| Another literary device characteristic of the Targums and still more of Midrash is the introduction of popular narratives which add flavor to the text. | 
| So the eating is evidently a literary device, part of the pattern of each novel. | 
| Sometimes the pretense of purely abstract intellectual rigour is in fact a literary device. | 
| The introduction of Solomon, the ideal of wisdom, is a literary device of the later time, and probably deceived nobody. | 
| This might only be a literary device or literary preference, since use of the historic present vivifies the action. | 
| 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. |