Index Of Literary Terms
The following is a list of literary terms; that is, those words used in discussion, classification, criticism, and analysis of poetry, novels, and picture books.
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| Term | Description | Citation | Category | Notes |
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| Abecedarius | ||||
| Acatalectic | ||||
| Accent | ||||
| Accentual verse | ||||
| Acrostic | ||||
| Act | ||||
| Aisling | ||||
| Allegory | ||||
| Alliteration | Repetition of the initial sounds of words, as in “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers” | |||
| Allusion | A figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of, people, places, events, literary work, myths, or works of art, either directly or by implication. | |||
| Anachronism | ||||
| Anacrusis | ||||
| Anadiplosis | ||||
| Anagnorisis | The point in a plot where a character recognizes the true state of affairs | |||
| Analects | ||||
| Analepsis | An interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached | |||
| Analogue | ||||
| Analogy | ||||
| Anapest | ||||
| Anaphora | ||||
| Anastrophe | ||||
| Anecdote | ||||
| Annal | ||||
| Annotation | ||||
| Antagonist | ||||
| Antanaclasis | ||||
| Antepenult | ||||
| Anthology | ||||
| Anticlimax | ||||
| Anti-hero | ||||
| Anti-masque | ||||
| Anti-romance | ||||
| Antimetabole | ||||
| Antinovel | ||||
| Antistrophe | ||||
| Antithesis | ||||
| Antithetical couplet | ||||
| Antonym | ||||
| Aphorism | ||||
| Apocope | ||||
| Apocrypha | ||||
| Apollonian and Dionysian | ||||
| Apologue | ||||
| Apology | ||||
| Apothegm | ||||
| Aposiopesis | ||||
| Apostrophe | ||||
| Apron stage | ||||
| Arcadia | ||||
| Archaism | ||||
| Archetype | ||||
| Aristeia | ||||
| Argument | ||||
| Arsis | ||||
| Art for art's sake | ||||
| Asemic writing | ||||
| Aside | ||||
| Assonance | ||||
| Asyndeton | The omission of conjunctions between clauses. An example is when John F. Kennedy said on January the 20th 1961 "...that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." | |||
| Atmosphere | ||||
| Attitude | ||||
| Aube | ||||
| Aubade | ||||
| Audience | ||||
| Autobiography | ||||
| Autotelic | ||||
| Avant-garde | ||||
| Ballad | ||||
| Ballade | ||||
| Ballad stanza | ||||
| Bard | ||||
| Baroque | ||||
| Bathos | ||||
| Beast fable (beast epic) | ||||
| Beast poetry | ||||
| Beat Generation | ||||
| Beginning rhyme | ||||
| Belles-lettres | ||||
| Bestiary | ||||
| Beta reader | ||||
| Bibliography | ||||
| Bildungsroman | ||||
| Biography | ||||
| Black comedy | ||||
| Blank verse | ||||
| Bloomsbury Group | ||||
| Body | ||||
| Bombast (fustian) | ||||
| Boulevard theatre | ||||
| Bourgeois drama | ||||
| Bouts-Rimés | ||||
| Bowdlerize | ||||
| Breviloquence | ||||
| Broadside | ||||
| Burlesque | ||||
| Burletta | ||||
| Burns stanza | ||||
| Buskin | ||||
| Byronic hero | ||||
| Cadence | ||||
| Caesura | ||||
| Calligram | ||||
| Canon | ||||
| Canso | ||||
| Canticum | ||||
| Canto | ||||
| Canzone | ||||
| Capa y espada | ||||
| Captivity narrative | ||||
| Caricature | ||||
