literary devices

1. Novel- Is a long fiction almost always concertration on character and incident and usually contains a plot.



2. Novellas- words that apply to a story, somewhat longer than a short story but not long enough to be considered a novel.



3. Short Stories- a short prose fiction which contains 1 or few characters and a plot which is not complicated.



Narrative Techniques- This is simply the technique in having narrative skills, style of writing used by the writer.



5. Point of view- The way inwhich a narrator approches his or her material(characters, action, setting) and the audience.



6. Characterisation- The way inwhich the writer creates characters in a play to attract or repel the readers sympathy.



7. Setting- The time, place environent and surroundings of an event of a story or a play.



8. Theme- The abstract subject of work. Its central idea which may or may not be obvious.



9. Plot- The arrangement of plan of incidencents in literary work ( play, novel, drama, or narrative poem).

10. style- the charateristic manner inwhich a writer expresses himself or the particular manner of an individual literary work.

11. imagary- a critial word several different applications. in its narrowest sense of image.

12. irony- a manner of speaking that is disparsed through all kinds of lecturature- consists of saying one thing and meaning another.

13. satire- literature which exsibiles vice and folly and make them appear ridiculous or contemptible.

14. allusion- a passing reference in a work of literature to something outside itself.

15. stream of consienceness- a common narrative technique in the modern novel. ( an attemp to convey all the contents of a character's mind) eg. feelings, mind, and taughts.

16. interior monolouge- an attempt to convey in words in the process o consienceness( as a means of narrating a story).

17. Flashback- a sudden jump back into a earlier episode or a scene in the story, play or flim.

18. foreshadowing- the use of hints that suggest events that are to come.

19. time frame- is a given interval of time espicially in the relating to a particular event or process.

20. motif- some aspect of literature ( a type of character, theme, image) which reccures frequently.

21. Juxtaposition- is to put close together or side to side.