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- Abecedarius - Academic drama
- Acatalectic - Accent - Accentual verse - Acrostic - Allegory - Alliteration - Allusion - Anachronism - Anacrusis
- Anagnorisis - Analects - Analogue - Analogy - Anapest - Anaphora - Anastrophe - Anecdote - Annal
- Annotation - Antagonist - Antepenult - Anthology - Anticlimax - Anti-hero - Anti-masque - Anti-romance - Antinovel
- Antistrophe - Antithesis - Antonym - Aphorism - Apocope - Apocrypha - Apollonian and Dionysian - Apologue - Apology
- Apothegm - Aposiopesis - Apostrophe - Apron stage - Arcadia - Archaism - Archetype - Aristeia - Argument
- Arsis - Art for art's sake - Asemic writing - Aside - Assonance - Atmosphere - Attitude - Aube - Aubade
- Audience - Autobiography - Autotelic - Avant-garde
B
- Ballad - Ballade - Ballad stanza - Bard
- Baroque - Bathos - Beast fable (beast epic)Beast poetry - Beat Generation - Beginning rhyme - Belles-lettres - Bestiary
- Beta reader - Bibliography - Bildungsroman - Biography - Black comedy - Blank verse - Bloomsbury Group - Body - Bombast (fustian)
- Boulevard theatre - Bourgeosis drama - Bouts-Rimés - Bowdlerize - Breviloquence - Broadside - Burlesque - Burletta - Burns stanza
- Buskin - Byronic hero
C
- Caca - Cadence - Caesura
- Calligram - Canon - canso - Canticum - Canto - CanzoneCapa y espadaCaptivity narrative - Caricature
- Carmen figuratumCarpe diemCatachresis - Catalectic - Catalexis - Catastrophe - Catharsis - Caudate sonnet - Cavalier drama
- Cavalier poetry - Celtic Renaissance - Celtic Twilight - Cesura - Chain of Being - Chain verseChanson de gesteChansonnier - Chant royal
- Chantey - Chanty - Chapbook - Character - Characterization - Charactonym - Chaucerian stanza - Chiasmus - Chivalric romance
- Choriamb - Choriambus - Chorus - Chronicle - Chronical play - Cinquain - Classicism - Classification (literature) - Classification of rhymes (Peter Dale)
- Clerihew - Cliché - Climax - Cloak-and-sword play - Closed heroic couplet - Closet dramaComédie larmoyanteColloquialism - Comedy
- Comedy of errors - Comedy of humors - Comedy of intrigue - Comedy of manners - Comedic reliefCommedia dell'arteComic relief - Common measure - Commonplace book
- Common rhymeComoedia erudateComparative linguistics - Compensation - Complaint - Conceit - Concordance - Concrete universal - Confessional literature
- Confidant/confidante - Conflict - Connotation - Consistency - Consonance - Contradiction - Context - Contrast
- Convention - Copyright - CounterplotCoup de théâtreCouplet - Courtesy book - Courtly love - Cowleyan ode - Cradle books
- Craft cycle - Crisis - Criticism - Cross acrostic - Crown of sonnets - Curtain raiser - Curtal sonnet
D
- Dactyl - Dada - Dale's classification of rhymes - DandyismDébatDecadence - Decasyllabic verse - Decorum
- Denotation - Dénouement - Description - Descriptive lingustics - Detective storyDeus ex machinaDeuteragonist - Dialect - Dialogue
- Dibrach - Diction - Didactic - Digest - Digression - Dime novel - Diameter - Dipody - Dirge
- Discourse - Dissociation of sensibility - Dissonance - Distich - Distributed Stress - Dithyramb - Diverbium - Divine afflatus - Doggerel
- Dolce stil nuoveDomestic tragedyDonnéeDoppelgängerDouble - Double rhyme - Drama - Drama of sensibility - Dramatic character
- Dramatic irony - Dramatic lyric - Dramatic monologue - Dramatic proverbDramatis personaeDramaturgy - Dream allegory - Dream vision - Droll
- Dumb show - Duodecimo - Duologue - Duple meter/duple rhythm - Dystopia
E
- Echo verse - Eclogue - Edition - Ekphrasis - Elegiac couplet - Elegiac meter - Elegy - Elision
