Click on the letters to jump to the terms under the selected letter: # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z # A Acronym
Acrostic
Adnomination
Adynaton
Alexandrine
Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion
Amphibology
Anagnorisis
Anagram
an*logy
Anapest
Anachronism
Anadiplosis
Anaphora
Anastrophe
Anecdote
Antagonist
Antanaclasis
Antanagoge
Anthimeria
Antimetabole
Antithesis
Anthropomorphism
Antonomasia
Aphaeresis
Aphorismus
Aposiopesis
Apostrophe
Archaism
Archetype
Assonance
Asyndeton
Aureation
Authorial Intent
Autotelic B Backronym
Bathos
Ballad Stanza
Bdelygmia
Bildungsroman
Blank Verse
Blazon
Bomphiologia
Bowdlerization
Brevitas
Burlesque Metaphor
Byronic Hero C Cacophony
Caesura
Canto
Cantica
Catabasis
Catachresis
Catalog
Cataphora
Catharsis
Catechism
Catalectic
Chain Verse
Chiasmus
Cledonism
Conceit
Conflict
Connotation
Consonance
Couplet
Crasis D Dactyl
Deconstruction
Defamiliarization
Denouement
Denotation
Deus ex machina
Deuteragonist
Dialogue
Dialect
Diction
Didactic
Distinctio
Double Entendre
Dramatic Irony
Dramatic Monologue
Dramaturgy
Dynamic Character
Dysphemism E Ecphonesis
Elegy
Ellipsis
Elision
Enallage
End-stopped Line
Enjambment
Epan*lepsis
Epanodos
Epanorthosis
Epenthesis
Epigram
Epigraph
Epistolary novel
Epistrophe
Epithet
Epizeuxis
Ethos
Eucatastrophe
Eulogy
Euphemism
Exergasia
Expletive
Exposition
Extended Metaphor
Everyman F Fable
Figurative Language
Flashback
Flashforward
Foil
Foot
Foreshadowing
Free Indirect Discourse
Free Verse
Fricative G Genre
Ghazal
Gothic H Haiku
Half Rhyme
Hendiadys
Heterometric
Holophrasis
h*mograph
h*monym
h*mophone
Hypallage
Hyperbole
Hypocatastasis
Hypocorism
Hypotaxis
Hypozeuxis
Hysteron proteron I Iamb
Iambic pentameter
Idiom
Illeism
Imagery
Implicature
In medias res
Incipit
Inclusio
Innuendo
Internal Rhyme
Intertextuality
Inversion
Invocation
Irony
Isocolon
Isometric J Juxtaposition K Kafkaesque
Kenning L Laconism
Lexical Field
Line Break
Line
Litany
Literal
Litotes
Logos M Malaphor
Malapropism
Meiosis
Memoir
Merism
Mesodiplosis
Metalepsis
Metaphor
Metaplasm
Metatextuality
Metathesis
Meter
Metonymy
Motif N Narrator
Neologism
Non sequitur
Nonsense Verse
Nosism
Novella O Objective Correlative
Ode
Onomatopoeia
Oronym
Orthographic Neighbors
Ottava rima
Oxymoron P Palindrome
Panegyric
Pantoum
Par'hyponoian
Parable
Paradeigma
Paradiastole
Paradox
Paralipsis
Parallelism
Paraprosdokian
Pararhyme
Parataxis
Paregmenon
Parenthesis
Parisosis
Parody
Paroemion
Paromoiosis
Pathos
Pathetic fallacy
Pentameter
Peripeteia
Personification
Phallic Symbol
Pleonasm
Ploce
Plosive
Point of View
Polyptoton
Polysyndeton
Portmanteau
Prosody
Prosopopeia
Protagonist
Proverb
Psittacism
Pun
Pyrrhic Q Quatrain R Refrain
Rhetorical Question
Rhyme (Feminine)
Rhyme (Masculine)
Rhythm
Roman à clef
Retronym S Sarcasm
Scansion
Segue
Sententia
Sestina
Setting
Sibilance
Simile
Situational Irony
Snowclone
Soliloquy
Sonnet
Spenserian Stanza
Spondee
Spoonerism
Standard Written English
Stanza
Static Character
Stich
Stichomythia
Sublime
Symbol
Symploce
Synaloepha
Synchysis
Syncope
Synecdoche
Synesthesia
Synonymia
Syntax T Tapinosis
Tautogram
Tautology
Terzina
Tetrameter
Theme
Tmesis
Tone
Transferred Epithet
Trimeter
Triple Entendre
Trochee
Trope U Understatement
Unreliable Narrator
Utopia V Variorum
Verbal Irony
Verbosity
Villanelle
Voice
Volta W Wit X Y Yarn Z Zeugma
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