The following is a list of literary terms; that is, those words used in discussion, classification, criticism, and analysis of literature. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ...

See also: Glossary of poetry terms, Literary criticism, Literary theory

Below is the glossary of poetry terminology. ... Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. ... Literary theory is the theory (or the philosophy) of the interpretation of literature and literary criticism. ...

A

• Abecedarius-
• Academic drama
• Acatalectic
• Accent
• Accentual verse
• Acrostic
• Act
• Action
• Aesthetic distance
• Aestheticism
• Aesthetics
• Affective fallacy
• Afflatus
• Afterword
• Agnostic
• Agon
• Alazon
• Alba
• Alexandrine
• Allegory
• Alliteration
• Allusion
• Altar poem
• Ambiguity
• Anachronism
• Analects
• Analogy
• Anapest
• Anaphora
• Anastrophe
• Anecdote
• Angry Young Men
• 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
• Aside
• Assonance
• Atmosphere
• Attitude
• Aube
• Aubade
• Audience
• Autobiography
• Autotelic
• Avant-garde

An abecedarius is an acrostic in which the first letter of every word, strophe or verse follows the order of the alphabet. ... An acatalectic line of verse is one having the metrically complete number of syllables in the final foot. ... Accent in poetry refers to the stressed portion of a word. ... Accentual verse has a fixed number of stresses per line or stanza regardless of the number of syllables that are present. ... An acrostic (from the late Greek akróstichon, from ákros, extreme, and stíchos, verse) is a poem or other writing in an alphabetic script, in which the first letter, syllable or word of each verse, paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out another message. ... In theater, an act (noun) is a short performance that is part of a longer program. ... In literature, Action is the principle subject or story. ... The alienation effect (from the German Verfremdungseffekt) is a theatrical and cinematic device which prevents the audience from losing itself passively and completely in the character created by the actor, and which consequently leads the audience to be a consciously critical observer. ... The Aesthetic movement is a loosely defined movement in art and literature in later nineteenth-century Britain. ... The Parthenons facade showing an interpretation of golden rectangles in its proportions. ... Affective fallacy is a literary term used to assert that the meaning of a literary work is not dependent on its effects on the reader, especially referring to emotional effects. ... Afflatus is a Latin term derived from Cicero (in On Divination) that has been translated as inspiration. ... An afterword is a literary device that is often found at the end of a piece of literature. ... The term agnosticism and the related agnostic were coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1869. ... Look up agon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The alazon, in Greek comedy is the opponent of the Eiron. ... Alba (Catalan for sunrise) is a subgenre of Provençal lyric poetry. ... An alexandrine is a line of poetic meter. ... Allegory of Music by Filippino Lippi. ... Alliteration is a literary device in which the same sound appears at the beginning of two or more consecutive words. ... Allusion is a figure of speech, in which one refers covertly or indirectly to an object or circumstance that has occurred or existed in an external content. ... An Altar Poem is any type of poetry where the characters, words, and lines have been written in such a way that when looked at as a whole, the poem forms an outline that is easily recognizable to the reader. ... Look up ambiguity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Anachronism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Engraving of Confucius. ... Analogy is both the cognitive process of transferring information from a particular subject (the analogue or source) to another particular subject (the target), and a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process. ... An anapaest is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. ... In rhetoric, anaphora (from the Greek anaphérō, «I repeat») is the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of several consecutive sentences or verses to emphasize an image or a concept. ... Anastrophe is a figure of speech involving an inversion of the natural order of words; for example, saying echoed the hills to mean the hills echoed. In English, with its settled word order, departure from the expected word order emphasizes the displaced word or phrase: beautiful is emphasized in the... An anecdote is a short tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical incident. ... Angry Young Men (or Angries for short) is a journalistic catchphrase applied to a number of British playwrights and novelists from the mid-1950s. ... Annals (Latin Annales, from annus, a year) are a concise form of historical writing which record events chronologically, year by year. ... Annotation is extra information associated with a particular point in a document or other piece of information. ... For other uses, see Antagonist (disambiguation). ... In linguistics, the antepenult is the third syllable from the end of a word ( -dic- is the antepenult of per-pen-dic-ul-ar). The antepenult precedes the penult or second-to-last syllable which, in turn, precedes the ultimate or final syllable. ... An anthology, literally a garland or collection of flowers, is a collection of literary works, originally of poems. ... In rhetoric, climax is a figure of speech, in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance. ... In literature and film, an anti-hero is a central or supporting character that has some of the personality flaws and ultimate fortune traditionally assigned to villains but nonetheless also have enough heroic qualities or intentions to gain the sympathy of readers or viewers. ... Anti-masque (also spelled antimasque) is a comic or grotesque dance presented before or between the acts of a certain dramatic composition known as a masque. ... An anti-romance, sometimes referred to as a satire, is a type of story characterized by having an apathetic or self-doubting anti-hero cast as the protagonist, who fails in the object of his journey or struggle. ... The term Antinovel was coined by French critic Jean-Paul Sartre. ... Antistrophe, the portion of an ode which is sung by the chorus in its returning movement from west to east, in response the strophe, which was sung from east to west. ... Antithesis (Greek for setting opposite, from against + position) means a direct contrast or exact opposition to something. ... Look up Antonym in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An aphorism (literally distinction or definition, from Greek αφοριζειν to define) expresses a general truth in a pithy sentence. ... An apocope or apocopation is a type of metaplasm that refers to a word formed by removing the end of a longer original word. ... In the context of fiction Apocrypha includes those fictional stories that do not belong within a fictional univeres canon, yet still have some authority relating to that fictional universe. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... An apologue (from the Greek: απολογος, a statement or account) is a brief fable or allegorical story with pointed or exaggerated details, meant to serve as a pleasant vehicle for some moral doctrine or to convey some useful lesson without explicitly stating it. ... Look up apology in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An adage is a short, but memorable saying, which holds some important fact of experience that is considered true by many people, or it has gained some credibility through its long use. ... Aposiopesis (from Classical Greek, ἀποσιώπησις, becoming silent) is the term for the rhetorical device by which the speaker or writer deliberately stops short and leaves something unexpressed, but yet obvious, to be supplied by the imagination, giving the impression that she is unwilling or unable to continue. ... Apostrophe (Greek ἀποστροφή, apostrophé, turning away; the final e being sounded) is an exclamatory rhetorical figure of speech, when a speaker or writer breaks off and directs speech to an imaginary person or abstract quality or idea. ... An apron is an outer protective garment that covers primarily the front of the body. ... Arcadia is a poetical name for fantasy land (having more or less the same notation as Utopia ), named after the Greek land. ... In language, an archaism is the deliberate use of an older form that has fallen out of current use. ... For other uses, see Archetype (disambiguation). ... Ancient Greek, literally: In the dramatic conventions of such works as the Iliad, this is a scene in which a hero in battle has his finest moments (aristos = best). ... Look up argument in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Arsis and thesis is a phrase in musical composition, where a point being inverted, is said to move per arsin et thesin; that is, it rises in one part, and falls in another, or vice versa. ... Art for arts sake is the usual English rendition of a French slogan, lart pour lart, which is credited to Théophile Gautier (1811–1872). ... An aside is a technique used in a dramatic performance whereby the actor will step aside from the action and deliver a soliloquy or an asinine remark to the audience which is assumed to be unheard by the other characters on stage. ... Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words as in, some ship in distress that cannot live. ... For other uses, see Atmosphere (disambiguation). ... Attitude may refer to: Aircraft attitude Attitude (magazine) Attitude, a song by American pop and jazz singer Suede Attitudes (band) Attitude Adjustment (Hardcore/Crossover/Thrash metal band) Attitude, song from Metallica on their album Reload. ... Look up Aubade in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Aubade in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An audience is a group of people who participate in an experience or encounter a work of art, literature, theatre, music or academics in any medium. ... Cover of the first English edition of 1793 of Benjamin Franklins autobiography. ... Autotelism is the belief that an entity or event has within itself its own meaning or purpose. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ...

B

"The Leopard" from the 13th-century bestiary "Rochester Bestiary."

