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

Act

Assonance 

Archaism

Aphorism

Anti-Climax or Bathos

Anapaest

Allusion 

Alliteration 

Apostrophe

Augustan age

Athena or Athena

Aside

Artemis

Argus

Ares

Apollo

Aphrodite

Anglo-Saxon period

Anglo-Norman period

Anglicanism

Allegory

Age of sensibility

Age of Pope

Age of Chaucer

Age of Johnson

Age

Achilles

Achilles heel

Aeneas

Aestheticism and Decadence

Bacchus

Ballad

Bathos

Beginning

Black comedy

Zeus

Wisest fool

Venus

Vesta

Victorian period

Vulcan

Unity of action

Unity of place

Unity of time

University wits

Trochee

Tragic flaw

Tragi- comedy

Tragedy

Tithonus

Tiresias

Thetis

Surrealism

Styx

Sphinx

Spectator club

Sons of Ben

Sonnet

Short Story

Shakespearean Age

Senecan tragedy

Secondary epic

Scriblerus club

Satire

Ops

Oral epic

Orpheus

Osiris

Ode

Old English period

Romance

Romantic period

Romantic comedy

Roman Writers

Rhymers club

Rhea

Revival of romanticism

Revenge tragedy

Restoration period

Restoration comedy

Renaissance period

Regular ode

Renaissance

Jacobean age

Johnson's literary club

Juno

Juventas

Kit-cat club

Lyric

Low comedy

Literary epic

Literary Ballad

Lethe

Legend

Psyche

Puritan age

Pseudo-classical age

Proverb

Period

Pamphlet

Pan

Pandora

Parable

Paronomasia

Pastoral elegy

Periphrasis

Persephone

Picaresque novel

Pindaric ode

Pluto

Poetic justice

Poetry

Popular ballad

Poseidon

Postmodern period

Pre-Raphaelites

Primary epic

Private ode

Proserpina

Protestants

Neptune

Neoclassical period

Non-fiction novel

Nonsense verse

Novel

Novelette

Nemesis

Narcissus

Magna charta

Mars

Melodrama

Mercury

Metrical romance

Middle ages

Middle English period

Minerva

Miracle play

Mock epic

Modern period

Morality play

Muses

Mystery play

Myth

Mythology

Iamb

Imbus

Industrial revolution

Interlude

Iris

Irregular ode

Hyperion

Hymn

Hubris

Horatian ode

High comedy

Hestia

Heroic tragedy

Hermes

Hercules

Heracles

Hera

Hephaestus

Helen

Hebe

Hades

Genre

Georgian period

Georgian poets

Glorious revolution

Gothic novel

Guild socialist league

Greek writers

Fable

Fates

Fiction

Foot

Form

French revolution

Fabian society

Figurative language

First English comedy

First English Daily

First English tragedy

Dramatic monologue

Dadaism

Dark ages

Dramatic poem

Drama

Dis

Dionysus

Doggerel

Demeter

Decadence

Dark comedy

Cupid

Commonwealth period

Comedy of manners

Comedy of ideas

Comedy of humours

Comedy

Closet drama

Ceres

Catholics

Cavalier poets

Essay

Eros

Eris

Epistolary Novel

Epithalamion

Elegy

Earliest epic

Earliest prose

Edwardian period

Elizabethan age

English sovereigns

Hegemony

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