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Literary Devices

Apostrophe(literary device)

 a speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object.

Ham. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?

- William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Litotes

 expressing by the negative of the contrary.

good = not bad

pretty = not ugly

Loose sentence

 put an important sentence in front and put the dependent clause at the bottom. In this way, you can state what you're saying more directly.

 Florida is a great vacation spot for families, with Disney World, Universal Studios, and Sea World.

A Run-On Sentence

 A run-on is to connect sentences without comma or conjunction.

sentence1: I love to write papers.

sentence2: I would write one every day if I had the time.

sentence1+sentence2 =

 "I love to write papers I would write one every day if I had time."

Metonymy

 Metonymy is to replace a word with another word. But the replacement essentially contains a similar meaning, like using a symbol instead. 

Crown means the power of the king.

Crown: the power of a king

The White House: Referring to the American administration

Dish: To refer to an entire plate of food

The Pentagon: For the Department of Defense and the offices of the U.S. Armed Forces

Pen: For the written word

Sword: For military force

Hollywood: For US Cinema

Hand: For help

Parenthetical Interruption

to give interruption.

"Please, John, come home."

 John is cutting the middle of the sentence, "please come home".