• Ballad
• Ballade
• Ballad stanza
• Bard
• Baroque
• Bathos
• Beast epic
• Beast poetry
• Beat Generation
• Beginning rhyme
• Belles-lettres
• Bestiary
• Beta reader
• Bibliography
• Bildungsroman
• Biography
• Black humor
• Blank verse
• Bloomsbury Group
• Body
• Bombast
• Boulevard drama
• Bourgeosis drama
• Bouts-rimés
• Bowdlerize
• Breviloquence
• Broadside
• Burlesque
• Burletta
• Burns stanza
• Buskin
• Byronic hero

Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (435x658, 134 KB) Folio 7r from a 13th century Bestiary, The Rochester Bestiary (British Library, Royal MS 12 F XIII), showing the Leopard. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (435x658, 134 KB) Folio 7r from a 13th century Bestiary, The Rochester Bestiary (British Library, Royal MS 12 F XIII), showing the Leopard. ... A bestiary is a medieval book that has short descriptions of various real or imaginary animals, birds and even rocks. ... Illustration by Arthur Rackham of the ballad The Twa Corbies A ballad is a story, usually a narrative or poem, in a song. ... The ballade was a verse form consisting of three (sometimes five) stanzas, each with the same metre, rhyme scheme and last line, with a shorter concluding stanza (an envoi). ... In poetry, a Ballad stanza is the four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, most often found in the folk ballad. ... The Bard (ca. ... For other uses, see Baroque (disambiguation). ... For the Aarni album, see Bathos (album). ... Beast poetry, in the context of European literature and Medieval studies, refers to a corpus of poems written in Latin from the 8th to the 11th century. ... “Beats” redirects here. ... Belles lettres literary works, esp essays and poetry, valued for their aesthetic qualities (i. ... A bestiary is a medieval book that has short descriptions of various real or imaginary animals, birds and even rocks. ... A beta reader (or betareader) is a person who reads a work of fan fiction with critical eye with the aim to improve grammar, spelling, characterization, and general style of the story prior to release to the general public. ... For Works Cited lists, see Citation. ... A bildungsroman (IPA: /, German: novel of personal development) is a novelistic form which concentrates on the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the protagonist usually from childhood to maturity. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Black comedy, also known as black humor, is a subgenre of comedy and satire that deals with serious subjects – death, divorce, drug abuse, et cetera in a humorous manner. ... Blank verse is a type of poetry, distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme. ... The Bloomsbury Group or Bloomsbury Set or just Bloomsbury, as its adherents would generally refer to it, was an English group of artists and scholars that existed from around 1905 until around World War II. // History The group began as an informal socialwe have been great to society assembly of... The body of literary piece consists of the content that is being discussed in that particular essay through paragraphs. ... Thomas Bowdler (July 11, 1754 – February 24, 1825), an English physician, who published The Family Shakespeare, is best known as the source of the eponym bowdlerize (or bowdlerise[1]), the process of expurgation, censorship by removal, of material thought to be unacceptable to the intended audience, especially children or religious... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... USS Iowa Broadside (1984) A broadside is the side of a ship; the battery of cannon on one side of a warship; or their simultaneous (or near simultaneous) fire in naval warfare. ... Photograph of Sally Rand, 1934. ... A burletta (Italian, meaning little joke), also sometimes burla or burlettina, is a musical term generally denoting a brief comic Italian (or, later, English) opera. ... The Burns stanza is a verse form named after the Scottish poet Robert Burns. ... Buskin is a sort of knee- or calf- length boot made of leather or cloth. ... The Byronic hero is an idealized, but flawed, character exemplified in the life and writings of Lord Byron, characterized by his ex-lover Lady Caroline Lamb as being mad, bad and dangerous to know.[1] The Byronic hero first appears in Byrons semi-autobiographical epic narrative poem Childe Harold...

C

• Cacophony
• Cadence
• Caesura
• Calligram
• Canon
• canso
• Canticum
• Canto
• Canzone
• Capa y espada
• Captivity narrative
• Caricature
• Carmen figuratum
• Carpe diem
• Catachresis
• Catalectic
• Catalexis
• Catastrophe
• Catharsis
• Caudate sonnet
• Cavalier drama
• Cavalier poetry
• Celtic Renaissance
• Celtic Twilight
• Cesura
• Chain of Being
• Chain verse
• Chanson de geste
• Chansonnier
• 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 drama
• Comédie larmoyante
• Comedy
• Comedy of errors
• Comedy of humors
• Comedy of intrigue
• Comedy of manners
• Comedic relief
• Commedia dell'arte
• Comic relief
• Common measure
• Commonplace book
• Common rhyme
• Comoedia erudate
• Comparative linguistics
• Compensation
• Complaint
• Conceit
• Concordance
• Concrete universal
• Confessional literature
• Confidant/confidante
• Conflict
• Connotation
• Consistency
• Consonance
• Contradiction
• Contrast
• Convention
• Copyright
• Counterplot
• Coup de théâtre
• Couplet
• Courtesy book
• Courtly love
• Cowleyan ode
• Cradle books
• Craft cycle
• Crisis
• Criticism
• Cross acrostic
• Crown of sonnets
• Curtain raiser
• Curtal sonnet

The band Cacophony Cacophony - Sounding badly, antonym to harmony. ... Look up Cadence, cadence in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A caesura, in poetry, is an audible pause that breaks up a line of verse. ... Image:Calligram example. ... The Western canon is a canon of books and art (and specifically one with very loose boundaries) that has allegedly been highly influential in shaping Western culture. ... The canso is a song style used by the troubadours. ... A canto is a significant section of a long poem or the highest part in a piece of choral music. ... Literally song in Italian, a canzone (plural: canzoni) (cognate with English to chant) is an Italian or Provençal song or ballad. ... Captivity narratives are stories of people captured by uncivilized enemies. ... For the book of comics by Daniel Clowes see Caricature (Daniel Clowes collection) A caricature of film comedian Charlie Chaplin. ... For other uses, see Carpe diem (disambiguation). ... Catachresis (from Greek ), which literally means the incorrect or improper use of a word -- such as using the word decimate (e. ... An acatalectic line of verse is one having the metrically complete number of syllables in the final foot. ... An acatalectic line of verse is one having the metrically complete number of syllables in the final foot. ... Catastrophe (Gk. ... Catharsis is the Greek Katharsis word meaning purification or cleansing derived from the ancient Greek gerund καθαίρειν transliterated as kathairein to purify, purge, and adjective katharos pure or clean (ancient and modern Greek: καθαρός). // The term in drama refers to a sudden emotional breakdown or climax that constitutes overwhelming feelings of great... A caudate sonnet is an expanded version of the sonnet. ... Cavalier poets is a broad description of a school of poets, who came from the classes that supported King Charles I during the English Civil War. ... A caesura, in poetry, is an audible pause that breaks up a line of verse. ... 1579 drawing of the great chain of being from Didacus Valades, Rhetorica Christiana The great chain of being or scala naturæ is a classical and western medieval conception of the order of the universe, whose chief characteristic is a strict hierarchical system. ... The chansons de geste, Old French for songs of heroic deeds, are the epic poetry that appears at the dawn of French literature. ... Canadian singer-songwriter Dayna Manning. ... The chant royal is a poetic form that consists of five eleven-line stanzas with a rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-d-E and a five-line envoi rhyming d-d-e-d-E or a seven-line envoi c-c-d-d-e... Sea shanties (singular shanty, also spelled chantey; derived from the French word chanter, to sing) were shipboard working songs. ... Sea shanties (singular shanty, also spelled chantey; derived from the French word chanter, to sing) were shipboard working songs. ... A modern day chapbook. ... Characterization is the process of conveying information about characters in fiction. ... A charactonym is a name which suggests the personality traits of a fictional character. ... Rime Royal (or Rhyme royal) is a rhyming stanza form that was introduced into English poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer. ... Chiasmus (latinized form of Greek χιασμός, from χίασμα (chiasm), crossing) is a figure of speech based on inverted parallelism. ... For the modern genre of romantic fiction, see Romance novel. ... In Greek and Latin poetry, choriamb refers to a prosodic foot of four syllables, of the pattern long-short-short-long. ... In Greek and Latin poetry, choriamb refers to a prosodic foot of four syllables, of the pattern long-short-short-long. ... Chorus may refer to: a vocal or dance ensemble (for vocal ensembles, see Choir) the Greek chorus the chorus or refrain of a song the chorus or strophic form in music arrangement the chorus effect, the perception of similar sounds from multiple sources as a single, richer sound Chorus Communications... Generally a chronicle (Latin chronica, from Greek Χρόνος) is historical account of facts and events in chronological order. ... In poetry, a cinquain or quintain is a five line stanza, varied in rhyme and line, usually with the rhyme scheme ababb. ... Classicism door in Olomouc, The Czech Republic Teatr Wielki in Warsaw Church La Madeleine in Paris Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for classical antiquity, as setting standards for taste which the classicist seeks to emulate. ... Classification is a figure of speech linking a proper noun to a common noun using the or other articles. ... Peter Dale classifies forty types of rhymes in his book An Introduction To Rhyme (ISBN 1-85725-124-5). ... Peter Dale is a UK poet and translator. ... A Clerihew (or clerihew) is a very specific kind of humorous verse, typically with the following properties: The first line consists solely (or almost solely) of a well-known persons name The verse is humorous and usually whimsical, showing the subject from an unusual point of view; but it... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Look up Climax in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A closet drama is a play that is not intended to be performed onstage, but read by a solitary reader or, sometimes, out loud in a small group. ... Comédie larmoyante (lit. ... The word comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humor with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ... A comedy of errors is dramatic work (often a play) that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone, in which the action usually features a series of comic instances of mistaken identity, and which typically culminates in a happy resolution of the thematic conflict. ... The comedy of humours refers to a genre of dramatic comedy that focuses on a character or range of characters, each of whom has one overriding trait or humour that dominates their personality and conduct. ... The comedy of manners satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters, such as the miles gloriosus in ancient times, the fop and the rake during the Restoration, or an old person pretending to be young. ... Comic relief is the inclusion of a humorous character or scene or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work, often to relieve tension. ... “Commedia” redirects here. ... Comic relief is the inclusion of a humorous character or scene or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work, often to relieve tension. ... During the Renaissance (especially in England), commonplaces (or commonplace books) were for some people a popular way to compile knowledge, usually done by writing information into books. ... Comparative linguistics (originally comparative philology) is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages in order to establish their historical relatedness. ... Compensation has several different meanings as indicated below. ... In general use, a complaint is an expression of displeasure, such as poor service at a store, or from a local government, for example. ... Look up conceit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... ... The confidant character is usually someone the lead character confides in and trusts. ... The confidant character is usually someone the lead character confides in and trusts. ... For other uses, see Conflict (disambiguation) In political terms, conflict refers to an ongoing state of hostility between two or more groups of people. ... Connotation is a subjective cultural and/or emotional coloration in addition to the explicit or denotative meaning of any specific word or phrase in a language, i. ... Look up Consistency in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Consonance is the repition of consonant sounds, but not vowels as in assonance Examples: lady lounges lazily , dark deep dread crept in for consonance in music, see Consonance and dissonance Lakefield College School Key Literary Terms ... Broadly speaking, a contradiction is an incompatibility between two or more statements, ideas, or actions. ... Look up Contrast in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Not to be confused with copywriting. ... A subplot is a series of connected actions within a work of narrative that function separately from the main plot. ... For the Angel episode, see Couplet (Angel episode). ... Court of Love in Provence in the 14th Century (after a manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris). ... A page from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497) printed in Strasbourg by J.R. Grueninger. ... A crisis (plural: crises) is a turning point or decisive moment in events. ... Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. ... An acrostic (from the late Greek akróstichon, from ákros, extreme, and stíchos, verse) is a poem or other writing in an alphabetic script, in which the first letter, syllable or word of each verse, paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out another message. ... A crown of sonnets or sonnet corona is a sequence of sonnets, usually addressed to some one person, and/or concerned with a single theme. ... A curtain raiser is a performance, stage act, show, actor or performer (or sporting team), that opens a show for a more famous performer. ... The curtal sonnet is a form invented by Gerard Manley Hopkins, and used in three of his poems. ...

