📝Diction

The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.

📢Direct Characterization

The author directly tells the reader what a character is like.

😏Double Entendre

A word or phrase open to two interpretations, one of which is usually risqué.

🎭Dramatic Irony

When the audience knows something the characters do not.

🎭Dramatic Monologue

A poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person.

🎭Dramatic Poetry

Poetry that presents a story through the speech of one or more characters.

🔄Dynamic Character

A character who undergoes an important change.

💥Dysphemism

The substitution of a mild or neutral word for a more offensive one.

⚰️Elegy

A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

➡️Enjambment

The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line.

🗡️Epic

A long narrative poem about a hero's adventures.

🦸Epic Hero

A brave and noble character in an epic poem.

✉️Epistolary Novel

A novel written as a series of documents, usually letters.

🔁Epistrophe

The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses.

📝Essay

A short piece of writing on a particular subject.

🎭Ethos

An appeal to ethics, credibility, or character.

🌿Euphemism

A mild or indirect word substituted for one considered too harsh.

📖Exposition

The introduction of background information in a story.

🌪️External Conflict

A struggle between a character and an outside force.

🐢Fable

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

📉Falling Action

The events that follow the climax.

📚Fiction

Literature in the form of prose that describes imaginary events and people.

👤First-Person Point of View

The narrator is a character in the story using "I".

⚡Flash Fiction

A very short story, typically under 1,500 words.

⏪Flashback

A scene that interrupts the chronological order to show an earlier event.

📄Flat Character

A character with only one or two defining traits.

🪞Foil

A character who contrasts with another character.

🪕Folktale

A story passed down orally through generations.

🔮Foreshadowing

A warning or indication of a future event.

🖼️Frame Narrative

A story within a story.