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Dialogue conversation between two or more people Diction the word choices made by a writer Ellipsis the omission of a word or phrase which is grammatically necessary but can be deduced for the context ("Some people prefer cats; others, dogs.") Epic a long narrative poem written in elevated style which present the adventures of characters of high position and episodes that are important to the history of a race or nation Exclamatory sentence a sentence expressing strong feeling, usually punctuated with an exclamation mark Fable a brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters Fantasy a story that concerns an unreal world or contains unreal characters; a fantasy may be merely whimsical, or it may present a serious point Fiction a story that is not true or is made up Flashback the insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative Flat character a character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story