock Heroic
73. Monody
74. Morality Plays
75. Muses
76. Mystery play
77. Novella
78. Ode
79. Omniscient Point of View
80. Onomatopoeia
81. Ottava Rima
82. Panegyric
83. Patomime
84. Parable
85. Paradox
86. Pastoral Elegy
87. Pathetic Fallacy
88. Peripety
89. Picaresque Novel
90. Pindaric Ode
91. Plagiarism
92. Poetic Justice
93. Polemic
94. Pre-Raphaelite
95. Protagonist
96. Refrain
97. Repartee
98. Revenge Tragedy
99. Romantic
100. Semantics
101. Seven Deadly Sins
102. Simile
103. Stream of Consciousness Novel
104. Surrealism
105. Tone (Tone Colour)
106. Tragi-Comedy
107. Trope
108. Verisimilitude
109. Wit

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