Word List Literary terms 288 words

Literary terms Vocabulary Word List (288)

• A

  abridgment, abstract, accented, adaptation, aestheticism, allegory, alliteration, allusion, almanac, ambiguity, amplification, analogy, analysis, anecdote, antagonist, anthology, anticlimax, antihero, antithesis, apocryphal, aptness, artistic, aside, atlas, atmosphere, audience, author, authorship, autobiography, avant-garde

• B

  ballad, bard, basic, bathos, belles letters, bibliography, biography, bombast, bucolic

• C

  cadence, canto, caricature, cast of characters, cause & effect, central, chanson, character, characterization, chronicle, chronology, cipher, clarity, classic, cliche, climax, coherence, collection, colloquialism, colophon, comedy, comparison, compendium, composition, conclusion, confession, confidant, conflict, connotation, contrast, convey, correlation, couplet, courtly love, criticism, critique, cycle

• D

  denotation, denouement, description, detective story, device, dialogue, diary, diatribe, didactic, discourse, document, doggerel, double meaning, drama

• E

  eclogue, elegy, element, emotion, emphasis, epic, epigram, epilogue, epistle, epitaph, epithet, epos, essay, euphemism, evoke, exhortation, expansive, exposition, expository, expression

• F

  fable, fantasy, farce, feeling, fiction, fictitious, figurative language, figure of speech, flashback, foil, fragment, fustian

• G

  generalization, genre, gloss, Gothic

• H

  haiku, heroic, heroine, hidden message, historical fiction, humanity, hyperbole

• I

  iambic pentameter, idea, identifiable, idiom, idyll, imagery, imaginative, inference, inflection, innuendo, integrity, intonation, intrigue, introductory, irony

• J

  jargon, journal, juxtapose

• K

  key

• L

  lament, lampoon, language, legend, leitmotif, letters, lexicon, limerick, literal, literary, locale, lucidity, lyric

• M

  masterpiece, melodrama, memoir, metaphor, missive, monologue, moral, motif, motive, musical, mystery, myth

• N

  narrative, narrator, niche, nihilism, nom de plume, nonfiction, novel, novella, nuance, nursery rhyme

• O

  ode, omnibus, onomatopoeia, opinion, oration, oratory, outcome, oxymoron

• P

  parable, parlance, parody, passage, pastiche, pastoral poem, pathos, period, persona, personification, plagiarism, plot, poem, poetic, poetry, point of view, potboiler, prediction, preface, prologue, prominent, prose, protagonist, pseudonym, publisher, purpose

• Q

  quality, quatrain, quintessential

• R

  realism, recitation, redundant, reference, repetition, resolution, rhetoric, rhyme, rhythm, roman a clef, rondeau

• S

  saga, sarcasm, satire, science fiction, scope, selection, semantics, sequence, serial, setting, short story, significance, simile, sketch, sonnet, stage, stanza, style, stylized, subtext, suggestive, symbol

• T

  technique, terminology, theme, thesaurus, thesis, thriller, tome, tone, topic sentence, tragedy, tragicomedy, treatise, trilogy, turning point

• U

  unction, understatement, unfolding, unity, utterance

• V

  verisimilitude, vernacular, verse, versification, vignette, vocative, voice, volume

• W

  western, word-smith, writings

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