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
- The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Fallacy: a statement or argument based on a false inference; erroneousness
- The cereal must be good because it says so on the box.

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
- simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification

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
- Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort

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

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.
- country, fiction, mystery

Gothic tale: ? tale used to thrill readers by providing mystery accounts of murder and the supernatural
-Jane Eyre; Frankenstein

Hyperbole: exaggeration that is powerful and purposeful
- I've told you a million times!

Imagery: a term that incorporates all sensory perceptions
-He fumed and charged like a bull.

Implication: an indirect indication; a suggestion

Incongruity: when two unlike objects or people are put together in a  story
-Lady who appears well groomed but has a messy house

Inference: to gain meaning from something that is not directly said
-The house is dark and quiet. You can infer there is nobody home.

Irony: technique that involves amusing contradictions or contrasts
-titanic promoted as being 100% unsinkable but it sank