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title: "Literary devices AI Prompts (23 Free Templates) - AgentDock"
description: "23 free literary devices prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Professional templates with smart variables. Copy and use instantly, or run them in the AgentDock editor."
url: "https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/literary-devices"
docs_index: /llms.txt
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# Literary devices AI Prompts (23 Free Templates) - AgentDock

23 free literary devices templates, including Proverb Explainer and Mood Analyzer.

- [Proverb Explainer](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/writing/proverb-explainer.md): Explain a proverb's meaning and origin, suggest one for a situation, or show how to use one as an essay hook, evidence, or analysis subject.
- [Mood Analyzer](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/mood-analyzer.md): Identify the mood a passage creates, named in precise words like eerie, tense, or nostalgic, with the word choice, imagery, and pacing that build it
- [Motif Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/motif-identifier.md): Identify every occurrence of a motif, the recurring image, phrase, or idea a writer brings back across a piece, tied to the theme it builds
- [Juxtaposition Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/juxtaposition-identifier.md): Identify every juxtaposition in a passage, poem, or scene, two contrasting things placed side by side for effect, checked against foil, oxymoron, and antithesis
- [Archetype Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/archetype-identifier.md): Identify a story's literary archetypes, Hero, Mentor, Shadow, Trickster, and more, each one matched to the specific hero's journey stage where it appears
- [Foreshadowing Analyzer](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/foreshadowing-analyzer.md): Identify every instance of foreshadowing in a story, chapter, or scene, each hint quoted, named by type, and explained for what it points toward
- [Hyperbole Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/hyperbole-identifier.md): Identify every true instance of hyperbole in a text, each one quoted and explained for what it exaggerates, or generate original hyperbole for any topic
- [Allusion Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/allusion-identifier.md): Analyze a passage, poem, or speech for every allusion, naming its biblical, mythological, literary, historical, or cultural source and the meaning it adds
- [Allegory Interpreter](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/allegory-interpreter.md): Analyze whether a story functions as allegory by mapping its characters, events, and setting to the abstract idea or historical situation they represent
- [Characterization Analyzer](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/characterization-analyzer.md): Analyze how an author builds a character, tracing direct and indirect characterization through the STEAL method with every trait backed by textual evidence
- [Figurative Language Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/figurative-language-identifier.md): Identify every figure of speech in a passage, poem, or song, each one quoted, named by type, and explained for its meaning and effect
- [Consonance Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/consonance-identifier.md): Identify every instance of consonance in a poem, story, or song, with each consonant sound quoted and placed at its start, middle, or end
- [Aside Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/aside-identifier.md): Identify every aside in a scene, the remarks a character delivers to the audience unheard by others onstage, with the dramatic irony each one creates
- [Personification Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/personification-identifier.md): Find every instance of personification in a passage or poem, or get personification suggestions for a scene you are writing
- [Onomatopoeia Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/onomatopoeia-identifier.md): Get every onomatopoeia found in a poem, story, or song lyrics, or sound-word suggestions for a scene you are writing
- [Conflict Analyzer](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/conflict-analyzer.md): Analyze a story's central conflict, typed across the six kinds from character vs self to character vs fate, and tied to theme
- [Imagery Analyzer](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/imagery-analyzer.md): Identify every use of sensory imagery in a passage, poem, or scene, each one quoted, named for the sense it engages, and its mood effect
- [Oxymoron Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/oxymoron-identifier.md): Find every true oxymoron in a passage or speech, kept separate from paradox and juxtaposition, or look up common pairings for a word
- [Satire and Parody Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/satire-and-parody-identifier.md): Find where any passage uses satire or parody, each instance named by technique and tied to what is being criticized or mimicked
- [Irony Analyzer](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/irony-analyzer.md): Identify every instance of irony in a passage, story, or quote, each one named as verbal, situational, or dramatic and explained for its effect
- [Alliteration Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/alliteration-identifier.md): Analyze a poem, story, or speech for every instance of alliteration, with each starting sound quoted and explained for its effect on rhythm and emphasis
- [Anaphora Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/anaphora-identifier.md): Identify every instance of anaphora in a speech, poem, or passage, with each repeated phrase quoted and explained for its rhetorical effect
- [Assonance Identifier](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/reading/assonance-identifier.md): Identify every instance of assonance in a poem, story, or song, with each vowel sound quoted and explained for its effect on rhythm and mood

## Related tags

- [Education](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/education.md)
- [Literary analysis](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/literary-analysis.md)
- [Poetry analysis](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/poetry-analysis.md)
- [Figurative language](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/figurative-language.md)
- [Sound devices](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/sound-devices.md)
- [Close reading](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/close-reading.md)
- [Writing](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/writing.md)
- [Character analysis](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/character-analysis.md)
- [Reading comprehension](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/reading-comprehension.md)
- [Symbolism](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/symbolism.md)
- [Drama](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/drama.md)
- [Rhetoric](https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/t/rhetoric.md)
