Meanings of literary device in inglés

Is this a literary device or a genuine hint to your readers?

This is called allegory, and it is a powerful literary device.

This literary device has not been applauded by the aforementioned swells.

It feels like a literary device, like something out of Borges.

This he thought sufficient, but Mrs. Clemens did not highly regard such a literary device.

It is not fair to call this a fraud; it was a perfectly legitimate literary device.

The personification of spring is saved from mere literary device: she seems more country-girl than goddess.

At least, not as a literary device.

In our universe, Revlians do not exist, and alien abductions are a somewhat hackneyed and far-fetched literary device.

This literary device became known as "Socialist realism."

DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.

It's a "Gold" standard literary device to use a famous line from your most famous song to title your autobiography.

His use of spiced tea as a metaphor for the complex connections between South Asian ethnicities and castes is a masterful literary device.

In order to illustrate the evolutionary forces at work at this pivotal moment, he employed a venerable (but easy to misinterpret) literary device.

Among the fun elements of the book is the literary device of creating a galactic computer teleconference, which itself becomes an actor in the story.

Memmott is creating new literary devices to replace the hyperlinks he used in his Web piece.