Monday, February 17, 2014

Lit terms # 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:        an analogy that compare two different things imaginatively directly.
            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.
 
Mode of Discourse: argument (persuasion), narration, description, and exposition.
 
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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