Literary device

Quality:

Stylistic device - technique used to give an auxiliary meaning, idea, or feeling to a literal message, including assonance, consonance and alliteration. Article “Literary device” in English Wikipedia has 76.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 105 references and 17 sections.

This article has the best quality in French Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 4538^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 7114^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2017^th most popular in all topics.

The 6469^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Literary device” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Literary device”, its content was written by 987 registered users of English Wikipedia (7114^th place) and edited by 3180 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6469^th place).

The article is cited 2616 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7301 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #947 in September 2002
• Global: #1435 in May 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1361 in October 2013
• Global: #840 in October 2013

There are 37 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	French (fr) Figure de style		88.517
2	English (en) Literary device		76.4078
3	Persian (fa) آرایه‌های ادبی		43.5147
4	Korean (ko) 수사법		34.1883
5	Hindi (hi) अलंकार (साहित्य)		32.0872
6	Ukrainian (uk) Стилістична фігура		28.8839
7	Japanese (ja) 修辞技法		28.0278
8	Latin (la) Figura dicendi		27.5848
9	Tamil (ta) அணி இலக்கணம்		27.3484
10	Spanish (es) Figura literaria		24.5209

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Literary device		22 517 007
2	Spanish (es) Figura literaria		15 311 273
3	Portuguese (pt) Figura de linguagem		6 996 372
4	French (fr) Figure de style		3 999 105
5	Indonesian (id) Majas		3 948 163
6	Romanian (ro) Figură de stil		2 319 717
7	Persian (fa) آرایه‌های ادبی		2 104 816
8	Hindi (hi) अलंकार (साहित्य)		1 770 222
9	German (de) Rhetorisches Stilmittel		1 708 898
10	Japanese (ja) 修辞技法		1 533 765

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Literary device		18 379
2	French (fr) Figure de style		5 470
3	Hindi (hi) अलंकार (साहित्य)		3 646
4	Spanish (es) Figura literaria		3 344
5	Persian (fa) آرایه‌های ادبی		3 277
6	Japanese (ja) 修辞技法		2 536
7	Serbian (sr) Стилске фигуре		1 733
8	Indonesian (id) Majas		1 543
9	Russian (ru) Фигуры речи		1 217
10	Chinese (zh) 修辞手法		1 212

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Literary device		987
2	Spanish (es) Figura literaria		334
3	French (fr) Figure de style		326
4	German (de) Rhetorisches Stilmittel		214
5	Portuguese (pt) Figura de linguagem		174
6	Persian (fa) آرایه‌های ادبی		164
7	Japanese (ja) 修辞技法		99
8	Hindi (hi) अलंकार (साहित्य)		94
9	Indonesian (id) Majas		87
10	Serbian (sr) Стилске фигуре		75

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Figura literaria		2
2	English (en) Literary device		1
3	Persian (fa) آرایه‌های ادبی		1
4	French (fr) Figure de style		1
5	Portuguese (pt) Figura de linguagem		1
6	Romanian (ro) Figură de stil		1
7	Arabic (ar) مجاز (بلاغة)		0
8	Belarusian (be) Стылістычныя фігуры		0
9	Catalan (ca) Recurs literari		0
10	Czech (cs) Stylistický prostředek		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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