Sentence examples for verbal devices from inspiring English sources

It is a deception through verbal devices and the fruitless rendering of concepts as real things.

One of Lexi's favorite verbal devices is the rhetorical question, and a second party is not necessarily essential to her ability to carry on a conversation.

The nature of the humour thus shifted from character portrayal to verbal devices such as poor grammar, bad spelling, and slang, incongruously combined with Latinate words and learned allusions.

The humour itself is varied sometimes in the vein of the Southwestern yarn spinners whom he had encountered as a young man, sometimes in that of contemporaneous humorists such as Artemus Ward and Josh Billings, who chiefly used burlesque and parody and other verbal devices.

By allowing the narrator to be revealed as a foppish, neurotically squeamish individual who is both sentimentally romantic and obsessively religious, and by deploying an array of often intricate verbal devices, the author is able to continuously subvert the sinister, pathos-laden and myth-sustaining images of Ukrainian Cossack life and landscape the narrator aspires to create.

Contemporary accounts of metaphor as a verbal device.

Many of Kafka's fables contain an inscrutable, baffling mixture of the normal and the fantastic, though occasionally the strangeness may be understood as the outcome of a literary or verbal device, as when the delusions of a pathological state are given the status of reality or when the metaphor of a common figure of speech is taken literally.

The totality of situations covered by various aspects of the energy concept is too complex to be reproduced by any simple verbal device".

The comedian has an unorthodox delivery — he speaks with a low-talker's humility and tends to draw out vowels, a kind of verbal device that suggests both incredulity and thoughtfulness.

Common devices used in the first alignment turns are collaborative completion and repetition of the elements of the prior turn, but alliances can also be initiated through non-verbal devices such as head-shakes.

Not so: poetry is important for its vindication of "all the rhythmic, phonetic, verbal and logical devices" that make it what it is, and the production of "alternative imaginary orders".