Literature Definitions.

Forms of Prose Fiction

• ·         Novel – A novel is a long narrative in literature prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella..
• ·         Novella – (also called a short story) is a write, fictional, prose narrative longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel.
• ·         Short Story – Is a work of fiction that is usually in prose, often in the narrative format.

Elements of Prose

• ·         Narrative Techniques – The method involved in telling a story.
• ·         Point of View – Refers to the way in which a narrative approaches his/her material (characters, action, setting, ex.) and the audience.
• ·         Characters – The way in which a writer creates characters in a narrative so as to attract or repel our sympathy.
• ·         Settings – The time or place in which a play takes place.
• ·         Theme – A theme is the main idea, or message, of an essay, paragraph, or a book. The message may be about life, society, or human nature.
• ·         Plot - The plan of a literary work, especially of drama and novels.
• ·         Style – The characteristics manner in which a writer expresses him/herself or the particular manner of an individual literary work.
• ·         Imagery – Is used in literature to refer to descriptions, languages that evokes scenery experiences.
• ·         Symbol – A symbol is something which represents something else, often an idea or quality, by analogy or association.
• ·         Irony – A manner of speaking or writing that is dispersed through all kinds of literature, irony consists of saying one thing while you mean the other.
• ·         Satire – Literature which inhibits or examines vice and folly and makes them appear ridiculous or contemptible.
• ·         Allusion – A figure of speech that makes a reference to or representation of a place event, literary work, myth of, work of art either directly or by implication.

Structural Devices

• ·         Stream of Consciousness – The attempts to convey all the contents of a characters mind, memory, sense perception, feeling, intuition, thoughts. In relation to the stream of experience as it passes by, often at random.
• ·         Interior Monologue – An attempt to convey in words the process of consciousness or thought has a mean of narrating a story.
• ·         Flashback – A sudden jump backwards in time to an earlier episode or scene in a story of a novel, play or film.
• ·         Fore Shadowing – The technique of suggesting or prefiguring a development in a literary work before it occurs.
• ·         Time Frame – A given interval of time especially in relation to a particular event or process.
• ·         Motif – A significant word, description, idea or image that is repeated throughout a literary work and is related to its theme.
• ·         Monologue – A passage of writing, presenting a character’s inner thoughts and emotions in a direct, sometime disjointed or fragmentary manner.
• ·         Juxta Position – An act or instance of placing close together or side by side especially for comparison or contrast.

Literature Contents

• ·         Social- Of or having to do with human beings living together, as a group in a situation in which their dealing with one another affect their common welfare.
• ·         Political – Of or concerned with government, the statement of politics.
• ·         Religious – Characterized by adherence to religious or a religion, devout, pious, gladly.
• ·         Ethnic -Referring to the origin, classification, characteristics, etc., of such groups.
• ·         Moral - Is a message conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event.
• ·         Intellectual - A person who uses intelligence (thought and reason) and critical or analytical reasoning in either a professional or a personal capacity. 
• ·         Cultural - An integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning.