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| An editorial, leading article (UK), or leader (UK) is an opinion piece written by the senior editorial staff or publisher of a newspaper or magazine or any other written document. |
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| In literature, an elegy is a mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or alament for the dead. |
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| Appeal to emotion is a logical fallacy which uses the manipulation of the recipient's emotions, rather than valid logic, to win an argument |
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| Epic is a 2013 American 3D computer animated fantasy-adventure comedy-drama film loosely based on William Joyce's children's book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs |
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An epiphany is an experience of sudden and striking realization.
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| An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement. |
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| An epitaph is a short text honoring a deceased person, strictly speaking that is inscribed on their tombstone or plaque, but also used figuratively. |
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A euphemism is a generally innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found offensive or suggest something unpleasant
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| Phonaesthetics is the study of the inherent pleasantness or unpleasantness of the sound of certain words, phrases, and sentences. |
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| An expert witness, professional witness or judicial expert is a witness, who by virtue of education, training, skill, or experience, is believed to have expertise and specialised knowledge in a particular subject beyond that of the average person, |
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| The exposition is the portion of a story that introduces important background information to the audience; |
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| The expository essay is a genre of essay that requires the student to investigate an idea, evaluate evidence, expound on the idea, and set forth an argument concerning that idea in a clear and concise manner. |
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| An extended metaphor, also known as a conceit or sustained metaphor, is when an author exploits a single metaphor or analogy at length through multiple linked vehicles, tenors, and grounds. |
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Internal conflict is a mental or emotional struggle that occurs within a character
External conflict is a struggle that occurs between a character and outside forces, which could be another character or the environment.
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| Fable is a literary genre. A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson , which may at the end be added explicitly in a pithy maxim. |
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| Dramatic structure is the structure of a dramatic work such as a play or film. |
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| Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary plot element, theme, or setting. |
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| Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary plot element, theme, or setting. |
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| Literal and figurative language is a distinction within some fields of language analysis. |
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| first person point of view |
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| The narrative mode is the set of methods the author of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical story uses to convey the plot to theaudience. |
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| A flashback, is a psychological phenomenon in which an individual has a sudden, usually powerful, re-experiencing of a past experience or elements of a past experience. |
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| Flat Character- Character with little development who does not change or grow during the course of a story. Also called a static character |
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| a foil is a character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character.[ |
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