Device | Meaning | Definition
Device
(Noun)
A Device is something instrumental through which a thing is operated to get the desired result. A literary Device is something like a mental picture made of words through which a speaker or writer intends to illustrate and conveys his ideas or viewpoints to his listeners or readers. The use of imagery is such a device in any literary art- either prose or poetry.
The analysis and assessment of devices in any literary art involve the examination of the use of words, phrases, construction and functions of words, phrases, sentences, figures of speech, allusions, references (in brief to say, imageries ) with which any literary art takes shape. 0 0 0.
N. B. The article originally belongs to the book entitled ‘Menonimus Dictionary of Literary Terms‘.
Books on Literary Criticism by M. Menonimus:
- World Short Story Criticism
- World Poetry Criticism
- World Drama Criticism
- World Novel Criticism
- World Essay Criticism
- Indian English Poetry Criticism
- Indian English Poets and Poetry Chief Features
- Emily Dickinson’s Poetry-A Thematic Study
- Walt Whitman’s Poetry-A Thematic Study
- Critical Essays on English Poetry
- Tawfiq al-Hakim’s Novel: Return of the Spirit-An Analytical Study
- Tawfiq al-Hakim’s Novel: ‘Yawmiyyat Naib Fil Arayaf’-An Analytical Study
- Analytical Studies of Some Arabic Short Stories
- A Brief History of Arabic Literature: Pre-Islamic Period (500 AD-622 AD)
- A Brief History of Arabic Literature: Early Islamic Period (622 AD-661 AD) …
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