Alphabetical List of Entries
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
abjection
abridgement
absurd, the
academic drama
acatalectic
accent
accentual-syllabic verse
accentual verse
acephalous
Acmeism
acrostic
act
actant
adage
adaptation
adventure story
adynaton
Aestheticism
aesthetics
affective
afflatus
agitprop
agon
alazon
alba
Alcaics
aleatory
Alexandrianism
alexandrine
alienation effect
allegory
alliteration
alliterative metre
alliterative revival
allusion
alterity
ambiguity
American Renaissance
amoebean verses
amphibrach
amphimacer
amplification
anachronism
anachrony
anacoluthon
Anacreontics
anacrusis
anadiplosis
anagnorisis
anagogical
analects
analepsis
analogy
anapaest
anaphora
anaptyxis
anatomy
Angry Young Men
Angst
antagonist
antanaclasis
anthem
anthology
anticlimax
anti-hero
anti-masque
antimetabole
anti-novel
antiphon
antiphrasis
anti-Stratfordian
antistrophe
antithesis
antonomasia
anxiety of influence
aperçu
aphorism
apocalyptic
apocrypha
Apollonian and Dionysian
apologue
apology
apophthegm
aporia
aposiopesis
apostrophe
apparatus
arbitrary
Arcadia
archaism
archetype
architectonics
argument
Aristotelian
art for art’s sake
arte mayor
arte menor
Arthurian literature
Asclepiad
aside
assonance
asteismus
asyndeton
Attic style
aubade
Aufklärung
Augustan Age
aureate diction
autobiografiction
autobiography
automatic writing
auto sacramental
autotelic
auxesis
avant-garde
ballad
ballade
ballad metre
barcarole
bard
bardolatry
baroque
bathos
beast fable
Beat writers
belatedness
belles-lettres
bestiary
bibliography
Bildungsroman
binary opposition
biography
black comedy
Black Mountain poets
blank verse
blazon
block form
Bloomsbury group
bluestocking
bob and wheel
bodice-ripper
bombast
bouts-rimés
bovarysme
bowdlerize
brachylogia
braggadocio
Brechtian
bricolage
broadside
broken rhyme
bucolic poetry
burden
burlesque
Burns stanza
Byronic
cacoethes scribendi
cacophony
cadence
caesura
Cambridge school
camp
campus novel
canon
cantar
cantiga
canto
canzone
carnivalization
carol
Caroline
carpe diem
catachresis
catalectic
catalogue verse
catastrophe
catharsis
cauda
causerie
Cavalier poets
Celtic Revival
cénacle
cento
chanson
chanson de geste
chant royal
chapbook
character
characterization
Chaucerian stanza
cheville
chiasmus
Chicago critics
chick lit
chivalric romance
choral character
choriamb
chorus
chrestomathy
chronicle
chronicle novel
chronicle play
chronotope
Ciceronian
cinquain
circumlocution
city comedy
claque
classic
classicism
clausula
clerihew
climax
closed couplet
close reading
closet drama
closure
coda
code
codex
cohesion
coinage
collage
collation
collective unconscious
colloquialism
colophon
colportage
comédie larmoyante
comedy
comedy of humours
comedy of manners
comic relief
coming-of-age novel
commedia dell’ arte
common measure
commonplace book
companion poem
comparative literature
competence
complaint
conceit
conceptismo
concettismo
concordance
concrete poetry
confessional poetry
confidant(e)
connotation
consonance
conte
content
context
convention
conversation poem
copy-text
coronach
corpus
coterie
country house poem
coup de théâtre
couplet
courtesy book
courtly love
Cowleyan ode
crambo
cretic
crisis
criterion
Critical Theory
criticism
critique
crossed rhyme
crown
crux
culteranismo
cultural materialism
Cultural Studies
cunto
curtain-raiser
curtal sonnet
cut-up
cyberpunk
cycle
cynghanedd
dactyl
Dada
death of the author
débat
decadence
decastich
decasyllabic
décima
deconstruction
decorum
deep structure
defamiliarization
defective foot
deixis
demotic
demotion
denotation
dénouement
detective story
deus ex machina
device
devotional poetry
diachronic
diacritic
diaeresis
dialect
dialectic
dialogic
dialogue
diction
didactic
diegesis
dieresis
différance
digression
dime novel
dimeter
Dionysian
diphthong
dipody
dirge
dirty realism
discours
discourse
discovery
discussion play
disintegration
dissemination
dissociation of sensibility
dissonance
distant reading
distich
dit
dithyramb
divan
dizain
docudrama
documentary
doggerel
dolce stil novo
domestic tragedy
donnée
double dactyl
double entendre
double rhyme
drama
dramatic irony
dramatic monologue
dramatis personae
dramatization
dramaturgy
drame
dream vision
dub poetry
dumb show
duodecimo
duple metre
dystopia
early modern period
eclogue
ecocriticism
écriture
Edda
edition
Edwardian
egotistical sublime
eiron
ekphrasis
elegy
elision
Elizabethan
ellipsis
éloge
embedded
emblem
emendation
encomium
Encyclopédistes
endecasyllabo
end-rhyme
end-stopped
Eng. Lit.
