Glossary of Literary Terms

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Glossary of literary terms

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The following is a list of literary terms; that is, those words used in discussion, classification, criticism, and
analysis of poetry, novels, and picture books.
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Term Description Citation Category Notes
an acrostic in which the first letter of every word, strophe or verse [1]
Abecedarius
follows the order of the alphabet
Acatalectic
Noun used to describe the stress put on a certain syllable while

speaking a word. Ex.- In Coleridges Kubla Khan, there has been
much controversy over the pronunciation of Abora in line 41. [2][3]
Accent
According to Herbert Tucker of the website For Better For Verse, the
accent is on the first and last syllable of the word, making its
pronunciation: AborA.
Accentual verse is common in children's poetry; nursery rhymes and

Accentual verse the less well-known skipping-rope rhymes are the most common [4]
form of accentual verse in the English Language.
An acrostic is a poem or other form of writing in which the first

Acrostic letter, syllable or word of each line, paragraph or other recurring [5]
feature in the text spells out a word or a message.
Act
a word or phrase which modifies a noun or pronoun, grammatically [6][7]

Adjective
added to describe, identify, or quantify the related noun or pronoun.
A describing word used to modify a verb, adjective, or another

Adverb adverb. Typically ending in -ly, adverbs answer the questions when, [2][8]
how, and how many times.
Aisling
A specific type of writing in which the settings, characters, and [9]

Allegory
events stand for other specific people, events, or ideas.
Repetition of the initial sounds of words, as in Peter Piper picked a [10]

Alliteration
peck of pickled peppers
A figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of,

Allusion people, places, events, literary work, myths, or works of art, either [10]
directly or by implication.
Erroneous use of an object, event, idea, or word that does not belong [11]
Anachronism
to that time period.
Anacrusis
Anadiplosis
The point in a plot where a character recognizes the true state of [12]
Anagnorisis
affairs
Analects
An interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the [13]
Analepsis
current point the story has reached
Analogue
Analogy Comparison between two things that are otherwise unlike. H [14][15]
a version of the foot in poetry in which the first two syllables of a

line are unstressed, followed by a stressed syllable. Ex. Intercept (the [16]
Anapest
syllables in and ter are unstressed followed by cept which is
stressed)
Anaphora
Anastrophe
a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an [17]

Anecdote
interesting or amusing nature.
Annal
Annotation
the adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary [18]

Antagonist
work: Iago is the antagonist[18] of Othello.
Antanaclasis
Antecedent A word or phrase referred to by any relative pronoun. [6]
Antepenult
Anthology
Anticlimax
Anti-hero
Anti-masque
Anti-romance
Antimetabole
Antinovel
Antistrophe
Antithesis
Antithetical couplet
Antonym
Aphorism
Apocope
Apollonian and
Dionysian
Apologue
Apology
Apothegm
Aposiopesis
A figure of speech in which the speaker addresses an object, [6]

Apostrophe
concept, or person (usually absent) that is unable to respond.
Apron stage
Arcadia
Archaism
Archetype
Aristeia
Argument
Arsis
Asemic writing
Aside
Assonance
Astrophic stanzas having no particular pattern. [2][8]
The omission of conjunctions between clauses. An example is when

John F. Kennedy said on January the 20th 1961 "...that we shall pay [19]
Asyndeton
any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend,
oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
Aube
Aubade
Audience
Autobiography
Autotelic
Avant-garde
Ballad
Ballade
Ballad stanza
Bard
Baroque
Bathos
Beast fable (beast

