Literary Terms.

* Prose Fictions:
1. Novel - A fictional prose work with a relatively long and often complex plot, usually divided into chapters.
2. Novellas - A fictional prose work that is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel.
3. Short stories - A variety of small prose fictions with a less complex plot.

* Elements of Prose fictions:
1. Narrative Techniques- The style of telling a "story". Concentrate on the order of events and on their detail in evaluating a writer's technique.
2. Point of view - The perspctive on events of the narrator or a character in a story.
3. Characterization - The way in which the writer potrays the characters in a book, play or movie.
4. Setting - The period in time and place in which the events of a story are said to occur.
5. Theme - The central idea of a story that runs through a text.
6. Plot - The story or sequence of events in something such as a novel, play or movie. the way in which the author arranges events to develope his basic idea.
7. Style - The language of a poem or story primarily literal or figurative. the manner of expression. 
8. Literary devices - An identifiable covention or structure that is employed in literature and story telling.
9. Imagery - Descriptive language that evokes sensory experience. anything appealing to the senses.
10. Syllable - A unit of organization for a sequence os speech sounds.
11. Irony - Humor based on using word to suggest the opposite of their literal meaning.
12. Satire - The experience of the vices and follies of an individual, usually with a view to correcting it.
13. Symbol - Something that on the surface is its literal self but which also has another meanung or even several meanings.
14. Allusion - A brief referance to a person, place, thing, event or idea in history of literature.

* Structural Devices:
1. Stream of consciouness - A narrative mode that seeks to potray an individual point pf view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought process.
2. Interior monologue - A narrative technique that exhibits the thoughts passing through the minds of protoganists.
3. Flashback - An interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the recent or current point the story has reached.
4. Foreshadowing - Hints and clues that suggest the events of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
5. Time frame - A period during which something takes place or is projected to occur.
6. Motif - Any reoccuring element that has a symbolic significance in a story.
7. Juxtaposition - Two objects or texts that oppose one another.

* Types of Fiction:
> Eight types of fictions are:
1. Humorous Fiction
2. Science Fiction
3. Historical Fiction
4. Realistic Fiction
5. Animal Fiction
6. Traditional
7. Mystery.
8. Fantasy

* Literary Context:
1. Social - The indentical or similar social levels and social roles as a whole that influence the individuals of a group.
2. Political - This reflects the environment in which something is produced indicating its purpose or agenda.
3. Religious - This reflects on the beliefs on someone. what a person believes in, their religion.
4. Historical - The time in which something takes place or was created and how that influences, how you interpret it.
5. Ethnic - Reflects on the characteristics of people or a group. sharing common and a distinctive culture. religion or language.
6. Moral - Concerned with the judgement of the goodness and the badness of human action and character.
7. Intellectual - This is the science which deals with mental processes and behaviour.
8. Cultural - the way in which a person grew up. Its also the location where the person lives.