Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Vocabulary Lit Terms #3

1. Exposition: A comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.

2. Expressionism: The style of painting music or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the in the external world.

3. Fable: A short story typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral

4. Fallacy: A mistaken belief especially one based on unsound argument.

5. Falling action: The events of a drama after the climax but before the denouement.

6. Farce: A comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations. 

7. Figurative language: Expressing ideas indirectly.

8. Flashback: A scene in a movie novel etc. set anytime earlier than the main story.

9. Foil: Prebend something considered Brownmoore undesirable from succeed.

10. Folk tale: A story originating in popular culture typically passed on by word-of-mouth.

11. Foreshadowing: A warning or indication of a future event.

12. Free verse: Poetry that does not Rymer have a regular meter.

13. Genre: A category of artistic composition as a music or literature characterized by similarities and form, style.

14. Gothic tale: A genre or mode of literature that combines elements of both horror and Romance. 

15. Hyperbole: Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

16. Imagery: Visually descriptive or figurative language especially in a literary work.

17. Implication: The conclusion that can be drawn from something although not explicitly stated.

18. Incongruity: The state of being incongruous or out of keeping.

19. Inference: A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reason.

20. Irony: Expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies opposite, typically for humorous effect.

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