Lit Terms #4

interior - adj. of or coming from the middle of a region or country;inside and toward a center; situated within or suitable for inside a building; located inward; inside the country; noun the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849; the inner or enclosed surface of something; the region that is inside of something
monologue - noun a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor; a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation); speech you make to yourselfinversion - noun the act of turning inside out; turning upside down; setting on end; a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex; (counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa; (genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed; the layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer; a chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa; abnormal condition in which an organ is turned inward or inside out (as when the upper part of the uterus is pulled into the cervical canal after childbirth); the reversal of the normal order of wordsjuxtaposition - noun the act of positioning close together (or side by side); a side-by-side positionlyric - adj. expressing deep personal emotion; used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range; of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way); relating to or being musical drama; noun a short poem of songlike quality; the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; verb write lyrics for (a song)magic - adj. possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers; noun any art that invokes supernatural powers; an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observersrealism - noun the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth; (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived;(philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names; an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description; the state of being actual or realmetaphor - noun a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similaritymetonymy - noun substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')modernism - noun practices typical of contemporary life or thought;genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres; the quality of being current or of the presentmonologue - noun a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor; a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation); speech you make to yourselfmood - noun verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker; a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; the prevailing psychological statemotif - noun a design that consists of recurring shapes or colors; a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music; a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic workmyth - noun a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a peoplenarrative - adj. consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story; noun a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television programnarrator - noun someone who tells a storynaturalism - noun (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations; an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual descriptionnovelette - noun a short novelnovella - noun a short novelomniscient - adj. infinitely wiseonomatopoeia - noun using words that imitate the sound they denoteoxymoron - noun conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')pacing - noun walking with slow regular strides; (music) the speed at which a composition is to be playedparable - noun (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message; a short moral story (often with animal characters)paradox - noun (logic) a statement that contradicts itself