Literary Terms

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• Caricature grotesque likeness striking qualities persons things
• Carpe diem literally seize day enjoy life common
• Catharsis feeling emotional release relief audience feels end
• Classic highly regarded work literature art form withstood
• Classissim deriving orderly qualities ancient greek roman culture
• Bibliography list works cited relevant subject
• Experiences bildungsroman german word referring structured coming-of-age story
• Poetry blank verse written unrhymed lines iambic pentameter
• Bombast inflated pretentious language trivial subjects adj form=bombastic
• Burlesque work literature meant ridicule subject grotesque imitation
• Cacophany grating inharmonious sounds
• Caesura pause middle verse marked punctuation
• Works canon considered important national literature period widely
• Abstract abbreviated synopsis longer work scholarship research
• Adage proverb truth based experience couched metaphorical language
• Allegory narrative literal events persons places things consistently
• Alliteration repetition initial consonant sounds group words lines
• Allusion reference person place event meant create effect
• Ambuguity vagueness meaning conscious lack clarity meant evoke
• Anachronism person scene event element literature fails correspond
• Annotation explanation summary evaluation text work literature
• Antagonist character force work literature produces tension conflict
• Antithesis words phrases clauses sentences set deliberate contrast
• Aphorism short pithy statement generally accepted truth sentiment
• Apostrophe locution addresses person personified thing present
• Archetype recurring symbol character landscape event found myth
• Assonance repetition vowel sounds group words lines poetry
• Bard poet olden times performer told heroic stories
• Belle-lettres french term world books criticism literature general
• Point climax <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Conceit <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> poetic
• Connotation <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> suggested
• Words middle consonance <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br
• Couplet <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> pair
• Denotation <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> dictionary
• Denoument <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> resolution
• Deus machina <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Diction <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> choice
• Dionysian <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> distinguished
• Dramatic irony <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Elegy <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> poem
• Ellipsis <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> periods
• Sentence elliptical construction <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br
• End-stopped <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> term
• Enjabment <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> poetry
• Epic <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> extended
• Epigram <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> short
• Euphony <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> pleasing
• Sun-bright epithet <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Eponymous describe <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Exegesis <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> detailed
• Expose <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> piece
• Exposition <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> background
• Explication <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> interpretation
• Metaphor extended <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Human traits fable <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br
• Action falling <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Fantasy <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> story
• Farce <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> comedy
• Figurative language <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Narrative person <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Flashback <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> return
• Foot <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> unit
• Foreshadowing <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> technique
• Narrative story frame <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br
• Free verse <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Genre <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> term
• Gothic <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> supernatural
• Harangue <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> forceful
• Heroic couplet <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Hubris <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> excessive
• Humanism <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> belief
• Hyperbole <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> overstatement
• Idyll <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> lyric
• Imagery <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> words
• Medias res <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Quotation indirect <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Invective <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> direct
• Irony <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> mode
• Kenning <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> device
• Lampoon <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> mocking
• Litotes <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> form
• Sentence loose <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Poem lyric <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Maxim <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> proverb
• Emotional melodrama <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Metaphor <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> figure
• Metaphysical poetry <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Meter <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> pattern
• Metonomy <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> figure
• Epic mock <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Mode <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> general
• Montage <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> quick
• Mood <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> emotional
• Moral <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> simplistic
• Motif <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> image
• Muse <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> ancient
• Culture's myth <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Narrative <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> form
• Type naturalism <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Sequitur <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> statement
• Novella <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> work
• Social manners <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Ode <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> lyric
• Narrator omniscient <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Onomatopoeia <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> words
• Ottava rima <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Oxymoron <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> term
• Moral parable <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Paradox <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> statement
• Pastoral <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> work
• Pathetic fallacy <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Pentameter <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> verse
• Sentence periodic <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Persona <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> latin
• Personification <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> figure
• Plot action <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Picaresque <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> type
• Point view <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Prosody <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> grammar
• Protagonist <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> main
• Pysedonym <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> called
• Pulp fiction <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Pun <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> humorous
• Four-line poem quatrain <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br
• Realism <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> depiction
• Rhetoric <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> language
• Rhetorical stance <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Rhyme scheme <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Rhythm <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> pattern
• Roman clef <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Romance <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> extended
• Sarcasm <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> sharp
• Satire <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> literary
• Scansion <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> act
• Sentiment <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> synonym
• Work sentimentality <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Setting <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> total
• Simile <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> figurative
• Sonnet popular <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Stanza <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> group
• Stream consciousness <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Style language <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Subplot <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> subordinate
• Meaning subtext <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Symbol <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> person
• Part signifies synecdoche <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br
• Syntax <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> organization
• Idea theme <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Character title eponymous <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br
• Tone <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> attitude
• Hero tragedy <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Trope <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> generic
• Meaning verbal irony <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br
• Verse <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> refer
• Verisimilitude <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> quality
• Versification <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> structural
• Villanelle <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> french
• Voice <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> real
• Power wit <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Human form anthropomorphism <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br
• Light verse <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• End rhyme <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Rhyme internal <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Rhyme sounds slant <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br
• Rhyme changing normal forced <!--td border 1px solid
• Soliloquy <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> drama
• Strophe <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> section
• Antistrophe <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> section
• Exodus <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> final
• Theater parados <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Ode choral <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Chorus <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> greek
• Comic relief <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> drama words
• Ironic side juxtaposition <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br
• Side comic juxtaposition <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br
• Sentence chiasmus <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Parallelism <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> arrangement
• Skene <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> greek
• Apollonian <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> contrast
• Clause anadiplosis <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Parody <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> mocking
• Anaphora <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> deliberate
• Anastrophe <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> reversal
• Word phrase image repetition <!--td border 1px solid
• Question rhetorical <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Shift rhetorical <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• I equally tricolon <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br
• Understatement <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> creating
• Zeugma <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> device
• Shift tonal <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Monologue <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> extended
• Hero <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> central
• Antihero <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> protagonist
• Colloquialism <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> casual
• Words idiom <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Conflict <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> central
• Dialect <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> form
• Vernacular <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> word
• Character dynamic <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Character static <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Hamartia <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> greek
• Naive narrator <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Narrator unreliable <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Narrator <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> voice
• Speaker <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> voice
• Flaw tragic <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Epistolary <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> story
• Reversal peripeteia <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Orchestra <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> classical
• Comedy <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> literary
• Tragicomedy <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> type
• Unities <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> formal
• Narrative anecdote <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Magical realism <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Pastiche <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> method
• Storytelling metafiction <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Distortion time temporal <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br
• Rising action <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Irony cosmic <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
• Dramatic question <!--td border 1px solid ccc;}br mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->

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