Sentence examples for writers device from inspiring English sources

The Blackberry is a writers' device, like the Kindle is a readers' one.

So it's a writers device for dealing with that, and that totally makes sense.

There's commentary on what the visuals are communicating, and the frequent use of direct-address narration feels too much like a fiction writer's device, however much it wants to be a hook.

In the mid-eighties, Alastair got himself and the magazine in a lot of hot water by cheerfully revealing that in a reporting piece he had done from Spain he had resorted to the old feature writer's device of cobbling together a composite character.

Furthermore, she criticized the reusing of the teaser, noting that it "just comes off as a writer's device".

From French meaning 'placed in abyss', it is also the literary device writers use when they write a story within a story.

What they find is a dead writer and a device that allows a glimpse of the future, including the geological nightmare that will destroy the planet.

He very rarely talks to the press ("If I need psychological evaluation, I'll do it myself") and his ban on writers using recording devices suggests a certain paranoia, but he's surprisingly good at being interviewed.

Writer Neil McKay's device – of telling the story through Leach's – is a clever one; it deflects some of the focus away from Fred (and Rose), meaning that it is as much a portrait of a crime as it is a portrait of a serial killer or serial killers.

Tall, lean, faultlessly dressed and utterly at ease, he keptletting his voice fall to such a low decibel level that his listeners had to strain to hear him, a device writer always used to associate with John Gielgud... Brown is formidably articulate in the Gallery's defense, and is a master at dealing with the press on his own terms, which are never less than arm's length.

According to Hyland and Tse (2004), the word 'metadiscourse' refers to a range of different devices writers use to organize their text.