Sunday, April 27, 2014

Lit Terms 3

Exposition: beginning of a story that sets gives facts, information, and details
Expressionism: movement in art, literature, and music showing inner feelings
Fable: a short story that usually had animals as characters and usually is true
Fallacy: a Latin word that means to deceive. An untrue fact or belief
Falling Action: part of the narrative or drama after the climax.
Farce: a comedy with laughter and dialogue
Figurative Language: speech or writing where imaginative language is used to show figures of speech
Flashback: a narrative device that flashes back to prior events.
Foil: a person or thing that when compared one, makes another seem better or more prominent.
Folk Tale: story passed on by word of mouth
Foreshadowing: in fiction and drama, a device to prepare the reader for what is to come without giving it away.
Free Verse: verse with irregular pattern or no rhyme
Genre: a category or class of artistic endeavor having a particular form, technique, or content.
Gothic Tale: a style in literature characterized by gloomy settings, or violence.
Hyperbole: an exaggerated statement often used as a figure of speech or to prove a point.
Imagery: figures of speech or vivid description, conveying images through any of the senses.
Implication: a meaning that is to be understood by the reader but that is not fully stated by the author.
Incongruity: the deliberate joining of opposites or of elements that are not appropriate to each other.
Inference: a judgement or conclusion based on given evidence, the forming of an opinion with a degree of probability according to facts already available.
Irony: a contrast between what is said and what is meant, or what is expected to happen and what actually happens.

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