List Of Literary Topics

A

• Accent
• Accentual verse
• Accentual-syllabic verse
• Aesthetic movement
• Allegory
• Alliteration
• Allusion
• Ambiguity
• Anecdote
• Antagonist
• Apostrophe
• Assonance
• Author's purpose
• Autobiography

B

• Ballad
• Biography
• Blank verse
• Breve
• Broadside
• Burlesque

C

• Character
• Characterization
• Chronological order
• Climax
• Comedy
• Conceit
• Conclusion
• Concrete poem
• Conflict
• Connotation
• Context
• Contrast
• Consonance
• Couplet

D

• Dead metaphor
• Detail
• Denouement
• Description
• Dialect
• Dialogue
• Diary
• Didactic literature
• Diphthong
• Doggerel
• Drama
• Dramatic monologue
• Dramatic poetry

E

• Elegy
• Elision
• Emblematic poem
• Epic
• Epigram
• Epitaph
• Epithalamium
• Essay
• Eulogy
• Exaggeration
• Excerpt
• Existentialism
• Exposition
• Expressionism
• Extended metaphor
• Eye-rhyme

F

• Fable
• Fantasy
• Farce
• Feminine ending
• Fiction
• Figurative language
• Flashback
• Folk tale
• Foot
• Foreshadowing
• Frame story
• Free verse

G

• Genre

H

• Haiku
• Half-rhyme
• Hero/heroine
• Hubris
• Humour
• Hyperbole

I

• Ictus
• Idiom
• Idyll
• Imagist
• Implicit metaphor
• Internal rhyme
• Inciting moment
• Invocation
• Irony

L

• Legend
• Light verse
• Limerick
• Literature
• Litotes
• Lyric

M

• Macaronic verse
• Main character
• Masculine ending
• Masculine rhyme
• Memoir
• Metamorphosis
• Metaphor
• Metaphysical poet
• Meter
• Metonymy
• Minor character
• Mock heroic
• Moral
• Myth

N

• Narrative poem
• Narrator
• Naturalism
• Non-fiction
• Novel

O

• Octet
• Ode
• Onomatopoeia
• Oral tradition
• Oxymoron

P

• Parable
• Parody
• Pastoral
• Pathetic fallacy
• Personification
• Persuasion
• Playwright
• Plot
• Poetic diction
• Poetry
• Point of view
• Prose
• Protagonist

Q

• Quatrain

R

• Realism
• Refrain
• Repetition
• Resolution
• Rhyme
• Rhyme scheme
• Rhythm

S

• Sarcasm
• Scan (poetry)
• Science fiction
• Sensory language
• Sextet
• Short story
• Simile
• Slash
• Socratic irony
• Soliloquy
• Sonnet
• Sprung rhythm
• Stage direction
• Stanza
• Style
• Surprise ending
• Surrealism
• Suspense
• Syllabic verse
• Symbol
• Symolism
• Symbolist movement
• Synecdoche
• Synaesthesia

T

• Tall tale
• Theater
• Theme
• Transferred epithet
• Travesty

U

• Understatement

V

• Verse
• Villanelle

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