Exposition:a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.
Expressionism:movement in art, literature, and music consisting of unrealistic representation of an inner idea or feeling(s).
Fable:a short, simple story, usually with animals as characters, designed to teach a moral truth.
Fallacy:a mistaken belief, esp. one based on unsound argument
Falling Action: part of the narrative or drama after the climax.
Farce: a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.
Figurative Language: apt and imaginative language characterized by figures of speech.
Flashback:a narrative device that flashes back to prior events.
Foil:a person or thing that, by contrast, 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 the outcome of the action; "planning" to make the outcome convincing, though not to give it away.
Free Verse:verse without conventional metrical pattern, 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, violent or grotesque action, and a mood of decay, degeneration, and decadence.
Hyperbole:exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Imagery:figures of speech or vivid description, conveying images through any of the senses.
Implication:a meaning or understanding that is to be arrive at by the reader but that is not fully and explicitly stated by the author.
Incongruity: the state of being incongruous or out of keeping
Inference:a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Irony:a contrast or incongruity between what is said and what is meant, or what is expected to happen and what actually happens, or what is thought to be happening and what is actually happening.
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