enjambment
Enlightenment, the
énoncé and énonciation
entremés
envelope
envoi
epanalepsis
épater les bourgeois
epic
epic simile
epic theatre
epideictic
epigone
epigram
epigraph
epilogue
epinicion
epiphany
episodic
episteme
epistle
epistolary novel
epistrophe
epitaph
epithalamion
epithet
epizeuxis
epode
eponymous
epos
epyllion
equivoque
erasure
erlebte Rede
ermetismo
erotica
Erziehungsroman
eschatology
espinela
essay
esthetics
estrangement
euphony
euphuism
exclamatio
excursus
exegesis
exemplum
existentialism
exordium
experimentalism
explication
exposition
expressionism
expurgate
extempore
extravaganza
eye rhyme
fable
fabliau
fabula
fabulation
faction
fairy tale
falling rhythm
fancy
fantastic, the
fantasy
farce
Fastnachtspiel
feminine ending
feminine rhyme
feminist criticism
Festschrift
feuilleton
fiaba
ficelle
fiction
figure
fin de siècle
first-person narrative
fit
fixed forms
flashback
flyting
focalization
foil
folio
folklore
folk song
folktale
foot
foregrounding
foreword
form
formalism
formulaic
four-hander
fourteener
frame narrative
Frankfurt School
free indirect style
free verse
Fugitives
function
fustian
Futurism
gaff
galliambics
gazal
Geneva school
genre
genre fiction
Georgian poetry
georgic
ghazal
ghost story
ghost-writer
glosa
gloss
gnomic
Golden Age
Golden-Age detective writing
goliardic verse
Gongorism
Gothic novel
grammatology
Grand Guignol
grand narrative
grapheme
graphic novel
graveyard poetry
greater Romantic lyric
griot
grotesque
Grub Street
gynesis
gynocritics
hagiography
haiku
half-rhyme
hamartia
hapax legomenon
hard-boiled
Harlem Renaissance
Hellenistic
hemistich
hendecasyllabics
hendiadys
heptameter
heptastich
hermeneutic circle
hermeneutics
hermeticism
hero
heroic couplet
heroic drama
heroic poetry
heteroglossia
heterometric
hexameter
hiatus
higher criticism
histoire
historical novel
historicism
history play
hokku
holograph
Homeric
homily
homology
homonym
homophone
homostrophic
Horatian
horizon of expectations
horror story
hubris
Hudibrastic verse
huitain
humanism
humours
hybris
hymn
hypallage
hyperbaton
hyperbole
hypermetrical
hypertext
hypotactic
hysterical realism
iamb
ibid
Ibsenite
icon
ictus
idiolect
idiom
idyll
illocutionary act
imagery
Imaginary, the
imagination
Imagism
imperfect rhyme
implied author
implied reader
impressionism
in medias res
In Memoriam stanza
incantation
incremental repetition
incunabula
indeterminacy
index
Index, the
induction
inflection
inkhorn
inscape
intentional fallacy
interior monologue
interlude
internal rhyme
interpolation
intertextuality
intonation
intrigue
intrusive narrator
invective
inversion
invocation
in-yer-face theatre
ionic
Irish Literary Renaissance
irony
irregular ode
isometric
Italian sonnet
Jacobean
jeremiad
jeu d'esprit
jingle
jongleur
jouissance
Juvenalian
juvenilia
kabuki
katabasis
kenning
kitchen-sink drama
kitsch
Knittelvers
Künstlerroman
lacuna
lad lit
lai
laisse
Lake poets
lament
lampoon
Language poetry
langue
lapidary
Latinate
Latinity
lay
Leavisites
legend
leitmotif
lemma
leonine rhyme
letrilla
lexis
libretto
life writing
light verse
limerick
lipogram
lira
lisible
litany
literal
literariness
literary criticism
literary history
literati
literature
litotes
littérateur
little magazine
liturgical drama
loc. cit.
