Literary Terms

How many of these literary terms are you familiar with? Look up any you don't know.

allegory
alliteration
allusion
analogy
anti-climax
anti-hero
archetype
apology
argument
assonance
atmosphere
audience
ballad
black humour
Bloomsbury
Burlesque
Byronic
cadence
Canon
caricature
characterization
chorus
chronicle
classic
cliche
comedy
comedy of manners
conceit
conflict
convention
criticism
denouement
dialogue
drama
droll
elegy
eclogue
edition
epic
episode
epilogue
epistle
epithet
essay
exposition
fable
fantasy
fiction
figurative
flashback
foil
free verse
gallows humour
genre
gothic
humour
hyperbole
imagery
intertextuality
irony
journal
juxtaposition
lament
legend
lyric
magic realism
meaning
melodrama
memoir
metaphor
motif
mood
Modernism
monologue
mythology
narrative
narrator
novel
non-fiction
nemesis
ode
oxymoron
paradox
personification
plot
point of view
post - colonial
Postmodern
prologue
puns
purple prose
realism
rhyme
rhythm
satire
semiotics
setting
simile
slice of life
stream of consciousness
subplot
syntax
symbol
synesthesia - cross sensory metaphor
tableau
texture
theme
thesis
tone
tract
tragedy
trope
understatement
unity
utopia/dystopia
unreliable narrator
vehicle
verisimilitude
verse
vignette
Victorian
voice
wit