Have you 'APPLE' your writing?
Whenever I teach Creative Writing, I would strongly encourage the students to explore and employ various literary devices. However some of them find it even hard to recall the specific literary devices. So, I often use pictures to help them recall.
Here's one for the readers.
The A.P.P.L.E
A-analogy
P-personification
P-paradox
L-litotes
E-euphemism