Describing common items and situations through an unusual point of view.
Breaking the Fourth Wall
When characters break the action in order to speak to the audience.
Author Surrogate
A character who represents the author’s way of thinking.
Audience Surrogate
A character who acts on behalf of the audience.
Epistolary Voice
Using letters and documents to tell a story.
Unreliable Narrator
The narrator of the story cannot be trusted, so the reader is unsure what is true.
Character Voice
The voice and way of thinking that goes with a character.
Stream of Consciousness
Writing that resembles the way people think, with little structure and sudden changes in ideas.
The Beat Movement
The counter-culture literary movement with a jazz style that rose in the 1950s.
Modernism
A movement from the early 20th century that played with style, structures, and identity.