epic)
Beast poetry
Beat Generation
Beginning rhyme
Belles-lettres
Bestiary
Beta reader
Bibliography
Bildungsroman
Biography
Blank verse Verse written in iambic pentameter without rhyme. [8][20]
Body
Bombast (fustian)
Boulevard theatre
Bourgeois drama
Bouts-Rims
Breviloquence
Broadside
Burlesque
Burletta
Burns stanza
Buskin
Byronic hero
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 Revival
Celtic Twilight
Caesura
Chain of Being
Chain verse
Chanson de geste
Chansonnier
Chant royal
Chapbook
Character
Characterization
Charactonym
Chaucerian stanza
Chiasmus
Chivalric romance
Choriamb
Choriambus
Chorus
Chronicle
Chronicle play
Cinquain
Classicism
Classification
(literature)
Clerihew
Clich
Climax
Cloak-and-sword
play
Close reading
Closed heroic
couplet
Closet drama
Collaborative poetry
Colloquialism
Comdie larmoyante
Comedy
Comedy of errors
Comedy of humors
Comedy of intrigue
Comedy of manners
Comedic relief
Commedia dell'arte
Comic relief
Commedia erudita
Common measure
Commonplace book
Common rhyme
Comparative
linguistics
Compensation
Complaint
Conceit
Concordance
Concrete universal
Confessional
literature
Confidant/confidante
Conflict
Connotation
Consistency
Consonance
Contradiction
Context
Contrast
Convention
Counterplot
Coup de thtre
Two lines with rhyming ends. Shakespeare often used a couplet to [8]
Couplet
end a sonnet.
Courtesy book
Courtly love
Cowleyan ode
Cradle books
Craft cycle
Crisis
Criticism
Cross acrostic
Crown of sonnets
Curtain raiser
Curtal sonnet
Dactyl
Dada
Dandyism
Dbat
Death poem
Death of the novel
Debut novel
Decadence
Decasyllabic verse
Decorum
Denotation
Dnouement
A group of words containing a subject and a verb, but does not [6]
Dependent Clause
equate to a complete thought.
Description
Descriptive
linguistics
Detective story
Deus ex machina
Deuteragonist
Dialect
A work primarily featuring dialogue; a piece of, relating to, or [11]

Dialogic
written in dialogue.
Dialogue
Dibrach
Also known as "lexis" and "word choice," the term refers to the
words selected for use in any oral, written, or literary expression.
Diction Diction often centers on opening a great array of lexical possibilities [21]
with the connotation of words by maintaining first the denotation of
words.
Didactic Intended to teach, instruct, or have a moral lesson for the reader. [11]
Digest
Digression
Dime novel
Diameter
Dimeter A line of verse made up of two feet (two stresses). [9]
Dipody
Dirge
Discourse
Dissociation of
sensibility
Dissonance
Distich
Distributed Stress
Dithyramb
Diverbium
Divine afflatus
Doggerel
Dolce stil nuove
Domestic tragedy
Donne
Doppelgnger
Double
Double rhyme
Drama
Using ones senses as a medium for writing to relay emotion and the
perception of sensations of oneself or of others and play upon those [6]
Drama of sensibility
sensations to create a relatability stemming from the human
condition.
Dramatic character
Dramatic irony
Dramatic lyric
Dramatic monologue
Dramatic proverb
Dramatis personae
Dramaturgy
Dream allegory
Dream vision
Droll
Dumb show
Duodecimo
Duologue
Duple meter/duple
rhythm
Dystopia
Dynamic Character
Echo verse
Eclogue
A vivid, graphic, or dramatic written commentary or description of [2][8]

Ekphrasis
another visual form of art.
Elegiac couplet
Elegiac meter
Elegy
Elision
Emblem
Emblem book
Emendation
Emotive language
Encomiastic verse
End rhyme
A line in poetry that ends in a pauseindicated by a specific [9]

End-stopped line
punctuation, such as a period or a semicolon.
English sonnet
The continuing of a syntactic unit over the end of a line.

Enjambment Enjambment occurs when the sense of the line overflows the meter [2]
and line break.
Entr'acte
Envoy/envoi
Epanalepsis
pater la
bourgeoisie
A long poem that narrates the victories and adventures of a hero. It [8]
Epic poetry
can be identified by lofty or elegant diction.
Epic simile
Epic Theater
Epigraph
Epilogue
Epiphany
Episode
Episteme
Epistle
Epistolary novel
Epistrophe
Epitaph
Epithalamion
Epithet
Epizeuxis
Epode
Eponymous author
Equivalence
Erotica
Erziehungsroman
Essay
Ethos
Eulogy
Euphony
Euphuism
Evidence
Exaggeration
Exegesis
Exemplum
Existentialism
Exordium
Experimental novel
Explication de texte
Exposition (literary
technique)
Exposition (dramatic
structure)
Expressionism
Extended metaphor
Extension
Extrametrical verse
Extravaganza
Eye rhyme
Fable
Fabliau
Falling action
Falling rhythm
Fancy and
imagination
Fantasy
Farce
Feeling
Feminine ending
A rhyme with two syllables. One is stressed, one is unstressed. [2][8]