D

• Dactyl
• Dada
• Dale's classification of rhymes
• Dandyism
• Débat
• Decadence
• Decasyllabic verse
• Decorum
• Denotation
• Denouement
• Description
• Descriptive lingustics
• Detective story
• Deus ex machina
• Deuteragonist
• Dialect
• Dialogue
• Dibrach
• Diction
• Didactic
• Digest
• Digression
• Dime novel
• Diameter
• Dipody
• Dirge
• Dissociation of sensibility
• Dissonance
• Distich
• Distributed Stress
• Dithyramb
• Diverbium
• Divine afflatus
• Doggerel
• Dolce stil nuove
• Domestic tragedy
• Donnée
• Doppelgänger
• Double
• Double rhyme
• Drama
• Drama of sensibility
• Dramatic character
• Dramatic irony
• Dramatic lyric
• Dramatic monologue
• Dramatic proverb
• Dramatis personae
• Dramatugy
• Dream allegory
• Dream vision
• Droll
• Dumb show
• Duodecimo
• Duologue
• Duple meter/duple rhythm
• Dystopia

A dactyl (Gr. ... Cover of the first edition of the publication, Dada. ... Peter Dale classifies forty types of rhymes in his book An Introduction To Rhyme (ISBN 1-85725-124-5). ... Sporty Parisian dandies of the 1830s: a girdle helped one achieve this silhouette. ... See also Decadent movement Decadence refers to a personal trait and, much more commonly, to a state of society. ... Etiquette is the code that governs the expectations of social behavior, the conventional norm. ... This word has distinct meanings in other fields: see denotation (semiotics) and connotation and denotation. ... Denouement, in literature, is the end part of a story after the climax. ... A description consists of an enumeration of the quantitative and qualitative parameters which seek to provide a definition of some thing, such as what that thing looks like, sounds like, or feels like, distinguishing one state from another and general characteristics commonly noticed which in popular culture define or distinguish... Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction that centers upon the investigation of a crime, usually murder, by a detective, either professional or amateur. ... For other uses, see Deus ex machina (disambiguation). ... In literature, the deuteragonist is the second most important character, after the protagonist. ... A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language characteristic of a particular group of the languages speakers. ... For other uses, see Dialogue (disambiguation). ... A pyrrhic is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. ... Diction, in its original and primary meaning, is the term for a writer or speakers distinctive choices in vocabulary and style of expression. ... The Didactic is facts based as opposed to the Dialectic which is feelings based. ... Digestion is the process whereby a biological entity processes a substance, in order to chemically convert the substance into nutrients. ... also called parekbasis(in greek) or egressio, digressio, excursio(in latin) Digression is a section of a composition or speech that is an intentional change of subject. ... An example of the original dime novel series, circa 1860. ... DIAMETER is a computer networking protocol for AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting). ... Look up Dirge in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Dissonance has several meanings, all related to conflict or incongruity. ... A couplet is a pair of lines of verse that form a unit. ... The dithyramb was originally an ancient Greek hymn sung to the god Dionysus. ... Doggerel describes verse considered of little literary value. ... A movement among 13th and 14th century Italian and Florentine poets, who wrote sonnets, cantos and ballads on an idealized view of love and women. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Look up double in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Adolf Hitler - an example of visual irony Irony is a form of speech in which the real meaning is concealed or contradicted by the words used. ... A dramatic monologue is a type of poem, developed during the Victorian period, in which a character in fiction or in history delivers a speech explaining his or her feelings, actions, or motives. ... Dramatis personae is a Latin phrase (literally the persons of the drama) for the characters in the plot of a play, and is used to refer collectively to the characters represented in a dramatic work (various forms of theater, but also on screen) to be played by the acting cast... A Dream vision is a literary genre, literary device, or literary convention, where the narrator falls asleep and learns information in a dream, usually from a guide, that they could not have learned otherwise. ... Droll is classically defined as whimsical or comical, but American slang has adapted this word to mean boring, lifeless, and uninteresting. ... Costume for a Knight, by Inigo Jones: the plumed helmet, the heroic torso in armour and other conventions were still employed for opera seria in the 18th century. ... Metre is the measurement of a musical line into measures of stressed and unstressed beats, indicated in Western notation by a symbol called a time signature. ... This article is about the philosophical concept and literary form. ...

E

• Echo verse
• Eclogue
• Edition
• 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/envoi
• Èpater le bourgeois
• Epic poetry
• Epic simile
• Epic Theater
• Epigram
• Epigraph
• Epilogue
• Epiphany
• Episode
• Epistle
• Epistolary novel
• Epistrophe
• Epitaph
• Epithalamion
• Epithet
• Epizeuxis
• Epode
• Eponymous author
• Equivalence
• Erziehungsroman
• Essay
• Ethos
• Eulogy
• Euphony
• Euphuism
• Evidence
• Exegesis
• Exemplum
• Existentialism
• Exordium
• Experimental novel
• Explication de texte
• Exposition
• Expressionism
• Extended metaphor
• Extension
• Extrametrical verse
• Extravaganza
• Eye rhyme

