English 10 Literary Terms (Mac Test, Summer 2006)

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Literary Terms

Allegory

Alliteration

Allusion

Ambiguity

Anapest

Antagonist

Apostrophe

Aside

Assonance

Ballad

Blank Verse

Cacaphony/Euphony

Caesura

Carpe Diem

Catharsis

Character

Characterization

Chorus

Cliché

Climax

Comedy

Conceit

Concrete Poetry

Conflict

Connotation and Denotation

Consonance

Couplet

Dactyl

Deconstruction

Dialogue

Diction

Dramatic Monologue

Elegy

Elizabethan Literature

End-Rhyme

Enjambment

Epic

Epithet

Euphemism

Fable

Farce

Figurative Language

Flashback

Foil

Foot

Foreshadowing

Free Verse

Genre

Hexameter

Hyperbole

Iambic

Imagery

Imperfect Rhyme

Internal Rhyme

Irony

Lyric Poem

Masque

Metaphor

Metaphysical Conceit

Meter

Metonymy

Mood

Myth

Narrative Poem

Novel

Octave

Ode

Onomatopoeia

Oxymoron

Parable

Paradox

Parallel Structure

Parody

Pastoral

Pathetic Fallacy

Personification

Plot

Point of View

Protagonist

Pun

Quatrain

Resolution

Rhyme

Rhyme Scheme

Rhythm

Satire

Scansion

Sestet

Sestina

Setting

Short Story

Simile

Soliloquy

Sonnet

Spondee

Sprung Rhythm

Stanza

Stereotype

Stream of Consciousness

Style

Surrealism

Symbolism

Synecdoche

Synesthesia

Tercet

Theatre of the Absurd

Theme

Tone

Tragedy

Trochee

Understatement

Unities

Verse

Villanelle

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