Krillion Answers September 13 · Prompt 7 of 7
Name a literary device
645 accepted answers for this prompt from Dive #60, sorted from rarest to most common.
One in a Krillion
100 pts
1First letter
It starts with A
2Letter pattern
One word, 9 letters
Reveal answer
Apophasis
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- Apophasis100
- Ab ovo85
- Abbreviatio85
- Acatalexis85
- Accentual verse85
- Accentual-syllabic verse85
- Accismus85
- Accumulation85
- Adianoeta85
- Adonic85
- Adoxography85
- Adynaton85
- Aeolic85
- Aetiologia85
- Alcaic85
- Alcmanian85
- Alexandrine85
- Alliterative verse85
- Amphibrach85
- Amphisbaenic rhyme85
- Amplification85
- Anacoenosis85
- Anacoluthon85
- Anacrusis85
- Anadiplosis85
- Anagnorisis85
- Anamnesis85
- Anangeon85
- Anapestic tetrameter85
- Anapodoton85
- Anceps85
- Anisometric verse85
- Antanaclasis85
- Antanagoge85
- Anthimeria85
- Antibacchius85
- Antilabe85
- Antimetabole85
- Antiphrasis85
- Antiptosis85
- Antispast85
- Antonomasia85
- Anustubh85
- Apahnuti85
- Apheresis85
- Apo koinou85
- Apocope85
- Aporia85
- Aposiopesis85
- Archilochian85
- Aristeia85
- Arthantaranyasa85
- Asclepiad85
- Audience surrogate85
- Aureation85
- Autoclesis85
- Auxesis85
- Bacchius85
- Balanced sentence85
- Barbarism85
- Basīṭ85
- Battologia85
- Bdelygmia85
- Bed trick85
- Bicolon85
- Blason85
- Bob and wheel85
- Bomphiologia85
- Brachylogia85
- Breviloquence85
- Brevitas85
- Broken rhyme85
- Cacozelia85
- Cadence85
- Captatio benevolentiae85
- Catachresis85
- Catacosmesis85
- Catalexis85
- Catalog85
- Catastrophe85
- Chain rhyme85
- Charactonym85
- Choliamb85
- Choriamb85
- Chreia85
- Chronogram85
- Chronographia85
- Clausula85
- Common measure85
- Commoratio85
- Conduplicatio85
- Correctio85
- Correlative verse85
- Correption85
- Coup de théâtre85
- Cretic85
- Crisis85
- Cross acrostic85
- Cross rhyme85
- Cut-up technique85
- Cynghanedd85
- Czech Alexandrine85
- Dactylic pentameter85
- Dactylic tetrameter85
- Decasyllable85
- Dedication85
- Diacope85
- Diaeresis85
- Diamb85
- Dianoea85
- Diasyrmus85
- Difrasismo85
- Dimeter85
- Dipaka85
- Dipody85
- Direct address85
- Direct characterization85
- Dispondee85
- Distributed stress85
- Distributio85
- Ditrochee85
- Divisio85
- Dochmiac85
- Dodecasyllable85
- Dog Latin85
- Dramatic visualization85
- Drishtanta85
- Dropped line85
- Dubitatio85
- Dumb show85
- Duologue85
- Duple meter85
- Dysphemism85
- E-Prime85
- Echo verse85
- Effictio85
- Emotive conjugation85
- Enallage85
- Enantiosis85
- Enargia85
- Enclosed rhyme85
- End-stopped line85
- Engo85
- Enthymeme85
- Entrelacement85
- Envoi85
- Epanalepsis85
- Epanodos85
- Epenthesis85
- Epic catalogue85
- Epiphrase85
- Epiplexis85
- Episodic storytelling85
- Epistolary85
- Epistrophe85
- Epitrite85
- Epizeuxis85
- Epode85
- Eponym85
- Erasure85
- Ethopoeia85
- Eucatastrophe85
- Euphuism85
- Exclamatio85
- Exemplum85
- Expletive85
- Expolitio85
- Extrametrical verse85
- Eye dialect85
- Falling rhythm85
- False document85
- Feminine ending85
- Feminine rhyme85
- Figura etymologica85
- Focalization85
- Foregrounding85
- Found manuscript85
- Fourteener85
- Frequentatio85
- Fustian85
- Galliambic verse85
- Gayatri85
- Glyconic85
- Goblet word85
- Golden line85
- Gramogram85
- Hazaj85
- Headless line85
- Heiti85
- Hemistich85
- Hendecasyllable85
- Hendiadys85
- Hendiatris85
- Heptameter85
- Heptastich85
- Heroic verse85
- Heteroglossia85
- Hexastich85
- Hexasyllable85
- Hiatus85
- Holorime85
- Homeoptoton85
- Homeoteleuton85
- Homophonic translation85
- Honkadori85
- Horatian satire85
- Hovering accent85
- Hudibrastic85
- Hyperbaton85
- Hypercatalexis85
- Hypocatastasis85
- Hypophora85
- Hypotaxis85
- Hypozeuxis85
- Hysteron proteron85
- Ideogrammic method85
- Illeism85
- Iltifat85
- Inclusio85
- Intercalary chapter85
- Ionic85
- Isocolon85
- Jagati85
- Ji-amari85
- Jitarazu85
- Jokotoba85
- Kairos85
- Kakekotoba85
- Kāmil85
- Katabasis85
- Khafīf85
- Kigo85
- Kireji85
- Kishōtenketsu85
- Laconic phrase85
- Lapalissade85
- Leitwortstil85
- Lekythion85
- Leonine rhyme85
