N List Literary Devices

Question 1

a story, written in either prose or verse

Answer 1

narrative

Question 2

aka frame story; plot device in which the author places the main narrative of the work within another narrative, which serves to explain the main narrative in some way

Answer 2

narrative frame

Question 3

the voice and implied speaker of a fictional work, to be distinguished from the actual author; objective version recounts only what characters say and do, offering no insight onto their thinking or analysis of events, leaving all interpretation to the reader; unreliable version is biased and doesn’t give a full or accurate picture of events in the narrative, they may be unreliable due to youth, inexperience, madness, intentional or unethical bias, or lack of morals

Answer 3

narrator

Question 4

a rhyme that pairs sounds that are similar but not exactly the same

Answer 4

near rhyme/slant rhyme

Question 5

understanding there is only one world, in which we are included; no supernatural world everything is in the natural world

Answer 5

naturalism

Question 6

drama that, in content, presentation, or both, departs markedly from fidelity to the outward appearances of life

Answer 6

nonrealistic drama

Question 7

a reply or remark that does not have any relevance to what occasioned or preceded it; in rhetoric, a conclusion that does not logically follow from the premises (lit.: “it does not follow”)

Answer 7

non sequitur

Question 8

a short novel, from the Italian word for “story”

Answer 8

novella