Sentence examples for a literary device from inspiring English sources

Sometimes the pretense of purely abstract intellectual rigour is in fact a literary device.

So the eating is evidently a literary device, part of the pattern of each novel.

The idea of dying is like a joke or a literary device.

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

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

In more recent literature, the mango's appearance, and use as a literary device, has been a bit less divinely inspired.

It's natural that Ms. Richman would use food as a literary device, since she brings such authority to the subject.

An amazing number of episodes involve pizza, despite the limited range of pizza as a literary device.

It's an odd (not to mention utterly unappealing) command, and not particularly helpful as a literary device.

Retelling his captivity as a coming-of-age tale was partly a literary device, Mr. Salter acknowledged.

That's not " 'X-Files' stuff": it's a literary device, meant to emphasize just how ill conceived our policy is.