An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject. ... In printmaking, an edition is a set of prints off one plate, composing a limited run of prints. ... For other uses, see Elegy (disambiguation). ... In music, see elision (music). ... An emblem consists of a pictorial image, abstract or representational, that epitomizes a concept - often a concept of a moral truth or an allegory. ... Emblem books are a particular style of illustrated book developed in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries, normally containing about one hundred picture/text combinations. ... Shakespeares sonnets comprises a collection of 154 poems in the sonnet form by William Shakespeare, published in 1609 under conditions that cannot be judged too clearly; above all, there is a mysterious dedication in front of the text wherein a certain Mr. ... Enjambement is the breaking of a linguistic unit (phrase, clause or sentence) by the end of a line or between two verses. ... Entracte is French for between the acts. It can have the meaning of a pause between two parts of a stage production, synonym to intermission, but is more often used to indicate that part of a theatre production that is performed between acts as an intermezzo or interlude. ... Envoy may refer to: a diplomat Envoy (WordPerfect), a document reader and document file format GMC Envoy, a make of automobile The Envoy, a 1982 album by Warren Zevon The Call Sign For United Kingdom Airline Flyjet Category: ... In poetry, an envoi is a short stanza at the end of a poem used either to address an imagined or actual person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem. ... The epic is a broadly defined genre of narrative poetry, characterized by great length, multiple settings, large numbers of characters, or long span of time involved. ... Epic theater, also known as theater of alienation or theater of politics, is a theater movement arising in the early to mid-20th century, inextricably linked to the German playwright Bertolt Brecht. ... An epigram is a short poem with a clever twist at the end or a concise and witty statement. ... In literature, an epigraph is a quotation that is placed at the start of a work or section that expresses in some succinct way an aspect or theme of what is to follow. ... An epilogue, or epilog, is a piece of writing at the end of a work of literature or drama, usually used to bring closure to the work. ... This article is about a feeling, for other meanings see epiphany (disambiguation). ... TV Show Reference Episode is the word usually used to refer to a part of a serial television or radio program. ... An epistle (Greek επιστολη, epistolē, letter) is a writing directed or sent to a person or group of persons, usually a letter and a very formal, often didactic and elegant one. ... Titlepage of Aphra Behns Love-Letters (1684) An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents. ... This figure of speech is the counterpart of anaphora, because the repetition of the same word or words comes at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences. ... An epitaph ( literally: on the gravestone in ancient Greek) is text honoring the deceased, most commonly inscribed on a tombstone or plaque. ... In ancient Greece an epithalamion was composed to honor a newlywed couple. ... An epithet (Greek - επιθετον and Latin - epitheton; literally meaning imposed) is a descriptive word or phrase. ... An epizeuxis is a figure of speech that denotes a phrase or word repeated with emphasis. ... Epode, in verse, the third part in an ode, which followed the strophe and the antistrophe, and completed the movement. ... The eponymous author of a literary work, often a work that is meant to be prophetic or homiletic, is not really the author. ... In mathematics, an equivalence relation on a set X is a binary relation on X that is reflexive, symmetric and transitive, i. ... For other uses, see Essay (disambiguation). ... Ethos (ἦθος) (plurals: ethe, ethea) is a Greek word originally meaning the place of living that can be translated into English in different ways. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Euphony describes flowing and aesthetically pleasing speech. ... Euphuism is a mannered style of English prose, taking its name from works by John Lyly. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Exegesis (from the Greek to lead out) involves an extensive and critical interpretation of an authoritative text, especially of a holy scripture, such as of the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, the Talmud, the Midrash, the Quran, etc. ... An Exemplum (latin for example, pl. ... Existentialism is a philosophical movement which claims that individual human beings create the meanings of their own lives. ... Exordium can mean several things: Exordium (rhetoric), in Western classical rhetoric is the introductory section of a discourse. ... This article or section needs additional references or sources. ... Explication de Texte is a French formalist method of literary analysis that allows for limited reader response, similar to close reading in the English-speaking literary tradition. ... The term dramatic structure refers to the parts into which a short story, a novel, a play, a screenplay, or a narrative poem can be divided. ... The Scream by Edvard Munch (1893) which inspired 20th century Expressionists Portrait of Eduard Kosmack by Egon Schiele Rehe im Walde by Franz Marc Elbe Bridge I by Rolf Nesch On White II by Wassily Kandinsky, 1923. ... An extended metaphor, also called a conceit, is a metaphor that continues into the sentences that follow. ... In metaphysics, extension is the property of taking up space; see Extension (metaphysics). ... An acatalectic line of verse is one having the metrically complete number of syllables in the final foot. ... Extravaganza is a two hour bi-weekly comedy-variety show based in Jakarta, Indonesia which has been broadcast by Trans TV nearly every Saturday and Monday night since its debut on April 5, 2004. ... Eye rhyme is a similarity in spelling between words that are pronounced differently and hence, not an auditory rhyme. ...

F

• Fable
• Fabliau
• Falling action
• Falling rhythm
• Fancy and imagination
• Fantasy
• Farce
• Feeling
• Feminine ending
• Feminine rhyme
• Fiction
• Figurative language
• Figure of speech
• Fin de siècle
• Flashback
• 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

For a comparison of fable with other kinds of stories, see Myth, legend, fairy tale, and fable. ... The fabliau (plural fabliaux or fablieaux) is a comic, usually anonymous tale written by jongleurs in northeast France circa the 13th Century. ... Freytags Pyramid, which illustrates dramatic structure. ... For other uses, see Fantasy (disambiguation). ... Look up farce in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The term feminine ending has several meanings, depending on context. ... A feminine rhyme, in English prosody, is a rhyme that matches two or more syllables at the end of the respective lines. ... For other uses, see Fiction (disambiguation). ... Many traditional academic analyses of language divided linguistic expressions into two classes: literal and figurative. ... A figure of speech, sometimes termed a rhetoric, or elocution, is a word or phrase that departs from straightforward, literal language. ... Fin de siècle is French for end of the century. The term turn-of-the-century is sometimes used as a synonym, but is more neutral (lacking some or most of the connotations described below), and can include the first years of a new century. ... In literature and film, a flashback (also called analepsis) takes the narrative back in time from the point the story has reached, to recount events that happened before and give the back-story. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction, and is not a real-life figure. ... The Fleshly School is the name given by Robert Buchanan to a realistic school of poets, to which Rossetti, William Morris, and Swinburne belong. ... Look up Foil in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Folio: In bookbinding, a sheet of paper, parchment, or other material folded in half to make two leaves in a codex. ... Folk plays such as Hoodening, Guising, Mumming and Soul Caking are generally verse sketches performed in countryside pubs, private houses or the open air, at set times of the year such as the Winter or Summer solstices or Christmas and New Year. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Folklore is the ethnographic concept of the tales, legends, or superstitions current among a particular ethnic population, a part of the oral history of a particular culture. ... In verse, many meters use a foot as the basic unit in their description of the underlying rhythm of a poem. ... This article is about Foreshadowing, the literary device. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... In mountaineering in the United States, a fourteener is a mountain that exceeds 14,000 feet (4,267. ... A frame story (also frame tale, frame narrative, etc. ... Free verse (also at times referred to as vers libre) is a term describing various styles of poetry that are not written using strict meter or rhyme, but that still are recognizable as poetry by virtue of complex patterns of one sort or another that readers will perceive to be... The term dramatic structure refers to the parts into which a short story, a novel, a play, a screenplay, or a narrative poem can be divided. ... Fustian is a term for a variety of heavy woven cotton fabrics, chiefly prepared for menswear. ... Futurism was a 20th century art movement. ...

G

From the 13th-century Carmina Burana, a collection of love and vagabond songs in Goliardic verse from Benediktbeurn Monastery.

• Gallows humor
• Gamebooks
• Gathering
• Genetic fallacy
• Genius and talent
• Genre
• Georgian poetry
• Georgic
• 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

Download high resolution version (500x736, 513 KB) This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Download high resolution version (500x736, 513 KB) This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Carmina Burana (IPA: ; note that the stress is on the first syllable of Carmina, not the second) also known as the Burana Codex is a manuscript collection, now in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, of more than 1000 poems and songs written in the early 13th century. ... The Goliards were a group of clergy who wrote bibulous, satirical Latin poetry in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. ... Gallows humor is humor that makes light of death or other serious matters. ... A gamebook is a book with a branching storyline that serves as a medium for gameplay. ... A gathering is a group of people or things. ... It also fails to assess ideas on their merits. ... A literary genre is one of the divisions of literature into genres according to particular criteria such as literary technique, tone, or content. ... Georgian Poetry was the title of a series of anthologies showcasing the work of a school of English poetry that established itself during the early years of the reign of King George V of the United Kingdom. ... Georgics Book III, Shepherd with Flocks, Vatican The Georgics, published in 29 BC, is the second major work by the Latin poet Virgil. ... A cantar de gesta is the Spanish version of the Old French chanson de geste or songs of heroic deeds. One famous example is El Cantar de Mio Cid. ... A gloss is a note made in the margins or between the lines of a book, in which the meaning of the text in its original language is explained in another language. ... Gnomic poetry consists of sententious maxims put into verse to aid the memory. ... The golden line is a type of Latin dactylic hexameter frequently mentioned in Latin classrooms in English speaking countries and in contemporary scholarship written in English. ... The Goliards were a group of clergy who wrote bibulous, satirical Latin poetry in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. ... Luis de Góngora, in a portrait by Diego Velázquez. ... Hunter S. Thompsons famous Gonzo logo. ... Strawberry Hill, an English villa in the Gothic revival style, built by seminal Gothic writer Horace Walpole The gothic novel was a literary genre that belonged to Romanticism and began in the United Kingdom with The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole. ... The Grand Guignol (Grahn Geen-YOL) was a theatre (Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol) in the Pigalle area of Paris (at 20 bis, rue Chaptal), which, from its opening in 1897 to its closing in 1962, specialized in the most naturalistic grisly horror shows. ... Churchyard Poets or Graveyard Poets is a critical term applied in retrospect to a number of English poets of the 1750s to the 1790s who wrote in the vein of Thomas Grays Elegy in a Country Churchyard (1750). ... Churchyard Poets or Graveyard Poets is a critical term applied in retrospect to a number of English poets of the 1750s to the 1790s who wrote in the vein of Thomas Grays Elegy in a Country Churchyard (1750). ... Tragedy is one of the oldest forms of drama. ... Grub Street is the former name of the present day Milton Street, London, EC2. ... Mrs Grundy is the personification of the tyranny of conventional propriety (from Thomas Mortons play Speed the Plough, which appeared in 1798). ... The Grand Guignol (Grahn Geen-YOL) was a theatre (Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol) in the Pigalle area of Paris (at 20 bis, rue Chaptal), which, from its opening in 1897 to its closing in 1962, specialized in the most naturalistic grisly horror shows. ...