local color writing
loco-descriptive
logocentrism
log-rolling
long measure
longueur
lost generation
lyric
macaronic verse
Machiavel
machinery
madrigal
magic realism
malapropism
manifesto
mannerism
Märchen
marginalia
Marinism
Martian poets
marvellous, the
Marxist criticism
masculine ending
masculine rhyme
masque
matter of Britain
maxim
measure
medievalism
medium
meiosis
Meistersinger
melodrama
memoir
memoir-novel
Menippean satire
metacriticism
metadrama
metafiction
metalanguage
metalepsis
metaphor
metaphysical poets
metastasis
metatheatre
metathesis
meter
metonymy
metre (US meter)
metrics
Middle English
middle generation
Miltonic sonnet
mime
mimesis
minimalism
Minnesänger
minstrel
miracle play
mise-en-abyme
mise en scène
misery memoir
misprision
mixed metaphor
mnemonic
mock epic
mock-heroic
mode
modernism
modernismo
monodrama
monody
monograph
monologic
monologue
monometer
monorhyme
morality play
morpheme
morphology
mosaic rhyme
motif
Movement, the
multi-accentuality
muse
mystery play
myth
myth criticism
mythopoeia
mythos
narratee
narration
narrative
narratology
narrator
naturalism
negative capability
négritude
nemesis
neoclassicism
neologism
Neoplatonism
neo-realism
neuronovel
New Apocalypse
New Comedy
New Criticism
New Formalism
new historicism
New Humanism
New Journalism
New Woman writing
New York Intellectuals
New York school
Newgate novel
nō
noir
nom de plume
nonce word
nonsense verse
nouveau roman, le
nouvelle
novel
novelette
novella
Novelle
numbers
nursery rhyme
obiter dicta
objective correlative
Objectivism
occasional verse
occupatio
octameter
octastich
octave
octavo
octosyllabic
ode
OED
oeuvre
off-Broadway
Old Comedy
Old English
omniscient narrator
Onegin stanza
onomatopoeia
op. cit
open form
opuscule
oral tradition
oratory
orature
organic form
Ossianism
ostranenie
ottava rima
Oulipian
oxymoron
paean
paeon
pageant
palaeography
palimpsest
palindrome
palinode
panegyric
pantomime
pantoum
parable
paradigm
paradox
paralipsis
paraliterature
parallelism
paraphrase
pararhyme
paratactic
paratext
parison
Parnassians
parody
parole
paronomasia
passim
passion play
passus
pastiche
pastoral
pastourelle
pathetic fallacy
pathos
patronage
pattern poetry
penny dreadful
pentameter
pentastich
performative
periodical
periodic sentence
peripeteia
periphrasis
perlocutionary act
peroration
persona
personification
Petrarchan
phenomenology
philistine
philology
philosophes
phoneme
phonetics
phonocentrism
phonology
Phosphorists
picaresque novel
Pindaric
pirated
plagiarism
Platonism
Pléiade, Ia
pleonasm
ploce
plot
plurisignation
poetaster
poète maudit
poetic diction
poetic drama
poetic justice
poetic licence
poeticism
poetics
poetry
point of view
polemic
police procedural
polyphonic
polyptoton
polysemy
polysyndeton
pornography
portmanteau word
postcolonial literature
postmodernism
post-structuralism
pot-boiler
poulter’s measure
practical criticism
Prague School
préciosité, la
précis
Pre-Raphaelites
preromanticism
prescriptive
primitivism
problem play
proem
Projectivism
prolepsis
proletcult
prologue
promotion
prompt-book
propagandism
props
proscenium arch
prose
prose poem
prosody
prosopopoeia
protagonist
prothalamion
proverb
psalm
pseudepigrapha
pseudo-statement
psychoanalytic criticism
psychobiography
psychomachy
pulp fiction
pun
purple patch
pyrrhic
pythiambics
