Act and Scene

Aestheticism,or the Aesthetic Movement

Affective Fallacy

Alexandrine

Allegory

Alliteration

Allusion

Ambiguity

American Puritanism

American Romanticism

American Transcendentalism

American realism

American Naturalism

Analogy

Antagonist

Antihero

Antithesis

Aphorism

Apostrophe

Aside

Atmosphere

Author and authorship

Authorship

Autobiography

Ballad

Ballad stanza

A broadside ballad

Baroque

Beat Writers

Biography

Black Arts Movement

Blank Verse

Bohemianism

Caesura

Canto

Caricature

Carpe Diem Tradition

Celtic Revival

Character

Characterization

Chivalric Romance

Chorus

Chronicle Plays

Chronicles

Classicism

Climax

Comedy

Comedy of humors

Comic Relief

Conceit

Concrete and abstract

Concrete Poetry

Confessional poetry

Confidant

Conflict

Connotation

Consonance

Couplet

Conventions

Courtly Love

Criticism

Cultural studies

Decadence

Deconstruction

Decorum

Deism

Dues ex Machina

Dialogic Criticism

Didactic literature

Discourse Analysis

Denotation

Denouement

Diction

Dissonance

Drama

Dramatic Monologue

Dream Vision

Edition

Elegy

Emblematic Image

Enlightenment

Epic

Epic Similes

Epigram

Epigraph

Epilogue

Epiphany

Epitaph

Epithet

Essay

Exemplum

Exposition

Expressionism

Fable

Fabliau

Fancy and Imagination

Farce

Fiction and Truth

Figurative Language

Figure of Speech

Flashback

Foil

Folklore

Folk Drama

Folk Songs

Folktale

Foreshadowing

Form and Structure

Formalism

Format of a Book

Free verse

Genres

Golden Age

Gothic Novel

The Gothic novel

Graveyard Poets

Great Chain of Being

Haiku

Harlem Renaissance

Heroic Couplet

Heroic drama

Humanism

Hymn

Hyperbole and Understatement

Iambic pentameter

Imagery

Imitation

Incremental Repetition

Influence and the Anxiety of Influence

In Medias Res

Intentional fallacy

Interpretation and Hermeneutics

Inversion

Invocation

Irony

Ivory tower

Kenning

Lai

Light Verse

Linguistics in Literary Criticism

Local Color

Local Colorism or Regionalism

Lost generation

Lyric

Marxist Criticism

Masque

Melodrama

Metaphor

Metaphysical poetry

Meter

Metonymy

Miracle Play

Mock Epic

Modernism and Postmodernism

Morality play

Motif

Motivation

Myth

Narration

Narrative and Narratology

Narratology

Narrative Capability

Narrative poem

Narrator

Neoclassicism

New Criticism

New historicism

Novel

Objective and Subjective

Occasional Poems

Octave

Ode

Onomatopoeia

Oral Formulaic Poetry

Ottava rime

Oxymoron

Palinode

Pantomime and Dumb Show

Paradox

Parallelism

Parody

Pastoral

Pathetic Fallacy

Pathos

Period of American Literature

Period of English literature

Persona,Tone,and Voice

Personification

Platonic Love

Plot

Poetic Diction

Poetic Justice

Poetic License

Point of View

Postcolonial Studies

Poststructuralism

Primitivism and Progress

Problem Play

Prose

Prosody

Protagonist

Psalm

Pun

Purple Patch

Queer Theory

Quatrain

Reader-Response Criticism

Realism

Reception-Theory

Refrain

Renaissance

Rhetoric

Rhetorical Criticism

Rhetorical Figures

Rhyme

Rhythm

Romance

Romanticism

Satire

Scansion

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Semiotics

Sensibility

Sentimentalism

Sestet

Setting

Seven Deadly Sins

Short Story

Simile

Socialist Realism

Sociology of Literature

Soliloquy

Song

Sonnet

Spenserian Stanza

Sprung Rhythm

Stanza

Stock Characters

Stock Response

Stock Situations

Stereotype

Stream of consciousness

Structuralist Criticism

Style

Stylistics

Suspense

Symbol

Symbolism

Synecdoche

Terza rima

Theme

Tone

Tragedy

Tragicomedy

Transcendentalism in America

Utopias and Dystopias

Victorian and Victorianism

Villanelle

Wit

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