If you could be a literary device, which would you be?

I think I would be the elipsis and vanish unnoticed in a crowd.

If you could invent a literary device, what would it be?

We invented the 'cinnadoshay' which is where an author characterizes a human with inhuman qualities. How it differs from a metaphor or simile I'm not sure, but it does!

(the spelling is a joke because we have been taught so many very different ways to pronounce synedoche in our literary careers)