Literary Devices Quotes

“God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing. And that is what God was doing at the Cloisters and with Eudora Welty. He was foreshadowing. He was laying traps, leaving clues, clues I could have seen had I been perceptive enough.”
― Lauren F. Winner, Girl Meets God

“If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise

“No, Ben. What I’m asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben’s the driver, right?”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Jonathan Harnisch: An Alibiography

“It was no good my knowing that old men have conned young ones like that ever since time began. I still fell for it, as one still falls for the oldest literary devices in the right hands and contexts.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“As I wrote at Lake City Community College in the mid-90s there were a great many things I could only discuss with the help of literary devices – allusion, allegory, metaphor. And now... I'm just like... "Well, stepdad drank himself to death." May you all find a way to write what you now cannot write.”
― Damon Thomas, Some Books Are Not For Sale

“Suspense doesn’t always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.”
― Sandy Vaile

“Delayed gratification hints that something terrible is going to happen, and then delays the resolution.

It’s that interval between the promise of something awful and it actually happening, where suspense resides.”
― Sandy Vaile

“Books. It's always easier to tell people that a character is funny rather than attempt to hit the punchline of a joke that character would've said. But if we all simply told, books would cease to exist. And so would empathy. And feeling.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“Yet I know about how detrimental it alone can be,
The audience can see satire
as a time for lightheartedness

A time to laugh
instead of a time to ponder

How could I meaningfully
address a problem if
I only spend time
ridiculing it?

Satire,
I advise myself,
“Use it,
but use it not to an excessive degree”
― Lucy Carter, For the Intellect