Literary technique

figure of speech figurative language midrash shem rhetorical device epilogue non-sequitur assonance caesura anti-fairy tale cut-up technique black box reverse chronology imagery Christ figure retroactive continuity encyclopedism False protagonist internal monologue poetic device universal translator foreshadowing intertextuality afterword product displacement Sangam landscape self-insertion sentence arrangement distinction distancing effect bathos euphuism lipogram language of flowers Emphasis word play