Some key terms for English Lit/Lang exams. By no means complete.
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ALLEGORY
ALLITERATION
ALLUSION
ANTITHESIS
ASIDE
ASSONANCE
BLANK VERSE
CAESURA
CHORUS
CONTEXT
COUPLET
DENOUEMENT
DUMB-SHOW
EPIPHANY
EXPOSITION
FLANEUR/EUSE
FREE INDIRECT SPEECH
FREE VERSE
GENRE
HYBRID
HYPERBOLE
IMAGERY
INTERTEXTUALITY
IRONY
LEITMOTIF
LEXICON
LITERARY CANON
METAPHOR
METONYM
METRE
NOVELLA
PARODY
PASTICHE
PASTORAL
PERSONA
PUN
PERSONIFICATION
PLOT
REGISTER
RHETORIC
RHYME
ROMANCE
SATIRE
SIMILE
SOLILOQUY
SONNET
SYNTAX
