← MAK WSC 2012 Fiction Guide Terms Export Options Alphabetize Word-Def Delimiter Tab Comma Custom Def-Word Delimiter New Line Semicolon Custom Data Copy and paste the text below. It is read-only. Select All trope a story-telling device in a work of fiction hard science fiction works of science fiction that are based on real science epigraph a quote that introduces a work of literature dialogue conversation between characters exposition the delivery of background information in a story epistolary a story written as a series of letters or other documents foreshadow the use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the plot armistice a cease-fire treaty epiphany realization Magic Realism A style of writing in which realistic details, events, settings, characters, and dialogue are interwoven with magical, bizarre, fantastic, or supernatural elements. Future History elaborately detailed histories of the future, in which an author sets multiple stories unethical somethings that is not adhering to ethical or moral principles Double Entendre a word or phrase having a double meaning