Vocabulary #4 Lit Terms

1. Interior monologue: A piece of writing expressing a character's inner thoughts.

2. Inversion: Reversal of the normal order of words typically for rhetorical effect.

3. Juxtaposition: The fact of two things being seen our place close together with contrasting effect.

4. Lyric: Expressing the riders emotions usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms.

5. Magical realism: A literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy.

6. Extended Metaphor: Can go on first sentences or even a paragraph.

Controlling: A symbolic story used in a poem.

Mixed: A combination of two or more incompatible metaphors; produces a ridiculous effect.

7. Metonymy: The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjuct for that of the thing meant.

8. Modernism: modern character or quality of thought, expression or technique.

9. Monologue: A long speech by want to actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program.

10. Mood: A temporary stay of mind or feeling.

11. Motif: A decorated designer pattern.

12. Myth: A traditional story one concerning the early history of the people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon and typically involving supernatural beings or events.

13. Narrative: A spoken or written account of connected events.

14. Narrator: A person who narrates something; a character who recounts the events of a novel.

15. Naturalism: A style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail.

16. Novelette/novella: A short novel or long short story.

17. Omniscient point of view: One who can see and report everything. Has awareness.

18. Onomatopoeia: The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.

19. Oxymoron : A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

20. Pacing: A single step taken when walking or running.

21. Parable: A simple story used to illustrate amoral of spiritual lesson.

22. Paradox: A statement or proposition that leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable or self-contradictory.