Expressionism: a style where the author seeks to express emotional experience.
Fable: a short story with animals as characters that has a moral.
Fallacy: a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument.
Falling action: part of a story after climax, action starts to slow down.
Farce: a comic dramatic work typically including crude characterization and improbable situations.
Figurative language: words that exaggerate or alter the usual meanings of component words.
Flashback: an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point.
Exposition: the beginning of a narrative.
Foil: a subsidiary character that emphasizes the traits of the main character.
Folk tale: a story originating in popular culture.
Foreshadowing: a literary device where the authors hints at what may come later in the story.
Free verse: poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
Genre: a category of literature characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject manner.
Gothic tale: a genre or mode of literature that combines fiction, horror and romanticism.
Hyperbole: exaggerated statements.
Imagery: visually descriptive language.
Implication: the conclusion that can be drawn from something, although it is not explicitly stated.
Incongruity: the state of being out of place.
Inference: a conclusion reach on the basis of reasoning and evidence.
Irony: an expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite.
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