Literary Terms #3

I apologize for the delay, but I've been on the east coast since Thursday afternoon, so I wasn't near a computer once so ever! I was visiting my university in New Hampshire for my official visit, which I will make a different blog post to talk about.

Anyway, here is the list for #3:

exposition: the act of explaining something; clear explanation.
example: Some books contain an exposition in order to clarify terms or topics within the piece of literature.
expressionism: a theory or practice in art of seeking to depict the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in the artist:
example: Vincent van Gogh is an expressionist artist during the late 1800's.
fable: a short story that usually is about animals and that is intended to teach a lesson.
example: Native American cultures have ancient fables that have been pasted down from generation to generation.
fallacy: a wrong belief; a false or mistaken idea.
example: Various people purchased this album, so it MUST be excellent. 
falling action: The events that occur after or following the climax.
example: Each climax causes falling action, which leads the reader to the resolution.
farce: stuff.
example: The book was farces with valuable information that was extremely helpful.
figurative language: language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors.
example: The poorest man is the richest, and the rich are poor.
flashback: a part of a story or movie that describes or shows something that happened in the past.
example: The Kite Runner contains many examples of flashbacks from various times in his life.
foil: to prevent from attaining an end; defeat.
example: He would have gotten away with his evil pan, but his plan was foiled by a few vigilantes.
folk tale: contains legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, and traditions of a culture.
example: Fables and fairy tales care folk tales.
foreshadowing: to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure.
example: The dramatic music in scary movies foreshadows bad events in the future.
free verse: verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.
example:
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
genre: a class or category of literature, music, art, etc.
example: Romanticism is a genre in literature.
gothic tale: is a genre or mode of literature that combines fiction, horror, and Romanticism.
example: Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) by Charles Maturin is an example of a gothic tale.
hyperbole: is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech.
example: I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
imagery: the use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.
example: The ocean was crystal clear with hints of sea foam green and pure turquoise. 
implication: the conclusion that can be drawn from something, although it is not explicitly stated.
example: Sailing off into the sunset implied that everything was ok in the end.
incongruity: the state of being incongruous or out of keeping.
example: The tree house was in a state of incongruity.
inference: a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
example: The detectives inferred that the killer was going to strike again.
irony: the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. 
example: She said, "How nice!" when I said I had to work all weekend.