H

• Hagiography
• Hagiology
• 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 see Haiku
• 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

Hagiography is the study of saints. ... Hagiography is the study of saints. ... Shut up Nick, youre wrong. ... Half rhyme, sometimes called slant, sprung, lose or near rhyme, and less commonly eye rhyme (a term covering a broader phenomenon), is consonance on the final consonants of the words involved. ... Hamartia (Ancient Greek: ) is used in Aristotles Poetics, where it is usually translated as a mistake, flaw, failure, fault, or sin. ... The term handwaving is used in mathematics and physics to describe arguments that are not mathematically rigorous. ... An acephalous or headless line is a line in a poem which does not conform to its accepted metre, due to the first syllables omission. ... The Hedgehog and the Fox is the title of an essay by Isaiah Berlin, regarding the Russian author Leo Tolstoys theory of history. ... A hemistich is a half-line of verse, followed and preceded by a caesura, that makes up a single overall prosodic or verse unit. ... Hendecasyllable verse (in Italian endecasillabo) is a kind of verse used mostly in Italian poetry, defined by its having the last stress on the tenth syllable. ... The Hendecasyllabic verse is a quantitative metre used by Catullus. ... Heptameter is one or more lines of verse containing seven metrical feet (usually fourteen or twenty-one syllables). ... For other uses, see Hero (disambiguation). ... A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used for epic and narrative poetry; it refers to poems constructed from a sequence rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines. ... John Dryden, who formulated and wrote the heroic drama in the 1670s. ... A quatrain is a poem or a stanza within a poem that consists always of four lines. ... Hexameter is a literary and poetic form, consisting of six metrical feet per line as in the Iliad. ... Hiatus in linguistics is the separate pronunciation of two adjacent vowels, sometimes with an intervening glottal stop. ... Higher criticism, also known as historical criticism, is a branch of literary analysis that attempts to investigate the origins of a text, especially the text of the Bible. ... Historical linguistics (also diachronic linguistics or comparative linguistics) is primarily the study of the ways in which languages change over time. ... --70. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Traditionally, the works of William Shakespeare have been grouped into three categories: tragedies, comedies, and histories. ... Shut up Nick, youre wrong. ... Shut up Nick, youre wrong. ... A holograph is a document written entirely in the handwriting of the person whose signature it bears. ... Epithets in Homer. ... In the Roman Catholic Church and in the Eastern Orthodox Church, a homily is usually given during Mass (or Divine Liturgy for Orthodox) at the end of the Liturgy of the Word. ... In Law, a hornbook is a primer that gives a basic overview of a particular area of law. ... Hubris or hybris (Greek ), according to its modern usage, is exaggerated self pride or self-confidence (overbearing pride), often resulting in fatal retribution. ... Hudibrastic is a type of English verse named for Samuel Butlers Hudibras of 1672. ... Look up Humour in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The four humours were four fluids that were thought to permeate the body and influence its health. ... Hubris or hybris (Greek ), according to its modern usage, is exaggerated self pride or self-confidence (overbearing pride), often resulting in fatal retribution. ... A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of praise, adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a god or other religiously significant figure. ... Not to be confused with Hyperbola. ... A nickname is a short, clever, cute, derogatory, or otherwise substitute name for a person or things real name (for example, Tom is short for Thomas). ... The hysteron proteron (latter before) is a rhetorical device in which the first key word of the idea refers to something that happens temporally later than the second key word. ...

I

• Iambic pentameter
• Ideology
• Idiom
• Imagery
• Imagism
• Impressionism
• Inference
• In media(s) res
• Internal rhyme
• Interpretation
• Intertextuality
• Irony

Iambic pentameter is a meter in poetry. ... Political Ideologies Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      An ideology is an organized collection of ideas. ... An idiom is an expression (i. ... Imagery is any of the five senses (sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste). ... Ezra Pound, one of the prime movers of Imagism. ... This article is about the art movement. ... Inference is the act or process of deriving a conclusion based solely on what one already knows. ... This page includes English translations of several Latin phrases and abbreviations such as . ... In poetry, internal rhyme, or middle rhyme, is rhyme which occurs within a single line of verse. ... Interpretation, or interpreting, is an activity that consists of establishing, either simultaneously or consecutively, oral or gestural communications between two or more speakers who are not speaking (or signing) the same language. ... Intertextuality is the shaping of texts meanings by other texts. ... “Ironic” redirects here. ...

J

• Jacobean era
• Jeremiad
• Journal
• Judicial criticism
• Juncture
• Juvenalian satire
• Juxtaposition

Not to be confused with Jacobinism or Jacobitism. ... A Jeremiad is a long literary work, usually in prose, but sometimes in poetry, that bitterly laments the state of society and its morals in a serious tone of sustained invective, and often contains a prophecy of its coming downfall. ... This article is about the journal as a written medium. ... Juvenalian satire is one of two types of formal satire (the other being Horatian satire) characterized primarily by contempt and invective. ... Look up juxtaposition in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

K

• Kabuki
• Katharsis
• Kenning
• "King's English"
• Kitsch
• Künstlerroman

The oldest Kabuki theatre in Japan: the Minamiza in Kyoto The Kabukiza in Ginza is one of Tokyos leading kabuki theaters. ... Catharsis is the Greek Katharsis word meaning purification or cleansing derived from the ancient Greek gerund καθαίρειν transliterated as kathairein to purify, purge, and adjective katharos pure or clean (ancient and modern Greek: καθαρός). // The term in drama refers to a sudden emotional breakdown or climax that constitutes overwhelming feelings of great... In literature, a kenning is a compound poetic phrase, a figure of speech, substituted for the usual name of a person or thing. ... Note: This page or section contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... Kitsch is a term of German origin that has been used to categorize art that is considered an inferior copy of an existing style. ... A Künstlerroman (//, German: artists novel) is a kind of Bildungsroman; it is a novel about an artists growth to maturity. ...

L

• Lai
• Lake Poets
• Lament
• Lampoon
• L'art pour l'art
• Laureate
• Lay
• Leaf
• Legend
• Legitimate theater
• Leonine rhyme
• Letters
• Level stress (even accent)
• Libretto
• Light ending
• Light poetry
• Light rhyme
• Light stress
• Light verse
• 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 measure
• Loose sentence
• Lost Generation
• Low comedy
• Lyric

A Lai was a song form composed in northern Europe, mainly France and Germany, from the 13th to the late 14th century. ... The Lake Poets all lived in the Lake District of England at the turn of the nineteenth century. ... A lament or lamentation is a song or poem expressing grief, regret or mourning. ... In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ... Art for arts sake is the usual English rendition of a French slogan, lart pour lart, which is credited to Théophile Gautier (1811–1872). ... The word laureate or laureated has came in English to signify eminent, or associated with glory, literary or military. ... A Lai was a song form composed in northern Europe, mainly France and Germany, from the 13th to the late 14th century. ... Old book binding and cover Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from a number of folded or unfolded sheets of paper or other material. ... For other uses, see Legend (disambiguation). ... // Legitimate theater is live performance that relies entirely on diegetic elements, with actors performing through speech and natural movement. ... Leonine verse is a type of versification based on internal rhyme, and commonly used in Latin verse of the European Middle Ages. ... An intellectual is one who tries to use his or her intellect to work, study, reflect, speculate on, or ask and answer questions with regard to a variety of different ideas. ... Antonio Ghislanzoni, nineteenth century Italian librettist. ... Light ending may refer to: Weak ending Feminine ending Category: ... Light poetry, also called light verse, is poetry that is less serious than other poetry to which it could be compared. ... Light poetry, also called light verse, is poetry that is less serious than other poetry to which it could be compared. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Irish Grid Reference R574572 Statistics Province: Munster County: Area: 20. ... Linguistics is the scientific study of language, which can be theoretical or applied. ... The Spenserian sonnet was used by Edmund Spenser. ... Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. ... Literary realism most often refers to the trend, in early 19th century French literature, towards depictions of contemporary life and society as it is, in the spirit of general Realism, instead of a romanticized or similarly stylized presentation. ... Literary theory is the theory (or the philosophy) of the interpretation of literature and literary criticism. ... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... In rhetoric, litotes is a figure of speech in which a speaker, rather than making a certain claim, denies its opposite; for example, rather than call a person attractive, one might say shes not too bad to look at. Litotes can be used to weaken a statement — Its... An intellectual is one who tries to use his or her intellect to work, study, reflect, speculate on, or ask and answer questions with regard to a variety of different ideas. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Fallacy. ... This article is about logos (logoi) in ancient Greek philosophy, mathematics, rhetoric, Theophilosophy, and Christianity. ... A loose sentence is a type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses. ... For other uses, see Lost Generation (disambiguation). ... Low comedy is comedy characterized by horseplay, slapstick and farce. ... Lyric can have a number of meanings. ...

