HYPERBOLE:		a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement, for effect.
INVERSION:		a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.
DRAMATIC IRONY:		the central character in a story, the one who initiates or drives the action.
SITUATIONAL IRONY:		is so called because it is often used on stage. A character in the play or story thinks one thing is true, but the audience or reader knows better.
JUXTAPOSITION:		a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth.
LITOTES:		is a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form
METAPHOR:		a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles.
METONYMY:		an omniscient or all-knowing narrator tells the story, also using the third person pronouns.
MOTIVATION:		the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures.
PARABLE:		a figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it.
OMNISCIENT POINT OF VIEW:		the reasons for a character’s behavior.
OBJECTIVE POINT OF VIEW:		a relatively short story that teaches a moral, or lesson about how to lead a good life.
PARALLEL STRUCTURE:		takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen.
PROTAGONIST:		the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase.
PARADOX:		poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit.