Mr. Roth calls them "stand-ins"; the literary term is personae, which is Latin for masks.
So what will this serious, pitch-dark book do for the freshly-minted literary term "Jacobsonian"?
Republican candidates eager to take a pop at the Democratic frontrunner were not so coolly analytical of the literary term.
Blood, a literary term of British origin referring to a lurid work of fiction, especially a cheap and ill-written book of adventure or crime.
These grim incidents reflect a naturalism that is singularly natural, not the deterministic Grand Guignol typically indicated by this literary term.
There's a lovely literary term for dramas in which there is a lot of excessive emotion and the main characters are driven to all kinds of irrational acts by motives such as revenge and greed.
Whereas metonymy typically provides a genuine image for an abstraction, synecdoche is a descriptive literary term that uses part of an already concrete image to refer to said image for rhetorical purposes, such as to highlight a specific feature.
I'm reminded of the vexatious literary term "experimental writing," which is similarly freighted with intellectual and class tensions, and is used to describe a vastly diverse collection of literary works.
