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Absurdist Drama
Act
Adage
Alarum
Alexandrine
Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion
Amplification
Anacoluthon
Anadiplosis
Anagnorisis
Anapest and Anapestic
Anaphora
Anecdote
Antagonist
Antonomasia
Antiphrasis
Antithesis
Aphorism
Aporia
Aposiopesis
Apostrophe
Appositive
Apprenticeship Novel
Archetype
Arras
Aside
Assonance
Asyndeton
Attica
Aubade
Ballad
Bard
Bombast
Burlesque
Caesura
Canon (Oeuvre)
Canto
Caricature
Carpe Diem
Catastasis
Catachresis
Catastrophe
Catchword
Catharsis
Chalmys
Chantey (pronounced SHAN te; alternate spellings: chantey, shantey, shanty)
Character: Flat, round, static, dynamic
Chiasmus (pronounced ki AZ mis)
Chorus (Greek Play)
Chronicler
Chronique Scandaleuse [kron EEK skan duH LOOZ]
Classicism
Cliché
Climax
Closet Drama
Comedy of Manners
Coming-of-Age Novel (Bildungsroman)
Concrete Poetry
Conduplicatio
Conflict
Consonance
Couplet
Coup de Théâtre (pronounced KOO duh tay AH truh)
Couplet, Heroic
Dactyl and Dactylic
Denouement
Deus Ex Machina
Deuteragonist
Diacope
Dialogue
Diction
Didactic
Dimeter
Dionysus
Distinctio
Dithyramb
Doggerel
Domesday Book [DOOMS day book]
Doppelgänger (pronounced DOP l gayng er)
Drama
Dramatic Irony
Dramatic Monologue
Dramatis Personae
Edition and Issue:
Elegy
Encomium (Plural: Encomia)
Enjambment
Enter
Enthymeme
Enumeratio
Epanalepsis
Epic and Epic Conventions
Epigram
Epigraph
Epitaph
Epilogue
Episode
Epistle
Epistolary Novel
Epistrophe
Epitasis
Epithalamion (or Epithalamium, Epithalamy)
Epithet
Epizeuxis
Eponym
Essay
Eulogy
Euphemism
Euphuism
Excursion
Exemplum
Exeunt[EX e unt]
Exit
Exodos (EX uh doss)
Expressionism
Exposition
Fable
Fair Copy
Farce
Figure of Speech
Flashback
Flourish
Foil
Folio
Folklore
Fool
Foot and Feet (Meter)
Foreshadowing
Foul Papers
Frame Narrative, Story, or Tale
Gasconade
Genre
Gleeman
Gnomic (NO mik)
Goliard [GAWL yerd]
Gothic Novel
Hagiography
Hamartia
Hautboys
Heptameter
Heroic Couplet
Hexameter
High Comedy
Homily
Hubris
Hyperbaton
Hyperbole
Hypophora
Hypotaxis
Idyll
Iamb and Iambic
Induction
In Medias Res
Internal Conflict
Inversion
Invocation of the Muse:
Ipse Dixit
Irony
Jargon
Jeu d'esprit (Pronounce the eu like the oo in wood; pronounce esprit as uh SPREE)
Jeu de mots (Pronounce the eu like the oo in wood; pronounce de as duh; pronounce mots as moh)
Jongleur
Kenning
Lay
Lexis
Litotes
Low Comedy
Lyrical Poetry
Machine
Macrocosm
Magnum Opus
Malapropism
Mask
Master of Revels
Melodrama
Memoir
Metabasis
Metanoia
Metaphor
Metaphysical Poetry
Meter
Metonymy
Microcosm
Minstrel
Mise en Scène [meez on sen]
Monometer
Motif (leitmotif)
Mock-Epic
Motivation
Narrator
Naturalism
Neologism
New Comedy and Old Comedy
Nihilism
Nine Worthies
Noble Savage
Novel
Novella
Novelette
Objectivity
Ockham's Razor
Octameter
Octave
Ode
Old English Versification .
Onkos
Onomatopoeia
Opera
Oration
Otiose Writing [OH she ohss]
Oxymoron
Pantomime
Papyrus
Paradox
Parenthesis (rhetoric)
Parataxis
Parallelism
Parody
Pastoral Poem
Pen Name
Periakti
Peripeteia
Personification
Philippic
Plaint
Pleonasm
Plot
Poetics of Aristotle
Poetry
Polysyndeton
Prolixity
Prologue
Prose
Protagonist (Greek Play and Modern Sense)
Pseudonym (Nom de Plume)
Pun (paranomasia)
Quarto
Quatrain
Quill
Redundancy
Refrain (in poetry)
Realism (compare with Naturalism)
Repartee
Rhetoric
Rhetorical Question
Roman à Clef [ro MAH na KLEH]
Romanticism (consider as a movement rather than a period...much like the Renaissance)
Sarcasm
Satire
Satyr Play
Scenario
Scene
Scesis Onomaton
Science Fiction
Scop
Sententia
Sentential Adverb
Sentimentality
Sermon
Sestet
Setting
Sic
Simile
Soliloquy
Solus
Sonnet
Spondee and Spondaic
Spoonerism
Spenserian Stanza
Stasimon (pronunciation: STASS uh mon)
Stanza
Stereotype
Stichomythia
Sturm und Drang
Style
Subplot
Suspense
Symbol
Syncope
Synecdoche
Tautology
Terza Rima
Tetralogy
Tetrameter
Theme
Thespian
Tone
Tiring House
Tragedy (Greek)
Transcendentalism
Travesty
Trimeter
Trochee and Trochaic
Trope
Troubadour
Unities
Universality
Verisimilitude
Verse
Villanelle
Within
Zeugma
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