Allegory story, play, or picture in which characters are used as symbols; fable

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Allusion a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the
author assumes the reader will recognize
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Aside A piece of dialogue intended for the audience and supposedly not heard by
the other actors on stage
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Convention A characteristic of a literary genre (often unrealistic) that is unde
rstood and accepted by audiences because it has come, through usage and time, to
be recognized as a familiar technique. For example, the division of a play into
acts and scenes is a dramatic convention, as are soliloquies and asides. flashb
acks and foreshadowing are examples of literary conventions.
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Dialogue a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
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Deus ex machina In literature, the use of an artificial device or gimmick to sol
ve a problem.
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Flashback a scene or event from the past that appears in a narrative out of chro
nological order, to fill in information or explain something in the present
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Foreshadowing An author's use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occu
r later in the story
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In media res technique of starting a story in the middle and then using a flashb
ack to tell what happened earlier
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Satire form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to
attack human vice and folly
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Soliquy Speech in a dramatic work in which a character speaks his or her thought
s aloud.
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Sonnet a short poem with fourteen lines, usually ten-syllable rhyming lines, div
ided into two, three, or four sections
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Truism a statement the truth of which is obvious or well known