Living Glossary.

• abstract:a short statement that describes the main argument and points of an essay or paper 
•  aerial shot:a photograph taken from a plane, crane, or helicopter  allusion:a reference, explicit or implicit, to someone or something with which a text creator assumes the audience will be familiar with,often a historical, literary, or mythological person or event
  archetype:a pattern that appears repeatedly in literature  
•  aside:a short speech in a play that is heard only by the audience, not by other characters cadence:a sequence of stressed and unstressed syllables that creates a rhythm  
• dollying:moving a camera mounted on wheels while filming a scene dramatic irony:a form of irony in which there is a discrepancy between what a character believes and what the audience knows to be true
• extended metaphor: an explicit comparison that's carried throughout a text and is based on several similarities between two things 
• foreshadowing:the dropping of hints that indicate events that are to come, thereby preparing readers to accept the outcome of a story 
•  hamartia: error in judgment ,a bad choice that leads to tragedy
•  metacognition:a process involving focused thinking about thinking to create effective strategies for learning
•  parallelism:the juxtaposing of sentences or parts of sentences of exactly the same length,structure, and weight so as to achieve a sense of balance
• sardonic:derisively mocking; bitterly sarcastic 
• satire:the ridiculing of human vices or stupidities; a text that ridicules human vices or
• stupidities 
• situational irony: a form of irony that involves a contrast between what is expected and what really occurs 
• stereotype:an oversimplified, standardized, and often exaggerated portrayal of a type of
• person, group, race, or issue 
• verisimilitude:the quality of seeming realistic of appearing to be true and plausible