Expositions: beginning of a story that sets forth facts, ideas, and/or characters, in detailed explanation.
"Once upon a time, there were three bears who lived in a wood cabin."
Expressionism: movement in art, literature, and music consisting of unrealistic representation of an inner idea or feeling.
Fable: a short, simple story, usually with animals and characters, designed to teach a moral of truth.
Aesop's fables. (Tortoise and the Hare)
Fallacy: erroneous reasoning that makes arguments unsound, a false or misleading notion.
Falling Action: part of the narrative or drama after the climax.
Farce: a boisterous comedy involving ludicrous action and dialogue.
Figurative Language: 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,make another seem better or more prominent.
Folk Tale: story passed on by word of mouth.
Foreshadowing: a device to prepare the reader for the outcome of the action; "planning" to make the outcome convincing, though not give it away.
Free Verse: verse without conventional metrical patter, irregular patter or no rhyme.
Genre: a category of class of artistic endeavor having a particular form, technique, or content.
Gothic Tale: a style in literature characterized by gloomy setting, violent or grotesque action, and a mood of decay, degeneration and decadence.
Frankenstein
Hyperbole: an exaggerated statement often used as a figure of speech or to prove a point.
Imagery: figures of speech or vivid descriptions conveying images through any of the senses.
Implication: a meaning or understanding that is to arrive at by the reader but that is not fully stated by the author.
Incongruity: deliberate joining of opposites or of elements that are not appropriate to each other.
Inference: a judgement or conclusions based on evidence presented
Irony: a contrast or incongruity between what is said and what is meant, or what is expected to happen and what actually happens.
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