1. Personification
Giving human characteristics to animals, ideas, or inanimate objects

2. Dialogue
Conversation between two or more characters

3. Exposition
Beginning of the story in which the setting is given and the main characters are introduced

4. Epic
Long narrative poem centering around a hero and his deeds

5. Lyric
Poetry which expresses feelings or emotions

6. Resolution
The final unraveling of the plot; the outcome of the story

7. Fiction
Writing drawn from the imagination of the author rather than fact

8. Understatement
Stating something in words less strong than anticipated

9. Point of View
The angle from which a story is told

10. Rising Action
Action in the story before the climax

11. Poetry
Condensed form of language that is more vivid and intense than ordinary prose

12. Ballad
A narrative poem set to music

13. Ode
A poem of praise

14. Elegy
A poem of mourning

15. Monologue
A figure of speech in which the actual intent is expressed in words which carry the opposite meaning

16. Stereotype
A character that appears so often his nature is immediately familiar to reader and audience

17. Imagery
Words or phrases that create pictures in the mind

18. Aside
Brief speech in which a character turns from the person he is addressing to speak directly to the audience

19. Blank Verse
Unrhymed iambic pentameter

20. Dynamic Character
Character who during the course of a work undergoes a permanent change