OT---literary help needed

[gurneyhalleck1]

i pride myself on being a solid language arts teacher and being a decent instructor of author's craft and literary devices, but, well, for lack of a better and less crude term, I'm having a reading brain fart here. I'm hoping Rus and the gang can help.

In most good stories we read, there is the literary device where the author shows the main character think and when he/she thinks, it is a rosy hypothetical that we, as readers, know will not happen.

For example,

Jake's mom had never left him stranded before. She had never once in nine straight years forgotten to pick him up. She's just late, thought Jake. Yeah. No big deal. She'll be here in the next five minutes, big smile on her face, and I'll be getting in the car, and we'll have a nice conversation homeward bound....


Now of course, that's too easy. Jake's mom is obviously NOT going to show. The author is giving us this rosy, upbeat, confident inner monologue from Jake.

What is this tactic called in literature where an author misleads us with either false hope or false pessimism and the opposite ensues??

I can't for the life of me recall the term??

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

Ok, 43 views and I didn't get one nibble. Holy dang. Guess I'm not alone in my frustration! LOL

 

[Jesus4Madrid]

i pride myself on being a solid language arts teacher and being a decent instructor of author's craft and literary devices, but, well, for lack of a better and less crude term, I'm having a reading brain fart here. I'm hoping Rus and the gang can help.

In most good stories we read, there is the literary device where the author shows the main character think and when he/she thinks, it is a rosy hypothetical that we, as readers, know will not happen.

For example,

Jake's mom had never left him stranded before. She had never once in nine straight years forgotten to pick him up. She's just late, thought Jake. Yeah. No big deal. She'll be here in the next five minutes, big smile on her face, and I'll be getting in the car, and we'll have a nice conversation homeward bound....


Now of course, that's too easy. Jake's mom is obviously NOT going to show. The author is giving us this rosy, upbeat, confident inner monologue from Jake.

What is this tactic called in literature where an author misleads us with either false hope or false pessimism and the opposite ensues??

I can't for the life of me recall the term??

False foreshadowing? Red Herring? Plot twist?

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

I was considering red herring but that's more with mystery novels with outwardly fake clues usually? I don't know...

False foreshadowing? Red Herring? Plot twist?

 

[rusmeister]

My first answer is "I don't know", though "false foreshadowing" sounds like an accurate description to me.

A very useful page:
Literary Devices | Literary Terms

 

[FenderTL5]

my first thought was that in a play/drama it would be a form of soliloquy.
A soliloquy (from Latin solo "to oneself" + loquor "I talk") is a device often used in drama when a character speaks to himself or herself, relating thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience, giving off the illusion of being a series of unspoken reflections.

Sorry, I'm of little help.

 

[ArmyMatt]

I know this is a thing, but I have no idea and this is gonna bug me until I find out.

grrrrr

 

[KernelPanic]

Illusion or delusion?

 

[Chesterton]

Well, maybe not everything has a name? Maybe?

 

[Kalevalatar]

Unreliable narrator.

 

[~Anastasia~]

Wow, at least I feel a little better. I was thinking I should know this, but NO idea. I could describe it, but don't know a literary term. Being a teacher, I was feeling badly for not knowing!

 

[buzuxi02]

My first answer is "I don't know", though "false foreshadowing" sounds like an accurate description to me.

A very useful page:
Literary Devices | Literary Terms

Gurney''s example seems to fall under Situational Irony.

 

[truefiction1]

"Red herring".

 

[Hermit76]

There's probably a specific term, but it is definitely a form of foreshadowing. I would say that it could be False Hope.