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Literature - Coggle Diagram

- - - - plot
        
        must arouse interest
      - character
        
        convincing character development
        
        good portrayal of characters and personalities makes it easier for the readers to identify them
        
        interior monologue(”stream of conciousness”)(tajunnanvirtatekniikka)
        
        shows innermost feelings
        
        shows the emotional life
        
        shows psychological make-up
        
        dialogue
        
        shows social/cultural background
        
        gives insight on heroes/heroines opinions, feelings, fears, reasons to their actions
      - incident
      - action
        
        must be vivid
    - - first-person narrator
      - third-person narrator
      - omniscient narrator(kaikkitietävä)
      - observer narrator
    - - uses a lot of anticipation and flashbacks like a time novel
      - can be set in the past like a historical novel
      - can be set in the future like a sci-fi novel
    - - gothic novel
      - the saga(or chronicle novel)
      - the key novel
      - the comic novel
      - epistolary novel
      - sentimental novel
      - detective novel
      - spy novel
      - thriller
      - novel of adventure
      - anti-novel
  - - - myths
      - legends
      - parables from the Bible
      - fairy tale
      - fables(eläinsatu)
      - anecdotes(funny story)
    - - brevity(shortness)
      - no in-depth portrayal of characters
      - straight to crisis, then climax and denouement(loppuratkaisu)
        
        20th century short stories tend to have an open ending
        
        plotless story
        
        slice of life
        
        certain importamt event or situation
        
        needs to show the changes that the character goes through
        
        especially in stories with initation(johdanto), revelation(paljastus) and evolution(kehitys)
      - same narrator possibilities as in novels
      - a dense atmosphere
      - clear expression of one’s style
      - not too many superfluous ( ylimääräinen) words, can be done by allusion(vihjaus) and omission(poisjättö), simply hinting about things without explaining them in detail
- - - - sub-plots
      - hubris(ylimielisyys) and tragic
        flaws in characters
        
        cause heroes to disturb
        the natural order of thing, and can be only restored by the downfall of the hero
        
        causes pity and fear
        
        soliloquies(monologues)
      - 5 main acts
        
        exposition
        
        complication
        
        climax
        
        falling action
        
        resolution
- - - - without regular rhyme/rhythm
    - - lines of usually ten syllables without rhyme
  - - - metaphors
      - similes
        
        vertaus
      - symbols
      - personification
        
        in allegories
        
        where virtues & vices are personified
  - - - suruvirsi
    - - ylistys(veisut)