| Carmen figuratum | ||||
| Carpe diem | ||||
| Catachresis | ||||
| Catalectic | ||||
| Catalexis | ||||
| Catastrophe | ||||
| Catharsis | ||||
| Caudate sonnet | ||||
| Cavalier drama | ||||
| Cavalier poetry | ||||
| Celtic Renaissance | ||||
| Celtic Revival | ||||
| Celtic Twilight | ||||
| Caesura | ||||
| Chain of Being | ||||
| Chain verse | ||||
| Chanson de geste | ||||
| Chansonnier | ||||
| Chant royal | ||||
| Chantey | ||||
| Chanty | ||||
| Chapbook | ||||
| Character | ||||
| Characterization | ||||
| Charactonym | ||||
| Chaucerian stanza | ||||
| Chiasmus | ||||
| Chivalric romance | ||||
| Choriamb | ||||
| Choriambus | ||||
| Chorus | ||||
| Chronicle | ||||
| Chronicle play | ||||
| Cinquain | ||||
| Classicism | ||||
| Classification (literature) | ||||
| Classification of rhymes (Peter Dale) | ||||
| Clerihew | ||||
| Cliché | ||||
| Climax | ||||
| Cloak-and-sword play | ||||
| Closed heroic couplet | ||||
| Closet drama | ||||
| Collaborative poetry | ||||
| Colloquialism | ||||
| Comédie larmoyante | ||||
| Comedy | ||||
| Comedy of errors | ||||
| Comedy of humors | ||||
| Comedy of intrigue | ||||
| Comedy of manners | ||||
| Comedic relief | ||||
| Commedia dell'arte | ||||
| Comic relief | ||||
| Commedia erudita | ||||
| Common measure | ||||
| Commonplace book | ||||
| Common rhyme | ||||
| Comparative linguistics | ||||
| Compensation | ||||
| Complaint | ||||
| Conceit | ||||
| Concordance | ||||
| Concrete universal | ||||
| Confessional literature | ||||
| Confidant/confidante | ||||
| Conflict | ||||
| Connotation | ||||
| Consistency | ||||
| Consonance | ||||
| Contradiction | ||||
| Context | ||||
| Contrast | ||||
| Convention | ||||
| Copyright | ||||
| Counterplot | ||||
| Coup de théâtre | ||||
| Couplet | ||||
| Courtesy book | ||||
| Courtly love | ||||
| Cowleyan ode | ||||
| Cradle books | ||||
| Craft cycle | ||||
| Crisis | ||||
| Criticism | ||||
| Cross acrostic | ||||
| Crown of sonnets | ||||
| Curtain raiser | ||||
| Curtal sonnet | ||||
| Dactyl | ||||
| Dada | ||||
| Dale's classification of rhymes | ||||
| Dandyism | ||||
| Danrin school | School of haikai poetry founded by Nishiyama Sōin in 17th century Japan | |||
| Débat | ||||
| Death poem | ||||
| Death of the novel | ||||
| Debut novel | ||||
| Decadence | ||||
| Decasyllabic verse | ||||
| Decorum | ||||
| Denotation | ||||
| Dénouement | ||||
| Description | ||||
| Descriptive linguistics | ||||
| Detective story | ||||
| Deus ex machina | ||||
| Deuteragonist | ||||
| Dialect | A regional or social variety of a language distinguished from other varieties by its grammar, vocabulary or phonology | |||
| Dialogue | ||||
| Dibrach | ||||
| Dicks | ||||
| Diction | ||||
| Didactic | ||||
| Digest | ||||
| Digression | ||||
| Dime novel | ||||
| Diameter | ||||
| Dipody | ||||
| Dirge | ||||
| Discourse | ||||
| Dissociation of sensibility | ||||
| Dissonance | ||||
| Distich | ||||
| Distributed Stress | ||||
| Dithyramb | ||||
| Diverbium | ||||
| Divine afflatus | ||||
| Doggerel | ||||
| Dolce stil nuove | ||||
| Domestic tragedy | ||||
