Literary Terms

 

  1. Allegory
  2. Alliteration
  3. Allusion
  4. Analogy
  5. Anecdote
  6. Antagonist
  7. Aphorism
  8. Apostrophe
  9. Assonance
  10. Autobiography
  11. Ballad
  12. Biography
  13. Blank Verse
  14. Caesura
  15. Characterization
  16. Chorus
  17. Classicism
  18. Climax
  19. Comedy
  20. Concrete Poetry
  21. Conflict
  22. Consonance
  23. Couplet
  24. Dialect
  25. Dramatic Poem
  26. Elegy
  27. Epic
  28. Epitaph
  29. Essay
  30. Exposition
  31. Fable
  32. Figurative Language
  33. Figure of Speech
  34. Flashback
  35. Foil
  36. Folklore
  37. Foot
  38. Foreshadowing
  39. Free Verse
  40. Haiku
  41. Hyperbole
  42. Iambic Pentameter
  43. Imagery
  44. Irony
  45. Metaphor
  46. Meter
  47. Monologue
  48. Myth
  49. Narration
  50. Novel
  51. Octave
  52. Oxymoron
  53. Parallelism
  54. Parody
  55. Personification
  56. Plot
  57. Protagonist
  58. Pun
  59. Quatrain
  60. Refrain
  61. Rhyme
  62. Rhythym
  63. Satire
  64. Setting
  65. Simile
  66. Soliloquy
  67. Sonnet
  68. Stanza
  69. Symbolism
  70. Tall Tale
  71. Theme
  72. Tone
  73. Tragedy
  74. Transcendentalism