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| fable | a brief story, usually with animal characters, that teaches a lesson or moral |
| fairy tale | a fictional tale, marked by fantasy and magic, often appealing to the imagination |
| falling action | everything that happens in plot between the climax or crisis and the denouement |
| fantasy | imaginative writing; writing in which the author breaks away from reality |
| figurative language | writing or speech not meant to be taken literally |
| figures of speech | words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of something else. They always involve an imaginative comparison between seemingly unlike things. |
| flashback | a device by which an author can present action or scenes that occurred before the opening scene in a work |
| flat character | a character who is not fully developed by an author |
| foil | character who provides a contrast to another character, thus emphasizing the other’s traits |
| folk tale | a story which has been composed orally and then passed down by word of mouth |
| foot | a unit of meter. A metrical foot can have two or three syllables. |
| form | the structure, shape, pattern, organization, or style of a piece of literature |
| free verse | poetry that is characterized by varying line lengths, lack of traditional meter, and nonrhyming lines. good/ Will be the final goal of ill... |
| genre | kinds or types of literature |
| gothic | a form of novel in which magic, mystery, horrors and chivalry abound |
| foreshadowing | the arrangement and presentation of events and information in such a way that later events in a work are prepared for |
| hamartia | a tragic flaw or error in judgment |
| hubris | the pride or overconfidence which often leads a hero to overlook divine warning or to break a moral law |
| hyperbole | an overstatement or exaggerated way of saying something |
| humor | writing whose purpose it is to evoke some kind of laughter |