Feminine rhyme
Examples: Merry, Coffee.
Fiction
Figurative language
Figure of speech
Fin de sicle
An interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the [13]
Flashback
current point the story has reached
An interjected scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the
Flashforward current point of the story in literature, film, television and other [13]
media
Flat character
Foil
Folio
Folk drama
Folklore
Folk tale
Foot
Foreshadowing
Form
Fourteener
Frame story
Free indirect
discourse
Free verse
French forms
Freytag's pyramid
Fustian
Expresses a condition happening in the future by using shall, will,

Future am, is, are and going to with a verb. Adverbs are also used with the [2][8]
present tense of the verb to show future tense.
Futurism
Gallows humor
Gathering (literature)
Genetic fallacy
Genius and talent
Genre
Georgian poetry
Georgics
Gesta
Ghazal
Gloss
Gnomic verse
Golden line
Goliardic verse
Gongorism
Gonzo journalism
Gothic novel
Grand Guignol
Greek tragedy
Grub Street
Guignol
Gushi
Hagiography
Hagiology
Haibun Prose written in a terse, haikai style, accompanied by haiku [22]
Broad genre comprising the related forms haiku haikai-renga and [22]
Haikai
haibun
Haiku Modern term for standalone hokku [22]
Half rhyme
Hamartia
Handwaving
Headless line
Head rhyme
Hemistich
Hendecasyllable
Hendecasyllabic
verse
Heptameter
Heptastich
Heresy of paraphrase
Heroic couplets
Heroic drama
Heroic quatrain
Heroic stanza
A line from a poem hat has six feet in its meter. Another name for [8]
Hexameter
hexameter is "The Alexandrine."
Hexastich
Hiatus
High comedy
Higher criticism
Historical linguistics
Historic present
History play
In Japanese poetry, the opening stanza of a renga or renku (haikai no [23]

Hokku
renga)
Holograph
Homeric epithet
Homily
Horatian ode
Horatian satire
Hornbook
Hovering accent
Hubris
Hudibrastic
Humor
Humours
Hybris
Hymn
Hymnal stanza
Hypallage
a figure of speech that alters the syntactic order of the words in a

sentence or separates normally-associated words.The term may also [24][25]
Hyperbaton
be used more generally for all different figures of speech that
transpose the natural word order in sentences.
Hyperbole
Hypercatalectic
Hypermetrical
Hypocorism
Hysteron-proteron
A term where different subordinate clauses are used in a sentence to [8]

Hypotactic
qualify a single verb, or modify it.
Iambic pentameter
Ideology
Idiom
Idyll
Imagery
Imagism
Impressionism
Incipit
Indeterminacy
Inference
In medias res
Innuendo
A word thats tacked onto a sentence in order to add strong emotion.

Interjection Its grammatically unrelated to the rest of the sentence. They are [8]
usually followed by an exclamation point.
Internal conflict
Internal rhyme
Interpretation
Refers to the way in which different works of literature interact with [8]
Intertextuality
and relate to one another in order to construct meaning.
Intuitive description
Irony
Jacobean era
Jeremiad
The use of one or more extra syllabic units (on) above the 5/7 [26]
Ji-amari
standard in Japanese poetic forms such as waka and haiku.
Jintishi
The use of fewer syllabic units (on) than the 5/7 standard in Japanese [27]
Jitarazu
poetic forms such as waka and haiku.
Judicial criticism
Jueju
Juggernaut
Juncture (literature)
Juvenalian satire
Juxtaposition
Kabuki
Kafkaesque
Katharsis
Kenning
In Japanese poetry, a seasonal word or phrase required in haiku and [28]

Kigo
renku
King's English
Kireji In Japanese poetry, a "cutting word" required in haiku and hokku [29]
Kitsch
Knstlerroman
Lacuna gap, hole, conspicuous absence
Lai
Lake Poets
Lament
Lampoon
L'art pour l'art
Laureate
Lay
Legend
Legitimate theater
Leonine rhyme
Lexis
Letters
Level stress (even

accent)
Libretto
Light ending
Light poetry
Light rhyme
Light stress
Light poetry
Limerick
Linguistics
Linked rhyme
Link sonnet
Literary ballad
Literary criticism
Literary epic
Literary fauvism
Literary realism
Literary theory
Literature
Litotes
Litterateur
Liturgical drama
Living Newspaper
Local color
Logaoedic
Logical fallacy
Logical stress
Logos
Long metre
Long poem
Loose sentence
Lost Generation
Low comedy
Lullaby
Lune
Lushi
A short poem with a song-like quality, or designed to be set to [9]

