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Try These Stylistic Devices To Make Your Content Go Viral

It is integral for every writer to make the wise use of certain stylistic devices…

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Almost all writers on this platform and other sites want to achieve success overnight; however, only a few of them know how to structure and organize their content and what types of tools to use to get maximum exposure.

If you are an experienced writer, then you will surely have access to plenty of writing, styling, and formatting resources. In case you consider yourself a craftsman, you must be writing a top-quality and great article.

Stylistic devices are the tools writers use to refine their words and to structure their sentences and paragraphs. There are many stylistic tools to go with, but the following ones can help you write viral content.

1. Antithesis

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Antithesis is used where two different viewpoints or arguments have to be presented at the same place or in the same line. You will use a wide range of ideas, clauses, sentences, and words to make your content look engaging and useful. Also, the grammatical structure has to be good. For example, if you are writing something on William Shakespeare, then you can structure the sentence like ‘to be or not to be like William Shakespeare.’

2. Chiasmus

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It is the use of two similar phrases at the same place or in the same sentence. However, the grammatical structures of these phrases are always different. For example, you can write a concept like ‘we build buildings and buildings protect us.’

3. Hypophora

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Hypophora is also known as anthypophora or antipophora. This stylistic device is used where the writer has to write a question along with its answer. In other words, we can say that you will ask a question to engage the reader and then its answer will be given in the very next line. For example, ‘what are you doing? I don’t think you are doing anything special.’

4. Irony

Photo by Valerie Lendel on Unsplash

Irony is a stylistic or rhetorical device in which what appears is different from what is behind. For example, if you write a clickbait title and its content is different, then this will be called irony. Some of its main types are dramatic irony, situational irony, and verbal irony.

Takeaway

Photo by Mateus Campos Felipe on Unsplash

I am not asking you to stick to these stylistic devices; what I am saying is that you may like to use them to improve the quality of your content. In case you don’t care about styles and formats, please try to focus on your grammar and sentence structure because an article that is not readable will never go viral.

Has any of your posts ever gone viral?

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