Literary Terms #4

interior monologue: also known as inner voice, internal speech, or verbal stream of consciousness is thinking in words.  
example: Shakespeare contains various interior monologues to provide the audience with a deeper understanding.
inversion: a change in the position, order, or relationship of things so that they are the opposite of what they had been.
example: The Princess Diaries changed a normal teenage girl to a princess, which is quite an inversion.
juxtaposition: the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side.
example: Charles Dickens uses the technique of juxtaposition in the opening line of his novel "A Tale of Two Cities".
lyric: a poem that expresses deep personal feelings in a way that is like a song. 
example: "Girl, the moon and the stars don't shine like you do."
magic(al) realism: painting in a meticulously realistic style of imaginary or fantastic scenes or images.example:  "House of the Spirits" is when a girl with green hair floats away into the clouds because she is so pure. 

metaphor (extended, controlling, & mixed): a word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar.
example: The ocean was clear as crystal.
metonymy: is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is called not by its own name but rather by the name of something associated in meaning with that thing or concept.
example: "The pen is mightier than the sword"
modernism: is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse. 
example: Ezra Pound's literature is within the modernism genre.monologue: a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program.
example: O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despised substance of divinest show!
Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st,
A damned saint, an honourable villain!
O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell,
When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend
In moral paradise of such sweet flesh?
Was ever book containing such vile matter 
So fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace!
mood: a temporary state of mind or feeling.
example: The climax changed the mood of the entire story.motif: a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition.
example:  In Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities”, the main plot revolves around a few basic themes: the ever-present possibility of resurrection and the necessity of sacrifice to bring about a revolution.
myth: a traditional story, esp. one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.
example: Greek and Roman myths are a core part of their culture.narrative: a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
example: "The Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens is a narrative.narrator: a person who narrates something, esp. a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem.
example: Katniss is the narrator in The Hunger Games.naturalism: was a literary movement or tendency from the 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character.
example: Jan van Eyck was an artist of the naturalism genre.
novelette/novella: is a written, fictional, prose narrative normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. 
example: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is an example of a novella.
omniscient point of view: means that the reader is all seeing and all knowing. 
example: The omniscient point of view provides the audience with a deeper point of view.onomatopoeia: the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
example: BOOM! POW!oxymoron: a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
example:  Faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
pacing: walk at a steady and consistent speed, esp. back and forth and as an expression of one's anxiety or annoyance.
example: I was pacing before my important exam.parable: a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson.
example: "Siddharta" is a parable in which illustrates the journey to enlightenment.paradox: a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory.
example: You can save money by spending it.