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| special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand. |
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| (of poetry) expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms. |
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| figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect |
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| a temporary state of mind or feeling |
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| the action or process of narrating a story. |
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| a spoken or written account of connected events; a story. |
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| a person who delivers a commentary accompanying a film, broadcast, piece of music, etc. |
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| the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle ). |
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| a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ). |
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| A paradox is a statement that apparently contradicts itself and yet might be true (or wrong at the same time). |
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| Personification is a figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas. |
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| good at persuading someone to do or believe something through reasoning or the use of temptation. |
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| Plot refers to the sequence of events inside a story which affect other events through the principle of cause and effect. |
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| the position from which something or someone is observed |
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| Propaganda is information that is not impartial and used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively |
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| main character is a narrative's central or primary personal figure, who comes into conflict with an opposing major character or force |
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