Interior Monologue: a form of writing which represents the
inner thoughts of a character; the recording of the internal, emotional
experience(s) of an individual; generally the reader is given the impression of
overhearing the interior monologue.
Inversion: words out of order for emphasis.
Juxtaposition: the intentional placement of a word, phrase,
sentences of paragraph to contrast with another nearby.
Lyric: a poem having musical form and quality; a short
outburst of the author’s innermost thoughts and feelings.
Magic(al) Realism: a genre developed in Latin America which
juxtaposes the everyday with the
marvelous or magical
Metaphor(extended, controlling, and mixed): an analogy that
compare two different
things imaginatively.
Extended: a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as
the writer
wants to take it.
Controlling: a metaphor that runs throughout the piece of
work.
Mixed: a metaphor that ineffectively blends two or more
analogies.
Metonymy: literally
“name changing” a device of figurative language in which the name of an
attribute or associated thing is substituted for the usual name of a thing.
Modernism: literary
movement characterized by stylistic experimentation, rejection of tradition,
interest in symbolism and psychology
Monologue: an
extended speech by a character in a play, short story, novel, or narrative
poem.
Mood: the
predominating atmosphere evoked by a literary piece.
Motif: a
recurring feature (name, image, or phrase) in a piece of literature
Myth: a
story, often about immortals, and sometimes connected with religious rituals,
that attempts to give meaning to the mysteries of the world
Narrative: a story or
description of events.
Narrator: one who narrates,
or tells, a story.
Naturalism: extreme form of realism
Novelette/Novella: short story; short prose narrative, often
satirical.
Omniscient Point of View:
knowing all things, usually the third person.
Onomatopoeia: use of a word whose sound in some degree
imitates or suggests its
meaning.
Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which two
contradicting words or phrases are combined to produce a rhetorical effect by
means of a concise paradox
Pacing:
rate of movement; tempo.
Parable: a story
designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth.
Paradox:
a statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really
containing a possible truth; an opinion contrary to generally accepted ideas
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