Monday, February 9, 2015

LIT TERMS #4

interior - located inward
monologue -a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor; a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation); speech you make to yourself
inversion - the act of turning inside out; turning upside down; setting on end
juxtaposition - the act of positioning close together (or side by side); a side-by-side position
lyric - expressing deep personal emotion; a short poem of songlike quality; the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number
magical realism - 
a literary genre or style associated especially with Latin America that incorporates fantastic or mythical elements into otherwise realistic fiction
metaphor - a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
extended - beyond the literal or primary sense
controlling - able to control or determine policy
mixed - consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds, caused to combine or unite
metonymy - substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')
modernism - practices typical of contemporary life or thought;genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
monologue -  a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor; a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation); speech you make to yourself
mood - verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker; a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; the prevailing psychological state
motif - a design that consists of recurring shapes or colors; a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music; a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
myth - a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people
narrative - consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story
narrator - someone who tells a story
naturalism - artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description
novelette - a short novel
novella - a short novel
omniscient - infinitely wise 
onomatopoeia - using words that imitate the sound they denote
oxymoron - conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')
pacing - walking with slow regular strides
parable - a short moral story (often with animal characters)
paradox - a statement that contradicts itselt
Point of view is the angle of considering things, which shows us the opinion, or feelings of the individuals involved in a situation. In literature, point of view is the mode of narration that an author employs to let the readers “hear” and “see” what takes place in a story

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