Index / Glossary

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

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

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