Name a literary device

Last seen Dive #60. 645 accepted answers on the published sheet.

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Hint 1. 645 accepted answers. A strong pick is a single word, about 9 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

Anapest

Hint 3 — a rare answer

Apophasis · 100 pts

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Apophasis One in a Krillion 100 pts

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Best rare answers

  • Apophasis 100 pts · One in a Krillion
  • Acatalexis 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Accismus 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Adianoeta 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Adonic 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Adynaton 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Aeolic 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Aetiologia 85 pts · Deep Cut

Strong alternatives

  • Anapest 60 pts
  • Anaphora 60 pts
  • Anastrophe 60 pts
  • Anticlimax 60 pts
  • Antithesis 60 pts
  • Aphorism 60 pts
  • Apostrophe 60 pts
  • Archaism 60 pts

Avoid — Plankton

Everyone else will type these. Ten points is a surface skim.

  • Alliteration 10
  • Hyperbole 10
  • Irony 10
  • Metaphor 10
  • Personification 10
  • Simile 10

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Name a literary device

● One in a Krillion · 1 ● Deep Cut · 409 ● Rare · 116 ● Schooler · 113 ● Plankton · 6
One in a Krillion +100 1 answer — tap to reveal
  • Apophasis +100
Deep Cut +85 409 answers — tap to reveal
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  • Abbreviatio +85
  • Acatalexis +85
  • Accentual verse +85
  • Accentual-syllabic verse +85
  • Accismus +85
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  • Adianoeta +85
  • Adonic +85
  • Adoxography +85
  • Adynaton +85
  • Aeolic +85
  • Aetiologia +85
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  • Alcmanian +85
  • Alexandrine +85
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  • Amphisbaenic rhyme +85
  • Amplification +85
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  • Anacrusis +85
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  • Audience surrogate +85
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  • Balanced sentence +85
  • Barbarism +85
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  • Battologia +85
  • Bdelygmia +85
  • Bed trick +85
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  • Blason +85
  • Bob and wheel +85
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  • Catalog +85
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  • Chain rhyme +85
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  • Chronographia +85
  • Clausula +85
  • Common measure +85
  • Commoratio +85
  • Conduplicatio +85
  • Correctio +85
  • Correlative verse +85
  • Correption +85
  • Coup de théâtre +85
  • Cretic +85
  • Crisis +85
  • Cross acrostic +85
  • Cross rhyme +85
  • Cut-up technique +85
  • Cynghanedd +85
  • Czech Alexandrine +85
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  • Dactylic tetrameter +85
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  • Dedication +85
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  • Dipody +85
  • Direct address +85
  • Direct characterization +85
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  • Distributed stress +85
  • Distributio +85
  • Ditrochee +85
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  • Dog Latin +85
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  • Drishtanta +85
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  • Dubitatio +85
  • Dumb show +85
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  • Duple meter +85
  • Dysphemism +85
  • E-Prime +85
  • Echo verse +85
  • Effictio +85
  • Emotive conjugation +85
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  • Enclosed rhyme +85
  • End-stopped line +85
  • Engo +85
  • Enthymeme +85
  • Entrelacement +85
  • Envoi +85
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  • Epanodos +85
  • Epenthesis +85
  • Epic catalogue +85
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  • Epiplexis +85
  • Episodic storytelling +85
  • Epistolary +85
  • Epistrophe +85
  • Epitrite +85
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  • Epode +85
  • Eponym +85
  • Erasure +85
  • Ethopoeia +85
  • Eucatastrophe +85
  • Euphuism +85
  • Exclamatio +85
  • Exemplum +85
  • Expletive +85
  • Expolitio +85
  • Extrametrical verse +85
  • Eye dialect +85
  • Falling rhythm +85
  • False document +85
