For thousands of years, humans have been creating stories — and for just as long, they’ve been coming up with words to describe all the tools and techniques that make a story work. But these “literary ...

3. “Let me tell you ’bout the birds and the bees / And the flowers and the trees / And the moon up above / And a thing called ‘love.’” Jewel Akens’s use of ‘and’ is an example of: ...

Literary devices are specific ways of using language or other literary elements that we can recognise and identify in a text (a piece of writing). These can work either at a word or sentence level or ...