Literary Elements List # 2 Word 11.Fiction 12.Flashback 13.Foreshadow 14.Free verse 15.Genre 16.Hyperbole 17.Imagery 18.Inference 19.Internal conflict 20.Irony Definition prose that tells an imaginary story interruption in the story’s action to present past events writer provides hints about what is to come in the future poetry without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm type or category of literature figure of speech where the truth is exaggerated words or phrases that appeal to the reader’s five senses logical guess based on evidence character struggles against their own self the opposite of what is expected occurs