M

• Macaronic verse
• Madrigal
• Magical realism
• Malapropism
• Märchen
• 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 poetry
• Meter
• Metonymy
• Metre
• Metrical accent
• Metrical foot
• Middle Comedy
• Miles gloriosus
• Miltonic sonnet
• Mime
• Mimesis
• Minnesinger
• Minstrel
• Miracle play
• Miscellanies
• Mise en scène
• Mixed metaphor
• Mock epic
• Mock heroic
• 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

Macaronic refers to text spoken or written using a mixture of languages, including bilingual puns, particularly when the languages are used in the same context (as opposed to different segments of a text being in different languages). ... A madrigal is a setting for two or more voices of a secular text, often in Italian. ... Magic Realism (or Magical Realism) is an illustrative or literary technique in which the laws of cause and effect seem not quite to apply in otherwise real world situations. ... This article or section seems to contain too many examples (or examples of poor quality) for an encyclopedia entry. ... Gustave Dorés illustration to the European fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood A fairy tale is a story featuring folkloric characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, and others. ... Marginalia is the general term for notes, scribbles, doodles and editorial comments made in the margin of a book. ... Marinism, or Secentismo in Italian literally means 17th century and was a creative style against classical. ... Marxist literary criticism is a loose term describing literary criticism informed by the philosophy or the politics of Marxism. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... “Commedia” redirects here. ... Costume for a Knight, by Inigo Jones: the plumed helmet, the heroic torso in armour and other conventions were still employed for opera seria in the 18th century. ... This article needs cleanup. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... Medieval theatre refers to the theatre of Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Renaissance. ... Not to be confused with miosis. ... Poster for The Perils of Pauline (1914). ... As a literary genre, a memoir (from the French: mémoire from the Latin memoria, meaning memory) forms a subclass of autobiography, although it is an older form of writing. ... Menippean Satire is a term employed broadly to refer to satires that are rhapsodic in nature, combining many different targets of ridicule into a fragmented satiric narrative. ... An acrostic (from the late Greek akróstichon, from ákros, extreme, and stíchos, verse) is a poem or other writing in an alphabetic script, in which the first letter, syllable or word of each verse, paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out another message. ... This article is about metaphor in literature and rhetoric. ... Look up conceit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Metaphysical poets were a loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century, who shared an interest in metaphysical concerns and a common way of investigating them. ... Meter (British English spelling: metre) describes the linguistic sound patterns of a verse. ... In rhetoric, metonymy is the substitution of one word for another word with which it is associated. ... Meter (British English spelling: metre) describes the linguistic sound patterns of a verse. ... In verse, a foot is the basic unit of meter used to describe rhythm. ... Greek comedy is the name given to a wide genre of theatrical plays written, and performed, in Ancient Greece. ... Miles Gloriosus (literally, boastful soldier, in Latin) is a stock character from the drama, specifically comedy, of classical Rome, and variations on this character have appeared in drama and fiction ever since. ... Look up mime in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Mimesis (μίμησις from μιμεîσθαι) in its simplest context means imitation or representation in Greek. ... Minnesang was the tradition of lyric and song writing in Germany which flourished in the 12th century and continued into the 14th century. ... For the 18th century American form of music and performance known as minstrelsy, see minstrel show. ... Mystery plays or miracle plays are one of the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe. ... An anthology, literally a garland or collection of flowers, is a collection of literary works, originally of poems. ... Mise en scène [mizɑ̃sɛn] has been called film criticisms grand undefined term, but that is not because of a lack of definitions. ... This article is about metaphor in literature and rhetoric. ... Generally, mock-heroic is a satirical piece or parody that mocks common Romantic or modern stereotypes of heroes. ... Generally, mock-heroic is a satirical piece or parody that mocks common Romantic or modern stereotypes of heroes. ... Look up mode in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For Christian theological modernism, see Liberal Christianity and Modernism (Roman Catholicism). ... A monodrama (also Solospiel in German; solo play) is a theatrical melodrama in which there is only one character. ... Caccini, Le Nuove musiche, 1601, title page In poetry, monody is a poem in which one person laments anothers death. ... A monograph is a scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects. ... A monologue, pronounced monolog, is a speech made by one person speaking his or her thoughts aloud or directly addressing a reader, audience, or character. ... In poetry, a monometer is a line of verse with just one metrical foot, exemplified by this portion of Robert Herricks Upon His Departure Hence: Thus I Passe by, And die: As one, Unknown, And gone. ... A monostich is a poem which consists of a title and one line. ... A monograph is a scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects. ... Authors set a tone in literature by conveying an emotion/feeling or emotions/feelings through words. ... Mora (plural moras or morae) is a unit of sound used in phonology that determines syllable weight (which in turn determines stress or timing) in some languages. ... A moral is a one sentence remark made at the end of many childrens stories that expresses the intended meaning, or the moral message, of the tale. ... Morality plays are a type of theatrical allegory in which the protagonist is met by personifications of various moral attributes who try to prompt him to choose a Godly life over one of evil. ... In literature, a motif is a recurring element or theme that has symbolic significance in the story. ... ... Mummery may refer to: Performance of a Mummers Play. ... For other uses see Muse (disambiguation). ... Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theater combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... Mystery plays are among the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe. ... The word mythology (from the Greek μυολογία mythología, from mythologein to relate myths, from mythos, meaning a narrative, and logos, meaning speech or argument) literally means the (oral) retelling of myths – stories that a particular culture believes to be true and that use the supernatural to interpret natural events and...

N

• Narrative point of view
• Narrator
• Naturalism
• Non-fiction
• Non-fiction novel
• Novel
• Novelette
• Novella
• Novelle

In literature and storytelling, a point of view is the related experience of the narrator — not that of the author. ... The Narrator is the entity within a story that tells the story to the reader. ... Naturalism is a movement in theater, film, and literature that seeks to replicate a believable everyday reality, as opposed to such movements as Romanticism or Surrealism, in which subjects may receive highly symbolic, idealistic, or even supernatural treatment. ... For the book by Chuck Palahniuk titled Non-fiction, see Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories. ... The nonfiction novel is a literary genre, formally established in 1965 with Truman Capotes publication of In Cold Blood. ... This article is about the literary concept. ... A novelette (or novelet) is a piece of short prose fiction. ... A novella is a narrative work of prose fiction somewhat longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. ...

O

• Objective correlative
• Objective criticism
• Obligatory scene
• Octameter
• Octave
• Ode
• Oedipus complex
• Onomatopoeia
• Open couplet
• Oxymoron

Objective correlative is a literary term popularized by T.S. Eliot in a critique of Hamlet [1], Hamlet and His Problems, in 1919. ... Octameter in poetry is a line of eight metrical feet. ... For other uses, see Octave (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Ode (disambiguation). ... The Oedipus complex in Freudian psychoanalysis refers to a stage of psychosexual development in childhood where children of both sexes regard their father as an adversary and competitor for the exclusive love of their mother. ... For the supervillain, see Onomatopoeia (comics). ... Look up oxymoron in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

P

• Palinode
• Pantoum
• Pantun
• Parable
• Paraclausithyron
• Paradelle
• Paradox
• Pararhyme
• Partimen
• Pastourelle
• Pathetic fallacy
• Pathya Vat
• Parallelism
• Parody
• Pastoral
• Pathos
• Pentameter
• Periodic sentence
• Peripetia
• perspective
• Persona
• Personification
• Pièce bien faite
• Picaresque novel
• Platonic
• Plot
• Poem
• Poem and song
• Poetic diction
• Poetic transrealism
• Poetry
• Point of view
• Polysyndeton
• Post-colonialism
• Postmodernism
• Pound's Ideogrammic Method
• Prologue
• Prose
• Prosimetrum
• Prosody
• Protagonist
• Proverb
• Pruning poem
• Psychoanalytic literary criticism
• Psychoanalytic theory
• Pun
• Purple patch
• Pyrrhic

