Simile: a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison.
Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.
Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme.
Speaker: a narrator, the one speaking.
Stereotype: cliché; a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story.
Stream of Consciousness: the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character’s thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them.
Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization.
Style: the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking.
Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language.
Surrealism: a style in literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or the nonrational aspects of man’s existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the bizarre and the banal.
Suspension of Disbelief: suspend not believing in order to enjoy it.
Symbol: something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own.
Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.
Synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.
Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence.
Theme: main idea of the story; its message(s).
Thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved
or disproved; the main idea.
Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the
author’s perceived point of view.
Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; a.k.a. “dry” or “dead pan”
Tragedy: in literature: any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically (fatally) flawed
Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis
Vernacular: everyday speech
Voice: The textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer’s or speaker’s pesona.
Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history
Friday, February 20, 2015
Monday, February 9, 2015
Lit Terms IV
interior monologue - exhibits the thoughts passing through the minds of the protagonists
inversion - the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter
juxtaposition - the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect
lyric - expressing the writer’s emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms.
magic(al) realism - incorporates fantastic or mythical elements into otherwise realistic fiction
metaphor (extended, controlling, & mixed)
Extended - comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem
Controlling - metaphor that dominates or organizes an entire poem
Mixed - the use in the same expression of two or more metaphors that are incongruous or illogical when combined,
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
modernism - literary movement prominent after WWI
monologue - a long speech given by a character
mood - what an audience perceives in emotion from a literary work
motif - idea that is constantly presented throughout a work
myth - a traditional story that includes supernatural beings or events
narrative - a report of related events presented to the listeners or readers in words arranged in a logical sequence
narrator - the subject who narrates the story
naturalism - literary movement of extreme realism, it sought to depict everyday reality
novelette/novella - A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel
omniscient point of view - A narrator who knows everything about all the characters
onomatopoeia - the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
oxymoron - a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
pacing - the rhythm and speed in which the story is told by the author
parable - a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson
paradox - a statement that apparently contradicts itself but is often true
inversion - the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter
juxtaposition - the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect
lyric - expressing the writer’s emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms.
magic(al) realism - incorporates fantastic or mythical elements into otherwise realistic fiction
metaphor (extended, controlling, & mixed)
Extended - comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem
Controlling - metaphor that dominates or organizes an entire poem
Mixed - the use in the same expression of two or more metaphors that are incongruous or illogical when combined,
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
modernism - literary movement prominent after WWI
monologue - a long speech given by a character
mood - what an audience perceives in emotion from a literary work
motif - idea that is constantly presented throughout a work
myth - a traditional story that includes supernatural beings or events
narrative - a report of related events presented to the listeners or readers in words arranged in a logical sequence
narrator - the subject who narrates the story
naturalism - literary movement of extreme realism, it sought to depict everyday reality
novelette/novella - A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel
omniscient point of view - A narrator who knows everything about all the characters
onomatopoeia - the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
oxymoron - a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
pacing - the rhythm and speed in which the story is told by the author
parable - a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson
paradox - a statement that apparently contradicts itself but is often true
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