| Donnée | ||||
| Doppelgänger | ||||
| Double | ||||
| Double rhyme | ||||
| Drama | ||||
| Drama of sensibility | ||||
| Dramatic character | ||||
| Dramatic irony | ||||
| Dramatic lyric | ||||
| Dramatic monologue | ||||
| Dramatic proverb | ||||
| Dramatis personae | ||||
| Dramaturgy | ||||
| Dream allegory | ||||
| Dream vision | ||||
| Droll | ||||
| Dumb show | ||||
| Duodecimo | ||||
| Duologue | ||||
| Duple meter/duple rhythm | ||||
| Dystopia | ||||
| Dynamic Character | ||||
| Echo verse | ||||
| Eclogue | ||||
| Edition | ||||
| Ekphrasis | ||||
| Elegiac couplet | ||||
| Elegiac meter | ||||
| Elegy | ||||
| Elision | ||||
| Emblem | ||||
| Emblem book | ||||
| Emendation | ||||
| Emotive language | ||||
| Encomiastic verse | ||||
| End rhyme | ||||
| End-stopped line | ||||
| English sonnet | ||||
| Enjambment | ||||
| Entr'acte | ||||
| Envoy/envoi | ||||
| Epanalepsis | ||||
| Épater la bourgeoisie | ||||
| Epic poetry | ||||
| Epic simile | ||||
| Epic Theater | ||||
| Epigraph | ||||
| Epilogue | ||||
| Epiphany | ||||
| Episode | ||||
| Episteme | ||||
| Epistle | ||||
| Epistolary novel | ||||
| Epistrophe | ||||
| Epitaph | ||||
| Epithalamion | ||||
| Epithet | ||||
| Epizeuxis | ||||
| Epode | ||||
| Eponymous author | ||||
| Equivalence | ||||
| Erotica | ||||
| Erziehungsroman | ||||
| Essay | ||||
| Ethos | ||||
| Eulogy | ||||
| Euphony | ||||
| Euphuism | ||||
| Evidence | ||||
| Exaggeration | ||||
| Exegesis | ||||
| Exemplum | ||||
| Existentialism | ||||
| Exordium | ||||
| Experimental novel | ||||
| Explication de texte | ||||
| Exposition (literary technique) | ||||
| Exposition (dramatic structure) | ||||
| Expressionism | ||||
| Extended metaphor | ||||
| Extension | ||||
| Extrametrical verse | ||||
| Extravaganza | ||||
| Eye rhyme | ||||
| Fable | ||||
| Fabliau | ||||
| Falling action | ||||
| Falling rhythm | ||||
| Fancy and imagination | ||||
| Fantasy | ||||
| Farce | ||||
| Feeling | ||||
| Feminine ending | ||||
| Feminine rhyme | ||||
| Fiction | ||||
| Figurative language | ||||
| Figure of speech | ||||
| Fin de siècle | ||||
| Flashback | An interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached | |||
| Flashforward | An interjected scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature, film, television and other media | |||
| Flat character | ||||
| Fleshly school | ||||
| Foil | ||||
| Folio | ||||
| Folk drama | ||||
| Folklore | ||||
| Folk tale | ||||
| Foot | ||||
| Foreshadowing | ||||
| Form | ||||
| Four levels of meaning | ||||
| Four meanings of a poem | ||||
| Fourteener | ||||
| Frame story | ||||
| Free indirect discourse | ||||
| Free verse | ||||
| French forms | ||||
| Freytag's pyramid | ||||
| Fugitives and Agrarians | ||||
| Fustian | ||||
| Futurism | ||||
| Gallows humor | ||||
| Gamebooks | ||||
| Gathering (literature) | ||||
| Gay literature | ||||
| Genetic fallacy | ||||
| Genius and talent | ||||
| Genre | ||||
| Georgian poetry | ||||
| Georgics | ||||
| Gesta | ||||
| Ghazal | ||||
| Gloss | ||||
| Gnomic verse | ||||
| Golden line | ||||
| Goliardic verse | ||||
