ENGLISH LITERATURE

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English Grammar

Literary Devices

A
Accumulation	Acrostic	Active Voice
Ad Hominem	Adage	Adynaton
Allegory	Alliteration	Allusion
Ambiguity	Amplification	Anachronism
Anacoluthon	Anadiplosis	Anagnorisis
Anagram	Analogy	Analytical Essay
Anapest	Anaphora	Anecdote
Antagonist	Antanaclasis	Antecedent
Anthimeria	Anthology	Anthropomorphism
Anti-Climax	Anti-Hero	Antimetabole
Antiphrasis	Antistrophe	Antithesis
Aphorism	Aphorismus	Aporia
Aposiopesis	Apostrophe	Appositive
Archaism	Archetype	Argument
Argumentative Essay	Aside	Assertion
Assonance	Asyndeton	Atmosphere
Attitude	Audience	Auditory Imagery
Autobiography
B
Balanced Sentence	Ballad	Bandwagon
Bathos	Bias	Bildungsroman
Biography	Black Humor	Blank Verse
C
Cacophony	Cadence	Caesura
Canon	Canto	Caricature
Catachresis	Catalog	Catastrophe
Catharsis	Cause and Effect Essay	Character
Characterization	Chiasmus	Circumlocution
Claim	Cliché	Cliffhanger
Climax	Coherence	Colloquialism
Comedy	Comic Relief	Comparatives
Comparison	Comparison and Contrast Essay	Conceit
Concession	Conflict	Connotation
Consonance	Context	Contrast
Couplet	Critical Essay	Critique
Cumulative Sentence
D
Dactyl	Deductive Reasoning	Denotation
Denouement	Deus Ex Machina	Diacope
Dialect	Dialogue	Diatribe
Dichotomy	Diction	Didacticism
Digression	Dilemma	Direct Characterization
Discourse	Dissonance	Distortion
Doppelganger	Double Entendre	Drama
Dramatic Irony	Dramatic Monologue	Dynamic Character
Dysphemism	Dystopia	Direct and Indirect
E
Elegy	Elision	Ellipsis
End Rhyme	End-Stopped Line	Enjambment
Enthymeme	Enumeration	Epic
Epigram	Epigraph	Epilogue
Epiphany	Epiphora	Epistle
Epistolary	Epistrophe	Epitaph
Epithet	Epizeuxis	Eponym
Eristic	Essay	Ethos
Eulogy	Euphemism	Euphony
Evidence	Exact Rhyme	Exaggeration
Exemplum	Existentialism	Expletive
Explication	Explicatory Essay	Exposition
Expository Essay	Extended Metaphor	External Conflict
Eye Rhyme
F
Fable	Fairy Tale	Fallacy
Falling Action	Fantasy	Farce
Feminine Rhyme	Fiction	Figurative Language
Figure of Speech	Flash-Forward	Flashback
Flat Character	Foil	Folklore
Foot	Foreshadowing	Frame Story
Free Verse
G
Genre	Gender
H
Haiku	Half Rhyme	Hamartia
Hero	Homily	Homograph
Homophone	Hook	Hubris
Humor	Hyperbaton	Hyperbole
Hypophora	Hypotaxis	Hypothetical Question
I
Iamb	Iambic Pentameter	Idiom
Illusion	Imagery	Imperative Sentence
Implied Metaphor	In Medias Res	Inciting Incident
Induction	Inference	Innuendo
Internal Rhyme	Intertextuality	Invective
Inversion	Irony	Isocolon
J
Jargon	Juxtaposition
K
Kenning	Kinesthesia
L
Lampoon	Legend	Limerick
Line Break	Litotes	Logos
Lyric	Lyric Poem
M
Main Idea	Malapropism	Maxim
Meiosis	Melodrama	Memoir
Metalepsis	Metaphor	Metaphysical
Meter	Metonymy	Monologue
Mood	Moral	Motif
Motivation	Myth
N
Narrative	Narrative Poem	Naturalism
Nemesis	Neologism	Non Sequitur
Nostalgia	Novel	Novella
O
Octave	Ode	Omniscient
Onomatopoeia	Ordinal Number	Overstatement
Oxymoron
P
Pacing	Palindrome	Parable
Paradox	Paralipsis	Parallel Structure
Parallelism	Paraphrase	Paraprosdokian
Parataxis	Parenthesis	Parody
Paronomasia	Parrhesia	Passive Voice
Pastiche	Pathetic Fallacy	Pathos
Pedantic	Pentameter	Periphrasis
Persona	Personification	Perspective
Persuasion	Persuasive Essay	Play
Pleonasm	Plot	Poem
Poetic Justice	Point of View	Polyptoton
Polysyndeton	Portmanteau	Procatalepsis
Process Essay	Prologue	Propaganda
Prose	Prosody	Prosthesis
Protagonist	Proverb	Pun
Q
Quatrain
R
Realism	Rebuttal	Red Herring
Reductio ad Absurdum	Refrain	Refutation
Repetition	Resolution	Rhetoric
Rhetorical Devices	Rhetorical Question	Rhyme
Rhyme Scheme	Rhythm	Riddle
Rising Action	Romance	Romanticism
Round Character	Run-On Sentence
S
Sarcasm	Satire	Scansion
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy	Semantic	Sensory Language
Sesquipedalian	Sestet	Sestina
Setting	Short Story	Sibilance
Simile	Simple Paragraph	Situational Irony
Slang	Snark	Solecism
Soliloquy	Sonnet	Sound Devices
Speaker	Spondee	Stanza
Static Character	Straw Man	Stream of Consciousness
Style	Subjective	Subplot
Superlative	Surrealism	Suspense
Syllogism	Symbolism	Syncope
Synecdoche	Synesis	Synesthesia
Syntax
T
Tautology	Tercet	Theme
Thesis	Tmesis	Tone
Tragedy	Tragic Flaw	Tragic Hero
Tragicomedy	Transition	Tricolon
Trimeter	Trochaic	Trope
Truism
U
Understatement	Undertone	Utopia
V
Verbal Irony	Verisimilitude	Vernacular
Verse	Vignette	Villanelle
Voice	Volta
W
Wit
Z
Zeugma	Zoomorphism

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