Interior monologue: A piece of writing expressing a character's inner thoughts
Inversion: When the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis
Juxtaposition: When two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or poem for compare and contrast
Lyric: A type of poetry that explores the poets personal interpretation of and feelings about the world
Magic(al) realism: A literal genre or style that incorporates fantastic or mythical elements into otherwise realistic fiction
Metaphor (extended, controlling, & mixed):
Extended: a metaphor that is extended or develops as far as te author wants to take it
Controlling: a symbolic story in which the real meaning is not directly put across the whole poem
Mixed: a metaphor that has gotten out of control and mixes it's terms so they are visually imaginatively incompatible
Ex: The president is a lame duck who is running out of gas
Metonymy: A word that is used to stand for something else that it has attributes for or is associated with
Modernism: rejection of 19th century traditions
Monologue: A dramatic soliloquy
Mood: The atmosphere of the story
Motif: object or idea that repeats itself through the literary piece
Myth: A story dealing with supernatural beings or heroes
Narrative: A collection of events that tells a story either through telling or writing
Narrator: One who tells a story
Naturalism: A literary movement seeking to depict life as accurately as possible
Novelette/novella: An extended fictional prose narrative that is longer than a short story but not quite a novel
Omniscient point of view: When the reader is seeing and all knowing
Onomatopoeia: Words that sound like what they mean
Ex: Pop!
Oxymoron: A phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction
Pacing: The way the author speeds up or slows down the story
Parable: A story that instructs
Paradox: A situation it statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, it does
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