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Terms for subject Literature (1001 entries)

five senses	Portrayal of the five senses helps create vivid descriptive writing and imagery. The five senses are sight, sound, taste, touch and smell.
fixed form	Any form in poetry that is bound by traditional rules and conventions. Usually these rules determine such things as meter, rhyme scheme, line length etc.
flashback	A method of narration in which the present action is temporarily interrupted, to relive an episode in the character’s past. This flashback could take the form of memory, dream, narration, or even authorial commentary.
flat characters	Characters who are two-dimensional because they do not develop during the course of the novel or play.
foil	Of a character, to be used as a contrast.
folktale	Stories passed down from one generation to the next by word-of-mouth, opposed to by a written text.
fool	A professional role. such as a court jester, used for amusement by the higher classes.
foot	A basic unit of meter, comprising of a set number of strong stresses and light stresses.
foreshadowing	Suggesting, hinting and indicating what will occur later in a narrative. Foreshadowing often provides clues about what will happen next and prepares the reader, whilst also creating tension or suspense.
forestage	The part of the stage "in front" or closest to the viewing audience.
form	The "shape" or organizational structure, opposed to the content, of a poem or piece of literature. Often form and content are related.
fourth wall	This refers to an imaginary wall, as if separating the actors on stage from the audience.
frame narrative	This is a narrative technique where there is a principal story, around which there are other narratives to set the scene or interest the audience/reader. This is also known as a frame story. See sub-plot, story within a story and play within a play.
Frederick Douglass	Born a slave in the USA, he became a fighter for freedom of all kinds, supporting the abolition of slavery and women's rights. He wrote three versions of his autobiography.
free indirect discourse	A type of speech or voice in a narrative which includes a mixture of the narrator's and protagonist's voices.
free verse	Poetry that is based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses rather, than the artificial and fixed constraints of rhyme or metrical feet.
Freudian criticism	A psychoanalytical approach to literature that understands the elements of a story or a character through the theories of the late nineteenth-century psychologist Sigmund Freud.
Freytag's pyramid	A method used to analyse the structure of a drama.
Friedrich Engels	Engel was born on 28 November 1820 and died on 5 August 1895. The German was a social scientist and philosopher who wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848 alongside Marx. See Marxism and Marx.
metanoia	from the Greek μ	glassm­an