Index of literature articles

Articles related to literature include:

A

Accent - Accentual verse - Accentual-syllabic verse - Aesthetic movement - Allegory - Alliteration - Allusion - Ambiguity - Anecdote -

- Apostrophe - Assonance - - Autobiography

B

Ballad - Biography - Blank verse - Breve -

- Burlesque

C

Character - Characterization -

- Climax - Comedy - - - Conflict - Connotation - - Contrast - Consonance -Cordel literature - Couplet

D

Dead metaphor - Detail -

- Description - Dialect - Dialogue - Diary - - Diphthong - Doggerel - Drama - Dramatic monologue -

E

Elegy - Elision - Emblematic poem - English studies - Epic - Epigram - Epitaph - Epithalamium - Essay - Eulogy - Exaggeration - Excerpt - Existentialism - Explorative strategies -

- Expressionism - Extended metaphor - Eye rhyme

F

Fable - Fantasy - Farce -

- Fiction - Flash prose - Figurative language - - Folk tale - - Foreshadowing - Frame story - Free verse

G

Genre

H

Haiku -

- Hero/heroine - Hubris - Humour - Hyperbole

I

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

L

Legend -

- Limerick - Literary criticism - Literature - Litotes - Lyric

M

- - - - Memoir - Merism - Metamorphosis - Metaphor - - - Metonymy - Minor character - - Moral -

N

- - Naturalism - Non-fiction - Novel

O

Octet - Ode - Onomatopoeia - Oral tradition - Oxymoron

P

Parable - Parody - Pastoral - Pathetic fallacy - Personification - Persuasion - Playwright - Plot - Poetic diction - Poetry -

- Prose - Protagonist

Q

- Quatrain - Quintain (poetry) - Quotation

R

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

S

Sarcasm -

- Science fiction - Sensory language - Sextet - Short story - Simile - Slash - - Soliloquy - Sonnet - Sprung rhythm - - Stanza - Style - Subliterature - - Surrealism - Suspense - Syllabic verse - Symbol - Symbolism - Synecdoche -

T

Tall tale -

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U

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

V

Variorum - Vers de société -

- Verse - Verse novel - Verse paragraph - Vice (character) - Victorian literature - Vignette (literature) - Villain/villainess - Villanelle - Virelai - Volta (literature)

W

- Whodunit

Y

Z

Zeugma

See also

• Glossary of poetry terms
• List of literary terms

This literature-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2021)