Lit Terms 56-80

Gothic Tale: a style in literature characterized by gloomy settings, violent or grotesque action, and a mood of decay.
Hyperbole: an exaggerated statement used to proved a point.
Imagery: figures of speech or vivid descriptions conveying images through any of the senses.
Implication: a meaning or understanding thats to be arrived at by the reader but isn't exactly stated by the author.
Incongruity: the deliberate joining of opposite or  of elements that aren't appropriate to each other.
Inference: a judgement or conclusion based on evidence presented; the forming of an opinion which posses some degree of probability. 
Irony: a contrast between what's said and what's meant, and what's expected to happen and what actually happens or what's thought to be happening or what actually happens.
Interior Monologue: a form of writing that expresses inner thoughts of a character.
Inversion: words out of order for emphasis.
Juxtaposition: the intentional, placement of a word, phrase or sentences of paragraph to contrast with another.
Lyric: a poem having musical form and quality; short burst of the author's inner most thoughts and feelings.
Magical Realism: a genre developed in Latin America which juxtaposes the everyday with the magical.
Metaphor: an analogy that compares two things imaginatively.
Extended: a metaphor that that developed or extended as long as the writer wants to take it.
Controlling: a metaphor that runs throughout a piece of work.
Mixed: a metaphor that ineffectively blends two or more analogies. 
Metonymy: literally name changing a device of figurative language in which the name of an attribute is substituted for the usual name of the thing.
Mode of Discourse: argument, narration, description, and exposition.
Modernism: literary movement characterized by stylistic experimentation, rejection of tradition, interest in symbolism and psychology.
Monologue: an extended speech by a character in a play, short story, novel or narrative poem.
Mood: the predominating atmosphere evoked by a literary piece.
Motif: a recurring feature in a piece of literature.