| Term | Definition |
| Fairy Tale | Short stories featuring mythical beings such as fairies, elves and sprites. |
| Fiction | Any story that is the product of imagination, even if the story is possible or realistic. |
| Figurative Language | Language that cannot be taken literally. (ex - "You're pulling my leg, right?") |
| First Person | When the narrator of the story uses "I" to describe events. (ex - "I went down my back steps and there, in front of me, was the thing that terrified me.") |
| Flashback | A way of writing that looks back on an event that happened before the time of writing; often written as if from the memory of a character. |
| Fluency | The level of a reader's ability to read clearly, without un-needed pauses. |
| Focus | The center of interest or attention. |
| Folktales | A fairy-tale type story coming from spoken tradition. |
| Foreshadowing | Hinting at future events without actually telling them. |
| Free Verse | Poetry without regular meter and rhyme patterns. |