prose features

• Stream of consciousness


  A person’s thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow
• Narrative voice and perspective


  The angle from which a story is told
• Symbolism


  An artistic and poetic movement or style using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind
• Irony


  A literary technique by which the full significance of a character's words or actions is clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character
• Foreshadowing


  A warning or indication of a future event
• Motif


  A dominant or recurring idea in an artistic work
• Character development and complexity


  The process of creating fictional characters with the same depth and complexity as real-life human beings
• Image and descriptive language


  The art of using words and phrases to create detailed mental images, evoke emotions, and engage a reader's or listener's senses
• Intertextuality


  Direct references that one text makes to another text
• Non-linear narrative


  A storytelling technique in which the chronological order of events is disrupted
• Metafiction


  A form of fiction that emphasises its own narrative structure in a way that inherently reminds the audience that they are reading or viewing a fictional work
• Epistolary form


  A story told through written communication
• Postmodern parody


  Acts as a tool to deconstruct narratives and question the status quo
• Metonymy


  The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant
• Synecdoche


  A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
• Narrative frame


  A story within a story, within sometimes yet another story
• Unreliable narration


  A narrator whose story cannot be fully trusted
• Juxtaposition of real and surreal elements


  The placement of two or more contrasting or unexpected elements together in a work of art
• Philosophical dialogue


  A literary genre that represents a discussion of philosophical questions