Lyric
music; often conveying feelings, emotions, or personal thoughts.
Macaronic language
Madrigal (poetry)
Magic realism
Malapropism
Maqama
Mrchen
Marginalia
Marinism
Marivauge
Marxist literary
criticism
Masculine ending
Masculine rhyme
Masked comedy
Masque
Maxim
Meaning
Medieval drama
Meiosis
Melic poetry
A work that is characterized by extravagant theatricality and by the [11]

Melodrama
predominance of plot and physical action over characterization
Memoir
Menippean satire
Mesostic
Making a comparison between two unlike things without using the [9]
Metaphor
words like, as, or than.
Metaphysical conceit
Metaphorical
language
Meter
Metonymy
Metre
Metrical accent
Metrical foot
Metrical structure
Microcosm
Middle Comedy
Miles gloriosus
Miltonic sonnet
Mimesis
Minnesang
Minstrel
Mystery play
(miracle play)
Miscellanies
Mise en scne
Mixed metaphor
Mock-heroic (mock
epic)
Mode
Monodrama
Monody
Monogatari
Monograph
Monologue
Monometer
(monopody)
Monostich
Monograph
Mood
Mora
Moral
Morality play
Motif
Motivation
Movement
Mummery
Muses
Musical comedy
A multi-lined strophic verse form which flourished in Islamic Spain [30]

Muwashshah
in the 11th century, written in Arabic or Hebrew
Mystery play
Mythology
Narrative point of
view
Narrator
A theory or practice in literature emphasizing scientific observation

Naturalism of life without idealization and often including elements of [11]
determinism
The creation of new words, some arising from acronyms, word

Neologism combinations, direct translations, and the addition of prefixes or [6]
suffixes.
Non-fiction
A genre of fiction that relies on narrative and possesses a

considerable length, an expected complexity, and a sequential
organization of action into story and plot distinctively. This genre is [2]
Novel
flexible in form, although prose is the standard, focuses around one
or more characters, and is continuously reshaped and reformed by a
speaker.
Novelette
Novella
Novelle
Narrative poem
Objective correlative
Objective criticism
Obligatory scene
Octameter
Octave
Octet An eight line stanza of poetry. [8]
A lyrical poem, sometimes sung, that focuses on the glorification of

Ode a single subject and its meaning. Often has an irregular stanza [11]
structure.
Oedipus complex
the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by [31]

Onomatopoeia
imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
Open couplet
Oulipo
Orchestra
A verse form in which a stanza has eight iambic pentameter lines

Ottava rima following the rhyme scheme abababcc. An ottava rima was often [2]
used for long narratives, especially epics and mock heroic poems.
Oxymoron
Palinode
Pantoum
Pantun
Parable
Paraclausithyron
Paradelle
Paradox
Paraphrase
Pararhyme
Combining of various syntactic units, usually prepositions, without [9]

Paratactic
the use of conjunctions to form short and simple phrases.
Partimen
Pastourelle
a verb tense that expresses an idea that something [in the past]
occurred before another action [also in the past]. This tense [8]
Past Perfect
[requires] the helping, or auxiliary word "had". For example, "you
had studied French before you went to Paris."
the grammatical form of a verb used to indicate that the time of the [6][32]
Past Tense
action occurred before the moment of writing.
Pathetic fallacy
Pathya Vat
Parallelism
Parody
Pastoral A work depicting an idealized vision of the rural life of shepherds. [8]
Pathos
Pentameter In poetry, a line of verse containing five metric feet or accents. [11]
A sequence of two or more words, forming a unit.In the poem

Kubla Khan by Samuel Coleridge, the words pleasure-dome is a [11]
Phrase
phrase read not only in this poem, but also in Mary Shelleys
Frankenstein when she uses also uses the phrase.
Periodical literature
Peripetia
Perspective
Persona
Personification
Phronesis
Pice bien faite
Picaresque novel
Plain Style
Platonic
Plot
Poem and song
Poetic diction
Poetic transrealism
Point of view
Polysyndeton
Post-colonialism
Postmodernism
A verb tense that describes actions just finished or continuing from

