Sunday, January 26, 2014

Lit Terms List #4

interior monologue: expression of a character's thoughts: an extended passage in a story or novel that expresses what a character is thinking and feeling.

inversion: a reversing of the order, arrangement, or position of something

juxtaposition: to place two or more things together, especially in order to suggest a link between them or emphasize the contrast between them

lyric: expressing personal feelings: relating to poetry that often has a musical quality and expresses personal emotions or thoughts

magic(al) realism: a style of art or literature that depicts fantastic or mythological subjects in a realistic manner

metaphor (extended, controlling, & mixed):1) an extended metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of a literary work, especially a poem. 2) controlling metaphor is a symbolic story in which the real meaning is not directly put across the whole poem or may be a metaphor for something else. 3)  mixed metaphor combination of two or more metaphors that together evoke a strange or incongruous image.

metonymy: A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty").

modernism: Modernism is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse

monologue: long uninterrupted speech by somebody

mood: the atmosphere created by the setting and actions of people and characters.

motif: a recurring subject, theme, idea

myth: idealized conception: a set of often idealized or glamorized ideas and stories surrounding a particular phenomenon, concept, or famous person

narrative:  a story or an account of a sequence of events in the order in which they happened

narrator: somebody who tells a story or gives an account

naturalism:  in art or literature, a movement or school advocating factual or realistic description of life, including its less pleasant aspects.

novelette/novella: short novel: a fictional prose work that is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel

omniscient point of view: all-knowing: knowing or seeming to know everything

onomatopoeia: the formation or use of words that imitate the sound associated with something (buzz)

oxymoron:  expression with contradictory words

pacing:  the rhythm and speed with which the plot unfolds

parable: moral or religious story

paradox: something absurd or contradictory: a statement, proposition, or situation that seems to be absurd or contradictory

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