Thursday, January 30, 2014

lit terms # 4

-Interior Monologue: a form of writing which represents the inner thoughts of a character; the recording of the internal, emotional experience(s) of an individual.
ex when ever the event is going on inside the actors head.

-Inversion: words out of order for emphasis.
ex: Its so late, do you know what time it is?

-Juxtaposition: the intentional placement of a word, phrase, sentences of paragraph to contrast with another nearby.
ex: "The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
      "Petals on a wet, black bough.  by Ezra Pound

-Lyric: a poem having musical form and quality; a short outburst of the author’s
innermost thoughts and feelings.

-Magic Realism:  a genre developed in Latin America which juxtaposes the everyday with the marvelous or magical.

-Metaphor(extended, controlling, and mixed): an analogy that compare two different  things imaginatively.
ex: America is a melting pot.
         Extended: a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it.
           ex: Plato's Allegory of the Cave
          Controlling: a metaphor that runs throughout the piece of work
        Mixed: a metaphor that ineffectively blends two or more analogies.

-Metonymy:  literally “name changing” a device of figurative language in which the
 name of an attribute or associated thing is substituted for the usual name of a thing.
ex:  knowledge is power

-Mode of Discourse:  argument, narration, description, and exposition.

-Modernism:  literary movement characterized by stylistic experimentation, rejection of tradition, interest in symbolism and psychology
ex: Modernist writing and influences

-Monologue:  an extended speech by a character in a play, short story, novel, or narrative poem.
ex:The speech we remembered was a monologue.

-Mood:  the predominating atmosphere evoked by a literary piece.
ex: Books can have different feelings such as depressing, or happiness.

-Motif:  a recurring feature (name, image, or phrase) in a piece of literature.

-Myth: .a story, often about immortals, and sometimes connected with religious rituals, that attempts to give meaning to the mysteries of the world.
ex: Greek mythology, the Gods and Goddesses

-Narrative:  a story or description of events.
ex: Lots of books are narratives.

-Narrator:  one who narrates, or tells, a story.
ex: People want Morgan Freeman to be the narrator of their life.

-Naturalism: extreme form of realism.

-Novelette/Novella: short story; short prose narrative, often satirical.

-Omniscient Point of View:  knowing all things, usually the third person.

-Onomatopoeia: use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning.
ex: snap crackle pop

-Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which two contradicting words or phrases are combined to produce a
rhetorical effect by means of a concise paradox.
ex: thats a little big lie.

-Pacing:  rate of movement, the  tempo.
ex: abc, abc, ab, ab, bc, bc

-Parable:  a story designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth.

-Paradox:  a statement apparently self-contradictory, an opinion contrary to generally accepted ideas.
ex: deep down you seem nice, but on the surface I see something different

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