Geoffrey Chaucer was an exponent of the palinode A palinode or palinody is an ode in which the writer retracts a view or sentiment expressed in an earlier poem. ... The pantoum is a rare form of poetry similar to a villanelle. ... The Pantun is a Malay poetic form. ... // For a comparison of parable with other kinds of stories, see Myth, legend, fairy tale, and fable. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Paraklausithyron. ... A paradelle is a modern poetic form which was invented by United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins as a parody of the villanelle. ... Look up paradox in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Pararhyme, also known as partial or imperfect rhyme is a term devised by the poet Edmund Blunden to describe a near rhyme in which the consonants in two words are the same, but the vowels are different. ... A partimen is a poem in which one poet disputes the assertion of another. ... The Shepherdess (translated from the French Pastourelle) is a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau completed in 1889. ... The pathetic fallacy or anthropomorphic fallacy is the description of inanimate natural objects in a manner that endows them with human feelings, thoughts and sensations. ... The Pathya Vat is a Cambodian verse form, consisting of four lines, where lines two and three rhyme. ... Parallelism may refer to: Parallelism (philosophy) - in the philosophy of mind a theistic, dualist solution to the mind-body problem Parallelism in computing Parallelism in grammar or in rhetoric This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... In contemporary usage, a parody (or lampoon) is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ... Titians The Pastoral Concert Pastoral refers to the lifestyle of shepherds and pastoralists, moving livestock around larger areas of land according to seasons and availability of water and feed. ... Look up Pathos in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In poetry, a pentameter is a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet: Be what you can if thus your heart so deem, For more the man will less the foible seem. ... A Periodic Sentence (also called a Period) is a sentence that is not grammatically complete until its end. ... Peripeteia (Greek, ) is a reversal of circumstances, or turning point. ... Look up perspective in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Persona literally means mask , although it does not usually refer to a literal mask but to the social masks all humans supposedly wear. ... Phillipp Veits Germania (1877), a personification of Germany. ... The well-made play (from the French: pièce bien faite) is a form of drama developed in the nineteenth century and associated especially with the French playwright Eugene Scribe (1791-1861). ... The picaresque novel (Spanish: picaresco, from pícaro, for rogue or rascal) is a popular subgenre of prose fiction which is usually satirical and depicts in realistic and often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his or her wits in a... Platonic idealism is the theory that the substantive reality around us is only a reflection of a higher truth. ... Look up plot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the art form. ... Where verse is set to music, the distinction between poem and song may become artificial — to the point of being untenable. ... Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry. ... Transrealism in poetry or uchronism, according to this poetic movements father, the Chilean poet Sergio Badilla Castillo, is created upon a transposition of time, which means that temporary scenes merge, in the textual corpus, and in this way linear coherence between the past, the present and the future is... This article is about the art form. ... In literature and storytelling, a point of view is the related experience of the narrator — not that of the author. ... This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Postmodernism is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture, which are generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding, modernism. ... The Ideogrammic Method was an technique expounded by Ezra Pound which allowed poetry to deal with abstract content through concrete images. ... A prologue (Greek πρόλογος, from προ~, pro~ - fore~, and lógos, word), or rarely prolog, is a prefatory piece of writing, usually composed to introduce a drama. ... Prose is writing distinguished from poetry by its greater variety of rhythm and its closer resemblance to the patterns of everyday speech. ... A prosimetrum (Latin) is a literary piece that is made up of alternating passages of prose and poetry. ... Prosody may mean several things: Prosody consists of distinctive variations of stress, tone, and timing in spoken language. ... A protagonist is the main figure of a piece of literature or drama and has the main part or role. ... Look up proverb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A pruning poem is a poem that uses rhymes that are prunings of each other. ... Psychoanalytic literary criticism is literary criticism which, in method, concept, theory or form, is influenced by the tradition of psychoanalysis begun by Sigmund Freud. ... Psychoanalytic theory is a general term for approaches to psychoanalysis which attempt to provide a conceptual framework more-or-less independent of clinical practice rather than based on empirical analysis of clinical cases. ... For other uses, see Pun (disambiguation). ... A term of literary criticism, purple prose is used to describe passages, or sometimes entire literary works, written in prose so overly extravagant, ornate or flowery as to break the flow and draw attention to itself. ... A pyrrhic is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. ...

Q

• Quadrivium
• Quantitative verse
• Quantity
• Quarto
• Quatorzain
• Quatrain
• Quiproquo

The quadrivium comprised the four subjects taught in medieval universities after the trivium. ... Quantity is a kind of property which exists as magnitude or multitude. ... Quarto has several meanings: In bookbinding and publishing, quarto indicates the book size which results when four leaves of the book are created from a standard size sheet of paper. ... A quatorzain (from French quatorze, fourteen) is an anamorphic or abortive poem or sonnet. ... A quatrain is a poem or a stanza within a poem that consists of four lines. ...

R

• Reader-response criticism
• Realism
• Refrain
• Repetition
• Resolution
• Rhetoric
• Rhyme
• Rhythm
• Roman a clef
• Romance novel
• Romanticism
• Russian formalism

This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Realism in the visual arts and literature is the depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life, without embellishment or interpretation. ... A refrain (from the Old French refraindre to repeat, likely from Vulgar Latin refringere) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the chorus of a song. ... Look up Repetition in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The word resolution has several meanings, depending on context. ... Rhetoric (from Greek , rhêtôr, orator, teacher) is generally understood to be the art or technique of persuasion through the use of oral or written language; however, this definition of rhetoric has expanded greatly since rhetoric emerged as a field of study in universities. ... A rhyme is a repetition of identical or similar terminal sounds in two or more different words (i. ... Meter (British English spelling: metre) describes the linguistic sound patterns of a verse. ... A roman clef or roman (French for novel with a key) is a novel describing real-life events behind a fa ade of fiction. ... A romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. ... Romantics redirects here. ... // Introduction The distinctive feature of Russian Formalism is the emphasis on the functional role of literary devices and the original conception of the evolution of literary history. ...

S

• Satire
• Scanning
• Scansion
• Scene a faire
• Sea shanty
• Semiotics
• Semiotic literary criticism
• Setting
• Shanty
• Sestet
• Shakespearean sonnet
• Simile
• Sobriquet
• Soliloquy
• Sonnet
  • Sonneteer
• Speaker
• Sprung rhythm
• Stanza
• Static character
• Stereotype
• Stream of consciousness
• Structuralism
• Subplot
• Syllogism
• Symbol
• Synecdoche
• Synaesthesia
• Syntax

1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch, a British satirical magazine, ground-breaking on popular literature satire. ... The terms scan and scanning have several meanings: In telecommunication: The term scan has the following meanings: To examine sequentially, part by part. ... In literature, meter or metre (sometimes known as prosody) is a term used in the scansion (analysis into metrical patterns) of poetry, usually indicated by the kind of feet and the number of them. ... Sea shanties (singular shanty, also spelled chantey; derived from the French word chanter, to sing) were shipboard working songs. ... Semiotics, semiotic studies, or semiology is the study of signs and symbols, both individually and grouped into sign systems. ... Semiotic literary criticism, also called literary semiotics, is the approach to literary criticism informed by the theory of signs or semiotics. ... Setting is a term in literature and drama usually referring to the time and location in which a story takes place. ... Sea shanties (singular shanty, also spelled chantey; derived from the French word chanter, to sing) were shipboard working songs. ... [[]]A Sestet is the name given to the second division of a sonnet, which must consist of an octave, of eight lines, succeeded by a sestet, of six lines. ... The Shakespearean sonnet, also called the Elizabethan or English sonnet, is a sonnet comprising three quatrains and a final couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg. ... A simile is a comparison of two unlike things, typically marked by use of like, as, than, or resembles. Examples may include the snow was as thick as a blanket, or she was as smart as a crow, or the usage of emotions similes such as madder than a bull... A sobriquet is a nickname or a fancy name, usually a familiar name given by others as distinct from a pseudonym assumed as a disguise, but a nickname which is familiar enough such that it can be used in place of a real name without the need of explanation. ... Soliloquy is an audible oratory or conversation with oneself. ... Francesco Petrarca, or Petrarch, one of the best-known early Italian sonnet writers. ... A sonneteer is a poet that composes sonnets, though the individual may not necessarily write poetry exclusively in that particular poetic form. ... Look up Speaker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Sprung rhythm is a poetic rhythm designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech. ... In poetry, a stanza is a unit within a larger poem. ... For the term used in computing, see stereotype (UML). ... In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a literary technique which seeks to portray an individuals point of view by giving the written equivalent of the characters thought processes. ... Structuralism as a term refers to various theories across the humanities, social sciences and economics many of which share the assumption that structural relationships between concepts vary between different cultures/languages and that these relationships can be usefully exposed and explored. ... A subplot is a series of connected actions within a work of narrative that function separately from the main plot. ... A syllogism (Greek: — conclusion, inference), usually the categorical syllogism, is a kind of logical argument in which one proposition (the conclusion) is inferred from two others (the premises) of a certain form. ... Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which: a term denoting a part of something is used to refer to the whole thing, or a term denoting a thing (a whole) is used to refer to part of it, or a term denoting a specific class of thing (a species... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... For other uses, see Syntax (disambiguation). ...

