This work aims to give teachers and librarians the perfect tool to teach literary devices to students in grades K-12. This volume includes well-received picture

Comprising some 4000 terms, defined and illustrated, "Gradus" calls upon the resources of linguistics, poetics, semiotics, socio-criticism, rhetoric, pragmatics

Defines and gives examples of words, concepts, and types of information that poets and non-poets will want to have explained.

Literary devices are the techniques used in the telling of a narrative. Literary devices are also known as fictional devices and are any of several specific met