| 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 |
