Literary Terms

Prose Friction
Novels: A fictional pros work with a relatively long and often complex plot, unusally divided into long chapters.

Novellas: a fictional prose wrok that is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel.

Short Storie: A variet of small prose friction.

Elements of Prose Friction
NarrativeTechinque: the styple of telling the story. Concentrate on teh order of events and on their details in evlauating a writer's technique.

Point of View: the perspective on events of the narrator or a harcter in a story.

Characterization: the way in which the writer potray the character in a book, play or movie.

Seting: the period in time and place in which the events of the story are said to occur.

Theme: the central idea of a story or runs through a text.

Plot: the story or sequence of event in something such as a novel, play movie, how it unfolds.

Style: the lanuage of a poem or story primarily literal or figurative. Maner of expression.

Literary Devices: An identifiable ruke of thumb, convention or struture that is emplye d in literature abd story telling.

Imagery: descrpitive lanuage that evokes sequence of speech sounds.

Syllabes:A unit of oganization for a sequence of speech sounds.

Irony: humour based on using words to suggest the opposition of their literal meaning.

Satire: the experience of the vicesor follies of an indiviual, usuall with a view to correcting it.

Allusion: Abrief refrence to person to a person, place things, events or idea in history of literature.\


Stuructual Devices
Streams of consciousness: a narratve made that seeks to potray an indiviuaks point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processors.

Interior Monologue: A narrative technique that exhibits the thoughts through passing through the minds of the protoganists.

Flashback: An interjected scence that takes the narrative back in time from the recent or current point the story has reached.

Forshawdow: Hints of clues that suggest the events of what is in the action of play or story.

Time Frame: A period durng which something takes place or is projected to occur.

Motif: any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story.

Juxtapositon: two objects or text that oppose one another.


Types of Friction
Humorous Fiction
Science Fiction
Histrical Fiction
Relistic Fiction
Animal Fiction
Traditional Fiction
Fantasy Fiction
mystery Fiction

Literary Context
 Social: the identical or similar social levls and social roles as a whle tht influences the indivual of group.

Polictical: this reflect the enviroment in which is produced indicating it's pupose or agenda.

Religous: this reflects the time in which something takes palce or was craeted and how that influnces, how you interpret it.

Ethnic: reflects on the chracteristics of people or group sharing common and distintive religion and belief.

Cultural the way in which a person grow up It 's also the location where the person lives.