| Gongorism | ||||
| Gonzo journalism | ||||
| Gothic novel | ||||
| Grand Guignol | ||||
| Graveyard poetry | ||||
| Graveyard school | ||||
| Greek tragedy | ||||
| Grub Street | ||||
| Grundyism | ||||
| Guignol | ||||
| Gushi | One of the main poetry forms of defined in Classical Chinese poetry | |||
| Hagiography | ||||
| Hagiology | ||||
| Haibun | Prose written in a terse, haikai style, accompanied by haiku | |||
| Haikai | Broad genre comprising the related forms haiku haikai-renga and haibun | |||
| Haiku | Modern term for standalone hokku | |||
| Half rhyme | ||||
| Hamartia | ||||
| Handwaving | ||||
| Headless line | ||||
| Head rhyme | ||||
| Hemistich | ||||
| Hendecasyllable | ||||
| Hendecasyllabic verse | ||||
| Heptameter | ||||
| Heptastich | ||||
| Heresy of paraphrase | ||||
| Heroic couplets | ||||
| Heroic drama | ||||
| Heroic quatrain | ||||
| Heroic stanza | ||||
| Hexameter | ||||
| Hexastich | ||||
| Hiatus | ||||
| High comedy | ||||
| Higher criticism | ||||
| Historical linguistics | ||||
| Historical novel | ||||
| Historic present | ||||
| History play | ||||
| Hokku | In Japanese poetry, the opening stanza of a renga or renku (haikai no renga) | |||
| Holograph | ||||
| Homeric epithet | ||||
| Homily | ||||
| Horatian ode | ||||
| Horatian satire | ||||
| Hornbook | ||||
| Hovering accent | ||||
| Hubris | ||||
| Hudibrastic | ||||
| Humor | ||||
| Humours | ||||
| Hybris | ||||
| Hymn | ||||
| Hymnal stanza | ||||
| Hypallage | ||||
| Hyperbole | ||||
| Hypercatalectic | ||||
| Hypermetrical | ||||
| Hypocorism | ||||
| Hysteron-proteron | ||||
| Hypotactic | ||||
| Iambic pentameter | ||||
| Ideology | ||||
| Idiom | ||||
| Idyll | ||||
| Imagery | ||||
| Imagism | ||||
| Impressionism | ||||
| Incipit | ||||
| Indeterminacy | ||||
| Inference | ||||
| In medias res | ||||
| Innuendo | ||||
| Internal conflict | ||||
| Internal rhyme | ||||
| Interpretation | ||||
| Intertextuality | ||||
| Intuitive description | ||||
| Irony | ||||
| Jacobean era | ||||
| Jeremiad | ||||
| Ji-amari | The use of one or more extra syllabic units (on) above the 5/7 standard in Japanese poetic forms such as waka and haiku. | |||
| Jintishi | A type of Classical Chinese poetry including the eight-lined lushi, the four-lined jueju, and the linked couplets of indeterminate length pailu | |||
| Jitarazu | The use of fewer syllabic units (on) than the 5/7 standard in Japanese poetic forms such as waka and haiku. | |||
| Journal | ||||
| Judicial criticism | ||||
| Jueju | In Classical Chinese poetry, a quatrain consisting of a pair of couplets wherein each line consists of either five or seven syllables | |||
| Juggernaut | ||||
| Juncture (literature) | ||||
| Juvenalian satire | ||||
| Juxtaposition | ||||
| Kabuki | ||||
| Kafkaesque | ||||
| Katharsis | ||||
| Kenning | ||||
| Kigo | In Japanese poetry, a seasonal word or phrase required in haiku and renku | |||
| King's English | ||||
| Kireji | In Japanese poetry, a "cutting word" required in haiku and hokku | |||
| Kitsch | ||||
| Künstlerroman | ||||
| Lai | ||||
| Lake Poets | ||||