- Emblem - Emblem book - Emendation - Emotive language - Encomiastic verse - End rhyme - End-stopped line - English sonnet - Enjambment
- Entr'acte - Envoy/envoiÈpater le bourgeoisEpic poetry - Epic simile - Epic Theater - Epigraph - Epilogue
- Epiphany - Episode - Episteme - Epistle - Epistolary novel - Epistrophe - Epitaph - Epithalamion - Epithet
- Epizeuxis - Epode - Eponymous author - EquivalenceErziehungsromanEssay - Ethos - Eulogy - Euphony
- Euphuism - Evidence - Exegesis - Exemplum - Existentialism - Exordium - Experimental novelExplication de texteExposition
- Expressionism - Extended metaphor - Extension - Extrametrical verse - Extravaganza - Eye rhyme
F
- Fable - Fabliau - Falling action - Falling rhythm - Fancy and imagination - Fantasy - Farce - Feeling
- Feminine ending - Feminine rhyme - Fiction - Figurative language - Figure of speechFin de siècleFlashback - Flashforward - Flat character
- Fleshly school - Foil - Folio - Folk drama - Folklore - Folk tale - Foot - Foreshadowing - Form
- Four levels of meaning - Four meanings of a poem - Fourteener - Frame story - Free verse - French forms - Freytag's pyramid - Fugitives and Agrarians
- Fustian - Futurism
G
- Gallows humor - Gamebooks - Gathering - Genetic fallacy - Genius and talent - Genre - Georgian poetry
- Georgics - Gesta - Gloss - Gnomic verse - Golden line - Goliardic verse - Gongorism - Gonzo journalism - Gothic novel
- Grand Guignol - Graveyard poetry - Graveyard school - Greek tragedy - Grub Street - Grundyism - Guignol
H
- Hagiography - Hagiology - Haikai - Haikai no renga - Haiku - Half rhyme - Hamartia - Handwaving
- Headless line - Head rhyme - Hebraism-Hellenism"The Hedgehog and the Fox"Hemistich - Hendecasyllable - Hendecasyllabic verse
- Heptameter - Heptastrich - Heresy of paraphrase - Hero - Heroic couplets - Heroic drama - Heroic quatrain - Heroic stanza - Hexameter
- Hexastich - Hiatus - High comedy - Higher criticism - Historical linguistics - Historical novel - Historic present - History play - Hokku
- Holograph - Homeric epithet - Homeric simile - Homily - Horatian ode - Horatian satire - Hornbook - Hovering accent - Hubris
- Hudibrastic verse - Humor - Humours - Hybris - Hymn - Hymnal stanza - Hyperbole - Hypercatalectic - Hypermetrical
- Hypocorism - Hysteron-proteron - Hypotactic
I
- Iambic pentameter - Ideology
- Idiom - Idyll - Imagery - Imagism - Impressionism - Indeterminacy - InferenceIn medias resInnuendo
- Internal rhyme - Interpretation - Intertextuality - Irony
J
- Jacobean era
- Jeremiad - Journal - Judicial criticismJunctureJuggernaut - Juvenalian satire - Juxtaposition
K
L
- Lai - Lake Poets - Lament
- LampoonL'art pour l'artLaureate - Lay - Leaf - Legend - Legitimate theater - Leonine rhyme - Lexis
- Letters - Level stress (even accent)Libretto - Light ending - Light poetry - Light rhyme - Light stress
- Light poetry - Limerick - Linguistics - Linked rhyme - Link sonnet - Literary ballad - Literary criticism - Literary epic - Literary realism
- Literary theory - Literature - Litotes - Litterateur - Liturgical drama - Living Newspaper - Local color - Logaoedic - Logical fallacy
- Logical stress - Logos - Long metre - Loose sentence - Lost Generation - Low comedy - Lullaby - Lyric
M
- Macaronic language - Madrigal - Magic realism - MalapropismMärchen
- Marginalia - Marinism - Marivauge - Marxist literary criticism - Masculine ending - Masculine rhyme - Masked comedy - Masque - Maxim
- Meaning - Medieval drama - Meiosis - Melic poetry - Melodrama - Memoir - Menippean satire - Mesostich - Metaphor