- Leonine verse85
- Light ending85
- Light rhyme85
- Linked rhyme85
- Lipogram85
- Logaoedic85
- Long meter85
- Loose sentence85
- Macaronic language85
- Madīd85
- Major ionic85
- Makurakotoba85
- Mandakranta85
- Masculine ending85
- Masculine rhyme85
- Mechanomorphism85
- Melitzah85
- Merism85
- Mesodiplosis85
- Mesostic85
- Meta-reference85
- Metafiction85
- Metalepsis85
- Metaplasm85
- Metatheatre85
- Mimesis85
- Minor ionic85
- Mise en abyme85
- Mitate85
- Molossus85
- Monometer85
- Monorhyme85
- Monostich85
- Muḍāriʿ85
- Mujtathth85
- Multiperspectivity85
- Mundus inversus85
- Munsariħ85
- Muqtaḍab85
- Mutadārik85
- Mutaqārib85
- Nemesis85
- Noema85
- Nonce word85
- Notatio85
- Objective correlative85
- Obligatory scene85
- Ochi85
- Octameter85
- Octosyllable85
- Off-centered rhyme85
- Paeon85
- Paradiastole85
- Paraprosdokian85
- Pararhyme85
- Parataxis85
- Paratext85
- Parechesis85
- Paroemion85
- Paromoiosis85
- Parrhesia85
- Perfect rhyme85
- Periodic sentence85
- Peripeteia85
- Periphrasis85
- Peristasis85
- Pleonasm85
- Ploce85
- Polish Alexandrine85
- Political verse85
- Polyphony85
- Polyptoton85
- Posthumous narrative85
- Poulter's measure85
- Praegnans constructio85
- Prahelika85
- Prashnottara85
- Predestination paradox85
- Priamel85
- Procatalepsis85
- Prosthesis85
- Purposeful omission85
- Pyrrhic85
- Qafiya85
- Qualitative meter85
- Quantitative meter85
- Quintain85
- Radif85
- Rajaz85
- Ramal85
- Ratiocinatio85
- Recusatio85
- Register85
- Repetitive designation85
- Reset button technique85
- Riding rhyme85
- Rime riche85
- Romantic irony85
- Root metaphor85
- Samasokti85
- Sarīʿ85
- Saturnian85
- Schesis onomaton85
- Sententia85
- Septenary85
- Sestet85
- Shardulavikridita85
- Shloka85
- Signifyin'85
- Skaz85
- Slant rhyme85
- Sobriquet85
- Solecism85
- Sphragis85
- Sprung rhythm85
- Strophe85
- Subiectio85
- Svabhavokti85
- Syllabic verse85
- Syllepsis85
- Symploce85
- Synaeresis85
- Synalepha85
- Synchysis85
- Syncope85
- Synesis85
- Synesthesia85
- Synonymia85
- Syzygy85
- Tail rhyme85
- Tapinosis85
- Tautogram85
- Tawīl85
- Telestich85
- Tension85
- Tetrabrach85
- Thematic patterning85
- Tirade85
- Tmesis85
- Topographia85
- Topos85
- Topothesia85
- Transferred epithet85
- Transitio85
- Travesty85
- Triadic-line85
- Tribrach85
- Tricolon85
- Trimeter85
- Triple meter85
- Triple rhyme85
- Tristubh85
- Trochaic octameter85
- Trochaic septenarius85
- Trochaic tetrameter85
- Tuckerization85
- Type scene85
- Ubi sunt85
- Univocalic85
- Utamakura85
- Utpreksha85
- Vakrokti85
- Verfremdungseffekt85
- Verse paragraph85
- Vyatireka85
- Wāfir85
- Wardour Street English85
- Wellerism85
- Wit85
- Wrenched accent85
- Yamaka85
- Anachronism60
- Anapest60
- Anaphora60
- Anastrophe60
- Anticlimax60
- Antithesis60
- Aphorism60
- Apostrophe60
- Archaism60
- Assonance60
- Asyndeton60
- Bathos60
- Blank verse60
- Burlesque60
- Cacophony60
- Caesura60
- Catharsis60
- Chekhov's gun60
- Chiasmus60
- Colloquialism60
- Conceit60
- Concession60
- Consonance60
- Cosmic irony60
- Dactyl60
- Dactylic hexameter60
- Dead metaphor60
- Defamiliarization60
- Denouement60
- Deus ex machina60
- Diatribe60
- Digression60
- Ekphrasis60
- Elision60
- Enjambment60
- Enumeration60
- Epigraph60
- Epiphany60
- Epithet60
- Euphony60
- Eye rhyme60
- Foil60
- Foot60
- Frame story60
- Free indirect discourse60
- Gallows humor60
- Hamartia60
- Heroic couplet60
- Hexameter60
- Historical present60
- Hubris60
- Iamb60
- Iambic pentameter60
- Iambic tetrameter60
- In medias res60
- Intertextuality60
- Invective60
- Invocation of the muse60
- Juvenalian satire60
- Kenning60
- Lampoon60
- Leitmotif60
- Litotes60
- Loaded language60
- MacGuffin60
- Magical realism60
- Malapropism60
- Maxim60
- Metonymy60
- Mnemonic60
- Mock-heroic60
- Montage60
- Multisyllabic rhyme60
- Neologism60
- Octave60
- Pangram60
- Parenthesis60
- Pastiche60
- Pathetic fallacy60
- Pentameter60
- Persona60
- Platitude60
- Poetic diction60
- Polysyndeton60
- Portmanteau60
- Preface60
- Quatrain60
- Rebus60
- Retcon60
- Reverse chronology60