One description of the fictional device was as follows:

As of 2011 they remain a "fictional device".

The Times's policies prohibit falsifying a news account or using fictional devices in factual material.

It is primarily a fictional device and often takes the form of a tragedy.

Such devices are not considered to be hover cars, however-that term is used only for the fictional device.

The character of the fictitious author, as perceived by the reader, may itself be a fictional device.

The time viewer is a fictional, oracle-like device occasionally imagined in science fiction.

Frameups are often used as a fictional device.

But he hadn't really expected such signs; they were fictional devices, and this was real.

Professor Brinkley said he had never heard of the use of such a fictional device in a biography.