| Term | Meaning |
| Tone | The writer’s attitude towards the central topic of the work and the audience |
| Narrative voice | The perspective where from the story is told |
| Unreliable narrator | The narrator whose credibility is questionable, due their young age, narrow point etc. |
| Collage | A form of creating art when different forms are used to create a new whole |
| Typography | “The art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed.” – Wikipedia |
| Typeface | Font family, different fonts which share some features |
| Juxtaposition | Putting two elements closely next to each other with the intention of contrasting and comparing them |
| Incongruity | The state of the things when they are not matching |
| Congruence | Harmony, matching together |
| Humor | “ [A] tool that makes audiences laugh, or that intends to induce amusement or laughter” – literarydevices.com |
| Pathos | “A quality of an experience in life, or a work of art, that stirs up emotions of pity, sympathy, and sorrow.” – literarydevices.net |
| Lexis, lexical field | A collection of words which are organised together based on their relationships to each other (e.g. mother, father, brother) |
| Idiom, idiomatic expression | A figure of speech which means something different from the literary meaning of the words ot contains |
| Irony | “a literary device, […] a contrast or incongruity between expectations for a situation and what is reality” – literarydevices.com |
| Parody | Imitation with exaggerating the main characteristics to reach comical effect |
| Imagery | A device which appeals to our senses |
| Situational comedy | A.k.a. sitcom, a kind of comedy which gets it humorous tones from awkward, amusing situations – literarydevices.com |
| Analepsis (flashback) | A scene in which the narrative takes us back in time from our situation |
| Prolepsis (flashforward) | A scene in which the narrative takes us ahead in time from our current situation |
| Ellipsis | Some parts of the scene/event are omitted from the text in a way when it stays understandable |
| Mise-en-page | The physical arrangement, appearance of the text -> how it looks like |
| Figurative language | “any figure of speech which depends on a non-literal meaning of some or all of the words used” – literarydevices.com |
| Similes | comparison between two different things while emphasizing their similarities and using the words ‘as’ or ‘like’ |
| Metaphors | Comparison between two different things while emphasizing their similarities |
| Interplay | The relationship between two or more things, and the effects they have on each other |
| Idiolect | The individual’s unique way of use of language |
| Sociolect | “Are group-dependent similarities in language use” – researchgate.net |
| Adjectives | melléknév |
| Verbs | ige |
| Adverbs | határozószó |