Index of literature articles

See also: Outline of literature

Articles related to literature include:

A

Accent - Accentual verse - Accentual-syllabic verse - Aesthetic movement - Allegory - Alliteration - Allusion - Ambiguity - Anecdote - Antagonist - Apostrophe - Assonance - Author's purpose - Autobiography

B

Ballad - Biography - Blank verse - Breve - Broadside - Burlesque

C

Character - Characterization - Chronological order - Climax - Comedy - Conceit - Concrete poem - Conflict - Connotation - Context - Contrast - Consonance -Cordel literature - Couplet

D

Dead metaphor - Detail - Denouement - Description - Dialect - Dialogue - Diary - Didactic literature - Diphthong - Doggerel - Drama - Dramatic monologue - Dramatic poetry

E

Elegy - Elision - Emblematic poem - English studies - Epic - Epigram - Epitaph - Epithalamium - Essay - Eulogy - Exaggeration - Excerpt - Existentialism - Explorative strategies - Exposition - Expressionism - Extended metaphor - Eye rhyme

F

Fable - Fantasy - Farce - Feminine ending - Fiction - Flash prose - Figurative language - Flashback - Folk tale - Foot - Foreshadowing - Frame story - Free verse

G

Genre

H

Haiku - Half rhyme - Hero/heroine - Hubris - Humour - Hyperbole

I

Ictus - Idiom - Idyll - Imagist - Implicit metaphor - Internal rhyme - Inciting moment - Invocation - Irony

L

Legend - Light verse - Limerick - Literary criticism - Literature - Litotes - Lyric

M

Macaronic verse - Main character - Masculine ending - Masculine rhyme - Memoir - Merism - Metamorphosis - Metaphor - Metaphysical poet - Meter - Metonymy - Minor character - Mock heroic - Moral - myth

N

Narrative poem - Narrator - Naturalism - Non-fiction - Novel

O

Octet - Ode - Onomatopoeia - Oral tradition - Oxymoron

P

Parable - Parody - Pastoral - Pathetic fallacy - Personification - Persuasion - Playwright - Plot - Poetic diction - Poetry - Point of view - Prose - Protagonist

Q

Quantitative verse - Quatrain - Quintain (poetry) - Quotation

R

Realism - Refrain - Repetition - Resistance literature - Resolution - Rhyme - Rhyme scheme - Rhythm

S

Sarcasm - Scan (poetry) - Science fiction - Sensory language - Sextet - Short story - Simile - Slash - Socratic irony - Soliloquy - Sonnet - Sprung rhythm - Stage direction - Stanza - Style - Subliterature - Surprise ending - Surrealism - Suspense - Syllabic verse - Symbol - Symbolism - Synecdoche - Synaesthesia

T

Tall tale - Theater - Theme - Transferred epithet

U

Ubi sunt - Ultraist movement - Unanimism - Understatement - University Wits - Ut pictura poesis

V

Variorum - Vers de société - Vers libre - Verse - Verse novel - Verse paragraph - Vice (character) - Victorian literature - Vignette (literature) - Villain/villainess - Villanelle - Virelai - Volta (literature)

W

War poet - Whodunit

Y

Yellow back

Z

Zeugma

See also

• Glossary of poetry terms
• List of literary terms