Lit Terms 4

1. interior monologue - exhibits the thoughts passing through the minds of the protagonists
2. inversion -  the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter
3. juxtaposition - the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect
4. lyric - expressing the writer’s emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms.
5. magic(al) realism - incorporates fantastic or mythical elements into otherwise realistic fiction
6. metaphor (extended, controlling, & mixed)
7. Extended -  comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem
8. Controlling - metaphor that dominates or organizes an entire poem
9. Mixed - the use in the same expression of two or more metaphors that are incongruous or illogical when combined,
10. metonymy - a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated
11. modernism - literary movement prominent after WWI
12. monologue - a long speech given by a character
13. mood - what an audience perceives in emotion from a literary work
14. motif - idea that is constantly presented throughout a work
15. myth - a traditional story that includes supernatural beings or events
16. narrative - a report of related events presented to the listeners or readers in words arranged in a logical sequence
17. narrator - the subject who narrates the story
18. naturalism - literary movement of extreme realism, it sought to depict everyday reality
19. novelette/novella - A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel
20. omniscient point of view - A narrator who knows everything about all the characters
21. onomatopoeia - the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
22. oxymoron - a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
23. pacing - the rhythm and speed in which the story is told by the author
24. parable - a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson
25. paradox - a statement that apparently contradicts itself but is often true