LITERARY TERMS

Literary Terms One of the most essential and valuable topics in English literature. Understanding literature by playing a great role in almost all the work. So, something is given. Important Literary Terms in English Literature Especially for the Students People will be very helpful.

Important Literary terms in English Literature :

Simile 

Zeugma

Wit

Tone

Unities

Theme

Synecdoche

Symbol 

Subjectivity

Tercet

Terza Rima

Oxymoron

Paradox

Personification 

Plot

Poetic Justice 

Pun or Paronomasia

Pyrrhic

Rhythm

Romanticism 

Soliloquy 

Stanza

Spenserian Stanza

Quatrain

Ballad Stanza

Ottava Rima

Rhyme Royal

Onomatopoeia

Objective Correlative 

Objectivity

Negative capability 

Motif

Metonymy

Metre

Metaphor 

Machinery 

Literary Meaning

Litotes

Irony

Invocation 

Internal Rhyme

Innuendo

Imagery 

Image 

Heroic Couplet

Humours

Hamartia

Genre or Form

Figures of Speech 

Exposition 

Epithet 

Episode 

Epigram

Epic 

Epic Smile 

Dramatis Personae

Dramatic Irony

Didactic 

Diction

Denouement 

Denotation
  
Dactyl

Couplet 
  
Connotation 

Conceit

Comic Relief 

Circumlocution or Periphrasis 

Climax 

Classicism

Classic 

Chorus 

Chiasmus

Catharsis

Catastrophe 

Caesura

Blank Verse

Assonance 

Archaism

Aphorism

Anti-Climax or Bathos

Anapaest

Allusion 

Alliteration 

Apostrophe



LITERARY TERMS VOLUME TWO