exposition: a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.
expressionism: a style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.
fable: a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.
fallacy: a mistaken belief, esp. one based on unsound argument.
falling action: The events of a drama after the climax (or crisis) but before the denouement (or resolution)
farce: a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.
figurative language: expressing ideas indirectly; language used in a special way to create a special effect made up of words and phrases which don’t mean what they first appear to mean
flashback: a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story.
foil: prevent (something considered wrong or undesirable) from succeeding.
folk tale: a story originating in popular culture, typically passed on by word of mouth.
foreshadowing: be a warning or indication of (a future event).
free verse: poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
genre: a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter
gothic tale: of or relating to the Goths or their extinct East Germanic language, which provides the earliest manuscript evidence of any Germanic language
hyperbole: exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
imagery:visually descriptive or figurative language, esp. in a literary work
implication: the conclusion that can be drawn from something, although it is not explicitly stated.
incongruity: the state of being incongruous or out of keeping.
inference: a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
irony: the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
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