Vocabulary & Terms
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acrostic |
fable |
parallelism |
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agnostic |
farce |
paraphrase |
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allegory |
Father of Detective Story |
parody |
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alliteration |
Father of Short Story |
pastoral |
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allusion |
Faust legend |
pathos |
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anachronism |
feudalism |
patronage |
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analogy |
fiction |
personification |
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anecdote |
flashback |
perspective |
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Anglican church |
foil |
picaresque |
| anonymous | folklore | pilgrimage |
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antagonist |
foot (poetic) |
plagiarism |
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anthology |
foreshadowing |
poet laureate |
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anti-hero |
formulaic |
poetic license |
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aphorism |
frame story |
plot |
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apostrophe |
free verse |
prologue |
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aside |
French Revolution |
propaganda |
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assonance |
genre |
prose |
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atheism |
Godfather of Detective Story |
protagonist |
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ballad |
gothic |
Protestantism |
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bard |
heroic couplet |
pseudonym |
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bawdy |
the Holy Grail |
pun |
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blank verse |
hubris |
queue |
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burlesque |
humanism |
quest |
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Byronic hero |
hyperbole |
rationalism |
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caesura |
iamb |
realism |
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canon |
iambic pentameter |
redundant |
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canto |
illumination |
refrain |
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carol |
imagery |
Reformation |
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carpe diem |
inflection |
relativism |
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catharsis |
innuendo |
Renaissance |
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characterization |
invocation |
Renaissance man |
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chivalry |
irony |
romanticism |
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climax |
juxtaposition |
round/flat |
| colorist | kenning | rune |
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comedy |
legend |
saga |
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comic relief |
litany |
sarcasm |
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conceit |
litotes |
satire |
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conformist/non-conformist |
local color |
scansion |
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connotation |
lyric |
scop |
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consonance |
malapropism |
sestet |
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courtier |
metamorphosis |
setting |
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courtly love |
metaphor |
simile |
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cycle |
metaphysical |
soliloquy |
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denouement |
meter (metre) |
sonnet |
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determinism |
Middle English |
Spanish Armada |
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deus ex machina |
miracle play |
speaker (in sonnets) |
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didactic(ism) |
mock-epic |
stanza |
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dialect |
monologue |
stream-of-consciousness |
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dialogue |
morality play |
subplot |
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diction |
motif |
symbol(ism) |
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digression |
Muse |
symmetry |
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dirge |
mystic/mysticism |
syntax |
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drama |
myth |
theist |
| dynamic/static | narrative | theme |
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eclectic |
naturalism |
thesis |
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elegy |
neoclassical |
tone |
| emblem(atic) | noble savage | Tower of London |
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epic |
nonfiction |
tradition |
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epigram |
novel |
tragedy |
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epiphany |
octave |
tragic flaw |
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episode |
ode |
transcendentalism |
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epitaph |
onomatopoeia |
trilogy |
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epithet |
oxymoron |
utopia |
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essay |
palindrome |
vernacular |
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euphemism |
pantheism |
verse |
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existentialism |
parable |
voice/address |
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exposition |
paradox |
wyrd |