Prompt 7 of 7
Name a literary device
645 accepted answers across 5 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Apophasis— Mentions a subject by insisting it will not be mentioned.
85 ptsDeep Cut409 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Ab ovo
- Abbreviatio
- Acatalexis
- Accentual verse
- Accentual-syllabic verse
- Accismus
- Accumulation
- Adianoeta
- Adonic
- Adoxography
- Adynaton
- Aeolic
- Aetiologia
- Alcaic
- Alcmanian
- Alexandrine
- Alliterative verse
- Amphibrach
- Amphisbaenic rhyme
- Amplification
- Anacoenosis
- Anacoluthon
- Anacrusis
- Anadiplosis
- Anagnorisis
- Anamnesis
- Anangeon
- Anapestic tetrameter
- Anapodoton
- Anceps
- Anisometric verse
- Antanaclasis
- Antanagoge
- Anthimeria
- Antibacchius
- Antilabe
- Antimetabole
- Antiphrasis
- Antiptosis
- Antispast
- Antonomasia
- Anustubh
- Apahnuti
- Apheresis
- Apo koinou
- Apocope
- Aporia
- Aposiopesis
- Archilochian
- Aristeia
- Arthantaranyasa
- Asclepiad
- Audience surrogate
- Aureation
- Autoclesis
- Auxesis
- Bacchius
- Balanced sentence
- Barbarism
- Basīṭ
- Battologia
- Bdelygmia
- Bed trick
- Bicolon
- Blason
- Bob and wheel
- Bomphiologia
- Brachylogia
- Breviloquence
- Brevitas
- Broken rhyme
- Cacozelia
- Cadence
- Captatio benevolentiae
- Catachresis
- Catacosmesis
- Catalexis
- Catalog
- Catastrophe
- Chain rhyme
- Charactonym
- Choliamb
- Choriamb
- Chreia
- Chronogram
- Chronographia
- Clausula
- Common measure
- Commoratio
- Conduplicatio
- Correctio
- Correlative verse
- Correption
- Coup de théâtre
- Cretic
- Crisis
- Cross acrostic
- Cross rhyme
- Cut-up technique
- Cynghanedd
- Czech Alexandrine
- Dactylic pentameter
- Dactylic tetrameter
- Decasyllable
- Dedication
- Diacope
- Diaeresis
- Diamb
- Dianoea
- Diasyrmus
- Difrasismo
- Dimeter
- Dipaka
- Dipody
- Direct address
- Direct characterization
- Dispondee
- Distributed stress
- Distributio
- Ditrochee
- Divisio
- Dochmiac
- Dodecasyllable
- Dog Latin
- Dramatic visualization
- Drishtanta
- Dropped line
- Dubitatio
- Dumb show
- Duologue
- Duple meter
- Dysphemism
- E-Prime
- Echo verse
- Effictio
- Emotive conjugation
- Enallage
- Enantiosis
- Enargia
- Enclosed rhyme
- End-stopped line
- Engo
- Enthymeme
- Entrelacement
- Envoi
- Epanalepsis
- Epanodos
- Epenthesis
- Epic catalogue
- Epiphrase
- Epiplexis
- Episodic storytelling
- Epistolary
- Epistrophe
- Epitrite
- Epizeuxis
- Epode
- Eponym
- Erasure
- Ethopoeia
- Eucatastrophe
- Euphuism
- Exclamatio
- Exemplum
- Expletive
- Expolitio
- Extrametrical verse
- Eye dialect
- Falling rhythm
- False document
- Feminine ending
- Feminine rhyme
- Figura etymologica
- Focalization
- Foregrounding
- Found manuscript
- Fourteener
- Frequentatio
- Fustian
- Galliambic verse
- Gayatri
- Glyconic
- Goblet word
- Golden line
- Gramogram
- Hazaj
- Headless line
- Heiti
- Hemistich
- Hendecasyllable
- Hendiadys
- Hendiatris
- Heptameter
- Heptastich
- Heroic verse
- Heteroglossia
- Hexastich
- Hexasyllable
- Hiatus
- Holorime
- Homeoptoton
- Homeoteleuton
- Homophonic translation
- Honkadori
- Horatian satire
- Hovering accent
- Hudibrastic
