These include not only "Our Town," which is summoned by the production's bare-bones, town-hall set (by John Lee Beatty) and the device of having characters confide chummily in the audience.
Its plot device of underdog characters forced into flight due to circumstances beyond their control was one Baker explored in all of his subsequent work.
The device of costuming individual characters in single all-over bright colors seemed ludicrous decades ago, and yet this is the specialty of Per Kirkeby, this production's designer.
Killing Your Darlings - a literary device of erasing the characters you are fondest of in order to progress your work - is something Daniel Radcliffe is proving adept at.
In addition, she seems to have begun and then abandoned the unifying device of having one character filming a documentary about the family for a college class.
As a kid going to Saturday morning Chinese classes in the U.S., I got my first taste of the many mnemonic devices for characters out there.
Working out her themes, Holofcener, now fifty, avoids the ironclad "arc" of Hollywood drama, yet she structures the movie rigorously, relying on such formal devices as matched pairs of characters and bits of echoed dialogue.
Hong burrows deep into the minutiae of behavior — and does so with a repertory of distinctive stylistic devices, including extended takes of characters sitting side by side, brisk zooms, and puckish distances.
Or, for the ambitious, you can try a pi-ku that's both a haiku and a mnemonic device in which the number of characters in each word equals the value of the corresponding digit of pi.
She has often used the device of doubling, planting two characters together to observe the different ways they grow, and the soil she chooses tends to be her own.
