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Fable: Narrative intended to convey a moral. Animals or inanimate objects with human characteristics often serve as characters in fables.

 * Fairy Tale:** Short narratives featuring mythical beings such as fairies, elves and sprites. These tales originally belonged to the folklore of a particular nation or region, such as those collected in Germany by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.


 * Fallacies of Logic:** See propaganda techniques

===Fiction: Any story that is the product of imagination rather than a documentation of fact. Characters and events in such narratives may be based in real life but their ultimate form and configuration is a creation of the author. ===


 * Figurative Language**: Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.


 * First Person:** The "first person" or "personal" point of view relates events as they are perceived by a single character. The main character "tells" the story and may offer opinions about the action and characters that differ from those of the author.


 * Flashback:** A device used in literature to present action that occurred before the beginning of the story. Flashbacks are often introduced as the dreams or recollections of one or more characters.


 * Fluency:** The clear, easy, written or spoken expression of ideas; freedom from word-identification problems that might hinder comprehension in silent reading or the expression of ideas in oral reading.


 * Focus**: The center of interest or attention.


 * Folktales:** A story originating in oral tradition. Folktales fall into a variety of categories, including legends, ghost stories, fairy tales, fables and anecdotes based on historical figures and events.


 * Foreshadowing:** A device used in literature to create expectation or to set up an explanation of later developments.


 * Formulate:** Come up with or construct


 * Free Verse:** Poetry that lacks regular metrical and rhyme patterns but that tries to capture the cadences of everyday speech. The form allows a poet to exploit a variety of rhythmical effects within a single poem.