Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. [concepts in the arts and humanities]
5. artistic concepts
6. artistic devices
7. [artistic devices for literature]

Anotations

Scope note:

Device used in verbal or written form, in which the real and actual meaning or intention is obscured or contradicted by the literal meaning of the words; used also in the structuring of dramatic situations in which an incongruity exists between what is expected and what occurs.