Present Perfect the past into the present. This can also imply that past actions have [8]
present effects.
Primal scene
Procatalepsis
An interjected scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the
Prolepsis current point of the story in literature, film, television and other [13]
media
Prologue
Progymnasmata
Pronoun Can be used in place of a noun or, in some cases, another pronoun. [6]
Prose
Prosimetrum
Prosody (poetry)
Protagonist
Protologism
Proverb
Pruning poem
Psalm
Psychoanalytic
literary criticism
Psychoanalytic
theory
Pun
Purple prose
Purpose for Reading
Pyrrhic
Quatrain
Quintain
Reader-response
criticism
Recusatio
Redaction
Red herring
Refrain
Regency novel
Regionalism
(literature)
Renga A genre of Japanese collaborative poetry [33]
In Japanese poetry, a form of popular collaborative linked verse [34]

Renku
formerly known as haikai no renga, or haikai
A form of collaborative poetry pioneered by Makoto Ooka in Japan [35]

Renshi
in the 1980s
Repetition
Resolution
Reverse chronology
Rhapsodes
Rhetoric
Rhetorical agency
Rhetorical device
Rhetorical
operations
Rhetorical question
Rhetorical tension
Rhyme
Rhymed prose
Rhyme royal
A measured pattern of words and phrases arranged by sound, time,

Rhythm or events. These patterns are [created] in verse or prose by use of [2][21]
stressed and unstressed syllables.
Rising action
Robinsonade
Romance (heroic
literature)
Romanzo d'
appendice
Roman clef
Round character
Round-robin story
Ruritanian romance
Russian formalism
Saj'
Satire
Scanning
Scansion
Scene
Scnes faire
Sea shanty
Semiotic literary
criticism
Semiotics
Senry.
Serial
Sestet
Setting
Shadorma
Shakespearean
sonnet
Shanty
Sicilian octave
Simile A comparison of two different things that utilizes like or as. [8]
Slant rhyme
Slice of life
Skaz
Sobriquet
Soliloquy
A 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter. There are two types of

sonnets: Shakespearean and Italian. The Shakespearean sonnet is
written with 3 quatrain and a couplet in abab, cdcd, efef, gg [8]
Sonnet
rhythmic pattern. An Italian sonnet is written in 2 stanzas with an
octave followed by a septet in abba, abba, cdecde or cdcdcd
rhythmic pattern.
Sonneteer
Speaker
Spondee A foot consisting of two syllables of approximately equal stress. [8]
Spenserian stanza
Sprung rhythm
Group of lines offset by a space and then continuing with the next [8]
Stanza
group of lines with a set pattern or number of lines.
Static character
Stigma of print
Stereotype
Adjective describing poetry with lines of the same meter and length
Stichic throughout, but not organized into regular stanzas. Example: Form [2]
of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight"
Strambotto
Stream of
consciousness
Structuralism
Subjunctive forms of verbs are typically used to express various

states of unreality such as wish, emotion, possibility, judgment,
Subjunctive opinion, necessity, or action that has not yet occurred. Subjunctive [6]
verbs are often found in "that" clauses. The verb requires "that" to
follow it e.g. 'He insisted that was the wrong way'.
Adjective meaning an immeasurable experience, unable to be [2]

Sublime
rationalized.
Subplot
Syllogism
Symbolism
A term where an entire idea is expressed by something smaller, such

Synecdoche as a phrase or a single word; one part of the idea expresses the [8]
whole. This concept can also be reversed.
Synaesthesia
The study of how words are arranged in a sentence. Ex.- Line 68 of

Coleridges Dejection: An Ode, is difficult to determine its syntax
Syntax because of the way the words are arranged: Which wedding Nature [2]
to us gives in dower. The word wedding could be seen as a verb
or a noun.
Tautology
Tableau
Tail rhyme
Tagelied
Tale
Tanka In Japanese poetry, a short poem in the form 5,7,5,7,7 syllabic units [36]
In Japanese poetry, a tanka where the upper part is composed by one [37]
Tan-renga
poet, and the lower part by another
Techne
A telestich is a poem or other form of writing in which the last letter,

Telestich syllable or word of each line, paragraph or other recurring feature in [38]
the text spells out a word or a message.
Tenor
Tension
Tercet
Terza rima
Tetrameter
Tetrastich
Text
Textual criticism
Textuality
Texture
Theater of Cruelty
Theater of the
Absurd
Theme
Thesis
Thesis play
Third person
narrative
Threnody
Tirade
Tone
In Occitan lyric poetry, a final, shorter stanza (cobla), addressed to a [39]

