Sunday, January 26, 2014

something about list 4 lit terms

interior monologue: inner stream of consciousness but of spoken word.
inversion: where two expressions reverse their order of appearance.
juxtaposition: the flipping and swapping of appropriate time and placement to emphasize a point.
lyric: limrical phrasing usually founding poetry.
magic realism: realism with wands.
metaphor: a string of composed words that relate to or allude to another idea in length, or shortened.
metonymy: using a word to express a certain idea or thing.
modernism:  realistic style of writing that lacks romanticism.
monologue: a typically long speech given by a person to an audience.
mood: the feeling or tone set by a piece.
motif: a motto or core for the transfer of ideas in a story.
myth: a story usually vacant of truth used to impart morals or an idea.
narrative: a documentary or story that is generally factual.
narrator: the teller of the story. The one who does the saying of the words.
naturalism: the focus on natural aspects in literature. Usually having to do with man v wild conflict.
novelette/novella: a small story based on the dramatic events of a subject(s).
omniscient point of view: the point of view where a person, entity, or narrator knows everything in the story.
onomatopoeia: words that represent a certain sound.
oxymoron: two adjectives used in unison for a dogmatic phrase .
pacing: the general tempo of a story, the rate at which the plot progresses.
parable: a human, and instructive story which tends to be slightly darker than a fable.
paradox: when you're so rich, you can't fit all your boats on one.

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