- Metaphysical conceit - Metaphysical poets - Meter - Metonymy - Metre - Metrical accent - Metrical foot - Metrical structure - Middle Comedy
- Miles gloriosusMiltonic sonnet - Mime - Mimesis - Minnesang - Minstrel - Mystery play (miracle play)Miscellanies
- Mise en scèneMixed metaphor - Mock-heroic (mock epic)Mode - Modernism - Monodrama - Monody - Monograph
- Monologue - Monometer (monopody)Monostich - Monograph - Mood - Mora - Moral - Morality play
- Motif - Motivation - Movement - Mummery - Muses - Musical comedy - Mystery play - Mythology
N
- Narrative point of view - Narrator - Naturalism - Neologism - Non-fiction
- Non-fiction novel - Novel - Novelette - Novella - Novelle - narrative poem
O
- Objective correlative - Objective criticism - Obligatory scene - Octameter - Octave - Ode - Oedipus complex - Onomatopoeia
- Open couplet - Oulipo - Orchestra (literary term) - Oxymoron
P
- Palinode
- Pantoum - Pantun - Parable - Paraclausithyron - Paradelle - Paradox - Paraphrase - Pararhyme - Paratactic
- Partimen - Pastourelle - Pathetic fallacy - Pathya Vat - Parallelism - Parody - Pastoral - Pathos - Pentameter
- Periodic sentence - Peripetia - Perspective - Persona - Personification - PhronesisPièce bien faitePicaresque novel - Plain Style
- Platonic - Plot - Poem - Poem and song - Poetic diction - Poetic transrealism - Poetry - Point of view - Polysyndeton
- Post-colonialism - Postmodernism - Pound's Ideogrammic Method - Prolepsis - Prologue - Progymnasmata - Prose - Prosimetrum - Prosody (poetry)
- Protagonist - Proverb - Pruning poem - Psychoanalytic literary criticism - Psychoanalytic theory - Pun - Purple patch - Purpose for Reading - Pyrrhic
Q
R
- Reader-response criticism - Realism - Refrain - Renga - Renku - Repetition - Resolution - Rhapsodes
- Rhetoric - Rhyme - Rhyme Royal - Rhythm - Roman a clef - Romance novel - Romanticism - Russian formalism
S
- Satire - Scanning - ScansionScene a faireSea shanty
- Semiotics - Semiotic literary criticism - Setting - Shanty - Sestet - Sequence of events - Shakespearean sonnet - Simile - Slice of life
- Sobriquet - Soliloquy - Sonnet - Sonneteer - Speaker - Sprung rhythm - Stanza - Static character - Stereotype
- Stream of consciousness - Structuralism - Subplot - Syllogism - Symbol - Synecdoche - Synaesthesia - Syntax
T
- Tautology - Tableau - Tail rhyme - Tagelied - Tale
- Techne - Telestich - Tenor - Tension - TercetTerza rimaTetrameter - Tetrastich - Text
- Textual criticism - Texture - Theater of Cruelty - Theater of the Absurd - Theme - Thesis - Thesis play - Third person narrative - Threnody
- Tirade - Tone - Tract - Tractarian Movement - Tragedy - Tragedy of blood - Tragic flaw - Tragic Hero - Tragic irony
- Tragicomedy - Tranche de vie - Transcendentalism - Transferred epithet - Transition - Translation - TravestyTriadTribe of Ben
- Tribrach - Trimeter - Triolet - Triple rhyme - Triple meter - Triple rhythm - Triplet - Tristich - Tritagonist
- TriviumTrobar clusTrochee - Trope (literature) - Troubadour - Trouvère - Truncated line - Tumbling verse - Type character
- Type scene
U
- Ubi suntUnderground culture - Underground press - Understatement
- Unities - Unity - Universality (disambiguation) - University Wits - Unobtainium - Utopia - Utopian and dystopian fiction - Unreliable narrator
V
- Variable syllable - Variorum - Varronian satire (Menippean satire)Vates
- Vaudeville - Vehicle - Verbal irony - Verisimilitude - VerismVers de sociétéVerse - Verse paragraphVers libre
- Verso - Victorianism - Viewpoint - Vignette - Villain - Villanelle - Virelay - Virgule - Voice (of the writer)
- Voice (in phonetics)Volta - Vorticism - Vulgate