General Terminology

• Allegory


  Rhetorical device that creates a close, one-to-one comparison.
• Colloquial


  Informal language
• Denouement


  The culmination or result of an action, plan or plot.
• Diatribe


  An impassioned rant or angry speech of denunciation.
• Empiricism


  Basing knowledge on direct, sensory perceptions of the world.
• Foreground


  To emphasise or make prominent
• Hype


  Used to indicate an attempt to deceive the public by over-rating the value of a commodity or experience.
• Hyperbole


  The use of exaggeration for dramatic effect
• Intertextuality


  Term describing the many ways in which texts can be interrelated, ranging from direct quotation or echoing, to parody.
• Ludic 


  A text that plays games with readers’ expectations and/or the expectations aroused by the text itself.
• Meta (metatext, metatheatre)

  Describe moments when a text goes beyond its own fictionality or makes readers/audience aware of the conventions of its fiction
• Hypophora 


  Speaker poses a question and then answers the question