Tornada
patron, lady, or friend
Tract
Tractarian
Movement
Tragedy
Tragedy of blood
Tragic flaw
Tragic hero
Tragic irony
Tragicomedy
Tranche de vie
Transcendentalism
Transferred epithet
Transition
Translation
Travesty
Tribrach
Trimeter
Triolet
Triple rhyme
Triple meter
Triple rhythm
Triplet
Tristich
Tritagonist
Trivium
Trobar clus
Trochee
Trochee A two syllable foot with the accent syllable on the first foot. [2][8]
A figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression (a figure of

Trope (literature) speech). Example: "I'll die of embarrassment" or "She has tons of [13]
money".
Troubadour
Trouvre
Tuckerization
Truncated line
Tumbling verse
Type character
Type scene
Ubi sunt
Underground culture
Underground press
Understatement
Unities
Unity
Universality
(disambiguation)
University Wits
Unobtainium
Uta monogatari
Unreliable narrator
Variable syllable
Variorum
Varronian satire
(Menippean satire)
Vates
Vaudeville
Vehicle
Verb displacement
Verbal irony
Verisimilitude
Verism
Vers de socit
Vers libre
Verse
Verse paragraph
Versiprose
Verso
Victorianism
Viewpoint
Vignette
Villain
Villanelle
Virelay
Virgule
Voice (of the writer)
Voice (in phonetics)
A turn or switch that emphasizes a change in ideas or emotions. It

Volta can be marked by the words but or yet. In a sonnet, this change [40]
separates the octave from the sestet.
Vorticism
The use of informal, common speech, particularly of uneducated [11]

Vulgate
people. Similar to the use of vernacular.
Waka
Wardour Street A pseudo-archaic form of diction affected by some writers, [41]

English particularly those of historical fiction.
Weak ending
Weak foot
Well-made play
Wellerism
Western fiction
Wit
Word accent
Wrenched accent
Watermark
The site of a renga session; also, the sense of dialogue and [42]
Za
community present in such a session
Zappai
Further reading
M. H. Abrams. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Thomson-Wadsworth, 2005. ISBN 1-4130-0456-3.
Chris Baldick. The Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford Univ. Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-860883-7.
Chris Baldick. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford Univ. Press, 2001. ISBN 0-19-
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Noun used to describe the stress put on a certain syllable while

Accentual verse is common in children's poetry; nursery rhymes and

An acrostic is a poem or other form of writing in which the first

a word or phrase which modifies a noun or pronoun, grammatically [6][7]

A describing word used to modify a verb, adjective, or another

A specific type of writing in which the settings, characters, and [9]

Repetition of the initial sounds of words, as in Peter Piper picked a [10]

A figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of,

a version of the foot in poetry in which the first two syllables of a

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a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an [17]

the adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary [18]

Antecedent A word or phrase referred to by any relative pronoun. [6]

A figure of speech in which the speaker addresses an object, [6]

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Astrophic stanzas having no particular pattern. [2][8]

The omission of conjunctions between clauses. An example is when

Beast fable (beast

Blank verse Verse written in iambic pentameter without rhyme. [8][20]

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Death of the novel

A work primarily featuring dialogue; a piece of, relating to, or [11]

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Dimeter A line of verse made up of two feet (two stresses). [9]

Dolce stil nuove

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A vivid, graphic, or dramatic written commentary or description of [2][8]

A line in poetry that ends in a pauseindicated by a specific [9]

The continuing of a syntactic unit over the end of a line.

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A rhyme with two syllables. One is stressed, one is unstressed. [2][8]

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Expresses a condition happening in the future by using shall, will,

Genius and talent

Haibun Prose written in a terse, haikai style, accompanied by haiku [22]

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Haiku Modern term for standalone hokku [22]

In Japanese poetry, the opening stanza of a renga or renku (haikai no [23]

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a figure of speech that alters the syntactic order of the words in a

A term where different subordinate clauses are used in a sentence to [8]

A word thats tacked onto a sentence in order to add strong emotion.

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In Japanese poetry, a seasonal word or phrase required in haiku and [28]

Lacuna gap, hole, conspicuous absence

L'art pour l'art

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Level stress (even

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A short poem with a song-like quality, or designed to be set to [9]

A work that is characterized by extravagant theatricality and by the [11]

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A multi-lined strophic verse form which flourished in Islamic Spain [30]

A theory or practice in literature emphasizing scientific observation

The creation of new words, some arising from acronyms, word

A genre of fiction that relies on narrative and possesses a