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What is a literary device?

What is a literary device? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (literature) An identifiable rule of thumb, convention, or structure that is employed in literature and storytelling.
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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.
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.

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