Metaphor Allusion Stanza Octet Simile Caesura Sonnet Sestet 2007 listofwords.doc Page 1 of 40
Image Rhyme Alliteration Ballad Enjambement Assonance Rhythm Elegy 2007 listofwords.doc Page 2 of 40
Epic Lyrical Pathos Allegory Tragedy Para-rhyme Bathos Acrostic 2007 listofwords.doc Page 3 of 40
Haiku Alternate rhyme Analogue Antithesis Age of reason Anachronism Anecdote Antonym 2007 listofwords.doc Page 4 of 40
Argument Soliloquy Atmosphere Autobiography Aside Onomatopoeia Cacophony Cadence 2007 listofwords.doc Page 5 of 40
Bathos Bibliography Biography Black comedy Caricature Carpe Diem Catharsis Clerihew 2007 listofwords.doc Page 6 of 40
Blank verse Bowdlerize Burlesque Comic relief Cliché Colloquialism Comedy Dialogue 2007 listofwords.doc Page 7 of 40
Conceit Conflict Connotation Contrast Diary Diatribe Diction Didactic 2007 listofwords.doc Page 8 of 40
Couplet Dactyl Dadaism Decasyllable Dirge Dissonance Ditty Doggerel 2007 listofwords.doc Page 9 of 40
Dialect Double entendre Drama Dogma Empathy End-rhyme Dramatic irony Engagement 2007 listofwords.doc Page 10 of 40
Dramatic monologue Duologue Edwardian Elegy Envoi Epic Epigram Epigraph 2007 listofwords.doc Page 11 of 40
Elision Ellipsis Emotive language Epithet Epilogue Epistolary novel Epitaph Gothic fiction 2007 listofwords.doc Page 12 of 40
Epitome Eponymous Euphemism Euphony Greek tragedy Half-rhyme Hero Heroine 2007 listofwords.doc Page 13 of 40
Exposition Expurgated edition Fable Fairy tale Heroic couplet Historical novel Homonym Homophone 2007 listofwords.doc Page 14 of 40
Fiction Figurative language Fixed form Flashback Horror story Hubris Hyperbole Iamb 2007 listofwords.doc Page 15 of 40
Folk tale Foot Free verse Genre Imagery Indirect speech Internal rhyme Invective 2007 listofwords.doc Page 16 of 40
Detective story Ghost story Golden age Legend Irony Jacobean age Lament Morality play 2007 listofwords.doc Page 17 of 40
Limerick Literature The lost generation Lullaby Bon mot Mumming play Mystery play Myth 2007 listofwords.doc Page 18 of 40
Lyric Madrigal Malapropism Mantra Narrative verse Narrator Naturalism Nemesis 2007 listofwords.doc Page 19 of 40
Manuscript Masque Melodrama Metaphysical Nom de plume Novel Nursery rhyme Objective 2007 listofwords.doc Page 20 of 40
Meter Mime Mnemonic Mock-epic Ode Oxymoron Palindrome Panegyric 2007 listofwords.doc Page 21 of 40
Modernism Monologue Moral Paradox Pantomime Parable Paradigm Précis 2007 listofwords.doc Page 22 of 40
Paragraph Paraphrase Parody Passion play Preface Pre- Raphaelites Problem play Prolepsis 2007 listofwords.doc Page 23 of 40
Pastiche Pathetic fallacy Pathos Pentameter Prologue Proposition Prose Protagonist 2007 listofwords.doc Page 24 of 40
Perfect rhyme Periphrasis Persona Personification Proverb Pseudonym Pun Quatrain 2007 listofwords.doc Page 25 of 40
Petrarchan sonnet Plagiarism Plot Poem Realism Refrain Register Renaissance 2007 listofwords.doc Page 26 of 40
Polemic Postmodernism Practical criticism Restoration comedy Repartee Repetition Resolution Sonnet 2007 listofwords.doc Page 27 of 40
Revenge tragedy Review Revue Rhetorical question Spenserian sonnet Spoof Standard English Stanza 2007 listofwords.doc Page 28 of 40
Rhyme Rhyme scheme Rhythm Riddle Stream of consciousness Structure Stuart period Style 2007 listofwords.doc Page 29 of 40
Romantic comedy Romantic period Satire Science fiction Structuralism Sub-plot Suggestion Summary 2007 listofwords.doc Page 30 of 40
Sentimental novel Sestet Setting Shakespearean sonnet Surrealism Suspense Syllogism Symbol 2007 listofwords.doc Page 31 of 40
Short story Slang Soliloquy Syntax Sympathy Synonym Synopsis Tension 2007 listofwords.doc Page 32 of 40
Synthesis Synthetic rhythm Tableau Tale Tercet Tern Testament Tetrameter 2007 listofwords.doc Page 33 of 40
Tall story Tanka Tantra Tapinosis Text Theatricalism Theme Thesaurus 2007 listofwords.doc Page 34 of 40
Tautology Thriller Tirade Tone Thesis Translation Travesty Treatise 2007 listofwords.doc Page 35 of 40
Tongue-twister Tour de force Tract Tradition Trilogy Trimeter Triple rhyme Triplet 2007 listofwords.doc Page 36 of 40
Tragedy Tragic flaw Trochee Troubadour Tragi-comedy Tudor period Turning point Villain 2007 listofwords.doc Page 37 of 40
Underground literature Universality Usage Vaudeville Voice Volta Vowel rhyme Vulgarity 2007 listofwords.doc Page 38 of 40
Verisimilitude War literature Vernacular Verse Victorian period War poets Weak ending Western 2007 listofwords.doc Page 39 of 40
Viewpoint Wit Yarn Whodunnit Zeitgeist Zeugma 2007 listofwords.doc Page 40 of 40