For thousands of years, humans have been creating stories — and for just as long, they’ve been coming up with words to describe all the tools and techniques that make a story work. But these “literary ...

Literary devices are specific ways of using language or other literary elements that we can recognise and identify in a text (a piece of writing). These can work either at a word or sentence level or ...

Richard Powers is the author of eight novels, including "Galatea 2.2," "The Gold Bug Variations," and "Gain." His latest, "The Time of Our Singing," will be published in January by Farrar, Straus and ...