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free indirect discourse
a style of third-person narration which combines some of the characteristics of third-person report with first-person direct speech.

IE: "He laid down his bundle and thought of his misfortune. And just what pleasure had he found, since he came into this world?" (no "he said," or "he thought").
free indirect discourse examples
Joseph Conrad (The Secret Agent) & Henry James (The Turn of the Screw)
The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Wilfred Owen
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
W.B. Yeats
"Easter 1916"
W.B. Yeats
"The Second Coming"
W.B. Yeats
"Leda and the Swan"
W.B. Yeats
"Lapis Lazuli"
W.B. Yeats
"The Circus Animals' Desertion"
W.B. Yeats
"The Dolls Museum in Dublin"
Eavan Boland
"Jeeves Takes Charge"
P.G. Wodehouse
"The Mark on the Wall"
Virginia Woolf
"Modern Fiction"
Virginia Woolf
"Araby"
James Joyce
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
T.S. Eliot
"Musée des Beaux Arts"
W.H. Auden
"The Shield of Achilles"
W.H. Auden
"Telephone Conversation"
Wole Soyinka
"Decolonising the Mind"
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
"Commonwealth Literature Does Not Exist"
Salman Rushdie
"To Room Nineteen"
Doris Lessing
"Church Going"
Philip Larkin
"Talking in Bed"
Philip Larkin
"High Windows"
Philip Larkin
"Homage to a Government
Philip Larkin
"This Be the Verse"
Philip Larkin
"A Far Cry from Africa"
Derek Walcott
"Midsummer"
Derek Walcott
"Scholar and Gypsy"
Anita Desai
"The Real Inspector Hound"
Tom Stoppard
"The Remains of the Day"
Kazuo Ishiguro
"At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers"
Salman Rushdie
"The Courter"
Salman Rushdie
"A Distant Shore"
Caryl Phillips
Irony
Highlights the difference between what is claimed and what is true, usually with a touch of the absurd.
Examples of irony:
The Secret Agent, how to end starvation: cannibalism

The Secret Agent, cab sequence, cabbie is raised above the world of his fares with a raised seat, but socially he is far beneath them.
Antinomy
Contradiction or opposition between two elements, such as rich/poor, male/female, etc.
Examples of Antinomy
"The Second Coming" by Yeats (?)
Satire
In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improvement.
Examples of Satire:
"The Importance of Being Earnest" - Oscar Wilde uses satire to ridicule marriage, love and the mentality of the Victorian aristocratic society.
Double-consciousness
The term is used to describe an individual whose identity is divided into several facets.
Examples of double-consciousness
Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie, Ishiguro
stream of consciousness
writing as a person would think, not necessarily coherently or logically, just writing anything that comes to mind
examples of stream of consciousness
The Mark on the Wall - Woolf
examples of fragmentation
series of interruptions as in "Mark on the Wall," to emphasize that life is not linear/symmetrical, and organization isn't necessarily pleasing to the eye
hybridity
Anything that is a combination of two or more things.
examples of hybridity
Woolf - "The Mark on the Wall" mixes drama & fiction (genre)
self-reflexivity
draw attention to the way it's made - emphasis on its creation, "breaking the fourth wall"
fragmentation
The formal and thematic breaking apart of clear chronological succession (as in narrative) and/or a singular, clear image.
bricolage
Combination of things that already exist, using pop culture references or taking pieces from existing literature.
examples of bricolage
Salman Rushdie in "The Auction of the Ruby Slippers"
collage?
putting seemingly disparate parts/images next to each other to make something new