Thursday, January 23, 2014

COB

exposition; A detailed explanation through speech or handwritten.

expressionism; A technique in literature that is used to distort objects  and  events in order to represent them as they are perceived by a character in the literary work.


fable; A short narrative that usually gives out an edifying or a cautionary from an animal that speaks and acts like a human.

fallacy; A false argument.


falling action; Following narrative or action that comes down to the climax.


farce; a light dramatic work which has exaggerated characters, improbable situations and slapstick elements that are used for humorous affects.


figurative language; simile or metaphor, can be classified as five categories, relationship and resemblance, emphasis or understatement, figure of sound, verbal games, and errors.


flashback; a blast from the past.


foil; 
a subsidiary character who emphasizes the traits of a main character

folk tale; tradition stories, music, legends, etc. Shared in a small village/community.


foreshadowing; telling the future of a story (Spoiler alert)


free verse; 
Verse composed of variable, usually unrhymed lines having no fixed metrical pattern.

genre; A type or class.


gothic tale;
Gothic fiction was the predecessor of modern horror fiction, but was more like a mystery that often involved the supernatural (ghosts, haunted buildings, hereditary curses); disturbing dreams or omens; and characters overcome with anger, sorrow, or terror. They were often set in dark castles or medieval ruins.

hyperbole;
an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally

imagery; The use of
 figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses.

implication; 
the relation that holds between two propositions, or classes of propositions, in virtue of which one is logically deducible from the other.

incongruity;
not harmonious in character

inference; 
the process of deriving the strict logical consequences of assumed premises.

irony something you wouldn't expect to happen but it did happen.;

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