| Lament | ||||
| Lampoon | ||||
| L'art pour l'art | ||||
| Laureate | ||||
| Lay | ||||
| Leaf | ||||
| Legend | ||||
| Legitimate theater | ||||
| Leonine rhyme | ||||
| Lexis | ||||
| Letters | ||||
| Level stress (even accent) | ||||
| Libretto | ||||
| Light ending | ||||
| Light poetry | ||||
| Light rhyme | ||||
| Light stress | ||||
| Light poetry | ||||
| Limerick | ||||
| Linguistics | ||||
| Linked rhyme | ||||
| Link sonnet | ||||
| Literary ballad | ||||
| Literary criticism | ||||
| Literary epic | ||||
| Literary fauvism | ||||
| Literary realism | ||||
| Literary theory | ||||
| Literature | ||||
| Litotes | ||||
| Litterateur | ||||
| Liturgical drama | ||||
| Living Newspaper | ||||
| Local color | ||||
| Logaoedic | ||||
| Logical fallacy | ||||
| Logical stress | ||||
| Logos | ||||
| Long metre | ||||
| Loose sentence | ||||
| Lost Generation | ||||
| Low comedy | ||||
| Lullaby | ||||
| Lune | ||||
| Lushi | In Classical Chinese poetry, an eight-line regulated verse form with lines made up of five, six, or seven characters | |||
| Lyric | ||||
| Macaronic language | ||||
| Madrigal (poetry) | ||||
| Magic realism | ||||
| Malapropism | ||||
| Maqama | ||||
| Märchen | ||||
| Marginalia | ||||
| Marinism | ||||
| Marivauge | ||||
| Marxist literary criticism | ||||
| Masculine ending | ||||
| Masculine rhyme | ||||
| Masked comedy | ||||
| Masque | ||||
| Maxim | ||||
| Meaning | ||||
| Medieval drama | ||||
| Meiosis | ||||
| Melic poetry | ||||
| Melodrama | ||||
| Memoir | ||||
| Menippean satire | ||||
| Mesostich | ||||
| Metaphor | ||||
| Metaphysical conceit | ||||
| Metaphorical language | ||||
| Metaphysical poets | ||||
| Meter | ||||
| Metonymy | ||||
| Metre | ||||
| Metrical accent | ||||
| Metrical foot | ||||
| Metrical structure | ||||
| Microcosm | ||||
| Middle Comedy | ||||
| Miles gloriosus | ||||
| Miltonic sonnet | ||||
| Mime | ||||
| Mimesis | ||||
| Minnesang | ||||
| Minstrel | ||||
| Mystery play (miracle play) | ||||
| Miscellanies | ||||
| Mise en scène | ||||
| Mixed metaphor | ||||
| Mock-heroic (mock epic) | ||||
| Mode | ||||
| Modernism | ||||
| Monodrama | ||||
| Monody | ||||
| Monogatari | ||||
| Monograph | ||||
| Monologue | ||||
| Monometer (monopody) | ||||
| Monostich | ||||
| Monograph | ||||
| Mood | ||||
| Mora | ||||
| Moral | ||||
| Morality play | ||||
| Motif | ||||
| Motivation | ||||
| Movement | ||||
| Mummery | ||||
| Muses | ||||
| Musical comedy | ||||
| Muwashshah | A multi-lined strophic verse form which flourished in Islamic Spain in the 11th century, written in Arabic or Hebrew | |||
| Mystery play | ||||
| Mythology | ||||
| Narrative point of view | ||||
| Narrator | ||||
| Naturalism | ||||
| Neologism | ||||
| Non-fiction | ||||
| Non-fiction novel | ||||
| Novel | ||||
| Novelette | ||||
| Novella | ||||
| Novelle | ||||
| Narrative poem | ||||
| Objective correlative | ||||
| Objective criticism | ||||
| Obligatory scene | ||||
| Octameter | ||||
| Octave | ||||
| Ode | ||||
| Oedipus complex | ||||
| Onomatopoeia | ||||
| Open couplet | ||||
| Oulipo | ||||
| Orchestra | ||||