T

• Tableau
• Tail rhyme
• Tagelied
• Tale
• Tall Tale
• Telestich
• Tanka
• Tenor
• Tension
• Tercet
• Terza rima
• Tetrameter
• Tetrastich
• Textual criticism
• Texture
• Theater of Cruelty
• Theater of the Absurd
• Theme
• Thesis
• Thesis play
• 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
• Travesty
• Triad
• Tribe of Ben
• Tribrach
• Trimeter
• Triolet
• Triple rhyme
• Triple meter
• Triple rhythm
• Triplet
• Tristich
• Tritagonist
• Trivium
• Trobar clus
• Trochee
• Trope (literature)
• Troubadour
• Trouvère
• Truncated line
• Tumbling verse
• Type character

Tableau vivant, Folies Bergères c. ... A rhyme is a repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words and is most often used in poetry. ... The Tagelied (dawn song) is a particular form of mediaeval German language lyric, taken and adapted from the Provençal troubadour tradition (in which it was known as the alba) by the German Minnesinger. ... Story has several different meaning as outlined below. ... Tall Tale, also known as Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill is a 1995 family Western movie starring Patrick Swayze, Nick Stahl, Oliver Platt, Roger Aaron Brown, Scott Glenn, Catherine OHara, and Jared Harris. ... See Waka (disambiguation) for other usages. ... This article is about Tenor vocalists in music. ... Tension may mean: In physics, tension is a force related to the stretching of a string or a similar object. ... A tercet is three lines of poetry forming a stanza or complete poem. ... Terza rima is a rhyming verse stanza form that was first used by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. ... In poetry, a tetrameter is a line of four metrical feet: And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea (Anapaest tetrameter) (Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib) You who are bent and bald and blind (Iambic tetrameter, except for the first foot which is a trochee) (W... Carmina Cantabrigiensia, Manuscript C, folio 436v, 11th century Textual criticism or lower criticism is a branch of philology or bibliography that is concerned with the identification and removal of errors from texts and manuscripts. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Theatre of Cruelty is a concept in Antonin Artauds book Theatre and its Double. ... The Theatre of the Absurd is a phrase used in reference to particular plays written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, as well as to the style of theatre which has evolved from their work. ... In literature, a theme is a broad idea in a story, or a message or lesson conveyed by a work. ... This article is about the thesis in academia. ... Look up Threnody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A tirade is a long monologue. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Oxford Movement was a loose affiliation of High Church Anglicans, most of them members of the University of Oxford, who sought to demonstrate that the Church of England was a direct descendant of the Christian church established by the Apostles. ... For other uses, see Tragedy (disambiguation). ... Tragic flaw, derived from the Greek word hamartia, which is also translated in religious works (e. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Tragicomedy refers to fictional works that blend aspects of the genres of tragedy and comedy. ... A slice of life story is a category for a story that portrays a cut-out sequence of events in a characters life. ... Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in New England in the early-to mid-19th century. ... A transferred epithet or hypallage is the transfer of epithet from one noun to another. ... In telecommunication, a transition is the change from one signal state to another signal state. ... Look up translate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Burlesque was originally a form of art that mocked by imitation, referring to everything from comic sketches to dance routines and usually lampooning the social attitudes of upper classes. ... Cavalier poets is a broad description of a school of poets, who came from the classes that supported King Charles I during the English Civil War. ... A tribrach is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. ... In poetry, a trimeter is a metre of three metrical feet per line - example: When here the spring we see, Fresh green upon the tree. ... A triolet (IPA: , or ) is a poetic form. ... Metre is the measurement of a musical line into measures of stressed and unstressed beats, indicated in Western notation by a symbol called a time signature. ... Metre is the measurement of a musical line into measures of stressed and unstressed beats, indicated in Western notation by a symbol called a time signature. ... Look up triplet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A Tristich is any strophe, stanza, or poem that consists of exactly three lines. ... In literature, the tritagonist is the third most important character, after the protagonist and deuteragonist. ... For any other uses see, see Trivium (disambiguation). ... Trobar clus, or closed form, was the style of poetry used by troubadours for their more discerning audiences, and it was only truly appreciated by an elite few. ... A trochee or choree, choreus, is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. ... In literature, a trope is a familiar and repeated symbol, meme, theme, motif, style, character or thing that permeates a particular type of literature. ... A troubadour composing lyrics, Germany c. ... Trouvère is the Northern French (langue doïl) version of troubador (langue doc), and refers to poet-composers who were roughly contemporary with and influenced by the troubadors but who composed their works in the northern dialects of France. ... An acatalectic line of verse is one having the metrically complete number of syllables in the final foot. ... John Skelton (c. ...

U

• Ubi sunt
• Underground culture
• Underground press
• Understatement
• Unities
• Unity
• Universality
• University Wits
• Unobtainium
• Utopia
• Utopian and dystopian fiction
• Unreliable narrator

Ubi sunt (literally where are. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The phrase underground press, especially underground newspapers (or simply underground papers) is, these days, most often used in reference to the alternative print media, independently published and distributed, associated with the countercultural movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... Understatement is a form of speech in which a lesser expression is used than what would be expected. ... ... The three unities or classical unities are rules for drama derived from a mistaken interpretation of a particular passage in Aristotles Poetics. ... See also: universalism; Self-organization, Complexity General study of systems Universality is a meta-theory arguing that ostensibly discrete systems are part of a larger complex system that extends across several scales (spatially and temporally), and emerges in patterns during criticality. ... Unobtainium is a colloquial term, collectively describing rare, costly, or physically impossible materials that are needed for a given application. ... For other uses, see Utopia (disambiguation). ... Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal world as the setting for a novel. ... Illustration by Gustave Doré for Baron Münchhausen: tall tales, such as those of the Baron, often feature unreliable narrators. ...

V

• Variable syllable
• Variorum
• Varronian satire (Menippean satire)
• Vates
• Vaudeville
• Vehicle
• Verbal irony
• Verisimilitude
• Verism
• Vers de société
• Verse
• Verse paragraph
• Vers libre
• Verso
• Victorianism
• Viewpoint
• Vignette
• Villain
• Villanelle
• Virelay
• Virgule
• Voice (of the writer)
• Voice (in phonetics)
• Volta
• Vorticism
• Vulgate

A Variorum is a work that collates all known variants of a text. ... Menippean Satire is a term employed broadly to refer to satires that are rhapsodic in nature, combining many different targets of ridicule into a fragmented satiric narrative. ... Vates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Trikke is a Human Powered Vehicle (HPV) Automobiles are among the most commonly used engine powered vehicles. ... “Ironic” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Verisimilitude (disambiguation). ... Verism Verism is the artistic preference of contemporary everyday materials instead of the heroic or legendary. ... Vers de société, a term for social or familiar poetry, which was originally borrowed from the French, and has now come to rank as an English expression (see Fennell, The Stamford Dictionary of Anglicised Words). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Verse paragraphs ... Free verse (also at times referred to as vers libre) is a term describing various styles of poetry that are not written using strict meter or rhyme, but that still are recognizable as poetry by virtue of complex patterns of one sort or another that readers will perceive to be... The verso of a broadsheet, pamphlet or any printed document is the side that is meant to be read second or the left-hand page of a folded sheet. ... Victorianism is the name given to the attitudes, art, and culture of the later two-thirds of the 19th century. ... In literature and storytelling, a point of view is the related experience of the narrator — not that of the author. ... In theater and script writing, vignettes are short, impressionistic scenes that focus on one moment or give one impression about a character, an idea, or a setting. ... “Bad guy” redirects here. ... Look up Villanelle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Virelai. ... A solidus, oblique or slash, /, is a punctuation mark. ... Writers voice is a literary term used to describe the individual writing style of an author. ... Phoneticians define phonation as use of the laryngeal system to generate an audible source of acoustic energy, i. ... The Adome bridge crosses the Volta river south of the Akosombo Dam Volta is a river in central and western Africa that drains into the Gulf of Guinea. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Vulgate Bible is an early 5th century version in Latin, partly revised and partly translated by Jerome on the orders of Pope Damasus I in 382. ...

W

• Wardour Street English
• Weak ending
• Weak foot
• Well-made play
• Wellerism
• Western fiction
• Wimmering
• Wit
• Word accent
• Wrenched accent

The well-made play (from the French: pièce bien faite) is a form of drama developed in the nineteenth century and associated especially with the French playwright Eugene Scribe (1791-1861). ... A wellerism is a comparison by well known quotation and a facetious sequel, used by Sam Weller in Dickenss Pickwick Papers Examples: Everyone to his own liking, the old woman said when she kissed her cow. ... Cover of a book by Louis LAmour, one of Western fictions most prolific authors. ... Look up Wit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

X

Y

Z

• Zeugma

Zeugma (from the Greek word ζεύγμα, meaning yoke) is a figure of speech describing the joining of two or more parts of a sentence with a common verb or noun. ...

References and further reading

• M. H. Abrams. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Thomson-Wadsworth, 2005. ISBN 1413004563.
• Chris Baldick. The Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford Univ. Press, 2004. ISBN 0198608837.
• Chris Baldick. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford Univ. Press, 2001. ISBN 019280118X.
• Edwin Barton & G. A. Hudson. Contemporary Guide To Literary Terms. Houghton-Mifflin, 2003. ISBN 0618341625.
• Mark Bauerlein. Literary Criticism: An Autopsy. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. ISBN 0812216253.
• Karl Beckson & Arthur Ganz. Literary Terms: A Dictionary. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989. ISBN 0374521778.
• Peter Childs. The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms. Routledge, 2005. ISBN 0415340179.
• J. A. Cuddon. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. Penguin Books, 2000. ISBN 0140513639 .
• Dana Gioia. The Longman Dictionary of Literary Terms: Vocabulary for the Informed Reader. Longman, 2005. ISBN 032133194X.
• Sharon Hamilton. Essential Literary Terms: A Brief Norton Guide with Exercises. W. W. Norton, 2006. ISBN 0393928373.
• William Harmon. A Handbok to Literature. Prentice Hall, 2005. ISBN 0131344420.
• X. J. Kennedy, et al. Handbook of Literary Terms: Literature, Language, Theory. Longman, 2004. ISBN 0321202074.
• V. B. Leitch. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. W. W. Norton, 2001. ISBN 0393974294.
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