Literary Terms PDF

Literary terms 1. Absurd literature 2. Academic novel/ University novel or campus novel 3. Act and scene 4. Aesthetic ideology 5. Aesthetic movement 6. Aestheticism 7. aesthetics 8. African American writer 9. Alienation effective 10. Algorical interpretation 11. Allegory 12. All...

Literary terms 1. Absurd literature 2. Academic novel/ University novel or campus novel 3. Act and scene 4. Aesthetic ideology 5. Aesthetic movement 6. Aestheticism 7. aesthetics 8. African American writer 9. Alienation effective 10. Algorical interpretation 11. Allegory 12. Alliteration 13. Alliterative metre 14. Ambiguity 15. Anti Hero 16. Antithesis 17. Archaism 18. Archetypal criticism 19. Atmosphere 20. author and authorship 21. Ballad 22. Bard 23. Baroque 24. Bathos and anti climax 25. Beat writer 26. biography 27. Black art movement 28. blank verse 29. Bloomsbury group 30. Bomblast 31. Book 32. book edition 33. book format 34. book history studies 35. Bowdlerize 36. Burlesque 37. Canon of literature 38. carpediem 39. Celtic revival 40. Chivalric romance 41. Choras 42. Chronicle play 43. chronicles 44. cliche 45. cognitive literary studies 46. comedy 47. comedy of humours 48. Comic relief 49. Commedia dell\' arte 50. Conceit 51. Concrete and abstract 52. concrete poetry 53. confessional poetry 54. Confidant 55. Cannotation and denotation 56. conventions 57. courtly love 58. Crime fiction/ detective friction/ murder mystery /murder novel or police novel 59. Criticism 60. critique 61. cultural studies 62. Darwinian literary studies 63. Decadence de construction decorum deism 64. Deus ex machina 65. Dialogic criticism 66. Didactic literature 67. Discourse analysis 68. dissociation of sensibilities 69. distance and involvement 70. Doggerel 71. Drama 72. Dramatic monologue 73. Dream vision 74. Ecocriticism 75. Elegy 76. Empathy and sympathy 77. Enlightenment 78. Epic 79. Epic similes 80. Epic theatre 81. Epigram 82. Epiphany 83. Epithalamion 84. Epithet 85. Essay 86. Euphemism 87. Euphony and cocophony 88. Euphuism 89. Expressionism 90. Fabliau 91. Fancy and imagination 92. Feminist criticism 93. Fiction and truth 94. Figurative language 95. fine arts 96. folklore 97. Folk drama 98. foreshadowing 99. Form and structure 100. Formalism 101. Free verse 102. gender criticism 103. Genre 104. Golden age 105. Gothic novel 106. Graphic narrative 107. Great chain of being 108. Grotesque 109. Haiku 110. Herlim renaissance 111. Heroic couplet 112. Heroic drama 113. Humanism 114. Human right literature 115. Hyperbole and understament 116. Hypertext 117. Idealism 118. Imagery 119. Imagism 120. Imitation 121. Influence and the anxiety of influence 122. Intentional fallacy 123. Interpretation and hermeneutics 124. Interpretation, typological and allegorical 125. Invective irony ivory tower 126. Jeremiad 127. Lai 128. Light verse 129. Linguistics in literary criticism 130. Literature 131. local colour 132. Malapropism 133. Marxist criticism 134. Masque 135. Melodrama 136. metaphor theories of 137. Metaphysical poets 138. Metre 139. miracle play, morality play and interludes 140. Modernism and post modernism 141. Motif and theme 142. Myth 143. Narration grammar of 144. Negative capability 145. New classic and romantic 146. New criticism 147. New historicism 148. Novel 149. Objective and subjective 150. Occasional poems 151. Ode 152. Onomatopoeia 153. Oral poetry 154. Palindrome 155. Palinode 156. Pantomime and dumb show 157. Paradox 158. Pastoral 159. Pathetic fallacy 160. Pathos 161. Pen name or nom de plume 162. Performance poetry 163. Periods of American literature 164. Persona, tone and voice 165. Personification 166. Phenomenology and criticism 167. Platonic love 168. Plot 169. Poetic diction 170. Poetic justice 171. Poetic licence 172. Point of view 173. Postcolonial studies 174. Post structuralism 175. Pre-Raphaelites 176. Primitivism and progress 177. Problem play 178. Prose 179. Prosody 180. Psychological and psychoanalytic criticism 181. Pun 182. Purple patch 183. Queer theory 184. Reader response criticism 185. Realism and Naturalism 186. Reception theory 187. Refrain 188. Renaissance 189. Rhetoric 190. Rhetorical criticism 191. Rhetorical figures 192. Rhyme 193. Roman a clef 194. Romance novels 195. Satire 196. Science fiction and fantasy 197. Semiotics 198. Sensibility, literature of 199. Sentimentalism 200. Setting 201. 7 deadly sins 202. Short story 203. Socialist realism 204. Soliloquy 205. Sonnet 206. Speech act Theory 207. Stanza 208. Stock characters 209. Stock response 210. Stock situations 211. Stream of consciousness 212. Structuralist criticism 213. Style 214. Stylistics 215. Sublime 216. Surrealism 217. Symbol 218. Symbolist movement 219. Synesthesia 220. Tension 221. Text and writing (ecriture) 222. Textual criticism 223. Movements in recent criticism 224. Three unities 225. Topographical poetry 226. Touchstone 227. Tragedy 228. Tragicomedy 229. Transcendentalism in America 230. Utopia and dystopia 231. Victoria and victorianism 232. Wit, humour and the comic