Index of literature articles

Articles related to literature include:

A[]

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

B[]

Ballad - Biography - Blank verse - Breve - Broadside - Burlesque

C[]

Character - Characterization - Chronological order - Climax - Comedy - Conceit - Concrete poem - Conflict - Connotation - Context - Contrast

- Consonance -Cordel literature - Couplet

D[]

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

E[]

Elegy - Elision - - English studies - Epic - Epigram - Epitaph - Epithalamium - Essay - Eulogy - Exaggeration - Excerpt - Existentialism - Exposition - Expressionism - Extended metaphor - Eye rhyme

F[]

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

G[]

Genre

H[]

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

I[]

Ictus - Idiom - Idyll - Imagist - - Internal rhyme - - Invocation - Irony

L[]

Legend - Light verse - Limerick - Literary criticism - Literature - Litotes - Lyric

M[]

Macaronic verse - Main character - Masculine ending - Masculine rhyme - Memoir - Merism - Metamorphosis - Metaphor - Metaphysical poet - Meter - Metonymy - - Mock heroic - Moral - myth

N[]

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

O[]

- Ode - Onomatopoeia - Oral tradition - Oxymoron

P[]

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

Q[]

Quantitative verse - Quatrain - Quintain (poetry) - Quotation

R[]

Realism - Refrain - Repetition - Resistance literature - - Rhyme - Rhyme scheme - Rhythm

S[]

Sarcasm - Scan (poetry) - Science fiction - - Sextet - Short story - Simile - Slash - Socratic irony - Soliloquy - Sonnet - Sprung rhythm - Stage direction - Stanza - - Subliterature - Surprise ending - Surrealism - - Syllabic verse - Symbol - Symbolism - Synecdoche - Synaesthesia

T[]

Tall tale - Theater - Theme - Transferred epithet

U[]

Ubi sunt - Ultraist movement - Unanimism - Understatement - University Wits - Ut pictura poesis

V[]

Variorum - Vers de société - Vers libre - Verse - Verse novel - Verse paragraph - Vice (character) - Victorian literature - Vignette (literature) - Villain/villainess - Villanelle - Virelai - Volta (literature)

W[]

War poet - Whodunit

Y[]

Yellow back

Z[]

Zeugma

See also[]

• Glossary of poetry terms
• List of literary terms

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