Thursday, January 23, 2014

Lit Terms #3

Exposition: part of story where characters and setting are introduced and background information is given

Expressionism:
writing approach in which a writer depicts a character's feelings about a subject rather than the objective surface reality of the subject

Fable: a short story that teaches an explicit moral or lesson

Fallacy: a statement or argument based on a false inference; erroneousness

Falling action: the action and dialogue following the climax that lead the reader into the story's end

Farce: type of comedy that relies on exaggeration, horseplay, and unrealistic or improbable situations to provoke laughter

Figurative language:
language that has meaning beyond the literal meaning


 Flashback:
interruption of the chronological order to present something that occurred before the beginning of the story


Foil:
another character in a story who contrasts with the main character usually to highlight one of their attributes


Folk tale: stories passed along from one generation to the next by word-of-mouth rather than written text

 Foreshadowing:
important hints that an author drops to prepare the reader for what is to come, and help the reader anticiate the outcome


Free verse:
poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme


Genre:
type of form of literature, music, ect.


Gothic tale: tale used to thrill readers by providing mystery accounts of murder and the supernatural

 Hyperbole:
exaggeration that is powerful and purposeful


Imagery: a term that incorporates all sensory perceptions

 Implication:
an indirect indication; a suggestion


Incongruity:
when two unlike objects or people are put together in a  story


 Inference:
to gain meaning from something that is not directly said


Irony: technique that involves amusing contradictions or contrasts

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