Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Lit Terms list 4



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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