  • Feminine ending +85
  • Feminine rhyme +85
  • Figura etymologica +85
  • Focalization +85
  • Foregrounding +85
  • Found manuscript +85
  • Fourteener +85
  • Frequentatio +85
  • Fustian +85
  • Galliambic verse +85
  • Gayatri +85
  • Glyconic +85
  • Goblet word +85
  • Golden line +85
  • Gramogram +85
  • Hazaj +85
  • Headless line +85
  • Heiti +85
  • Hemistich +85
  • Hendecasyllable +85
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  • Hendiatris +85
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  • Heroic verse +85
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  • Hexasyllable +85
  • Hiatus +85
  • Holorime +85
  • Homeoptoton +85
  • Homeoteleuton +85
  • Homophonic translation +85
  • Honkadori +85
  • Horatian satire +85
  • Hovering accent +85
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  • Hypercatalexis +85
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  • Hypophora +85
  • Hypotaxis +85
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  • Hysteron proteron +85
  • Ideogrammic method +85
  • Illeism +85
  • Iltifat +85
  • Inclusio +85
  • Intercalary chapter +85
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  • Isocolon +85
  • Jagati +85
  • Ji-amari +85
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  • Kairos +85
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  • Kigo +85
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  • Leonine verse +85
  • Light ending +85
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  • Linked rhyme +85
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  • Loose sentence +85
  • Macaronic language +85
  • Madīd +85
  • Major ionic +85
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  • Mandakranta +85
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  • Masculine rhyme +85
  • Mechanomorphism +85
  • Melitzah +85
  • Merism +85
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  • Mesostic +85
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  • Metafiction +85
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  • Metaplasm +85
  • Metatheatre +85
  • Mimesis +85
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  • Mise en abyme +85
  • Mitate +85
  • Molossus +85
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  • Monorhyme +85
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  • Muḍāriʿ +85
  • Mujtathth +85
  • Multiperspectivity +85
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  • Mutaqārib +85
  • Nemesis +85
  • Noema +85
  • Nonce word +85
  • Notatio +85
  • Objective correlative +85
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  • Periphrasis +85
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  • Pleonasm +85
  • Ploce +85
  • Polish Alexandrine +85
  • Political verse +85
  • Polyphony +85
  • Polyptoton +85
  • Posthumous narrative +85
  • Poulter's measure +85
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  • Prashnottara +85
  • Predestination paradox +85
  • Priamel +85
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  • Prosthesis +85
  • Purposeful omission +85
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  • Qafiya +85
  • Qualitative meter +85
  • Quantitative meter +85
  • Quintain +85
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  • Rajaz +85
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  • Register +85
  • Repetitive designation +85
  • Reset button technique +85
  • Riding rhyme +85
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  • Romantic irony +85
  • Root metaphor +85
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  • Signifyin' +85
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  • Sobriquet +85
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  • Sprung rhythm +85
  • Strophe +85
  • Subiectio +85
  • Svabhavokti +85
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  • Synchysis +85
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  • Tmesis +85
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  • Topos +85
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  • Transferred epithet +85
  • Transitio +85
  • Travesty +85
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  • Triple meter +85
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  • Type scene +85
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  • Vakrokti +85
  • Verfremdungseffekt +85
  • Verse paragraph +85
  • Vyatireka +85
  • Wāfir +85
  • Wardour Street English +85
  • Wellerism +85
  • Wit +85
  • Wrenched accent +85
  • Yamaka +85
Rare +60 116 answers — tap to reveal
