Thursday, January 30, 2014

lit terms 4

Interior monologue: A piece of writing expressing a character's inner thoughts

Inversion: 
When the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis 

Juxtaposition: 
When two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or poem for compare and contrast

Lyric:
 A type of poetry that explores the poets personal interpretation of and feelings about the world

Magical realism: 
A literal genre or style that incorporates fantastic or mythical elements into otherwise realistic fiction 

Metaphor (extended, controlling, & mixed):
Extended: a metaphor that is extended or develops as far as te author wants to take it
Controlling: a symbolic story in which the real meaning is not directly put across the whole poem
Mixed: a metaphor that has gotten out of control and mixes it's terms so they are visually imaginatively incompatible

Metonymy:
 A word that is used to stand for something else that it has attributes for or is associated with

Modernism:
 rejection of 19th century traditions 

Monologue:
 A dramatic soliloquy 

Mood: 
The atmosphere of the story

Motif:
 object or idea that repeats itself through the literary piece 

Myth: 
A story dealing with supernatural beings or heroes 

Narrative:
 A collection of events that tells a story either through telling or writing

Narrator: 
One who tells a story

Naturalism: 
A literary movement seeking to depict life as accurately as possible

Novelette/novella: 
An extended fictional prose narrative that is longer than a short story but not quite a novel

Omniscient point of view:
 When the reader is seeing and all knowing 

Onomatopoeia: Words that sound like what they mean
Ex: Pop!

Oxymoron:
 A phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction

Pacing: 
The way the author speeds up or slows down the story

Parable: 
A story that instructs

Paradox:
 A statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, it does

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