About: literary device

Premodifier: literary
Head noun: device

Same concepts
http://dbpedia.org/resource/List_of_narrative_techniques

Broader concepts

label	provenance	confidence
thing	isap:116699443	0.711514
structure	isap:424849920	0.439491
function	isap:99214494	0.345538

Narrower concepts

label	provenance	confidence
figurative language	isap:478865561	0.826846
point of view	isap:164079468	0.822175
sentence structure	isap:132304661	0.817149
symbolism	isap:134807612	0.793462
flashback	isap:137192495	0.771401
simile	isap:390692713	0.769144
alliteration	isap:81803471	0.763805
dialogue	isap:481621256	0.758508
character development	isap:144865003	0.751727
foreshadowing	isap:53364748	0.733527
hyperbole	isap:132055899	0.730188
irony	isap:157961685	0.723903
satire	isap:388357463	0.715876
imagery	isap:268027374	0.692524
rhythm	isap:396697400	0.686789
plot	isap:300520819	0.657025
symbol	isap:393752205	0.653833
allusion	isap:480870342	0.649867
metaphor	isap:485846599	0.643455
characterization	isap:210266354	0.624616
misunderstanding	isap:213873104	0.618560
figure of speech	isap:392553103	0.617691
red herring	isap:272053776	0.587666
time travel	isap:386840384	0.586512
character	isap:134825649	0.560644
chiasm	isap:390164561	0.559675
parody	isap:397646120	0.556950
poetic justice	isap:266718500	0.532064
personification	isap:108108529	0.517983
tone	isap:306544574	0.505819
digression	isap:255312113	0.491989
repetition	isap:256256489	0.490831
etc	isap:212137550	0.482436
anthropomorphism	isap:213895841	0.480652
conflict	isap:483485897	0.477212
sarcasm	isap:267620353	0.461939
setting	isap:269049827	0.461437
parable	isap:268811234	0.457908
word-play	isap:134425235	0.457178
use of symbolism	isap:215284635	0.453029
motif	isap:158525220	0.448892
exaggeration	isap:81392058	0.448702
suspense	isap:485892419	0.431926
unreliable narrator	isap:483521533	0.431524
pun	isap:211969715	0.430945
paradox	isap:272320631	0.426407
diction	isap:276570608	0.425855
meter	isap:157533363	0.410793
idiom	isap:154337625	0.409146
voice	isap:156387859	0.409146
consonance	isap:255410810	0.409004
theme	isap:160041012	0.401360
tale	isap:306147034	0.396930
novel	isap:161074224	0.391703
poetry	isap:393855672	0.384307
anecdote	isap:485145812	0.365861
onomatopoeia	isap:81313631	0.359248
parallelism	isap:142624977	0.357483
antithesis	isap:253601804	0.341668
anadiplosis	isap:143403956	0.338615
contradiction	isap:53006007	0.334989
narrative	isap:135038417	0.333592
word	isap:305838976	0.333466
cliffhanger	isap:144304125	0.333360
analogy	isap:273720943	0.333213
allegory	isap:479027300	0.329530
assonance	isap:132000858	0.327315
use of metaphor	isap:215284357	0.324138
fiction	isap:267516890	0.317911
chiasmus	isap:484696545	0.314925
rhyme	isap:153218006	0.312338
merism	isap:385202127	0.305610
use	isap:215284273	0.303742
story	isap:164467822	0.296773
rhyming	isap:272816189	0.292863
reference	isap:134733181	0.292484
genre	isap:163945502	0.289288
poem	isap:300884643	0.284385
letter	isap:385101485	0.282981
joke	isap:308933857	0.277416
detail	isap:394090985	0.273215
english	isap:272691104	0.271920
essay	isap:158426130	0.266766
list	isap:308907879	0.260885
suicide	isap:271023124	0.256671
art	isap:215211874	0.238684
day of creation	isap:209561657	0.206875
verse	isap:159010300	0.164196
day	isap:209561655	0.119167
and	isap:209615563	0.108723
question	isap:480676273	0.107486