drama | performance in which actors impersonate the actions & speech of fictional characters(entertainment) | |
Epigraph | quotation at the beginning of the book,play etc. shows the source for the title of a work | |
Flashback | a scene, or an incident that happened before the beginning of a story | |
Foreshadowing | a writer's use of hints or clues to indicate events that will occur later in the story | |
lmagery | words and phrases that create vivid experiences or a picture for the reader. | |
Irony | a contrast between appearance and actuality | |
Verbal irony | a writer says one thing, but means something entirely different | |
Situational irony | occurs when something happens that is entirely different from what is expected | |
Dramatic irony | occurs when the reader knows information that the characters do not | |
Literal | A word for word interpretation for what is written or said | |
Lyric poem (lyrical poem) | short poem expressing the personal mood, feeling, or mediation of a single speaker(may be not author | |
Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a comparison or analogy is made between two seemingly unlike things | |
Mood | the feeling, or atmosphere, that a writer creates for the reader | |
Motif | image, symbol, theme, character type that appears repeatedly in the work of an artist | |
Narrative (also narration) | a story or a description of a series of events | |
narrator | The person from whose point of view events are conveyed | |
First person | the narrator is a character in the story, uses the pronoun "l" | |
third person | is indicated by the pronouns he, she and they | |
onomatopea | The formation or use of words whose meaning is suggested by the sound of the word itself | |
Oxymoron | a figure of speech where 2 contradictory words are combined in a single expression creating paradox | |