  • Anachronism +60
  • Anapest +60
  • Anaphora +60
  • Anastrophe +60
  • Anticlimax +60
  • Antithesis +60
  • Aphorism +60
  • Apostrophe +60
  • Archaism +60
  • Assonance +60
  • Asyndeton +60
  • Bathos +60
  • Blank verse +60
  • Burlesque +60
  • Cacophony +60
  • Caesura +60
  • Catharsis +60
  • Chekhov's gun +60
  • Chiasmus +60
  • Colloquialism +60
  • Conceit +60
  • Concession +60
  • Consonance +60
  • Cosmic irony +60
  • Dactyl +60
  • Dactylic hexameter +60
  • Dead metaphor +60
  • Defamiliarization +60
  • Denouement +60
  • Deus ex machina +60
  • Diatribe +60
  • Digression +60
  • Ekphrasis +60
  • Elision +60
  • Enjambment +60
  • Enumeration +60
  • Epigraph +60
  • Epiphany +60
  • Epithet +60
  • Euphony +60
  • Eye rhyme +60
  • Foil +60
  • Foot +60
  • Frame story +60
  • Free indirect discourse +60
  • Gallows humor +60
  • Hamartia +60
  • Heroic couplet +60
  • Hexameter +60
  • Historical present +60
  • Hubris +60
  • Iamb +60
  • Iambic pentameter +60
  • Iambic tetrameter +60
  • In medias res +60
  • Intertextuality +60
  • Invective +60
  • Invocation of the muse +60
  • Juvenalian satire +60
  • Kenning +60
  • Lampoon +60
  • Leitmotif +60
  • Litotes +60
  • Loaded language +60
  • MacGuffin +60
  • Magical realism +60
  • Malapropism +60
  • Maxim +60
  • Metonymy +60
  • Mnemonic +60
  • Mock-heroic +60
  • Montage +60
  • Multisyllabic rhyme +60
  • Neologism +60
  • Octave +60
  • Pangram +60
  • Parenthesis +60
  • Pastiche +60
  • Pathetic fallacy +60
  • Pentameter +60
  • Persona +60
  • Platitude +60
  • Poetic diction +60
  • Polysyndeton +60
  • Portmanteau +60
  • Preface +60
  • Quatrain +60
  • Rebus +60
  • Retcon +60
  • Reverse chronology +60
  • Second-person narration +60
  • Self-insertion +60
  • Self-referential humor +60
  • Sibilance +60
  • Socratic irony +60
  • Soliloquy +60
  • Spondee +60
  • Spoonerism +60
  • Stock character +60
  • Stream of consciousness +60
  • Synecdoche +60
  • Tableau +60
  • Tautology +60
  • Tercet +60
  • Tetrameter +60
  • Three-act structure +60
  • Ticking time bomb scenario +60
  • Title drop +60
  • Trochee +60
  • Truism +60
  • Verisimilitude +60
  • Vernacular +60
  • Vignette +60
  • Volta +60
  • Zeugma +60
  • Zoomorphism +60
Schooler +30 113 answers — tap to reveal
  • Acrostic +30
  • Allegory +30
  • Allusion +30
  • Alter ego +30
  • Ambiguity +30
  • Anagram +30
  • Analogy +30
  • Anecdote +30
  • Anthropomorphism +30
  • Archetype +30
  • Aside +30
  • Backstory +30
  • Breaking the fourth wall +30
  • Callback +30
  • Caricature +30
  • Character arc +30
  • Characterization +30
  • Chorus +30
  • Cliché +30
  • Cliffhanger +30
  • Climax +30
  • Comic relief +30
  • Conflict +30
  • Connotation +30
  • Couplet +30
  • Denotation +30
  • Dialect +30
  • Dialogue +30
  • Diction +30
  • Doppelganger +30
  • Double entendre +30
  • Dramatic irony +30
  • Dream sequence +30
  • Ellipsis +30
  • End rhyme +30
  • Epilogue +30
  • Ethos +30
  • Euphemism +30
  • Exposition +30
  • Falling action +30
  • First person +30
  • Flash-forward +30
  • Flashback +30
  • Foreshadowing +30
  • Foreword +30
  • Free verse +30
  • Hero's journey +30
  • Idiom +30
  • Imagery +30
  • Inciting incident +30
  • Indirect characterization +30
  • Innuendo +30
  • Interior monologue +30
  • Internal rhyme +30
  • Jargon +30
  • Juxtaposition +30
  • Line break +30
  • Logos +30
  • Meter +30
  • Mixed metaphor +30
  • Monologue +30
  • Mood +30
  • Motif +30
  • Narration +30
  • Narrative hook +30
  • Nonlinear narrative +30
  • Omniscient narrator +30
  • Onomatopoeia +30
  • Oxymoron +30
  • Pacing +30
  • Palindrome +30
  • Paradox +30
  • Parallelism +30
  • Parody +30
  • Pathos +30
  • Plot twist +30
  • Poetic justice +30
  • Point of view +30
  • Prologue +30
  • Proverb +30
  • Pun +30
  • Red herring +30
  • Refrain +30
  • Repetition +30
  • Rhetorical question +30
  • Rhyme +30
  • Rhyme scheme +30
  • Rhythm +30
  • Rising action +30
  • Rule of three +30
  • Running gag +30
  • Sarcasm +30
  • Satire +30
  • Self-fulfilling prophecy +30
  • Setting +30
  • Show, don't tell +30
  • Situational irony +30
  • Slang +30
  • Stanza +30
  • Style +30
  • Subplot +30
  • Subtext +30
  • Suspense +30
  • Symbolism +30
  • Syntax +30
  • Theme +30
  • Third person +30
  • Third-person limited +30
  • Tone +30
  • Understatement +30
  • Unreliable narrator +30
  • Voice +30
  • Worldbuilding +30
Plankton +10 6 answers — tap to reveal
  • Alliteration +10
  • Hyperbole +10
  • Irony +10
  • Metaphor +10
  • Personification +10
  • Simile +10