soliloquy This term is used in dramatic literature and means that the actor is speaking to himself, or “aside” as it also is called. It is widely used in many of Shakespeare’s plays. stream of consciousness “Stream of consciousness” was a term which was introduced during modernism, and...
This term is applied to an image, a descriptive detail, a plot pattern, or a character type that occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion, or folklore and is, therefore, believed to evoke profound emotion because it touches the unconscious memory and thus calls into play illogical but ...
2.Comedy: A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usu. for the better. In comedy things work out happily in the end. 3.Aside旁白 :In drama lines spoken by a character in an undertone低声 or directly to the audience. 4.Soliloquy独白: In drama, an ...
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Modernismis an omnibus term for a number of tendencies in the arts which were prominent in the first half of the 20th c.; In English literature it is particularly associated with the writings of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, W. B. Yeats, F. M. Ford and Jose...
“Literary devices” is a broad, catch-all term for describing the strategies, elements, and techniques that writers and authors use to strengthen their ideas, add personality to their prose, and supercharge their writing. Just as chefs use unique ingredients or techniques to create culinary maste...
apophasis - a broad term for various types of communications and language techniques which infer or propose something by emphasizing what it is not, or by ironically rejecting or denying or introducing a notion, and then withdrawing or distancing oneself (the speaker) from the 'fact'. Examples ...
Below is a list of literary devices, most of which you'll often come across in both prose and poetry. We explain what each literary term is and give you an example of how it's used. This literary elements list is arranged in alphabetical order. ...
VerbalIrony—Somethingsaidbecomesironic.Forexample,“Yay,I’mthe biggestloser!Ijustwonamilliondollars!” InMediasRes—aliterarytermcoinedbyHoracethatmeansliterally“inthemiddleof things.”Itisusedtodescribestoriesthatbegininthemiddletheactionratherthanatthe beginningofacharacter’slife. Tone/Voice—Thenarrator...
PS – On a side note, I think it was Terry Pratchett who united both the fantasy and sci-fi genres under the banner of “speculative fiction”. I thought it was an interesting term, somewhat close to Bradbury’s “fiction of ideas”. I am more of a fantasy girl myself — don’t ...