| This might only be a literary device or literary preference, since use of the historic present vivifies the action. |
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| I was teaching a basic college writing course one summer at the local community college and I wanted to explain irony as a literary device. |
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| It is a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. |
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| Sometimes the pretense of purely abstract intellectual rigour is in fact a literary device. |
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| So the eating is evidently a literary device, part of the pattern of each novel. |
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| Another commonly used and yet confused literary device, a stands for something. |
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| What many fans may not realize is that Doritos are also a mighty literary device. |
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| Consuela, never fully alive to begin with, dwindles into literary device. |
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| In Finnish, it is mostly a literary device, as it has virtually disappeared from daily spoken language in most dialects. |
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| Without taking a position in the debate, the terms gender equality and women's rights are used interchangeably in this Report, primarily as a literary device to avoid a reiteration of a single term. |
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| Another literary device characteristic of the Targums and still more of Midrash is the introduction of popular narratives which add flavor to the text. |
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| Hamlet also contains a recurrent Shakespearean device, a play within the play, a literary device or conceit in which one story is told during the action of another story. |
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