"I think Joanne was using a literary device, and she made a choice to emphasize certain things, like going to a bar and having a drink.
Let's take Henley at his word, and assume that, rather than just writing down whatever came into his fat, drink-sodden head, he was using a literary device to make a "sociopolitical statement".
The character is used as a literary device — either as a simile or metaphor — to emphasize these traits.
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.
In coming to his conclusions, Poe uses ratiocination as a literary device, through his character C. Auguste Dupin, as if Poe himself were a detective solving the mystery of the universe.
[Note: Just so you know and we don't get sued, this piece isn't by some quasi-human conglomeration of multiple women. This was written by Momus and what he's used in this piece is a "literary device". Christ. He even wanted to use a pseudonym. In fact, we'll still let him.] Jasmine Cone 1 http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/reviews/colleen_answers.htm.htm
[Note: Just so you know and we don't get sued, this piece isn't by some quasi-human conglomeration of multiple women. This was written by Momus and what he's used in this piece is a "literary device". Christ. He even wanted to use a pseudonym. In fact, we'll still let him.] JASMINECONE 1 http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/reviews/colleen_answers.htm.htm
Like serials throughout history, soap operas use the unstable identity as a literary device, which is evidenced by the genre's use of mistaken identities, evil twins, and characters that suffer from multiple personality disorder and whom come back from the dead.
So, if Bochco wants to use Eddie Jelko more as a literary device than a fleshed-out character, one hardly minds.
It emphasises the re-establishment of local religious norms, reversing the alleged neglect of Nabonidus – a theme that Amélie Kuhrt describes as "a literary device used to underline the piety of Cyrus as opposed to the blasphemy of Nabonidus".
