literaryFeature

P16928
predicate

Indicates a relationship where something possesses or exhibits a characteristic, device, or stylistic element used in literature.

All labels observed (51)

Label Occurrences
literaryTheme 859
stylisticFeature 561
usesLiteraryDevice 254

Description generation (PDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the predicate name and this instruction.

Instruction
Given a predicate that represents a relationship or action between entities, generate a one-sentence description explaining its meaning.  
# Instructions
Focus on describing the relationship, not the entities themselves. 
# Response Format
Begin the description with \' Indicates...\'
Input
Predicate: literaryFeature
Generated description
Indicates a relationship where something possesses or exhibits a characteristic, device, or stylistic element used in literature.

Sample triples (2,255)

Subject Object
Epistle of James frequent imperatives
Epistle of James influence of Jewish wisdom tradition
I taste a liquor never brewed extended metaphor via predicate surface "usesLiteraryDevice"
I taste a liquor never brewed personification via predicate surface "usesLiteraryDevice"
I taste a liquor never brewed hyperbole via predicate surface "usesLiteraryDevice"
I taste a liquor never brewed imagery via predicate surface "usesLiteraryDevice"
A Bird came down the Walk simile via predicate surface "usesLiteraryDevice"
A Bird came down the Walk metaphor via predicate surface "usesLiteraryDevice"
A Bird came down the Walk personification via predicate surface "usesLiteraryDevice"
A Bird came down the Walk alliteration via predicate surface "usesLiteraryDevice"
A Bird came down the Walk enjambment via predicate surface "usesLiteraryDevice"
A Bird came down the Walk slant rhyme via predicate surface "usesLiteraryDevice"
There’s a certain Slant of light personification via predicate surface "usesLiteraryDevice"
There’s a certain Slant of light metaphor via predicate surface "usesLiteraryDevice"
There’s a certain Slant of light simile via predicate surface "usesLiteraryDevice"
There’s a certain Slant of light paradox via predicate surface "usesLiteraryDevice"
There’s a certain Slant of light alliteration via predicate surface "usesLiteraryDevice"
There’s a certain Slant of light enjambment via predicate surface "usesLiteraryDevice"
There’s a certain Slant of light imagery via predicate surface "usesLiteraryDevice"
I like to see it lap the Miles personification via predicate surface "usesLiteraryDevice"
I like to see it lap the Miles metaphor via predicate surface "usesLiteraryDevice"
I like to see it lap the Miles imagery via predicate surface "usesLiteraryDevice"
Aureliano Babilonia predestination via predicate surface "literaryTheme"
Aureliano Babilonia family fate via predicate surface "literaryTheme"
Aureliano Babilonia solitude via predicate surface "literaryTheme"
Yashoda contrast between divine nature of Krishna and her human motherly ignorance via predicate surface "literaryTheme"
Yashoda power of love over fear of the divine via predicate surface "literaryTheme"
Petrarchan sonnet tradition highly patterned rhetoric via predicate surface "stylisticFeature"
Petrarchan sonnet tradition extended metaphors via predicate surface "stylisticFeature"
Petrarchan sonnet tradition antithesis and paradox via predicate surface "stylisticFeature"
Petrarchan sonnet tradition elaborate imagery via predicate surface "stylisticFeature"
Assassination of Napoleon character development of Pierre Bezukhov via predicate surface "hasLiteraryFunction"
Assassination of Napoleon exploration of Tolstoy’s philosophy of history via predicate surface "hasLiteraryFunction"
much-enduring Homeric style via predicate surface "stylisticFeatureOf"
Yitskhok Bashevis Zinger Jewish life in Eastern Europe via predicate surface "literaryTheme"
Yitskhok Bashevis Zinger Hasidic folklore via predicate surface "literaryTheme"
Yitskhok Bashevis Zinger mysticism via predicate surface "literaryTheme"
Yitskhok Bashevis Zinger exile via predicate surface "literaryTheme"
Yitskhok Bashevis Zinger Holocaust aftermath via predicate surface "literaryTheme"
Leopold Bloom Interior monologue via predicate surface "literaryDeviceAssociated"
Leopold Bloom Free indirect discourse via predicate surface "literaryDeviceAssociated"
Gerty MacDowell free indirect discourse via predicate surface "literaryTechniqueAssociated"
Gerty MacDowell parody of women’s magazine style via predicate surface "literaryTechniqueAssociated"
Song of Deborah parallelism
Song of Deborah archaic Hebrew vocabulary
Song of Deborah vivid battle imagery
Song of Deborah personification of nature
Saul and the medium of Endor illustration of Saul’s rejection by God via predicate surface "hasLiteraryFunction"
Saul and the medium of Endor transition to Davidic kingship via predicate surface "hasLiteraryFunction"
Hosea use of metaphor and imagery