Traditional Māori poetry was always sung or chanted, musical rhythms rather than linguistic devices served to distinguish it from prose.

I do mind using a tense of the verb or any other linguistic device as a convenient way to ignore 1.1 million kids.

"They are working overtime to develop linguistic cloaking devices."

Mr. Hopkins also favors linguistic devices - ending statements with phrases like "isn't it?"

Thus a mantra can be considered to be a linguistic device for deepening ones thought, or in the Buddhist context for developing the enlightened mind.

So that the fabula, such as it is in this tale, is the product of certain purely linguistic devices.

When they are used to make requests, the word please (or other linguistic device) is often added for politeness:

They voice the people's concerns by means of a formal tradition coming from the people (tunes, linguistic devices), and act as their spokespersons.

A paradox is, among other things, a linguistic device, and can be used by the anorexic as the most expressive one in the language of her symptoms.

Many advertisers employ a wide-variety of linguistic devices to bypass regulatory laws (e.g.