Creative Writing
This refers to the selection of words in a literary works.
Diction
A narrative or story of a person's life.
Autobiography
The use of objects or images to represent ideas. A symbol is something that is tangible and visible and the idea that it symbolizes is abstract although the meaning sometimes may vary.
Symbolism
Arising in conjunction with socio political feminism, critiques patriarchal language and literature by exposing how these reflect masculine ideology.
Feminist literary criticism
Endows human qualities or inanimate objects or abstract ideas. These are often represented as possessing human form.
Personification
Attitude of the speaker toward his subject
Tone
It is a day to day account intended to purely document life’s events.
Journal
These techniques are also related to figurative language wherein the intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words.
Figure of Speech
It is a type of criticism in which literary works are viewed as the product of work and whose practitioners emphasize the role of class and ideology as they reflect, propagate, and even challenge the prevailing social order.
Marxist criticism
It uses contradictory terms that are combined to make meaning. To be able to understand what employs this figure of speech, the entire statement must be read.
Oxymoron
It also refers to a one-line poem. It expresses a complete thought.
Monostich
It is written account of a person during his/her travel. It focuses on the scenery, people and the warmess of the place and the people.
Travelogue
It is a technique where characters speak to one another and is used to substitute for exposition.
Dialogue
It is a term that emerged in the late 1980s for a body of criticism on issues of gender, sexuality, and subjectivity that came out of gay and lesbian scholarship in such fields as literary criticism, politics, sociology, and history.
Queer theory
It replaces one word of phrase for another, usually a symbol with which it is closely associated.
Metonymy
The words of the line rhymes entirely with the next line.
Holorhyme
It refers to the personal account of a person which teachers them something. It is more of a memory that cannot be easily forgotten.
Memoir
It is in this part that the author interrupts the story to explain something or to give important background information.
Exposition
It is similar to cultural studies, but it assumes a unique perspective on literature and politics that warrants a separate discussion.
Post-colonial criticism
Is a figure of speech which contradicts itself in the same sentence.
Paradox
It is a poetic act of describing a sense of impression by using another senses.
Synesthesia
It refers to magazine or newspaper writing or closely related to it. It is journalism with a touch of an artistic value of literature in it.
Reportage/Literary Journalism
It is a technique in creative nonfiction wherein the author exaggerates or alters the objective realities for the purpose of enhancing and clarifying the meaning in the context of fiction.
Creative License
It is a literary theory based on the idea that literature should be studied and interpreted within the context of both the history of the author and the history of the critic.
New Historicism
It is a literary term for using one word to modify two other words, in two different ways.
Zeugma