Literary Terms

Allegory

Alliteration

Allusion

Anachronism

Androgynous

Antagonist

Archetype

Atmosohere

Audience

Ascribed Roles

Assonance

Avant-Garde

Bathos

Binary Opposition

Burlesque

Black Comedy

Blank Verse

Caesura

Canon

Carnivalesque

Catharsis

Chorus

Cinquain

Class Structue

Classical Drama

Cliches

Climax

Colloquial

Couplet

Conflict

Connotation

Construction

Consonance

Context of Production

Cultural Identity

Deconstruction

Denoument

Deus Ex Machina

Discourse

Dramatic Irony

Dramatic Monologue

Dystopia

Eledgy

Empathy

Enjambement

Enlightenment

Epic

Epiphany

Epitaph

Epithet

Exposition

Farce

Figurative Language

Free Verse

Gaps

Silences

Gender

Gothic

Hegemony

Hubris

Humanism

Iambic Pentametre

Identity

Ideology

Illusion

Imagery

Irony

Juxtoposition

Marginalise

Marxist

Metaphor

Metonymy

Modernism

Motif

Misogynist

Narrator's position

Naturalise

Onomatopeia

Ode

Oxymoron

Pastiche

Patriarchy

Peripeteia

Persona

Personification

Phallocentric

Picareque

Pplyphonic

Post Modern

Privilege

Protagonist

Reader Positioning

Realism

Representation

Resolution

Rhetoric

Romance

Romanticism

Satire

Science Fiction

Setting

Simile

Soliloquy

Sonnet

Stream of Conciousness

Structure

Structualism

Style

Surrealism

Suspension of Disbelief

Aesthetic

Symbol

Synergy

Theatre of The Absurd

Theme

Theoretical Position

Thesis

Tragic Hero

Tragedy

Universality

Voice

Volta