Exposition: The beginning of the
plot, the details to fill in a story, the appetizers before the main entrée.
Expressionism: Similar to how the
arts are used to express people, feelings, and everything.
Fable: A fictional story
Fallacy: (like an illogical fallacy)
its something that states something isn’t logically correct.
falling action: The plot in the
story where everything starts to come together and make sense.
Farce: crude characterization
figurative language: Kind of like a
simile but it’s language that uses metaphorical terms.
Flashback: Happens all the time,
where a point goes back in time, then goes back to current/ present time.
Foil: to prevent from succeeding
folk tale: A story passed down
through oral story telling made about popular culture
foreshadowing: Literary technique
to give hints as to what could happen in the future.
free verse: a type of poetry that
does not follow any rules or strategies
genre: subjects sorted into
categories
gothic tale: a type of genre that
captures the darkness of life like Frankenstein
hyperbole: exaggerated statements
imagery: often used in poetry to
convey a picture in a readers mind
implication: something that
intrudes in a plot
incongruity: Nothing continuous, or
doesn’t make sense
inference: readers have to make
this when authors don’t directly tell the readers what is going on, or have a
cliff hanger.
Irony: ex. Procrastinators meeting
has been postponed.
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