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Literary technique

Literary technique, also called literary device. Novels and short stories do not simply come from nowhere. Usually the author employs some general literary technique as a framework for artistic work.

Annotated List of Literary Techniques

Authors also manipulate the language of their works to create a desired response from the reader. This is the realm of the rhetorical devices.



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