- Hyperbaton
- Hypercatalexis
- Hypocatastasis
- Hypophora
- Hypotaxis
- Hypozeuxis
- Hysteron proteron
- Ideogrammic method
- Illeism
- Iltifat
- Inclusio
- Intercalary chapter
- Ionic
- Isocolon
- Jagati
- Ji-amari
- Jitarazu
- Jokotoba
- Kairos
- Kakekotoba
- Kāmil
- Katabasis
- Khafīf
- Kigo
- Kireji
- Kishōtenketsu
- Laconic phrase
- Lapalissade
- Leitwortstil
- Lekythion
- Leonine rhyme
- Leonine verse
- Light ending
- Light rhyme
- Linked rhyme
- Lipogram
- Logaoedic
- Long meter
- Loose sentence
- Macaronic language
- Madīd
- Major ionic
- Makurakotoba
- Mandakranta
- Masculine ending
- Masculine rhyme
- Mechanomorphism
- Melitzah
- Merism
- Mesodiplosis
- Mesostic
- Meta-reference
- Metafiction
- Metalepsis
- Metaplasm
- Metatheatre
- Mimesis
- Minor ionic
- Mise en abyme
- Mitate
- Molossus
- Monometer
- Monorhyme
- Monostich
- Muḍāriʿ
- Mujtathth
- Multiperspectivity
- Mundus inversus
- Munsariħ
- Muqtaḍab
- Mutadārik
- Mutaqārib
- Nemesis
- Noema
- Nonce word
- Notatio
- Objective correlative
- Obligatory scene
- Ochi
- Octameter
- Octosyllable
- Off-centered rhyme
- Paeon
- Paradiastole
- Paraprosdokian
- Pararhyme
- Parataxis
- Paratext
- Parechesis
- Paroemion
- Paromoiosis
- Parrhesia
- Perfect rhyme
- Periodic sentence
- Peripeteia
- Periphrasis
- Peristasis
- Pleonasm
- Ploce
- Polish Alexandrine
- Political verse
- Polyphony
- Polyptoton
- Posthumous narrative
- Poulter's measure
- Praegnans constructio
- Prahelika
- Prashnottara
- Predestination paradox
- Priamel
- Procatalepsis
- Prosthesis
- Purposeful omission
- Pyrrhic
- Qafiya
- Qualitative meter
- Quantitative meter
- Quintain
- Radif
- Rajaz
- Ramal
- Ratiocinatio
- Recusatio
- Register
- Repetitive designation
- Reset button technique
- Riding rhyme
- Rime riche
- Romantic irony
- Root metaphor
- Samasokti
- Sarīʿ
- Saturnian
- Schesis onomaton
- Sententia
- Septenary
- Sestet
- Shardulavikridita
- Shloka
- Signifyin'
- Skaz
- Slant rhyme
- Sobriquet
- Solecism
- Sphragis
- Sprung rhythm
- Strophe
- Subiectio
- Svabhavokti
- Syllabic verse
- Syllepsis
- Symploce
- Synaeresis
- Synalepha
- Synchysis
- Syncope
- Synesis
- Synesthesia
- Synonymia
- Syzygy
- Tail rhyme
- Tapinosis
- Tautogram
- Tawīl
- Telestich
- Tension
- Tetrabrach
- Thematic patterning
- Tirade
- Tmesis
- Topographia
- Topos
- Topothesia
- Transferred epithet
- Transitio
- Travesty
- Triadic-line
- Tribrach
- Tricolon
- Trimeter
- Triple meter
- Triple rhyme
- Tristubh
- Trochaic octameter
- Trochaic septenarius
- Trochaic tetrameter
- Tuckerization
- Type scene
- Ubi sunt
- Univocalic
- Utamakura
- Utpreksha
- Vakrokti
- Verfremdungseffekt
- Verse paragraph
- Vyatireka
- Wāfir
- Wardour Street English
- Wellerism
- Wit
- Wrenched accent
- Yamaka
60 ptsRare116 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Anachronism
- Anapest
- Anaphora
- Anastrophe
- Anticlimax
- Antithesis
- Aphorism
- Apostrophe
- Archaism
- Assonance
- Asyndeton
- Bathos
- Blank verse
- Burlesque
- Cacophony
- Caesura
- Catharsis
- Chekhov's gun
- Chiasmus— Mirror-image word order: by day the frolic, and the dance by night.
