LIT TERMS: LIST 4

1. Interior Monologue: A type of stream of consciousness in which the author depicts the interior thoughts of a single individual in the same order these thoughts occur inside that character's head. EX: In the "Lestrygonian" episode of James Joyce's Ulysses.
2. Inversion: Inverted order of words or events as a rhetorical scheme. EX: Shakespeare speaks of "Figures pedantical".
3. Juxtaposition: The arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development.
4. Lyric:  A short poem (usually no more than 50-60 lines, and often only a dozen lines long) written in a repeating stanzaic form, often designed to be set to music and that may not have a plot. EX: William Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper."
5. Magic(al) realism: To mingle and juxtapose realistic events with fantastic ones, or they experiment with shifts in time and setting, "labyrinthine narratives and plots" and "arcane erudition" (135), and often they combine myths and fairy stories with gritty Hemingway-esque detail. This mixture create truly dreamlike and bizarre effects in their prose. EX: Gabriel Garcia Márquez's short story, "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings."
6. Metaphor (extended, controlling, & mixed): Extended- A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem./ Controlling- a symbolic story, where the whole poem may be a metaphor for something else./Mixed-A succession of incongruous or ludicrous comparisons.
7. Metonymy: Using a vaguely suggestive, physical object to embody a more general idea. EX: Using "crown" in reference to royalty. 
8. Modernism: A vague, amorphous term referring to the art, poetry, literature, architecture, and philosophy of Europe and America in the early twentieth-century.
9. Monologue: An interior monologue does not necessarily represent spoken words, but rather the internal or emotional thoughts or feelings of an individual. EX: William Faulkner's long interior monologues within The Sound and The Fury.
10. Mood: a feeling, emotional state, or disposition of mind--especially the predominating atmosphere or tone of a literary work.
11. Motif: A conspicuous recurring element, such as a type of incident, a device, a reference, or verbal formula, which appears frequently in works of literature. EX: "Loathly lady" who turns out to be a beautiful princess.
12. Myth: A traditional tale of deep cultural significance to a people in terms of etiology, eschatology, ritual practice, or models of appropriate and inappropriate behavior. The myth often (but not always) deals with gods, supernatural beings, or ancestral heroes. EX: Greek Gods.
13. Narrative: the story or account itself.
14. Narrator: The "voice" that speaks or tells a story. EX: Huck Finn.
15. Naturalism: A literary movement seeking to depict life as accurately as possible, without artificial distortions of emotion, idealism, and literary convention.
16. Novelette/novella: An extended fictional prose narrative that is longer than a short story, but not quite as long as a novel. EX: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
17. Omniscient point of view: Where a narrator who knows everything that needs to be known about the agents and events in the story, and is free to move at will in time and place, and who has privileged access to a character's thoughts, feelings, and motives.
18. Onomatopoeia: The use of sounds that are similar to the noise they represent for a rhetorical or artistic effect. EX: Buzz, rattle, quack.
19. Oxymoron:  Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level.  EX: Jumbo Shrimp.
20. Pacing: Rate of progress; specifically :  parallel rate of growth or development. 
21. Parable: A story or short narrative designed to reveal allegorically some religious principle, moral lesson, psychological reality, or general truth. EX: The Prodigal Son.
22. Paradox: Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level. EX: "Without laws, we have no freedom."