quantitative verse
quarto
quatrain
Queer theory
quintain
quintilla
raisonneur
readerly
reader-response criticism
realism
recension
reception theory
recessive accent
récit
recognition
recto
redaction
redondilla
reductionism
referent
reflectionism
refrain
register
Renaissance
repartee
repertory
repetend
Restoration comedy
revenge tragedy
reverdie
reversal
revision
revisionist
revue
Rezeptionsästhetik
rhapsody
rhetoric
rhetorical figure
rhetorical question
rhyme
rhyme royal
rhyme scheme
rhythm
riddle
rime riche
rising rhythm
rispetto
rococo
rodomontade
rogatio
roman à clef
roman à thèse
roman à tiroirs
romance
romancero
roman-feuilleton
roman-fleuve
romantic comedy
romantic irony
Romanticism
rondeau
rondel
roundel
roundelay
rubáiyát
rune
Russian Formalism
saga
salon
samizdat
Sapphics
satire
satyr play
scansion
scatology
scenario
scene
scène à faire
Schauerroman
scheme
scholasticism
school drama
science fiction
Scottish Chaucerians
Scottish Renaissance
screenplay
scriptible
Secentismo
seguidilla
self-reflexive
semantics
seme
semiology
semiotic, the
semiotics
Senecan tragedy
sensation novel
sensibility
sententia
sentimental comedy
sentimental novel
septenary
septet
serialized
sestet
sestina
sex’n’shopping novel
Shakespearean sonnet
Shavian
short measure
short story
sibilance
sigmatism
sign
signified
signifier
sijo
silver-fork novel
simile
sjuzet
skald
skaz
Skeltonics
sketch
slant rhyme
slave narrative
socialist realism
sociology of literature
Socratic
solecism
soliloquy
sonnet
soubrette
Spasmodic School
speech act theory
Spenserian stanza
spondee
Spoonerism
sprung rhythm
squib
stanza
stave
stichic
stichomythia
stilnovisti
stock character
stock response
story
strambotto
stream of consciousness
stress
strong-stress metre
strophe
structuralism
Sturm und Drang
style
stylistics
subgenre
sublime, the
subplot
substitution
subtext
succès d’estime
Surrealism
syllabic verse
syllepsis
syllogism
symbol
Symbolic, the
Symbolists
synaeresis
synaesthesia
synchronic
syncope
synecdoche
synizesis
synonym
synopsis
syntagm
syntax
syuzhet
tableau
Tagelied
tail-rhyme stanza
tall tale
tanka
tenor
tercet
terza rima
tetralogy
tetrameter
text
textual criticism
textuality
texture
theatre in the round
theatre of cruelty
theatre of the absurd
theme
Theory
thesis
third-person narrative
threnody
thriller
tone
topographical poetry
topos
touchstone
tract
tradition
tragedy
tragedy of blood
tragic flaw
tragic irony
tragicomedy
transcendental signified
Transcendentalism
transferred epithet
trauma theory
travelogue
travesty
treatise
trilogy
trimeter
triolet
triple metre
triple rhyme
triplet
trochee
trope
troubadour
trouvère
truncation
turn
two-hander
type
typography
typology
ubi sunt
Ultraísmo
uncanny, the
undecidable
unexpurgated
unities, the
university wits
univocal
unreliable narrator
Urtext
ut pictura poesis
utopia
variorum edition
Varronian satire
vatic
vaudeville
vehicle
Verfremdungseffekt
verisimilitude
verismo
vernacular
vers de société
vers libre
verse
verse form
verse paragraph
versification
verso
verso piano
verso tronco
Vice, the
Victorian
vignette
villain
villanelle
virelay
voice
volta
Vorticism
vraisemblance
vulgate
weak ending
well-made play
Weltanschauung
Weltliteratur
Weltschmerz
Wertherism
West End
wit
wrenched accent
writerly
Yale school
Zeitgeist
zeugma