Literary Devices

What is the difference between literal and figurative writing? What are the top tricks used by the best authors to make their writing purr, crack and sizzle on the page? Why not use these tricks all the time? This edifying little book, by English literature and creative writing tutor Amy Jones, provides a useful introduction to the essential literary devices used by writers for thousands of years to engage, charm and move their readers, and better describe their imagined worlds in words.