The part of the story where setting, characters, and background information is established.
Exposition or Setting
This occurs when the audience knows something that is going on in a situation but the characters are unaware of what is going on. .
Dramatic Irony
The strict definition of a word as found in a dictionary regardless of its emotional connotation.
Denotation
A word formed from the first letters in a phrase. For example, RADAR is word that was formed from the phrase “Radio Detection and Ranging.
Acronym
Also known as a tongue twister, this device uses the repetition of the first sounds of a series of words.
Alliteration
When like or as is used to compare to unlike things
simile
A literary device that leaves the reader/view wanting to know what will happen next; it's a feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen.
Suspense
Verbal sarcasm.
Verbal IRONY