- Colloquialism
- Conceit
- Concession
- Consonance
- Cosmic irony
- Dactyl
- Dactylic hexameter
- Dead metaphor
- Defamiliarization
- Denouement
- Deus ex machina
- Diatribe
- Digression
- Ekphrasis
- Elision
- Enjambment
- Enumeration
- Epigraph
- Epiphany
- Epithet
- Euphony
- Eye rhyme
- Foil
- Foot
- Frame story
- Free indirect discourse
- Gallows humor
- Hamartia
- Heroic couplet
- Hexameter
- Historical present
- Hubris
- Iamb
- Iambic pentameter
- Iambic tetrameter
- In medias res
- Intertextuality
- Invective
- Invocation of the muse
- Juvenalian satire
- Kenning
- Lampoon
- Leitmotif
- Litotes— Understatement by negating the opposite, as in 'not bad at all.'
- Loaded language
- MacGuffin
- Magical realism
- Malapropism
- Maxim
- Metonymy
- Mnemonic
- Mock-heroic
- Montage
- Multisyllabic rhyme
- Neologism
- Octave
- Pangram
- Parenthesis
- Pastiche
- Pathetic fallacy
- Pentameter
- Persona
- Platitude
- Poetic diction
- Polysyndeton
- Portmanteau
- Preface
- Quatrain
- Rebus
- Retcon
- Reverse chronology
- Second-person narration
- Self-insertion
- Self-referential humor
- Sibilance
- Socratic irony
- Soliloquy
- Spondee
- Spoonerism
- Stock character
- Stream of consciousness
- Synecdoche
- Tableau
- Tautology
- Tercet
- Tetrameter
- Three-act structure
- Ticking time bomb scenario
- Title drop
- Trochee
- Truism
- Verisimilitude
- Vernacular
- Vignette
- Volta
- Zeugma— One word yokes two others: 'she broke his car and his heart.'
- Zoomorphism
30 ptsSchooler113 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Acrostic
- Allegory
- Allusion
- Alter ego
- Ambiguity
- Anagram
- Analogy
- Anecdote
- Anthropomorphism
- Archetype
- Aside
- Backstory
- Breaking the fourth wall
- Callback
- Caricature
- Character arc
- Characterization
- Chorus
- Cliché
- Cliffhanger
- Climax
- Comic relief
- Conflict
- Connotation
- Couplet
- Denotation
- Dialect
- Dialogue
- Diction
- Doppelganger
- Double entendre
- Dramatic irony
- Dream sequence
- Ellipsis
- End rhyme
- Epilogue
- Ethos
- Euphemism
- Exposition
- Falling action
- First person
- Flash-forward
- Flashback
- Foreshadowing
- Foreword
- Free verse
- Hero's journey
- Idiom
- Imagery
- Inciting incident
- Indirect characterization
- Innuendo
- Interior monologue
- Internal rhyme
- Jargon
- Juxtaposition
- Line break
- Logos
- Meter
- Mixed metaphor
- Monologue
- Mood
- Motif
- Narration
- Narrative hook
- Nonlinear narrative
- Omniscient narrator
- Onomatopoeia
- Oxymoron
- Pacing
- Palindrome
- Paradox
- Parallelism
- Parody
- Pathos
- Plot twist
- Poetic justice
- Point of view
- Prologue
- Proverb
- Pun
- Red herring
- Refrain
- Repetition
- Rhetorical question
- Rhyme
- Rhyme scheme
- Rhythm
- Rising action
- Rule of three
- Running gag
- Sarcasm
- Satire
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
- Setting
- Show, don't tell
- Situational irony
- Slang
- Stanza
- Style
- Subplot
- Subtext
- Suspense
- Symbolism
- Syntax
- Theme
- Third person
- Third-person limited
- Tone
- Understatement
- Unreliable narrator
- Voice
- Worldbuilding
10 ptsPlankton6 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Alliteration
- Hyperbole
- Irony
- Metaphor
- Personification
- Simile