The Forgotten Toolkit: Five Literary Devices Writers Are Misusing — or Abandoning Entirely
Contemporary writing culture tends to celebrate what is new, what is bold, and what is immediately legible. In doing so, it has quietly discarded or distorted some of the most powerful tools in a writer's arsenal. This piece revisits five literary devices that deserve better — examining where they go wrong in modern hands and what they look like when they are handled with genuine skill.