Literary Devices

Literary Devices

Prose Fiction
Novel - A novel is a long larrative in literary prose.

Novella - A narrative fictrional prose that is shorter than a novelbut longer than a novelette.

Short Stories - a work of fiction that is usually written in short fiction prose. They're plots are short and quickly resolved.

Elements of Prose Fiction
Narrative Technique - The method involved in writting or telling a piece or literature.

Point-Of-View - refers to the way or perspective the narrator approaches his or her material.

Characterisation - The way in which a writer creates and develops his/her characters.

Setting - The time and place in which a play takes place.

Theme - The abstract subject of a piece of work; it's central idea or ideas.

Plot - The plan of a literary work, especially of dramas and novels.

Style - The characteristic manner in which a writer expresses him/herself, or the particular manner of an individual literary work.

Literary Devices
Imagery - is used in literature to refer to discriptive language that evokes senery, experience.

Symbol - A symbol is something which represents something else (often and idea) by analagy or assosiation.

Irony - consists of said or wirtten that suggests the opposite of their meaning.

Satire - a literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision or wit.

Allusion - A figiure of speech that makes a reference to or representation of a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art either directly or by implication.

Structural Devices
Stream of Consciousness - The attempts to convey all the contents of a characters mind.

Interior Monologue - An attempt to convey in words the process of consciousness or thought.

Flash back - A sudden jump backwards in time to an earlier episode or scene in a story of a novel, play or film.

Foreshadow - The technique of suggesting or prifiguring a development in a literary work before it occurs.

Time Frame - A given interval especially in relation to a particular date(era), event or process.

Mortif - A recurrent element - word, image, object, phrase or action.

Juxtation - to put side by side or close together

Types of Fiction
Novel - a work of fiction that is usually written in short fiction prose. They're plots are short and quickly resolved

Novella - A narrative fictrional prose that is shorter than a novelbut longer than a novelette.

Short Story -  a work of fiction that is usually written in short fiction prose. They're plots are short and quickly resolved.

Short-short Story - A very brief story, usually comproses a simple plot and end in a surprise, irony, or joke.

Vignette - A brief piece of fiction that vividly depicts or describes a person, place, or event. Vignettes need do not have a climax or much plot.

Prose Poem - A very short piece of work that exaggerates upon imagery, rhythm, and other elements of poetry.

Anti-Story - A Work of fiction that takes the form of an essay or other non-fiction work.

Novelette - Not a literary form at all, but simply a designation used by some magazines for short stories.

Literary Context
Social - living together in groups

Political -  relating to the state or it's government.

 Hystorical - from the past; connected to the past.

Religious - observant of religious laws or practices.

Ethnic - different ractial or social groups of people from different countries.

Moral - conforming to accepted standards; having integrity

Intellectual -  rational; highly intelligent; devoted to mental or intellectual pursuits.

Cultural - refers to the patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance or importance.