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| Fable | a very brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral, or a practical lesson about life. |
| Farce | a type of comedy in which ridicules and often-stereotyped characters are involved in farfetched, silly situations. |
| Fiction | prose writing that includes invented material and that does not claim to be factually true. |
| Figure of speech | a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on literal level. |
| Flashback | a scene in a movie, play, short story, novel, or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of plot to “flash backward” and tell what happened at an earlier time. |
| Foil | a character who is used as a contrast to another character. |
| Foreshadowing | the use of clues to hint a t what is going to happen in a later date in the plot. |
| Free Verse | poetry that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme. |
| Iambic Pentameter | a line or poetry made up of five iambs. |
| Imagery | language that appeals to the senses. |
| Inversion | the reversal of the normal word order of a sentence. |
| Irony | a contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected and what really happens, or between what appeasers to be true and what is really is true. |
| Lyric poetry | poetry that focuses on expressing emotions or thoughts, rather than on telling a story. |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things without using the connective words like, as than or resembles. |
| Meter | a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. |
| Myth | an anonymous traditional story, supposedly based on historical events, that usually serves to explain a belief custom, or mysterious natural phenomenon. |
| Narration | a kind of writing that tells a story or relates a series of events. |
| Novel | a long fictional prose narrative, of more than fifty thousand words. |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of a word whose sound imitates a suggest it meaning. |
| Overstatement | A figures of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect. |
| Parable | a story that teaches a moral, or lesson about a life. |
| Parallelism | the repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure or that restate a similar idea. |
| Parody | the imitation of a work of literature, art, or music for amusement or instruction. |
