Interior Monologue: a piece of writing expressing a character's inner thoughts.
Inversion: the action of inverting something or the state of being inverted
Juxtaposition: the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect
Lyric: a poem having musical form and quality; a short outburst of the author's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Magic(al) Realism: a genre developed in Latin America which juxtaposes the everyday with the marvelous or magical.
Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
Extended: a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it.
-Controlling: a metaphor that runs throughout the piece of work.
-Mixed: a metaphor that ineffectively blends two or more analogies.
Metonymy: the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant
Mode of Discourse: argument (persuasion), narration, description, and exposition.
Modernism: a style or movement in the arts that aims to break with classical and traditional forms.
Monologue: an extended speech by a character in a play, short story, novel, or narrative poem
Mood: the predominating atmosphere evoked by a literary piece.
Motif: a recurring feature (name, image, or phrase) in a piece of literature.
Myth: a story, often about immortals, and sometimes connected with religious rituals, that attempts to give meaning to the mysteries of the world.
Narrative: a story or description of events.
Narrator: one who narrates, or tells, a story.
Naturalism: extreme form of realism; a style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail.
Novelette/Novella: short story; short prose narrative, often satirical.
Omniscient Point of View: knowing all things, usually the third person.
Onomatopoeia: the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Pacing: consistent and continuous speed in walking, running, or moving
Parable:a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels.
Paradox: a statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really containing a possible truth; an opinion contrary to generally accepted ideas.
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