| Ottava rima | ||||
| Oxymoron | ||||
| Palinode | ||||
| Pantoum | ||||
| Pantun | ||||
| Parable | ||||
| Paraclausithyron | ||||
| Paradelle | ||||
| Paradox | ||||
| Paraphrase | ||||
| Pararhyme | ||||
| Paratactic | ||||
| Partimen | ||||
| Pastourelle | ||||
| Pathetic fallacy | ||||
| Pathya Vat | ||||
| Parallelism | ||||
| Parody | ||||
| Pastoral | ||||
| Pathos | ||||
| Pentameter | ||||
| Periodic sentence | ||||
| Periodical literature | ||||
| Peripetia | ||||
| Perspective | ||||
| Persona | ||||
| Personification | ||||
| Phronesis | ||||
| Pièce bien faite | ||||
| Picaresque novel | ||||
| Plain Style | ||||
| Platonic | ||||
| Plot | ||||
| Poem | ||||
| Poem and song | ||||
| Poetic diction | ||||
| Poetic transrealism | ||||
| Poetry | ||||
| Point of view | ||||
| Polysyndeton | ||||
| Post-colonialism | ||||
| Postmodernism | ||||
| Pound's Ideogrammic Method | ||||
| Primal scene | ||||
| Procatalepsis | ||||
| Prolepsis | An interjected scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature, film, television and other media | |||
| Prologue | ||||
| Progymnasmata | ||||
| Prose | ||||
| Prosimetrum | ||||
| Prosody (poetry) | ||||
| Protagonist | ||||
| Proverb | ||||
| Pruning poem | ||||
| Psalm | ||||
| Psychoanalytic literary criticism | ||||
| Psychoanalytic theory | ||||
| Pun | ||||
| Purple prose | ||||
| Purpose for Reading | ||||
| Pyrrhic | ||||
| Quatrain | ||||
| Quintain | ||||
| Reader-response criticism | ||||
| Realism | ||||
| Redaction | ||||
| Red herring | ||||
| Refrain | ||||
| Regency novel | ||||
| Regionalism (literature) | ||||
| Renga | A genre of Japanese collaborative poetry | |||
| Renku | In Japanese poetry, a form of popular collaborative linked verse formerly known as haikai no renga, or haikai | |||
| Renshi | A form of collaborative poetry pioneered by Makoto Ooka in Japan in the 1980s | |||
| Repetition | ||||
| Resolution | ||||
| Reverse chronology | ||||
| Rhapsodes | ||||
| Rhetoric | ||||
| Rhetorical agency | ||||
| Rhetorical device | ||||
| Rhetorical operations | ||||
| Rhetorical question | ||||
| Rhetorical tension | ||||
| Rhyme | ||||
| Rhymed prose | ||||
| Rhyme royal | ||||
| Rising action | ||||
| Robinsonade | ||||
| Romance (heroic literature) | ||||
| Romance novel | ||||
| Romanticism | ||||
| Romanzo d' appendice | ||||
| Roman à clef | ||||
| Round character | ||||
| Round-robin story | ||||
| Ruritanian romance | ||||
| Russian formalism | ||||
| Saj' | ||||
| Satire | ||||
| Scanning | ||||
| Scansion | ||||
| Scene | ||||
| Scènes à faire | ||||
| Sea shanty | ||||
| Semiotic literary criticism | ||||
| Semiotics | ||||
| Senry. | ||||
| Serial | ||||
| Sestet | ||||
| Setting | ||||
| Shakespearean sonnet | ||||
| Shanty | ||||
| Sicilian octave | ||||
| Simile | ||||
| Slant rhyme | ||||
| Slice of life | ||||
| Skaz | ||||
| Sobriquet | ||||
| Soliloquy | ||||
| Sonnet | ||||
| Sonneteer | ||||
| Speaker | ||||
| Spenserian stanza | ||||
| Sprung rhythm | ||||
| Stanza | ||||
| Static character | ||||
| Stigma of print | ||||
| Stereotype | ||||
| Strambotto | ||||
