LITERARY TERMS 4

• Interior Monologue: a type of stream of consciousness in which the author depicts the interior thoughts of a single individual in the same order these thoughts occur inside that character's head
• Inversion: inverted order of words or events as a rhetorical scheme
• Juxtaposition: the arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development
• Lyric: any poem having the form and musical quality of a song
• Magical Realism: mixture of fantasy and surrealism that creates a truly dreamlike and bizarre effect in their prose
• Metaphor: a comparison or analogy stated in such a way as to imply that one object is another one, figuratively speaking
• Metonymy: using a vaguely suggestive, physical object to embody a more general idea
• Modernism: literature in the 20th century after WW1
• Monologue:  a character speaking aloud to himself, or narrating an account to an audience with no other character on stage
• Mood: a prevailing emotional tone set by the author
• Motif: a conspicuous recurring element, such as a type of incident, a device, a reference, or verbal formula, which appears frequently in works of literature
• Myth: a traditional tale of deep cultural significance to a people in terms of etiology, eschatology, ritual practice, or models of appropriate and inappropriate behavior
• Narrative: a story where the character tell its own story
• Narrator: the person telling the story
• Naturalism: a literary movement seeking to depict life as accurately as possible, without artificial distortions of emotion, idealism, and literary convention
• Novella: an extended fictional prose narrative that is longer than a short story, but not quite as long as a novel
• Omniscient Point Of View: point of view where the narrator knows the irony; all-knowing point of view
• Onomatopoeia: the use of sounds that are similar to the noise they represent for a rhetorical or artistic effect
• Oxymoron: using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level
• Pacing: going back and forth or stepping back in forth in the same direction
• Parable: a story or short narrative designed to reveal allegorically some religious principle, moral lesson, psychological reality, or general truth
• Paradox: using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level