Clue: "Oedipus Rex" literary device

Answer: IRONY

Length: 5

---

Similar Clues:

• "A literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything": Huxley (ESSAY with 5 letters)
• Literary device in "The Gift of the Magi" (IRONY with 5 letters)
• 1969 literary heroine who says "I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand" (ADA with 3 letters)
• Literary character whose last words are "Thus, I give up the spear!" (AHAB with 4 letters)
• Literary character who says "I'll chase him round Good Hope" (AHAB with 4 letters)
• Literary character who says "For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee" (AHAB with 4 letters)
• Literary captain who says "I'd strike the sun if it insulted me" (AHAB with 4 letters)
• "Cakes" literary partner (ALE with 3 letters)
• "The Bourne Identity" plot device (AMNESIA with 7 letters)
• "Bourne Identity" plot device (AMNESIA with 7 letters)