A
accentual syllabic verse
accentual verse
allegory
alliteration
anagnorisis
antagonist
anti-novel
apostrophe
apron stage
aristotelian unities
assonance
B
ballad
bildungsroman
black comedy
blank verse
C
catharsis
character
closet drama
comedy
comedy of humours
comedy of manners
commedia dell’arte
consonance
conventional symbol
couplet
D
deconstruction
decorum
denouement
documentary novel
domestic tragedy
drama
E
elegy
enjambment
epic
epic theatre
epistolary novel
essentialism
expressionism
eye-rhyme
F
fantasy novel
farce
feminine rhyme
feminist criticism
fiction
figures of speech
foot
free verse
G
gender
genre
gothic novel
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H
hamartia
heroic couplet
heroic tragedy
historical novel
history play
hubris
I
irony
K
künstlerroman
L
lines
literary canon
literary communication
literary history
literary symbol
M
masculine rhyme
masque
metaphor
method acting
metonymy
metre
Middle Ages
Middle English
miracle play
modernism
morality play
mystery play
N
naturalism
neo-classical
New Criticism
New Historicism
non-fiction
novel
novel of manners
novella
O
octosyllabic couplet
ode
Old English
Old Historicism
ottava rima
P
pageant
peripeteia
personification
phenomenology
philology
picaresque
plot
poetry
point of view
postmodernism
post-structuralism
problem play
protagonist
psychoanalysis
psychological novel
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Q
quatrain
R
reader-response criticism
realism
reception theory
regionalism
Renaissance
Restoration
revenge tragedy
rhyme
rhyme royal
rhyme-schemes
roman a clef
romance
romantic comedy
Romanticism
Russian formalism
S
satirical comedy
scansion
science fiction
semiotics
sentimental comedy
setting
short story
simile
social or thesis novel
sonnet (Petrarchan, English)
spenserian stanza
stanza
stream-of-consciousness technique
structuralism
style
symbol
symbol and allegory
symbolic drama
symbolism
synecdoche
T
tercets
terza rima
theatre of the absurd
tone
tradition
tragedy
tragicomedy
tropes
W
well-made play
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