| Stream of consciousness | ||||
| Structuralism | ||||
| Subplot | ||||
| Syllogism | ||||
| Symbolism | ||||
| Synecdoche | ||||
| Synaesthesia | ||||
| Syntax | ||||
| Tautology | ||||
| Tableau | ||||
| Tail rhyme | ||||
| Tagelied | ||||
| Tale | ||||
| Tanka | In Japanese poetry, a short poem in the form 5,7,5,7,7 syllabic units | |||
| Tan-renga | In Japanese poetry, a tanka where the upper part is composed by one poet, and the lower part by another | |||
| Techne | ||||
| Telestich | ||||
| Tenor | ||||
| Tension | ||||
| Tercet | ||||
| Terza rima | ||||
| Tetrameter | ||||
| Tetrastich | ||||
| Text | ||||
| Textual criticism | ||||
| Textuality | ||||
| Texture | ||||
| Theater of Cruelty | ||||
| Theater of the Absurd | ||||
| Theme | ||||
| Thesis | ||||
| Thesis play | ||||
| Third person narrative | ||||
| Threnody | ||||
| Tirade | ||||
| Tone | ||||
| Tornada | In Occitan lyric poetry, a final, shorter stanza (cobla), addressed to a patron, lady, or friend | |||
| Tract | ||||
| Tractarian Movement | ||||
| Tragedy | ||||
| Tragedy of blood | ||||
| Tragic flaw | ||||
| Tragic hero | ||||
| Tragic irony | ||||
| Tragicomedy | ||||
| Tranche de vie | ||||
| Transcendentalism | ||||
| Transferred epithet | ||||
| Transition | ||||
| Translation | ||||
| Travesty | ||||
| Tribe of Ben | ||||
| Tribrach | ||||
| Trimeter | ||||
| Triolet | ||||
| Triple rhyme | ||||
| Triple meter | ||||
| Triple rhythm | ||||
| Triplet | ||||
| Tristich | ||||
| Tritagonist | ||||
| Trivium | ||||
| Trobar clus | ||||
| Trochee | ||||
| Trope (literature) | ||||
| Troubadour | ||||
| Trouvère | ||||
| Truncated line | ||||
| Tumbling verse | ||||
| Type character | ||||
| Type scene | ||||
| Ubi sunt | ||||
| Underground culture | ||||
| Underground press | ||||
| Understatement | ||||
| Unities | ||||
| Unity | ||||
| Universality (disambiguation) | ||||
| University Wits | ||||
| Unobtainium | ||||
| Uta monogatari | ||||
| Utopia | ||||
| Utopian and dystopian fiction | ||||
| Unreliable narrator | ||||
| Variable syllable | ||||
| Variorum | ||||
| Varronian satire (Menippean satire) | ||||
| Vates | ||||
| Vaudeville | ||||
| Vehicle | ||||
| Verb displacement | ||||
| Verbal irony | ||||
| Verisimilitude | ||||
| Verism | ||||
| Vers de société | ||||
| Vers libre | ||||
| Verse | ||||
| Verse paragraph | ||||
| Versiprose | ||||
| Verso | ||||
| Victorianism | ||||
| Viewpoint | ||||
| Vignette | ||||
| Villain | ||||
| Villanelle | ||||
| Virelay | ||||
| Virgule | ||||
| Voice (of the writer) | ||||
| Voice (in phonetics) | ||||
| Volta | ||||
| Vorticism | ||||
| Vulgate | ||||
| Wardour Street English | ||||
| Weak ending | ||||
| Weak foot | ||||
| Well-made play | ||||
| Wellerism | ||||
| Western fiction | ||||
| Wit | ||||
| Word accent | ||||
| Wrenched accent | ||||
| Watermark | ||||
| Za | The site of a renga session; also, the sense of dialogue and community present in such a session | |||
| Zappai | A form of Japanese poetry rooted in haikai, related to, but separate from, haiku and senryū. |
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