Lit Genius Editors - Glossary of Literary Terms lyrics

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 Zoomorphism # 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 Click on the letters to jump to the terms under the selected letter.