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Literature, General Articles


acrostic
alexandrine
allegory
alliteration
almanac
anagram
anecdote
anti-hero
antithesis
aphorism
apology
apostrophe, figure of speech
archetype
assonance
autobiography
ballad
ballade
bard
beast epic
belles-lettres
biography
black humor
blank verse
bluestocking
bucolics
canzone, in literature
carpe diem
chapbook
children£s literature
chronicle
chronicle plays
classicism
closet drama
comedy
conceit
courtly love
criticism
detective story
diary
dictionary
dumb show
elegy
encyclopedia
epic
epigram
epitaph
epithalamium
essay
fable
fabliau
farce
fiction
figure of speech
folktale
free verse
Gothic romance
haiku
heroic couplet
hexameter
history
homily
hornbook
hyperbole
iambic pentameter
idyl
irony
jargon
juvenile literature
letters
limerick, in poetry
literary frauds
literature
litotes
little magazine
lyric
melodrama
metaphor
metonymy
monologue
Mother Goose
motif, in literature
mystery
naturalism, in literature
neoclassicism
novel
novella
nursery rhymes
ode
onomatopoeia
oral history
oratory
ottava rima
paradox
parody
pastoral
pentameter
personification
poetry
prose
prosody
proverb
pseudonym
pun
realism, in literature
Renaissance
rhetoric
rhyme
riddle
rime
romance
romanticism
satire
science fiction
senryu
short story
simile
societies, learned and literary
soliloquy
sonnet
stream of consciousness
style, in literature
symbolists
synecdoche
tall tale
tragedy
translation
vers libre
versification




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